Welcome Mieke. You are one busy lady! Enjoy the group.

Julia

--- In michaelpowellcrossstitchart@..., "Mieke Punch-
Lucken" <miepie2003@g...> wrote:
>
> Hi Julia,
>
> As you know I am Mieke, I am 41 and married to Charles and living
in a small
> zoo (two cats, an avery with 18 birds and an aquarium, all in the
livingroom
> where we sleep too..... lol). I have been cross stitching since I
was a
> child and I do it mostly all day long, if I am not doing my
voluntary work
> as a moderator on a Christian messageboard (I lead the prayerforum
and the
> ladies' section and two groups) which is a lot of work too with over
> 10.000members..... but I love doing that too..... I also make a lot
of
> 3D-cards
> and send those and my embroideries to people who need encouragement
and also
> people who have something to celebrate. It is a little Ministry,
well it is
> not that little anymore..... lol... and it is based on Christian
> principles..... so I am pretty busy with that too..... besides that
I
> embroider for Solak.
> Currently I am doing a bookmark, a weddingsampler for a wedding in
November,
> and a wolf for Solak...... and about a thousand other things..... I
have a
> waitinglist for my embroideries..... lol.... the only things that
don't end
> up there are babythings and weddingsamplers or celebrational
events.......
> but the rest is on the waitinglist......
> Physically I am not doing well. I am bedridden, severely disabled
and I am
> awaiting a surgery in October (galbladder removal), and with my
poor health
> and my husbands healthproblems we spend at least a day every week
in the
> hospital or with someone else in the healthsection........ but we
survive
> and we still have a happy life......
> Nice to be in this group..... thanks for inviting me.....
>
> Love,
> Mieke
>
> On 9/28/06, Julia Rees <juliaruth71@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Girls and welcome to the group. It would be nice if you could
all
> > post just a few lines to tell us who you are. I'm hoping that
this
> > will be a really friendly group, so lets start as I mean to go
on :)
> >
> > As you have guessed, I'm Julia. I'm 51, live in Cardiff, and have
> > been cross stitching for about 25 years. Long before it was
> > fashionable! I've been working with Mike for a few years now.
> > Before that I was selling my own designs to various magazines.
Now
> > that I work for Mike I don't do much of my own designing, just
> > special things like my kids wedding samplers. At the moment I'm
> > stitching the Wedding Sampler for friends who got married a few
> > months ago. Memo to self: Finish it!!! What are you all
stitching
> > at the moment? Enough rambling from me. I look forward to
reading
> > your introductions.
> >
> > Julia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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