Just when I’d given up looking… I used half my tax return to buy myself a new toy – a Canon EOS 1000D – my first digital SLR. I love and adore it and I took 500 photos in the first 24 hours I had it, 8 of which were spent sleeping and 4 of [...]
I remember with great clarity the day I met Lisa Matt. My family lived in a house surrounded by my Grandfather’s land and had no neighbors to speak of, except the house across the street. How long Lisa’s family had been there, I’m not sure – I was five, and details concerning that house pre-Lisa [...]
I was born in 1970, and my when my parents built our house in the middle of the cornfield in 1974, my mom did her very best to deck it out in country-esque fashion. There were antiques and floral wallpapers and blue carpeting and wallpaper borders and fake brick linoleum floors in the kitchen and [...]
Phawk’s mom, henceforth known as Barbara (because that is her name,) has graciously offered to come over on Saturday to help guide me in the ways of better sewing. I loved one of the lines in her email: “Historically speaking, it’s how quilters pass along their craft. The pioneer women helped teach each other and [...]