
Busy playing!
This is the latest in my real flower scans – the most notable being the one in my header that I use all the time. I’m a big gerbera daisy fan and so I did a scan of this one. I’m playing with a lot of macro cropping. Very fun

This is the latest in my real flower scans – the most notable being the one in my header that I use all the time. I’m a big gerbera daisy fan and so I did a scan of this one. I’m playing with a lot of macro cropping. Very fun

My friend Diana and I went craft shop-hopping today (woo hoo) and so I will have that pillow done really soon! However, just to fill in, I ran across this – I’ve seen some dogs he does too…very cool! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2S48rHnKo]

There’s good “white” and there’s bad white! ๐ I’ve made more progress on the baptism block I’m really quite thrilled with how it’s turning out and I plan on going through and anchoring it all a bit more for an 8 year old girl! ๐ I can’t wait to finish

I’m off to stitch-night with the Crazy Quilters tonight, so that will be fun!


You all can thank my friend Anne (waving to Anne) for this post – although I had been planning it for sometime, she needs it for a dress she’s working on. I have stalled around trying to find out the original source of this flower, my friend Rhonda taught it

The big news this Monday morning is my house is clean! ๐ If any of you have kids, you know the feeling of NEVER seeming to stay on top of the mess. We cleaned the house yesterday and except for a short tidy this morning I can say that the

I’ve talked about the International Quilt Study Center’s quilt of the month, but this month I gasped when I opened this one by M. Joan Lintault – gorgeous! (there’s a close up on the site by the way) This is what really got me: “In her pieces Lintault employs an

With the kids home this week, we’ve been busily trying to work and keep them happy (entertained?) so I haven’t had a lot of time for blogging.However, we had a fantastic trip out to a suburban mall: My daughter cracked me up by asking “Mommy, why do all the houses

The end of this month marks the launch of our first few classes at Helping Handmade. If you haven’t read about it here on my blog, it’s my pet project (totally labor of love right now) to get people crafting so they will reuse and recycle rather than buying new!