Everyone needs a black dress. Of my top ten of things to have in my closet, the LBD is number one. If you have just one LBD, it should be simple and preferably sleeveless because a sleeveless dress is more versatile. I took my little black dress and restyled it four ways using accessories: bags, [...]
Back in August I had a hankering for a brown plaid wool shawl. Probably reading far too much of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, but I also just wanted a good piece of wool. Hunting in the usual places (Vogue Fabrics, Mood Fabrics and Joann's) left me empty handed. Finally I went to my favorite haunt. [...]
Years ago, I was hunting for a Kimono on eBay. After developing a Japanese Kimono unit for my 5th grade art students, I thought it would be nice to have a genuine Kimono to show them. It's not that I lacked an abundance of reference materials already: a PowerPoint, handouts of Kimono motifs I had [...]
My favorite posts are the ones that includes my family. Today's post is one of those. We are lucky to have to beautiful daughters (yes, I am prejudice) and two pretty neat grandsons. Today, I'm joined by my daughter Michelle and our photographer, my youngest grandson. I originally went down to Joplin the weekend of [...]
Michael and I found ourselves having to get a new fridge. As we were doing our research, I remembered an old Kelvinator cookbook that was given to me an elderly neighbor when I was about fifteen.This book was published in 1930 and I have always loved the artwork in this book and decided it was [...]
I published this post quite a while back, long before I was comfortable being in front of the camera. At that point in time, my blog was solely about art, design , sewing, kntting and poodles. The fitted blouse that I created from one of my mother's patterns has continued through the years to be [...]
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