<p>I firmly believe in stopping work and eating lunch. I need that time, sandwiched in the middle of the day (pun intended), for restoration. I don&#8217;t take it for granted. I&#8217;ve had a year of lunches plucked from between classes, spent in the convenience store next door. I&#8217;ve had hundreds of lunches, stranded an hour&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When we moved into this house, it immediately felt homier than any other we&#8217;d shared. But it was also in need of the most work. As I think about it, that&#8217;s probably why I liked it immediately&#8211;it needed me and I needed it. I needed its high ceilings, its rooms full of uneven wood floors, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Photoshop. It&#8217;s a tricky beast. One of the reasons I love to blog is because it forces me to learn more about photography and Photoshop. But boy these guys are time-consuming. When I was prepping my quilting kit post, I tried three separate times to get a decent photo of my supplies. The first two [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Boy did I send a lot of time on this quilt. I received the fabric as a gift back in August and had the most trouble deciding what I wanted to do with it, pattern-wise. The fabric is Serenade by Kate Spain and I love it, but there is a lot going on&#8211;in color and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My Flea Market Fancy quilt is finished and laying happily on my bed (it is not, at it appears here, laying folded up under a cat named George Foreman). So that&#8217;s awesome. What&#8217;s even more awesome is that I&#8217;m on my way to finishing my second quilt. It sounds like I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Typically, typewriters and glue need to stay as far apart as possible. Unless your typewriter came out of Life magazine and your glue is Mod Podge, then you&#8217;re probably okay. I was feeling the urge to create a couple of weeks ago and started rummaging through my house to find the right combination of what-nots [&hellip;]</p>