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Tonight we've been invited by our South African neighbours to a neighbourhood braai .  We were six families living next to, or across ...

Last year during the summer holidays, I repainted parts of the house. The staircase ended up looking like this: It is a rental hou...

Facebook is one of those great inventions which makes me wonder how we ever lived without it.  And I don't mean playing Farmville (I c...

I am in the process of designing a few Arab inspired cross stitch patterns. Here's the first one: How the colours were added...

This is my daughters hand at 2 months old.  I took a photo way back then with the idea of turning it into an embroidery, but never got aro...

I have mentioned before ( here , here and here )  that one of the few drawbacks of being an expat is that we  have to say goodbye too oft...

Here is how I turned a photo into a pattern: Pick a photo of your choice. School photos work very well as the lighting is good...

I have done several projects before where I used my youngest son's face for the design. (Have a look here , here and here ) ...

Winter in the UAE is tourist season.  I went to the beach this morning for the first time in a few months  and I saw all t...

The Princess loves elephants.  It started when we went elephant riding in Thailand, and she got to hug and kiss an elephant.  It was reinf...