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On Saturday morning we went to the Ethnological Museum (also known as the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Museum) in the grounds of Addis Ababa University. It was FASCINATING! This museum has a good write up in the Lonely Planet guide, but it was SO good! The museum itself is housed in the magnificent palace that […] We have only about 2 more weeks here in Addis before we go home. One of our daughters is really missing home, and the other one loves it here so much that she wants to stay. However, there are things that we are missing about home. What I am looking forward to (in no particular […] If you enjoyed my posts on Sabahar, the silk growing/spinning/weaving business here in Addis, you might enjoy learning a little more about the lifecycle of the eri silkworm at Wormspit. I certainly did! The earlier posts were: silk photos, Sabahar again, and Addis textiles. Yesterday a friend (who the girls have adopted as an additional great aunt, and I think they run her fan club) took us out to lunch at the Addis Ababa Sheraton. This is the TOP hotel in Ethiopia, and probably one of the top hotels in Africa. It is a mammoth complex, with a large […] Earlier this week we made a delicious cake to take for dessert to some friends’ place. It was adapted from several different recipes to fit what we already had in our pantry, and for altitude. I will include the recipe here, with un-adaptions for those not at altitude! It is dairy-free, but full of nuts! […] My husband feels that this post should be entitled “Lucy in the glass case without any jewellery at all”. Today we went to the National Museum and saw (amongst other things) Lucy. Lucy is the earliest bipedal hominid that we have a record of, classified as australopithecus afarensis. She was found in northern Ethiopia in […] The power went off at 8:30 this morning. I patiently waited throughout the day, doing my drawn thread embroidery and getting a lot more done than I had expected to today, until it finally came back on seven hours later at 3:30pm. Until now, we have been very fortunate not to have had many power […] I thought you might like to know about the food here. A pretty everyday part of life, but food here is quite a different situation to home! Ethiopian food is quite delicious, with many spices, lots of meat, and injera – a fermented pancake made from the Ethiopian staple grain, tef. My husband and I […] This morning at about 6:15 (it was still quite dark at the time and therefore difficult to see my watch) I heard a lone bell ringing. It sounded like a church bell, and slowly it rang 7 times. It was not kids having a bit of fun, finding a bell and ringing it. It was […] This is the view out our back window, overlooking our local neighbourhood here in Addis Ababa. You can see the difference between the multistorey buildings in the background, and the corrugated iron structures in the foreground, both of which are housing. At various times of the day, the air becomes filled with plumes of cooking-fire […] |
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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