Since I started quilting, I’ve seen many quilt appeals to help the victims of natural disasters and I’ve donated to a few of them in one way or another. Yesterday, I went searching to see if there were any quilt appeals to help the victims of the recent tornadoes that swept through the South last week. This is what I’ve…
Dave was in the Canadian Army for 25 years before he retired in August of 2000 to take a job on Maui and thus ended our Army adventure and began our living in the USA adventure. Those 25 years were good years, but I won’t lie and say they were easy years. Dave did two NATO tours, one peacemaking (to…
This morning, from this little strawberry patch… I picked our first strawberries of the season. Strawberries and cream for dessert tonight!
That is not a typo in the title. You really can make Christmas gifts for less than $2 per gift. In some cases, for free except for the time and love you put into making them. As I mentioned in my first post in this series while our children are attending university/college, their big Christmas gift each year is their…
I completed the green teddy baby quilt last Wednesday and was able to mail it off on our way out of town before our marathon trip to Canada. It’s making its way to a little one in Japan via the Quilters Newsletter “Quilts for Japan” Appeal. I received delivery confirmation that it had arrived Monday at Quilters Newsletter, well ahead…
Since moving back to the mainland from Maui, we always laugh whenever we see an item on a restaurant menu or a recipe with the name Hawaiian Something or Other. Invariable, it has been labelled Hawaiian because it has pineapple in it. And so when I created this recipe, I just couldn’t resist naming it Hawaiian Chicken. Sauce for Hawaiian…
Well actually this is an unsewing tip. Sooner or later, everyone who sews has to unpick or seam rip. When I first started sewing back in the seventies, I used the method my Grandmother taught me; which was to very, very carefully cut the seams apart using a razor blade that had a piece of medical tape taped over one…
Do you have an old cradle that you’d like to update with new bedding to give to a little one in your life? Or perhaps you’ve purchased a new doll cradle that didn’t come with any bedding. In this post, I’ll share how I went about making the bedding set for the doll cradle that I had been saving to…
Just after we moved to Northwest Georgia, I came across a handmade doll cradle at a garage sale. At the time, I had intended to sand it down, paint it white and do a tole painting of a teddy bear on the ends.  The plan was to use the cradle to display my childhood teddy bear and two of my…