Weekend by myself

With Dad gone, I had to amuse myself today. After a leisurely sleep in, I got organised and headed out about 11 to see some of the craft shows that were linked to the Fringe. First stop was the Wevers Guild of SA. As I walked in the church hall where the exhibit was being held, I was clearly the youngest there by many decades but I was surprised that a lot of there wor was really contemporary and not just granny rugs and knitted jumpers. Some of the woven scarves were exquisite! A lot had already been bought and although I couldn't bring myself to pay over $100 for a scarf, they certainly were beautiful. Some of the woven art work was interesting too as was the felt work. I entered the raffle (which was kind of mandatory) and then headed out the door.

Onto the next exhibition which was the Embroiders Guild of SA. A similar set up to the last but this time you did have to pay $5 to get in. I have always loved embroidery I think because Mum did a lot of it when I was a kid. Some of the work was beautiful, particularly the Japanese inspired art works with gold and silver thread. There were your usual daggy cross-stitch samplers as well but the majority of the work was very high quality and quite unique. I made my way through the exhibit and into the main house where I got talking to a lady who was into collecting embroidery tools - ok, this is where I had to draw the line. I made my escape back into the real world.

Having had my culture fix for the morning, I drove to Harbortown to do some mindless window shopping. I walked around for ages but with no purchases. I did buy some more raffle tickets to help the paraolympians. So in total today I entered three raffles.

I was getting hungry by this stage and I knew I wanted to cook pasta for dinner so I went in search for good fresh food. I meant to head up to Burnside Village but missed the turn onto Greenhill Road so instead I tried my luck at the Central Market. As I pulled in, it was 3pm, and of course what time did the market close - 3pm. So I walked back to the car and joined the queue to get out of the carpark and paid $1.70 for the privilege.

I drove up to Burnside Village and bought a nice piece of lamb fillet, some fresh pasta and some putanesca sauce to make dinner with. While I sat and had a coffee and some sushi, I checked my phone and there was a message from Kate inviting me around for dinner. They didn't have anything planned so I said I would bring the food I had bought over to cook. I popped home and grabbed my beading stuff before driving over to Kate's place.

Kate and I did a bit of beading while Stan cooked dinner (again). We ate pasta in the lounge while watching the NAB Cup semi-final between St Kilda and Freemantle - a complete whitewash with St Kilda thrashing them. After the footy I headed home again. So much for my quiet day by myself! Thank god for good friends.