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Help.  Family wedding this Friday.  My hair has half an inch of grey roots showing and I can't get to my hairdresser.  Can I do it myself?  Do I dare?  What do you think? Ooops.  Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Sorry I am a bit late with my post this morning.  Ugh.  I have been suffering the symptoms of a chronic condition I suffer from–asthma.  I don't know if it is the change in our weather, some allergen in the air, or just me, but I sure have been wheezy.  During the day I get […]

Finally, I did a little sewing!  I ended up making my Roundabout quilt a Schnibbles size after all.  It is the perfect size for my round kitchen table, and will be an adorable little topper for it in September.  I have a Pottery Barn inspired arrangement of votive candles and sunflowers in pots that will […]

This has been a very difficult year for us, financially.  My husband got laid off, I quit both my jobs (thinking we were moving), we unsuccessfully tried to sell our house (which has depreciated in value), and we lost money on a home we had hoped to purchase.  We are not unique in America these […]

I have been thinking a lot lately about the number of quilts that I have.  I have a L.O.T.  Many of them I do give away, but there is a limit to how many a family can use.  Isn't there?  People are always asking me, "What do you DO with all your quilts?"  As if […]

No, I don't have a porch swing, but if I did, it might look a bit like this one.  And wouldn't I spend a lot of time sitting in it and reading?  What I do have is a couch, and I curled up on it for a good bit of time yesterday, with a good […]

I haven't been doing a lot of sewing in the past month, but hope to get my Mo-Jo back and finish up a few things.  I have brought out my Beach Cottage project, and finally completed all the blocks.  The step I am at now, is sewing all the blocks into units of four blocks.  […]

  I think it was my sister Mary, or was it Kate? who had a beloved doll named Poor Pitiful Pearl.  Pearl was a pathetic looking doll if there ever was one.  She wasn't elegant like my Madame Alexander dolls, nor was she chic like my younger sisters' Barbies.  Her dress was patched, and she […]

As I write this, I am about to turn in after a nice holiday weekend with family.  We had a great Sunday dinner/birthday celebration/4th of July party at my dad's house.  I didn't even have to drive home (Ahren was the designated driver), so I could enjoy my sister Andrea's watermelon margaritas.  Better than Jamba […]