Fat Quarter Tuesday

One of our local quilt shops (LQS), Fabric, Etc.,  hosts a “Fat Quarter Tuesday” sale on Fat Tuesday. This is a sale on fat quarters, 20 for $25. This was the third one I attended – the first one JW was a baby that I held because he was sleeping, he wasn’t walking yet [...]

How To Support Some Free

Sister Diane posted every month during 2011 about supporting free (here is her wrap up of the year). I think sometimes we take it for granted that people are at home sharing so much knowledge with us through their websites and their stores. There are ways you can make money online of course, selling [...]

A Daring Year

Polar Bear Plunge

This will be my DARING year.

I’m not one to really take risks or step out of my comfort zone on purpose. I play everything pretty safe and enjoy it that way. I have changed over the years though. I mean to be a military spouse you have to adapt and change. I’m [...]

Crafty Portland

After the baby shower I attended last weekend, I was able to spend a few hours exploring Portland!

First off I emailed Sister Diane over at Crafty Pod, asking if she had any recommendations for where I could stop, what would be a “must see” while I was there. She sent me the links [...]

A Collection of To-Do’s

Not having my own computer makes my collection of what I want to do just grow and grow. Now I have a laptop and have been all kinds of crafty!

Anyone else want to crochet fruit trivets and potholders?

Nevermind that I have at least four makeup/travel bathroom bags, I still want to sew [...]

Kitchen Table As Sewing Table

Once the kids and I moved in with Mom, she lost her sewing area. And I lost my craft room. So what did we do to make the best of it – set up shop in the dining room!

It’s been … well not a struggle, but we have had to figure out what [...]

New Header Picture

Yay a new blog theme! I’ve been wanting something different for a bit now and after helping my friend Holly with her new wordpress blog, I was inspired to just hurry up and change!

I made the header a couple of months ago actually, because I found the theme at least that long ago. [...]