Monthly Archives: July 2010

7 posts

Back to it

It’s still hot, but I couldn’t stand it any longer; I just had to do something about my Winding Ways quilt. So today I laid out all of the blocks, trying — not always successfully — to keep the same fabric from being in any two adjacent blocks. I’ll be […]

Have you ever …

… made pasta? I’ve only recently discovered the joys of making pasta at home instead of buying the dried versions at the store. You may have seen this post, where I made some traditional pasta. However, the other day I decided to branch out a bit, so I made spinach […]

Was I crazy??

Have I mentioned lately that it’s hot here? 😉 And yet, I was in the mood to bake. That means, of course, firing up the oven and heating up the house. But I had a lot of cherries — probably the last of the season — that I’d bought, and […]

It’s *hot*!

The Las Vegas area is hot in the summertime. That’s just a fact of life. But our little Bisou has the right idea — just cool off any way you can. So she lies on the cool tile floors when possible, and each time either of us gets ice for […]

Catching up

Shortly after returning from visiting my sister, I left again to go to Quilt Camp in the Pines; this made my thirteenth year there, so that tells you how much I enjoy it. Camp was under new ownership this year, with a few predictable hiccups in the changeover, but I […]

Travels

As I mentioned in my last post, we recently went to visit my twin and her family in France. She and her husband live near Paris, so we flew from Las Vegas to London and from there to Paris. The day after we arrived, the four of us went to […]