Scraps and Threadtales

This morning I made blueberry pancakes with real Vermount maple syrup, lots of coffee, bananas with fresh strawberries and english bacon. Th...

Well it has continued to drizzle on and off today but that isn't the worse of our problems...the local water plant is now under 5 feet o...

The last 24 hours have been very, very wet and worrisome. It has rained, rained, and sometimes just poured. My DH left work at 4 yesterday a...

Brownie spends much of her day sitting on our front wall. Some people have marble lions, some stone gargoyles, we have a small, fuzzy brown...

Today I went to visit the Lavender Farm in Snowhill. The weather was a bit iffy but it held off long enough for us to get through the fields...

The weather here has been nice the past few days so I haven't spent much time on the computer. Last weekend we went to the Medieval Fest...

First, today has been so strange. To start with, I made M&M cookies. The recipe says it makes 2 dozen so naturally I doubled it (going t...

Yikes I've been tagged by Julie at Feeling Simply Quilty for seven Random Things about me. I'm terrible at these things! 1. I love a...

Just a quick post today. The weather is really gloomy outside and the dog is demanding some attention...so much harder to wear him out if yo...

Sorry it has been so long between posts this time. Life has gotten in the way of blogging and at the risk of whining for way too long I'...

Today I have gotten lots of quilting inspiration from the local Garden tour...amazing. Just what an American would think English Gardens are...

Well another milemarker is swiftly moving into the rear view mirror! To celebrate my birthday today I let myself buy some quilt-y stuff on l...

The sun is shining here in England...what a relief! Yesterday we walked around Breedon Hill and peeked into some of the gardens. Beautiful! ...

The photo of Goldie shows a bit how I have felt lately. Too much rain-rain-rain, a cold, an MS relaspe has made me a whiney-whiney woman. An...

I am so tired these days I am having problems doing anything with my quilting projects. Yesterday at the stitching meeting I worked on one o...

I hope this link thing works.....My friend Maggie Hunt back in the states had a big day. A couple years ago she met a very talented artist ...

Today is my wedding anniversary. We have been married for 8 years. Boy has that gone fast. I was thinking this morning as I absorbed my caff...

This has been such a busy week...can't do too many like this! Thursday I went to an auction preview to see another sampler. It was a goo...

It has rained, rained and rained some more. This is getting old. I just haven't had the engergy to do any quilting...or much of anything...

My niece and nephew have gone back to the states and the house feels very quiet. Even the pets are fast asleep. I thought I would post a few...