Here it is Memorial Day already, which is officially the start of summer, yes?  Which means it's summer reading season!  I thought I...

I sure have been a neglectful blogger lately, but once again life is getting in the way.  We've had a few weeks of more ups and downs, ...

  Yesterday, I had a very fun field trip with my buddies Janet and Pam.  (Another friend, Sandy, was supposed to join us but she was home w...

I go through periods of time when I crave the simplicity of sitting at my machine and piecing bits of fabric together.  Usually it's tim...

Seems like my days have been occupied with all sorts of mundane errands, and nothing exciting enough to warrant a blog entry.  Amid the usu...

In my working lawyer days, I wore a lot of scarves.  Actually, I took pains to learn how to wear scarves, because it seemed to me that wome...

Today is reveal day over on our Twelve by Twelve blog!  Our theme this month, designated by Hawaiian resident Kristin , was the colors of ...

One of the projects I worked on last week at the ranch retreat was this small abstract landscape.  I applied a layer of tulle over it, mach...

I am busy as a bee (well, I will be when I walk away from the computer) tidying my spaces and purging junk and otherwise trying to whittle d...

I am back home after 4 days of delirious fun at the ranch retreat.  Pictured above is the main house at the ranch.  We used to sew there, b...

I promised you recently that I'd show you how far I got on my smaller piece in the workshop with Patty Hawkins.  Here it is so far -- ...

So I'm working on this challenge project -- can't show it here until the challenge is revealed on my retreat next week -- and I deci...

I have just finished a three-day workshop with master quilt artist Patty Hawkins.  What a wonderful, wonderful experience it was!  I am tir...

Many of you know that my daughter has Asperger's Syndrome.  This was diagnosed when she was about 10 years old, and although we've h...

We are having a family excursion, mainly to come to Southern California to attend a memorial service honoring my mother-in-law Beverly who d...

What with this bad headcold and a resulting lack of energy, I've been reading a lot lately.  What have I been reading?  Nothing serious ...

I'm in the middle of the worst head cold I've had in years, and my head feels like I've taken every scrap of batting in the hou...