Well, we were able to relax in a visitor-free home for one night, anyway. I just got a phonecall from MrPloppy, who in turn had just had a phonecall from my brother, asking if he could stay at our place tonight. He’s passing through Christchurch on his way down south, and needs somewhere to sleep. Good thing we hadn’t put the camp stretchers away yet!
Rarsberry asked me what backstitching is. Cross-stitch differs from other forms of embroidery in that there’s only a few basic stitches. Most forms of embroidery use lots of different stitches, with the different textures of them forming the design. Cross-stitch, on the other hand, really only has three different stitches (there are others that are…
The new project I got in Wellington: It’s very different from my usual embroidery projects, with no chart or instructions – all you get is the design printed on the fabric and a bundle of brightly coloured threads to use as you wish. So plenty of room for creativity and for learning a few new…
I’ve been terribly slack at keeping up with writing here lately. I think it’s all part of my general feeling that I can’t keep up with my life. Yes, I know I said I was going to try and ease off on things, but sometimes that’s just not possible – I’ve got a sociolinguistics assignment…
It’s Wednesday in New Zealand, 11.30 am, which means that theoretically I should be home by now. The observant among you will have noticed that the date at the top of this entry doesn’t say Wednesday though. That’s because I’m still in America. In Los Angeles airport, to be exact. And the reason I’m an…
Total = 137 books January (10) Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks At the Hall by Henrietta Soames The River King by Alice Hoffman A Vaudeville of Devils by Robert Girardi Torchon Lacemaking: A Manual of Techniques by Elizabeth Wade Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater Hexwood by Diana…
Bookcrossing is all about giving away books, right? Then how come over the last three days I’ve managed to give away seven books, but acquire twelve? On Saturday, we had a bookcrossing picnic in the botanic gardens. Quite a few people who’d said they’d be there weren’t (probably because the weather has been so iffy…