Too Old for Snapchat Too Young for LifeAlert

Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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    That Awkward Age: Too Old for Snapchat, Too Young for Lifealert You know, it’s kind of funny. I just published a post on five ways we can use cross stitch to manage stress. And you should read it,

Fast 5: Ways to Destress Yourself with Cross Stitch!

Fast 5: Ways to Destress Yourself with Cross Stitch!
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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This month’s “Fast 5” features five ways to destress yourself with a hobby you already love — counted cross stitch! Life in the 21st century is like trying to survive the ride on a never-ending Stress Escalator. And some days,

Fast 5: About Hot Flashes

Image of an older woman experiencing what might be a hot flash. This article about hot flashes is found on Grimalkin Crossing.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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I was talking about hot flashes recently with some of my peers on the wellness side of things here at the Crossing. It was an interesting discussion, but it definitely revealed that there’s more than a little misinformation about hot

Feeling Down? Try These 4 Sure-Fire Mood Boosters

Feeling Down? This image shows a seated human silhouette profiled against a setting sun. Golden sky, hills in the background.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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Feeling down? Sadness is a natural emotion that, believe it or not, can help you over time. But that doesn’t exactly help in the meantime. When you are feeling down, the only thing you want to do is feel better. And

Monday Motivation: Success!

Angel Cat preview image. It's a cartoon gray tabby cat with a crooked pink heart and a golden halo. From Grimalkin Crossing.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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Monday Motivation: first drafts accomplished, progress on a new design, collaboration plans, and more! Hey, Grimalkin fam! We are crazy-busy at the Crossing these days! Sue and I have new plans in the works for this place. We’re hopping like

Personal Resilience: Cross Stitch Helps!

An illustration of a human figure standing between two walls. Behind those walls are others that are collapsing like dominos.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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Stitchy-kin, if there’s a single lesson that living in this post-meaning world has taught us, surely it’s that in order to thrive, we need keep our resilience game strong. Is it just that we’re trying to survive the never-ending craziness?

How to Treat Dry Hands

Dry hands? Not here! In this image, a pair of lovely looking hands is stitching red embroidery floss into a sweater. From Grimalkin Crossing.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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Dry, cracked hands are crying out for a good care regimen. Stitchers & crafters, we’ve got you covered. Dry hands with chapped skin, ragged cuticles, jagged nail edges, and roughened calluses can seriously detract from an enjoyment of hand crafts.

Hip injury update

Hip injury update: illustration of a woman bent over a laptop computer with her hand on her back. via Grimalkin Crossing
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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  Hey Fam. Alesia here with a hip injury update. As some of you know, I’ve been down with this — and without medical care — since June 21st. Around July 12th, still in pain and quite desperate, I started

Your Limitations Do Not Define You!

Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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A quote from Richard Bach inspired this sampler. If you don’t know his work, he is the author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, A Gift of Wings, and The Bridge Across Forever. The project is stitched in a bright blue, neo-calligraphic

Life Goals, a Quick-to-Stitch Sampler

Life Goals, a cross stitch sampler with some good advice: Spend your life doing strange things with weird people. From Grimalkin Crossing.
Alesia Matson
Alesia Matson
Grimalkin 1 at Grimalkin Crossing Cross Stitch Designs
Just an analog hobbyist waking up in a digital world. Counted cross stitch designer, old SF Giants fan, new cricket convert. Appreciates animals, music, friends, kindness, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Bollywood, dry humor, and the Oxford comma. Telegram: t.me/zenstitcher ||LinkedIn: aematson
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Sometimes designs come because friends see something that makes them think of me. Those are always going to be among my favorites. “Life Goals” is one of these, a bold, simple sampler design that lets the stitcher experiment freely with