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Remember I told you about the Embroidery classes I planned to do at my kids school ? Well, I had the first lesson this past Wednesday. I hav...

I can't believe it is already one year since I started this blog! Some days I still feel like I'm just starting out, and other days ...

I have finished 6 pieces of the soccer ball. 5 hexagons and 1 pentagon. After assembling the blocks into the first cluster it looks like thi...

The crochet soccer ball was coming along fine, or so I thought, until after 5 hexagons, the pattern wouldn't flow anymore. I was stuck. ...

I just started on my next soccer ball design, and look what I have so far... Some really nice cotton from Mission Falls (Canada). I was loo...

My husband and his fishing-buddies went on their yearly Fishing Trip about a month ago. This time they went to Malindi, on the Kenyan Coast....

Every visitor to Dubai have the mandatory picture of themselves with the Burj Al Arab in the background, so nothing un-touristy here. (I hav...

In our family Easter is all about the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the whole Easter-egg tradition doesn't really feature i...

My first soccer ball is finished at last! Patched and quilted (or rather top-stitched - there's no batting underneath) and stuffed with ...

Look what is coming to town! A new exhibition opening soon at Gallery One, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi : A Story of Islamic Embroidery in Nom...