I wasn’t totally happy with the lettering – I didn’t have time to properly graph out my own lettering, so I just copied an alphabet from a book – it didn’t look too bad on paper, but didn’t look great once I’d sewn it. Unfortunately, by the time I realised that, it was too late…
In case you were wondering, yes, I did manage to get my blackwork wedding sampler finished in time for MrPloppy to take it over to the UK with him. It was a bit of a last minute rush, but I finished the main part of the pattern on Monday night, and just had time to…
Poor MrPloppy! He flew to London on Wednesday evening… well, that was the idea, anyway – it didn’t quite work out like that. His itinerary was pretty simple: fly to Auckland, spend two hours there, then fly to Los Angeles, another two hour wait, then fly to London, arriving at Heathrow on Thursday morning, where…
While I’m uploading photos, a couple I forgot to upload with this diary entry: The hail still on the ground on Sunday morning:[album 128913 hail.JPG thumblink] Proof that it was seriously cold – Ming and Saffy actually snuggled up to each other to keep warm![album 128913 hailcats.JPG thumblink]
We were woken last night at around midnight by a very dramatic thunderstorm, with almost continuous thunder and lightning, and incredibly heavy hail (they said on the news today that there were marble-sized hailstones – I wasn’t going outside to check!) In the morning, there were still patches of unmelted hail on the ground –…
I forgot to add – had a few good catches over the past week: Crisis on Conshelf Ten by Monica Hughes was caught in Akaroa, Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy was caught at the hospital (I released it in the botanic gardens, so it had travelled, but not very far!), and Through a…
The m-bag from nekki2976 finally arrived this week. It was HUGE!!! The poor postman almost ruptured himself lifting it out of the van (as did MrPloppy when he brought it inside!) A few of the boxes inside had come apart in transit, but luckily none of the books were damaged. And what a treasure of…
No, not our Tuesday night meetup, that went without a hitch as always – in attendance were me, Alithia, lytteltonwitch, non-fiction, natecull, Cathietay, daveytay, and awhina, I released several books (The Case of the Cottingley Fairies by Joe Cooper, Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella, Cats are Better Than Men by Beverly Guhl, Harry…
Now that the convention is over, I can get on with the other things that have been demanding my attention (like work, but that’s too boring to mention here). In particular, I’ve been focussing on getting the knight and lady embroidery finished for MrPloppy‘s brother’s wedding. I’ve only got a few weeks until MrPloppy leaves…
Phew! I’ve finally finished writing up the events of the last week (well, apart from the fact that I’ve just remembered I promised Bookczuk that I’d write an article for the newsletter…), so now I can get on with other things. But first, a couple of exciting catches overlooked in the excitement of the convention:…