A few hours at the fair

You can tell I'm in Minnesota And today we went to the county fair.   They were judging the rabbits Families looked on anxiously, waiting for the results.   We met a goat with little ears….!!! Met wonderful folk Just a wonderful day…..

Inspiration

Faced with a challenge of creating a quilt, there is always the need to plan. I find my most reflective  time 'in the gap' as my friend Carolyn describes it…. I love that….In the gap. The 'Gap' in my estimation, is the time when I'm waiting for a bus or plane or when I'm waiting…

This is an older blog, but I wanted to share it with you again…

Several times in my life rather mysterious things have occurred… I've written about one such situation in my book. However, today going through Mum's studio… she handed me a book of her drawings… They are so uncannily like mine… and yet I have never seen them before….. is it inherited….? There are 1000's of ways…

Work and play.

We had a busy day yesterday, picked Babies breath from the side of the road, set up for the luncheon in Akeley in the morning, finished a presentation at noon, traveled for 3 hours with a few quilt shop stop offs… and another visit to my favorite group in Little Falls yesterday and I arrived…

Sunshine in your day.

When I was a child, my bed was placed right under the window in my bedroom. 3 feet from the window was a grey wood plank fence,  however, the sun always hit the window and my bed for a short time in the morning. When I laid in my bed and looked up I could…

4th July….

It's 4th of July and I have a day off for celebration. I have on my Un-Australian T shirt….with the American flag on it and blue shorts today…. they go well with the pixie slippers. I worked a little on the book this morning, preparing more illustrations and it's exciting that it's getting close to…