playing with blocks

those legless birds and the cone o’ flowers are my next two blocks for my FOF that i’m working on.  i have to run back down to the quilt shop and see if robin can give me a refresher embroidery course on the stitch i’m supposed to do for the leg. i can’t remember the angles! [...]

My husband had a best friend named Ron. My husband would buy a cinnamon roll for breakfast at school every day. Ron would wait, and then steal the middle and eat it, every day. Every time. This is a true story. Don’tcha just hate Ron?

spousal unit and my youngest went river rafting/hiking/biking/somethingelseing i can’t remember.  I made cinnamon rolls yesterday morning at the crack of dawn for the group to have before they left the church parking lot.  they aren’t thimbleanna’s auntie annie’s sweet rolls, they are my mom’s recipe. i’m going to try hers next though, because if [...]

pesto vs. bitty bird

dear blog friend (metal finger covering who will remain nameless) that i have,
have you tried pesto yet? summer is well underway. i was over at a neighbor’s house yesterday and happened upon bitty bird, sitting there on the shelf. he was cute. we hung out for a few hours.

it would sort of be [...]

Saucy Saucy Cha Cha

Elisa and i went to the garden.  picked various things, but mostly TOMATOES!!! 

So… I brought them home, blanched them, peeled them, squeezed their guts out, put them into a pot that i borrowed from kjersti, large pot owner extraordinaire,  - added a bunch o’ stuff, and marinara was born!!

i’m going to try really hard to [...]

Happy Anniversary Baby, Got You On My Mind

Last night was our 19th wedding anniversary.  Okay, I just have to say, I’m a lucky girl and my husband is wonderful.  I’d marry him all over again.   went to Shutter’s Brasserie for dinner. I had called the owner to let him know we were coming in and that it was our anniversary.  He just kept [...]

My blocks, onions, tomatoes and the rooster!

here are my first three blocks for the quilt i’m taking a class on.  somehow, i’m going to get robin to make 87 million feet of 1/8″ bias for the center block. i don’t know how yet, but i’ll figure it out!!!  
when i got peaches on friday i also got some heirloom tomatoes.  we [...]

my enormously large dog

I would like to introduce my dog.  Her name is Baloo, like the bear in “junglebook”.  She’s 1/2 great dane and half mastiff.  We got her from my friend Peter who lives up in the Pacific Northwest. She’s five years old. I love love love her.  We have to keep the front door deadbolted because [...]

how are you? i’m just PEACHY!!!!!

yeah, so my little cohort, melissa and i went and got some SUNCREST peaches.  joy.  just pure, unadulterated, JOY.  
then…. i whipped up a little cobbler
we ate it all that night… melissa, trevor, my spousal unit and offpring (and I) ate it… and then i made another one this morning and drove over and dropped it [...]

WAP’s (most of you have Works In Progress, I have Work Avoidance Programs)

I’m supposed to be organizing my fabric, cleaning my closet, cleaning my room, purging the bathroom drawers, you get the picture.  But then… i get  interested in far more interesting things than cleaning  sidetracked!!!  

i found the christmas quilt tops i never finished last year for my kids’ lap quilts.  i finished the second one [...]

magazines for julia that turned into prizes for the rest of us!!!!

a while back, anne sutton of bunny hill designs, was talking about a cleaning frenzy.  she was organizing things… going through magazines, had gotten inspiration from someone to spend and hour a day on “stuff”.  one of her blog commenters mentioned that she wished she had the “problem” of too many magazines – so anne [...]