Nice to see you, Emily. What beautiful stitching you have. I also enjoyed seeing your cats and your plants. I hope your kitties are around and healthy and comfortable for a long time to come. It's hard caring for elderly or ailing animals (or humans). Take care, and happy stitching.

Love your progress on your wips. Your cats are beautiful. My thoughts and prayers are with them. Happy stitching!

I 100% understand everything you said about wearing a mask. I think of it as "pretending" and it can be so exhausting. It's so important that we look out for ourselves. The pet caretaking days can be so challenging, I feel for you. I'm sorry they both had health issues at the same time! They're so lucky to have you and Jim and such a loving and caring home. I'm glad Dharma is getting a new, hot bod out of all of this! 😁

I hermit all the time - my husband is like your Jim and understands me! Love the WIP parade.

Thanking you for talking about Masking. As a Realtor, I do this on every.single.appointment. Every listing appointment. Every buyer’s consultation. Also, my daughter, the future pharmacist, uses a flat tire analogy for mental health- if you have a flat tire, you fix it, right? No shame, you get it taken care of. Her flat tire analogy has helped several of her friends to realize that chemical imbalances are the same- there are tools( drugs) available to treat it, and no shame.

My favourite trifecta .. stitching , cats and plants ❤

LOVE Emily's house!!! Sending happy, healthy & healing hugzzzzz to the kitties xo

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Stopping video (don’t worry just a pause but if I wait until it’s over I’ll forget to comment). I too take medication for anxiety and depression. Yes I avoided it for a long time. One time in discussing with my doctor my concern about taking anything and how I didn’t want a “crutch” or to be hooked on anything, he said to me, “a diabetic needs to take insulin because their body is missing something it needs. Your body is missing something it needs and thus you’re not functioning as you should and we need to figure out what that is and replace it.” Huge light bulb moment for me. I like the swimming pool analogy as well. Has it perfectly fixed me. Well of course not but I’m way better than I was. And why he normally, anyway?

Hi Emily! Thanks for sharing all your beautiful wips and upcoming new plans with us all! Hope you have a great vacation and hope too that all your kitties do well with all the meds that they now have to endure! It’s so tough as they age and we all age! We have a 13 year old kitty and two 9 year old dogs and 2 horses, one that is on meds as she is lame and is about 25 years old! Yes, so much responsibility, but so much love! Sending you healing energy for your animals and you as well! You are one strong, amazing lady! Thanks for sharing all the good and not so good! Appreciate you so much! Hugs!

Glad the kitties are hanging in there. They are fun to see pictures! I have the Ruth pattern. I scared! I walk by her and say hello. Maybe one day. Thank you for doing these videos. Beautiful stitching!

Enjoy your videos! Wishing Darma and Buster healthy vibes!! Also appreciate your MH talk, I feel like it helps it be relatable to hear others. Loving the Ruth Queenstown Sampler but can’t seem to find it anywhere. Wondering where you got yours?

thanks for being real 🫶 I too am a proponent of chemically-treated pools, fluoxetine for the win 🎉🏊‍♀️ also your Death by Cross Stitch is i n c r e d i b l e 😮 I’m loving the 70s patchwork vibe ❤

Hi Emily, I’m so sorry about Dharma & Buster they are such sweet kitties. And I love looking at your plants. I hope you and your husband in have a very good , Time away. We all need that occasionally. I love all your projects. Can’t wait to see the next episode of your wips . Take care and happy stitching. ❤

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If you have a great collection of WIPS. Love all of the plants. Positive thoughts for Darhma & Buster. You are great cat parents. Marilyn

Emily, it was great to see you again. I love all of your cross stitch progress. Everything is so pretty. I saw several I would like to do. Your cats are so beautiful. And the prettiest eyes! I have 4 and there my children. We do have to take care of them. Your plants are growing so nicely. I can't wait to see you again and see more of your wips. Have a good week.

