Here she is again

My lovely sweet little lady!

I had taken some other pics of Fluffy and her in a wrestling match, but then the batteries of that camera died on me.Have to reload before I can post them or wait for another wrestling match :-(
This really is a  nice warm place to stretch out, since the radiator is nearly cooking beneath her !

Dutch version ready to go

Some people asked me about a Dutch version of my humble booklet on the mouse house. It came today ( Blurb is fantastically fast )

If you read Dutch , you can read it here .

The English version can  be viewed here

BBB delivered

Today I delivered he Big Bugger of a Rugger to my client. She is obviously delighted ( and so am I, having seen the last of it, and after studying it, she happily shoved it into her dolls house !

The lady of negotiable affection...

Claire from Morecambe sent me this lovely lady... She is a perfect companion to my grumpy gouty colonel, I think, and in case you are wondering : yes,she is sitting on his rocking horse ....

She has a wonderful flushed face and beautiful hands ( notice those rings ?? And the fine fingers???) and a MIGHTY cigarette. I love her to bits.So does he, methinks.
Thank you  Claire !

(PS yes, that blessed wall sconce is again leaning down..sigh)

OK, ready, finished, finito, ready to go...

Thsi morning I finished the Big Bugger. I mean, finishing the stitching is one thing, finishing a  carpet is quite a  different animal altogether. Last week I had to whipstitch all around the edges and this morning I ironed on vilene on the wrong side. That was something that had to be done quite carefully, too.

Then I laid it out in my Kendrew House, in the music room, just to see how it looked.
And before you ask: no, I won't mind seeing it go ! I have seen quite enough of it to last a lifetime :-) And I know my client will be very happy with it (and it will bring a nice couple of bucks for pet rescue).

I DIDDIT !!!!!

Hopping up and down. Excited . Manic !!! Did you hear that big big shout in Amsterdam? Well, that was just me.
I finally made it, this afternoon the last stitch went into the big Bugger of a Boria 1029, and unless  I have forgotten a stitch, they were 242,653 stitches altogether . Sigh.
I needed two years to get it done ( witha RL job, of course ), and I assure you it is not for the faint hearted :-) Several times I thought this thing would beat me .

Last month, though, I finished the last motive in the corner and afterwards I filled up the background. Now look how we did that...

Of course, as you can see, it still needs some blocking before I can finish it.
A big thank you to the members of PetitPointers, the Yahoogroup, who have given me lots of encouragement and cheered me all the way through, while I was whining big time :-)
HURRAY !!!

MORE pickling !!!! And a fun pic of my little girl...

I did not have as much time  as I would have liked today, but I still managed to fill some more pots and to finish some others

The onions got labels. Anyone with more than my two brain cells would have hit upon label making in Word loooong ago... well, I did so, finally, today.

The cherries were labelled and got little covers (brrrr fiddly)

The bottles had dried and look nice, I think. They are solid acrylic, painted with glasspaint.

And I filled some marmelade jars, chopped orange canes by Angie Scarr, colored scenic water. The color is a bit VERY orange, I am afraid :-) and at least two of the pots are going to burst- bubbles are developing! There will soon a marmelade-bomb exploding in the Kendrew house,I think :-)

and while I was at the computer yesterday a little girl was playing acrobatics next to me: