Moves, matzah and me

MOVES

My new home at http://25reasons.net

You know what it’s like. You have a clear picture in your mind of what needs to be done, and how simple it’ll be, and how short a time it’ll take, and how good it’s going to be. And then it all goes awry! So here I am. Several days later, but I’m here! And WOOHOO! It all works now. Thanks to the extremely generous Figaro who has a great website called Free Technology Tutorials that you should definitely check out if you have a WordPress blog, and also thanks to the brilliant support team at Super Green Hosting.

Having said that, please let me know if you find broken links, or anything else that is .. well, just wrong.

MATZAH

Now, during the days that I waited patiently – not! – for the new domain name to propagate, and for my blog to be relocated and settled into the new site, I did do some work on my Matzah cover. It is after all, only days before passover, and it needs to be finished. I finally found the perfect bullion fringe and ordered it from Jude at bei Cuscini in Maling Road, Canterbury. She sent me samples, and we spoke and finally picked out the one you see here.

While it was travelling in the post from Jude to me, I finished the edges of the cover. I cut strips of the same fabric as the middle plaque, and stitched it around, as you can see in the above photo.

The fringe arrived the next morning – thank you Jude! – and I stitched it onto my cover, without breaking any needles, which I can tell you, looked a very likely mishap on most of the corners! Here’s how it looks now..

finished! ... or is it?

I looked at it and looked. And the more I looked , the more I thought something wasn’t right. That gold trim around the inside of the centre panel just didn’t look right any more. The rich warm vanilla of the fringe somehow didn’t match the trim. I thought about unstitching it and taking it off, but I kinda liked it there. What to do!

Aha! I have a solution. I’ve ordered some lovely metallic gold seed beads and I’m going to sew them around the top of the fringe. I think that’ll look just perfect then! I hope the beads will arrive today, and I’ll get sewing immediately!

BIRTHDAYS

Yesterday, Moshe and I celebrated our birthdays. And yes, for those of you who don’t know me personally, my husband and I share the same birthday. He’s 3 years older, but it was destiny, right? Or some such nonsense. It was really wonderful. Thank you everyone who text messaged me, emailed me, sent birthday wishes to me on Facebook, and called me. I feel very loved. And then there’s the most gorgeous hat that Sarah gave me. I’ll have to take a picture and show you. I love it!

And check out that gluten-free carrot cake with the delicious icing! Thanks GIta

And here’s a nice one of David and Java.

I miss you Dad xx

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