Mosaic Heaven…Check This Out!!

Loving the mosaic! And I’ve found some high end designer mosaic eye candy that is making me crazy. A couple of years ago I found myself in Pam Beach. As I sat in my hotel room at The Breakers Hotel I was looking through a couple of the local magazines a drooled over the mosaic wall in a particular photo shoot. I thought, I’d love to create things like this…still want to. So in my search of the internets to find something interesting to share with all of you I found the company that produced that wall of beauty. Check out the web site of Bisazza Mosaico.

Now, this company is about interiors. Grand interiors. This isn’t necessarily about the crafty side of mosaic…this is definitely the chic side of mosaic. Not to put down the crafty side, I love the crafty side. But I really love the luscious luxurious mosaic these italian artists produce. Check out their other site…and check out the way I found them, through this designer, Marcel Wanders coffee table he made in conjuction with Bisazza.

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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