Helpful Hints

My Uruguayo friends know my Spanish is, to put it kindly, deficient.  Sussy gave me this children's book to help my vocabulary, and it's working.  Thank you Sussy!

Exchange from Lorrie

 This is the cute little purse tin I got from Lorrie.  I love the colors, and it's such an original concept, too.  It even came stuffed full of embellishment goodies.  Thank you Lorrie!

Thank You Gillie!

Gillie saw my whine here on not being able to get cotton fabrics.  She sneakily sent me a whole bunch!  Aren't they beautiful?  I'll use them all in upcoming projects.  I'm overwhelmed.  Thank you Gillian!

Tin from Elizabeth

 Isn't it cute?  I got this tin in exchange from Elizabeth.  She included a bunch of lace motifs in it, too!  Thank you, Elizabeth!

Candji's Asian Block

Although I completed this toward the beginning of the month, i've not gotten to post it until now.  Here it is before I worked on it.

And this is after me.  I mainly worked on the upper right.  I made some more bead flowers and put them on up top, and cut out a motif from some fabric I got via mail from the States.  Some rickshaw wheels for the narrow area, and a nice mother of pearl button.  I hope she likes it.

Wintry Trip to Colonia

 Back in August, we went to Colonia del Sacramento, the oldest settlement in Uruguay.  It was built by the Portuguese originally, and Montevideo was built by the Spanish in response.  The Spanish eventually overran it.  It was a cold and windy day, but at least the sun was shining.

The area has several tiled murals in unexpected places.  Almost all of them are religious in nature.

Here is a gate to the original fort.

And this is another tile.

 People live in the area, and these put up some cute carved old men.

The lighthouse.

I really like this tile design and want to design a piece of needlework similar to it.

And another view of the lighthouse.  More pictures ina later post.

Still Coming Down

I'm about halfway through the huge number of queen stitches that need to be done on the left and am completely done with the big top center motif.  Slowly, it's getting there.