I've been meaning to do this for some time....and I am finally getting around to listing all the data here for some books I want to sell off. These are jewelry-making books.

All for of these books will fit in one flat-rate box for USPS. If you buy all four books and the three magazines, I'll pay shipping.

If you're new(er) to reading my blog, check other posts under the Destash tag and you can pick up some beads to use with these books.

Terms: I prefer PayPal (it's so fast!) but will accept Money Orders as well. Items will be shipped when money is received (or MO cleared). Shipping costs will be as accurate as I can get them and errors will be my problem. I'll probably use USPS Priority flat-rate boxesas much as I can stuff in one box for $8.95, so buy as much as you want. Please! *smile* Please query for international shipping. Contact me by email tinker at galacticlore dot com or leave a comment.

	Title: 100 Beaded Jewelry Designs: Easy-to-Bead Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches, and More (Paperback) Amazon price: 14.93 Will sell for: 11.50 + Shipping
	Title: Complete Beading: Jewelry & Accessories (Spiral-bound) Amazon price: 18.96 Will sell for: 14.50 + Shipping
	Title: Stringing Style: 50+ Fresh Bead Designs for Jewelry (Paperback) Amazon price: 11.53 Will sell for: 9.50
	Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beading, Illustrated (The Complete Idiot's Guide) (Paperback) Amazon price: 12.89 Will sell for: 9.50 + Shipping

I also have three magazines: BeadStyle Jan 2006, Beadwork Dec2005/Jan2006, Beading Basics: Color (this is a special issue from Bead&Button and BeadStyle magazines). They sold for $5.95, $5.99, and $6.95. I'll sell all three for $8 + shipping or each for 1/2 off + shipping.

I just found a....eh, pamphlet? No, it's more like a pattern booklet (19 pgs with cardstock cover), called "Great Beading Projects from Beginner to Advanced!" It's by Dawn Marvin and Deb Bergs and has "Simply Beading" across the top. I count 21 projects detailed inside. The outside covers show these projects in color. The inside covers show them in black-and-white and point to the page for the instructions. I'll toss this in free to the person who takes it all!

Okay, it's time to add more items to the destash pile. For those cross-stitchers out there who've been waiting for me to get to this point, make your lists. I'm not pricing anything, just listing what the items originally sold for. Many of these designs aren't on store shelves any more and would require special order---if available at all! Make me an offer. I'll take 1/2 price, how's that sound? Let's negotiate! And remember: a USPS Priority Flat Rate Box is only $8.95...and could hold everything I've listed below!

Terms: I prefer PayPal (it's so fast!) but will accept Money Orders as well. Items will be shipped when money is received (or MO cleared). Shipping costs will be as accurate as I can get them and errors will be my problem. I'll probably use USPS Priority flat-rate boxesas much as I can stuff in one box for $8.95, so buy as much as you want. Please! *smile* Please query for international shipping. Contact me by email tinker at galacticlore dot com or leave a comment.

SOLD! Top left is "Garden Fresh".

Top right is "One Nighters: 69 Tropical Fish". These are great little patterns for newbies to work up to larger patterns. These are also great for using with waste canvas, to decorate collars, purses, backpacks or for making luggage tags. This is a cardstock-weight pamphlet. It's #445 and sold for $3.50

SOLD! Bottom left is Leisure Arts Leaflet 2766 "Scripture Bread Cloths", by Deborah Lambein.

Bottom right is Leisure Arts Leaflet 407 "20 Backstitch Alphabets Mini Series #2" by Anne Van Wagner Young. There are 9 more on the back cover (I can get a better picture up later on...) Of note are an upper and lower case italic-looking script, an upper case with hearts, an upper and lower case with color blocks that makes it very kid-friendly and "fun". This originally sold for $3.50.

