I’m going to start off by saying I am ridiculously pleased with myself. Last night during FNSI, I was having trouble figuring out how I wanted to quilt the hot pads I had prepped and ready (see previous post.) I had toyed with the idea of free motion quilting them.  For a while now I’ve been watching videos on…
On my Unfinished Projects list I have listed two table runners/toppers with a notation saying they needed to have borders added and then be basted, quilted and bound. The blocks in these two items were made back when AmandaJean over at crazy mom quilts was hosting her first quilt-a-long.  Not only was it AmandaJean’s first quilt-a-long, it was my first…
I’ve moved two more projects from the Unfinished Projects to the Completed Projects list on my 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done page. First, is this crocheted beaded Christmas tree garland: I made two of these garlands a couple of years ago and then one again last year, but that still wasn’t enough garland to go all the…
Do you go on late night or early morning adventure with your kids? Dave and I and our son were out of the house at O four hundred dark this morning. We had an inflatable mattress strapped in the bed of Dave’s Ranger and were off to find a spot away from the lights of the city to watch the night…
Are you getting tired of the canning posts? I hope not because there’s more to come over the next little while. Today, I’m going to share two lessons I learned from this past weekend. Saturday morning, I decided I needed to get out of the house and away from home for a bit, so we drove over to the Collinsville…
A local farmer was selling corn from the back of his truck yesterday, so we stopped to check them out. When I asked how much, the farmer said, “Three dollars a dozen ma’am and there’s a worm guaranteed in every ear. We don’t use any sprays on the corn we grow.” I asked for 6 dozen. Once he’d gotten those…
Well… when you own a pressure canner… (<-affiliate link) canning season runs year round because you’re replenishing your stock of soups, stews and broths. But this is by far the busiest time for canning. Yesterday our son and I went to one of the local farmer’s/flea markets just to see what might be available. We came home with a bushel…
A little over a month ago, I wrote a post about how to make homemade paninis without a panini press. Well, the loaf of tomato basil bread from Panera was quite large and we had part of it left over. We also had some meat, cheese and sliced peppers leftover, but not enough for another entire meal for the three…
I love to sew, but I know there are those who either can’t or simply don’t want to, so for this month’s Christmas on a Budget post I thought I’d share two inexpensive no-sew ideas for things you can start collecting now to have ready come December. First up… Our family is making the switch from using paper gift wrapping…
The past couple of days, our area has gotten a bit of a reprieve from the excessive heat that the Southern States have been experiencing. But the temperatures are due to head back into the 90s later this week though hopefully not the high 90s we had been enduring. Usually when the summer heat hits, I take a break from…