Another Christmas Secret ! Don’t tell ! I started several months ago to make quilts for Christmas. Inspired by the oft-used phrase that“one can never have too many” of something . . . I decided to make a bunch of small quilts for little people to drag across …
The Princess and the Bag of Frozen Peas I found this wonderful contemporary version of the Princess and the Pea in a children’s book. I thought it was hilarious because the prince finds his princess FINALLY by giving her a bag of frozen peas to help rid her …
(Shhhhhhhh . . . don’t tell Clara. It’s a Christmas surprise.) Some stories never grow old. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is one of them. I still shudder at the idea of a little girl trotting off through the forest alone. Maybe things were safer then . …
The Pumpkins Are Ready ! At our house that means many things. Sharp tools. Grandpa’s gloves. Stacking and sorting. Jumping over. Laying on. Choosing. Lining up. Re-arranging. Counting and counting again. Pumpkins are best harvested by children. They see magic in every single shape, color …
All I had to do was drive around the corner. That is where I found it. Rather, “them”. Four chairs and a table sitting on the lawn with a little white sign. “$35 or best offer”. I saw the potential immediately, pulled into the driveway and knocked on the …
My little granddaughter asked me to make a mermaid costume for her. ( Gulp ) Immediately my mind went to the problem of the mermaid’s tail. Or fins. I told her I would LOVE to make a mermaid costume for her. Then I prowled the Internet for ideas. I …
Many an evening I gather my supplies together and haul them from my hobby room to the big chair in the family room so that I can be “social”. One day I stared sideways at this large and old and heavy basket and thought it looked exactly like a …
I am not a quilter. Not in the traditional sense. But, I am ready to try. Oh, I have made patched quilts which I have tied but I have not made a quilt which required serious machine stitching and a binding finished by hand. This small and bright “strip …
I have a big plastic bin full of slinky, silky fabric scraps. Some are long and some are very long and some are wide and some could be a whole dress for a little girl. Hanging on the doorknob of the playroom are fairy wings in every color. They …
I told Grandpa that the new word around town was “up-cycle”. He wondered if it was some sort of bike. No. I guess it is classier than “re-cycle”. He wondered if there was any difference in what you did with things or how or when if you called it …
