Happy Birthday to John Lobsinger, "Noah's" husband on Sunday. Hope I might have the right Sunday. He's a real hip guy, as in got a new hip lately. Wishes for fun on the birthday and good healing.
Spring is well underway here. Daffodils and narcissuses, pinkish red quince, Bridalwreath spirea blooming and one crazy mixed up iris in bud. Today I do not have hands for sewing, as they are caked with potting soil. Did the second "sticking" of sedum
Color Theory: To study how to blend together different colors, watch first five minutes of old "Golden Girls" episodes. This is especially great for quilters, but also for those of us who work with garments as well. Famous clothing designer Bob Mackie
Now that the "cold shoulder" or "peekaboo shoulder" is out of fashion, lots of them are showing up at my Salvation Army. I bought one for $2 this week, cream white with a tan embroidery around the neckline, down the front and around the hem, very sub
Did you notice that Cute Alphas is back in business, offering a pretty, new font, Song Bird font. Go have fun!
Wishing all Cuties a blessed Christmas Day of celebration.
Thinking about those adorable reading pillows that dionnahawkins posted in Sewing. For those planning to make similar pillows who don't live near the kids receiving the gift, you may not know good books for the age child and for their reading skills. T
Please sign a Get Well card for Vicki here, with one wish and your name. Vicki, may you return home soon and be completely surrounded by your sweet kitties. Betsey
Oldies but goodies. Just found a note in one of my files for finding the old Henry Ribron embroidery designs. May be between 100 and 200. Some are .JEF format, some are .SEW, so you may need to convert to your formats. Some really wonderful artwork -
Cuties, I have just read the obituary of my fifth grade Sunday School teacher. She was 100 years old plus three days and she did celebrate her birthday before leaving us. Here's my summary of how to live to be 100, if it's not too late for the rest of
Design Styles Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. How to tell them apart, as they are often mislabeled? I did a little Googling around and read a great deal on each style, which was interesting if you have "time to kill". My simplified explan
Gorgeous Autumn Wind design at Hatch.
Every so often you learn something by happening upon it. I've been checking around in my Word files today to find out who the space hoggers are and got a shock. Any of your embroidery files that use your writing app to open and view MAY just decide to
Time for my annual clean up the downloads and files at my house. Somehow it's linked to back-to-school time, although it's been years since I went to school! I found lots of little bird's nests (like the thread bird's nests inside our machines) in m
Grrr! 111 heat index this week and I had my thermostat fried by lightning Friday night. Tech installed the new one Monday but couldn't seem to get it to cool. Took 2.5 days to bring down from 88 in house to 78 and wouldn't cool past that point. I cal