Oh dear I've been up to so much. I've been busy getting everything back in my computer. I've been playing the Sims 2 with my new mean graphic card. Oh it's heaven, I can't stop building, smooching edges and decorating. I can't wait for the new expansion pack either.

I also went shopping in London last week with my friend Ellen. We did have a lovely day and did do some serious shopping at Cath (did you noticed she dropped her int. shipping a bit?) It was a little power shop because we only had 4 hours. OF COURSE we missed our plane back so I had to buy new tickets. The Bo had to pick us up in the middle of the night someplace else and had to drive Ellen back to her car at the airport near us, where we were supposed to land at 19:00. Stupid girls!!! We we had a blast and the weather was extremely good to us.

Look at that Ellen posing in the sunshine :o)

I've also been in bed with a cold and did some catching up on DVD watching. Today I felt a bit better and went out with the Bo to the garden center where we bought plants and pumpkins.

I've been getting my hands dirty on carving and making these small polka dots lanterns. I have some more pictures in my Flickr album.

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I also want to say Hi to some of the new readers. I'm not really a person to email you all personally and thank you. But I really appreciate your visits and your comments. They make my day. Thank you!!

Oh, oh, ooooooh Marné is having chicks and Kathleen a lovely video of her new hometown!!

The reason for my absence and for not emailing and replying to email is that my motherboard died last monday!! It's just so weird that just a year ago the server yvestown is on crashed. Is September a computer dangerous month at my house? The good thing about last year's crash is that I started to back-up so nothing was lost this time, only my favorites folder is missing but I'll get that back on Monday.

I've been really sick off it, I'm so used to having access to the World Wide Web that living without it now is not an option. It gave me a good chance to do silly little jobs I never seem to get around to like painting plant pots and buying artificial pears LOL!!

Will be back in full force soon.

This is the result of the chair I was working on. You wouldn't believe how relieved I am it's over. This fabric I used made a mess!! It's velvet and when velvet is cut tiny little balls appear and take over the world. But it was worth it.

I promised a slipcover tutorial and decided to have a tiny footstool tutorial you can find here. I'm going to make some more soon.