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My head was spinning, eyes, sore, tired, and itchy. I call it “computer eyes”. Too much time sitting in front of the laptop. There was an hour before getting supper started. Making yet another cup of Earl Grey tea, scooping up the dogs, I plopped down in a comfy chair on our backyard deck.

Breathing deeply and fully, I feel my body begin to relax. The smell of rain is in the air, a welcome change from unseasonably hot, dry, temperatures. A black cap chickadee is poised in the poplar tree, singing and tweeting its melodious song. It’s always ...

I had a fictional story published in Cricket magazine called The Trapped and Tangled Loon. It was based on a true story and the backdrop was Police Outpost Lake in Waterton Lakes National Park. I have to say that I was pretty excited. . . maybe thrilled is a better word.

In between, I had two photos published in the Sunlight Press.

Chinook Sky near Cochrane, Alberta

This was a very pleasant surprise for me. Although the pay is miniscule, the reward is huge. It’s made me feel compelled to learn more about how my camera works, a red, old-ish Nikon ...

I’ve waited a very long time to be a writer. In grade eight, at Queen Elizabeth Junior High School, I had a story published in the school anthology. A week later, the vice-principal, Mr. Kelly, summoned me to his office. Given who I was at the time, I was terrified. He sat me down and asked me questions about what books I’d been reading.

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” I said. “In English Lit class”.

He folded his hands in front of him on the splintered, carved-up, wooden desk.

“Several teachers have remarked on your story. It’s very ...

This month’s theme is quilting, so I made a Carolina Moore quilt block. I turned my updated logo into a block that

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I had my very first mammogram since my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment last year.To say I was nervous is an understatement!Here I was before the mamogramI remember taking a similar picture a year ago as I was heading into my mammogram.I was full of confidence.It was just a routine mammogram.Then they found my tumor, and my life was turned upside down for a year.As we all know, life seems

Every February a few of my friends and I go on a fairly local quilt retreat.  It's about 2 hours from home for me.  This year I invited my friend Kailie.  She is living close enough to drive here.  So on Thursday she and her dog came to my house.  We packed up her car, left her dog with Chris and headed out to meet up with my other 2 friends.  We always have such a great time!  WAY too much food

Good day quilters! It’s been a very long time since my last post here. Of course, that was not my intention for my blog to languish. . . life has been so very busy, like it has been for many of you.

After 30 years residing in the same home, we decided to move. We looked at homes on the market sporadically throughout the past few years, but finally agreed it was time to get serious. It took us several months to find what we wanted – a smaller home, preferably a walkout bungalow. Besides longing for a she shed, I had ...

Yesterday was my last radiation treatment.  A total of 15 treatments finished!  I believe I am now considered NED (no evidence of disease)  I brought cookies for my amazing radiation team.  They took great care of me and made my treatments easier.  I got a certificate and everything, LOL.They invited me to come back and visit them, haha.  Such sweet people.They came out into the hall with me and

As many of you know, I’ve longed for a backyard writing shed for years. I’ve had a recurring dream since my 30’s of a peaceful, tranquil, creative space, all my own.

I visualized a little cottage-type shed, with white shiplap on the peaked ceilings and gauzy curtains blowing in the gentle breeze. My magical space had a built-in bookcase on the back wall, a comfy chair and-a-half tucked into one corner and my desk positioned in the center. Funny thing was that the little shed stood in the middle of the woods, in a beautiful, green-grassed meadow ...

I am thankful for the talented people supporting my tiny business to come true.

I am thankful for my creative friends who generously and unconditionally inspire and help me.

I am thankful for my family who understand my passion and encourage me to grow and share my ideas by making beautiful things from fabrics.

I am thankful for you, my dear reader!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends who celebrate this day!

Good day everyone. Thanks ever so much for joining us. I appreciate all the new subscribers that have come on board recently.

Five years ago, my thirty-something son asked me to make him a quilt. I was a little taken aback. . . he had never seemed very interested in my quilting. I put Mike off for awhile; but he asked me again.

So I began to go through my fabric stash in an attempt to figure out what fabrics I could use for his project. Mainly, kid-themed fabrics dominate my stash, along with florals and bright feminine-styled fabrics. Finding something that ...

I’m about to get very sentimental, but before I do, I want you to head over to my Instagram and enter the awesome giveaway I have going on! You can enter on both my @craftmoore and @30MinuteCrafts handles for extra entries! Okay … now that we have that out of the way… It seems an […]

Even before we moved to social isolation and stay-at-home orders, I had a crazy thought. What if we swapped my sewing studio with the master bedroom? And when my friend Cheryl asked if I’d like to join in her annual Spring Clean your Studio Blog Hop, the idea really started to take hold – ne […]

I took a 10 week certification course last year and on Monday the university had a ceremony to honor us with certificates of completion.   It was a LOT of information about how to be a Laboratory Animal Research Coordinator.   This was the inaugural course and was by invitation only.   I was honored to be asked to be a part of it.  Rebecca Cunningham, our VP for Research was there to hand

Once again it is time for a new year and new beginnings!  Hopefully you and yours are staying warm and safe so far this winter.  It has been a bit on the cold side here and we are looking forward to getting out of the deep freeze – hopefully sooner rather than later!

In the meantime, it’s once again time to get back on track.  I don’t know about you, but it has been a couple of months before I had a chance to sit at my sewing machine.  That’s kind of sad isn’t it?  I really ...