Category: Around the House

I switched out the quilts on the beds this week.  I love to do that seasonally, and with the big change in our weather (at last), it seems time to do that.  You see the guest room bed above. "Long Road Home", a Bonnie Blue pattern, fun and fast to make believe it or not. […]

  This weekend we are having houseguests and I decided it was high time I got out the rest of the fall decorations.  I changed things up a bit this year-always a good thing to keep the seasonal furnishings feeling fresh. Hope my guests won't mind carrion crows pecking at the centerpiece. Anyway, it's always tremendous […]

I must be sick or something, because I have not decorated my house for fall in my usual over the top style yet.  It has been so darn hot I just can't get into it, even though my heart says it's time.  It was 94 here Tuesday.   Seriously?  I have been either sitting in the […]

We celebrated Fall by purchasing a Tuscan style fountain for the front porch.  A home and garden shop near Sacramento was having a big sale and we decided to make the trip to check it out.  My husband, Sara, Eva and I piled in the car for a day trip.  I knew it was the […]

Hope you all have a safe and sane 4th of July.  We will try to beat the heat with cool drinks and perhaps a dip in the pool.  Of course there will be a barbecue and maybe even a sparkler or two!  I picked up some Teavana peach iced tea at Starbucks that I am […]

It is 103 degrees where I live right now.  And maybe hotter tomorrow.  Ugh.  The temperatures may be a bit much, but I've been cooling off in the pool when I can.  Eva brought over a little spray bottle of water this past weekend, and would give Denny and I a big shock every once […]

Thank you for your sympathetic words of comfort over my recent Gmail disaster.  It is such a mystery where my emails have been redirected.  And so very frustrating to have to set up a new account/address.  Would you believe Fatquartershop.com doesn't even know me anymore?  Seriously?  I must order $68 (on average) from them every […]

Just a quickie post.  This gorgeous forsythia bush is growing along my front walkway.  I remember being just a kid and seeing the yellow forsythia blooming along our driveway, always the first sign of spring.  Sometimes there was even snow still on the ground!  I love the cheerful yellow blooms on this bush, and the […]

It is a bit late, but I neglected to share my Valentine's Day with you.  With all my running around these days I have barely been home to enjoy my pretty cards and flowers.   The little table topper is Mon Ami, a Schnibbles pattern by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co.  I made it smaller than […]