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Gail's comment about keeping track of what she has accomplished is an excellent reminder. We are all on that treadmill, and if we don't stop and look at what we have done, it can add to that feeling of getting nowhere fast. Celebrate what we've done to help us get through what we need to do!  

I'm trying to keep a picture of what I finish -- totally finished things, not just what I accomplished monthly on the sew-alongs. I don't think there are too many things in that folder yet this year. But that's ...

Don't you love a good mystery? If so, I've got one for you. On Thursday I needed to stop at a Post Office to mail a package. Mr. G. and I were on our way to meet friends for lunch, I asked him to stop at a local hardware store along our route that has a Post Office located at a counter in the back part of the store. This particular hardware store stocks a treasure trove of merchandise, it's

Don't you love a good mystery? If so, I've got one for you. On Thursday I needed to stop at a Post Office to mail a package. Mr. G. and I were on our way to meet friends for lunch, I asked him to stop at a local hardware store along our route that has a Post Office located at a counter in the back part of the store. This particular hardware store stocks a treasure trove of merchandise, it's

The final arcs are made for the Pickle Dish – now to see if I can get them attached before Melanie arrives for our birthday meal with Melanie – I decided to get the arcs done first as they are easy to do and do not need pinning – now the curves need to be […]

Another busy day.  Of course I knew I would make a mistake on this block no matter how many times I double checked placement before I sewed.  I found one early on and got that one fixed and then totally missed the last one until it was done and I was standing back proudly looking […]

My head is about to explode! And not because I'm sick  -- it's going into learning overdrive! Yesterday was a HUGE challenge - the customer wanted one thing -- I didn't know how to make it happen. After some DESPERATE phone calls and e-mails and THANK GOD people were there for me, I was back at the long arm, and I figured it out! 

One more test run to attempt this morning, and then I'm loading the quilt. I have to say that I was feeling pretty low yesterday as I tried and tried and couldn't make it ...

And very little sewing got done – Melanie and I had decided we couldn’t let the holidays go by without baking some Speculaas – (Speculaas or its variant speculoos is a type of spiced shortcrust biscuit, traditionally baked for consumption on or just before St Nicholas’ day in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and around Christmas […]

Boy I’m glad I started to bake before the girls all arrived – as it is I don’t think we finished up until near 4 in the afternoon – I never did sit down to crochet a little until after all left and the kitchen had been cleaned at least 3 times during the day […]

Very little sewing will be done today – the girls will all be here and it is Christmas Baking Day – cookies will be made all afternoon (and maybe this morning to get a head start so we can get done) and packed into containers to take home.  I will try to take some photos […]

One day this garden will be done with raised beds – with soil in them and plants!! But wow it is taking this old lady some time to do LOL – I am just not in as good of shape as I used to be and move so much slower than I used to.  We […]

Finally last night I finished the binding on the Pineapple Quilt – it took awhile almost 10 days! but it is now done and will do the washing of it today to make sure all the marking lines are out of it. This corner of the Drunkard’s Path done on Saturday night and more will […]

Its Fall and half of the month of October is nearly gone !!! I would love to say I don't know where it went, but I do! The Markers of FallJust like any other season, I seem to have a full plate this fall. Mentally September always signals that fall is here, for me. Of course, because I am of a certain age Labor Day indicates the end of summer and the start of the school year, and therefore

Finally I finished my orange stars for the RSC Star quilt that I am making in the monthly colors – they really are easy to make – being nice large blocks and I finished the one I started a couple days ago and got the second one made  – I will link to SoScrappy today […]

We are off to help our younger daughter set up her home office today and visit with the grandchildren too.  Our grandson and his wife were able to get the weekend off and join us all there – everyone is vaccinated!  Jessica and Ciera arrived at the new house the other night and brought air […]

We are in the middle of a short heat wave.  We are talking 95-98 degree weather for at least 4 days and yesterday was the second one we had.  I guess I would rather have a couple hot days to the flooding, tropical storms and fires that are happening in other parts of the US […]

I never did get to the sewing machine today – I had intended to but I got started skinning tomatoes and chopping adding another bag to the freezer and then I was baking bread.  I did sit in between things and for a little while in the morning on the porch working on Love Letters […]

It was another hot day yesterday and I got out on the porch super early to enjoy the breeze and 78 degrees again for a little bit before it got hot again – will be so glad for this heat wave to go away but so glad we got that new heat/cooling unit in February […]

Well I didn’t have enough aqua for August to make the Love Letters that color and have enough to make my star blocks, in fact I’m not sure if I have enough to do my star blocks I still have to explore the boxes.  So I decided seeing as my pink Love Letter block is […]