This morning M & M came over to help me make their Mom’s favorite cake. For those who wanted the recipe, here goes: 1 cup shredded coconut 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1/2 cup shortening 3 cups sugar 6 eggs, room temperature 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 tsp. coconut extract 3 cups flour 1/2 tsp. [...]

It is Stephanie’s birthday today. She is our unplanned child – at least by Mr. C! I snuck her into the family and after that he had a vasectomy. Stephanie was supposed to be born on March 10th. When she finally decided to make her entrance, it was quite a struggle as she was in [...]

Today M & M came to spend the day so that their Mom could get some work done on her wonderful one of a kind stuffed animals which you can see here. But you will have to look under SOLD because she sells them as fast as she posts them. We walked down to the [...]

I have been plodding along with the unpacking and getting organized. Some nights I go to bed and feel like I have really gotten somewhere and sometimes, I think I will never get it all done. Today, I had a goal of finding the five journal quilts, relabeling them and sending them to Quilting Arts [...]

First: Other Stuff I found the missing box of shoes!! They were in Mr C’s office. As he started unpacking stuff, I was able to check boxes on the bottom tier. It’s funny because he swore he had checked all the boxes. I finished my stories and techniques about the selected Journal Quilts and sent [...]