Our new shop will be in Lurline Street in Katoomba, which is the main tourist road with many galleries. The businesses along Lurline have decided to get a group of shop owners together to form a comittee to think of ways to help promote Lurline Street as a great steet to visit when tehy come up to the mountains. We were invited to attend and the meeting went really well. We look forward to attending more in the coming months.

On the stitching front I started Live Each Season today as I think I should be able to finish it in a couple of days. Something I need after stitching MTM for so long:)

I meant to say a while back, Carina, thanks for sending me your email address. I will email you very soon:) It's always nice to hear from you. Two other Aussie friends, Mel and Annette, sent me their Blog addresses so when he has a chance I will ask Bren to put them in my Blog links.

Happy Birthday Mel:) Hope you had a great day.

Well, I had a lovely day at home today and while the plan had been to work on Medieval Town all day (especially after seeing Judith's gorgeous work), I ended up trying to get all my WIP's and UFO's organised. I found 2 that were finished except for the back stitching and the thought of finishing 2 works before I start the marathon effort that will be MTM, was very appealing. So I have now finished Mirabilia's Ring Around The Rose Tree which I stitched on 28ct Waterlily Jobelan and another by an Australian designer Hanne's Needlecraft called "Roadside Sellers" that I started back in 2003. I had finished it's companian piece "To Market" and just couldn't face all the backstitching that RS required, until today. VBG.

Also tonight, Bren changed my template as Carol mentioned that sometimes that blue template can be hard to read on some machines. I hope this is better. Bren is also going to try and incorparate dragonflies into my template soon as well (of course. LOL).

Tomorrow is our Monday off so I am definetely going to get to work on MTM. I really am dreading it but I so want to be caught up by the end of the month. After I have caught up I will get back into my rotation stitching. I am especially anxious to get back to Stargazer and my next house in HOHRH. Because I have been spending all my spare time stitching I have been neglecting my emails. Carol, I have been so slack. It feels like ages since we had a proper chat but I will recify that soon:) Also Carina, I still can't work out where your email address is in your Blog.

Well it has been a long night. I have been up all night watching the Academy Awards. We have the telecast delayed by about 6 hours so it can be shown at night on Australian television. I always spend the whole day trying to avoid any news bulletins that come on during the day as I hate to know the winners ahead of the telecast. I have even avoided reading anyones Blogs today in case someone mentioned the winners. I'm a movie tragic I know:) LOL. I have to say I am so happy that George Clooney, Rachel Weiz and Reece Witherspoon won!!

Today we went for a drive in the country out to a small town called Oberon where we went blackberry picking. We drove around the countryside visiting quite a few small towns before stopping at Bathurst for a quick visit with my Dad. We got home late and tonight we watched a really good movie called The Terminal starring Tom Hanks. What a good movoe!!

Tomorrow Bren and I will have a quiet day at home so I home to get quite a bit of stitching done.

When the police arrived they said 8 businesses had been robbed in Katoomba last night and apparently there has been a spate of robberies in general in the last 6 weeks or so. Once they left we began the big clean up. It didn't take as long as we thought. The way it looked we thought it would probably take at least 2 days to fix everything up but we managed to do it by the end of the day. The good news is that not much was taken. It looks like they were looking for money, which there was none, and threw everything everywhere, probably trying to see if we had a safe (we didn't). They smashed our scanner but left our computer. They also stole some of Bren's lovely jewellery pieces he had made recently and some charts were damaged when they were thrown on the floor, but apart from that and the lock on the front door they had destroyed, everything else is fine and our shop will re-open in the morning. This has just made me want to relocate our shop even more. It really has been a trying (and exhausting) day, but we are both trying to look on the bright side and that is that basically, everything is now ok. We had the locks replaced and just hope that this is the end of it.

So, as I didn't have my day off today, Bren has told me to have tomorrow off. He's such a sweetie:)So hopefully I will get to work on Chatelaine's Mystery IX part 3 in the morning:)