Keeping You in Stitches

Here is the baby quilt, quilted!  I like the design.  Next time, I'll be sure to get those pebbles traced exactly right.  But I don...

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...

Today an exciting event took place.  I finally moved out my grandparents' headboard from my bedroom (we've only been using it 25-11...

Trying something new soon.  Elaine over at Elaine Adair Pieces inspired me to paint a 24" square quilt block for my new office wall.  ...

Here is the hardware I screwed in by hand to hang my pallet-wood sign.  It worked wonderfully.  Especially since I already had two screws i...

If you've been reading very long, you know I recently painted the bricks around my fireplace.  I could barely wait for time to deco...

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

Do you have home projects that you procrastinate about and procrastinate about...???  I do.  Did.  Thankfully I knocked 4 of them off my to-...

My son was away at his aunt's last week.  I vacuumed his room while he was gone.  I spotted a ladder that goes to his bunk beds along a ...

I haven't been posting a lot for several reasons.  The primary reason is that my camera broke.  I thought it was just needing a new batt...

Another one of my chicks flew the nest earlier this week.  I wish her well.  Things are really a-changin' around these parts.   I'...

It is no exception that everything I do takes way longer than I think it will.  This simple scene took so long to get together. Here is t...

This is our foyer table, the first thing one sees when entering our home.  I just de-Christmatized it, and it was looking very bare.  Here ...

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...

While I am not completely finished, I have made great progress.  My desk is completely cleaned off and organized. I even set up my charging...

One of my sons and I have been sick for a week.  Miserable existence, but it could be so much worse.  I was feeling a little energy last ni...

Today we took down all our Christmas decorations and got them in the attic in about an hour.  We had already taken down the tree a few days ...

I am not a good decorator.  If you have been to my house, you already know that.  But I do buy what I like.  I might not like it where it i...