Category: Uncategorized

This is my Sampler Block #1 prepared as part of the Sampler Challenge between my friend Lisa and I.  You can see the pattern and fabric collection I am using here.  I am delighted with my first block and can’t wait to get going on Block #2.  The best part of the process is in […]

It has come to my attention through Jill at Balliwick Designs, that today is Caring Bloggers Rose Day!Happy Rose Day my blogging friends, and my your path through life always be sweetly scented.  You all have added so much to my life.  Thank you.

Not much going on.  Just another one of those perfect spring days when there isn’t anything in particular planned, the garden is shaping up and the sun is shining at last.  I made myself a pitcher of iced tea and sat in the yard and just smelled the roses.  Sometimes the simplest things are the […]

These happy California poppies are growing outside my house on a hill.  Nothing kills them off, not even fires.  They re-seed and merrily reappear year after year, blooming from February all the way through to the end of summer.  They are native plants in our area and grow freely in the hills and other open […]

    My plan to sit on the sidelines while my husband and son did all the work in the garden failed miserably.  When my idea of doing a bit of hand sewing in the shade was met with incredulity, I soon found myself up to my elbows in potting soil, wet spagnum moss, and […]

Hello friends!  It was 81 degrees in Carmel Valley today, and my DH and I decided it was a perfect afternoon to go to our favorite garden nursery and buy some new plants to freshen up the backyard.  Our garden was hit hard by a bad frost we had this winter, and I have many […]

Don’t you just love a collection?  I only have five of them, but these big keys make me so happy.  The key, to me is a symbol of opportunity, discovery and mysteries to be solved.  It is a well known symbol of knowledge and power as well.  I found all five of these keys at […]

My fingers are a little tender after the marathon binding sew-in this weekend, but I did manage to get my new quilt finished and on my bed!  This quilt was a top I finished several years ago, but did not get around to having quilted until now.  Since all the labor on it is a […]

It was a fantastic vacation.  We enjoyed the sights, the accommodations, the food, and especially the wine.  My only improvements would have been that the weather could have been warmer and my husband could have remembered to bring his jacket.  After a week in southern Spain on the Costa del Sol, my husband and I […]