I've been gone way too long but it's been a hectic month. Our 16 year old daughter(in red) is in Japan this month and the empty ne...

The theme for April's ornament challenge was Jane Austen. Lorraine took a Prairie Schooler design and made changes to the verse and a fe...

It's always exciting for me to finally get something framed. This is Floral Urn from Sunflower Samplings. I stitched it in 2004 and fin...

Here's a sneak peak of the top of a new sampler I'm stitching. It's so big it won't completely fit in the scanner and shoul...

I've just released 3 new designs, Maggie's Sampler, Forget Me Not and Liberty. I'm looking forward to see the other new releas...

My friend and I had a great time over Memorial Day in Mexico with our daughters. It was fun to have a girls only trip despite the stove not ...

Cape May is a beautiful Victorian seaside town so I decided to make Victorian seaside thread winder boxes for my friends as you can see abov...

After such a great time last year in Fredricksburg, we decided to meet again, this time in Cape May. Above is the house where we stayed and...

My daughter had her Japanese Speech Contest Saturday and came in 2nd place, yea Maggie! She's the one in the black dress above. The gir...

This is the cover of the June Just Cross Stitch This is the piece I designed. I just received the latest issue of Just Cross Stitch featur...

It's taken me forever to post these two pieces mainly because somehow a red spot appeared in two places on my fabric so I restitched to...

We finally had some time to get to Mexico after spring break was over. The weather was beautiful, the food was great, the crowds were gone ...

I've had this sitting around for maybe 9 months to stitch and finally pulled it out at the last minute and finished it yesterday. I feel...

Barb, who is a friend of a friend called me and let me know the origins of the two samplers I found at the antique mall. The top is from The...

I had some time to spare before taking my mother to the doctor yesterday and my daughter and I went to an antique mall. Right before leavin...

I met Lorraine for lunch today and was able to bring this home to scan. She did a fabulous job and used R&R Amethyst with Gentle Arts Pi...

For some reason, the site below would not post with the previous post but it's good so I'll add it here: http://digilander.libero.i...

I haven't had time to update in a while and still don't but wanted to post something so thought I'd post a few sites with some n...

Someone wrote and asked if I could post a close-up of Blessings from Above to my webpage. Well, that's DD's turf so I thought I'...

Yesterday was Market Day at The Attic and I was able to pick up the kit from Blackbird Designs "Tis Halloween". This chart is also...