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Presented by Daniel Toriola Does your photography business approach let you down? Increase your photography skill and confidence level quickly and easily with top professional secrets that will change your approach to wedding, group and portraiture photography. Click here to know more Not All Web Hosts Are The Same. Some Are Really Responsive To Customers. Backed By a 30 Day No Questions Asked 100% Money Back Guarantee, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. Read What Our Clients Say About Us! Click here to know more Collecting Cross Stitch Magazines By James Brown Some people have a passion for cross stitch and devote their attentions to their handicraft and create marvelous items for family and friends. Some of these people, typically women, have been collecting cross stitch magazines for years because they love the patterns that are included in each magazine issue. Some of the patterns that people find by collecting cross stitch magazines through the years might include quilt blocks. These quilt blocks will simulate a real quilt block that someone could spend hours cutting shapes for and then stitching the shapes together to form blocks. The quilt patters will be very colorful and can be made to fit any theme in the home. Many people will display the cross stitch items under glass for guests to view when they visit their homes. These patterns are conversation pieces and people will typically say that they have been collecting cross stitch magazines for years and that this particular pattern was from an issue that belonged to their Mother. The stitched pieces have to be thoroughly cleaned before hanging or they will also display patterns of oil that was on the hand while it was being stitched. Many Brides will begin collecting cross stitch magazines a year before their wedding date. They use the patterns inside the cross stitch magazines to create personalized gifts for the wedding party and to stitch pieces of their wedding outfit. Many Brides choose to create lacy photo frames that they can use to hang some of their wedding photographs on as a background material. There are many areas of the home that can be decorated with cross stitch work. Many Brides take great pleasure in seeing their handiwork adorn the walls of their first home. They might create a beautiful bird sanctuary for the bathroom walls, and turn their new kitchen into a fruit orchard. Their husbands will see the value of their plan and might even urge them on with collecting cross stitch magazines of patterns that they would enjoy seeing in their work shop or den. People that are intent on collecting all issues of cross stitch magazines might pursue the matter by searching the aisles at flea markets and thrift stores. They hope to find back issues of the magazines so that they can boast that they own them all, and have enough cross stitch magazines in stock that they will be able to share their favorite cross stitch magazines with their closest friends. Wholesale Ad Secrets! Instant Profits! Premium Classified Ad space for $0.99 to rarely more than $3.99. BIG SAVINGS on Thifty Nickel/Penny Saver. Magazines TOO! Page 1 Presented by Daniel Toriola Collecting cross stitch magazines is a great hobby and one that will help people in expressing themselves. Cross stitch magazines have the ability to amuse and delight everyone that comes in contact with them because all of the information is helpful and useful. The items that crafty people create through the years through cross stitch can be handed down to their children, or saved as an heirloom that can be given to the next cross stitch enthusiast in the family. James Brown writes about http://www.simplybestcoupons.com Photolines: Photo Freelance Information Sell your photos to card & calendar companies, books & magazines. or do photo freelancing in your own hometown. Page 2 Presented by Daniel Toriola Stitching Memories By Caryl B. Grecia Stitching Memories by: Caryl B. Grecia Sometimes, usual photographs look so common and boring. Converting your pictures into charcoal or oil painting is a welcome change but then, a lot of people have been into these crafts already that there are times when these portraits too, look clichéd. There could also be a time that a charcoal or oil painting of your photo does not look exactly the same as your original photograph. I have been a witness to several charcoal portraiture failure. Have you ever had your portrait done in charcoal in which the result didnt actually look like your image? Theres a new option to the dilemmas of boring photographs and failed charcoal and oil (even water-color) paintings and that is the cross-stitch portrait. It is converting a favorite photograph into an elegant and artistic needlecraft. However high-tech the snapshot is, it will be captured exactly, even the tiniest detail, in a cross-stitch portrait. A picture is scanned and then converted into a cross-stitch pattern. A pattern looks like a chart of tiny squares on a paper. Each square symbolizes a stitch. And stitches are the details of the pictures. It is amazing to see a picture being converted into a pattern for cross-stitch. A snapshot, especially a colored one is the faithful replica of a person, a pet or of a significant event. In it, the image, especially the skin of a person appears to be plain flesh-colored (dark, fair, brown, yellow, etc.). But in a cross-stitch pattern, the skin alone could have three or more shades of whatever skin tone the person in the image has. Even an all-black hair could have shades of gray, dark gray and light gray for more emphasis. This is due to the light reflections upon taking the picture. It could be from the flash or the shadow of the sun when the picture was shot outdoors. However, in a snapshot, it does not really matter because the focus would be just on the image. But in a cross-stitch portrait, every tone of the skin, every shade of the hair (whether plain colored or highlighted) is considered. And in the end, the portrait is not only a faithful replica but is almost exactly the original image of the person, pet or the significant memory. The cotton threads used in cross-stitch give the picture its almost-real image. Basically, the fabric used as a background is a woven linen depending of the count, which gives the finished portraits the unique, handmade look. Snapshots are the mementos of a very special figure or event in a persons life. Take for example a wedding. Loads of films are used (or if digital camera is used, the memory is all occupied). There are unfortunate times when pictures get ruined because a) liquid was spilled on them; b) kids tore them up; c) they get browned being stored in the attic and more. However, a cross-stitch portrait, if ever spilled with liquid could be sent to dry-cleaning (or laundered even); it could not be torn-up easily; and should it get browned, again, the dry-cleaners can see that it gets back to its original colors (unless the fabric used for background is a black woven linen). But, there would be a slim chance (to none) that these misfortunes could happen because once a cross-stitch portrait is finished, it is put in a frame and then placed on a wall for everybody to see and admire. Page 3 Presented by Daniel Toriola Cross-stitch is one of the best ways to preserve the most memorable moment of a persons life. It is because cross-stitch can survive time. Proofs of this are the unearthed remnants from the year 500 AD. This could mean that when a portrait today is saved in a cross-stitch, it could live up to 500 years more! Cross-stitch was a fad only for the religious, royals and the elites in the early age. That is because cross-stitch was a symbol for status in the society. Cross-stitch was considered an elegant, classic and artistic needlecraft that even the famous figures in history such as Queen Elizabeth 1 and Mary Queen of Scots (who, even in captivity) did cross-stitch. It would be magnificent to put back elegance and class in todays technologically advanced homes and derive pleasures only the religious, the royals and the elites enjoyed way back in time through hanging cross-stitch on walls. When a portrait is saved in a cross-stitch it is like stitching the memories and the feelings back to life along with the image. Every detail considered is every minute of the memory treasured and labored with. And it is 100% guaranteed that the outcome of the portrait is the exact image of the memorabilia because of the accurate conversion of the photo to the cross-stitch pattern. Copyright © Sphinx Cyberworld Ventures The writer, Caryl B. Grecia, works for Sphinx Cyberworld Ventures. The company offers custom made-to-order cross-stitching services to those who love cross-stitch portraits but who are too busy to stitch. 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