Month April 2011

Spring Cleaning: Washing Your Quilts

I have pieced quilts throughout my home, including on almost every bed. This means they get used, abused, laid on, eaten on (like chocolate eggs for instance), read on, even dirty shoes kicked off on (bad boys!) and occasionally muddy…

Quilt Market Meetup News

Quilt Market is just around the corner and here’s an update on the Blogger’s Quilt Market Meetup: I can hardly wait to meet all of you who are tending Market and the Meetup.  It’s going to be the perfect opportunity…

Happy Easter and Happy Earth Day

Have you seen this sweet little idea over at One Charming Party?  We’re making these for our Easter celebration on Sunday.  I’m going to try the Sprinkles Strawberry Cupcake Recipe found on Martha Stewart for them.  I think the recipe…

Spring Clean Your Mattress

I’ve been making my way through the bedding in our home giving it a good Spring Cleaning. It feels so nice! Saturday we even had enough warm weather to open up the windows!  My home always feels cleaner after it…

Succession Planting in the Vegetable Garden

This week, I finally did a little planting in the vegetable garden.  It’s been snowing so much this spring… there have been very few opportunities.  I planted some Buttercrunch and Red Sails Lettuce seeds.  And Spinach and Arugula from seed…

Good Egg- Easter Tee-Shirt Tutorial

Last week I whipped up a little Easter Tee for my girls… When I say whipped up, I really mean it.  This is a quick and easy project.  It is also very inexpensive.  I picked up the tee-shirts for about…

Guest on Ucreate

I’m guest posting on Ucreate today with a tutorial on how to create a wire basket with chicken wire and a certain reused item… Can you guess what? Be sure to pop over to Ucreate for the how to.