I don’t remember how, but a little while back I stumbled across the website 29gifts.org. Its whole focus, or purpose, is to encourage people to give to others – anything – from a smile, to a card, to money, clothes, anything to take the focus off of ourselves, and place it on someone else in [...]
These blocks are for Hope, who is hosting our January installment of Block Swap 2. I hope you like, Hope!
My adorable little sister, Lainey, turned 14 about a week ago, and I want to surprise her with a quilt. I’m hoping that she likes the colors I’ve chosen. She’s definitely not a girlie girl, but not a tomboy either, so I tried to go with a theme that would fit – blues, greens, oranges, [...]
Anyone know of one that is either just starting up or taking new members? I’m looking for a quilt swap that does more modern/contemporary quilt blocks, as opposed to more traditional quilts.
Thanks!!
I have no real justification – I got an amazing deal on a Viking Designer SE LE, and I’m loving it!!!
I picked out the fabric for this before I even had the pattern in hand. How perfect, right? Birdie fabric for birdie sling! This bag came out quite nice, actually! I was exhausted by all the cutting, though. Took me hours to do that. It wasn’t so much the fabric that took all the cutting [...]
I’m not quite sure what bug got ahold of me, but I’ve decided to start sewing! Me (?), right? Anyone that knows me KNOWS I don’t sew, so this is as much a surprise to me as anyone!
While in San Francisco, I visited Wee Scotty sewing shop and browsed at their different Husqvarna Viking [...]
Sometimes simple is best. Probably more often than not, right? I have had an itch to make a sweet and simple 6″ cake. I thought an all-American classic of yellow cake with chocolate frosting would be perect! Unlike the past layer cakes I’ve done, I decided that this time I would bake three small separate [...]
I know this is a baking site. This fact is not lost on me as I post this un-baked (savory, not sweet!) Thai coconut shrimp. Charity and I are taking a hiatus from our SOB adventures and instead alternating picking ingredients and then making a recipe with that. It can be sweet or savory, main [...]
In our third SOB installment, Charity (of sweetcharitypie) and I bring to you vanilla ice cream! I was surprised about a few things -
1. I had NO idea how many egg yolks went into ice cream
2. How bad for you the-real-thing-from-scratch ice cream really is for your arteries
3. How cream colored the real thing is, [...]
