Walking with Gracie hasn’t always been easy. I was missing have a dog since we had lost ours three years ago. When we decided to get a...

Appreciating the beauty of the garden. Looking out the kitchen window at this time of year is glorious. The dahlias are in bloom and are...

Book to read Blue Mind is a book I’d like to read. It talks about the benefits of being in, on and under the water- how it has a calming...

As the preparations are now coming to a close I will be able to refresh renew and create for the next few days ahead. The rug hooking...

There is a site where you could get free images to use however you want to use them. It is call “Upsplash“- maybe you already know about...

What’s on your to do list today? this week? this weekend? this month? this year? Do you feel like it is never ending? or do you embrace...

Last weekend my husband and I went north and visited the “Mid Coast” of Maine. Gracie the Pup at Cellardoor Winery We decided to bring...

Unfinished projects- you know you have them- we all do, whether it’s work related , laundry- whatever- there is always something to do...

Spring time flowers are blooming here in Maine Just a quick update on how the move to going green at home and at work is progressing. I...

My grandparents gravestone Every year since we have returned to Maine we hold fast to the same Memorial Day traditions. Back in the early...

Well, it’s up and running! Welcome to the shop! you can now purchase rugs and some patterns directly right here on the website. I am the...

Where have I been? well, right here at home actually trying to keep all of the “plates spinning” but letting some of them fall- like the...

Well, it has been snowing and snowing and snowing… Today though- there are bright blue skies and WIND- lots and lots of wind. The...

Who is training who? I’d like to think that we are training Gracie, but in fact, she may have equal billing right now. Gracie the “lap...

OOOOh, it’s cold outside! Wow, taking Gracie out, who has to find “her spot” before she does her business, is quite a challenge today. I...

photo credit John Mark Smith “I feel healthy, happy and terrific”. While at a celebration milestone birthday breakfast I asked the...

Do you think you might need a spoonful of sugar- (you know like the Mary Poppins song)to make the fire cider and elderberry syrup go...

Thank goodness for dogs. I have a puppy and sometimes she can be a real joy, and sometimes , well… a real challenge. The joys: Having a...

If you remember, a while back I wrote a blog post about my love affair with zip loc bags. Well, I have just received a very promising...

A walk in the woods Each year we all think that we have a fresh start, a new beginning when the calendar turns to January. Here we are,...