I Am So Happy La!

This is a portrait of ME (sans sewing machine)! I'm so fast, it looks like two people in the picture, playing like a little piggy in sloppy, steaming, stinky, squishy, yummy swill! Yes! I'm very busy, don't you worry about that.

Even though we have to move before March.

Just Read This Book...

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I thought the title was embarrasing and seemed a bit patronising in some way??? Whatever it was, I hid the cover on the train while I was reading so as not to offend. I wondered if it would be an annoying book, but it's not. In fact it's lovely. The author (Marguerite Van Geldermalsen) (seemingly) had no agenda, no hippy ideal of becoming a local, no stupid thought to bring new ideas into the culture nor, it seems, to avoid them.

In other words it was refreshing. Just a gal who joined a different society to the one she grew up in. Simple.

Sometimes I wanted her to let loose a little and whoop or glow loudly with the in-loveness of it all, but there you go.

I'm in love with Jordan, specifically Petra, and with the other books I told you about, have loads of respect for the hospitality of the far east. They eat and drink tea together a lot and there's nothing wrong with that.

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The Funkorama Five Dollar High Chair

It folds down to be a low chair. I know what you're thinking... Fantastic! I just need a better piece of stuff to tie her in. She looks precarious in the pic, but I can rest your fears and tell you that she cannot slip.
I was the only one who bid on this at a local auction. Go figure.

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By the way, Miss Grumpy has a slither of tooth through the gums, as you might imagine with those cheeks. And by grumpy, I mean that, rather than giggle and laugh at everything, she just smiles at most things and be's nice. Instead of terribly, ever-so nice.

You Must Look At This!

Emily Barletta

and her blog.

And you've got to say that, but for being half a planet away, she and Gooseflesh are twins! I love Goosey La!

Since You've All Been So Nice

I thought I'd show you my beautiful teapot, dragged out for a bit of ceremonious tea drinking in honour of the new tea-cosy. Or, as Shula would put it, correctly, The New Tea Cosy.

So Named 'Fluffy Bee' For Obvious Reasons

And difficult to photograph, being in an elaborately constructed, glassed box-frame. I did this in late 1997. Just as I was on the finishing run, Jane Nicholas's first book came out, bless her. Finger on the pulse. Zeitgeist. All that.

It (Fluff Fluff) is made in three seperate pieces using calico or something... Fluffy Stitch / Velvet Stitch / Ghiordes Knots / Turkey Stitch. I call it Velvet. Actually, I usually go straight to Fluffy.

Then you applique them onto an already embroidered slip. Now look, if you want further instructions on how to do the wings, I'll give them, but you have to ask or I won't feel it neccessary. Happy to, but not if no-one cares.

Hang on, I'll go photograph my background design... haven't done it myself but others have... Might as well post them here since I'm not doing classes anymore.

Have a look here too, for other applications.

Kazari

Hill Street Richmond. Just off Church south of Swan. Delicious. There's more but it's not brown and this is the relevant brown section.