Last week I celebrated my birthday. Several people spoiled me. I walked away with a great birthday stash. My mom gave me a gift certificate to Ikea along with a catalog. Now I just need to wait for the Ikea Grand Opening on May 23. I’ve spent several hours paging through the catalog, trying to decide what I want. I still haven’t decided. I deciding how I can effectively store my fabric. I’m convinced that [...]

Ross and I live close to work. By close, I mean a little over a mile for me and probably about 3 miles for Ross. During the winter, I drove to work. Ross took TRAX, and I picked him up after work. Now that Spring has arrived, we are starting a new schedule. I’m going to walk to work at 2-3 days a week. Ross is going to take TRAX home at 2-3 days a [...]

I’ve been busy over the last week. First, my Spring table runner. It is progressing nicely. I’m actually ready to quilt it. However the quilting has been put on hold while I work another project. What another project? Yep. I finally got around to priming my chairs. See the beautiful before and after picture. I’ve been working on these chairs for over eight years. My grandma gave them to my shortly after we got married. [...]