I've gotten a bit done on this, especially during the "Stitch 'til Midnight" event last Friday at Handmade Memories: Had a bit of frogging to do as I have trouble placing those wall paper motifs...for all your help -- I am always open to new ideas for a logo, inventory, etc. -- so please feel free to offer them! X-posted to cross_stitch and http://alesia-ellen.dreamwidth.org

...on  non-Maharashtrians in Mumbai, police said. Various student organisations have given a call for a Bihar shutdown to protest the attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere by Maharashtra Navnirnam Sena (MNS) activists on non-Maharashtrian candidates appearing for railway recruitment examinations. Protesters vandalized railway stations, blocked rail and road traffic and caused shops to shut down in the...

I'm going to be reading at the Late Night Erotica panel this Friday night at 10 pm at Orycon 30 and because I'm scared spitless, I've organized a Meet n Sniff at 8 pm that night in the lobby of the downtown Marriott Hotel (where the convention is). Look for the dumpy little gal with the cigar box and ammo cases who smells of Death Cap and fear. ;)

... Raj Thackeray is in trouble for cutting a cake that had the word "bhaiyya" on it . Defending the cake-cutting, the party vice-president said: “We have a lot of north Indian activists in the MNS and it must have been brought by one such activist, but we cannot recollect who,” party vice-president Vageesh Saraswat said on Friday afternoon. Dude, even a spelling mistake would've been a better...