Topiary progress report
Only the back-stitch to go on this tree, and I’ll be half-way to finishing the entire picture (there’s four topiary trees in total).
Currently reading: Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman
Only the back-stitch to go on this tree, and I’ll be half-way to finishing the entire picture (there’s four topiary trees in total).
Currently reading: Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman
Dinner at El Pollo Loco (which translates as Crazy Chicken! :-)) – a chain version of the taqueria we stopped at for lunch. We’ve decided on a change of plans for tomorrow. Instead of following Route 66 out of LA, we’re going to head into Nevada and go to Las Vegas! Hmm, I suppose I…
There are a few pleasant side effects to MrPloppy being out of work. One I particularly enjoy is the fact that he does all the housework, so that I come home from work to a clean house and dinner prepared – I can suddenly see why men have always been so keen on women being…
Well I’ve finally caught up with my diary entries for my trip to Brisbane in June – I should have done them ages ago (like in June!), but there were so many pictures to upload and books to link to that I kept putting the job off. But I decided that today would be my…
PixieKitten’s question was: Give me the reader digest edition of where you stand on all the big issues – religion, politics, sex, drugs and music =) Wow, you don’t go for the trivial, do you? Ok, here goes. Religion I’m an atheist. I was brought up as a vague sort of Christian (I think we…
Spring may not have sprung, but it’s definitely in the process of sproinging. Suddenly the days are getting longer (I’m actually getting home before dark in the evening!), daffodils are popping up everywhere, and blossom’s beginning to appear on the trees. Plus there’s just that indescribable smell in the air that tells you winter’s almost…
I haven’t done a lot of embroidery lately (after the marathon effort getting the wedding sampler done), but I did make up this Christmas decoration from a kit a week or so ago:[album 128913 stocking.JPG]Hard to tell from the photo, but it’s almost all done with beads, and just a few small areas of plain…