Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is an interesting book, a book within a book, one a 50s style crime novel with a Hercule Poirot style detective and a murder in a sleepy English village, the other is the story of the book’s editor, who (trying not to give…
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Christmas gift tag DIY
If you stitch up all the motifs in the Brighter Industries Xmas A to Z, one of those motifs will be ‘spare’. I stitched up the UK version, which has F for Father Christmas and S for sweets but if you stitch up the US version, F is for fireplace and S is for Santa…
5 things I liked this week – 11.11.16
1. My copy of Zakka Embroidery by Yumiko Higuchi arrived. I’d been eyeing it obsessively on Amazon for months and the book is as good as I thought it would be, I can’t wait to stitch from it, I will review it properly then. 2. I haven’t had much chance to go for walks recently…
A proper introduction
Well, Brighter Industries introduced itself to the world yesterday with the Xmas A to Z pattern but today, I thought I’d introduce you properly to this blog. Some people may know me from when I was blogging over at Lacer’s Life, I’ve retired Lacer’s Life (which is actually a little bit sad, as I’ve been…
Xmas A to Z Cross Stitch Pattern
Welcome to Brighter Industries! You can read more about us or should I say me, Jo Stafferton (but they always say to talk about yourself as a company in the plural don’t they?) over in the about section and there’s a more general introductory, bloggy type post coming tomorrow but today I wanted to introduce Brighter…