Oh Emily…you are a 20 yr.-younger version of me! I love being by myself…in fact I prefer it, but then wonder if there’s something wrong with me because of it! And I am surrounded by parents/in-laws with dementia…they say in order to prevent dementia, you need to keep being social…I am doomed! 🤪 Thank you for the mental health talk! I can totally relate. Every single one of your projects is perfection! Love them all!

Thank you for the rant! I have been feeling really off since taking early retirement and thought I was weird. I used to be able to pretend to be outgoing but just can’t anymore. I’m too out of practice… you made me feel less broken. thanks…😊

I love the analogy of your brain being a swimming pool that needs chemicals to function properly. I've always said that I'm extraverted for professional reasons but am an introvert in my personal life. As I age my social anxiety has become more pronounced though so there's that going on too. We have to talk about mental health. We just must!

Hi Emily loved your video. I have a diabetic cat. He name is Shifu. I noticed him drink lots of water and losing weight. Me bring a diabetic for 56 years I took his blood sugar. He was over 200. He gets 2 shots a day. He doing really good. Panda has to special urinary dry food from Royal . They are brothers . I will do anything for my fur babies.

Awww, healing vibes to your fur babies! Your Modern Folk piece is stunning! I’ve enjoyed following your progress. And Ann Roberts! Gah!❤️ And love the Thoreau verse you chose…I need to do that as I’m not crazy about religious verses. Love that Independent Mind verse!!! Perfect piece to do as “my assignment” this election year! Thank you for discussing mental health - we all need to help to de-stigmatize it. Buster’s purring…❤️

Enjoyed visiting today; I am so sorry that both of your babies are not well. There is nothing easy about this time; just keep on taking care of them and loving them, with every thing that that involves; you will never regret any of it; you will only wish you could have done it more. Thank you for the pep talk regarding our mental health, also; gentle reminders are good. Your stitching was also so enjoyable to see and hear about. I stitched through the whole video; thank you for keeping me company. See you on the next one!

I appreciated you giving your view on depression/mental illness. I have become more of a home body, be by myself kind of girl although that has always been me. I'm not a social butterfly, I can be quite uncomfortable around people but can also be ok around people and enjoy it, on my terms. Your comment about the "you" present when you have to interact with others not being you I don't think is quite true, it's an Emily that is inside of you when you need her but not the "you" you are most comfortable being! Keep up the awesome work with all your projects and bless your kitties - as you say, love them as long as you can.

Love your projects, and I am so glad your kittens are ok. Screw working on a feminist piece, go vote for a female president!

Thank you for normalizing the comfort of being alone and solace. I too have to put on another persona for my job. It is exhausting. Don't get me wrong I like to talk to people and socialize. But like a true introvert I need a lot of alone time to recover from the work persona and all that peopling. I always thought or was told something was wrong with me, that I was weird, etc. Now I just tell people I am spending time with friends and family (my dogs). Thank you for being a part of this community and sharing. From one fur baby plant lady to another. Hope Darma starts to adjust to getting her meds...been there and Buster improves.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful projects. I also really appreciate the mental health representation. I’m 50 and have just received a DID diagnosis and your seeing me was wonderful ❤

