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  I entered a blog contest hosted by Carrie at La Vie en Rosie and won the lovely loot pictured above.  I wasn't the only winner, as it seemed that everyone who entered the contest won something!  Carrie has a new blog, and if you haven't discovered it yet, you need to go right over there […]

  Our weather here in California has been unseasonably, if not freakishly warm lately.  In the mornings there is just a hint that cooler times may be ahead, but it doesn't take too long for the sun to warm things up and for it to get quite toasty.  Our friends down the coast in Montecito are […]

  My children are really good at doing Tarot readings.  My son Ahren is a master at it, and has been teaching his sister Sara.  While up at our quilting retreat this last weekend, Sara brought along her Tarot card deck and her reference book and offered to do readings for all the gals who […]

  Art by Carolyn Watson.  Print available at www.art.com I have to apologize about something.  Usually, I am so careful to give credit when I use an image that isn't mine.  I really slipped up last week when I posted "Quilting, Then and Now".  I used an image I found when I Googled "quilting bee" or "women […]

  After spending a gazillion dollars to get my quilts quilted, it would be ridiculously stupid not to do the finishing touches and get those babies on my beds, right?  One of the finishing touches is making the binding, machine stitching it to the quilt, and hand sewing it down.  On a big quilt, such […]

I recently had to pick up and pay for four quilts that had been sitting at my favorite quilters for far too long.  A word of advice:  Do not ever let quilts stack up at the quilter's.  The amount of money it takes to get them out of hock is enough to make your hair […]

I can't quite get the lighting right, but here is a look at my first layer cake quilt project.  I finished the top in June and it has been at Prairiequeens for ages waiting to be picked up and paid for.  "Not Vanilla Latte" was finished on June 20, 2008. It was made with a […]

Greetings friends.  I am a bit slow getting on with my fresh week it seems.  The weekend went by in a blur, but I did accomplish a couple of things that were high on my priority list.  Numero Uno was getting up to Prairiequeens to pick up four, yes FOUR, finished quilts that had been […]

Those of you who read my blog know that this summer before I Became Gainfully Employed, I had a goal of finishing a quilt top each Friday.  I have a lot of quilt tops to show for my summer, and you see in the photo above how I store my yet-to-be-quilted finished tops.  The only […]

  My husband and I had to go out on Saturday to attend a memorial service.  It was sad of course, as these affairs usually are.  The deceased was a wonderful man who died way too soon after fighting a long battle with cancer.  I have to speak candidly (when do I not?).  I have […]