Top left is Leisure Arts Leaflet 210 "Perpetual Calendar charted for Cross Stitch", designed by Patti L. Sykes. 10 pages, with common holidays (including Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah), Easter Sunday, Passoever, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Indpendence Day and others. A Basic number set and two alphabet sets (one large, one small) are included. My son got to this when he was younger, so there are some scribble marks on the inside cover. I also have an almost-completed set made up (pictures on request). This originally sold for $2.50.

Top right is ColorCharts Volume #20501 "John Pomeroy's Dinomites". Four color patterns for "T.r.", "Bronto", "Little Tops" and "Steggie". Steggie is wearing a diaper; Little Tops is wearing a t-shirt; the other two are wearing overalls. Originally sold for $5.50. In excellent condition.

Bottom left is Leisure Arts Leaflet 842 "Man and Wife". I stitched this entire design for my sister's wedding in 1994 so it has come apart at the fold. This isn't a problem for working the pattern as Leisure Arts stops the patter above and below the fold, with one line duplicated (below the fold) and marked clearly. This could easily be put in a sheet protector and worked. I've marked on the pattern to create the word "Husband" as my sister wanted it to say "Husband and wife".
The pattern is in color. Originally sold for $2.50.

Bottom right is Leisure Arts Leaflet 918 "Teddy Bear Reunion" by Heartprint, Inc. This full-color pattern is in excellent condition, despite my having used it (I never did complete this design!). It appears this copy was cut funny as the top border and outside edges don't appear square. Originally sold for $2.50.

Top left is Cross My Heart, Inc's "The Lighthouses". Inside are black-and-white (except for one pencil-colored by me) patterns for: Coquille River, Marblehead, Bass Harbor, Newcastle, and Portland Head. I may need to photograph this one again as three of the designs are shown on the back cover. Front cover shows Marblehead, Newcastle and Portland Head. Originally sold for $6.00.

Top right is Leisure Arts Leaflet 2012 "Seaside Patterns" Book 7 by D Morgan. Inside are ten shell patterns as well as two "scenes". One says "When I see the miracle Of a shell, I know God and nature... ...Must Surely Touch Hands." The second one says "Each new wave Rearranges the patterns in the sand... ...So we may pretend Our footsteps Are The First." Pattern is in excellent shape. Color pattern. Originally sold for $4.00.

SOLD! Bottom left is Leisure Arts Leaflet 2769 "Mother's Gingham Altar" by Camille Harrison.

Bottom right is Leisure Arts Leaflet 2106 "Chandler's Cottage" by Thomas Kincade. The piece is 179w x 144h. This is a very interesting piece: every single square is worked! The sky is single strand half-stitch, giving a very light appearance and contrast to the flowers and cottage. This is not a pattern for the faint of heart. Except for the sky, you will be changing colors every several squares! Some wear on the center fold and some trimming on the outside edges (probably to fit a sheet protector). Color pattern. Originally sold for $2.50.

This pattern was given to me as is. It's been folded, probably came from a kit as there's no "model" picture of the completed work. It has been colored in areas with what appears to be colored markers. The design is called "Nantucket Rose" by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum. It appears to have been published (?) by Lavender & Lace of Cortland, Ohio. The pattern uses almost 4 full 8.5x11 "pages". The dimensions are 167 wide by 228 tall. The majority of the design is actually only 150, but the woman's dress goes outside that frame in the left. The dress appears to extend past the frame to the bottom as well, but almost all the way across. There is significant wear at the folds in some places. L&L20

This is kit #41544 by Bucilla, called "Heavy Going Grizzly". It came with two copies of the pattern, one of which I began coloring with colored pencils (since I preferred to work with colored diagrams). Included is 14-count aida (white), cotton embroidery floss, and instructions. The kit originally included a needle, which I don't see. There's no price tag to show what I paid. Current prices for this kit are between $20 and $22.

These are two books of Precious Moments designs by Gloria & Pat. One is Boom PM-1 (bottom) and the other is "Sew In Love" Book PM-2 (top).

Some wear and markings in the books. The centerfold is free of the staples in Book 2. Each originally priced at $4.00.

