I have been noticing that multiple digitizers are noting that some of their designs do not have "jum [More]

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A while back I shared some projects we were working on for my granddaughters’ bedroom.  Well, a [More]

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As is our tradition, the girls all made gifts for each other and their mother.  Not all were do [More]

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For centuries, women have decorated their bodies with everything from charcoal, crushed flower leave [More]

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We have had snow and ice twice already this season.  So, what do you do with three little girls?  Make stuff of course.  A couple of years ago our oldest granddaughter was intrigued with snowflakes and we made lots of them.  I showed what we did with some of them in this blog.&nb... [More]

If you are a newbie at embroidery, you may be thinking about the up-coming holidays and giving gifts [More]

Do you have unfinished projects from past years?  I do.  I am always inspired at the beginning of the holidays and have lots of ideas.  Then it seems the season always gets hectic and some of the things I start just do not get finished.  So, this year I decided to finish those it... [More]

Today I just want to share another addition to the Halloween décor for my daughter's fireplace displ [More]

It's here again.  Already!  Halloween, apple picking, pinecones and colored leaves.  The season's fly by so quickly I can hardly keep up.  We took a trip out to the Old Town main street the other day to pick up our fall and winter spices.  It is an all cobblestone st... [More]

The quilters among us will recognize this stitch type but some of us are only just now finding about [More]