Dan has been our resident chef and is keeping us all well fed. If you are wondering what the well dressed chef on holiday wears when preparing dinner in 80 degree weather ...here is a peek...
This is Martha, who while surfing blogdom yesterday found my blog and discovered that I was less that half an hour away from her. She got in touch with me via blog comments and e-mail and here we are together this morning at The Golden Needle in Port Charlotte. It is barely visible in the background but if you look carefully you can see Martha's Cirque des Cercles on the wall behind us.
The Golden Needle is a terrific shop which has so much stock and so many fibres and so many fabrics and more charts that a person can imagine. Our time passed so fast that I barely had time to pick up a couple of My Big Toe patterns (which I don't have in my shop) and a few little buttons
Oh yes and before we hit the Golden Needle we visited an incredible Bead Shop. I don't even do beading except on the odd pattern but ohmigod...so many beads. I have never seen so many beads in my life!
Anyway Martha is delightful as is Kathy who owns the Golden Needle and I am so grateful that she took the time to get in touch and to pick me up this morning.
The reason I had to dash off from the shop is ...Dan and Bruce offered to take Luci and me out for Valentine's lunch. I got to pick the restaurant...The Olive Garden.. and here we are having a pre-lunch glass of bubbly...That was followed by a delicious lunch... half of which we took home for supper. Our chef will get the night off.
Tomorrow is Daytona 500 day... One of these days I really must do some stitching!
9 comments:
Thank you Ann for a wonderful day! The power of the floss...
I'm so glad I got to meet you and spend some time with you. Enjoy your holiday! Happy stitching! Yeee Haawwwww NASCAR! Go Tony or Clint or Mark or....CASEY! (He sure is cute!)
xoxo
~~Martha~~
Now this sounds like a wonderful vacation!! Have fun you guys:)
It sounds like you are having a fantastic time! 80 degree weather - how heavenly - and only 4 more days until I can enjoy those temps too :-D
Hello dear Ann,
I just discovered you were blogging while being on holiday too! In this case, please visit my blog, there's a certain Christmas ornament being showed :) Thank you so, so, so much for this lovely present! And thank you also for your sweet, sweet letter. It made me blush from head to toe. Thank you very, very much! I will always cherish this lovely ornament as a token of your friendship.
Big grateful hug & have a nice holiday!!! Greetings from a cold Holland, Carolien
Ann I'm so glad to hear you're having a great vacation and that its WARM! When I first saw the picture of Dan in the apron my first thought is oh gosh is that ALL he's wearing? LOL I wouldn't put it past him either!
I was lucky enough to meet Martha last winter when I visited my Mom in North Ft Myers. We enjoyed lunch together along with Deb from Lavender and Lace Stitches. She is a lovely lady and I sure wish I was down there visiting with her again.
Love Dan's attire! I'm glad you showed the back shot, I had similar thoughts as Dani!
Ooops, I meant Lavender Rose Ramblings! I always get those two bloggers' sites confused.
Isn't it fun to meet new stitchers Ann. Gld you are having such a fun time.
and Dan - what can I say but WOW!!
That wasn't as exciting as last year's picture but it was BETTER.LOL.
Glad to see you are having fun.
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