Where I took inspiration

I realize, in my old age and decrepitude (I’m 37 going on dead and buried, according to my son), that it may not be at all obvious where the inspiration for this site and this project come from. Allow me to explain -

Cast yourself back to the heady days of the early 2000s. This is a time before social media back when the internet was 80% human generated instead of 80% bot generated. A website appeared one day with 1 million blank pixels on it and a link to a PayPal page. “The Million Dollar Homepage” sprang into existence with the sole goal of selling 1 million pixels for $1 each in order to help fund college for its creator. It started slow but eventually grew into a behemoth and all million pixels were sold. The website lives on to this day.

Now cast yourself back even further, to 1995. A youngster (me) who just learned to read, became obsessed with the Guinness Books of World Records in my elementary school library. These weren’t the big glossy hardback books you can buy at Costco and Barnes and Noble. No, these looked like Tom Clancy novels - 3 inch thick softcover novels with paper as thin as a bible, each with THOUSANDS of records printed in its pages. I pored over these things and determined then and there that my name would end up in that book.

Now, in 2025, we find ourselves here - an old man who stile yearns for a world record, a nostalgic remembrance of a simpler time on the internet, and a passion for cross stitching. What better way to smoosh all these things together than to sell stitches to raise money to break a world record while cross stitching!?

And so it came to be.

Now . . . I just need to find people who want to buy the stitches. Anybody? Anybody?