Two posts in one day? Most unlike me, I know. But I just finished putting up the Christmas tree: (Well, finished in the sense that I discovered that the lights don’t work, so I’ll have to get some new ones, and I really need to get a bit more tinsel to replace the old stringy…
It’s been a strange sort of week. We knew we’d be shifting offices sometime this week, and that we would have to stay away from the office on moving day so we didn’t get in the way of the movers, so we’d talked about having some sort of team field-trip, maybe involving a site visit…
A few of the Christchurch Bloggers were meeting up at the Craft Love Fair at Mairehau High last night, so I went along. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but there was a lot of temptation on offer (and all right, I may have bought a few small things…). I was a bit braver about…
I participated in TexasWren’s ornament exchange again this year, and last night when I got home my ornament was waiting for me. But not just an ornament, it was a whole box of goodies from Herchelle in Calgary. Parcels with proper stamps on them always seem much more exciting On opening the box, the first…
The good news is, I finished the machine sewing part of the minecraft face mats. Work in progress – mats at various stages of completion. Machine sewing finally done! Of course, that means the bad news is I’m up to the hand-sewing part. Which is the slow and difficult bit (well, it is if you’re…
DD went a bit crashy-bang yesterday, and I got 404’d from my own diary, so I wasn’t able to post the progress pictures of the remainder of the Minecraft faces: Chicken: Cow: And Enderman (a type of monster, for the uninitiated – its eyes glow pink when it’s angry at you): I started doing the…
hich means I can finally reveal the secret project I mentioned ages ago. In fact, it was two secret projects. Or possibly just two iterations of the same secret project. When browsing the internets looking for patterns to feed my new paper-piecing obsession, I came across a lovely chicken pattern that was just crying out…
While it’s true that a good worker never blames his or her tools, it’s also true that for an unskilled dabbler, using the right tools for the job can make all the difference. For example, these are not the right tools for cutting patchwork squares: So after a text from Mum pointing out my general…
It’s stinking hot today (seriously – I hung out a load of washing, and it was dry before the second load was even finished in the washing machine), so of course it was the perfect day to spend sitting over a hot ironing board working on my latest project. It’s for a Christmas present, but…
I’m waiting for some files to process, so a quick chance for an update while I’ve got nothing better to do… Thanks everyone for your kind words about my cousin. A bit more detail has emerged about the crash, but they still seem not to completely know what happened. At this stage it sounds like…