This pattern is from the paisleypincushion.com Slobo bought it for me out of the newark_dress_supply catalog as a birthday present. It came in the mail today which couldn’t have been timed better! After digging up the garden today – sick with a head cold, hiding out in the sewing room tommorrow will be a welcome [...]

I LOVE SLOBOKAN and his new web design for my site!!! I know it’s easier on my eyes – just like he is …. now how cute is that, it even does emoticons! Not to mention it’s my favorite shade of blue in the title bar! He’s so awesome! {{{{SLO}}}} What do ya’ll think – [...]

Slobo showed me the gallery plugin he’s been using on one of his sites and I fell in love with it. To see for yourself, just click on the gallery button and select an album you want to look at. You can view the thumbnails for that album, click on an image, and drill down [...]

I’ve spent the better part of two weeks cleaning up my workroom to begin a new venture: Sage Row – Alterations / Custom Sewing Service (home based for now). Maybe I should’ve listened to that bell in my head, when at 16 I tried to hand sew a man’s tailored jacket. Now to stop chasing [...]

Mom called tonight around 6:30 – Aunt Charl was out of surgery – cancer free! Not only that – her doctor – the same one who had operated on her when they found the cancer (at which time he just closed her back up because she was too weak to withstand surgery), the same doctor [...]

Here’s a link Slobo sent me: http://failblog.org/2008/11/02/reliable-fail/ YEP – They are a seamstresses best friend! – Posted with Stuffr! –

Mom came through the surgery with flying colors!!! The doctor sent her home after just a few hours. They took out two lymph nodes and that came back negative for cancer cells. They removed the cancer via a lumpectomy. She will meet with the radiation oncologist next week when she’ll begin her first round of [...]

I bought (with the help of MOM!) a Singer 291U from Atlantic Sewing last week. Yesterday, we picked her up!!! I set her up and tested her and fell in love with her! I’ve now named her Harriet and the Consew 225 – Ozzie! They make such a cute couple! Here’s Harriet’s table, motor pic. [...]

Since summer, I’ve debated splitting my software out onto an old laptop and letting the kids use my desktop system solely. Last month, Mom was saying how she wanted to save for a new computer, I offered her this laptop, instead of spending money on a computer she would use only for internet and mail [...]

I was just perusing the Digital History archive in search of primary source documents written by children, when I ran into this quote: ANNA GREEN WINSLOW Heroines may not distinguish themselves at the head of an Army, but freedom [will] be won by a fighting army of amazons…armed with spinning wheels. I read this right [...]

I got the baby’s scarf done! Yippee! The yarn is wool and wool/nylon mix from Ella, purchased at Ewe Knit. I love Ewe Knit – the name, the store, the owner, and all that gorgeous yarn! The pattern is basketweave from Creative Kniiting’s fall edition. I’ll be making the hat soon. After which, doc is [...]

Now that canning is over, I’ve picked up knitting again. Here’s a scarf and hat for my apple cheeked little boy! I was in the middle of knitting the scarf when my December issue of Creative Knitting came in the mail. The scarf is just straight knitting with Wool Ease and some leftover blue wool. [...]

Remember the ole’ Pueblo Colorado free booklets from the government? When we were teenagers, Slo and I both would write away for the free publications from the government. It made for cheap – fun reading. Now, they are online! Who Knew? If you like reading them too, here is the site. Farmhouse Planning and Cutouts [...]

It has been a long time since I posted. Alot has happened in the past several weeks. School started back, canning season has started (albeit a little late) and a very important person!!!! J2 “Doc” turned 9 a couple of weeks ago! His list included things like overalls, voice recorder, watch, cookbook, a gift certificate [...]

I added the TimeLine_Index.pdf to the mix. It’s here if you want it. (9 pp. – 146k) The Index is just a paper form of Timelineindex.com’s Period pages, meant as an aid to show the kids how history is divided up amongs different groups for ‘dealing’ with history data. Time Periods are almost always politically [...]

After alot of procrastination, I finally got the timeline journal pages ready for the kids to start pasting things down. It took awhile to come to grips with exactly how I was going to lay it out for them. Finally, deciding on personal timeline journals, I made the blank page I showed you earlier, adding [...]

Betcha’ wonder if I sewed anymore, huh? I was beginning to wonder that myself! J3 grew like a weed this summer. After cleaning out his dresser, I realized he was down to 3 pairs of PJ’s that actually fit him. So I made him some more (with room to grow through the winter). The flannel [...]

The last time we visited the local farmer’s market, Jacques and Nancy Garry of Red Hot Tomatoes gave a demonstration of how one would go about keeping a worm farm under your kitchen cabinet. I love to hear Nancy talk, she is very down to earth and inspirational. She showed her rubbermaid container which she [...]

I thought I’d share this timeline paper.jpg I created tonight. You can punch it on the top side or the left side. I’m using Paint.NET v3.35 software to create it, and it shows that it’s 8.5 x 11 (landscape orientation) so hopefully it will print to that size for ya’ll. If you have a paint [...]

Clip Art Galleries and various templates, designed as OxygenOffice extras, have been added to the extensions page for Open Office users to download. I downloaded it – and – oh – my! I can’t tell you how relieved and excited I was to find it! The gallery has blackline maps, historical maps, continents, countries, clip [...]