ETA: Here's the last group of patterns:

Top row left is 3 December (hey, Nick's birthday!) 1985 (but I was still in high-school then...) Family Circle. I have no idea why I have this magazine. The "Free inside" collector's ornament is gone. The ads are a little scary, being from the mid-80s. If there's something specific you want to know about this issue, I'll be glad to look it up.

Next is the 3 April 1984 *shudder* issue of Woman's Day. There's "Great-to-Make Ideas" on "Darling Dolls to Sew from Socks", "Frankly Feminine Sweaters to Knit and Crochet", "Country Embroidery, Perfect Planters, Gifts Galore". An article (likely outdated) on "the ectopic pregnancy epidemic".

Next is the July 1981 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. "100 Ideas under $100"---probably won't be that cheap today, what with the dollar being equal to .99 CAD now! Wait until the publishers of books and magazines catch up on *that* one! There's lots of neat projects in this one. Am willing to look through it for interested buyers. (Otherwise, it's just too scary! *grin*)

Next is a cross-stich leaflet by One Nighters called "46 Bird Houses". Another bunch of minis that are great for waste-canvas or learning. This would be a great way to teach a young or impatient person to do counted cross-stitch. Also, for a bird lover, these would make wonderful tree ornaments. Excellent condition. Originally sold for $3.50.

SOLD! Going down the left column now, I have the premiere issue of "For the Love of Cross Stitch" by Leisure Arts.

SOLD! Continuing down the left column are three issues of CrossQuick: Feb/Mar 1989, "Premiere Issue", and Dec/Jan 1989.

SOLD! Finally in this column is Leisure Arts "Leaflet" 1762 "Plastic Canvas Stitch Dictionary".

Next column (under the Woman's Day) has 5 issues of "Needlecraft for Today": Mar/April 1988, May/June 1988, July/Aug 1988, Sept/Oct 1988, Nov/Dec 1988. Inside there's cross-stitch, knitting, crochet, embroidery. The Jul/Aug issue highlight Quilting Classics. Sept/Oct has a "Christmas Classics" section. Nov/Dec higlights Cross-stitch. Excellent condition. Each originally sold for $2.95.

SOLD! At the bottom of this column is a single issue of "Leisure Arts The Magazine" from June 1988.

SOLD! The column under the Better Homes and Gardens issue has 3 issues of Cross-Stitch and Country Crafts: Mar/Apr 1987, Jul/Aug 1988, Sept/Oct 1988.

SOLD! Finally in this column is a booklet called "Sweet Memories cross-stitch".

We're down to the last two items!

SOLD! First is American School of Needlework's #3588 "Cat Purr-sonalities in Cross-stitch" by Linda Gillum.

And finally.... NeedlecraftShop's #844931 "Plastic Canvas Fun Time Coasters". 8 sets of coaster patterns for plastic canvas, each with a thematic storage for the coasters: paint bucket holds paint brushes, oriental box holds kimonos, stamps held in an envelope, kites kept in a tree, t-shirts (including camoflauge and tye-died!) stand in a "pair of jeans" (torso portion only), feet (with painted toes!) store in a sandal, sheet music stores on a music stand and cow-patterned coasters store in a carton of milk. Excellent condition. Originally sold for $5.99.

Whew! That's it. I'll be hunting down aida cloth and floss to de-stash next---but it's going in a new post. I've decided (after seeing today's costs for these things) to keep the cloth and floss. At today's prices, I've got over $200 worth of floss!

First, Theodore is doing better. I think he just had a bug and was really wiped out while fighting it. He has lots of energy now, he's eating and drinking (with the requisite pooping... *grin*). We're going to watch him for one more day before we cancel the appointment for Monday.

I'm working on getting some cross-stitch patterns photographed and listed. I'll also be selling off some aida-cloth which I've had for 10+ years. I bought it in lard 1 yard packages at the time and I've kept it wrapped in saran wrap to keep the dust and particles out. I've taken photographs of the patterns and just need to write up what's what and how much.

