More Cross-stitchin'

Dear Kelly,

There was this restaurant called Fritzbee's that my family went to all the time when I was a kid. They had really good chicken fingers and strangely were not a chain and we lived in chain-land. In the ladies room, they had a sign that said "Please wait for our hostess to seat you." My mom thought this was hilarious and on our Apple IIe using Print Shop version 1, I printed that with a nice border on our first color dot matrix printer. She hung it in the powder room where it stayed for many years. For whatever reason, probably it faded, it didn't make it through several moves and she was just saying again how much that cracked her up, so since I'm in a cross-stitchin' mood, I did it up for her:



I'm going to let her frame it because I don't know which bathroom she plans to put it in.

Cross-stitchin's fun :)

Love,
Shayne

Awesome envelope for a goofy gift

Dear Shayne,

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm sending my nephew a dishcloth for his 7th birthday. Hopefully this cool envelope will add an element awesomeness:


(Note the Batman stamp. Sah-weeet!)

I also invited him to be my penpal. I hope he accepts!

love,
kelly

Goofy gift for a 7 year old

Dear Shayne,

I have gotten a report that my nephew is enamored with some of the dishcloths I have been making as of late.

Armed with the knowledge that he likes the color orange and his name begins with "D", I made him the following custom dishcloth for his upcoming 7th birthday:



As I packaged this thing up, I thought, "I am going to go down in history as the weirdest aunt in the world."

At least it wasn't a bunny suit.

love,
kelly

Flyin' Chucks, finally framed!

Dear Shayne,

I cannot even remember when I bought this card -- last year sometime. All I know is that it's been waiting to be framed for quite awhile.

This weekend, I finally dug out a frame and used some scrapbook paper to give it its due:


I love Chuck Taylors and I love Victorian era buildings, so this print is a total win. Yay!

You can find this card and other fantastic work at the Etsy shop of Two Guitars. In fact, this card is right here, but you should check out the rest of the shop, too -- lots of good stuff.

love,
kelly

Guess what? Dishcloths!

Dear Shayne,

My mother-in-law got married a couple of weeks ago, so what did we give the happy couple? You guessed it! Dishcloths!



(And theatre tickets, lest you think we are cheapskates.)

(But when that show is but a memory, these here dishcloths will still be going strong. Am I right?)

(Hrm. Suddenly, dishcloths seem like such a lame wedding gift.)

(And yet I'm posting this on the Internet! Go, me!)

Yes! Dishcloths!
[insert "jazz hands" motion here]

love,
kelly