Category: Out and About

  Just returned from my trip to Orlando, and I don’t know when I have felt so completely exhausted!  I was on the go every minute, attending a fabulous fashion show, eating at marvelous restaurants, attending seminars, and trying to keep up with my friends at The Magic Kingdom and Epcot Center.  It was a […]

I am so excited!  Today is the day my friend Lisa (Stashmaster) flies down to California for a visit and to attend the quilting retreat I have organized.  I pick her up at the San Jose airport at 8:30 AM, and we will spend the rest of the day hitting all the quiltshops between San […]

Hi there.  Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  As you may have gathered, things have been kind of lively in my family life, with the health care drama for my MIL, and having to be running 75 miles up and down Highway 101 to tend to things.  Happy to relate that things have settled […]

istockphoto Greetings from Nashville.  I didn’t think this whole country thing was quite my style, but I have to admit, it is growing on me.  Think Rockabilly, line dancing, ribs, big hair, cowboy hats, fringe and rhinestones.  Oh my, I can definitely say that it is fun, even if I won’t be adopting the rhinestones […]

istockphoto Well, here I am in Nashville, getting my training on how to be a fashion consultant for the new company I am going to be respresenting, and having a wonderful time.  One teeny little detail that was mentioned, but not really *emphasized* was that there would be Shopping Opportunities.  That being the understatement of […]

istockphoto I am taking on a few new things lately.  One is that I have been accepted to be a fashion consultant for a Southern California designer’s clothing company!  Loving clothes almost as I love quilting, this is a great opportuinty for me to indulge that passion.  Tomorrow I leave for my corporate training in, […]

My family went to San Franciso this weekend to attend the Dickens Christmas Fair.  This event has been a San Francisco holiday tradition for 28 years!  Some people go once and think it is sufficient, but not us.  Nope, we go just about every year.  It really is loads of fun.  It is a theatrical […]

Long post today, but stick with me, and look at all the pictures.  You’ll be glad you did! I spent Wednesday doing one of my favorite things.  I went to my sewing group called "Banish the UFO’s", which has been meeting for years at a local quilt shop, under the tutelage of our Leader and […]

When I was a little girl, I lived in a small town in southern Michigan.  Our town, Belleville, had a lake where each Fourth of July my parents would take my sisters and I to view the town’s fireworks display.    We would have our 4th of July picnic at home, then drive out to […]

On a recent weekend when I was in San Luis Obispo with my two favorite guys, we had a lovely lunch at Novo Restaurant.  The building was originally a cigar factory!  The food was delicious and filling, and the restaurant has won numerous awards.  Among the honors are:  Best San Luis Obispo Restaurant, Best Wait […]