My craftwork made the papers!

Today’s batch of pretty sparkles: Sorry about the poor picture quality again – I was balancing on a stool holding the camera up high enough to get them all in without too much foreshortening, which is not ideal conditions for getting a well-focused or well-lit shot. I was starting to run short of inspiration (and…

The-Organist had told there was going to be a charity booksale in Timaru yesterday, so of course lytteltonwitch and I had to have a wee expedition down there 🙂 We were a bit late getting away from Christchurch, after taking a detour to drop MrPloppy and a repaired computer off at a customer’s house, but…

Yesterday the Christchurch 2009 organising team had their first meeting via email, and it was great – a really constructive atmosphere, with ideas flowing freely and criticism given and taken in a friendly way. I left the computer feeling really excited about the next two years. Then this morning I read this thread on the…

So, can you guess what it is yet? 🙂 I’m quite pleased with the background pattern now that there’s more of it visible. I was a bit disappointed with it at first, because it was supposed to subtly reinforce the octagon theme, but once I’d started stitching I realised that you couldn’t really tell they…

The more observant of you may have noticed I haven’t got any further with writing up the trip. Put that down to a bit of a relapse into depression, contributed to partly by sheer exhaustion after all that travelling, combined with normal post-holiday let down, but mostly by the general stress at work (more on…

This “catch” this morning for one of my books amused me. Of course, it may be pure coincidence that the anonymous finder misspells TranzCoastal in exactly the same way as the releaser – after all, you’d have to be a pretty sad type to resort to faking journal entries… Anyway, now that I’ve got that…