For Baking

Found these cute cookie cutters in Vienna and have to wait more than a month to use them.

Being Sherlock

 We (again) won the Hospice Angelus Moldova Be Sherlock event at Bastion restaurant just a week before we went on home leave.  Here are photos of some of the food (it was delicious) and decoration (dead raven)   The theme was Bran's Castle in Romania.  We had a lot of fun and hope to participate in the next one!  If you want to see photos that are of people and better, click here,  It's in Romanian, and we're told we're British in it, but that's what you get for being with the British ambassador.

I See A Rabbit

The rabbit's got some ears, at least.  This is progressing along...

Coppery Nails

I brought back a bunch of new nail polishes from Poland.  Two of them are on my fingers in this photo.  I think Olga did a great job of making a design.

Hearted

It doesn't look much like a heart without the backstitching, but it is.  This means I have the first step of Twined Heart done and it's time to work on the bands.

I Miss My Puppy

A few days before we left for home leave I made some banana bread.  Mattie, as usual, had to lick the bowl.  She took it from the kitchen and brought it to her rug to lick dry.  You can see she had a lot of fun with it.  As a reference for size, the bowl is a full sized Kitchen Aid mixing bowl and the rug is four feet long.  She's my baby and I miss her.  A bit more than two weeks until I see her again.

Finally Sixed!

Hurrah!  I've finally finished all the cross stitches for part six!  This is a major accomplishment for me!  On to something different on this.  Can't wait.