Preparations in full swing

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

Good Morning World... Mon 21st, 5.01, 10.2dg. Yesterday we had a föhn wind and they say for today also . Few spitty bits late yesterday, but in the middle of the day it was warmer outside than it was inside., one of those Nor'west days in the South Island where your Mother does all the woolie bits because the drying is so good!! Suitcases are starting to fill... mainly with Poppet things and New Zealand bits that I will take and leave. Yesterday I spent a good part of the day in the sewing room adjusting skirts and trousers... I am so over having to unpick and re-sew... it is amazing the difference in tailoring in similar pattern skirts and trousers, thank goodness for a good stereo and a reasonably sound proof room. I also washed and packed the Melanie's Christmas Stocking ... My enduring memory of Christmas is the Christmas Stockings my Mother made us all... large red stockings with our initials on them so on Christmas morning there was no mix up as to which belonged to who... four children on Christmas morning made for a lot of noise and mess. I in turn made the same Stockings for my two children, and now have drafted a pattern to make one for the Poppet for next Christmas... in the meantime am taking Melanie's Stocking back to her. My tasks today are a quick trip to Bludenz for printer ink as I cannot print a couple of documents I want to take with me, sort the electrical plugs required and then back to the suitcases. A day to cruise really.