Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Today.

Today is Africa Day! Happy Africa Day!!
Today is my birthday! Happy Birthday!!
Today we woke up with no water! Happy ... oh, well ...

Good thing I had my Cupcake and Champagne on Sunday.
































(Cupcakes by Sweet Cillie's Cakery in Fishhoek; she makes the most divine cupcakes and New York cheesecake. There was a cheesecake too, but before I could take a picture, people had demolished it.)
And after all that cake and excitement little dogs fall asleep ...  L'Usbands too ...

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Zip.

I will be forever grateful to Kathrin of Annekata for showing me how to put in a zip. Here is my first ever garment with a zip. Wow. I am proud of myself. No really, I am! A skirt, with gathers nogal (a South Africanism, which kind of means " Who would have thought?")

Now how is this for a masterpiece of invisibility?
Ha! and another HA!!, Miss S.
Now I must just learn how to do a waistband, that ... er ... matches up.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Museum of Green.

(Embroidery thread, found exit pass, gyroscope, found plastic aeroplane, dinosaur, Miracle ink (but I haven't yet found out what is miraculous about it), small stamp pad, Zam-Buk salve (I grew up on it), malachite pendant I won 30 years ago, bead and wire ring, office stamp pad, green glitter glue, broken wing of bird made in China, wooden letter, shwe-shwe embroidered brooch.)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Waiting.

I am waiting for the translator to send the first modules of the last book. I am waiting for the courier to bring the last changes to  the second book. I am waiting for the typesetter to send me the first pages of the first modules of the middle book.

A lot of waiting, and the best thing to do while waiting is bake cookies. (Here we call them biscuits, but nevermind.) I had a tub of creme fraiche close to its Use By date so I baked some sour cream cookies. Got the recipe off the Internet (here). Jeez, American recipes use a load of sugar and butter! I decreased the amounts somewhat.






















What is better than a tin full of freshly baked cookies?






















Not much, I think!