Bargello Flag Quilt
My local quilt circle met last week, and one of our members — a good friend — showed us how to make a bargello quilt that looks like a US flag. I’d made a small flag quilt a few years ago, but I hung...
View ArticleDessert!
I was at a friend’s house today, working on projects with her and another friend. One of these all-day “things” always ends with dinner with our husbands, and it was my turn to provide dessert. I saw...
View ArticleOut to dinner
DH and I like to go out to dinner about once a week, and guess what we had last night! Yum! I love sushi, and this was just one of the varieties we chose this time — crab, avocado, spicy tuna (not too...
View ArticleCookies
Yes, I know that my last post was about food, but this one will be, too. Two of my grandsons are spending quite a bit of time with me lately while their mother is out of town on business. Everyone...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone here in the US will have a happy and safe Thanksgiving. This is part of my contribution to our family’s dinner, which will be at our daughter’s home. Yum! I always make my grandmother’s...
View ArticleFrench macarons
No — not macaroons, those coconut cookies we all know. These are macarons, a meringue-like cookie made sandwich-style with a yummy filling in between the halves. A friend and I took a class at a local...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
If, like me, you live in the US, you may be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, and I hope it’s a very happy one for you. 🙂 I haven’t posted much in the past couple of weeks for a few reasons. First, my...
View ArticleSushi!
Have I mentioned that I love sushi? Of course, I love lots of different foods, but sushi is right up there at or near the top. Last night our younger daughter had us over for a Mother’s Day sushi...
View ArticleApples and cheesecake
I belong to an online community of people who are fans of Apple technology. It’s fun group and, even better, no one ever has a mean word to say to anyone else. In fact, I can’t recall a mean word being...
View ArticleA tale of the most expensive Christmas bread…
Every year I make a special Christmas bread that my family loves. It’s basically a riff on stollen that began years ago when we did a Christmas dinner from a different country every year. Since then,...
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