Category Cross stitch/ Embroidery
Mr Macaw: Ara chloropterus
Yey for more colourful birds! The previous two that I had tackled from the CrossStitcher collection had been kinda monochrome, an occasional bit of orange or yellow, but mainly shades of grey and white. I much prefer the more colourful ones. Sorry birdies with minimal colour, you are just a little bit dull to stitch. […]
Mr Stork: Ciconia ciconia
The last of the birds! I am now up to date and ready for the Parrot of next month’s issue of CrossStitcher. I have to say, I don’t like this one, and the Seagull as much as the other ones, I prefer the bright colours of the bluebird, and lovebird, and budgie. I finished the […]
Mr Seagull: Larus argentatus
One more birdie after this one, then I am fully up-to-date! Until next issue. (And next issue is a super colourful parrot! That is definitely being stitched) In the lab I used to work in back in the UK, one of my co-workers got slightly mad whenever anyone would refer to a bird as being […]
I used to love a Mixtape.
There was a special skill to compiling a good mixtape. Of course these days we don’t even have a cassette player in our apartment. I technically do still own a cassette player, my beloved Mini still has the original stereo, complete with cassette. Anyway, the skill of a mixtape was the right combination of music, […]
Budgerigar – Melopsittacus undulatus
I was bad, It was Good Friday yesterday, and as that is usually a bank holiday for me back in the UK, I cast aside the study and spent the day doing some crafting and watching tv. Yup. “But Lindsay, that exam won’t pass itself” Shush there little good pixie! The bad pixie on the […]
Eastern Bluebird – Sialia sialis
Busy couple of weeks! Trips to Tahoe and Yosemite, paperwork, paperwork, more paperwork…….. Now back to business as usual. I was having a lazy Sunday morning yesterday (not quite as lazy as Mr M, who spent it sleeping), and decided to indulge myself in another little cross stitch project…. although on a decidedly smaller scale […]
Delia Smith. My Kitchen Deity.
Yeah, it has been a little while. I have been working on a couple of things, but mainly, and quite unexciting-ly, studying for my ASCP exam and applying for jobs. Dull I know. Anyhow, this project stemmed from a slightly silly little idea (but then, all the best ones are), which had been percolating in […]
Cross stitch: Balloons over Clifton Suspension Bridge
This is a project that has been on the go since we moved. Seriously. My friend Rachael bought me it as a birthday present last year, intended to keep me occupied while unemployed. It is available here. Although for the past couple of months it has been sat in the corner thinking about what it […]
Lovebird: Agapornis fischeri……. and Yorkshire Puddings.
I have been stuck in a cross stitch rut. I am still working away at my Bristol Balloons cross stitch project, but the easy part is over now (the blocks of colour for the bridge towers), and now I am on the slow to complete foliage. There are 4 different greens, with a non-uniform pattern, […]
Embracing California living!
We’ve been really starting to settle in now. We drove out to Santa Cruz on Saturday and spent some time watching the surfing, and looking around the surfing museum. Obligatory Wayfarers on pose by the Ocean: But of course I couldn’t visit Santa Cruz without a visit to Hart Fabrics, so picked up a few […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 