Beau and I are on holiday in the supremely beautiful Queenstown Lakes District. We are staying with Bean's mother in their holiday home just outside Wanaka. It's quite near to Puzzleworld, if you know the area at all.
Every day that I have been here I have been for a walk along the Clutha river, except for the day I walked beside the Cardrona. The poplars have shed their leaves earlier this year due to winds and so the ground is littered with gold, stark contrast to the almost black tree skeletons. Other trees have leaves in such a shade of red as to remind me of Evie and Scarlett when they have freshly recoloured their hair. In amongst branches and leaves berries of glorious golds, outrageous oranges and ravishing reds can be seen. Birds are having a good time.
Day before yesterday we drove down to Arrowtown for the Autumn festival. Arrowtown is known for the goldmining that occured mainly in the late 1800's. As part of the Festival they had set up some pools/basins in which you could pan for gold. Beau didn't have a go, but the rest of us did. I got about 5 gold flakes and they are safely sellotaped to a card. I think I will post it to Bean.
My parents also joined us for a couple of nights. They have a bunch of Thai visitors with them so did the obligatory visit to Queenstown yesterday, we then had a BBQ which was an eclectic mix of traditional NZ BBQ and northern Thai food. They headed off for the West coast today.
Beau has been unwell and so has been a bit unhappy. I think his body was just so shocked by not having to get up and go to work that it had a bit of a panic and let him get ill. He has spent the last few days inside except for a brief sojurn to church yesterday. He is definitely on the mend now.
I have made significant process on the corset. All the eyelets have been firmly hammered in and 7 of them have been embroidered over with thread. When I have finished this beast, it had better fit! If it doesn't, I've decided I will snaffle one of the display forms from school (left over from when school used to have sewing classes) and display it at home like the work of art it is. I'm full of plans and ideas for my next one, Hello Kitty, and then the next one, possibly an underbust in grey.
Point of Fashion: Staying indoors
Current Obsession: Missing Bean. She should be here too.
Sounds beautiful! Except for poor Beau being sick, obviously *wishes well things at him*
This is turning into my refrain: I can't wait to see the corset!! :-)
(I adore the bluey-purple one with gold overlay on the front panels that firefiend made -26" closed - and the pale blue one with pink butterflies! Which is far too big - 35". But so pretty :) )
*hugses*
Posted by: Rachel at April 24, 2006 06:56 PMNothing like a break to make you sick. Often happens to me, and it couldn't *be* more annoying.
Arrowtown also has an amazing prison. 5 cells, walls about 2 ft thick and built in the high style of the day. It was designed to cope with the evilness caused by gold.
It's alarmingly cute, but left me with a strong 'gosh, I'm glad I was never stuck in here' feeling. No windows. The cops were using it for drunken New Year's revellers until 1987 when the historic places trust said they had to stop because they were damaging an historic building.
Posted by: .carla at April 25, 2006 09:39 AMHi Gif I forgot that you are at home not school and sent an email with pics to your work address. Pirip has got some lighting done in the kitchen and the plug fixed in the laundry! Also he buried one of the mice under the macrocarpa tree. He has been very busy...not doing his assignment! (actually I think he is finished).
Posted by: muggledepuggle at April 27, 2006 12:39 PM