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About Cynthia

I am a textile artist, embroiderer, wood burner, costumer, painter, and weaver who sees magic and change in the chain stitch and a well done Palestrina knot. I wish I had more control over the ways of the human world but alas, all I can control are my actions and my attitude in life and the consistency of my stitches. And sometimes even that doesn’t pan out as hoped and I must rip rip rip.

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A little project for a friend’s birthday. He be loving the black and red. Me, I love this juxtaposed against the quilt.

This isn’t finished, plan on more embroidery but wanted it as done as possible.  One of the reasons I use some kind of bonding adhesive for my appliques is that when I embroider a motif down that isn’t bonded it tends to move a bit and that makes my pentagrams not point correctly. But I only found out his birthday three days ago and it’s in a week. So decided to leave it as is and hope he’s glad for the obvious handmadeness of it all. There shall be color in the corners etc…

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I love this cotton print…

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Getting Settled

I’ve been working on settling in over the weekend.    I was sick for two weeks while trying to move so all I could manage was packing.  Then moving it, then unpacking.  Then initiation, the recovery.  So here I am 3-4 weeks after this process began and haven’t done hardly any walks and my meals have been a bit of a joke.  Time to get back on track.

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I think this about says it

Why mess with perfection? This was my horoscope the day of the initiation. Suffice it to say I felt cherished and welcomed and everything is all bright and sunny.  I’ll just leave it at that.

As I compose your horoscope, I’m sitting in a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown dining on something the menu refers to as a Milky Golden Prize Delight Bun. And I’m thinking, I bet it’s going to be a kind of Milky Golden Prize Delight week for you Cancerians . . . a Sweet Creamy Lusty Elixir week . . . a Rich Thick Tasty Brilliance week. If you can manage it, I suggest you try to have a dream one of these nights in which you find a delicious morsel of the sun in a bowl of pudding, and savor it all while listening to the full moon sing you a thrilling lullaby.