Hi Sue:
I know I'm a few months late but thank you for the nice greeting back in August. Like everyone who responded, my favorite place next to being with my DH is being in my sewing room with the sewing machines, computer, CD music, and our kitties in their quilt scrap boxes.
The last couple days we've had a cold snap all across the USA...Our temps dipped to about 12 degrees last night but the mid West and East were below zero and the wind is blowing all across the land so that makes everything colder.
Do you have any trouble getting fabric in SA? A friend went on a mission to Uganda and said fabric was hard to come by there. She did bring me a small swatch with an elephant painted on the fabric that is lovely. I will frame it as it isn't big enough to make anything with. Her job on this mission trip was to help teach some of the Ugandanese people how to sew so they can get jobs in the major city of Kempala. She loved the experience, the people and HATED the used sewing machines that were donated to the mission and transported by ship to Uganda only to find these machines were all in need of MAJOR repairs and parts which are almost impossible to get ...either too expensive or just not available. She said she has decided the next time she decides she needs a new sewing machine she's going to buy a new one and ship THE NEW ONE and keep her old one and get it repaired here.
Have a great day.
Feathers