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Hi. I'm Laura and am 44 - have been stitching in one form or another since I was about 8 years old. Cross stitching is my therapy. My boys are 18, 16 (with autism), and 3 years old. My husband and I have been married for 19 years. I found this site while just browsing the web. Can anyone tell me how you put the in the cute little pictures that show up under your names? I'm kind of new at some of this computer stuff. When I was a little girl my dad used to bring home used IBM punch cards for my brother and me to play with. Thanks!

Hi Laura, welcome. I'm sure you'll enjoy the forum, everybody is very friendly and helpful. I'm going to leave the detailed IT instructions to somebody else who knows what they are doing. In the meantime, if you put 'avatars' into 'Search' you will find some posts from Alex, our moderator, which explains about avatars. You do it through your own profile information.

Yes, I remember IBM punch cards well - but in my day they were part of the office!

Hi Laura,

Nice to have you on board! I can understand why you find cross stitch so therapuetic, my husband has Asperger's and although I love him to bits, it certainly adds to lifes little challenges!!

I found a picture I liked on the net and then PM'd Alex (top of member list) who kindly sorted out all the technical stuff and it "magically" appeared for me in no time. I'm not very computer wise either!!

Everyone on here are really friendly and you'll feel at home right away, I do and I only joined less than a month ago.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Hi Laura,

I hope that you find us very helpful and can add your own style and fun to our board it is great to welcome new members. Join in it makes it so much better to have lots of traffic.

As for the Avatars there is a place in the profile section to help you add the pictures. You can use a personal photo that has been resized or you can find them on the net and just link it into your sign. The picture can be no larger then 80X80. If you are having trouble ask Alex as he is a wizz at the technical stuff. We are just stitcher.

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome from the West of Scotland. Everyone seems to have given you advice about an avatar, so you'll soon have that sorted. Next, you'll have to see to putting pictures in the gallery.

Welcome Laura, to our wonderful world of stitching, fun and a whole lot of chatter! (Sometimes that is the best part!) Feel free to join in at any time, and keep on Stitchin!

Welcome Laura to the forum,Hope you post often

Welcome from SW France too.

Welcome Laura from the North of England

Hi Laura,

a welcome from Austria.

I can understand that cross stitching is a therapy for you. I'm relaxing while stitching, too.

Hi Laura
Welcome from Oxford, New Zealand
Im back home from my hospital visit and looking forward to the next 3-4
weeks off work stitching . Have completed 1 ufo(unfinished object) and 1 new blackwork bell pull already. Will get out the camera later this week and add them to the gallery.

Hi Laura, welcome from Canada. You will love it here. If you need any questions answered aomeone will know it, just ask. Hope to see some of your work in the gallery

Welcome Laura to the family. I am sure you will find us a really friendly bunch of stitchers :) who are always willing to offer words of encouragement or advice. Hope you will put some of your work in the gallery for us to ooh and ahh over.

Hi Laura, welcome from the east of England! Hope you enjoy yourself!