Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It It may seem a little late to be posting about a calendar for 2023 since we’re already almost 3 months into 2023.  But getting this together for you took me longer than I expected.I started to work on the watercolors for each month in August of 2022.As mentioned in the post called Pattern Sale with a Purpose, I suffered a stroke on the first of January of 2022.The stroke left me paralyzed on my left side.  I was unable to walk or use my left hand and arm. It also affected my left peripheral vision, meaning I can see except for anything to...…Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It It may seem a little late to be posting about a calendar for 2023 since we’re already almost 3 months into 2023.  But getting this together for you took me longer than I expected.I started to work on the watercolors for each month in August of 2022.As mentioned in the post called Pattern Sale with a Purpose, I suffered a stroke on the first of January of 2022.The stroke left me paralyzed on my left side.  I was unable to walk or use my left hand and arm. It also affected my left peripheral vision, meaning I can see except for anything to...WW…

Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It Dear readers,You may have noticed that Sue hasn’t posted in a while. Our family has been trying to cope with multiple tragedies since the end of 2021.On December 21, 2021, Sue’s daughter, mentioned here on the blog as DD2, passed away in a car accident on her commute to work. She leaves behind her partner, young son, mother, father, brother, and sister.Two weeks later, on January 2, 2022, Sue experienced an ischemic stroke and spent three and a half months in the hospital and later a rehabilitation program where she underwent intensive physical and...…Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It Dear readers,You may have noticed that Sue hasn’t posted in a while. Our family has been trying to cope with multiple tragedies since the end of 2021.On December 21, 2021, Sue’s daughter, mentioned here on the blog as DD2, passed away in a car accident on her commute to work. She leaves behind her partner, young son, mother, father, brother, and sister.Two weeks later, on January 2, 2022, Sue experienced an ischemic stroke and spent three and a half months in the hospital and later a rehabilitation program where she underwent intensive physical and...WW…

Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It If you’re looking for the perfect gift to give the embroiderer in your life then you’ve definitely come to the right place. I’ve been embroidering for over 40 years and in this Embroidery Gift Guide, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite embroidery supplies. One of the great things about embroidery is that it needs very few supplies to get started. Fabric, floss, a large eyed needle, scissors, hoop and a pattern are the very basics.So we’ll start by covering the basic supplies every embroiderer needs.We’ll finish with some awesome gift ideas that...…Helping you create a home by hand. Pin It If you’re looking for the perfect gift to give the embroiderer in your life then you’ve definitely come to the right place. I’ve been embroidering for over 40 years and in this Embroidery Gift Guide, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite embroidery supplies. One of the great things about embroidery is that it needs very few supplies to get started. Fabric, floss, a large eyed needle, scissors, hoop and a pattern are the very basics.So we’ll start by covering the basic supplies every embroiderer needs.We’ll finish with some awesome gift ideas that...WW…