Eight year old James and Bailey transformed a chocolate cake into a fish.

Another chocolate cake bloomed into a sunflower.

Paul and Bailey each had a sewing machine. Paul was making a pincushion and Bailey made a quilted cover for her sketch book. Both Paul and Bailey have made quilts with me in the past.

Bailey wanted to learn my new quilting style and it inspired her to sew a quilted cover for her sketch book. She was up at 2 a.m. the last night she visited finishing the cover. It looks amazing--and even more beautiful because she learned how to quilt from her grandmother.

Whenever my husband and I are looking through junk/antique stores I always comment on how I’d love to have an old gumball machine. This one is a reproduction and it’s found a home in our family room.

My husband bought me a colorful, handpainted goat and it’s keeping watch over the ER section of my flower gardens. Whenever a plant isn’t doing well and needs a lot of special attention I transfer it to my plant ER. Surprisingly almost all of them recover.

The pin keeper my husband gave me is the perfect solution for keeping my sewing pins away from our cat Natie. If I don’t keep the pins covered, that little dickens will put them in her mouth and run off with them. I can’t even leave material pieces pinned together out at night, because Natie will pull out the pins.

A Visit to Remember