Happy New Year to everyone from the island. Our friends, Kris and Bill have been kibbutzing with the blog as they've had their coffees ...

Yesterday, we spent a long day, bathing in the sunblast on the beach under an umbrella. We watched kids playing in the surf, took a few wal...

Wednesday Lazy sleep in day while K went to breakfast. Then a slow walk on the beach, read about half a book, and snoozed under the beach u...

Wishing you all peace and happiness!

This is not actually a Christmas stars quilt, but I count it as one of our many blessings. My two best friends made this star quilt for my ...

YAY!!! YIPPEEE! HOORAY!!! I can't say that I look less like Mrs. Jack Spratt, but I can say that I did lose three pounds! And that...

So here is how the baby quilt is coming out. Each of the sashings has a wide piece of pink rick-rack basted to it. This is still being wor...

We are home from a marvelous getaway trip to Las Vegas. We saw The Blue Man group for the umpteenth time, and also Ka, Cirque du Soleil...

We are off tomorrow morning to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary at the Bellagio in Las Vegas! After the last couple of years that we...

I thought I would share the stitching on these unique tea towels that I found at a quilt shop in Audubon, Iowa last summer. And yes, Tonya,...

I've been joking for the last couple of years, that as my dear hubby has lost all his weight (because of serious illnesses), we have bec...

Yesterday was all about the snow outside, and today is all about the snow inside! Here is a picture of our snow village. There are stick-on...

Snow! Snow! Snow! About 12" of the beautiful sparkley kind fell in the last 24 hours! Of course, it's a mess to clean up and ge...

I promised I would share some of the gifts from my quilting friends, so here they are! This first one made us laugh, since two of us can veg...

Here is my quilt display wall in our hearth room. I change out the quilts here at least by the season, and when we are home, I try to chang...

So now the quilt blocks that are on the design wall are calling to me! I'm trying so hard to finish some more Christmas decorating, and...

As you can see, I haven't really been getting much done, other than taking care of all these chickens. And I see by the pictures, that ...

The tree is done, the presents are wrapped. Well, almost all of them, anyway! This is a new tree for us. We purchased it 2 years ago afte...

I made this quilt with a group of gals from another old defunct internet list when we had a midwestern get together at my house. I didn...

These are my two most special ornaments in the whole wide world! The reindeer has lost his antlers, but it was made for me by my wonderful s...