At approximately 5:30 a.m. my 6 1/2 month old baby went back to her bed.  With a full stomach and fully clothed, she slept peacefully until she woke up again around 9:00, kicking and waving her arms and growling and smiling.
And naked.
WHAT?  How on earth did that happen?
Her clothes were laying next to her in [...]

A month or two ago I spied these cuties in the Pottery Barn catalog:

I really liked them, but at $24 (plus shipping) for a set of 4, that was awfully steep.
Then I spotted some little 4 inch birds nests at a craft store for 99 cents each, and decided to make my own.
Here’s what you [...]

A friend of mine passed this recipe along to me when I was planning for my baby’s blessing celebration.  We found it to be a hit:  simple shopping list, easy preparation, and a great taste that people are just a bit surprised by.
Ingredients needed:

2 liters of Sprite or 7-Up, a can of limeade concentrate, water, [...]

This morning my children did NOT look like this:

I sure wish they had.  My day so far would have been different if they had.  Instead, my two and three year olds woke up with their boxing gloves on.  Big time.
It started innocently enough, with this little conversation:
boy:  “I woke up at seven.”
girl:  “Oh yeah!  I [...]

It all started this afternoon.
I was making dinner, Mr. Wonderful was taking a much-deserved Sunday nap.  The children were upstairs, supposedly having quiet time in their respective bedrooms.  Is it too much to hope that some quality reading could take place somewhere in there, too?  Slowly they gravitated to the bedroom of the oldest, and [...]

Another week gone, another month ended.  Wow!  How did that happen?  I don’t know if your life is like mine, but it sure seems like the last week of the month ends up being especially busy, no matter how I try to make it otherwise.
This week’s report:  63 steps.  I think that’s the most so [...]

I just finished a quilt that I made just to try machine binding.  It’s a quilt-as-you-go strip quilt, which means it’s quick and simple.

I’m loving the aqua, red and white color scheme with tons of polka dots.  Those three colors (and the dots) are among my favorite things right now.  I’m calling it my Aqua [...]

This is one of the tablecloths that I love and use regularly.

Measuring 48 by 53 inches, it is printed on a cotton/polyester blend, which probably accounts for the incredibly vivid color after years of storage.  It had some yellowing when I purchased it, but it soaked out beautifully.

This tablecloth looks fabulous on my kitchen table, [...]

Do you have a favorite flower?

I have several of them, actually (like these hydrangeas).  But there is one that I love more than all the others.

Ranunculus.  My all-time favorite.  The flower that makes my heart skip a beat.

Earlier this week I ran into a florist shop looking for white flowers, and there, to my amazement, [...]

Today’s tablecloth is another that reminds me of vintage ticking, only without the stripes.

The oval medallions remind me a lot of those that are so often scattered in vintage ticking patterns.  The flowers on this cloth are really more of a mauve.
From a distance, I like the way the ovals lay around the edges of [...]