Tales from Periphaeria

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Registering is simple (hover your pointer over the @ on the menu to find the login link afterwards) and doesn’t bind you to anything. Your email won’t be used for soliciting or it won’t be delivered to any third parties – though it will be used in case I need to contact you on a matter considering gallery.

This is an unfortunate occasion, but it is better than begin to ban per IP. I apologise for the inconvenience.

And remember:

…who is having problems connect to Sitesled?

I have begun to seriously consider registering a domain and getting a decent host. Anyone have any good, reasonably priced suggestions?

You have less than 24 hours left to participate Designer Treasure Hunt so if you haven’t done it yet and would like to have a chance to win nice, stashy prize pop by at One Star’s Light Needlework Supplies and join the hunt!

Good luck!

Thank you for participating.

I will be writing finishing instructions to be added in future designs (and to already published designs). I am not going to add to the price of current designs, but I will change my plan of pricing basis a bit to compensate the time I spend on writing (it takes time as I have to write them in language foreign to me).

Thank you all for the feedback.

Otherwise… deadline is closing too fast, but I have four models stitched at this moment so I can promise you at least four new designs (with some luck five, but as fifth is based on a finishing technique I have never tried it may turn out to be a catastrophe).

I have also managed to design my first big one (biggest to date for me) and hope to find suitable floss for it (I find it difficult to decide what colour I’d like to use or should I try to go out of my comfort zone and make it multicoloured) soon so I’d get into model stitching in near future, as, due its size, it will take some time to finish.

Would you find it better to have finishing instructions accompany all the designs (finishing instruction for the method I have finished the design with), have them as separate items (which would then probably include colour pictures to clarify my blabbering, but would also cost something) or are you happy with current state of affairs?

Leave a comment, help me to decide and make stitching experience nicer for you.

I am happy to announce you new retailer of Periphaeria Designs designs: Violarium.

Violarium is Periphaeria’s exclusive Finnish, and at this moment also only European, distributor, and can be found from northern parts of Finland.
Though, you shouldn’t let Violarium’s location scare you: Violarium ships internationally (with an extremely reasonable price) and provides customer service also in English.
As an old customer I can recommend Violarium to all of you as their customer service is great and their selection has some curiosities which are difficult to find from you generic ONS.

Lady has also designed an exclusive complimentary design for Violarium’s customers. It is available in Finnish and in English, so if you are after curiosities… do pop by at Violarium and say Hello from me!

Also…

Are you a fan of Periphaeria Designs (of course you are ) and want to share the love? On Angela’s request Lady made a little banner to be used in blog sidebars and other suitable places. Feel free to grab it to your use (and remember: hotlinking is not a good habit! Please, ‘net is full of free photohosting services so grab the link or save the image and move it to your preferred photohosting site).

…by the good reception of my designs.
Success of my designs during these two weeks has exceeded even my wildest dreams.

Thank you all, every single one of you, for the support you show for my style, for my talent and the work, devotion and love I put in my designs, by purchasing them.
I hope you enjoy stitching them as much as I enjoy designing them.

Now it’s certain that I can really do this, that Periphaeria Designs really can exists, even though on freelancing basis, I feel relieved.
It brings me joy to know that, even I won’t make a living with this (probably ever), I can do something which gives pleasure to me and hopefully to others too in form of stitching my designs. And I can have some extra income from it. (Ie. I can finance my stash addiction. )

Some water has to flow under the bridge, and few models need to be stitched, before I am ready to sell my first design, but the journey has begun, and sometimes it’s good to hurry slowly and stop to smell the flowers.

You’d never guess the advantages of model stitching your designs before you confront your first possible Boo-boo. It surprises even a person who actually has some designing studies in one’s background how something can look good as a pattern, but when in its actual media, lacks something.

In this case I am very pleased with the design itself and how it looks when stitched, but if I leave the design untouched, from what it is now, it will only work as a biscornu and, honestly, I prefer to design versatile designs – even I may design certain designs with a spesific finishing method in mind.
But still, this little problematic one has been wonderful to stitch. Now I just need to give my brains few free days from it and decide then what I’ll do with it. Maybe I just have to accept the fact that some designs just want to have a defined finishing method, no matter do I like it or not. (I know I am the one who designs them, but in certain sense they have their own life once they are in image form.)

By the way, I had my first comment! *waves to Susan*.

Do I need to say more?