Wedgwood has been doing well.  We have good days where she's happy to interact with me and other days when she seems a little lost.  I...

My most recent Drapes of Doom™ repairs involved some guesswork.  I was frustrated I couldn't find any examples online.  So I'm docum...

I liked this recipe for Marakesh Carrots .  In the end only made a half batch, which is plenty, since they say it should be eaten within t...

The curious thing about random quilts is that they're not really random.  When I first arranged my disappearing nine patch blocks I ha...

I like pastries.  Give me any kind of chocolate, pastry cream (or whipped or sweet cream), ganache, mousse, caramel, buttercream and I am ...

The first part of creating a disappearing nine patch quilt is stitching together a bunch of nine patch blocks.  After making a pair of tes...

You don't know how excited I am to finally start this project.  I'm a little nervous, too.  Now I'll find out if my vision will ...

I can tell that life is encroaching on my free time by the number of blog posts I publish (not many) and ones I have partially written (a ...