Posted in Family Life, Food, Home, Making on Aug 22nd, 2010
There’s something exciting in the air. The smell of the Season turning is here with the harvests and how it makes my heart sing. With the temperature dropping and the days racing toward Autumn I am feeling so very contented. This weekend anticipation of the coming season over took me and I have been busy [...]
Posted in Family Life, Making on Jul 21st, 2010
Posted in Family Life, Making on Jun 20th, 2010
Recently Milla has started to search out ribbons from my sewing box. She has developed a liking for having a bow tied on her head. Today she picked out the ribbon Saints & Pinners use to wrap their yummy fabric in. It went very well with the dress I made for her birthday and I [...]
Posted in Family Life, Food, Making on Jun 11th, 2010
This was the very specific description of the cake Milla wanted her birthday candles on. I figured that if she was going to have a chocolate cake it may as well be big and gooey so I made a fudge cake using the recipe from Leiths Baking Bible. Despite accidentally leaving out half of the [...]
Posted in Making on Apr 6th, 2010
I have made one or two simple quilted blankets over the last year. I had thought I was getting rather good at it but this weekend saw a catastrophe of sorts and I need some advice. My previous quilts were made using patched quilting cotton on top, linen or canvas as a backing and cotton [...]
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