Peg dolls and flowers........

1. Twin Sisters, 2. tropical flower purse, 3. peg doll clothespin doll 005, 4. Tropical Flower(Petal), 5. FiFi, new series Clothespin Dolls SOLD, 6. Tropical Fruit - Durian Flowers in Bloom, 7. Lucia peg dolls, 8. Tropical flowers of Guam

Hip Hip Hooray for modern technology....

This little island of mine has finally hit the modern age. Last night the internet went off satellite and onto cable. I thought this morning I would check out how fast it goes and make a mosaic then upload it. In the past this has usually taken me so long to do but this morning hardly anytime. My mosaic uploaded from the computer to blogger in about 30 seconds. Much better than my 5 minutes it used to take. Life will be so much easier and I may even catch up a bit with the greater outside world.

rant, rant, rant.......

This space today is going to be used for complaining... but don't worry it won't go on for long. I'm just going to rant about the good intentions that I had but the internet service we have here on this island is s***t to say the least. So it all failed. I wanted to have a go at this because I love the idea of looking at other peoples stuff and I don't mind people looking at my stuff but flickr just wasn't having any part of me uploading photos so after a few attempts I spat the dummy and walked away. Now I am back just to talk about it. I think the internet service here all depends on the weather. It is blowing fairly wildly here today and don't they say that wind can have strange effects on people. I wonder if the same goes for the internet!

I may come back later when I have calmed down and had a cuppa tea.

Not quite right.................

The internet here is sometimes so 'CRAP'. It has taken 24 hrs for it to let me upload a picture and it isn't even the one I want(that was my mistake not theirs). Can you believe it! I am going to leave it with you anyway and maybe try later for the ones that I actually wanted to originally post. By the way the image is from a second hand book. My first and only thrifting purchase I have been able to make here.

edit: 8.15pm Just realised why it wasn't working( well husband did). Somehow when I moved them off my camera the file size increased. So I need to change them to normal size. See you learn something new everyday, well I do anyway!!!!

Finally.....................

Finally we have pictures!!!! It has taken me soooooo long to get here. Between blogger just not wanting to co-operate this morning and then this evening somewhere along the line me losing connection with the mother station every few minutes. But now it is done. Hooray!!!! I'm not sure if there is a greater being out there not wanting me to pursue a career related to the computer because I often find it very frustrating and could quite easily find something better to do with my time. Like sew or watch what my children are doing! But I persist for some unknown reason. Somebody please tell me why!!!!
Anyway some satchel bags for kids for Christmas. Some are going to Canada and some to Australia. It is exciting when you know your stuff is heading out into the big wide world.

Basic black.
Girly pink.

A bag I made for a birthday gift. It is for a friend I have made here in Noumea. She has become the families French tutor as well. The bag turned out tres cute and I like the shape and the drawstring thing very much. I think I am going to make one for myself from some retro fabrics I got sent over from Mikes.

I have two more days until the hubby gets home and I need to pack away the sewing stuff. Let's see what I can get done and let's hope this b*$#@&y computer starts to behave itself.
Have a good week everybody.
P.S thanks Brenda for being my model.

Problems...............

Having a bit of a frustrating time with blogger this morning. I am trying to put up some pictures of what I have been doing this week but can't. It keeps giving me a code to send to the support team but I can't find the support team. I am not the best at dealing with things that go a bit haywire with the computer so I think I will go and have a coffee, tend to my daughter that had a fall at the park and has hurt her back and come back in an hour. If it is still not working you all might just have to wait till tomorrow. The problems with the internet may just be a roll on effect from all the other things that are happening in this country. There is a picket line at Presto pizzas( for some this is very disastrous),ground staff at the airports are on strike so not all planes are coming in here. I have a friend whose husband has been away for nearly 3 weeks and he was due home today but his flight has been canceled. She is one pissed off lady. My hubby's not due home till Tuesday, let's hope everything is back to normal by then. But lets hope even more that the internet is still not having it's tantrum and I can get news to and from the outside world.

Now what is in the cupboard (that's not good for me) that I can have with my coffee!!!