hi my name is Donna Donahue
Donna hi i'm Lynn Randall
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okay i have a cold this morning so you have to excuse my my sound here um i'm from uh Plano Texas where are you from
Plano Texas
oh okay that's nice and easy um let's see would you like to to start or would you okay
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sure that'd be just fine we might as well go ahead
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did you want me to start oh i'm sorry oh i have to start okay well um my oh i did i did push one shall i push it again you think no okay um my um
yeah you have to you have to push the button uh-huh push one
did you yet push the button oh okay okay no no that's that's it
i love to cross stitch and my husband and my son who is now eleven watch so much sports on TV that lately i have been
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just in a cross stitch frenzy because i cannot stand being in the same room with the TV on with all the sports so so much that i have to sit i can sit there as long as i'm cross stitching and
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while i'm doing that so that that's one of my my favorite hobbies that i that i like to what what about you
well i do cross stitch also
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in fact i was just sitting here getting ready to start some things so um i've done it for a number of years and uh so that is one of my favorite things to do also i find it very relaxing and and so like if i um
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i do too i
you know if i haven't done it for a while i like to have a i just like to have a project going um because i think it it's it's just a real good thing to have
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it is i i enjoy it too and i have found a wonderful framer on Fifteenth Street down in Old Plano um about two doors down from uh Nooks and Crannies
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um who who does he's really an artist and he does a wonderful wonderful job with i just give him my things and he triple mats everything and he has really nice frames
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and i think when you it's very satisfying after you do something like that to have it framed and hang it up um it it's always that's kind of the fun part
now do you think he's reasonable in terms of prices
very reasonable i have brought something to Michaels and i was very disappointed in it and it was just a small little picture for my daughter's room in fact there were two little cross stitches i did for her room and um
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apparently two people framed them differently they two people took instead of one person doing doing the framing two people did it because the mats were just different sizes and to put them next to each other it just didn't look right and um
right uh um-hum
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he is so reasonable that um and he has all these unusual frames that he uses his name is um i guess i can just tell you his name it's Matt Inc
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and it's um i think the address is ten eleven and a half on Fifteenth because it's a skinny little door next to i think Bows and
so is it is it so
it's upstairs and this little skinny door it's right on Fifteenth Street right down right down by the railroad tracks his name is Dan
well i'm glad to know that
okay so it's closer to the railroad tracks then from Nooks and Crannies okay
yes closer to the right down down from Nooks and Crannies and it's Matte M A T T E Inc I N C period
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and um he does such a beautiful job i'll take something in i do simple cross stitches mostly samplers and a few that are a little bit more complicated but i don't really um with three kids running around it's it's hard for me to get something too intricate
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so i like something that's kind of quick and and i love i like doing the samplers i have a whole wall of them and he'll just take this sampler which is just you know mediocre not so great and when he puts the colors he picks out little bits of
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little bits of um colors that he'll pick from your from your work and and matte it with that little color and it just it just makes this wonderful piece of art um
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so um i'm real real happy with them and they have some really nice books down there have you seen the books in the small shops in um
oh yes uh-huh uh-huh
on Fifteenth Street you know i'm fairly fairly new to the area so i'm always glad to find a nice little shop that has different books but uh
i basically i basically buy most of my things there in Nooks and Crannies at that at that store um there used to be a wonderful store on Fifteenth but it closed and she had fabulous things but
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it's been closed a couple of years so really in my now i didn't i in fact i was just there yesterday but i didn't go across the street i saw that there's a place across the street i didn't go in to that place but i generally buy most of my things in Nooks and Crannies uh-huh
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do you um now i really usually don't get the real expensive linens to work on which uh maybe that's what you do it's probably really really beautiful to do that but i i just get the regular piece of cloth you know and do it on that but um
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yeah well it depends on what i'm doing i tend to um see i make up most of my own things and and so um
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in fact i make up almost everything i do now i used to do uh you know kits and all or i'd use books but i i tend not to do that much anymore um
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so it depends on what i'm doing as to what i use i recently did one on linen and that's the first time
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