Another Birthday Gift: Matching Cards

Elena has one of those Memory games — you know the kind  –  matching pictures on cardboard cards.  She is enjoying learning how to play the game (although my goodness, it can be frustrating getting her to fully understand the rules!), and likes the pictures. And Julia also loves the cards and the pictures.  Yay, [...]

My 1st Signature Quilt

Sheesh!  I knew I’d be stopping posting every day but that was all of a sudden!  I was spending way too much time on the computer putting up new posts to get this blog started and going through the Online Quilt Show, so I had to take a little break to show my husband that [...]

Bluebonnets and my girls

A few weeks ago I took the girls out to a bluebonnet field for some pictures.  The sun was HARSH that day, but here are a few pictures for your enjoyment!  I’ll soon show some more pictures of them in non-sunny bluebonnets taken on another day, but even with shadows, some of these are adorable!  [...]

Sneak Peak

A friend’s husband is battling colon cancer right now.  Several others have offered meals or lawn service or whatnot.  Um, I’m a bad cook, and I don’t even like doing my own lawn!  After just finishing my sister’s quilt, and knowing how much it meant to her and to everybody who signed a hand, I [...]

Online Quilt Festival

WooHoo!  I am participating in the Online Quilt Festival hosted by Park City Girl. To my new visitors from the Quilt Festival, Welcome!  As you can see, I am a very new blog but am busy trying to start off with lots of posts, so I hope you come back to see more!  My entry [...]

The Quilt I Put My Heart Into

On Christmas Eve Eve 2007, while I was at home taking care of my 9-day-old Julia, my little sister had a stroke.  Since my sister was only 30-years-old, it took a L O N G time to diagnose her.  Of course, I assume any time you are waiting for a diagnosis on a relative in distress, [...]

The Quilt of Which I’m Most Proud: Cosmic Spiral

I think it’s about time I show off a quilt on this blog of mine, especially considering my quilting is what got me really interested in writing a blog! This is the quilt that makes me beam with pride: I started this 27″ square quilt in a workshop with Barbara Olson at my local quilt [...]

Traveling Car PlayMat

I’d been eyeing this Michael Miller playmat with a tutorial by jcaroline for some time, and then had also happened across this tutorial of a felt traveling race track book in some of my blog-searching, and decided to combine the two!  The original playmat was way too big for my purposes, but the fabric was [...]

Robot Baby Shower Gifts!

I went to a baby shower recently and decided that it is definitely a lot of fun when the parents have chosen a theme for the nursery! The theme for this particular nursery was Robots, and luckily I think David Walker’s Robots line that recently came out is just adorable. First, I made this pillow: [...]

Happy Easter!

There were all sorts of warnings about awful weather for Easter Sunday, but luckily the severity of the storms were greatly exagerrated. By the time we got out of Church, the sun was shining and it was just a beautiful Easter Sunday. So Happy Easter from my girls with their Easter hats and everything!   [...]