Stray Puppy

 A stray dog has been somewhat adopted by the embassy community for the past year.  We call her Scruffy.  She's the dog in the bottom picture.  In April, she had a puppy.  That's who's in the top two pictures.  The puppy is only two months old and already half the size of momma.  There's a street dog problem here, and a lot of owned dogs are treated even worse, but we 're all hoping Scruffy and Socks live long and happy lives.

Beginning A Bouquet

I've started working on the July Little Extra for the CyberStitchers meeting.  It's a silk ribbon embroidery project that is a bit freeform.

Hospice Angelus Ball Food

 A few weeks ago, we went to the Hospice Angelus charity ball.  You saw the painting we won at the silent auction; here's now the food.  The theme was around the world in one night.  First was Italy, with lasagne.  The cookies below were made by a friend, Stephanie.  She made individual cookies for everyone.  We also had "Argentine" beef.  It had sauce and was not underdone.  It was -not- Argentine, but still tasted good.  There was a cake, too.  The ball was a fun night, and we will probably do it again next year.  There are photos of us on the Hospice Angelus facebook page, if you're truly interested.

Squares Around Temari

For some reason, I've become somewhat enamored of wrapped band temari lately.  This one was fairly quick to do, and I used Garibaldi threads.  I think it came out pretty neat.

Last Of The Fool's Gold

 Ritva's block was the last one for me to work on in this round robin.  Some of the other blocks had hearts on them, so I decided to continue the theme.  The outline is couched down, and  the flowers are detached chain stitches with bead centers.  Fairly simple to do!  I hope she likes it.

El Greko Dinner

 This is a really, really small iced tea bottle.  It cost half as much as the mojito sitting next to it, and more than the water behind that.  Really?  No more ordering iced tea at El Greko.  

The rest of the food was good, as usual.  

Outlining

I've started another small ornament.  It's going to be a going away gift for someone here.  Now to get it done!