S.E.X - Stash Enhancement eXperience

P1020338, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

I went to the big annual craft show down in Sydney today. I go every year, it's my only trip to Sydney. I caught the train down, so I had two hours of sewing time. I worked on my 1930's quilt. Got a few blocks finished. Caught the light rail to Darling Harbour.

I like to get there nice and early before the crowds. I was mainly looking for more 1930's fabrics. I was able to find quite a few 30's prints. I also got a heap of pinks as well, including some quite wild patterns (well, wild for me!). I think I will use some of the pinks to make some cushions with embroidery on them.

I also picked up some plain ecru linen for doing some Vogart stuff on.

There weren't has many scrapbook shops as previous years, so I didn't end up getting anything scrapbooky at all.

Headed home about 2pm, had a quiet run home. Got in the door about 5.30pm

P1020346, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

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All Rooster Teatowels

All Rooster Teatowels, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

This is all the finished Rooster tea towels.

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Sister and Tea Towels

Sister and Tea Towels, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

This is my sister and all the teatowels I made for her. Made using Vogart rooster transfers.

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Holidays

Just posting to let everyone know I am still alive and kicking! I'm on holidays at the moment, so I'm not online as much. Pharaoh is doing well, eating better and much happier. I am getting lots of cuddles, which is nice. I have to make sure Bubba doesn't get too jealous.

I have been baking - biscuits, cakes etc. Only problem is I can't eat all the stuff! I might have to hold off until I get back to work.

I started making a new coat on the weekend and I managed to break my overlocker, one week after getting it back from being serviced. Not happy.

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Pharaoh Update Again

Pharaoh has improved considerably. He is not hiding under the bed anymore and yesterday he wanted to go outside for walk. He has also started eating better and is whining alot when I give him his antibiotics, so I know he is feeling better. I am thinking of giving him a bath in a couple of days. He still looks a bit sad and pathetic as they shaved all the fur off his beautiful, proud chest. And on a couple of spots on his legs!!

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Pharaoh Update

Well, the good news is it looks like I didn't poison him. But I'm going to be way more careful with the chemicals anyway!!

The vet then thought it was either a bad middle ear infection or a stroke. So he booked in a neurologist to come and check out the stroke theory. This was the situation as of last night.

This morning I rang up and the news was a bit better. He was considerably grumpier and nasty, trying to scratch and bite. While this is bad for the nurses, it indicates to me a return to normal behaviour when at the vets. They were able to get him out and have a walk around, his movement was improved, he could walk without falling over. So odds are it's the middle ear infection, not the stroke. So now they can't get near him and therefore there isn't much else that can be done except to take him home, keep dosing him up on antibiotics and watch and see how he goes.

I have bought some nice cakes and a box of chocolates for the nurses and vets to apologise for the biting and scratching. So I can't wait to pick him up. I'm sure he will be upset with me for a while, but I can live with that.

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Sick Cat

Pharaoh is very sick. It looks like I might have poisoned him with a cleaning product I used. I hope the damage isn't permanent, I might just be able to live with myself.

I might not be posting much.

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Storm

Rescue (and news) choppers standing by, originally uploaded by aupeter100.

I had yesterday off as a flex day. I knew the weather was going to be bad, but not just how bad. It was raining when I started out at about 9.30am. Got to Charlestown Square (shopping centre) OK. Did some shopping, had some breakfast. Then headed out to Belmont.

This is when the trouble started. I got stuck for about 10mins on just past Gateshead High, near Harvey Norman. There were about 3 power poles leaning over, so the road was partly closed.

Got to Belmont OK, got the fabric I went there for. Started to drive home. By the time I got to the turn off to the bypass, it was getting really heavy. Then it got scary. By the time I was about half way along the bypass, I was starting to look for somewhere to pull over. The rain was coming down so hard, I couldn't see two feet in front of me. I was doing 40km/hr in a 90km zone. There was a bike lane that I could pull over into. Just as I did, it turned into a little pull over zone. So I timed that well.

Just as I pulled over, it started to hail. By that stage, I really didn't care about the hail. All I thought was, "Well, at least if the windscreen gets smashed, at least I'm not moving!!"

I stayed there for about 10mins waiting for the rain to ease up. About 2mins after getting off the bypass, I hit some major flooding on the road at Lambton. Managed to get through that. The water was running down the hilly street so hard and deep it was creating waves, it was also going into peoples houses.

Hit another bit of flooding at the turnoff. Got through that. Also had to dodge about three stalled cars. Then as I got to Waratah Station to go to Mayfield, a bus stalled in the middle of the intersection, so I had to chuck a u-turn and go through Georgetown.

As I was driving through there, you could see foam up on the footpath were it must have been flooded earlier. Then as I was going through Tighes Hill, you couldn't tell where Throsby Creek finished and the flood in the TAFE car park started!

Mayfield also had foam and debris fields, but no standing water.

Then I did my shopping and headed home. We went down and had alook at the ship up on the beach. The photo below isn't very good, it doesn't show just how up the beach the ship is. That's why I've posted the one by someone else at the top of the post.

We were going to catch the ferry over to try and get a better look at the ship and try and get better photos but the ferries weren"t running because they've closed the harbour.

Anyway, there is damage at work. It's a long weekend so they have an extra day before they have to decide about telling people not to come to work on Tuesday.

This is the ship that run aground on Nobbys Beach yesterday. The whole area has been declared a disaster area.

Pasha Bulker On Nobbys Beach Newcastle, 9th June, 2007, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

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Alive and Kicking

I'm still alive and kicking. Just haven't done any sewing. Had the newbies over again last night to work on garb. Actually made on tunic myself. After hearing the stories, I'm a bit scared to let them near the machines!! Anyway, they should all have at least one thing to wear within a couple more visits and they will know how to make them themselves. I might have to have a couple of weekends as well, wear they come and sew all day, rather than having it on the Tuesday night.

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Medieval Danish Church Panoramas

This site is cool, 3D panoramas of medieval Danish churches, with lots of cool paining.

http://www.panoramas.dk/church-murals/index.html

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Spider, Spider

Spider, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

I'd been sitting on the couch six inches away from this little beauty for about half and hour before I noticed him.

I don't think they are poisonous, and he's not a white tail, so your bits don't blow up like a balloon if he bites, but they do have a nasty ability of being able to jump 6ft across a room, and land right next to your head when you are lying on the couch watching TV (which happened to my Dad).

So I grabbed a plastic container and took him outside and let him go.

My apologies to the arachnaphobes.

I added this one for scale. He actually looked bigger in real life, and I'm not particularly scared of spiders, so not exagerating due to being freaked out.

Spider, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

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