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. :)

Snowflakes for Sandy HIll

We’ve been reading about and mourning the loss of those 20 innocent children and six courageous adults last week at the Sandy Hill school in Connecticut. Who knows how or why these things happen? I won’t get political and say what I think about gun control, but today I found […]

April Azalea

This little quilt was an unexpected bonus from my quilting buddy. She purchased a Hawaiian-themed two-block kit from Stacy Michell, but she didn’t feel like doing both blocks. She did one and gave me the “negative image” version of the one she’d finished. Hers has pink where mine has yellow/blue/green […]

A Gift for You!

A few days ago, I was given the opportunity to review a book, and you can get this book free of charge, too! 🙂 The book is Build Your Best Log Cabin, put out by Fons and Porter, and it’s an ebook, which means you don’t even have to pay […]

Holiday decorations

Last night a friend and I went to the Las Vegas Strip to catch a performance of Ô, a Cirque du Soleil show at the Bellaggio. The trip there was an adventure, since there had been little or no publicity about a marathon occurring yesterday afternoon and evening — a […]

Getting ready

I’ve been busy today! Christmas is sneaking up on me, so I’ve been baking and working on projects for the holidays today. One of the projects was to make some machine embroidered gift card holders from a CD I’d purchased a few months ago. The CD is from Dakota Collectibles […]