Dinner With Roman

 One of Andreas' former employees immigrated to Austria early this year.  While we were in Vienna, we met up with him and had dinner.  We walked from the opera house past St. Stephen's and beyond until we found this place - Linderskeller- and went in.  Like a lot of European places, it was in the basement and looked like a hole in the wall from the outside.

The food was traditional Austrian, with the guys having schnitzel.  I had something different.  It was a set dinner of beef broth with slabs of roast in it, some toasted onions, and a potato dumpling.  It also came with a piece of apple strudel for dessert.  Needless to say, I couldn't eat most of it.

Bad Background, Good Scarf

I think Andreas chose this background because the towel was the only non-printed surface in the apartment we were staying in.  The color does nothing for the scarf, though.  It's a beautiful scarf and I finished it in the car while we were driving from place to place.

Christmas At The Hofburg

 We found these decorated windows on the back side of the Hofburg.  They were pretty, but not in a likely place to be seen.  The rest were just taken around the palace, but the last was taken because I swear that has to be a statue of Stefan cel Mare, even if it -is- in Austria.

Bunny And Butterfly

Got the bunny and a butterfly done.  Time to go on to the next critter.

Advent Reveal

Here's all the stuff from my Atelier 196 advent goodie package.  It had everything from alphabet tape to needles in it.  Now I need to put it all to work making awesome stuff.

On To The Bands

I've gotten two bands done of the approximately twenty.  They're pretty quick and easy.

Petit Point

 Although it's common to think of Berlin as the home of petit point, there was a large amount of it done in Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian empire.  We stumbled upon a shop while wandering the Hofburg during our stay.  I really liked the place because not only did it have traditional pieces, it had modern designs and monochromes.  These are photos of the storefront.  It was really gorgeous in person.