This Irish cabin is in Bunratty Folk Park, a wonderful place near Shannon in Ireland. Many old cabins and buildings arrived on the castle grounds to be restored and create a new kind of “old” village. It’s a beautiful, well cared for castle and…
1 package ground / minced turkey (about a pound) 1 onion 3 cloves of garlic * 1/2 red pepper * 1 can chopped tomatoes 1 small can tomato sauce 1 tsp sugar (to cut acid) 2 tbsp chili powder, standard such as Target brand 1…
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp pumpkin pie mix 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine, room temperature * 3/4 cup white sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup milk 2 eggs…
How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton This book appealed to me for quite some time. I love the snippet you can read on Amazon about the grandfather and grandson team, the co-authors. I finally purchased it and I’m thrilled. …
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour 1/3 cup white sugar 2 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon * 1 small container lemon yogurt * 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 egg 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp grated lemon peel 1 tsp lemon…
I decided to call this blog “mindfulness” to take the me out of it, and to be mindful of the other people reading it. I felt that interesting tidbits seemed more broadcast appropriate, more a reflection of me and my interests. I also deliberately…
I recently started to crochet. It is like learning another language, and a completely different set of skills to stitching. My first “finished” project is this hat and scarf on the Star-Bellied Sneetch. Yes, the hat was meant to be human sized…
The past header is over 6 months old. I’ve recently spent some time in Ireland and the new header reflects that. Here is the previous photo, from a warm summer day in Chicago along the lakefront.
This angel is going to be the centerpiece of a quilt. There is an organization that organizes quilts to be made for needy children, and they coordinate stitchers with quilters. I worked on this with a fellow member of the EGA (Embroider’s Guild of America). …
I call this Purple Leaves but it is a piece out of a beautiful mobius band project by my brilliant teacher Diane Herrmann. She calls it “Color Wheel With a Twist” and stitched leaves using a progression of colors from the color wheel. I enjoyed…