Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
This week’s theme is “Drink” … and these two photos suit the theme down to the ground! The first photo is my extensive cocktail booze collection, with my Aunt posing for a joke as if she’s working through the collection. Every time Mum comes over to visit me she brings another two bottles from my collection rather than buying duty free … I’m slowly getting them all ‘home’ – so, who’s up for a cocktail party? LOL.
Another quick post for the week, as I’ve been out all day at work, followed by a work dinner … it’s now after midnight and I’ve just realised it’s Photo Hunt day … yikes!!This week’s theme is “Salty”, and I’ve chosen some lovely dried seafood from Hong Kong … chewing on these would definitely be salty!
No real explanation needed for this week’s theme – this is most of my collection of “Soft” Toys, in particular my ducks … yes, I’m definitely duck-mad, and a girl can never have enough of these fine feathered friends in whatever shape or form! 😀 The second photo is one of my all-time favourite ducks 😀 There have also been a couple more added since this photo was taken – and some have now spilled over from the bedroom into the lounge room 😉
Not being into ‘antique’ items, such as brooches, furniture etc (I’m more of a modern girl at heart), I struggled with this week’s theme – I thought of putting Mum’s photo up, but she wasn’t amused 😉 (actually she did suggest it later when I was still struggling).
This is the best I could come up with … some ‘antique’ buildings from a visit to Egypt about 10 years ago.
Temple of Hathor at Abu Simbel (an extremely long day trip from Aswan, but sooooo worth it!!)
From the Temple of Kom Ombo on the banks of the Nile
Inside the tomb of Ramses IV in the Valley of the Kings
It’s that time of the week again … well, almost … seeing as I’m starting night shifts tonight, and I have to get up to do a house inspection at lunchtime tomorrow, I didn’t think I’d be much in the mood for posting tomorrow … so here’s this week’s contribution to the Photo Hunt Saturday. The topic is “Gross”, and I was stuck a bit for choices yet again … but I thought these grasshoppers being on sale at the bird market in Hong Kong was quite gross, so I couldn’t resist taking a photo! (Hopefully I’ve linked it OK so you can click on it for a slightly bigger piccie.)
I also managed to get a couple of stitches into the Bordeaux Sampler today while I watched my Dodgeball DVD for the umpteenth time … I still crack up every time they start throwing the wrenches and dodging cars 😉 Next up is my Macaw SAL – I want to at least get an hour into this piece, because I know my eyes won’t handle the over-one stitching once I start my night shifts … Anyway, here’s my pitiful progress on Bordeaux for the week (the only difference from last week is the bottom row of long-arm XS and the backstitched vines for the 2nd lot of Rhodes grapes):
Seeing as I’ve been housebound for the last few days, and not a huge silver fan (I’m definitely a ‘golden girl’), I struggled to find any existing photos with the theme of silver … so I just came up with some lame ones myself … they’re not too artistic or clever, but they are silver 😉
Reels of silver (mainly Kreinik) threads
Tin foil scrunched up!
Well, duh!! The next time I’m looking for photos I should start with my Word document where I keep all the themes, and think of ideas in advance … I’d already found one last week some time, and forgot about it … so here’s what I originally thought of for the theme of silver in a previous lifetime – what a blonde!! Oh well, at least it made me get creative for once! 😉
It’s time to jump back onboard with the weekly Photo Scavenger Hunt now my phone line is back up and running. This week’s theme is “Wild” and I’ve chosen a photo of me doing one of the ‘wildest’ things I’ve ever done … Tandem Parapenting in Nelson, New Zealand!
This was my initiation jump before jumping out of an aircraft, but things went a little ‘wrong’ on the day. We basically ran and jumped off the hillside and my stomach was ‘flip-flopping’ dreadfully, and I absolutely hated it, then the pilot spun us around in a 360deg circle, and we started just peacefully sailing and I enjoyed it again. We had a pretty rough landing by hitting an air pocket and plummeting fast the last few feet, then getting dragged backwards a bit by the wind … and the ground crew came over to us saying “that was a bit hairy, wasn’t it?” … “what was?” I asked innocently … “when the ‘chute collapsed” came the reply … my jaw hitting the ground was my own response! As it turns out that ‘flip-flopping’ was in fact us free-falling … needless to say, I hated the sensation, and to this date you will never ever get me to do that final airplane jump … never ever, nada, zip, no how! And I was the only one of our group that got to jump that day, as the operators decided it was too dangerous to do any more! At least I can say I’ve “been there, done that”, but definitely never ever again!
This week’s theme is “Annoying” … there wasn’t much I could think about this week for annoying that I could actually take a photo of, so this is the best I could come up with … it was incredibly “annoying” finding this great big bolt head sticking up out of my tyre driving home from work after night shift – and even more “annoying” having to buy two brand new tyres out of it (although admittedly I’d been thinking the tread was getting low on them anyway). Sorry for the poor shot, but my camera battery died and I couldn’t take a clearer one.
And an archival one just in time for the festive season – here’s my Dad, the Christmas fairy … my choice for the “Silly” theme. It’s amazing what a party at the local RSA will make you do!
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