I'm forced to take it easy today since my bursitis is acting up again. I've been doing some repainting—the first step of the bedroom...

I'm happy to hear that the Pantone Institute chose my favorite color as color of the year for 2010—turquoise! "Combining the ser...

Happy new year! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I'm happy to report that the website redesign is almost complete. I still have t...

You'd think that working at home would give me lots of free time to get ready for the holiday. Like doing some decorating, wrapping pres...

I'm not posting this to intimidate those of you who are just learning embroidery. Trust me, some day your work will be good enough to ta...

When some of the shop owners where I sell asked for holiday ornaments for their stores, my first reaction was "I don't have time fo...

That's a quote from " Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ", one of my favorite movies ever. Myrna Loy plays wife to ad man C...

Thanks for all your kind words in comments to yesterday's post. I ended up going to bed really early Saturday night because I was so tir...

I know you're all dying to know how it went and I have good and bad news. The good news is that my booth went together with only a minor...

Speaking of birds, I recently listed a new embroidery pattern on my website. Called Gossip Girls , it's a design taken from a vintage st...

Wow! I always thought this was something my mother invented herself. Whenever I've mentioned to anyone in conversation that I used to ea...

Please welcome Sharon Stark from Sharon's Antiques: Vintage Fabrics and The Rickrack Rag who’s agreed to do an interview about feedsac...

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. And I was doing so well lately, too. On top of getting ready for the craft show, one of the shop owne...

Treasure hunting with others in tow can be fun, but you probably shouldn't go with people who are looking for the same things you are - ...

We arrived at Roller Mills , a three-story antique mall in a restored 1880s flour mill, about 10:30 am to find that, contrary to what it sta...

Have any of you seen Timeless Treasures' new fabric collection named 'Lena'? And the pattern within named Daisies & Disks ?...

I usually make my fruit and veggie towels as custom orders, but I thought I'd make up a few for the craft show I'm doing next month ...

Finding nice vintage fabrics is a challenge. Finding two of the same pattern in different colorways is a miracle! Gray, green, red, black an...

Can anyone help me out with identifying this plant? I found lots of them growing on the edges of my yard. The plant is a single very thin vi...

This is the last of my finds from last weekend's trip to Kutztown. The seller who I bought this from had two and the first was tradition...