Saturday, January 28, 2012

Happy Dance At Ships Landing




I won the most WONDERFUL give-away from Julie at JulieKQuilts.  You are waaaay too generous, girlfriend.  :)  I don't have a clue what I will use these in yet, but I'm drooling all over them as I pull books and patterns, searching for just the perfect pattern.  Thank you sooo very much, Julie, for your generous gift.  It warms the cockles of my heart.  :D

Friday, January 27, 2012

All Day

to 'build' one house---will construct the second one tomorrow :)
 http://terrytreasures.blogspot.com/



Sunday, January 15, 2012

extraORDINARY Joys

Shadows and

Sunshine on Carolina Wren

Ahhhh Big Brother makes an excellent pillow and body-warmer

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Laptop is back

It has a few little quirks but we can live with those.  Richie did an amazing job just getting it to power up and work.  According to what we read online, we were really fortunate to know someone who could work on it AND that it was actually salvageable.  The power supply isn't working properly; purchased a new power cord, but evidently this is something that shorted out on the motherboard.  Do we invest $300-$400 for a new board?  Maybe, but if being plugged into the wall outlet keeps it working, well, that's all I've done with it in the past anyway.  So, I'm just really happy to have it functioning.  :)

The temperatures are so mild now that I have Spring fever.  The last few days it's been close to 60.  Shrubs and flowers are starting to bud and pop up from the ground.  I'm afraid that it will decide to play 'Winter' when we should be going into Spring, and nip everything.  But that's the future, right?  I will just meander back into 'today' and enjoy.



Tuesday, January 03, 2012


Morning mist made for phenomenal photos

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Mega Mug

of coffee got dumped on laptop...

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas Eve

May all your wishes come true...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Insulbrite question...


I've been working on cast iron skillet handle potholders that slip on the handle. I've made 3 now trying to get the dimensions to suit me and now I'm thinking I need two layers of insulbrite instead of one which was used in the pattern I went by. I tried one out last night on a pan of cornbread from a 450 deg. oven and I think it needs a tad more insulation. Would there be any reason NOT to have two layers of Insulbrite and one layer of cotton batting? Anyone know the answer to this? :D Happy Holiday Sewing