Best Gifts for the Knitter in Your Life

Are you a person who wants your gifts to be surprise or someone who likes to give specific hints as to what you would like to receive? Let me be transparent here – I love a surprise!  BUT…I have received gifts in the past that I did not appreciate and[Read more]

8 Simply Sentimental Dad’s Day Gifts

Remembering Father’s Day is a struggle for me. I don’t know if it’s because I’m usually traveling in the summers and not around my dad for it to come to mind, but I nearly always forget until the day of. And when it’s that last minute, all I’m able to[Read more]

5 Graduate Gifts They Will Love

Along with spring comes graduations.  We are always pleasantly surprised at the graduation announcements and reception invitations we receive each year.  Those joyful young children are now young men and women ready to embark on a new adventure. My how time flies. Now for some thoughts on graduate gifts. Here is[Read more]

Best “Teacher Appreciation Day” Gift of All Time

Do you have a gift for your student’s teacher yet?  Tuesday, May 5th is National Teacher Appreciation Day and you don’t want to be caught without a means to appreciate the teacher or teachers in your child’s life – do you? For a cute little project you could bop on[Read more]

College Bound: Embroidered Washcloths

How many of you are sending off a child to college this fall?  I actually made these embroidered washcloths as graduation gifts but they are a great idea for you to decorate your son’s or daughter’s bath linens before they head off to school this fall.  I purchased the simple[Read more]

Christmas is Less than a Week Away!

Now that we are down to the final days, it is time to get all that present wrapping done! I spent the day wrapping the presents I have for others as well as my parents’ gifts for the family. (I have known what almost everyone in my family is receiving[Read more]

Wedding Pillowcases

It is always such a joy to receive wedding invitations to friends or family weddings.  Marriage is such a blessed event.  I used to dread the task of looking for that special gift but no longer.  More often than not I now hand make embroidered, satin pillowcases for the bride[Read more]