Last week, my sister and I entered a little challenge to see who could paint their bedroom first. We both need a little motivation to see this project to the end. So the loser will be buying the winner a $25 gift certificate to IKEA. Today I got my start. I bought some paint samples and plaster stuff to repair a few spots of plaster. As you can tell we’re going for a stunning beige. [...]

Let’s begin with a weather photo: This is actually the day after Christmas from out front porch. However it could have been any other day over the past two weeks. Luckily I live in a city that has snow plows. They’ve been plenty busy. When life didn’t revolve around the weather, it revolved around family, good food, movies, and a bit of computer time. For Christmas, Ross gave me Adobe CS4, a very nice gift. [...]

Lately, I’ve been thinking that we need another cat. We had two who I adore. Yet I wanted another one. On Friday we adopted this sweet little girl: She’s about 4 months old and very cuddly. Of course she had a cold when we got her. So she went to the vet yesterday for a quick check up and a prescription of antibodics. She doesn’t have a name yet. Ross thinks we shouldn’t rush this [...]

Last year I purchased, Last-minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts. This year, I finally made a project from the book, the pencil roll. It will even be a Christmas gift for my niece. Since my niece doesn’t read my the blog, I can share this project on my blog. I used linen for the outside and the pocket. My stash is big enough to provide plenty of matching colors for the pencil pockets. I followed the [...]

All my little hexagons grew up into a table runner. I’m happy with the result. I copied the placemat idea by placing the hexagons asymmetrically. The background fabric is a wool/rayon blend. In a moment of desperation, I purchased the wool at JoAnns. It wasn’t my first choice. The quality isn’t as high as I would have hoped for, but it’s better than polyester felt. Originally, I planned on making matching place mats. Now I [...]

I know you’re all dying to read about me updating my blog software. It’s exciting stuff. It all started with me deciding that before I could update my theme, I needed to update the software to support all the new fancy widget and such. I use WordPress hosted on bluehost. As a service, bluehost provides WordPress installation via scripts. Unfortantely for me I was behind on my upgrades. Upgrade path included: Upgrading to 2.6.5 via [...]