I haven’t posted many book reviews on here, but amidst all the chaos with my exchange students visiting, I have been escaping by reading A Summer Affair: A Novel. A very quick read with an engaging plot. How many of you have had a summer affair? Or if you haven’t,
I ran across this photo and thought it was too funny and a bit too close to home! Our French exchange students showed up on Thursday and ironically the kid staying with us was one of two kids who didn’t get his bags. This is an improvement over last year
Finally posting today, it just seems like I haven’t had time to breathe! 🙂 This Wednesday our Exchange students get here and I can’t wait. Partially because it will be really really fun to have them here and partially because this is when my stupidity pays off. I really now
I’ve been a slack poster, but I’ve been trying to get myself organized for the summer. I have a ton of teacher friends who are SO relieved at the beginning of the summer, but when you work at home, the summer looms ahead with trying to balance work, kids and
I always forget how manic May is, with the end of school and all sorts of drama. However, I had a wonderfully quiet night with my stitch friends last week and figured out how to solve the lace addition on the side of the pillow: I’m fairly proud of the
OK, so, as mentioned in my last post, I had my Crazy quilting Groups class today and learned how to do these spectacular flowers! There are more to come, but this was the first one…fairly easy and pretty spiffy results, eh? It’s done with peyote stitch. Then, my round robin
Check this out: Isn’t that completely cool? Done by Jared Brown – these are just fantastic and for sale! You can get to the pieces from his flickr badge on the side of his blog. After perusing his blog, I’m not sure of his motivation, but his art and embroideries
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
There’s good “white” and there’s bad white! 🙂 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! 🙂 I can’t wait to finish
I’m off to stitch-night with the Crazy Quilters tonight, so that will be fun!