Category: Around the House

My husband trundled all the boxes from where they have been stored in the garage, down to the studio.  The small boxes contain mainly fabric, the medium size boxes are full of project boxes, UFO's, flimsies and supplies.  The large boxes are full of folded quilts. My job is to unpack these things and find […]

My cabinetry is in!  I don't have much time to post today, but wanted to share a picture of my entire wall of storage in the studio.  I have four tall 36 inch wide cabinets and two shorter 24 inch wide cabinets.  Do you think that will be enough space for all my project boxes […]

Can you guess why Handyman Bill might be coming back? Look what got delivered yesterday!!  The cabinets for my quilting studio!  Excited much? I will keep you posted on the progress of installing them and getting the studio organized.  I could be unpacking things next week! Meanwhile, I have been working on a few non-quilting […]

My son and his fiance left for Ireland, and for some reason I am exhausted.   I have sympathetic jet lag I think.   Napped all afternoon yesterday.  In fact, my house was full of nappers.  Baby E in the bedroom, Grandpa in his chair, Ozzie in his dog bed, and me in the living […]

This was my studio when I first saw it a year ago.  The man who owned the house we bought used it as his woodworking shop.  I have to say, it is the tidiest shop I have ever seen!  It had a concrete floor and some funky cabinets and shelves on the walls.  It was […]

In January I always feel like I need to clear the clutter and have a more pristine style of decorating around the house.  My mother was always a "blue" person,  and she surrounded herself with shades of soothing blue in every room of her home 12 months out of the year.  My taste runs to […]

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves".  ~Bill Vaughan I am not sure who Bill Vaughan is, but he hit the nail on the head with that little quote.  I used to consider myself an optimist, but the past […]

Chris from Cats On My Quilts did a little give away recently, and I was the lucky winner.  Isn't this little tea mat the cutest thing you have ever seen?  She created the pattern from some block ideas that were in this book, which she also sent me: The book is full of cute and […]

 This past weekend, I got out some of my fall decorations.  Gosh, I do love this time of year!  I was dying to tack this sweet little autumnal plaque on a wall somewhere, but my husband wouldn't let me put a nail hole in the wall.   That's ok, I had other fish to fry.  My […]