Word: needlepoint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think I'd have my whole family here--Mica, Mica's sister and my husband. And they'd all get along. And I'd have breakfast in bed and a new piece of needlepoint and a new book and both my children being loving. And I love it when they write letters about how great I am--specifics, I want specifics...
...want to take up needlepoint and skydiving, and I feel like I can. Now I feel like all these things are an option," Sugarman said...
...spring of seventh grade. My parents were still at work, so I asked Grandma to drive me across town to play basketball with a couple friends. She was retired and had lived in our house my entire life. Even though she was 74, she set down her needlepoint, grabbed her keys and began shuffling towards...
...universal motivating force it is seen as today. Specifically, Boswell and Johnson warned against the moral failing of dullness; Dickens blamed a morally bankrupt society for the boredom of some of its members and 19th-century women accepted the necessary tedium of their position and resigned themselves to needlepoint; we today think it our right to be entertained and are offended by boring people and things: so is boredom's history in a nutshell...
...They wanted to get more aggressively into imports, so here I am, 23 or 24, on an eight-week trip to Europe, India, Japan. I truly thought I'd gone to heaven." Same thing with decorative pillows: "I had a collection of Seurat and Van Gogh made out of needlepoint in India. I merchandized them as art, not pillows -- $500 apiece. They sold out in one day, so I didn't have time to enjoy the fun." And lamps: "You pick up shells, antique tea cans, baskets, boxes, anything. They wire them in the warehouse, and then...