Ages since i came here... I have been fine in case you were worrying. I was not depressed or anything, lol. The summers have been bugging me - but that is true for mid March onwards. Where was i the whole of February and early March? I was busy at office, and was just making it one day to the next till it became one week to the next and then one month to the next. Owww. Something like that - i did not even get time to visit any blogs.
I have been stitching on Popcorn Alphabet T since the time i finished Freddie. Early March i got this idea i should stitch the 'T' in a feverish pace and get it completed before my son turned 5. But phew i hardly got to stich this for the past month and more:( Oh yes, now i remember the last time i stitched this i did the wrong / side on a half cross stitch and i think my sub-conscious switched off a bit. I have not sitched this for over a month (Actually i have not done a single cross:( )
And amid all this tropical-summer-and-wrong-turns-with-T, for the past week or soi did stitch a bit of Part 6 of Adriana. This is where i am at the moment.
And here is Heart Note Alley all framed!! (Busy-me is yet to get a good-sunlight-photo of Framed Freddie, will do that hopefully this weekend)
And a pic of my son on his birthday, when he turned 5!!
Book-wise i am with Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. About half-way through. I know this was booker-long-listed, but i am not gushing with love for this book. Okay book. While i did take my time finishing (and LOVED it no doubt) And Ladies of the Club, Dodie Smith found a fan in me for I Capture the Castle. Such a well-written book. Oh i loved Cassandra's journal entries! Days of Gold and Sepia by Yasmeen Premji is wonderful. So if any reader out there is interested in a good book on India by an Indian author do not miss it. I loved the book, loved the wonderful people in the book. Alphabet Weekends was yukk (i will return it to the second-hand-bookshop - they buy it back at 60% of the price they sold.)
You'll have a great weekend. As for me I hope to show my face in May:)
Adriana looks great!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy you are ok..
ReplyDeleteSometimes we al are busy busy busy..
It's good to be busy!!
You havne't sit still.
beautifull pieces..
And a belated happy birthday to your cute son
Blog hopped and found you, lovely stitching but also a fellow book worm I think? I am looking up Days of Gold and Sepia by Yasmeen Premji because I love books set in India.
ReplyDeleteHappy Days, summer is coming!
Chris
Hi Again
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting my blog, I looked up Days of Gold and Sepia and wow it was £40.45 so I am afraid I won't be buying it until I find it at a much more resonable price.. but coming back to your blog I read back and wow what a lovely son you have, so handsome.
And also I read that you were planning to read Anita Shreve's book The Pilot's Wife; I thought it was a fantastic book which lead me to read everything she has written. Sadly now I have read all her books, don't you hate that when you have read all an author has written. I am now reading everything by Diane Chamberlain. I read a lot and as we went to Australia in February for a month and were on planes for hours and hours, I read 10 books when I was away!
Happy reading!
Chris x
PS I have only just noticed you are in India! Silly me!
Your stitching is lovely and your little boy is just so cute. I had made a note of the book about India, but just saw the price in the post by Chris - like her I will have to see if I can find it for a not less than that (or win the lottery lol)
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