A couple of months ago, I launched a Patreon account. I announced it here and have mentioned it a few times since, but today I want to do a bit of a deeper dive into WHY I decided to try Patreon…
It was never my intention to stop blogging. I'm rather shocked to see how long it has been (almost a year!) But then, you see, I was pregnant. And this time, dear reader, my pregnancy ended with the arrival of…
There's a half-written blog post in my files...an update on the menagerie... *Vin is doing beautifully as an only dog *the goats continue to charm us *we rescued two semi-feral outdoor cats through the humane society's "barn buddies" program and…
WE'VE GOT GOATS and I'm obsessed with them. Can you believe how darling these faces are? And these girls are so nice. I adore them. BUT WAIT. Back to the beginning. We bought the new house about 8 months ago.…
I’d be putting it mildly to say that it’s been a big year for me/us. We got married, Jon took a fancy new job, I left my job at the University (long story short: they added so much to my…
At a guild meeting just a few weeks before our wedding, I was surprised to receive this quilt from the Ann Arbor Quilt Guild: Pictured here with awesome quilter and friend Jenna, who is stopping the wind from toppling that quilt…
Are you only here for the quilts? Then please skip this post, we'll be back to the usual programming shortly! This post is about my wedding and honeymoon. I am, it turns out, not really a wedding person. At least…
In the three weeks since last I blogged: (1) I went to QuiltCon (yay!) (2) I returned home from QuiltCon to a very sick boyfriend who had an emergency appendectomy that night. (Yuck!) But he's okay! (Yay!) (3) I had…
The MQG has a post up asking people going to QuiltCon to share their faces a little information about themselves so that we can all know each other a bit better when we arrive in Austin. Well, here's me... As…
I realized, when moving house this summer, and coming across my old photo albums, that I had been doing a pretty crap job of keeping a photo album. I've never been one to preserve extensive documentation of my life and…