October 23rd, 2007 at 09:49 am » Comments (3)

Did you know the USPS had noticed that “In recent years, knitting has become quite popular again, both in the United States and internationally.” So has created some Knit Stamps for the 2007 Holiday Season?

YARNandTHREAD folks just gotta love these, they may have been machine knit, but using the High Res images that can be downloaded will allow any Yarn minded Philatelicists to hand knit, tapestry crochet or use duplicate stitch to create make these for your holiday decorations

© 2007 USPS. All Rights Reserved.

Not a YARNandTHREAD person? Well think about cute little miniature ornaments for in Counted Thread, a graph is a graph - Peyote Stitch Earrings, thread, yarn, its all just string - some is just lumpier than others….

So many possiblities, so little time…. guess I will just have to go research the applicable fair use to avoid any copy right issues.

Almost enough to make me think about starting to address those Christmas greeting cards early or at least on time this year or quick gifts or…..

July 12th, 2007 at 14:33 pm » Comments (0)

“My heart found its home long ago
in the beauty, mystery, order and
disorder of the flowering earth.”

Lady Bird Johnson

22nd December 1912 - 11th July 2007

Dear Mrs Johnson

You will be remembered for many things, but as a “child of the 60’s” it was your work as an environmentalist that most impressed me then and throughout your life.

Without you and your efforts one of the small pleasures of life might not exist for those who find themselves “required” to spend time driving along our nation’s highways.

Thank you for understanding, as you wrote in your diary…

“Getting on the subject of beautification is like picking up a tangled skein of wool..All the threads are interwoven — recreation and pollution and mental health, and the crime rate, and rapid transit, and highway beautification, and the war on poverty, and parks — national, state and local.”

I promise to continue to take a moment to admire and be inspired by the simplicity and beauty of the wildflowers and to remember this simple pleasure would not be there without your efforts that have led to highway beautification, first in Texas and now throughout almost every state in the Union.

But most of all thank you for understanding

“Ugliness is so grim,…A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions.”

You will be in my thoughts each time I drive one of the highways already benefiting from your work and even more so for those that have not.

Wheat

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	Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower Center University of Texas - Austin