Goodbye May!

Last night I realized today would be the last day of my favorite month of the year.  May is fantastic in Western Pennsylvania.  Just beautiful!  I am feeling a little let down since I haven't been able to sew much lately but May is a hard month...

Sprucing up Your Wreath

I was decorating my outside wreath and realized I have not shared this on the blog before!  This is a super easy way to spruce up your old fake wreath to make it fresh and beautful.  I guess my camera is starting to have some issues so please forgive the...

Volunteer Sunflower and the Winner

We have a big volunteer sunflower growing in one of my garden beds.  All the seeds I planted were eaten by deer, but this one must have come from the bird feeder.  It is making all of us happy in our house with its sunny face.  Now it will make...

Winners and Tomato Stakes

Thank you so much for all the comments on the new pattern makeovers!  I loved hearing what everyone is sewing too.  It was so fun to hear about all the handmade activity happening out there!  I used the True Random Number Generator and it gave...

Spring Loverlies

SPRING!  We have had tons of rain but finally the sun is shining.  My sewing machine has been behaving badly the past couple of days and today I worked on my veg garden and got excited to grow some tomatoes and green beans.  I still have lots of...

Climbing Fences

My husband has been putting up a split rail fence on our property.  A friend gave it to me a bunch when she replaced her fencing for her horses.  I told her we were having problems with deer in the garden and she thought maybe it would help.  What a...