A single, yellow flower, holding on into the fall. Wouldn't it be nice if my camera were the kind where I could choose to focus on somet...

Too bad I miss most of the morning every day. This week I'm filling in on a day shift, so I've been getting up at the horrible hour ...

I'll always feel weird in hats, but I knit them anyway. This one is from "Boutique Knits" and I used Brown Sheep Nature Spun s...

Mark was telling some men about the handbags I make/made. I no longer have a business doing that, but a couple of guys thought about getting...

See this? All wooly and red and thick and thin (MY FAVORITE)? All eight-plus skeins?!! It was free! Free, I tell you! Can you believe someon...

I made some cute knitting bags, and if you make it through this whole post, there's information on how to do it. There's a part...

... I'd have been wearing galoshes through my house at all times. I'd like to thank whoever it was who gave me this carpet steam cle...

My husband spent quite a bit of time the other night trying to get every last drop of lotion out of a glass bottle. He doesn't want to w...

Just as I was about to slam down the cover to the hot tub, I noticed this dude right on the edge. Even though he's a bug, praying mantis...

I bought two brown napkins for $1.38 each at Pier One on the clearance rack. Then I spruced them up a little with some leaf embroidery.

I usually don't discuss work on my blog, but this one is sort of funny horrifying. I'm a newspaper copy editor. At best, I should p...

I sent out my final two gifts from this post . To Elaine , taker of fantastic photographs, I sent two hand-embroidered oven mitts. I used vi...