Miss C and I are at Grandma and Grampa's house. Her grandma and grandpa, my parents' house, that is. We inched our way through San...

Just a sneak peek at what I've been doing...

I feel as if I am slogging through mud. I wake in the morning and have the urge to just stay in bed all day. I am tempted to wander aroun...

I am down in the SF Bay area, attending the Pacific International Quilt Festival. I am cruising the show with my friend Pat D., and we have...

It's October in California! And that means (drum roll, please...) it's time for Pacific International Quilt Festival! I'm off f...

Today was re-entry after a blissful few days off on quilting retreat. After several days of uninterrupted creative time, lovely friends, lo...

This evening marks the start of another of the biannual quilting retreats I attend out at Bishop's Ranch. I especially love the October...

Quilting Arts is hosting a studio tour this weekend -- what fun to be able to sit at home and still see the creative spaces of a whole bu...

I finished a quilt! This feels like quite a triumph, given my scattered brain and ongoing upheaval of daily life lately. After I made a ...

Over on the Twelve by Twelve blog , we've just revealed our challenge pieces for the twelfth challenge -- on the theme "twelve....

You may have noticed that I've not had a lot to say here lately. I'm not entirely sure why. But my mood has been a quiet one lat...

I have been a Very Bad Blogger over the last months, and I apologize. Too much summer fun, and I'm feeling quite scattered as I try ...

What with the summer travel, painting the house, getting Caroline squared away for 8th grade, and general exhaustion (!), I've not bee...

I've been all about paint over the last week or so. Here's the family room, with walls in "Golden Glow." It's a ri...

It has been a week of ups and downs. We are still mourning Brad, and will be for ages and ages. I think we're all still in shock. ...

There are times where we are reminded how fragile life is, and how quickly everything can turn upside down. For us, this is one of those. O...

Some time ago, I reviewed this very appealing book, Paper Quilts by Sandra Lounsbury Foose. Well, I'm cleaning my office (got to make r...

Hey, school administrator people! Listen up! The month of August is still summer! And August is for sand-between-the-toes, and catching...

Last week, I visited at my mom and dad's house while Caroline attended a near-by day camp. In my folks' neighborhood, there's...

Meet Beth and Moe, two of my best friends in the whole world. When I was a freshman in college at the University of California, Irvine, I...