RAKed by Anita and Chele !!!!

Ooooh more pressies - I feel so pampered and honoured right now!  Thank you Anita and Chele!

Anita sent me three small pieces of fabric:
Silkweaver 32ct Classics Periwinkle Mist 9x13
R&R Reproductions 28ct Wintergreen 8x10
Silkweaver 28ct Classics Dark Tan 9x13

Chele sent me three charts:
Cat's Whiskers Peacock Stitching Chair
Dimples Designs chart Wee Beasties Part 3
Dimples Designs chart Wee Beasties Part 4

The Peacock Stitching Chair - is all kitted up !!!  Fabric, floss, templates, the works !!!!!  Oh I have to stitch this now and hope someone (Sisu?) can be bribed to actually construct the chair for me !!!!!!

Now where's that Time Spinner - I have to learn to stitch faster !!!!!!

I am soo honoured in my friends - thank you sooo much for the presents ladies !!!!!

Fabrics and Internet

Received the last 2 missing FOTM packages in the mail on Monday, Powder Blue is cute, but I really love Wandering Ivy - and now I have two types, the linen Natalie gave me and now the opalescent lugana !!!!!

My next door neighbour (and owner) got broadband on the weekend. No worries no fuss. Needless to say I rang the company on Monday and demanded an explanation - they couldn't give me one. They tested my line yet again and still no go.

However they then realised that I had put in a second line, and they tested *that* one and apparently that one is fine! Apparently the second line is broadband compatible! Huh? Both lines are through the same physical cable come up to the house from the street ???????

Anyway skepticism notwithstanding, I'm not the sort to look a gift horse in the mouth, so I agreed to sign up for broadband yet again - I'll find out in a fortnight whether it actually is going to work. As I said, I'm hopeful but skeptical!

Finally Paul and I went to the local reptile park on Sunday afternoon. As well as the reptiles and spiders they had a great collection of Australian native birds mammals and flora. Took lots and lots of pics but will need to sort through them before trying to upload any. Due to their entertaining education officer, and the sheer variety of Australian fauna all in one place, I would recommend this place as a Must See for all overseas visitors. And not just because its only 20 minutes down the road from me :)

And finally my Dragski hates me ...... {sigh} .... I think he got jealous because I was enjoying working on Fire Flower last week. I sat down with the castle last night and the floss tangled, the pinhead stitches wouldn't stay, the needle wouldn;t glide properly! No frogging due to poor stitch placement, I put the stitches in the right place, but oh the thread !!!! I had to do every stitch two or three times because of the tangles and knots! and that was using two different threads straight off the skeins! From four different skeins !!!!

I'll try again tonight.

Hand Dyed Fabric Stash

32ct Linen

This is the material I want to use for Cirque des Cercles.

Hand dyed fabrics in my stash