A new way of life..

I think that the term "Shabby Chic" is definately a life I should have been born into. I have inadvertedly been doing my kitchen out in this way for a while. Specifically choosing the pink dotted dinner service and pink storage jars.

I have now found a gorgeous dish drainer from Next: clickable

Isn't it just adorable :-) I have also just discovered that Next also have some wonderful pink bits and bobs for the home. Oooh I am in heaven :-)

Gift of stitching is back..phew!!

I thought I was losing the plot, with this darn cold, when I tried to log into The Gift of Stitching to download the past two years magazines due to my hard drive dying on me. I kept getting this really weird site that was in way anything to do with Kirsten's site. Then I finally found this while checking through google. It is an article that I found posted on Independant Needlework News blog.

Hello everyone,

Well… this is very embarrassing and I’ve been up since 4am trying to fix the problem. Basically our domain thegiftofstitching.com has expired, we didn’t know it was going to and now we have to negotiate and buy it back from a parking domain business that likes to profit out of people wanting their expired domains back. OK, lesson learnt the hard way. Buy this domain back is going to take sometime - up to 2 weeks.

In the meantime we have bought www.thegiftofstitching.com.au and are currently working with the hosting company to get it attached to our account so we can get the website up and running again. This will take up to 72 hours to travel around the world and update all the servers. Hopefully most will see it in the next 48 hours. Keep coming back and press refresh to see if it has started to work.

Once the domain is working for me, I will be sending out extensive emails so all subscribers/retailers/designers so they know what is going on.

Thanks for your patience, I am really sorry this has happened. We are working as quick as possible to get this fixed.

Kind regards,
Kirsten
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Kirsten Edwards
Editor
The Gift of Stitching
www.thegiftofstitching.com

Weird weather forecast..

Just checking the weather for our area and I seriously think the weather people have gone barmy. There is no way the "real feel of -17 this is correct..

Flowers of spring..

The spring flowers are in an abundance in the front garden - daffodils and crocuses aplenty. The red robin bush is almost in flower, it's absolutely full of new shoots and buds. And the pink rose bush is creating new shoots galore. Everything else is still a wee bit dormant, they take a little bit longer to come into life.

Here's a photo of the daffodils that I picked from the front garden, as well as in the corner of the picture my birthday pressie - a weather station gadget which I am absolutely smitten with. Oh and the meerkat ornament was D's birthday present as he is gaga over meerkats ever since he saw Meerkat Manor and The Lion King's Timon..lol



And here's the bouquet that D had sent to me on Monday - it's a bit squashed as it hadn't long been unpacked. It is in full bloom glory now on the dining table and smells gorgeous.



I think I might sit in the sun on the sofa, this afternoon, and do some stitching while watching a film on the t.v.

40 today..

Well I turn 40 today, an age I thought was a long time away when I was in my late twenties. You know it doesn't feel possible as I don't even feel 40. Wonder if this is how everyone feels when they reach this age.

Have had a lovely start to the day - DH spoilt me rotten as did my inlaws and D's relatives. I have also got an abundance of that 40 confetti everywhere in my house. I think D had a mad half hour and just put it anywhere. I have some on the bed, on the bedside table, in my card and in the present wrapper paper. I even found some in the bath!! And he has got me one of those age badges. Do you know I have never had a badge like that before, or not that I can remember. Isn't that sad!!

Just had the most special surprise delivered. My DH, who is not one for romantic gestures or gesture of anykind really, had arranged for a bouquet of flowers from M&S to be delivered to me.

What a surprise that was I can tell you, I bawled my eyes out and rung him to thank him and told him off for doing that.. What am I like..lol

Just goes to show even the most unromantic person can surprise you.. I mean my Dave is not tactile or anything, he even finds it difficult holding hands in public.. After 21 years of being together he can still surprise me. Ack I have just realised that we have been married for 19 years if we have been together 21 years..omg!!

The end of an institution..

It was a sad day on Wednesday when it was announced that the BBC is going to axe a childrens t.v. programme called Grange Hill. This programme was part of my childhood, I grew up watchng the likes of Tucker Jenkins, Tricia Yates and Benny Green getting up to who knows what while at school. For 3o years this programme has been going and now the powers to be have decided that our schools are too hard hitting and Grange Hill cannot cope with trying to show real life school dramas.

Click on link to find out all about Grange Hill

Ok I know in the scheme of things it isn't that major but hey to this 40year old *well nearly 40* it is the end of a childhood institution.

Yet on another note I have had a happy evening going through a lot of my old childhood programmes on You Tube. The likes of The Tomorrow People, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Pipkins, Pinky and Perky and Animal Magic. Oh those were the days..

Shoot me now...

I don't believe it - ooh why does this sound like a Victor Meldrew (One Foot in the Grave) moment, hmm!!!

Well the third thing has happened - they say things happen in threes and this was a biggy. My 300gb external hard drive has died!! I don't know how as it was working last time I used it , one minute it was working happily and the next "dead".

As you can imagine I am not a happy bunny, especially as I had a lot of word documents and emails saved on there. I also had over 8gb of music which I had downloaded onto there.

But the most annoying thing is that I had over 2 years (2006 and 2007) worth of "The Gift of Stitching", which is really made me mad as I didn't burn them onto a cd at the end of each year. But I have just looked at their website and you can purchase a year's bundle of back issues for $18.00. So I shall have to buy the two years bundles - $36.00. And this time I will make sure I copy them onto a cd. So now I have to creep to D to see if he will let me borrow the CC, although I think he might be a bit hesitant especially as I have the laptop payment on there at the moment.. Oh well at least I can download the back issues as a whole bundle so that is something I suppose.

Is this it now - they say things happen in threes and this has certainly been the case recently.