Owl - 1 - free cross stitch pattern

With this bookmark pattern I am starting the series of professional (so to speak) articles. :D  
This bookmark is easy and fast to make because of its size. The pattern image can be printed a A4 or A5 paper format.
Materials you will need:
- thread in the following colors: white, black, blue - light, medium and dark, violet. I didn't choose certain colors, I just used what I already had at home. Instead of violet you can use another color, like orange, yellow or green. I used thread from Puppets Mouline.
- aida cloth - 25/34 crosses is the size of this pattern so the aida cloth must have at least 32/40 crosses.
- organza (or any material you like) ribbon.

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The result up-close

The bookmark, doing its job :D

For any questions or suggestions you can use the comment section. ^_^
If you need any other kind of small pattern I can try to make it and publish it in a future article, tested or not.
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In the works now for a future article: Tardis pattern.

Let's water the flowers

 
My life is like a garden.

My relationships with other people are the flowers.

The water given and the care shown to the flowers are my gestures, the attention I offer to people.

Impatiens needs to be watered daily. Aloe needs to be watered from time to time. A cactus needs to be watered rarely.

I wonder how many dried flowers I have gathered in the garden...

I got to think of this because from some happenings I figured out that many times people expect to be treated based on their past behavior, present actions to be ignored if they are not favorable. A life partner expects to be treated normally for the sake of good old times even if recently they behaved badly, a parent expects to be respected because they grew you, even if recent acts don’t make them worthy of respect, a friend invited you to their wedding even if they didn’t talk to you for the past two years. 
 
If the flower’s soil has dried, the fact that it was once watered, even if in abundance, doesn’t comfort it in any way. And if the flower is dead, no quantity of water will revive it.

And there are those who drown the flowers.

I think this is the most difficult: figuring out what kind of flower we’re dealing with.

Yet there are people of whom we clearly know they are ours, that we want them next to us always or that we have no other choice: parents, in-laws, spouses, children, neighbors, colleagues, close friends. All of these are flowers that need to be watered often or very often.

Personally, I think that the flower which sprung from love, not strengthened by blood bond, must be watered daily. I think many couples break up because they forget this or they don’t see it as necessary. Many think that a document or a baby or a monthly paycheck quenches the flower's thirst. And many times the flower dries out surrounded by documents, children and money. 
 
A love relationship is a drunkard flower. It needs water every day. No matter what, however hard, how many needs, how many problems, not a day should pass without a nice gesture, a good word, a hug, a comforting touch, a good home-cooked food or a DOTA match… something, whatever is good for our flower. 
 
Until next time, I wish you to have luxuriant gardens! :D

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