This week I finally got to sit down with a sister Interweave special publication called Quilting Art Gifts 2012. Gift issues are my favorite special publications because the projects are quick, easy, and...
Today, a week into fall, I’m happily daydreaming about our hot summer-sun memories. Picnics on the beach, and road-side ice cream stands come to mind. On the way into work yesterday they mentioned that...
I really love birch trees. I love them in person, I love them in photos, I love paintings of them, like this one titled “Yield” painted by Staci Swider. (By the way, this painting is available in our Artists...
Not quite sure why I haven’t been to the farmer’s market all summer. For some reason I got busy. But, the occasional cold days of late summer always signal an internal reminder that I need to migrate to...
Egads, where did summer go? Seriously, it was just here a minute ago. Now I’m packing backpacks and searching for lunch money. There was a time in my life that didn’t revolve around a school calendar....
Thanks so much to all of you who have helped us to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.® at our Etsy Artists Give Back store ! We are already half way through our first shipment...
Now that pretty much everyone is walking around with a camera in their purse or back pocket, have you found yourself taking more or less photos? I have a few things that I try to ALWAYS take photos of...
Nature sure can be beautiful. Don’t laugh at me. I know I’m not speaking great wisdoms here. But really, when left to it’s own devices, nature does a bang-up job. Take my tween daughter. I always thought...
Our September/October issue of CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS which features our “We Made This” article is already arriving at reader’s homes. The article is filled with art donated by our 2012...
I love synergy. Today synergy popped into my inbox. An email from The Sketchbook Project appeared, reminding me to sign up for The Sketchbook Project 2013 and also telling me about this Friday’s...
Yes, I realize this is more of a jar full of a posy, but I couldn’t resist the line from the old childhood rhyme for the title of this post....
What exactly is the difference between the disgust I get when I pull a fork out of the dishwasher that still has food on it, and the enjoyable “dirty” patina on these forks? I love these tined beauties...
I’m not sure why, when the Olympics are on TV, I all of a sudden be come a serious “sports” viewer and my patriotic lever goes up one billion percent. But I do, and it does. I find myself wearing...
I’m very excited to be planning a week-long getaway to the lovely city of Montreal in August. Did I mention that my only traveling companion would be my wonderful husband? That’s right, kiddos are tucked...
I am a sucker for big commercial letters. I have to stop and look at everyone I see when I’m at an antique fair or flea market. My goal is to eventually spell out EAT on my kitchen wall, but I’ve yet to...
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