My God! Do you see the time I'm sitting here? Can anyone believe it? Tina decided that she needed to pee at 5:45 this morning, so silly muggins here took her out to the garden with Louise and Spencer and we had a good game of ball with Kyo. Nemxa is the clever one - she's still asleep on the bed with Pete :-)
It was nice and cool in the front yard so I decided to hose it all down from the sand because today is a very exciting day - PERSEPHONE IS COMING HOME with her sister! Yes, Ellen is bringing them down this morning and I'm so excited to have gentle giants around me again!! Which is why I didn't go back to bed - I'm bouncing up and down with excitement and I can't wait for the phone to ring!! That would be Ellen asking for directions to our house - woo hoo what fun I shall have with them today!
Last night we went to some friends for drinks - they live round the corner from us in the most amazing house I fell in love with. They are Americans - Dale is a Pilot with Etihad Airlines and Karen is a crazy artist like me. They've just come back from a weekend in Indonesia where Karen spent hours choosing sarongs and fabrics. She brought me back some gorgeous sarongs and a sari which I have been wanting desperately for ages. I can't wait to wear them! Karen is planning on using her drop dead beautiful fabrics to make up a bedouin tent in one of her spare rooms ...........I can't wait to see that cos I've been thinking of doing one here too. Thing is, we've been in some of these rooms in a variety of places and all those carpets and fabrics, surprisingly, make the room appear so much cooler than the rest of the house. It's like being in a humongous cocoon; mmmmmm imagine the decandent feeling lying on cushions in a bedouin tent - I like the idea more and more!
I'm coming to the end of my 12th patch for my wall hanging and it looks pretty good. I have to learn how to quilt next when it's time to put it all together but I have no idea how many more patches I'm going to make for it. Perhaps I shall just leave it like this. The one I'm working on is coming out pretty - black and gold Arabic caligraphy - I think it's only right to put in an Allah Hoo Akbar in the middle of the wall hanging; it sure has a pretty design when it's written. Maybe I was a Bedouin in a previous life - I love everything about this place though I think it's been spoilt with modernity now. We're planning on visiting Oman soon where it's much more unspoilt - I know I shall love it better there. Oh and I also found out that in Al Ain there's a man who will take us out for an hour's ride on camels - but this will have to wait ghax it's so damned hot now, we would die if we were to stay in the heat for more than a few minutes!
So back to my desk for now; I'm sure I will be writing more today and possibly take photos of my giants to show you guys. In the meantime, have a good one!
It was nice and cool in the front yard so I decided to hose it all down from the sand because today is a very exciting day - PERSEPHONE IS COMING HOME with her sister! Yes, Ellen is bringing them down this morning and I'm so excited to have gentle giants around me again!! Which is why I didn't go back to bed - I'm bouncing up and down with excitement and I can't wait for the phone to ring!! That would be Ellen asking for directions to our house - woo hoo what fun I shall have with them today!
Last night we went to some friends for drinks - they live round the corner from us in the most amazing house I fell in love with. They are Americans - Dale is a Pilot with Etihad Airlines and Karen is a crazy artist like me. They've just come back from a weekend in Indonesia where Karen spent hours choosing sarongs and fabrics. She brought me back some gorgeous sarongs and a sari which I have been wanting desperately for ages. I can't wait to wear them! Karen is planning on using her drop dead beautiful fabrics to make up a bedouin tent in one of her spare rooms ...........I can't wait to see that cos I've been thinking of doing one here too. Thing is, we've been in some of these rooms in a variety of places and all those carpets and fabrics, surprisingly, make the room appear so much cooler than the rest of the house. It's like being in a humongous cocoon; mmmmmm imagine the decandent feeling lying on cushions in a bedouin tent - I like the idea more and more!
I'm coming to the end of my 12th patch for my wall hanging and it looks pretty good. I have to learn how to quilt next when it's time to put it all together but I have no idea how many more patches I'm going to make for it. Perhaps I shall just leave it like this. The one I'm working on is coming out pretty - black and gold Arabic caligraphy - I think it's only right to put in an Allah Hoo Akbar in the middle of the wall hanging; it sure has a pretty design when it's written. Maybe I was a Bedouin in a previous life - I love everything about this place though I think it's been spoilt with modernity now. We're planning on visiting Oman soon where it's much more unspoilt - I know I shall love it better there. Oh and I also found out that in Al Ain there's a man who will take us out for an hour's ride on camels - but this will have to wait ghax it's so damned hot now, we would die if we were to stay in the heat for more than a few minutes!
So back to my desk for now; I'm sure I will be writing more today and possibly take photos of my giants to show you guys. In the meantime, have a good one!
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Jacky - I quil(learnt in New York when my husband disappeard for 9 months to have a little play in the mountains of Afghanistan after 9/11 - Im not brilliant but I love the design side of it.... we'll get together and do quilting one day soon.....
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