Did a show today that could do me in forever from shows. You ever have one of those? First, they had a play area for the little kids at the far end of the festival with wonderful outdoor toys. The parents wandered off and left the kids there, falling a
Did you get this on your internet feed yesterday? "The first five days after the weekend are the hardest."
Nanny's Halloween Rocks. My artist friend, Nanny, paints smooth rocks and pebbles she finds in her yard for the trick-or-treaters that come to her door. She lives in a small town and at first just gave out a couple of dozen. She gave over 100 last tim
I saw a simple and darling idea yesterday while antiquing. I'm sure it was a commercial enterprise, but we could borrow the idea. They took pieces of an old quilt (probably worn and damaged) and cut it on a craft cutter into the shape of a state. This
FINAL UPDATE AT END. Finished my hurricane preparation - and I'm six hours from a beach! We are expecting ten's of inches of rain and winds up to 60 mph, so I've given four days to picking up all the limbs and pine cones in my yard. So, it's clean t
Sisters, grab your prayer shawls. Our very own dear cutie, Miss Lillian needs your prayers. (Notice she's been quiet?) She has a torn meniscus (part of the knee) and quite likely a tumor behind the knee. She won't have any more info till after the mi
Eclipse Monday. Ladies, I beg you to protect your eyes so you can keep sewing. Viewing directly can burn a permanent hole in your vision. The internet says (which may be right or wrong) that 90% of the special glasses being sold for viewing the eclipse
In our embroidery, and in life, perspective really is everything. We had quite a bit of rain last night and I have just spent an hour plus in the yard with my pickup stick getting up the limbs, pine cones and other detritus of last evening. When I first
UPDATED: Sugartoes has been ailing, but I'm hoping he's turned the corner. Night before last, not seeing he had two attack spots on his back side, I gave him his dose of flea medication. He went very limp and crawled into the back corner of the closet
Just spent four hours removing Windows Accelerator Pro malware from my computer. Felt like it was touch and go the whole time. I'm hopeful the problem is completely solved. If you got this one from an embroidery site, as I did, it has a little "helpf
Scissors note - I hope Dennis checks in on this entry. I got my latest pair of scissors "free" from the hospital when I had my knee surgery. All they used them for was to cut the "sock" that covered my incision. When I was packing up to go home the
Housework, ugh. There comes a day when you can't put it off any longer. Just cleaned out my freezer and found the makings of a fine ham bone soup. Actually there was a total of seven ham bones! Also found my long lost ice bag for my knee, at the botto
Buttonholes! I just spent, well, way too much time, learning how to make buttonholes on my sewing machine. Of course, this meant being buried in the manual awhile - review how to thread the machine, how to make bobbins, what the buttonhole foot looks li
Thanks to all you great Cuties for my many birthday wishes. It was a quiet day alone except for a call from younger son, so you cheered me a lot. Been busy insuring and tagging my new Fabric and Notions Toter by Toyota! (Gift to myself.)
Just came down from my first foray upstairs to the sewing room since knee surgery. 18 steps up, 36 steps down (seemed like it). Had a great stitchout of a horse on denim shirt, then made a quick pocket hankie to match the colors I used -- actually, I pul
