And the winner is…
Welshamethyst (very closely followed by texaswren, madame urushiol, and KiwiKimi – easy to spot which of my friends list have an interest in antiques!), who spotted the distinctive swirls of an old Singer sewing machine:
Welshamethyst (very closely followed by texaswren, madame urushiol, and KiwiKimi – easy to spot which of my friends list have an interest in antiques!), who spotted the distinctive swirls of an old Singer sewing machine:
Yay! I managed to release 11 books at 11* am on 11/11/11 🙂 The original plan was to release war-themed books, seeing as its also Armistice Day, but I could only find one in my release box, and since St Christopher’s fell down I don’t have a good source of cheap books to buy just…
Just a bit (ok, quite a lot) of backstitch to go: In other news, the other day I got a catch for a book I released over a year ago. I haven’t been doing a lot of releasing lately – a combination of lack of time, lack of motivation, and horrible weather – so I…
One Scrubs DVD successfully exchanged for a voucher, which we promptly spent on several more DVDs. Which means the ratio of books to DVDs on the living room bookshelf has fallen even further… And a large chunk of our Christmas money has been satisfactorily spent, mostly on CDs and a panini press (pretentious, I know,…
I’ve been back from Sydney a couple of days now, but I still haven’t managed to write up my diary entries for the trip. Wanting to get them done quickly before I forget everything is battling with wanting to catch up on some sleep, and sleep keeps winning. But I’m working on it! In the…
Why does human hair just keep growing? I can’t think of any other animal that has hair that seems to have no maximum length (except maybe horses’ tails? Do they keep growing, or do they stop when they get to a certain length?). What’s the evolutionary advantage to having hair long enough to sit on,…
Somewhere in southern Texas Yesterday was the first day that’s been mostly boring, but it did have its highlights. The main aim of the day was just getting from Lubbock to San Antonio – a very long trip mostly across more wide flat plains with not a lot to see. Just outside Lubbock was a…
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Thanks for removing that 😉
It looks like an old-fashioned sewing machine to me – the sort Amy might have had 🙂
PS: A belated Happy Christmas 🙂 Sounds like you had a good one.
I love it! Very nice work!