Tatted Jewelry

My favorite tatter came by the embassy last month, and I bought jewelry.  I also have a necklace coming from her to wear with my Marine Ball dress.  The jewelry is more expensive than most crafted jewelry here, but that is because it takes so much longer than the others.  I think it's a beautiful example of the craft.

One More Line

I'm afraid my line doesn't look too good.  I hope to get better as I go.  

Cafeteria Food

 On the top floor of the mall on Deribiskaya Ulitza is a cafeteria.  The food is very good, cheap, and you get to interact with babushkas with hair nets.  We had cabbage rolls, cherry pierogi, buckwheat, chicken kiev, and a bunch of other stuff.  Besides the good food, you get an excellent view of downtown Odessa!

Bowled Over

My boss and her family went for a long weekend in Romania in August.  We watched their cute little King Charles Cavalier, Harry.  As you can see below, Harry's a bit smaller than Mattie.  Mattie and Harry got along fine, and they gave us this pretty wooden bowl as thanks.

Band Six Done

I'm done with band six.  This is the second biggest band in the sampler.  The piece is coming together well, I think.

While Waiting In A Gazebo....

 How better to wait for someone than to enjoy a cappucino in a gauzy gazebo in the park?  That's exactly what Andreas and I did while we waited for his parents to finish a walking tour.  I had a cappucino; Andreas had a milk shake.  We also shared a bruschetta because the wait people were a bit put out by our very small order in a prime place.  Some of the bruschetta (the tomato and the parma ham ones) were very good.  The rest ... not to our taste.

Good Ebay Find

Andreas found this lot of DMC pearl cotton on ebay for me.  He paid less than half price, and I go through a lot of pearl cotton making temari.  Thanks, dear.