Our new patio is looking good, but it needs a bit of “green”, as my husband said. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on expensive pots but I had something in mind. I love aged copper pots on patios — but I couldn’t spend $30++ each on pots (especially when I wanted […] Read more…
Over the weekend, I managed to get a bit of sewing in with other members of the Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild. We had our first sew-in and did some charity sewing using up our fabric scraps. They sewed all day — I could only stay for a couple of hours, but I was glad I […] Read more…
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It’s that time of year . . . rummage sales and garage sales galore! I’m not a big rummage sale / yard sale goer – but there is one I go to every year without fail. My grade school/old church have the biggest and BEST rummage sale every year that I’ve ever seen. Every year […] Read more…
Last summer we took a very big road trip with two kiddos in a small car. We had zero extra room. Absolutely all of the space was taken up with carefully chosen items. We did camp for a few nights (so we had a tent and sleeping bag)s, but also stayed at a hotel, a […] Read more…
When I was making this little bucket hat, all I kept thinking of was a little sketch from Sesame Street (from when I was little) which had Bert and Ernie in a boat fishing (Ernie’s actually wearing bucket hat too). Instead of using a pole, Ernie would call to the fish “Here Fishy Fishy Fishy” […] Read more…
