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17 Tips for Communicating with Kids

A few months ago I wrote a post called: 25 Ways to Ask Your Kid's "How Was School Today?" Without Asking Them "So How Was School Today?".  I wrote it late one night after a conversation with my husband about our son growing up and my determination to keep the lines of communication open with him.  It was a list of questions that I actually started asking him and found success with. To say that I was taken back by the response it received is an understatement.  The amount of page views that ... View the Post

Four Corners Fabrics

Four Corners Fabric Line

For almost two years Elizabeth and I have been working on putting together a fabric line...and today we finally get to share it with all of you!  We are so excited that it is really happening that we have to keep pinching ourselves.  We feel like the luckiest girls in the world. Now, I know what you're thinking.  Two years?  Isn't that kind of a long time to create a fabric line?  And the answer to that is yes, yes it is.  But even though Elizabeth and I are so alike in many aspects we are ... View the Post

Quilts

How to Make A Bonus Quilt

A long time ago when I first started quilting I remember hearing some ladies talking about "bonus quilts" and how many they had made.  A "bonus quilt" is a quilt that is made from the left over scraps of other quilts that you are working on....and because it is just left over fabric that creates another brand new quilt it is called a "bonus".  And while this sounded like a good idea, at the time I thought to myself I will never have enough scraps to make one of those. My how times change.... ... View the Post

Thoughts

Works in Progress

Do you ever have those months where you feel like you are spinning your wheels?  And you have nothing  to show for it? Well, that's me this month. I have so many works in progress that it's not funny.  And I feel like if I write them down I will get better about getting them accomplished.  Most of these things are already cut out, I just need to sit down and actually sew them ;)   So, here's my sewing list for Spring (to sew before school gets out): ... View the Post

The Art of Homemaking

The Art of Homemaking: Do you need help?

(Floral wreath from Angie Makes) The Art of Homemaking: Do you need help? Story #1 "Do you need help?"  we (my husband and I) called out the window one day after lunch last week. We were coming back from a lunch date and found a young girl sitting on the curb and puzzling over a gas can. "I can't get the nozzle on this gas can and I've run out of gas." She replied. "Let me do it." My husband replied.  Man, do I feel lucky to have him. Story #2 Last Saturday a hang glider ... View the Post