I don’t remember exactly when I finished this sweater, but my Ravelry notes tell me I started it in May, 2014. I think I finished it in the fall of that year, but I’ll give myself a bit of procrastinator grace and go with January of 2015, that… Read More »For Want of Buttons – Annabel Cardigan
First, please note that I live in Maine. It is nearing 50 degrees today, February 1st. Also, please note that because of these unusually warm days, I checked on my bees. After lifting the 500 pound bench seat off of them (I got my workout for the day)… Read More »Hello, February
Merry Christmas! Yes, I know it’s January. But I gave my son an unfinished gift for Christmas with the promise to finish it very soon. (I actually think I told him I’d finish it the week after Christmas. Silly me.) Zach had asked for a black and white… Read More »Zach’s (Christmas) Quilt
I just taught the Little girls how to knit, and they are working on their little projects every moment they can. Emma has determined that hers is a Mug Rug (the red) and Sophie determined that she is making a purse, with one side completed and the other… Read More »Knitting and Reading, Littles Style
My little girls (ages 6 and 7) have been watching me knit for years. They’ve asked to learn, and I tried to teach them, but they found it frustrating when their fingers didn’t do what they wanted. So we took a break from actual knitting and they spent… Read More »Knitting with the Littles
Upon finishing the wall, floor and trim painting of Maddie’s room I still had a lot of afternoon left. With the paint in one hand and a still loaded paintbrush in the other, I walked by the buffet that I had recently moved from our garage into the kitchen. And I… Read More »New to Me Baking Counter
Under the chapter of “How we Shuffle Five Children into Two and a Half Bedrooms”, we updated Maddie’s room. I had hoped to get to it before Christmas, but busy happened and I just never found the time. So it was one of the top projects for us… Read More »Maddie’s Room Remake
It happened one day, that two young maids, had a hunger for something sweet. So they opened the cookbooks and looked all around for recipe of something to eat. They spied just the one, and read it aloud and checked it once and then again. For this recipe was perfect,… Read More »When the Girls Bake, a poem
Source: BellaBrocante It was not a good day. He reported for duty and got his orders – He was going to ship out in a month. He didn’t want to think about telling his mama the news. She’d be so sad! Oh, she was proud of him, but… Read More »A Photo and a Story
The living room of the cottage has had the windows dressed for some time with panels of discarded old lace, which have been quite lovely and allow the sunlight to dapple through the panels and create the prettiest patterns on floor and rug. But with the decorating of… Read More »Happy Living Room Curtains