It’s usually the holiday season that makes people crazy with comings and goings, but this time of year is almost as busy for us. It started with one daughter’s birthday at the end of April, followed by a granddaughter’s birthday at the beginning of May. Then there was Mother’s Day, […]
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I’ve been sort of quiet for the past several days, and I have a really good excuse, honest! 😉 Two of our grandsons (aged 9 and almost 6) have been staying with us while our daughter (their mom) has to be out of town on business. She comes home on […]
What an evening this is turning out to be! I had plans to have a nice, quiet evening of piecing Winding Ways blocks, but that is apparently not to be. Let’s begin with the good, though! I tried a new recipe this afternoon for English muffins. I love English muffins, […]
I really am trying to work on my Winding Ways blocks, but there isn’t actually much to show that’s new. Besides, I keep getting interrupted for other things that don’t necessarily have anything to do with quilting! Today, for example, is our younger daughter’s birthday. She and her two children, […]
Can you stand another foodie photo? After all, I did call this “Quilting and more…”. So, I made some cheddar cheese biscuits to go with our chili con carne tonight — it’s a new-to-me biscuit recipe, and they were pretty good, if you can judge by how many my husband […]
I’ve had a KitchenAid mixer for several years, but it died. It wasn’t its fault, of course — it was a casualty of our move ten (almost eleven) years ago. Two days ago, my new mixer arrived, and it’s a beautiful cobalt blue! Today I gave it its first little […]