BB's 1 Year of Stitches

Monday, 17 April 2017

Day 36

Day 36: Easter Sunday – the Easter Bunny came to the apartment & so the girls had fun on an Egg Hunt around our communal garden. Had a great family lunch – 4 generations together.

Here is my piece so far.

Day 35: Went to movies at Gateway with the girls to see “Beauty & the Beast”. Huge buckets of popcorn & slushies, for everyone. Loved the movie – so here is Belle in her pretty yellow dress (in miniature).

Day 34

Day 34: Got home to the apartment - piles of washing! So had a day at home. I was wondering what I was going to stitch? Then we had the most spectacular lightening display over the sea. Once again my stitches do not do the display justice, but I had fun trying.

Day 33

Day 33: We went to the Butterfly Dome at Mac Banana’s –listen to a young man who told us all about butterflies from the tiny eggs under the leaves to the wonderful coloured butterflies flying around us. The girls had great fun finding all the different types of butterflies.

Day 32

Day 32: Eva & Amber got up very early to walk down to the beach to watch the sun rise with my son - my bed had to strong a hold on me. So when they came back with shells and snails they had caught it was great fun to hold the slimy snails in our hands before returning them top the sea. A small pale pink shell in stitches – today.

Day 31

Day 31: Got back from the Triple P – only to unpack & re-pack as we are going down the South Coast to San Lameer for a few days with our family. Tried to stitch the pile of cases and bags. Looking forward to a few days with the grand-daughters.

Added handles a few days later

Day 30

Day 30: Had a great Campfire with everyone on the Triple P taking part – Badger & Sarge came up to the Vuleka Centre to lead the Campfire. My stitches do not do the wonderful fire & flames justice. So great to hear our voices singing out the familiar Scouting songs. I’ve add some photos of the people & activities at Triple P.

Edible Campfire

Walking the Labyrinth

Friends from the UK came to visit

Day 29

Day 29: Feeling very guilt about my Carbon Footprint & all the trees that went into my great piles of paper. Can’t plant a tree in my apartment block so did the next best thing – planted two Honeysuckle Bushes in pots in our communal garden. Photos of the real thing and my stitching of it.

Day 28

Day 28: Ok, so today’s the last day before the weekend away at Vuleka Centre, in Botha’s Hill with 25 other crazy Pack Scouters for lots of fun & laughter. I have piles of paper to take with me for – Scavenger Hunt, Journals, Trading Cards, Scouts Own & so on. Me under a huge pile of paper.

Day 27

Day 27: As an Explorer when you get to the place you were looking for e.g. Fountain of Youth. – You need a flag to plant and claim it for your country. So each group of Explorers need to design they own flag. Will put photos of flags when I get them.

Day 26

Day 26: Continuing with getting ready for the Triple P (Playful Pack Scouters Palaver). If you are an Explorer you need to know how to use a compass – so busy preparing a Compass Base – where Pack Scouters will follow a 10 point compass and also learn how to find directions without a compass – lots of fun. So one small compass in stitches – the red needle of the compass will always point North.

Day 25

Day 25: I’ve been working on a Scouting Event called the Triple P for Pack Scouters in KZN. The theme is Explorers – so everyone will need to make a pouch to put some food rations in. Here are photos of the real thing – closed and then open as a small picnic cloth. Then of course I had to stitch one.

Day 24

Day 24: Working on a problem, not getting anywhere fast! My brain feels foggy & slow, every which way I turn there seems to be a fence or a block of some kind. So here is a row of herringbone stitches – blocking my way forward. Going to take time out on the problem. See what comes up in a day or two.

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Day 23

Day 23: Worked on my little red iPad late tonight, lots of working on items getting ready for Triple P a Scouting event. Sent from my iPad.

Day 22

Day 22: Stung by a hornet it was like a hot pin jabbed into my cheek – thank goodness good old fashioned ice on the cheek helped calm it down.

Day 21

Day 21: Sleep over with the girls had great fun lying on our 3rd floor garden with artificial grass, watching the clouds blowing across the dark sky with stars disappearing and reappearing and the bright crescent moon shining through the clouds. Two little girls laying watching the night sky.