Urgent - please call

I hate to use my blog for this, but ... Silai, my hostess from this past weekend, I need you to contact me as soon as possible.  I have been trying to call you, but your cell does not pick up, and does not have voice mail.

We now return you to whatever it was you were doing before this blog post came up.

Do You Love Bollywood?

Farmer's Market was pretty quiet today as far as henna was concerned, although I did manage to convince a number of people to hold still while I sketched Indian-inspired designs off their dresses, shirts, and handbags.  I'm perfectly fine with the current fashion trends giving me new patterns to try out, thanks!

While I didn't actually apply a lot of henna, I did get invited to the fundraising auction for our local Unitarian Universalist Church, this Friday September 25 from 5:30 to 10:30.  The theme for the evening is "We Love Bollywood", and the event will feature Indian music and cuisine prior to the actual auction. If you're in the area, you might want to swing by and check it out.

Cheers!

Embroidery

I've managed to do enough cleaning at my computer desk – barely – to unbury the scanner and get a decent image of the embroidery project I keep telling everyone about.  I'm picking up momentum now, as more and more of the design gets finished and I get excited about seeing what I can do next.

This is just a thumbnail, so if you want to see a larger image, go ahead and click on it.

Darling daughter was home all this past week sick and miserable, which meant I wasn't allowed to get more than ten feet from her at any given time.  We discovered I could cuddle and sew at the same time, which is why the little girl is complete.

I've been informed that the ground will have "mud first, then grass on top of the mud and then flowers on top of the grass.  Bluebells."  We'll see about the flowers, although the grass accents sound nice and would be consistent with some manuscript images I've seen in this style.

Um, for people who need to know such things, this is cotton embroidery floss, two strands, on cotton fabric – muslin, I think.  The only stitches are outline aka stem stitch, and split stitch, except for the shoes which are satin stitch.  The background will be done in satin stitch as well, but you'll get more detailed information when I actually get to that stage.

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Darling daughter is now recovered and looking forward to seeing all her friends tomorrow in preschool.  I, however, had a night of unbelievable insomnia coupled with unbelievable fatigue today – as in, I was able to catch a nap and get caught up on the sleep I missed, but I'm still wiped out and wanting to crash even before the kid's bedtime.

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Out of curiosity, how many people read these blog posts here at Little Fiddly Bits, and how many are just catching the feed via Facebook or elsewhere?  Feedburner says I'm not getting any traffic, but I'm getting enough comments elsewhere that I have a feeling it's not seeing something it should.

Cheers, y'all.

Aw, nuts

My darling daughter has been sick these past few days - the doctor says it's an ear infection, so nobody needs to panic - and a lot of her illness has been in the form of really high fevers and generally feeling miserable. (You know she's sick when she actually doesn't want to go to the Farmer's Market.)

It looks like I'll have to sacrifice today's perfect weather and stay home with her, rather than see about getting some henna in. Oh, well. There's always next week, not to mention Octoberfest in just a couple of weeks.

Sorry, everybody.

The usual

I've signed up for OctoberFest, to be held on Saturday, October 3. This is their third year running an event that drew 3,000 people in its first year, and 10,000 last year. I'm hoping to sling quite a bit of henna while I'm there.

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Speaking of henna, Global Fest was a success even with the scheduling conflicts - a home football game, the last Mosey of the season, and the Lay Flats music festival all on the same day made for smaller crowds than last year, but I still topped $250 in henna sales.

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Embroidery - the stupid trees are finally done! I'm working in a color that isn't brown or gray! Wa-hoo!

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Geocaching: in which one uses one's GPS (or iPhone with a GPS function) to find hidden "treasure boxes". The family had our first successful find today, and the three-year-old loved it. Of course, now she's holding a non-violent protest against the institution of napping, but we did have fun right up until that point. She declared that we had to follow her down the trail because she was the "know where we're going girl".

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Gardening at this point involves not quite watering or weeding as much as I ought, while planning the seed purchases for next spring and plotting a faster way to heat up water to scald the prairie grass to death. It's effective, targeted exactly on the plants I want to destroy and nothing else, and non-toxic. Apart from annoying the earthworms, this has to be the single best weed-killing method I've ever seen.

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I'm sleepy. My kid is not. I should be used to this by now.