Searching for a Balance

Pretty , and Happy Two projects almost completed - a cheerful skirt for Easter wear, which is now hemmed; and a quilt that I've ...

(Jesus is Laid in the Tomb, by Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynn ) Be still, my soul - the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross ...

"When Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to his disciples, he summarized in these gestures his own life. Jesus is chose...

Whatever cats' understanding is of the busyness of humans, I can say that Dolly definitely has my bed-making habits pretty well figured ...

This morning it came to me that some of the grass is beginning to look green - a real green-ish. Later, while with my sewing machine, I r...

How convenient it is to machine-quilt when you use gingham fabric for the backing. Just follow those lines!

Can you imagine a scene more appealing than this? I don't know where my mother got this decorative plate - tag sale, probably. ...

"On the Street Where You Live" Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

"How do we wait for God? We wait with patience. But patience does not mean passivity. Waiting patiently is not like waiting for the bus...

Have you ever read the recipe for hot cocoa on the Hershey box?  For one serving you are supposed to put two tablespoons of cocoa and two t...

but it's nowhere in sight.

"...serving others also leads to humility.The one who serves does not consider himself superior to the one served, however miserable hi...

"Often we want to be able to see into the future. We say, How will next year be for me? Where will I be five or ten years from now? The...

These were taken the other day, before the big snow. But it's a daily thing around here - Henry at one of the doors, getting some...

"Spread, O spread, thou mighty Word, Spread the kingdom of the Lord, Wheresoe'er his breath has giv'n Life to bein...

I came across this one day last week - doesn't that look yummy?  I decided to make some myself. Anna says to use a white bread...

I've just finished a baby quilt, but before it gets sent off to where it's going, I want to do a little show-and-tell. I began thi...

Yesterday's flurries were expected. Then, overnight we were supposed to get three to six inches. This, I did not expect. At least...

not that I didn't expect it.

"To forgive another person from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between u...

My brother brought it home from an art show. Made with a real pear stem!

My old blanket is still good, but the bindings weren't. I found among my mother's sewing things a packet of light blue blanket bind...

"Awake, O sleeper, rise from death, And Christ shall give you light. So learn his love - its length and breadth, Its fullness, depth...

Wait a minute...... Aside from the fact that a certain person, who shall remain nameless , threw up right here on  two quilts at...

I'm joining Elizabeth for needle&thREAD today - I had put this baby quilt aside over the Christmas holidays, but now I'm done w...

outside. Inside is another story. Blessed are you, O God of the universe, giver of all good gifts!

My mother used to par-cook things. Not that I paid any attention, but I would often hear her say she'd par-cooked this, or she'd par...

in the morning.

Yet another explanation of the Lenten journey, but this has to be the best ever. From the monks at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass...