Black Bloomers Finished!

This is the new Black version of Inkcircles Bloomers chart.

Original colour scheme can be seen here.

Finished: 24 May 2009.

I'm very happy with how this came out, but I need to finish removing all the speciality fibre (i.e. cat hair as soon as I unpack my tweezers) .

Also I need a better camera to get a really good photo.  My beloved has offered to take some pics with his camera sometime soon.

Pics in finished album and WIP album.

Hugs
Mel.

Green on black

My favourite colour combo!

And yes I have now stitched all the green on Black Bloomers.

I've taken a break from unpacking and dedicated the last few days to stitching on Black Bloomers. The next update should be of a finish :) :)

In the meantime the unpacking and search for employment continue.  I have another job interview scheduled for tomorrow morning.  And then I MUST spend some time on Claire's RR.

We're still alive

For those not on Twitter:

• We are alive
• We have moved into a proper house
• Most of our stuff is here.  (*cough* 500 plus boxes *cough*)
• Trubs is home with us.
• We have net connection in the house.

I'm baaaaaack !!!!

Still unpacking boxes.  Still attending job interviews.  Still writing job applications.  Still whinging bitching and complaining :) :) :)

Life update (feel free to ignore)

In a nutshell:

Job: Still unemployed.

• Any jobs I apply for outside a library seems to be totally ignored.  Often not even sending me a "thanks for the application."
• Any job I apply for that I am overqualified for, I get a "thanks for the application" and then it falls into a black hole.
• The only good response I've been receiving is from jobs at the same level I was on.  This is good, but there are fewer jobs in this smaller area.  Also I have found out that my reputations from both UNSW (good) and RMIT (bad) have preceded me.  I am slowly learning which organisations will treat an application from me fairly, and which ones have already made up their minds :(
• I'm waiting back on a really good interview I attended last week from a really good University and I'm on tenterhooks.  I emailed them an hour ago and am watching the inbox desperately to find out one way or another.

Home: Tomorrow!
We sign the forms and take possession of a new rental house tomorrow.  Will take piccies and post soon.  We will be spending some time over there tomorrow working out where to put the varying pieces of furniture when they arrive .....

Moving IN

• Requires furniture.  Clothes.  Kitchen ware - you know - stuff.  The stuff that is in storage in Melbourne and we can't seem to get it from there to here.
• Originally Mr NTB planned to do a lot of te move on trade/barter but time after time, that fell through or the invoiced cost ended up being TEN TIMES the original quoted price.
• The last one had a cash component of $5000 which a very good friend so very kindly insisted on lending me at very short notice.  Which was fine until the final invoice came in at $20,000.
• This was yesterday!  They were supposed to collect our goods today!  We gave up on the barter/trade thing and  finally hired a Removals Broker yesterday.  He got cash only quotes for us averaging between $13K and $15K. We don't have that kind of cash .....
• We saw the bank this morning for a joint personal loan.  They appear unwillingly to lend us the money because of existing debts and I'm unemployed.  We'll find out tomorrow.

Other Things:

• I can't stitch well at the moment and I'm stressing because I can't get my two "obligation" pieces done.
• I have nothing to read because I don't know how to load new ebooks onto my reader using Mr NTB's equipment.
• I'm living on soup, bananas and chocolate because the kitchen in this apartment is useless and I can't afford to go out to a proper restaurant and I get sick eating junk food.  There are no GF convenience foods over here.  I have to eat suspect food whenever we eat out.  I'm so tired of mini gluten attacks that leave me feeling tired and washed out.
• My period is due and I'm feeling very hormonal.
• I miss Trubs sooooo much but I can't visit her.  When I visit it upsets her so much when I leave without her.  It takes her the better part of a day to calm down and it takes me nearly as long.
• The smallest two fingers on my right hand have been numb for a fortnight.  I have no feeling in them whatsoever and it extends part way into my forearm.  Sleeping badly on a bad bed.  I often wake up with my hands clenched and my whole body rigid with tension.  I'm not sleeping well because of the stress.

So no job.  We have a house but we can't afford to move into it. And Trubs is still in the cattery and I can't visit her and I feel so very miserable and I'm hinging all of my hopes on one phone call from Curtin University telling me I got the job and we can then get the loan and then get our stuff moved, and then Trubs out of the cattery and and and ......

So in the meantime its back to snacking on some chocolate, putting the washing in the dryer and seeing what other jobs I can put applications in for, while keeping an eye on the clock for my doctor's appointment at 3:30pm for my hand.

PS Mr NTB knows all of the above and he's stressing out over:

• Not being able to fix it all
• His work
• Money
• Seeing me like this
• Coping with someone else in his life/space

He's trying his best.  And none of this is his fault.

Dark Side of the Moon Designs

Been seeing this designer pop up on a few sites on the last few days. 

As most of you know I like this kind of stuff, so I thought I'd pop up a quick blog entry. 

I do not know the designer but she seems to be Australian ...

Both charts have been added to my lust lists for now.

Dark Side of the Moon Designs

Unhappy stitching news

The lighting at Mr NTB's place is not good enough for me to reliably stitch on black or stitch to a great enough degree of accuracy and uniformity on any other colour.

So Black Bloomers and Claire's Round Robin will be put to one side until we move and I can set up my usual stitching spot.

I hope this doesn't upset too many people - I just really feel embarrassed if I do a shoddy job on either of those projects.

I'll stitch on some of my own projects where uniformity and quality of work is not great :)

I'll hopefully get back to these in a couple of weeks .....

Inkheart

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Action & Adventure

Fantastic! Must see!

Mr NTB and I saw Inkheart last night.

Brendan Frasier (slurp!)
Jim Broadbent (one of my favourite character actors)
Helen Mirren (who we didn't recognise!)
and many slurpworthy others! (Dustfinger's fire eating scene!)

Great ensemble cast! Although some characters really stole some scenes (the ferret!) you couldn't really say that one actor outshone the rest.

It WAS a children's movie so many of the twists and the ending are highly predictable, but it was a very fun movie. A children's Princess Bride.

This will definitely be added the DVD Collection as soon as it is released!

Off to read the book series it was based on now.
http://www.corneliafunke.net/en/index.html