I don’t know you but I love you.! I to also love being alone for most things. I like to shop by myself, stay at home by myself, not talk on the phone very often. My sister and I can carry on a good 2 hour conversation because she also likes being and doing things by herself. So she understands. I have really great friends that have been told what I suffer from and what meds I am on, so when they call and want to hang out or come over, they are ok and understand if I say today is not a good day. They don’t ask a bunch of questions and they know I just need a day or two to unwind and be silent. I am retired and my husband passed away 5 years ago, so I can do that when I need to. I don’t feel bad about it, can’t change it and I love the no drama life. I know when I have had enough of the outside world ( after visiting or talking to my daughter or my son) that their life was not and is not for me. I unplug my landline phone and put my cell phone tone down real low….for a couple days and love the feeling of just me and my quite house in the country with my Frenchton dog Roxy. She takes very good care of me and knows or feels my moods. We are who we are and we can’t be pushed into being someone we are not. I go to church most Sunday so I get my fix of outsiders. They also know how I am and some Sundays I just can’t. So I stay home and don’t get dressed and sometimes go back to bed…I wish more people would stop trying to drag me away from my sweet spot(home) and get me out there with the animals or creatures or whatever people want to call themselves. We are best and happiest facing our battle by ourselves. My daughter has told me on numerous times she wishes I could have found the right medication years and years ago. Their growing up lives would have been much calmer. My daughter also takes meds for depression and is truly a much calmer person when she stays on those. She has twins( boy and a girl age 12) that can just push her last button. You don’t want to be in the same block as her when that button has found either one of them. Her ex husband also knows what buttons to push or NOT push. He is very understanding and hard working and come over to her place whenever she calls for help with one kid or the other. She is lucky for that. Enough. Just wanted you to know there are us people who understand how things are. Lots of great stitching you have done and are doing. Enjoy listening to you and hang in there 😅 things are all good. So sorry about your babies, they help us so much with our struggles, help them with theirs. I can tell your a great parent. Good vibes, Darlene

🌵 love your stitching, love your sunroom and the beautiful plants, and sending a lot of well wishes for the kitties. I know how difficult it can be to care for elder cats. It’s like they go their whole lives never needing a vet visit but then make up for it in the later years; my (almost) 16 yr old cat included. But like you said, we’re just living in their world so we love them and make them as comfortable as we can for as long as they need us. Have a lovely rest of your week 💜

Emily and Cats greetings, Love your all my project videos, I have forgotten some🤭. On your Red Deer is that Vintage Cedar or Cedar Plank . Sorry to hear about Darma? but Buster looks well. My Gracie's kidneys are having to work harder so Mommy (me) is having do give her a I V twice a day. She's 16 almost 17. Just keeping her comfortable. 😢❤ take care

You’re stitching is all the things I love!! Thank you for speaking about mental health - it’s so important!

Hope the cats move along in the right direction. 🌵Always love seeing your stitching and spending some time with you.

I so enjoy your Flosstube videos Emily, thank you for sharing. I hope your cats both do well on their treatments, they are so lucky to have you. Your words re: mental health are so true, as I’ve got older I need my own space more and more. I work as a community mental health nurse so my time is all about needing to decompress, walks, gardening, reading, crafting, stitching.💗

Hope Dharma and Buster live healthily much much longer 😊. Thanks for showing them ❤

You’re the first person I’ve seen stitching Ruth. I fell in love with this piece and started it a few months ago. Can’t wait to follow your progress on her ❤

Darma and Buster are blessed to have you and Jim. Sending positive vibes. Liverwurst is nasty but it works on pills here.

I was listening to your self description of enjoying being with others but also saying you loved your alone time. I feel the same. I call myself an extroverted introvert. My extrovert is not my authentic self but I am good at it and I am able to function in social situations.

Beautiful patterns and stitching. Do you know if the portrait of Ruth and her pets is still available?

❤❤❤ to you and your kitties. Kitties getting older is one of the hardest things... I like your analogy for the brain. I freely admit my brain is high maintenance 😊

🌵Thanks for the video visit. One advantage of having so many great WIPs is that when you finish something, or get tired of a project, that you always have a wealth of beautiful things to work on next!

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Hi Emily happy Tuesday night to you and I enjoy your channel and you are amazing supporter

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Where the Long Dogs at? 😂 🦇

🦇 Great WIP parade! I always love your videos. My vote is for a peacock, a unicorn, a badger, because I'm currently obsessed with mine, but you have so many beautiful projects there is no wrong answer

Just stumbled upon your Flosstube video and really enjoying it. I wanted to throw in this quick response to your squash bug issues. Out here in Arizona, we plant nasturtiums and marigolds with the squash to naturally keep the bugs away. Might be worth a try.