Hey it’s the weekend! I don’t work Fridays, so after my very snowy run this morning I rushed around like a crazy person getting all necessary shopping and chores done so that I could have a head start on my Stitch Tease marathon sewing weekend. I haven’t touched the sewing machine all week – and […]

Today I’ve been at home after two days at work. I rather foolishly thought that I’d be able to get some sewing done today, but have had so much other stuff that needed doing that it hasn’t happened. I keep looking wistfully at my fabric though. Roll on the weekend sewathon! My husband is away […]

The last few days have gone by in a whirl. I’m trying to get everything organized ready for starting work next week. House cleaned, tick, washing under control, tick, ironing up to date, tick, find all the documents I need to take with me, tick, ponder which of my clothes are respectable enough to wear […]

Last week my friend Charla and I set off on a quest to visit a couple of quilt shops within an hour’s drive of where we live. Quilt shops are pretty few and far between here, but we’d heard about these two for a while and decided to have a self-indulgent afternoon. Well you have […]

Every year at about this time I have the same feeling. The fresh airiness of the house after I’ve cleared all the Christmas decorations makes me realize just how cluttered everywhere else is. The rest of my family are an untidy bunch and inveterately hoard everything imaginable, so it’s always a real battle to keep […]