What are we making? Something from red felt and white beads.... ...jingle bells, green felt hats, gold tinsel... Jingle Bell Elf Ornaments!...

Once again we traveled to San Diego for Thanksgiving. We did the "Run For The Hungry" in the morning and then enjoyed a delicious...

Congratulations to our precious daughter! Kaitlin has a degree in Elementary Education. Her future students are very lucky. After her grad...

Click here to watch a short clip of Kaitlin's dance class at ASU. She is the teacher/choreographer in black. Thanks Liz!

I made this for Barb's Recycled Linens Challenge. I wanted to further challenge myself to create something with an element of "ra...

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The 2007 Christmas concert has come and gone. Can you find me? (Click on the photo to enlarge.) Here is last year's post.

I apologize to my legions of faithful readers for neglecting my alphabet. I have been spending all of my blogging energy at BPR. R is for...

Kaitlin has been student-teaching at St. Theresa's School in Phoenix. For several weeks she has been saying that we HAD to go to the ...

Another item I can't resist is the lone quilt block. Perhaps it was intended for a quilt that never was completed. Perhaps it was left...

I can't resist a vintage needlepoint canvas. I see one and I imagine the woman who worked on it intending some wonderful purpose. I ne...

A couple of years ago when Kaitlin was working for Anthropologie, she declared that her new favorite color was "marigold." She be...

These are wool and stuffed with lavender. The sewing room smells heavenly!

Here is a photo of my darling husband Ken, with Kaitlin on the front porch at Aunt Janice's house in Marietta Ohio a couple of weeks ago...

This is what the empty jars look like. They are in three sizes. The little ones are great for buttons, the mediums are filled with trims a...

We have an IKEA store not too far away - perhaps a 40-minute drive, but convenient to my daughter in Tempe. Somehow, I just never get ther...

Here in Arizona we are accustomed to the summer heat, but this year has been worse than usual. In fact we have now had 27 days of over-110-...

This is my grandma, Ruth Moe. I discovered this photo of her at my mom's house earlier this summer. I love it because this is probably...

I ordered a sample pack of wool felt from a seller on eBay and I've been having some fun with it. I used these bright colors for flower...

It's been one of those days. School starts next week which means we have a lot of running around to do. Today was registration at the ...