Dear friends,  I hope this finds you all well and happy and enjoying life! I’ve been wanting to write a blog post for quite some ti...

yippie! Sampler number twelve has arrived. So very nice when everything works out and promises are fulfilled and things come to compl...

Like clockwork, you can always bet on our getting smacked down by the cold and flu bugs of December and this year was...

What moistens the lip and brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier   I...

Well gosh.  It's been a really rotten time around here. Two more losses. Two more passages on the road of life. First we lost our ...

We had to say goodbye to our beloved Missy yesterday. Her health was up and down all this year but each time previously, ...

I'm silly - I enjoy looking at my blog stats. These are today's so far ... although I don't understand why they don't ...

Happy 4th of July to you dear bloggy friends! Hope you're enjoying the long holiday weekend. No big plans over here, eating out at a ...

do you look at your blog stats? I sometimes do ... and this morning I did. I usually have a couple hundred views each day. But yesterday...

Dear swap partner o'mine ... yoohoo ... yodel-lady-who ... have you been waylaid by a band of hooligans, or fallen off the planet? Pe...

I miss you guys! Hope all is well with you. I'm just hanging out over here, being a couch potato for the most part. Getting very lit...

(Charles Phoenix and his Redi-Whip filled, volcano-like exploding Christmas Cake) As this blog prepares to retire for a long winte...

[sigh] ... so near the end of this fabulous swap now ... This is my eleventh sampler I've received in A Swap For All Seasons ...

Number twelve! My last sampler I made for my partner in A Swap For All Seasons . After this post, I'll have my final two that w...