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Finishing stuff

Saturday, August 10th, 2013

I realized a couple of weeks ago that I have way, way too many unfinished projects. Not real UFOs that have ended up in the land of the unloved and that won’t ever be finishes, but actually nice things that I really want to get done when I have time… Half of me dreams of […]

Going bonkers

Monday, June 24th, 2013

For some reason best known to herself, my mother has a thing about phoning me. She doesn’t. Not ever. Even though she lives in a different country and we have no relatives there, she will never, ever pick up the phone and call me. She seems to think she would be intruding… (at this point […]

Blue

Sunday, June 9th, 2013

No, not me… ..my garden every year in early June. Not by design, but I confess that I do always tend towards the purples and blues at the garden centre….   Thank you so much to all of you for your recent comments and support. We are OK. No-one is dying, but there is just […]

Just a little bit missing in action

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

Hello all, I’m still here, but for the first time for 6 years my entire (very small) family are here in Switzerland, so sewing and blogging are not really making it to my list of things to do. I was a little concerned about how things would be..there have been tensions in the past…but people […]

Dreaming

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

of warm summer days and pottering in the garden of my next quilt….which I think is probably going to be a pineapple quilt, something I’ve wanted to make for years and which will use up the entire laundry basket full of scraps that I’ve accumulated over the last 25 years or so. of my next […]