Happy holidays dear friends!

Now that the Christmas orders have shipped and things have quieted down I finally have some time to catch my breath. The tree is decorated, ...

My sister-in-law sent me a link this morning to an article in the New York Times about embroidery. Seeing History in the Eye of a Needle is...

And the winner of the Bucilla towel set is Anna S. (annasoc) who wrote about doing embroidery on her way to work via public transportation. ...

I found these two framed needlepoint birds this past weekend while I was looking for a piece of furniture. I didn't find that, of course...

I already gave you my tried-and-true, make-every-year ginger cookie recipe a couple of years ago, so I'll give you my grandmother's...

As you know I've been busy stocking my web site with goodies for holiday shopping. This morning I added twelve vintage aprons including...

This is easy. All through my childhood my father would stay up late on Christmas Eve arranging an entire landscape under the tree. It starte...

I'm really not into the whole concept of Black Friday—wake up way too early to drive to the mall to fight for a parking space to fight c...

Boy, it's snowing like crazy here today! Luckily I ran all my errands yesterday. I needed to mail a bunch of orders so I had to go out a...

I spoke to the recipient of this quilt yesterday and she checks here frequently on my progress, so this post is partly for her and partly fo...

Cleaned my studio...check Cut out more sachet stacks (a customer bought out my supply)...check Worked on the baby quilt (getting there)...ch...

Here are some pictures of the custom baby pillow I'm working on. The person who commissioned it sent me fabrics that she had leftover fr...

The new batch of tissue cozies I've been working on this week is almost done. Yesterday I chose button combinations to match the fabrics...

And no, not the political pre-election kind :) Snow! Very early-in-the-season snow! An icy leaf I woke up early (like 4-ish) this morning be...

I had a great meeting with Cristin Powers of GreenBeing last week and I'm going to be selling some of my things on consignment in her n...

I don't buy myself presents very often but it was my birthday last week and I've been good lately (hee!). So, I bought myself a pinc...

I finished the embroidery on Saturday and then soaked and washed the finished blocks to remove the storage dirt and transfer lines. I also w...

I was getting ready to go out this morning, ironing a blouse to wear in my studio which is right next door to my bedroom. Sienna started meo...

Look at this cutie. One of a pair of vintage stamped-for-embroidery baby bibs I won on Ebay last week. They arrived yesterday and I love ...