little bits

First,
Happy Birthday to Tracy !


CrossStitcher (UK) arrived yesterday.

And the World of Cross Stitch arrived today. I have been waiting soooo impatiently for the Valerie Pfeiffer bird in this issue. I love chickadees, and this one is just too cute and fluffy! Well I like all of her birds: the sparrows, cardinals, and chickadees most of all.

Today's SBQ was suggested by Lee :
How did you decide on the title of your stitching blog? Was it random,or does it have a special meaning to you or about you?

It started way back when I joined EMS. I had been a freebie collector, more so once the internet came into play. I wasn't comfortable joining with my real name so I thought what would describe me best...... patternnuts! (Though not a very active member at the time.)
Then when they went down and back up -I rejoined and went under a slightly different name (numbers added to the original) because the system wouldn't let me in under the original name.
A little further down the road, I was coerced (right Outi?) into blogging and it was just automatic.
The "palace" part started, simply for lack of anything better at the time, which then went to "place". (The link stayed as it was.)
So I guess in some way, it is a part of me, which at the start I couldn't have fathomed!


The irony is that I thought of the perfect ID for me yesterday while doing dishes. Once my hands were dry I couldn't think of it for the life of me!