In some ways I feel like this week has been anything but simple. I have been crazy busy every day. Some days I get to the end of the day and feel like I've hardly even seen my younger boys that day. That being said, it has been a productive week. One big check off …
Tag: Quilts
Simple Living 7
I feel like my summer has been just as busy as the school year. Partly that's because I'm now selling Usborne books and have been working hard to learn all the ins and outs. Since I am so busy I've been trying to stay on task with lots of lists. There is something so incredibly …
Goals for Summer 2020
Spring seemed like it dragged on for so long this year. The end of school felt a tiny bit anti-climatic so that I've barely realized yet that it IS summer. The weather hasn't helped either to be honest - cool and rainy. I'm still wearing sweaters and slippers. Anyway, it just dawned on me that …
Simple Living 6
It's been a long time since I told you all what I'm doing with my life. I've been doing a lot of knitting and sewing with a little bit of baking and gardening thrown in. I finished the quilt that I had shown the beginning of in my last Friday post. I'm in the middle …
Little House in the Big Woods
My three youngest boys and I just finished reading the "Little House" series. We loved it. I thought I would update and reshare this post that I wrote about six years ago on my love of all things "Little House." When I was a very little girl my parents gave me Little House in the …
Friday File 85
We've just come through our Canadian Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful visit from friends in the States. The entire weekend was special and comforting to all of us as we faced our first Thanksgiving without my husband. I've finally been able to get some pictures so you can see a couple of the projects I've …
Friday File 83
The last few weeks have felt like a "two steps forward one step back" dance with processing my grief which explains why I haven't been posting much. Everyone expects that grief will be hard emotionally. I just really had no concept of how physically hard it would be to deal with grief. I feel like …
Friday File 80
We've had a really good week. My wrists are slowly on the mend so I've been able to do more handwork. I've been cutting out quilt squares, scrapbooking, sewing and cautiously knitting. Playing the piano is still what causes the most pain so except for playing in church I'm not playing the piano yet. I'm …
Friday File 79
This has been a frustrating week. Back in December I sprained both of my wrists in separate incidents. Since then they have never really healed. To be honest, I don't think I'm resting them enough. It's Just. So. Hard. This week I realized that like it or not I had to cut back on playing …
Fleece Quilt Part 2
Last week I showed you the fleece quilt that I've been helping my two youngest daughters to sew. This week I can show you the finished product. I bought a piece of fleece off the clearance table. I knew it wouldn't be big enough, but I was sure that we could handle that. We laid …
Intentional Simplicity 