It's time to save seeds from all those wonderful tomatoes coming out of the garden. I remember my grandmother's little seed packets that she made herself using paper envelopes and the seeds from her garden. I remember using them to plant, but I don't remember her drying the seeds in the fall, so I wasn't …
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Museum of Natural Science North Carolina
There was so much to see at the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, that I had to go to two posts. Today will concentrate on the North Carolina specific exhibits. Like the history section moving from earliest prehistory to more recent history, the North Carolina ecosystem exhibits moved across the state from the mountains …
Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh
On a recent trip to Raleigh over a weekend, DH and I spent an entire Sunday at the Museum of Natural Science downtown. Sunday was a great day to go, parking was easy, traffic was low, and the cafe was open before the Museum so we could have lunch before the visit. Two multi-story buildings …
Stamping Cards in September
My card making for September focused on supportive messages for a couple of friends having some health challenges. This seemed like a good time to participate in a card challenge at Just For Fun Stamps. The challenge for September was to take their design sketch and make a card using it as inspiration. Yellow cardstock …
Pumpkins and Leaves Quilts for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival
The Blogger's Quilt Festival is going on this week, a neat virtual quilt show. This fun annual event is hosted by Amy's Creative Side. Quilters are allowed two entries, so here is my second share. Last fall, I did a month long event on my blog that began with making several blocks in two patterns, …
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Blueberry Competition at the Mountain State Fair
The last competition I entered at the Mountain Regional State Fair was a Blueberry recipe competition sponsored by the NC Blueberry Council. The rules for this competition were a bit different, as the focus was on the health benefits of blueberries, not their use in sweets. In fact, for scoring purposes, healthy was 50% of …
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Be My Carolina Neighbor for Blogger’s Quilt Festival
The Blogger's Quilt Festival is going on this week, a virtual quilt show with completed quilts shown by lots and lots of bloggers. This fun annual event is hosted by Amy's Creative Side, and to participate you have to create a new post showing a quilt. There are some great prizes to be awarded, and …
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Quilted Sunglasses Case
One thing that always a problem is keeping my sunglasses scratch free. I often have used drawstring bags, or quilted ones where the glasses slide in one end. Those are easy to make, but the problem is the glasses will not stay inside. They end up either sticking out the end, or coming out altogether …
Egg Salad Competition at the Mountain State Fair
Returning to the fair earlier this week for the Egg Salad competition, I had some time while the judging was going on to walk around the fair with DH. The judging wasn't in the public view, you just dropped off your food and came back an hour later to see who won. No, I didn't …
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More Fun at the Fair
Going back to the the Expo Building at the State Fair while the judges tasted the offerings in the cooking competition, I wanted to search out the two quilts I hadn't found on my previous visit, and get some better pictures. Be My Carolina Neighbor was hanging with its second place ribbon. The Scrap Dance …
