We have just returned home after being evacuated for Hurricane Irma. I live in Port Charlotte, FL, directly on Charlotte Harbor, and our area was forecasted to receive not only terrible winds, but also catastrophic storm surge flooding. We almost didn’t leave. I’ve always been a little bit critical of people not leaving their homes…

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Updated June 23, 2016. I am looking for someone who can help me with product creation, filling orders, etc. This is an in-person position, not virtual. Interested? Here are some of the tasks you would be helping me with: 1. Putting together various ornament kit parts, including cutting & bagging fabric, weighing and bagging pins,…

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I say nightmare because guess where I am? NOT on the Gulf Coast! I am still in my house. Actually, a better way to word that is that I am BACK in my house, after moving out, and then having to move back into it, 10 days later. Sigh. (<— that’s a sigh of exhaustion,…

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This is a post that I have had in the works for a WHILE now. For the last few months, I have been emailing those of you who have purchased any of my quilted ornament tutorials, and asking you to please send me feedback letting me know what you thought of the tutorials, as well…

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It looks like I will be taking a few days off from ornament making, due to a washing machine mishap. Due to a sprained wrist, due to a washing machine mishap. Last week, my dinosaur of a washing machine stopped working. I was pretty positive that it was a goner, until I looked it up…

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I have finally reached a point where I feel like my craft room revamp is done. Well, maybe not done…there will probably always be something else I want to do in here…but I DO feel as though it’s looking pretty good. When I first started to fix things up in here, it was mainly from a feeling of necessity.…

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Wine is a great love of mine. Especially red wine (although I do love some Riesling every now and then). The thing is, I live in Florida, and when the thermometer outside is reading 3937 degrees, sometimes red wine just doesn’t get it. In fact, when you’re sitting outside under the blazing sun, taking a…

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I don’t know about anyone else, but storing my fabric has always been a problem. I want it to be kept nice and neat, but I also want it to be easily accessible. Even more than that, I want to be able to SEE all of it… like, all at once…. during those times I’m brainstorming…

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I’ve just added a new Christmas ornament to my collection today…and I just love it…but it is funny, because it is not at ALL how I originally intended it to turn out. My original idea popped into my head as I was thinking about something that might make a good idea for a wedding ornament…and…

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