Giraffe Dreams

I added Kevin the Quilter's challenge button on my sidebar. He is doing a block collection.. they're super easy and quick, and they...

Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty Year Search by Martin Sixsmith This book interested me because of the topic, adoption, which I h...

Hooray! Son has arrived at his destination in Korea. He didn't have time to write a lot, just to let us know he had arrived. Things were...

I was hoping to announce that "the eaglet has landed," meaning I'd heard from my son and that he is safely moved into his new ...

Have you been wondering why I have a clock on my sidebar showing the current time in Seoul, South Korea? My son is moving to South Korea to...

Rudi, aka Nancy Z! You will get the traveling stash box. Please e-mail your snail mail address to me so we can get the box sent on to you. ...

The Hypnotist's Lover by Liane Moriarty -- This book is about -- guess what -- a hypnotherapist and her lover. I wasn't expecting ...

A while ago I started a traveling stash box. It has been making its rounds and needs a new home. Could yours be the right one? This stash...

photo taken on Paris Metro The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey My opinion about this book vacillated between "this is dumb" and ...

Today was my friend Dixie's memorial service. It was a nice, sweet service, much like Dixie herself. There were three of her gorgeous qu...

1) My sister gave me two HUGE bags of scraps, blocks, pre-cut borders, and even finished tops. I get to play with these and do whatever I wa...

Here is the surprise that I could not tell you about earlier. I am in a knitting/crocheting group at church, and one of our members was diag...

#1 -- A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar is a very interesting, captivating, and sometimes awful book. This is Omar's own story ...

I spent the last several days sewing like a maniac. I got these two quilt tops made, and these blocks: this is for Margaret's Hope Che...

I'm loving the logos that were chosen for the 2014 Winter Olympics - patchwork quilts! I got these pictures at With Heart and Hands blo...

It's Friday, and I am not finished with my current book, so cannot review it yet (I'm loving it, though.. come back next week so I ...

I was going to call this post "Monday Blues," but I'm really not feeling blue other than a tiny regret that I volunteered to w...