Phew! We are back in Oz and we have internet!!! So sorry I have been missing in action for so long…. but I am here just in time to wish you all a very Happy Christmas!!! A quick recap of the past six weeks or so: We arrived in Oz early Nov and…
There’s a place downtown that the sewing ladies call “Aladdin’s Cave”. It is in the basement of a place called Deera Hotel… which isn’t a hotel as far as I can tell, all I can see are shops… but anyway, in the basement, in amongst the carpark are little haberdashery shops, with sewing treasures of…
I have wonderful friends. Really, I do. Blog friends, real life friends… friends who help me de-stress while I am in the middle of an international move…. Friend #1 is Alice of course, who is always there to hear me whine, to skype sew with, and to be my partner in crime for starting new…
Once upon a time there was a great flood…. it covered all the world…. even Arabia… All the sea creatures had a great time going where they had never gone before…. however, when the waters began to recede a large group of sharks found themselves stuck in the middle of the Arabian Desert. Years and…
…. of fabric, not wool…. that is what is sitting on the floor of my bedroom, in amongst the packing and sorting mess…. This is the bag that my dear friend took home with her on the plane from Dubai: And these two bags are leftover fat quarters from my little Shoppe… another sweet friend…