Month: November 2012

  • Horizontal or vertical?

    Horizontal or vertical?

    Here’s your chance to give your opinion on an earth-shattering decision: should the columns of color run horizontally (on the left) or vertically (on the right)? Once I decide, I plan on finishing this off tomorrow morning.

  • Sneak peak at my new shower curtain

    Sneak peak at my new shower curtain

    No, I’m not reupholstering my couch. Since I’m procrastinating at getting a bunch of paperwork done, I thought I’d give you a sneak peak at part of the future shower curtain that I’m working on for the guest bathroom. (Aren’t you proud of me? I used other colors in addition to blue!) I’ve been playing…

  • “New” blue shoes

    “New” blue shoes

    I guess all the creativity has been sucked out of me (temporarily, of course). This week, the most that I could muster was to paint my old, worn shoes a pretty shade of blue. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while. When they were new, they were a reasonable light blue, but recently…

  • Final wedding post

    Final wedding post

    This will (hopefully) be my final wedding post. I still have odds and ends to sift through and put away, but I’m ready to return to quilting! My studio desperately needs to be put back in order (again!). That will be next week’s project. But first, if you’re not sick of wedding-related stuff, I’d love…

  • Wedding of DD#1

    Wedding of DD#1

    If you are wondering why I’ve dropped off the face of the earth for the last few months, this is what it looks like when you and your family become the wedding coordinator, caterer, chief designer, craftsmen, and all around slave labor. This was 7 AM on Friday morning when we arrived at the church…

  • Yes, yes we did…

    Yes, yes we did…

    …because we didn’t already have enough to do…we glued dictionary pages to the bride’s shoes. “Lovably insane.” I think those are the exact words my future son-in-law used when he saw what we were doing. Well, my excuse is: what are we supposed to do when all the shoes in the store right now are…