So, here we are. It’s just a few days after Thanksgiving and I’m looking at the calendar and seeing that December is coming tomorrow. Time this year is the strangest I can recall it being ever. It seems to go both fast and slow; fast as winter holidays, if we count Thanksgiving, are already in […]
NIGHT BEFORE PIE-BY
THE NIGHT BEFORE PIE-BY (By members of the Pie Nation Facebook Group) ‘Twas the night before a Pie-By and all through the house I was sifting and stirring with vast quantities of flour on face and blouse. Stockings were covered in Morello Cherry Juice. My dough making skills, graceful as a moose. The pie […]
THE NIGHT BEFORE PIE-BY
THE NIGHT BEFORE PIE-BY Tomorrow, Dec 25th, is National Pumpkin Pie Day and there will be a piece or two set out for Santa at Pie Cottage when I head to bed so he can keep his strength up as he makes his visits around the world tonight. As some of you know, we have […]
The Noname Family
The Noname Family The Noname’s joined me over twenty years ago when I saw a pattern for them at a quilting store and made a little family of them. Pronounced “no-nah-mee”, these little folk are known for shirking responsibility and can be always be counted on to say, “No, not me.” I made three Nonames; Papa Noname, who has a […]