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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.

The Daily Coyote

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If you haven’t found my link to the Daily Coyote (and I know most of you have not) I can’t recommend this sweet and heart warming site enough. The photographer found Charlie when he was 10 days old, his parents had been killed. Evidently they kill coyotes in Wyoming as sport. She has been raising Charlie ever since (after working with the Game Department to make sure it was okay) in her one room cabin with her cat Eli.

The site is about 6 months behind time wise. Every day she posts a new picture of Charlie in action, or in this case, inaction.

The Daily Coyote is the first blog I read Monday through Friday. And if you go and look it might be your first peek every day too. Because Charlie? And today Eli too. Cheers me up every time.

My boss

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I just have to say that this guy is a jackass. I sure wish his wife was still my boss. And that we’d never hired him.

He just walked all the way down the hall to tell me to add a publication that he has in his files. Why not just add the one frikking publication that is in the file open on your computer into the biosketch document that is ALSO open on your and save yourself the following?

  • the walk
  • the stress
  • the joy of telling me I missed something, that he is right and I’m a screw up
  • the walk back to close the frikking biosketch so I can make the addition because I? can only access it read-only because all the files? Are open on HIS computer

Nothing gives him more pleasure than to tell someone they missed something. He forgets that my doing this project was because he failed to do it himself and I was bailing him out by pasting crap in the document and then he could format and edit when he returned. He frikking BEGGED me 10 minutes before he left for a week. Words can’t describe what I think of the little tightly wound despot.

Jackass

Oh, wait, I guess words CAN describe…

And then he comes by and tells me I’m doing a great job… *sigh*

Holy Smokes!

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I don’t know what happened but my blog stats have jumped from a typical 35 a day to over 100 views. With no visible gradual increase. Just a smallish number to what I consider a biggish number. Wonder what happened because the folks who read it appear to be the same as usual. For several days now. Not that I’m complaining. I know that Full Circle News sent some over (yay! Thanks!) (please don’t be disappointed when you discover that I’m not always compassionate) but where did you all come from?

I did get 92 one day when I made a controversial comment on The Wild Hunt but there are now 127 visits today.  And some appear to be from witchvox.  Where I did put entries.  The mind boggles.

Welcome all you new readers! Come on in, make yourself comfortable.

Jean Jacket

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This will be at the Beltaine event too. Marked as a sample (all things not a pouch or earrings will be marked sample, goodness I need to make those tags too).

The applique on this jacket was originally part of a purse. After stitching up most of it, it just sat. It’s inner purseness was not calling me. I was asked to bring stuff to work to show off and someone said “this would be cool on a jean jacket.” And she was right. The motif from the back of the purse is tacked on my wall until I hear what it is supposed to do. Maybe just live in a shadow box or frame. I seem to have lost the photo of the entire jacket.

See if you can find the not so obvious symbolism in the first image.  *wink*

Jean Jacket

Lonely Motif