Blog? What Blog?
I continue to abandon my writing and I apologize. So many things have been going on and I haven't written about any of them!I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. In keeping with my terribly late...
View ArticleKnits Ain't So Scary
Patty at ModKid Boutique thoughtfully gave me one of her Penny patterns since I told her I did not sew with knits. She being the knit sewer extraordinaire, she may have been a little horrified by my...
View ArticleHow's Your Weather?
Houston has been a little cold the last two days. This happened to us last week as well resulting in school being cancelled on Friday. I saw this today on my way to the J.O.B. and even though I was...
View ArticleA Chair Fairytale
There was once a little dining Chair, a Parsons chair, actually. She had three sisters and was not in very bad shape. She just suffered from being born at the wrong time when furniture manufacturers...
View ArticleGo Texan Day and A Book Giveaway
I believe she might be the prettiest cowgirl in Texas. Miss Olivia does love a costume and Go Texan Day is yet another opportunity for her to dress up. She and Dad picked out the attire yesterday and...
View ArticleNew Ribbon from Jessica
Jessica has done it again with four colors of 7/8" flowers and two colors of 1-1/2". See and buy them here. She also sent me the darling mug this week off of that same design. Love it!Congrats to...
View ArticleI'm over there today...
I have been doing things. I just haven't told you about them. I'm over at Slice Fabrique's blog today talking about their new fabric cutter. It's pretty cool. You should read my post and then get...
View ArticleI'm still cutting away
Been doing some more projects with the Slice Fabrique. You can read all about it here. I will be back someday....
View ArticleNew Ribbon from Patty Young
All I can say about my absence from blogging is that "house arrest" does not imply the access to the internet that you might expect. Anyhow, Patty Young has produced a gorgeous line of ribbons...
View ArticleOh How I Forsake Thee
But can I make up for it with cute pictures? Yes, those are Mr. Potato Head glasses he has on. Apparently, Mr. Potato Head's eyes are quite close set.Where have I been all summer? I have no legitimate...
View ArticleSchool Days
It's that time of year again and this year Miss O is off to kindergarten. Another year older, another year more confident (read smarty), with new blinking shoes and a backpack with matching lunch kit....
View ArticleHappy Birthday Sophia (and me)!
I have a new great-niece! Sophia Elizabeth was born yesterday afternoon. Of course, if her mother could have held off until today we could have shared a birthday! So Happy Birthday to both of us and...
View ArticleChecking In
Congratulations to Lisa who last week emailed me in the middle of the night to remind me to blog. She won a $25 gift certificate to Above All Fabric, a great online fabric shop. I just received Lexie...
View ArticleRoad Trip
We are on the road to Missouri for the final family wedding of the season. We've had three nieces get married since July, so this trip has been frequent. We are only thirty minutes in and we've already...
View ArticleHenry's Halloween- I Redeem Myself
I have to brag. This year, Henry's Halloween costume fit! If you've hung around for awhile, you may remember his first Halloween as a Pea Pod and his second year as a gnome with too-short pants. But...
View ArticleBelated Happy Thanksgiving!
Okay, so I missed a few weeks (again). I hope you and your families had a great Thanksgiving. We did. Olivia got to play with dozens of cousins for four days straight. She still hasn't recovered. They...
View ArticleCotton Farming
Did you know what a cotton bloom looks like? I didn't.Photo from Mizzou Magazine It's kind of a pretty thing. Just don't look at the fields after a harvest, because they look pretty barren. I got my...
View ArticleHappy New Year to you!
This picture has nothing to do with anything I'm going to write about, but when you can't hold people's interest on your own, pull out cute kid pics. The kids are wading in their granddad's creek in...
View ArticlePriorities Change
I did in fact make some progress this weekend on the new site, but Sunday night my brother-in-law died unexpectedly. We are leaving for Missouri tomorrow and will stay through the weekend. Not too...
View ArticlePom Therapy
My brother-in-law, Sam, who passed away last month, came to crafting late in his life. His daughter Mary-Louise, was getting married in July of last year and decided pink tissue poms would be a great...
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