October 2011

Cook Along Tips

October 28, 2011

For those doing some sort of cook-along, are you ready?  Do you have your recipes all lined up?  Grocery list made or better yet, shopping done?  Have you decided which day you’re going to cook? Some of the tips I’ve learned through the years to make cooking everything in one day go more smoothly: Before [...]

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One Block at a Time

October 28, 2011

How do you make blocks for your quilts?  Do you make them one at a time or do you mass produce?  I like to mass produce — make all the half square triangles, then make all the flying geese, then put them together in sections.  Before starting any quilt, I type out all the directions [...]

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Why Are We Cold Now?

October 27, 2011

This makes no sense to me.  It’s 50º outside.  I met Vince for lunch and we were both freezing!  Vince said “I could never move up north!”  When it was 50º in MO, we still had on shorts and short sleeved shirts and it didn’t seem cold at all.  Is it because we’ve spent 2-1/2 [...]

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The Halloween Fabric

October 27, 2011

By the time we get out of this house, there’s not going to be a single box still taped shut.  Every day I’m on a search for something.  Still haven’t found the handles to the longarm or the stapler. Here’s the fabric I found that I’m going to use for the Halloween quilt, which no [...]

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The House That Never Ends

October 27, 2011

There’s a house just across the edge of the lake from where we’re living and when we got here 2-1/2 months ago (70 miserable days ago to be exact! <G>), I looked at it and said “That’s the biggest house I’ve ever seen!” It may not look so huge in this picture because it’s quite [...]

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Parenting Skills

October 26, 2011

As parents, most of us do the best we can and pray and hope for the best.  I wonder if there’s ever been a parent who wouldn’t go back and do a whole lot differently if they could.  I remember that tiny baby that was placed in my arms almost 24 years ago.  I had [...]

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