Yay!!! XML Class Grade

Yay! My XML class ended last week. I had to wait this long before receiving my final grade. 

I thought I would get a B in the class but I received an A instead. The final grade is determined by the team project. I really thought that the team project wasn't very well done but I guess we met all of the criteria to get a decent grade.   

I am so happy do get an A in the class.

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New Embroidery Designs

I've create a new embroidery border and corner this week. 

My first one I'm calling Greek Ocean Border. It has small waves running the middle length along the three straight lines on either sides.

The second one being called Leaf Swirl Corner. This will be in both a stitch design and a satin stitch design. This design has a stitch line that swirls around seven leaves.

I can't wait to find something to use them on.

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Question of the decade!

What where you doing on 9/11?

My 9/11 story begins at work, 6:00am on the West Coast. I was covering the help desk that morning. My phone rang and it was Simon from England. He needed help with an issue on one of the banks servers.  While we were talking he said a plane just hit a building in New York City. A few minutes later he said I better hang up, I think the US is under attack. After he hung up I went home with a bad case of the flu. I was told by an Englishman, 6000 miles away about an event that would change the world 3000 miles away.  

So, What where YOU doing on 9/11?

September 11, 2001 - 2011, 
We Remember! 
Love and blessings to everyone!

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Do you Roku?

In a previous blog I mentioned that we got rid of cable. Cable TV kept raising their prices every other month and quickly exceeded our budget. The sad thing was we only had basic channels and we were paying $110.00 a month. That's a huge sum of money for TV. We watched our collection of DVD and VHS movies for a couple of months.

After we turned off cable we saved up our money and first bought digital TV antenna's for each TV in the house. This gave us back the 20 network stations in our area. It brought us ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS and quite a few others. Then we purchased Roku's for our main TV's.  With Roku we purchased the unlimited video streaming account from NetFlix for $90.00 a year. Roku also gave us Crackle for free and many many other free channels. They have cartoon, old movies, talk shows, news and sports channels. Pretty much everything the basic channels that cable have.

At that end of this year instead of spending $1320.00 on cable (based on $110.00 without an increase), we spent a total of $400.00. Out of the $400.00, $300.00 of it was on equipment that we now own. Next year we could either pay just for Netflix $90 or add another pay Streaming channel like Amazon Streaming or HuluPlus for an additional $90.00. Either way we are still ahead and saving money for other bills. We are very happy with our Roku's and wished we had found them years ago.

Return to School

As some of you may know I returned to school in April to complete my Bachelor degree. I am attending a school that offers online courses. I know a lot of people complain about online courses but I like them. I learn a lot more from them then a traditional class room setting. The traditional classroom setting you must first fight traffic to get to the school, then circle the parking lot like a voucher ready to pounce on an open space. If that isn't enough there is always the Oregon weather to contend with. If it is raining, then your wet by the time you get to the classroom. After all that, you enter the classroom and take your seat and proceed to get a lecture that explains nothing and puts you to sleep. The online courses you have to read the materials, do the tutorials and projects in order to pass. Its more of a self starter program. I'm a visual learner. I learn by doing not by lecture. In the online environment the teachers are there to throw questions at you to make you think. The online course has taken out the preaching at the front of the room and added do or fail. Some people still need to have the traditional classroom setting but I learn better online.

My current class was Web Programming in XML. It ends today at midnight. This is probably the hardest class I have had in a long time. I am so glad it is over. Now I get to wait and see what grade I actually received in this class. At least I have a little break before the next class starts.

New Pillow Covers for FMKT

Happy Saturday!

A few weeks ago I posted a few pictures of the pillow covers in process. Here they are completed. I hope you enjoy! =)

Daisy May

Turquoise Rose

These new pillow covers will be added to the FMKT shop this week.

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Another Sneak Peek

Happy Thursday!!!

Here is another sneak peek for the up and coming new products for FMKT.

Teal

Pink Rose

 More to come.

Don't forget to come back to view the final product.