Around the Blocks

For our monthly adventure for July, we made a trip to Burnsville, NC. It was a beautiful drive. The front that came through at home came th...

I'm still into designing quilts and came up with another one I want to make. I didn't want to buy anything so I decided to use some...

After church the fisherman and I went to Crossville. We ate lunch at th Cumberland Mountain State park restaurant. It was the best buffet f...

Finished the massive quilt yesterday and today I made these to use as pillow shams....I think. Just put together some of the scraps. Then ...

Sometimes it reminds me of a cave. Especially when I keep the overhead lights off to reduce the temperature. It gets hot upstairs! I worke...

Did some house work, laundry, catching up...a little cooking. Ever made a peach cobbler this way? Peaches on bottom, pieces of bread, then...

Today was the Village Quilters Guild meeting. It is such a fabulous group of quilters. Some of the friendliest ladies I've ever met. ...

As is our tradition, we parked our vehicle on the road halfway down the hill earlier in the day and then went down for the fireworks. H...

I have some awesome news to share......one of my quilts is going to be featured in McCall's Quick Quilts magazine in the Feb/Mar 2016 i...

I finished the quilting on the small quilt. I suppose I will use it for the baby girl gift, but I did purchase her some little pink outfit...

Yep, I do. Love not working on Mondays. I spent the morning doing stuff for mom and then really needed to get outside. It was too hot and h...

Here is a picture of my dad and the four of us kids. I'm the little one at the top. I was about three. My dad was a hard worker, an i...

When we retired we had planned on having an adventure day each week. That was a little ambitious. Maybe every two weeks or maybe once a mon...

So today is the day the fisherman comes home. Yay! I've missed him. It sounds like they have had a fabulous two weeks. Great weather, ...