EmnEllie Cross Stitch Blog

Happy Tuesday! Word around the manor house is that there’s a new version of  Persuasion  coming out.  Persuasion  is one of Jane Austen’s books. I read this book many, many years ago. In fact, I’ve been thinking about re-reading it lately! Here’s a picture of my copy: Isn’t that a pretty edition? I love the ribbon, and the pages are wonderful to touch. The sepia page color is very kind to your eyes as well. ( Link to this edition is here if you want to buy a copy.) I think everyone who watches period pieces has their favorite (or favourite as my English friends would spell it) adaptations that they like best. Click here to read more

Well, it’s only fifteen pages long… so does that make it a pamphlet instead? But before we go down that overly technical rabbit hole, let’s talk about the eBook! So, a while back, I had designed a few beverage themed charts. I retired them after a while, but then I had this idea. After retrieving them from my chart archive, I thought, “Why not re-release these as freebies?” because I really liked the charts I had designed. It seemed a shame to keep them locked away in a vault!... To continue reading, click HERE

  Happy Monday! When you were a kid, did you ever go cloud-watching? By cloud-watching, I mean looking up at the sky, staring at the clouds, and thinking about what shape they look like. Spotting a cloud that looks like a puppy, or an elephant, or a skydiver for example. I used to do that all the time! Riding my bicycle on a summer day, going to the grocery store with my Mother, looking out my bedroom window... Click the link HERE to read more.

Dear blog readers, Substack has added so many awesome features lately. To give the example of a few; Unsplash photos, polls so readers can vote on things, text to speech etc. that Blogger does not have. So from now on I will be posting my weekly posts over there. But I like this blog a lot so I'm keeping it. But whenever I publish a post on Substack, I will write a preview of the post here with a link to the Substack post. (Example below!) To never miss a post, you can subscribe to my Substack (it's free!) and have my posts delivered directly to your email inbox. To do that, click HERE Of course, you can also just keep coming to the blog whenever you feel like it, and click the link to the Substack posts. Whatever works for you! Happy Tuesday! How has your week been? How was your Fourth of July? It was a beautiful, sunny day at the Castle, really the perfect weather for grilling. I put out some tiny American flags (I don’t have a flagpole, or one of those brackets that stick to