Sandy

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I'm a retired high school French teacher from Arizona, now living in the Las Vegas area. I loved teaching French, but I love retirement even more! I'm a quilter, and most of what you see here will be about quilting, though I've also taken up knitting, and I love to bake. :)

Amsterdam

DH and I recently flew to Amsterdam for a couple of days, met up with my twin and her DH, and then took a cruise through some of the Norwegian fjords. What a beautiful trip it was! Our first stop in Amsterdam was an enormous wholesale flower dealership, where they auction […]

Hibiscus

Before I get around to showing some of our travel photos, I thought I’d show you what we came home to. Not too long ago DH redid our outdoor fountain area, planting three hibiscus bushes in the process. We have a red, an orange, and a yellow hibiscus, and the […]

Swift

Open swift Yarn swift, that is! My very thoughtful brother-in-law made this for me! He’s quite talented at building things, and my twin needed a yarn swift — an item not so easily obtained reasonably in France, where they live. While he was making one for her, he very kindly made […]

More Ditty Bags

I actually made these two Ditty Bags some time ago, but I couldn’t post a photo until I’d given them to my twin sister and my brother-in-law. That happened almost two weeks ago, while we were all on vacation together in Amsterdam and, a few days later, on a cruise […]

Thunder!

Hiding Our poor little Bisou is terrified of thunder. Rain by itself doesn’t bother her, but thunder is more than she can bear, so she finds a little “cave” to hide in until it passes, and she quivers and quakes until it does. I feel so sorry for her! The […]

A cool drink

My husband has been reworking the fountain we have in our back yard. He raised the base and repositioned the whole thing a bit, adding new plants to soften its look; the bottlebrush was already there, but he added three hibiscus plants. One gives peachy-orange blossoms, one yellow, one red; […]