Valentine’s Day Table Runner

Flowers and hearts Valentine’s Fabric.

Fabric from Hobby Lobby as well as the rolling pin. The red rooster I bought in Pawhuska, Oklahoma at the Pioneer Woman Mercantile. The pink salt and pepper shakers I bought from an antique store. 

Sewing Tool Wall Hanging

I made these two wall hangings to keep Sewing tools I use. These are hanging on the wall above my ironing board in my sewing room. 

The Thang Sewing Tools are great for turning fabric. The pens are Pilot Frixion Erasable Pens. Sold in the office supply section of stores. Heat from the iron erases the marks from these pens. I use them constantly when sewing especially for quilting. 

Sewing Room Organization

I love this picture minus the shade from my lamp. 

I painted these mini storage chests from IKEA. I like the color combination of the drawers. 

Nightmare Before Christmas Quilts

I made two identical quilts for my identical twin daughters. These were last years Christmas gifts. 

For Christmas Kindsey and Kendree wanted Nightmare Before Christmas stuff. I decided to make them lap quilts. Then they can use the quilts or display them in their rooms. 

My loft is my sewing room. Its a large room that is fantastic, except trying to keep hidden a big project is hard. I wanted to surprise the twins. I didn’t want them to know I was making anything for them. 

I only worked on their quilts when they were at work. That was tough since they mostly worked in the evenings. They were part time at the time so some nights their shift was 6-10 pm. I had busy days so it was hard to quilt at night. When it was time to go to bed my back would be on fire. When they were home I covered up everything with other material, or put it in my room.

Christmas morning came. After everyone opened all the gifts we gave the twins the quilts. I got the reaction I was hoping for…pure excitement! Kindsey and Kendree loved the quilts. I was really happy that the girls were so happy. 

Cute fabric coasters

Fabric coasters are fun to make. 

These coasters use  2-4x4 inch fabric squares. 2-3x3 felt squares. 2-4x4 soft interfacing squares. 

Iron together the fabric, felt and interfacing.


Put right sides of fabric together. 


Mark where the opening is. 




Sew 1/4 inch seams around, just leave the opening.




Cut the corners.


Flip it around and use a tool to push out the corners. 


After ironing go back to the sewing machine. 


Sew around the edges. This keeps it nice and closes up the opening. 


The fabric coasters are easy to make. 

I’ve made several sets of coasters 

My youngest daughters are twins who love Nightmare Before Christmas. I had some left over material from a project, so I made them each a coaster. 

Black and white floral pillow covers

I made pillow covers for these 12x23 inch pillows from IKEA. The pillows are pink and red striped and meant to be as is. I like putting covers on them to protect them. 

I chose this fabric with the hope you could faintly make out the colors. I can see faint red stripes. It’s harder through the camera but in person you can see them. It’s faint enough that if you didn’t know they were red and pink stripes underneath you wouldn’t notice. 

This is a fun addition to my many pillows. I love pillows and they get used in our house. 



Months ago I bought this fabric at Hobby Lobby. For weeks every time I went to look at fabric I would get this thought in my head to buy this particular fabric. I would always think to myself, “what would I do with it?” Finally one day I added a couple yards with some other fabric I was buying. 

Homemade Pan Pizza

This pizza right here is amazing!

Dough set to rise for two hours. 


After rising I spread the dough in the cast iron skillets. I used olive oil to well coat the skillets. 


Sauce and toppings. 


This pizza has sauce, cheese, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, bacon pieces, yellow bell peppers and green onions.


This one had sauce, mozzarella cheese, bacon pieces, black olives, green and yellow bell peppers, yellow onion and green onions.


I baked the two pizza’s at the same time. Half way through I switch the pans so they make evenly. 



After baking I take the pizza’s out of the skillets. I like to cut the pizza’s on cutting boards. 


