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Recently, I was having a lovely email conversation with a lady online, and she mentioned that she had a huge amount of fabric she was trying to sell. The fabric came from a friend with medical problems, and the sale proceeds would go to helping with the expenses. When we realized that we only live …
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Summer is hot, so cooking should be simple to get out of the kitchen quickly. Make ahead is great too, for packing along to watch fireworks, or have fun with family outdoors in the mountains, on a lake, or at the beach. I am running out of time to get in all the ideas I …
Picking up where we left off, today we finish the focus fabric purse. Click on Focus Fabric Purse Part 1 if you missed it. So far we've made the quilted base and the pockets, and added handles. Today we finish the bag, adding embellishments, finishing the seams and boxing the corners. If you want to …
Designing this purse was a fun exercise in creativity. I had a fabric that I wanted to showcase, focusing on it, but just making a purse out of it without some other design element was boring. So, I took the basic idea of my Jelly Roll Market Bag, and did this one with the accent …
Having some fun with the Caliente theme, I made a few fun things to use on drives with the Mini club like the Geocaching Drive on yesterday's post. For those who missed that post, one of the club 'rules' is you have to name your car. Ours is red, so DH called it Caliente. You …
Yesterday was clear and warm, a wonderful day for a drive and we joined the Appalachian Mountain Mini Club for a geocaching event. One of the requirements for the club is the Mini has to have a name. So, with our red one, DH liked the name Calienté. Of course, I had to take that …
It has just been so frazzling hot here, with humidity at 68% early in the morning, it is hard to get out and get some weeding done. I started early one morning, and had to come in after only an hour, in desperate need of a shower. Even though the temperature was only 70°F, combined …
We are lucky to live in an area that has so much to do within driving distance, cultural centers, performance halls, and museums in more than one direction. About 45 minutes away is the small town of Brevard, NC that boasts some of the best music venues and performances of the area. It helps that …
Charity sewing is a wonderful way to give back to the community. I have a number of tutorials for making items other than quilts for chemo centers and nursing homes on my charity sewing tutorials page. The Fidget Quilts and Port Softie Seatbelt Pads continue to be popular posts, and today I'll add another tutorial …
While we were in England in May, we had beautiful weather the entire time. Most of the time was mild temperatures, with partly cloudy skies. When I did the poll, the second highest vote on what readers wanted to see from our trip was a tie, so we'll start with Windsor Castle and St. George's …
