Do you remember …

… this post from just over a month ago? I said then that I was hoping to find buttons to decorate my gingerbread house tea cozy, and I did! I went to the Long Beach Festival last week, and there they were! Yay! So I’ve spent part of today putting them […]

Dinner!

Let’s get one thing out of the way from the start: I love ratatouille! It takes a little while to make, though using a pressure cooker does cut that time down a bit. But summer in the desert is no time to be really excited about standing over a hot stove, […]

And another hat

One of my daughters liked my new hat so much that I made her one of her own to wear to her children’s ball games. She wanted white, and I couldn’t resist making the reverse side a very pale aqua, since that color brings out her eyes. Here’s the aqua […]

More hat photos

I’ve had a couple of requests for photos of my recently-completed hat on me. Ugh. I hate taking photos of myself! But here is the darker side of the hat; please forgive the busy background, as the easiest way to take my own picture is to do it with my computer. […]

Two finishes

It’s been a while since my last post, but I have a good excuse — as usual. 😉 Actually, our guild is having a challenge; we have a piece of red batik we must use (it’s gorgeous!), and we must use a heart somewhere on the front of the quilt. […]

Button, button, who has …

… the buttons? Last week I showed you part of a tea cozy I was working on. Now I’ve finished it, except for the specialty buttons I need to add to make this look like a traditional gingerbread house. But finding those buttons is proving to be a real challenge; […]