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Sinaw Souq – The Gun Shop

Posted on December 30, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

Last week,  David and I left home early with Robert to go to the Friday market in Sinaw. After a two-hour drive, we arrived, only to discover that the market has been changed to Thursday morning. The souq was bustling … Continue reading →

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Making Flowers

Posted on December 28, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

This morning, I’ve been assembling the flowers for the border of the baby quilt.  I had traced and cut out 5 petals and one centre each for the 24 flowers on Steam-a-Seam Lite, so today I assembled them on my … Continue reading →

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A Little Omani Culture

Posted on December 27, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

Wednesday evening, we had the wonderful privilege of attending the Annual Oud concert at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel.  We, luckily, have a friend whose daughter is has been taking lessons with then, and was playing with the group.  Here … Continue reading →

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More Quilting – and a Bit of Dying to Boot!

Posted on December 22, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

I’ve done a bit of sewing again this week – mostly on that baby quilt. That lovely young lady is now over three weeks old.  Have to get busy! Here is the centre to this point. The next border is … Continue reading →

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Only Two Weeks Left …..

Posted on December 11, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

until Christmas.  I just came to that realization this morning, after I discovered that I was several days behind in opening windows in my Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar (sent to me by a good friend). I’m busy wrapping Christmas gifts … Continue reading →

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A Week of Sewing (A Bit)

Posted on December 11, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

If I didn’t have such an interesting life, I would get more sewing done (Is that the polite way of saying “If I wasn’t such a gad-about?)  Well, much as I would like to get more done, I’m enjoying life … Continue reading →

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A week in Muscat – Bonus Week Number 1

Posted on December 10, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

We were to be in Norway already – David’s start date for his new job was December 1.  We are still in Muscat! I was pretty upset at first, but then realized that we have been give bonus time in … Continue reading →

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Dhofar- Hadbeen to Hasik

Posted on December 3, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

Hadbeen is a very typical Omani town – very rural.  We managed to find a small coffee shop that made chicken sandwiches, and he ran to the store for Pepsi for us. We sat outside, and along came the water … Continue reading →

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Wadi Bashing in Dhofar

Posted on November 29, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

The beginning of November, we went on a 5 day road trip, and spent a full day in Dhofar on the road east of Mirbat (east of Salalah), in the south of Oman. We had never been east of Mirbat, … Continue reading →

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Update

Posted on November 25, 2011 by kuwaitquilter

Time for a short update on our situation. You may remember that David’s new assignment in Norway was set to begin December 1, and that most of our house was packed up for moving to Canada on Sept 29 and … Continue reading →

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