Last month I got a new oven and it much more efficient than my last one. Next time I’ll lower the baking time. The cheese looks over baked. No matter how they look I absolutely loved these pizza’s.

I used the recipe from the link below. I used the dough recipe but did my own thing with the cheese and other toppings. What’s great about making homemade pizza you can make it anyway you want.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/jeff-mauro/the-mauro-family-bacon-and-pineapple-pan-pizza-8892666?ic1=amp_reviews#reviewsTop

Christmas Quilted Table Runner

I just love how my Table Runner turned out. 

The top fabric I bought at Hobby Lobby in the Christmas Fabric months before Christmas. I couldn’t resist buying the beautiful fabric. 

The bottom fabric was also from Hobby Lobby. I like polka dots and thought it would work great in my Christmas runner. I can also use it for Valentines Day decor. 


I used pink thread to give a pop of color.


I used a ink pen that erases with an iron and a quilt ruler to mark lines to sew the fabric together. After sewing the squares I trimmed the three layers.


This bright red fabric was perfect to make the binding. 




I use quilting fabric clips to hold my fabric in place. 


The last part is tedious and time consuming. I hand sewed the binding on the bottom side. 

Thanksgiving 2020

I love to decorate the top of pies. 

My favorite is Apple Pie! 

My daughters love Cherry Pie. 

There was so much filling that it covered the edges. 

I also made four pumpkin pies. 

So good with whip cream on top. 

Today is Thanksgiving, November 26, 2020.

We had a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday at our house with my oldest daughter and her family: Hillary, Gabriel, Aria, Wyatt and Julien. I love spending time with my grandchildren. Her two roommates joined our dinner: Jesse and Gabrielle. So it was a full house. Having everyone over was fantastic!

We had three tables set up: our regular table, an extra table we keep in the garage and our cute blue kids picnic table for Aria and Wyatt. My daughter held baby Julien. 

After eating I was extremely full and I didn’t even finish half my plate. I walked with my two oldest grandkids to the park. Even with the short walk it helped my not feel so full. The two cuties loved sliding on the slides.

The desserts were wonderful. We had dessert after the walk to the park. Hillary also brought cookies. 

The next day I went for a speed walk (5.40 miles)  to burn off some of that delicious pie. I was thinking about getting my kitchen back in order. I came home and saw that my husband and middle daughter put the tables away and did the dishes. I usually do dishes after the big meal but I hardly slept the night before so I was utterly exhausted by Sunday night. I was so relieved and thankful to them for helping. That made my day! 

Today we are going to my mom’s house for Thanksgiving. Tomorrow we are eating with Jason’s family a Thanksgiving dinner. My goodness this is a dream to people who love Turkey and all that goes with it to have three Thanksgiving meals.  Me not so much! I’m good with it once a year. I told my husband I’d rather have Mexican food. Haha he thinks I’m weird. I probably am. In truth I do love the Thanksgiving meal with Turkey, gravy, potatoes, vegetables, stuffing, black olives, rolls, fruit salad, casseroles

 and other sides.

I want to make a shout out to my second oldest daughter, Kymberleen to who is serving in the army and has to work today. She’s in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. 

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! 

Neighborhood Quilt

My finished quilt on a full bed.

The back of the quilt is beautiful.


Hand sewing the binding.


Top of the quilt. I was so happy it was all sewed together. Lots of love put into this (many hours of sewing)!

I accidentally sewed two rows together the wrong way. 


This fat quarter bundle I bought at the 2019 Houston, Texas Quilt Festival. I also bought this pattern. I look forward to going again. For the sashing, boarder, binding and backing material I ordered the matching Connecting Threads fabric online.


This quilt has so many pieces. The houses had 6 pieces to sew together and the trees 9 pieces. The finished product makes it all worth it.

This neighborhood quilt is my second quilt. My sister Elaine is a master quilter. She taught me how to quilt. She is a really good teacher. I love seeing all the quilts she has made when I visit her in Texas.