Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
I’ve been a lazy slob today curling up on my bed with my laptop headphones on listening to another audiobook while stitching some more on Mirabilia’s Winter Queen. The book I’m reading now is “Dark Horse” by Tami Hoag … aside from the occasional bursts of language that have even ME turning grey, it’s an OK book so far – not the best I’ve ever read, but it’s kept me awake and stitching. I’ve been running downstairs to the laundry doing my week’s washing inbetween stitching and reading. I’ve managed to get to a stage on Winter Queen when I’m about to roll up the fabric on the scroll bars so I thought I’d take a WIP photo before I do … sorry but the quality is dreadful as it’s at night and I can’t find the battery charger of my ‘stitching camera’. Oh well, at least some of that dreadful white-on-white stitching has been done … almost one skein down, four left to go 😉
Mind you, the white may not be the death of me … it’s more likely to be the revolting Wisper thread – geez I detest that stuff!!! But, hey, I only need 2 cards of the stuff for my Queen … 2 cards too many 
At least her knees will be warm while she’s waiting to be finished! 😉
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This week’s theme is “Candy” and I have to admit I almost didn’t bother posting because I couldn’t be bothered finding a photo or taking a new one – then as I was loading the WIP photo of Winter Queen I remembered the photo of the Peeps that Monique kindly sent me … et voila, you have Candy!! 🙂
This week’s theme is “Share ANY photo you’d like” so I’ve chosen a couple of photos from Santorini that I really love (they’re scans from the actual hard-copy photo so the clarify isn’t great, but I still love them). I’ve asked Mum to bring some of my other photos of Greece and Paris so I can scan them in and use them in the future (almost all of my old photos are still with my parents in New Zealand).
This week’s theme is “Time” and my choice for the theme is the clockface on the main building of the University of Western Australia. As always my photos are taken with a zoom lens and without a tripod, so a crisp outline may not be present … but I still love this photo, as I love the colours of this clock face 🙂
This week’s theme is “Thirteen” and I have to say this one had me stumped … I had visions of tramping around the streets to find a wonderful looking “13” in a doorway or mailbox or somewhere, but figure I could be doing that for weeks on end before finding something suitable (and I have other deadline stuff that put a stop to those thoughts, not to mention the dreadful weather of late. Instead, I came up with a collage of 13 Roses from my existing photos … hopefully that will fulfil this week’s Photo Hunt theme!
I am a bit late posting this week, as I forgot last week was the final post that was ‘posted in advance’ – now I’m back to normal posting having to remember each week … oh what a challenge haha.
This week’s theme is “High” and I am a bit stumped which photo to choose this week. I have loads of shots that I’d love to use, such as the high views over the city of Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower … but alas, they’re all still at home in NZ. So, this week, I’ve chosen a shot of the Nan Tien Temple at Woollongong, NSW. This is the largest Buddhist temple in the Southern hemisphere … and this building sits pretty high on the landscape! 🙂
This week’s theme is I Spy – it’s supposed to be “I spy (take a photo of something hidden for us to find)”, but that didn’t appeal to me, sorry … so instead I’ve chosen my own theme this week … “I Spy … with my little eye …”
This is a pelican at Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne.
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