Let the festivities begin!

The 2nd Annual Taylor-Hood Dirt Party is scheduled for Saturday, May 20th. Celebrations will begin anytime after 9am and will continue throughout the day. Events include:   rock garden construction top dressing of lawn flower bed filling stone wall construction lawn sodding and seeding rock raking stone step building hand washing The feast will be…

Interesting sidenote

Occasionally a project comes along that is more of a nod to my quilting abilities than my artistry. I don't actually make "quilts" all that often anymore. Most of my friends and family already have a bed-covering of my making and besides, my head and heart are generally elsewhere. That said, Katherine has been hinting…

Great minds…. (or fools seldom…)

Don't you just love it when you come across someonewho thinks like you do, approaches things in a similar fashion and has already written a road map to places you've only thought of visiting? I seem to be hanging around Lorelle on WordPress a lot in recent weeks and have found much of what she…

7000 songs?

I was perusing John Gushue's blog the other day when I followed a link to SkylarkD's post,  in which she writes about a fellow who wrote a book about the fifty most depressing songs ever written. The songs themselves weren't as interesting as the author's (Tom Reynolds) comments on them. (I still like "Total Eclipse…

Overwhelmed by Chaos

I was trying to work this morning and everywhere I turned, I knocked over a pile of crap. In frustration, I then went out to the kitchen get a cup of coffee and tripped over a snowsuit en route. This house has deteriorated past my tolerance threshold. My studio (please note the lack of available…