I grew up with a sewing machine so starting and ending a seam with backstitching is second nature to me. When I got my first serger I was dumbfounded to learn that sergers don’t go backwards. If you can’t go backward how do you keep a serged seam from unravelling?…
Last year I decided it was time to update the logo I’d been using for my child care business since I opened in 1998. It outdated and poor quality a scan of a stamped image and I was ready for something new. Being a do-it-yourself kind of gal I started…
It happened at a basketball game my seventh grade year. I don’t know about your school, but at the K-8 school I attended, Friday night basketball games were the social event of the week. All the cool kids came and hung out at the far end of the bleachers, as…
This is the mulch that Grandpa got. This is the door (with an arrow in white) that shows how ginormous the pile was of mulch that Grandpa got. This is the Uncle, so tall and strong, that shoveled the pile (that ginormous pile) of mulch that Grandpa got.…
Nicole did it again – it’s all her fault! A couple of months ago Nicole’s little sister had a baby boy, and Nicole ordered a mother’s necklace with the baby’s name and birthstone for her. I was quietly jealous; I’ve wanted a mother’s necklace for a long time, but my…
