Studio Life

While the California studio was working on Tuesday, the Austin studio was having a brief brush with fame. Our house, which is a casual, kid-and-dog-friendly abode, became a hip, mid-century home for a scene in an upcoming ABC Family TV show, The Lying Game. Everyone was all a-twitter, especially Neville, our beloved mutt, who, as many of you know, is

I love attending the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild meetings.  Everyone in our guild brings inspirational show-and-tell projects, and for a few days after our monthly get together, all I want to do is play with colored cotton.  For June, Freespirit sponsored a challenge for all the Modern Quilt Guilds.  We were each given some fat quarters of Jay McCarroll’s

You know that historical section in the back of American Girl books that tells a bit about the time period in which each particular story takes place?  I always loved that part.  First, it was one of the few opportunities for you to read the end of a book first and not ruin anything.  Second, it always gave a female-centric

Reading Ellen’s previous post about Bacon Caves made me a little bit hungry, and here is the reason: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BACON … not in rock formation, but in crispy, crunchy, glorious-cut-of-pork formation. In fact, my little bacon addiction might be part of the reason I finally joined my local Weight Watchers group. However, before I was willing to join,

Also part of our Lake Shasta trip was a guided tour of Shasta Caverns during which we learned the layman’s terms for several cave formations.  Lots of structures were named after foods, but my favorites were Cave Bacon and Cave Draperies.  Like stalactites, these formations grow from the ceiling. When a ridge in limestone causes water to travel along a