Keeping You in Stitches

I love the Christmas season.  This weekend is one of my favorites in a frantic, hectic, loss-of-sleep kind of way.  We usually start the pro...

Some new outdoor decorations.  Our front door is recessed.  I have had these lighted snowflakes for years and never had a good place to...

Here's the finished product on my new mantle idea for this year.  We have a big, long, mantle.  I am no decorator.  I combined a couple...

This is what I started working on tonight.  I got a pine cone piece splinter, and let me tell ya----it hurt!!  I had to stop.  Since my adv...

I have a problem.  OK--I have LOTS of problems.  One recurring one is that I can barely endure just sitting.  I must be doing something all...

As many of you know, I have eight children.  I have purchased or made them an ornament every year.  They all have at least one "baby...

Above are some applesauce/cinnamon star ornaments I made this year.  This was easy and quick to do.  Makes me wonder why I never made them ...

We had our "Christmas celebrations" this past week...ALL week.  My two college-aged sons are home for winter break, and my daught...

Here are some pictures from the past week.  I left out any from the accident in which I totalled someone else's car.  I machine quilte...

Look what my thoughtful, sweet, forward-thinking, lovely daughter, Elisabeth, got me for Christmas. The picture is terrible, and it needs c...