A Life Worth Stitching, BK219
Seven inspirational cross stitch designs for a life worth stitching
Success (large sampler style piece topped with roses and the verses, "Success comes from constant growth, "Success is having the courage to meet failure without accepting defeat," and "Success is relative - It is our own personal effort in making each day add up to a good life of love, service, tolerance, humility, courage, honesty, faith and joy") (106w x 190h Stitches)
Recipe for Literacy (sampler style "recipe" that reads: "1 relaxed child, bathed, fed and at peace with the world, 1 book of colorful pictures and a good story, 1 accommodating parental lap complete with owner who enjoys the book and shows it in his or her face, voice and whole self, These to be combined and taken every evening with no interruptions allowed"–offered in two color schemes) (107w x 181h Stitches)
Friendship (sampler style with an English cottage, birdhouses and roses at top and quilt squares at bottom with the verses, "Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"-Eleanor Roosevelt, "A friend is a gift you give yourself," "Friendship fills all those little ruts in the road," "On the road between the homes of friends, the grass does not grow," and "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver, the other gold") (131w x 262h Stitches)
Tell the Truth (small sampler with the verse, "Always tell the truth, it's easier to remember") (111w x 81h Stitches)
Schoolhouse Philosophy (horizontal sampler featuring little red schoolhouse and the sayings, "Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams," "Success comes in cans not in cannots," I CAN is 100 times more important that IQ" plus an alphabet) (167w x 73h Stitches)
Dreams and Goals (small sweet sampler with the verse, "A dream is a wish from the heart, A goal is a dream with a deadline") (99w x 89h Stitches)
The Giving Heart (band sampler style with the verses, "We can do no great things, only small things with great love"-Mother Teresa, "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in the world"-Shakespeare, "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another"-Charles Dickens, and "Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you"-Madeline Bridges) (83w x 242h Stitches)
