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The Dogwood Patch Newsletter for July 2008
Welcome to July Y'all! But around here it's not your usual hot & dry July. We've been so blessed with the rain over the last week. Alleluia! I hope everybody had a nice Independence Day. Kenneth & I celebrated 16 years of marriage. I'm kind of settling into the idea that if it's gone on this long perhaps it is until death do we part. A rarity in this day & age.
Weekly Night-time & Another Saturday Stitch-in
I've added a Tuesday night stitch-in every week from 6:00 - 9:00. No need to sign up for these weekly stitch-ins. You just show up & stitch. No chinese gift exchange, nothing special, just stitch.
For next month we have Saturday stitch day August 9. As usual, bring your Chinese Gift Exchange worth $20.00. Wrap it all up so cute as you may win a prize for the most creatively wrapped gift. Bring your lunch or plan to run out to get something. We'll sit & stitch all day 10:00 - 5:00. Please do sign up for this one as people drive a couple hours or so & they do work hard on their Chinese gift exchanges & I would hate them not to have a seat upon arrival.August 15 is Camp Iwannastitch. Hold you ears. YEEHAH! I do so love camp weekends! A chance to sit & stitch & yak & eat & stay up late & laugh with my friends, uh- huh, bring it on. Sadly a few people had to cancel their spots for September camp. But that means there are a few spots open that you can reserve.
New Automatic
It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTmas. We have a new monthly automatic from Lizzie Kate. It's a lot like the last one we just did with the words. Only these are CHRISTmas words. It starts with Holly & ends with Peace. You will get 2 words per month. Let me know if you want these in your mailbox every month & I'll send them out to you. Also let me know if you want the floss & fabric with the 1st chart. Most people are stitching them all on 1 piece of fabric or you can stitch them individually. I will need to know which fabrics you want, a long piece or small individual pieces.
More Items
Here's a neat book that I think a lot of people are going to want. It's called Keeping the Faith...Without Losing Your Religion. It's 41 pages of heirlooms for Church or Family. It's 50 charted symbols or CHRISTmas ornaments.
There's a new chart from The Sampler Girl called In The Garden With Jane Austen-A Stitching Bag that I just love. I have the matching thread holders if you'd like to purchase them also. I'm excited about this as my friend Laurie has been getting me into Jane Austen. I've watched the Sense & Sensibility movie & have others in my Netflix queue. Some things I never knew existed if it were not for my friends :)
Little House Needleworks
I REALLY love Little House Needleworks new design called Little House Neighborhood. It's bigger than their usual designs 12.5" x 16.5". Because there are 4 houses in this one. You got ladies, squirrels, a chicken, blackbirds, sheep, white picket fences, oh my!
I got the 2008 Prairie Schooler Limited Edition kit called By The Chimney.
I know several of you out there like to collect Prairie Schoolers.
I know there are many Halloweenies out there. For y'all I have Lizzie Kate's Hocus Pocus.
You know, I sell more Halloween than any other holiday or season? Who knew?
And also from Lizzie Kate I have Retirement Crazy. It's 3 charts in 1. Retirement is a full-time job, Welcome to the rest of your life, Retirement...world's longest coffee break. These are cute little pieces in typical LK style.
My Stitching Album
I FINALLY got the prices for the Jeannette Douglas My Stitching Album that's going to be a monthly automatic! But these will be mailed bi-monthly actually beginning September 2008 & continuing through November 2009. We have a Getting Started package that is $30.00. This includes: general instructions, general information, finishing instructions, front cover, back cover & journal styled pages. The pages are for recording your "stitching journey". You will need a 1" binder to insert these into. You can pick up a binder just about anywhere in the world.
Chapter 1 is called Mosaic Muse & the price for that is $20.00. Each chapter after that is approximately $20.00 each. The thread packs will vary by price. For Mosaic Muse the thread pack is $24.00. In addition to the 1st pattern (Mosaic Muse) you get a wooden thread palette with the JDD logo engraved on it that fits into the fabric pocket on the back of the 1st stitched page. This is a nice gift as they retail separately for $40.00. So you may buy extras if you wish.
These are stitched on 32 count fabric. Jeannette's model is R&R Creme Brulee. She says Lakeside Linen's Light Examplar looks nice as well as their Pearled Barley. So that fabric choice is totally up to you. You will need 10 pieces 11" x 13". I can mail those each month in your package with the pattern & thread pack if you wish. They are $10.00 a piece.
Mom Update
My mom got her staples out from having her kidney removed & is doing better each day. She just had to get over that healing hump of it getting worse before it gets better. The doctor said she's doing as well as to be expected & saw her again in 3 weeks. Then she goes again August 8. She's hoping to be released from the doctor @ that point.
Still Mmmm, Mmmm, Good
Reminder: The Columbia Basin Baptist Association WMU (to learn about Woman's Missionary Union www.wmu.com) has taken on the task of collecting 1.5 million Campbell's Soup labels. This endeavor is to buy a new minivan for the association's Camp Touchet, student ministry, & other ministries as deemed necessary. And I want to help. You can help with this project too by removing labels from cans, bottles, & boxes & mailing them to Laura Kenney 1830 Artemis Ridge, West Richland, WA 99353. To read about clipping labels by the new procedure, please check out The Campbell's Web site: www.LabelsforEducation.com/
Happy Stitching Y'all!
Terrie
Kenneth's Tech Tips
From time to time I'll put in some technical tips at the end of the newsletter for those interested. If you rather not get these or think I should post them somewhere on the website, let us know.
Staying Secure Online
Security has come along way since the beginning of the world wide web. The technology used to secure our data had to be built on top of what was originally made to just give us regular data and images. In the beginning of the web, no one thought about having to secure data in a two-way communication with users.
To make the data secure that you send across the web, a technique known as encryption is used to make it so that only the sending machine and the receiving machine can read what is in the data.
It is like if you had a table that had two columns. One column has a list of letters and the second column has a list of symbols. And someone else had a different table of letters and symbols. After you provide them with your table and they provide you with their table, you could send them a list of only symbols and they send you only symbols. These can be translated back into letters using the table of the other person.
When you visit a website that the address starts with https:// and has an icon that looks like a padlock somewhere in one of the toolbars, this means you are communicating with that website's server securely.
This used to be enough to know you were secure. But being secure involves more than technology. Today, as more and more people get onto the web, this means that criminals will also get onto the web.Just seeing https:// and a padlock symbol does not mean you can let your guard down. This just means that the data you are exchanging with the server is encrypted. You need to be sure that the person you are exchanging data with is who you think it is.
How do you do this? First, look at the URL where the https://nameofwebsite.com is. This is normally at the top of your web browser. Read the URL closely, paying particularly close to spelling. Most of the time you either entered in the name of the website you wanted to go to or had a browser Favorite saved. Using these pretty much guarantees that you are at the website you want to go to. The two ways you should be weary of are clicking on a Link in an email or on another website. Criminals have used technology to trick people into thinking they are on a bank or merchant website, when they are not. Back to examining the URL. Watch for tricks like "www.regionsbnak.com" or "www.
So next time you are logging into a website, be sure you are on a page that starts with https://. And be sure before entering any information about yourself such as Social Security Number, banking account numbers, etc. that you are indeed on the correct website and the connection is secure.
Kenneth