Big News!

I just had a phone call from the boss to tell me my leave for April has been approved. London (and everywhere else) here I come!!!

We’ve just crossed the state line into Arizona, and according to the signs we’ve also crossed into a new time zone, but I’m getting confused about time zones now, so I’m not sure which way we’ve changed. So it could actually be 12.30, or maybe 2.30. Who knows. Anyway, so yesterday. I think I left…

Suddenly it’s December, and all those little craft projects I’ve had in the back of my mind for ages have taken on a greater urgency. You may remember that way way back in February I was cross-stitching a picture of a sewing machine and mentioned I had a plan in mind for when it was…

I don’t do physical Christmas cards, so please accept this as a virtual Christmas card to all my Dear Diary, Bookcrossing, and Livejournal friends. Hope you all have a great Christmas (or whatever you choose to celebrate tomorrow), and a fabulous New Year. And another sort of Christmas tree: I wandered over to Jellie Park…

I don’t think awhina reads my diary, but just in case she does, I’ll be keeping the details of my latest cross-stitch project private, because it’s destined to be a wedding present for her. They’re having an octagonal-themed wedding (because they met in Dunedin’s Octagon), so of course I had to make the cross-stitch in…