Tomorrow

It’s 7.30 am on Christmas morning, and I’m just waiting for MrPloppy to wake up so we can share the true meaning of Christmas: PRESSIES!!!! Anyway, Merry Christmas to all my DD friends (and to anyone else who’s passing :-)) – hope you all have a wonderful day (and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, just…

I’m really impressed with how it turned out. It needs to be stretched properly, of course, but I’ll leave that to the professionals when I get round to getting it framed (which could be a while, given the cost of framing!) – I’m not as brave (or skilled) as Kimi to attempt it myself.

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…

7.59 am Christchurch Ok, this is the first test of the system I’m going to use to write my blog while I’m travelling. My internet access is going to be pretty limited, and if I wait until I do get on the internet, I’ll have so much to write about that I’ll forget half of…

As I may or may not have mentioned, MrPloppy‘s parents are arriving next week from the UK for a month’s visit (they won’t actually be staying with us for the whole month, because they’re going to do a bit of touring around the country, but they’ll be using our place as a base). It’s the…