Books, books, and more books

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…

I was going to post a short photo-essay of a release I just did, but my first attempt to log in to the HamiPiks site was unsuccessful (basically, it won’t let me past the terms and conditions page), and of course, Steve posted a message the other day saying that support requests won’t be answered…

Remember how last year I kept complaining about how I was so busy I didn’t have time to breathe? And remember how I said I was going to have a nice quiet year this year? Um, I think I’ve just done something that will guarantee another hectic year… No, Kimi, I *haven’t* enrolled for another…

I decided to have another big baking day, this time for “Comfort For Christchurch”, a group who are delivering food parcels to the worst-affected suburbs. So I made: Lemon & Coconut Slice (which didn’t work as well as I hoped, because the filling didn’t quite set. MrPloppy reckons they still taste good though, and happily…

A bonus day off work, and for once it isn’t because of an earthquake! The forecast yesterday was for snow, and all afternoon there were little flurries, but nothing serious, and with enough drizzle in between there was no was it was going to settle. That obviously changed sometime during the night: This is the…

We discovered this morning what “rainy season” means. We’d gone out in search of breakfast, and were heading back to the hostel, where we were meeting Derreada. As we were going into the MRT station, otakuu commented on the clouds gathering overhead. When travelled the two stops back to Little India, and when we came…