I’ve just got back from a shopping adventure, where I got to use my mad italian skillz!!1!
Part 1 - Postage Stamps
Me: (waving postcards) francobolli per Australia, per favore…
Tabbachi lady: Australia? (correct pronunciation)
Me: Si.
(exchange of shamps and money)
Me: Gratzie
I made that first part up myself! At least, I substituted in ‘Australia’ where my phrase book had […]
The scarf came first, and I had nearly two balls of wool left over, so I decided to make a beanie. But it got too wide too flat too quickly, so I changed it to a beret. I’m pretty pleased with the result
On thursday night I had some fairly urgent reading to do for the next day’s class, but my brain didn’t want to have anything to do with that. It was in a sewing mood. And I happened across this pattern for a reversible shoulder bag….
So I wandered out to the study/server room/sewing room/stuff room, and […]
Isn’t it awesome when the sewing-blog lady says things like:
Remember, sewing is like perl: There’s More Than One Way To Do It.
(in a post about learning to sew)
I decided to spend some of the $50 they’d given me for my car on a treat. So cruised down to Karawara on my bike, in the rain (I like riding in the rain), for a hot chocolate and something tasty from Gloria Jeans. I decided to get a caramel slice, which was actually a […]
This weekend was pretty packed. I went to Adventure World on Friday, helped Jono move house on Saturday, and went canoeing at Penguin Island on Sunday. In between all this, I managed did a couple of the things on my to-do list…
I started making my dress form, with help from my Lovely Assistant, Steve:
The next […]
Last summer my old student car was on its last legs - it was having all sorts of trouble with overheating, particularly in the hot weather or when standing. I would have to arrange my life so that I only drove in the morning before it got too hot, or along a route with the […]
On friday I handed in my last assessment of the semester. This semester has been a particularly crazy one - the first half packed full of outreach stuff, and the second half packed full of catching-up. The last month has been particularly bad, because it was all of the biggest and most important assignments, and […]
