While we were in Oxford after Christmas we went to the Ashmolean Museum - J looked at the Egyptian stuff and I took the opportunity to visit one of the exhibitions they had on, as well as having a look at the early Chinese gallery to look at the sorts of things mentioned in the book I am reading.

Threads of Silk and GoldThis is an exhibition of ( Read more... )

Heh. If it's too early for Saturday it's far too early for Sunday. I'm fighting to keep from turning the music up LOUD coz it'd be a little antisocial - don't think the neighbours are up yet (haven't heard them start the DIY - we have DIY obsessed neighbours, we've had 3 sets of neighbours in the last 3 years and each set has been bloody obsessed ( Read more... )

( Embroidery pictures )

Actually did get round to doing some embroidery yesterday - now the penguin I'm working on has significantly more dark grey. Maybe I'll finish it some day (the whole thing, not just the current penguin, that is ... there are 13 total, of which I've done 3 and I'm working on the fourth). I did take before/after pictures, but ran into a slight snag ( Read more... )