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We’ve just come back from a weekend away in Canberra, which is Australia’s capital city. We were visiting friends, and had a most wonderful time with them. On Saturday we went to Floriade, which is a free exhibit of very beautiful cold weather flowers such as tulips galore. Its an annual exhibition that’s been on [...] Firstly I just want to show you that I have not made much progress on my buttonhole edge around my Mountmellick embroidery stitch along cushion – but at least I have made some! The big news of the day is that there is an Ethiopian restaurant in Sydney! The African Village Cafe and Restaurant 359 [...] Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily. For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing [...] Today is multicultural day at my daughters’ school. They’re going dressed in their hand embroidered Ethiopian clothes. Hopefully I’ve had a chance to add a photo to this post for you. I would have written more, but I spent so much time plaiting their hair last night (1 hour each) and making the injera (another [...] We’ve been home from Ethiopia about four months now. I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on our experiences there. I miss the people very much. I miss the food. I miss the slower pace of life. I miss the temperate climate. Next week our girls have multicultural day at school. Despite the fact that [...] Some friends have recently come back from a trip to Afghanistan – as you do! Knowing of my interest in embroidery, they brought back some Afghani embroidered bookmarks for me to see. They are incredibly finely worked, with everything in counted satin stitch, worked by hand. The stitches are miniature! They appear to be worked [...] Today at church we viewed a DVD from friends of ours who are still in Addis, teaching at the same school that we were at earlier this year. Their family is also supported by our church. At the beginning of the DVD was a short promotional bit about the school, and about life in Addis. [...] I am going to go out on a limb here… I don’t understand biscornu. (And I don’t know what the plural for “biscornu” is, or maybe that is plural? If it is plural, what is the singular?) Biscornu are everywhere these days, primarily as counted thread projects. But every time I see some of [...] A new review for “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” has appeared on the Country Bumpkin website and in the latest edition of Inspirations magazine. Here is an excerpt: Every time a new embroidery book is published, a huge collective sigh of disappointment emerges from that most neglected group of embroiderers; the left-handers. This book should put [...] Since we have returned home from Addis, we have found that we are seeing some things with different eyes. I guess its part of the reverse culture shock. Some aspects of our culture have seemed ridiculous to us for a long time – like the section of the junk mail catalogues that come in the [...] |
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