or the last few months, when I was way too busy to do anything crafty, I indulged my need for creativity by watching YouTube videos on quilting, and looking forward to having the chance to put some of what I learnt into practice (oh, and by buying fabric. Lots of fabric. (See, this is why…
his happens every year in Christchurch, but for some reason it always surprises us. We have a few nice warm days in October, we all decide it’s summer, and then are horribly shocked when the weather reverts back to cold and wet again. This morning’s frost was a bit of a shock, though – according…
uarter to seven, and I’m still at work. Don’t worry, I’m not actually working though – I’m not high enough up the food chain to be willing to do unpaid overtime! I was putting the final touches on my presentation on Bislama that we’re giving to the local Vanuatu community on Sunday, then I remembered…
mmm, according to my calendar, the last time I actually took a full weekend off was in August. No wonder I was feeling tired! But I have rectified that by actually having a break this weekend – I didn’t even attempt to work on my presentation for next weekend. Just took a proper break and…
ost people spend Labour Weekend doing fun stuff, or at least relaxing a bit. I spent it working on my assignment, which is due on Friday. But it was worth it, because I finished it! All six thousand and something words (yeah, I may have gone a bit overboard there…) I even got to spend…
Dad was in town yesterday, so I took advantage of having access to a vehicle to go round a few places over on Blenheim Road and investigate wood burners (as my one has been declared too old to live by the dreaded ECAN, so I need to replace it before next winter or face a…
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”. “What? It looked comfortable.” I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something: Truth condition Probability of cat…
ust very very busy. I’ve got a month to go before my final project is due for my LING paper, and it’s absorbing almost every spare moment. I am trying to stick to my rule of at least taking an afternoon off every weekend so I can catch up with friends or do something relaxing,…
ent to the Whole House Reuse auction last night with two of the CEISMIC team. It was a bit of a last minute thing – we’d talked about going to the auction way back when the project first started and we were archiving the catalogue of parts, but only realised yesterday morning that the auction…
This whole having a weekend off thing is fun! It’s meant I managed to finish off the last* bird of the Birds in Flight quilt-a-long, the thrush: *well, technically the last. I still want to re-make the wren sometime with the colours going the right direction, so I’m not completely finished, but at least now…