I’ve been working off and on embellishing two fabric bird panels since July of last year. You can follow the progress on these panels by clicking on the embroidery category in my left sidebar. In December, I added beads to the centers of the flowers and to the flower buds. That left only the birds’ eyes, which I had also…
Recently, I crocheted some Prosperity Angels and a crocheted tree ornament where the pins I had used to block them with while the stiffener dried had rusted. Well, when I removed the pins, the rust was even worse than it appeared in the photos I posted. I tried everything I could think of to get those rust marks out. The…
Shortly after arriving at our winter home in Florida, we discovered that Pensacola has a year round farmers’ market that runs every Saturday in the Martin Luther King Plaza downtown on Palafox Street. It has become part of our weekend routine to stop by the Palafox Market to pick up locally grown produce and baked goods to add to our…
Last summer I made some reversible children’s aprons with adjustable ties for our oldest daughter’s classroom. I’ve redone the photos and accompanying instructions for this tutorial several times but was never completely satisfied with it. Hopefully this last time I’ve covered each and every step you’ll need to complete an apron for a little one in your life. *Note: This…
I was shopping recently in the neatest independent craft and fabric shop (more in a future blog post) and mixed in the bin with the other balls of crochet thread was a ball of Aunt Lydia’s Metallic Crochet Thread in Natural/Gold. The ripened wheat colour of the main thread with the gold metallic thread wrapped around it fit perfectly with…
Now that we are further into our adjustment to being empty-nesters, Dave and I have been adapting the way we grocery shop. Some of the items we used to buy in bulk just don’t make sense anymore as they will go stale or bad before we could possibly use them up. More and more grocery stores are recognizing that singles…
When we lived in Georgia, one of our favourite treats were the Tomato and Onion Shicaccia from the Publix Bakery. At that time, the closest Publix was in Cartersville which is over 25 miles from Rome. The only time we had them was when we’d make a trip down to go to Hobby Lobby every few months or so. Then…