Sparkle time

There was no mad dash this year to find a sparkly Christmas outfit for the OR annual dinner and dance. Not much need this year for any kind of sparkle actually which is why today’s activity was kind of nice change.

A Total Surprise

It seems like an unusual tourist activty and one I didn’t see in my future. But here I am going around Scotland collecting

The Steps from our Past

My grandfather, Bowyer Bradford, left England in 1903 for a better life in Canada. He wrote back to his older sister, Lizzie for decades. Sadly the letters are gone but they kept alive a connect with his family in the “old country”. During the

Drudgery Reversed

The job is pure and simple drudgery; worse than toilets. The unseeable dusty job that falls on my

Just One More

I keep telling myself I’ll take just one more but somehow it’s too easy to keep going. So now, despite eating up blog space, I must share the best of the them.

This seems to have been a once in a lifetime

A rabbit hole

I do live just down the road from a few rabbits so it’s entirely possible that I did fall in one of their homes. But no, that’s not the kind of rabbit hole I found.

It all started with an innocent enough comment. Really it was but then it became more. Oh no, this rabbit hole is

Start Over

In the last two days I have started and deleted two blog posts. They both seemed so superficial in light of the tragic events in the world

Hands Down

Hands down the best part of my new routine is Friday. That’s Nan and

TBT to Monograms

It turns out I’m not usually quite organized enough to get a timely TBT (Throw Back Thursday) post up and published before Thursday disappears. Somehow it seems easy

WIP

WIP stands for, in the quilting world, a Work In Progress. Which is different than a UFO, which stands for an Unfinished Object. I think the analogy to life here is quite fitting so read on as it’s not a quilting blog!