Needlepoint Love

I love needlepoint.

Yes in deedy doooo!!!!!

At the foot of the bed in my Massachusetts guestroom is a bench I've had for a very long time.....

I used it in my office in Watertown,

 when I worked out of my house, 

to dump stuff on.

Benches are great for dumping stuff!!!!!!!

Only problem is.....

then you can't see the pretty top.....

I did not do the needlepoint on this, but found this beauty....

So, I placed it at the foot of the guestroom bed, so that visiting people had a place to set their suitcase.

That is.....

fictional visiting people, 

'cuz you all know how I feel about guests......

Check out the picture above.....

It's reversed 'cuz I shot it by looking into the armoire mirror!!!!!

It was the best way to get some distance....

So now I will reverse it, and pretend that I didn't do that.....

I am very clever, 

I love PicMonkey,

I am a computer whiz kid!!!!!

OK, back to the needlepoint.

Although I am going to do a PicMonkey tutorial about fixing pictures sometime in the near future.......

 like next week!!!!!

(maybe)

But not now.

Now I am talking about needlepoint.....

Soooooooooooooo...........

I had this bench in my office.....

and I was doing a decorator showhouse, and decided to use it in the room.....

But I wanted to make it more special, 

because it was going to be in a showhouse...

and all my showhouse rooms get published.....

because I'm really special!!!!!

sooooooo.......

I added a decorative trim around the whole thing by sewing it on by hand.

Only to have my buddies at my workroom, Drape It, tell me that I could have just hot glued it on........

This was in the days before I had time for all my DIYing.

I didn't even own a hot glue gun.....

Now I own three!!!!!

As I just noted, the bench sits at the foot of my guestroom bed....

I'm a sucker for a well shaped iron bed.

I can't seem to resist them.

Ones with interesting shapes and a decent height.....

After I write about some more of my jobs, I am going to do an iron bed retrospective.

A walk down a metal bed memory lane.....

I just counted, and I've owned 

7

in my long and tortured life!!!!!

I particularly like this one.

The woman I bought it from was missing a few cards in her deck, not quite up to the whole 52, 

and she smelled suspiciously like bourbon.....

but I will go to any lengths to get me a good metal bed.

I have made my sister-in-law buy one for one of her many daughters.....

(she has more than just Miriam).....

and my buddy and bidness partner Kris has just purchased two for her guest room.

On another note....

tons

of you have signed up for the apron give-a-way.

Which means that 

tons

of you are going to be disappointed, since only one person can win.

bwa ha ha ha ha!!!!!

so with that being said.....

Later, Gator