"It takes ages to finish a quilt you're not working on!"

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Good and not so good day.

I spent most of today at the Embroiderers Guild exhibition, selling raffle tickets and chatting with other Guild members. I was wondering if any of my blog readers would turn up and say hi, and guess what - Tannia did. It is such fun to meet my cyberspace friends - thanks, Tannia! Unfortunately the Guild doesn't allow anyone to take photos of their exhibitions, so I don't have any to put on my blog to show you. But I can show you what I bought from the Gift Shop. This is a plain old Spirex ruled notepad, made special with a calico cover appliqued with a cupcake! Couldn't leave this behind - what a great notebook to write recipes in.
As you might remember, I have a growing collection of pincushions of all shapes and sizes, and the Guild always have heaps of them for sale in their Gift Shop. I allowed myself just one today - this square shape is new to me. And I adore that elephant design.
Tonight I received an email from Cheryl, who alerted me to an item on the Needlework News website. They had discovered my Peacocks blog and given it a nice write up. Thanks Lakshmi, for telling them about me!
The bad news is that I smashed my car up on the way home from the Guild, so I'm grounded for a few weeks at the least, I guess. The upside is that because I'm forced to stay home, I'll have lots of time to stitch - lol!

6 comments:

Jane said...

What a way to end the day. I hope you are ok.

stitching aussie style said...

Hi Gina,

Hope you weren't injured in the accident!! Your purchases from the guild shop look stunning.

Sounds like a very full day.

Joy V said...

OH Gina, what a terrible end to what sounded like a great day. Hope you are OK and car can be fixed.

Eggs In My Pocket said...

The guild sounds like so much fun and you found some pretty things. Congratulations on the wonderful write up about your peacock blog. I hope you weren't injured in your smash up! blessings,Kathleen

Gina E. said...

Guess I should have mentioned on the original post that I was not injured (only my pride) in the crash. I was only going slow, but the roads were wet so I 'aqua-planed' into the back of the other car when he braked suddenly to avoid hitting someone else.

Maddie Can Fly said...

I know being without a car is a major pain (been there -- did that last year), but at least you aren't hurt and that, along with being able to stay home and stitch, is good news.