Several months ago, I found this tutorial for zippered pouches on Twelve22.org. Immediatley, I saw the potential to fill the world with pouches made by me. For Christmas, I made several for gift. No pictures. I gave them away too quickly. Yesterday, a friend celebrated her birthday. After dealing with the lost of my zipper foot (I still haven’t found it. I’m patiently looking for it.), I made this cute pouch. The fancy soap was [...]

Wow! I can’t believe that it’s Monday. Saturday and Sunday flew buy. I spent Saturday grocery shopping and cleaning the house for Sunday. On Sunday, we went to church. Then we got ready for our own little Oscar Party. For the past several years, we’ve hosted an Oscar Party for my family. Last night was filled with good food, an excellent pie, and a close contest. In the end my mom and brother, won our [...]

I finally took a few pictures of the quilts that I’ve finished since January. I’ve been waiting for sun. It never really worked out. I decided to settle for pictures taken at dusk. Luckily, I’m happy with the pictures of the quilts that are going to new homes. The puzzle quilt needs to rephotographed, a project for another day. Baby Quilt #1: I spy Baby Quilt #2: Let’s Play Puzzle Quilt: Red, White, and Blue [...]

Wavy quilt borders are easy produce. Nice straight borders not so easy. For the most part, my borders are nice and straight. What’s the secret to my success? Lots of measuring and taking my time. Just when I was starting to feel confident and perhaps a little prideful, life decide to humble me. The last couple of quilts that I made had wavy borders. While they weren’t really wavy, they still annoyed me. I couldn’t [...]

A week ago, I decided that Ross and I need a weekend away. So I made plans to spend the weekend in Park City. Now Park City is only about 25 miles away from our home. Yet it feels like it’s much farther. I mean you drive 10 miles up the canyon and it is really dark, no light pollution. Anyways despite ourdesire to go away, it was actually hard to leave. It was a [...]

At the beginning of the month, I set a goal to not eat refined sugar for a whole month. The first week was hard. There is always plenty of junk at work. At home we still have left over Christmas candy. (I really need to either give it way or throw it away.) After I got over my sugar withdrawal, I was ok. My mind and my body were able to communicate. Instead of eating [...]