Somehow, not only for Christmas But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. ...

Sorry for the lack of posting the past few days. Not sure where I picked up this miserable cold I have but my nose is running and I can'...

If you're looking for some great holiday gift ideas this year may I suggest the Indie Fixx Holiday Guide for inspiration. Yes, I'm ...

Remember that cute laundry-themed fabric that I used for the cat pillow ? The one that someone asked where I'd gotten it and I couldn...

Looking through an old Christmas issue of Better Homes & Gardens (December 1961), among the weird recipes for cookies made from peanut ...

Tammyca. Congratulations! I actually made this a two-day contest because I was sure I wouldn't get enough participants otherwise. Thirt...

I've been sewing like a mad woman and stocking the Primrose Design website with lots of goodies for holiday shopping. I tend to not mak...

We're spending Thanksgiving with friends as we usually do. They have a big family and cook a huge turkey, so there's plenty for the ...

Just enough to dust the leaves of the rhodedendrons with white... Aha, but here's what the five inches that fell later and during the ni...

I mentioned in passing a while back that I'd purchased an ad in a major magazine's winter issue. It was Adorn and it's out on t...

My friend Anni recently sent me a link to an interview she did about her participation in the auctions to benefit Robert's Snow: for Ca...

One of my readers emailed me to say (nicely) that it's not fair of me to mention my cute Ebay embroidery finds without showing pictures....

I've always been fascinated by the idea of day-of-the-week towels, or D.O.W. as they're often called. Did women really change their ...

I'm sure you've heard of hope or wedding chests (also called glory boxes in the UK and Australia)—all the linens and household goods...

The Renaissance Store has a two-part tutorial on Viking embroidery by Gael Stirler, originally published in their newsletter— Part 1 Part ...

I've just added three new embroidery patterns, for a total of seventeen so far. VP115 , which I'm calling Lil' Angels, has 12 d...

Two magazines designed and shipped to the printer; one 84-page catalog three-quarters done; 34 tissue cozies made; 30 sachets made; 18 pillo...

For the second year, the Weil Antique Center has featured a special sale during the second week of October with most dealers offering 10 to...

Remember last spring when Irene asked about how to do the lazy daisy stitch with two colors ? And I said that it must have been done with tw...

I made three dozen tissue cozies last week (yes, Susan, some of them are for you), and two dozen eyelet sachets after that. Well, those are...