This time next week…

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…

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…

I had a very creative day today. More creative than I planned, in fact. I had promised MrPloppy that I’d finish doing bookstrings this weekend, and finally clear the dining table so we could stop eating off our knees. But then we found all those extra beads yesterday. And then Lytteltonwitch came round today with…

We’re not getting that refugee after all. My boss had called me a few days ago to say they’d found a lost kitten, and needed a home for it, so I’d said if they hadn’t found the owners by the time we got back we’d take it. He was supposed to be dropping it round…

I’ve had a couple of days of sleeping late and reading most of the day (I am *so* glad I decided to take this week off work!), so I’m pretty much recovered from the convention now (it wasn’t so much the actual convention events – it was the staying up half the night talking and…