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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 works and [...]

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. From left [...]

Getting Into Writing

I bought a new journal yesterday. I have thoughts rushing around my head, sometimes jumbled, sometimes not. I’ve kept a journal for years, I still have the one from fourth or fifth grade where I complained about my brother and the fact that he liked Guns N Roses (who I would grow to love after [...]

Fabric Talking To You

My real life friend and neighbor Shannon just started a quilting blog and one of her posts was about quilts talking to her, telling her where they wanted to live.

Angelic Quilts screenshot
I find that its the fabric that talks to me. I love looking at fat quarters, they are neatly folded and stacked together. Sure [...]

A Bit More Fabric Organization

Behold the projects in plastic bags!

The top shelf is fat quarters, half a yard cuts and full yards. There are also a couple of remnants I found at a local quilt shop that I fell in love with and just had to have as well as a layer cake and charm pack (strange names for [...]

Organizing the Fabric Stash

I used to think I had a lot of fabric.

After folding the many fat quarters I have and organizing my quilting fabric, I have two shelves worth. I do have more fabric in one large rubbermaid container in the closet, but this is the stuff that’s been out and about in the room. I spent [...]

2009 Perpetual Calendar January

Here is the January page for the perpetual calendar. This is the first page I did and I really love how it turned out. I love the stamps I used, I love the colors, it is perfect. I used Bashful Blue and Brillant Blue ink pads, and The Snowflake Spot and Festive Favorites stamp sets. [...]