This year’s been one for investment in my jewelry business. I spent a lot of time (and money!) upgrading my jewelry photography so that my designs would stand out better…
I market my jewelry predominantly via Etsy, which is a very competitive jewelry market. In order to stand out more against the other fantastic sellers, I’ve been spending some time…
No one probably even noticed, since the blog-o-sphere is so full of chatter, but I haven’t blogged in a long time. Life got overwhelming, as it sometimes does. I go…
For Christmas my mom gave me several quilting books, one of which was “Sunday Morning Quilts” by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. I love a new quilt book, and…
I think I’ve made gumbo once before, but because roux was a mystery to me, I found a “ready-made” roux in a jar at the grocery store. The jar had…
My husband has complained for several years that our Christmas stockings aren’t big enough. I think he’d really like a 4 foot stocking, but I think anything large enough to…
Well, we’re nearing the end of the year and there was no Mayan calendar apocalypse, so I’m looking at my jewelry inventory and realizing that yes, I will have to…
Here’s an update on the Planetarium Quilt that I’ve been working on, from The Practical Guide To Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman. While this quilt was listed as an “intermediate project”,…
I won a hunting trip. Holy cats… I was really going to go hunting. I’d finished my Home Game Processing and Hunting Education courses at a Texas Parks and Wildlife…
In early November I attended “Becoming and Outdoors Woman”(BOW), a weekend seminar put on by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It was my second time to go to one…