Fiona did some sweet drawings of our family earlier in the week and I decided to use them to try an embroidery project. I dug out the light box and the latest issue of Craft (with Dolin O’Shea‘s article, Embroidery 101) and a scrap of linen fabric. I found my embroidery floss and hoops plus [...]
Sunday, I made a lamb cake and between the cake and the frosting and I end up using four sticks of butter. I didn’t mean to! It was pretty buttery. Next time I need to pay more attention to the cake batter recipe I choose. A pound cake would probably work better, structurally.
We picked up the latest issue of Craft magazine over the weekend and it has a nice article about getting started doing embroidery. I have been wanting to get started on something but so far I can’t imagine what to embroider. I need to know what something will be used for and I have a [...]
Everyone has a story. Can you tell yours in six words? [link] [via] Quiet late bloomer, still quietly blooming.
I set up our little greenhouse shelf on our enclosed porch and have been slowly planting flower seeds in my seedling trays. Much more slowly since I ran out of potting soil, in fact. Today I think we can pick some more soil up, though. Since the garden will be planted in our front yard [...]
