C.S. Lewis First, to those of you who have given us Amazon gift cards over the past few years, I am about to use some of them to buy th...

During my grad school, I either could be a TA (teaching assistant) or a RA (research assistant).  I chose the easier of the two routes (beca...

I saw a red and white quilt in a magazine, but I was too cheap to buy the magazine.  So I just started sewing red and white triangles tog...

 Most quilts start out as sketches. I usually spend time trying to figure out how to have the smallest amount of waste. Here are the...

 I made this runner for a relative of Mrs. Bailey's. I threw this together from some scraps that I had.  It was a pattern in a boo...

I have decided to start documenting all of my past quilts (and eventually my future quilts too).  This quilt was made for Sarah and Josh...

My Dad has apple trees, but there is one problem.  They produce really ugly apples. They are speckled black and have many indentations.  We ...

A few pictures: Anna said I needed some pregnancy pictures...  Pregnancy is not easy, but it does lead to a baby, which is worth it.  ...

Well, since it has been a while, I thought I would start off with a few recipes that I have been making recently.  The first is adapted from...

I was trying to clean out my sewing room and use up all the scraps that I had been holding on to for the past four years.  I started out by ...

From America's Test Kitchen Cookbook 2008 Season based on a recipe that won second place in the 1954 Pillsbury Grand National Baking Co...

The other day, I was reading Cook's Illustrated and I stumbled on a recipe for brown rice.  I thought, Now how exciting and new can a r...

June 17 th This weekend was extremely busy.  Travelling and attending events with a baby is exhausting (and takes planning ahead).  How...

I had one more vacation day to use this year (other than the 5 that I am allowed to roll over for next year -- to spend time with the baby)...

The longer I am away from the internet, the more I dislike it when I return to it.  Does anyone else experience this?  I love looking up rec...

Wise word of the day: When the Gap model looks bad in a shirt, you should not buy it.

Just in case you were wondering...I was half joking when I suggested it because my list of boys name is so scarce (I think I might have half...

     Baby at 12 weeks (2" long). Baby at 22 weeks (12' long). I am pretty much living in dresses and leggings (or stocki...

To my non pregnant friends (and ones without kids): Maternity clothes are expensive. Here are a few tips that I have assembled that will...

Here was my list before we found out the gender: Girls Evelyn Grace Rose (middle name of second girl) Louisa Anne Virginia and Georgia...