November 4, 2008 – 12:50 pm
Today we’re going to be making BIAS cording/welting. Bias because it doesn’t scrunch up around the corners of the furnitiure. If you’ve never done this before, you might want to try it a time or two using scrap fabric. Trust me, I’ve messed this up more times than I care to mention.
First, we’ll need: Cutting [...]
October 4, 2008 – 7:14 pm
Diva Cheryl — if you ever get a chance to give this a try, let us know how it goes.
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Diva Vicki — Thanks for the pat on the head. Hopefully, these instructions will still be clear enough for someone to actually use!
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Ready, all?
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Got your fabric washed and dried?
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Found a flat surface? Have all your supplies [...]
September 23, 2008 – 4:13 pm
With the prices of furniture these days, I’ve taken to shopping for the “off” pieces at Goodwill, Savers or the occassional garage sale. This time around, I needed a footstool for my office, so I managed to find a decent, solid piece that a friend of a friend was looking to unload. Unfortunately, it’s orange and [...]
August 14, 2008 – 10:09 am
As I’m tooling around the house today…that being the only connection between this rambling and the column…there are a bazillion completely useless questions flitting through the sieve I call a brain. There’s probably no answers to said questions, but maybe the act of giving them ink will make them just…go…away…
Why is it, that on the [...]
Water : Pronunciation: \ˈwȯ-tər, ˈwä-\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave
Date: before 12th century (oh, that just figures)
1 a: the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all [...]
I recently stumbled onto the Point and Click Home site. I could spend days there and most likely will…once the wip is done. But I had to share these slide shows with you – they were too awesome and some are just far too giggle-worthy to keep to myself.
Looking for something different in the way [...]
No, really, it did.
We live in the city…not just inside the city limits, but in town. Yes, we could wash our neighbor’s back if we had a long scrub brush. The houses are old…ours was built in 1942 and is relatively “new” for the neighborhood. I say that only because I know that my [...]
Oh, how I love the season of new growth…you know, spring and all its glory. New grass, bright new leaves, new flowers, new plants, baby animals. I can even deal with the return of the bees and wasps right now. Come summer I’ll be swatting and spraying, but right now it’s all good.
Except for one [...]
A few months ago I bemoaned the fact that I couldn’t find Lee Relaxed Riders anywhere in town…then I found some at WalMart of all place. Yeah, well, I won’t be rushing out for anther pair anytime soon. I came home from a meeting a weekish or so ago and the dh says, “You’re hanging [...]
Ah, spring in the Midwest. The yellows and purples of crocuses dot the flower beds. Daffodils peek up through the ground. Grass and iris leaves start greening up. It’s a time when song birds build their nest 4 feet outside my bedroom window and sing merrily at 5 am…about half an hour before I go [...]
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