We have managed to get things settled in here, for the most part. There is still a good bit to do, and life is always enriched by the exciting sewing projects that manage to show up, so I am staying busy ( Read more... )

Shevaun and I were up until 2, working to get some last minute things squared away. We are now up again, putting up the last load of dishes, having some coffee, and tossing a few things into our suitcases so they don't get packed up. We are both tired, but that is somewhat mitigated by how excited we are about this move ( Read more... )

HHG shipment arrived today, and of course it would start pouring about halfway through! So far only a few broken things, mostly stuff broken apart at seams, urgh, whatever you call it when furniture is joined. In clothes they are called seams. Poor mantlepiece and my library table, not to mention Arilyn's fainting couch. We shall see how they ( Read more... )

I found out last night that Emma is engaged to her lawyer beau ( Read more... )

The latest word on our stuff is that it arrives next Thursday. Personally, I am hoping that the delivery date can be postponed until the 5th so that Brian can have at least that weekend before the disaster of unpacking and moving stuff has to begin. He has had enough of that to last him a lifetime I would imagine. I know, after two months of no ( Read more... )

We get up at about five every morning just so that we can hit the ground running and not drop the ball. At least that is what we tell ourselves. Brian goes to work and tries to maintain some level of control over the total chaos involved with the disestablishment of the base, while I stay home and try, bit by bit, to do the same here ( Read more... )

A quick update here on my V&A pictures. I have been wending my way through the hurdles associated with posting my images publicly, and this is where I now stand. I have been told that first off I need to not post the pictures on Picasa, and secondly I need to post smaller images. Apparently if I have my own webpage set up they will consider ( Read more... )

Time really does pass so quickly. I cannot really believe that I am leaving this country in just a few short weeks. It seems as though the past two years has been a constant in my life, almost as if I have always been here and will always remain, but in reality I know that this is just because I am so rooted here. I do not want to leave, and yet ( Read more... )

I have completed the page with the photos from my V&A trip and have submitted it to the V&A for approval. Hopefully they will come back and allow me to post these images so that others can study them and learn more about the styles and techniques used in Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidery ( Read more... )

I had the most amazing time earlier this week at the V&A. Awesome time at Hampton Court Palace yesterday. A truly bittersweet but wonderful visit with myladyswardrobe, edmndclotworthy and their baby, Bilbo. I was able to get some photographs that I believe will be very helpful in my research as well as helping others. I got to see the awe in Arilyn's face as she took in ( Read more... )