Boy, de-stashing sure is hard work! *grin*

Ohmygosh! I love Etsy! Take a look what came in today's mail:

Isn't that awesome? I know you want one, my ferret-loving readers (all three of you, I think!). So where did I find such style? Why, from APStitches! She makes them for babies, for dolls and for pets.

This will help me with both Horatio and our newest baby, Theodore who is still settling into our crowd. (Yes, those are pajamas. I intend to have "street clothes" pictures soon as well.)

It's been decided. I'm going to go through my six-plus tubs of yarn and start the culling process. I know I've got wool on cones, I've got Lion Brand Suede in several colors, I've got all kinds of novelty yarns. So far, my intention is to keep sock yarn and "dishcloth cotton". Everything else must pass some litmus test (what, I don't know yet).

I know there will be a knitting machine (your basic kind, not the uber-fancy professional kind) going up as well. And I'm seriously considering adding my cross-stitch to the mix. That means cross-stitch patterns, books, cloth, thread....the whole kaboodle. Once the destash starts, I'm going to put a meter up somewhere on the sides, probably the right side, to track my fund-raising progress.

Also up for potential destashing....my collection of beads and findings. That will take a little longer to photograph and post, so please comment if you are looking for anything in particular. When I was buying beads, I loved Czech glass, so I have that in a variety of colors. I also have Swarovski crystals in a few sizes, shapes and colors. I've got some semi-precious stones, abalone, hematite, jasper chips, lots of silver too....really too much to name, so I'll probably make group photos!

During this time, all purchases from my Etsy store will be added to my Fundraising totals.

My goal is to raise $500 for the purchase of my first wheel: a Louet S10 DT with a lazy kate and three bobbins! Yay! So, stay tuned for yarn---and if there's something you are looking for, please comment 'cause that could be part of my litmus test on what goes or stays!

I love to knit. It's a treat to put on a pair of handknit socks. One day, I'll have a whole plethora of finished (!) projects---they may even include scary projects like sweaters (eek!) and perhaps a number of tote bags I've drooled over (and purchased patterns for).

I've always been a person who "swings" from one high to the next---from total immersion in designing the perfect hydroponics garden to searching for the perfect cage for the ferrets. From detailed analysis of properties in Maricopa and Pinal Counties, in Arizona, to detailed cataloguing of my Skeleton Key Games adventure tile sets. From an in-depth study of LaTeX to an in-depth re-design of our roleplaying character sheets (which look fan-damn-tastic, if I may say so myself!).

Those who live with me on a daily basis are used to these swings of my interests. They know that today I may have zero interest in a topic, but that doesn't mean I no longer like that activity.

So...

How do I know when it really is time to let a craft go?

For the longest time, I was "known" in the family as the Counted Cross-Stitcher. My mother thinks my pieces are the most beautiful and so wonderfully crafted. (Aww, gee, Mom, thanks! *smile*) And yet, I've never made a single design for me or my home---despite the numerous patterns and supplies I've purchased for that very reason. I'm very particular about how I cross-stitch (no food while working, must clean hands before working, et cetera) so I don't add any dirt to the project. It's been a very long time since I've really wanted to cross-stitch. The last time I considered it---I would *really* love to have several of these beautiful pieces done for my home---I really wasn't interested. In the final product, yes. In the threading, counting, stitching over and over and over and over.... No.

And yet...

I sit here and think about an image (especially one for me!) coming together and coming to life, to finally be framed and hung on my wall to share with my family. And that's why I'm not sure if I should rid myself of the supplies and patterns.

I'm seriously considering reducing my supplies to just what I need to complete the specific projects I most want for me and put the rest up for grabs. If you know a (counted) cross-stitcher who might be looking for DMC floss, for Aida-cloth in natural (of which I have several yards), of rolls of branded Aida-cloth, and so-forth, drop me a comment with a contact point and we can chat in email. If I decide to put it all up, I'll get together a list and link to it here.