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Archive for May, 2008

Baby wearing

Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Quilting, baby, child on May 29, 2008 | 25 Comments »

The African ladies here carry their babies on their backs. I’ve always wanted to get a photo of it, but feel a bit awkward snapping shots of strangers going about their daily business. Well, this week Gorgeous Girl was being a bit fussy, my helper picked her up and walked out of the room and [...]

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A quick finish

Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Quilting, sewing, sewing clothes on May 26, 2008 | 18 Comments »

I’ve been keeping my eyes open for plain clothes to embellish for Gorgeous Girl, and picked up a plain little shirt a few weeks ago. I was planning on cross-stitching a fish to it, but realised that she would outgrow it before I got that done (I’m going to buy one two sizes too big [...]

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Three firsts and a meme…

Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Quilting, baby, child on May 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Two firsts for Gorgeous girl, and one for me:
Gorgeous Girl’s first drink of juice

I love the expression on her face in this next photo.

Most days of the week I teach for one hour. Gorgeous Girl gets to spend that time hanging out with Gorgeous Man, as we’ve managed to coordinate our schedules quite nicely. On [...]

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and the quilting continues

Posted in Books, Daily life in South Africa, Quilting, Reading, child, works in progress on May 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I had a good run over the weekend and actually managed to finish three of my blocks. So I’m now down to the final 10! Here’s the latest block done.

The starburst was Gorgeous Man’s idea, and I really like it, so there’ll be a few more like this.
Not much else going on. Work is [...]

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There’s been sewing

Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Quilting, child, giveaway, sewing on May 13, 2008 | 14 Comments »

There has been some sewing here at Ruth’s Place – though not as much as I would like. My self-imposed deadline of a block hand-quilted every two days has gone by the wayside. Gorgeous Man (after overhearing me cursing at the neverendingness) suggested putting it aside for a while since it’d become a chore. But [...]

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$101000

Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Knitting, Quilting, baby, cat, child on May 7, 2008 | 14 Comments »

Yesterday someone gave me $101000 dollars. What’s that? You want proof, ok. Here are the notes:

$100 000

$1000.
Unfortunately they are ZimDollars and therefore worthless. While it’s very interesting for me to see notes of this size, the hyperinflation and associated political and social problems in Zimbabwe are no laughing matter. Still, I thought you’d like to [...]

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I have returned from my sojourn in the wilderness…

Posted in Books, Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Knitting, Reading, baby, tourist places in South Africa, works in progress on May 3, 2008 | 26 Comments »

Last week, South Africa had public holidays on Monday, Thursday and Friday, so we took Gorgeous Girl on her first-ever camping trip.
We went to the Karoo National Park. This park doesn’t have a lot of big game, and doesn’t get a lot of international tourists (I’m pretty sure we were the only people in the [...]

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