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| Nearly blinded myself this morning while attempting to capture this shot. |
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| Took this of my son while on a camping trip last summer. |
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| Made this with a paper bag on the kitchen floor. |
I've been having a blast making little quote pictures lately. If I hone in on your favorite quote, I'll probably be sending you one. (If I know your email address, that is!) When I was a teenager, I cross-stitched little designs and sent them to my friends in the mail. I've come to think of what I'm doing now as as "cyber-stitchery"! What you see here are "cyber-samplers".
When I hear a person say they love a certain quote, I try to
really pay attention to it. The quote will usually reveal something essential about that person, something he or she may never articulate to me any other way.
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| Made this with a silk apron which has "France 1919" embroidered on the pocket. |
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| I always read with a sharp #2 Ticonderoga. My pencil also serves as a bookmark. |
On my blog you will only see cyber-stitchery from quotes that I've come upon in my reading -- stuff I've underlined and reread and pondered on my own. This is a little rule I follow because while it's fun to skip over to Pinterest or Wikiquote and grab a quote I like, there is nothing quite like scaling a mountainous tome in a hungry search for a morsel of nourishment. Something about that whole process makes a quote much more memorable and personal to me. If feels like it's
mine.
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| For this one I used some red Christmas wrap with white dots. |
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| Took this picture on one of my morning walks this past year. |
Take care dear ones.
Oh and I nearly forgot --
Happy 12/12/12!
This is a good day to do something you'd like to be remembered by!
Love to all!
~ Adriana
p.s. Did I invent two new terms? I haven't noticed anyone else use "cyber-stitchery" or "cyber-sampler" before. Which do you like best?
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| This is a portion of a sampler I made in 1996. |
p.s.s. If I DO send you a quote via email, It's a gift. Please don't feel obligated to stick it on your blog or anything! (But you certainly may if you want to.) No need to reference me in your post, my blog-signature is already on the stuff I make.
Good sampling, Adriana. So clever and talented! I'm going to put the cyber-sampler you sent me into that post where I used that Tolkien quote.
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you Tim! That's very kind of you. I'm honored.
DeleteI like both terms. Cyber-stitchery is the art and Cyber-sampler is the finished product.
ReplyDeleteYea! I like it! I checked into coining a term. Basically, all I have to do is use it a lot. Maybe eventually it will catch on. :)
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