Stumbling on the Perfect Gift

I love it when you find something that is the perfect gift for a friend. I found a fleece fabric (when I was looking for something completely different) that was brown with pink and green polka dots on it, and when I opened it further it had pink breast cancer ribbons on it as well).…

The Summer Rehab Project – Part 2

One of my summer projects was to recover the chair cushions for our outdoor furniture with this beautiful fabric I found earlier this Spring. It took me awhile to get to it – because I wanted to finish the kids shorts (that I started last summer) and a few other projects that had been hanging…

Dream Dinners Act 2, 3, and 4

We have worked our way through a few more of the Dream Dinner meals from the July menu – mostly when I have no brilliant ideas for dinner and I pull one of those out thinking – “Oh, this will be easy, I don’t have to think about dinner.” Which happens to be how it…

The Summer Rehab Project

I saw these chairs that my friend Germaine had sitting out by her garage to get rid of on big trash day. I’d drive by on a fairly regular basis and wonder if she was going to use them or get rid of them. We had moved back into our remodeled house and had no…