No time for hobbies...

I sat at my desk this morning, thinking about what lay ahead for the week and naturally my thoughts drifted to the weekend. It dawned on me that we don't have a completely free weekend until almost the end of May! It's not even March 1st yet!

Between holidays, showers (baby and bridal), birthdays and visitors I can see time for stitching and creating fast flying out of the window before I can catch hold of it!

The only consolation I suppose it that the camera will see plenty of action on our trip to South Africa! When those pictures will make it on to the computer I can't say just yet, and whether they will make it as far as this blog remains to be seen.

I will do my very best to share with you some of those images and hopefully some stories. There should be plenty of animals, buildings, food and drink - not to mention a blushing bride and groom!

Until then, please make me jealous and tell me all the lovely things you're able to get up to!

Sharing your living space with a cat

I debated the title of this post for quite some time (oh ok, just a few minutes, but still).... I considered something along the lines of 'The perils of being cat owner', but anyone who has ever 'had' a cat knows that cats do not have owners, they have slaves. I thought about calling it something along the lines of 'A cat's slave' but that wasn't really appropriate to the rest of the post. I'm still not entirely happy with the title, but it will have to do for now.

What I wanted to share with you was this; I sat down last night hoping to design a quilt. I have the rough ideas in my head, but I'm struggling to formulate them at the moment. I hoped that sitting, with my fabrics in front of me, with a pad of graph paper and my coloured pencils might helped me to work out what I actually wanted to do (and whether I had enough fabric to do it before I started. If not I can use it for other things!).

My husband took some photos to show you, but for some reason I can't post them. I've tried from 2 different computers with no joy. If anyone has any idea what might be wrong, please message me!

Anyway, as soon as I got my paper and pencils out, our little cat jumped up and started biting the ends of the pencil. If you've ever tried using a writing implement with a cat attached at one end you'll know it's not so easy.... Deciding that biting the pencil wasn't ... 'helping'... enough, she settled herself on my pad. Right where I was drawing. Thankyou cat.

If I ever manage to get the photos to upload I'll share it with you, in the mean time, use your imaginations!

What did you get for Valentine's Day?

I left home yesterday morning, having forgotten to bring home my husband's Valentine's card from where it was hiding in my desk at work. It was pretty uneventful here. No bunches of flowers arriving, no balloons floating around the office....

I got home in the evening to find a HUGE purple box on the kitchen work-top waiting for me! I waited patiently until after dinner before ripping into the pretty shiny paper, and contained within was..... an Ice-cream maker!!! 2 x 0.7liter tubs with seperate switches so you can make one or two batches at a time - different flavours if you wanted to!

I love it - and I will be on a mission to make some ice-cream this weekend, so if anyone has any suggestions as to flavours, please feel free to message me!

Qatar Motorshow 2011

Last weekend was fairly quiet, but we did attend the motoshow in Doha. It was the last day and whilst I wasn't interested in the cars in the slightest, I went along with my husband and some friends and used it as a good excuse to get the camera out and not let the dust settle!

I'm pretty pleased with some of the results so I hope you won't mind if I share a few of them with you. You can find more of my work on http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahwarne/.