I've always wanted my own needleart supply store, always. I could never figure out how to get it accomplished though. Then, life got in the way as it usually does and time just slipped by. I still want a needleart supply store but that dream has changed from a traditional retail store to an eclectic space of supply and display.

I still want to to sell supplies like a normal retail store. However, I also want to have  spaces where finshed projects are displayed in different rooms of a house or business with accompanying furniture, art, paint carpet, etc. Where people can wander and decide if they want just a piece of the room, including the stitching, or the whole room. It would require a retail space, an interior designer familiar with ebroidery, stitchers, among other little things that I'm not sure I will accomplish in my lifetime. Why the change you ask?

Because, I started rescuing unfinished and framed projects from thrift stores as well being given such projects. These are projects that someone stitched with love and joy that have now been abandoned for whatever reason to sit on shelves. To me, it's like going to an animal shelter and seeing sad little faces behind bars. I have to rescue them all!

I have a silk on silk embroidery piece that desperately needs museum quality preservation framing due to the fabric ripping that was given to me. I have floral needlpoints from 1969 that I rescued from a thrift store along with corresponding info of who stitched them and who she gave them to. The blog image is a newborn needlepoint that is three-quarters finished that I found at a thrift shop. They are a history of the embroidery industry, textile industry, production industry, and in some cases can provide family history.

However, I can not keep them all as I live in a single wide trailer. There is just not any space for storage or decorating. So the dream grew to include abdandoned projects displayed in various rooms of houses with all the accompanying little details lovingly displayed and preserved until they are adopted; excuse me, purchased. This is my dream and what you are supporting when you buy from me.