Calendar Girl Thanks

This year, I've been participating in Calendar Girls in the Friendly Stitchers Yahoo group.  We were randomly assigned months and mailed packages of stash to each other during the year.  I'm the last, and this is what I've received so far.  Maureen sent me a lovely card and a stash packed from Polstitches full of fabric and floss in my favorite colorway.  Thank you Maureen!

So Close

I only have the beads to add and then to make the stitching into  ornament.  I like the way the green worked up.

Last Sights of Punta

 Supposedly everyone takes a photo of this sculpture while in Punta. 

You can tell from the color of the water here that it's the ocean side of point.  Isn't it pretty?  The river side looks much more muddy.

Here's the sign to the big white house on Punta Ballena.  Great view, but the house is really just a marketing ploy by the artist.  I wasn't impressed.

Bead Store

Well, I had half an hour while waiting for the shawarma to be ready last week, and the bead store was only a block away... The leather things are new.  Aren't they cute?

Kathy's English Garden Block

Kathy's set of garden blocks all are silkies surrounded by borders.  I picked this one.  All her blocks remind me of Di van Niekirk designs.











Since I thought that, I went ahead and embellished like it was one.  I'm more of an abstract person and less of a silkie person, but I tried my best.  I hope she likes it.  It's on its way to Australia now.

More from Maldonado & Punta del Este

A pretty azalea in bloom.  Too bad azaleas only look lovely a couple of weeks a year.

Papier mache mammy and pappy figures in arts center in Maldonado.

The clock tower on the square.

 Lighthouse at Jose Ignacio, a resort town.

 Pretty shoreline.  I collected a lot of shells her.  The beach is La Paloma.

Mate, anyone?

 An unknown flower in the hotel courtyard.

Victorian era cash register at the hotel bar.

More Peacock Feathers

The garden's looking even more like a peacock tail these days.