So we all knew we were going to Seattle. Yay! Beautiful climate, at least as far as we were concerned, new Coastline, new culture, new, new, and yeah, new. Brian was going to a Prowler squadron for three years, deploying from various locations in tension fraught areas, rather than from a ship, so he was happy. Back to air, different format, ( Read more... )

Arilyn came up to me a few minutes ago and made this announcement ( Read more... )

We have been very happy in England. We love living here and would stay if we could. One of the strongest ties that we have with America is the food. We have come to realize this after asking numerous other American service members stationed overseas. Of course, everyone first says that they miss their families, or most people do, and then, ( Read more... )

Apparently entredeux is not only unavailable here, but the shop people act like I am asking for a three headed red headed baby when I try to explain what it is. I even googled it, with exactly no luck. Cannot properly make machine heirloom clothing without it, though there are instances you can use the machine to do a type of hemstitching, which ( Read more... )

As we are not going to Kentwell this year, of course I am directing my creative energies in other directions. At the moment I am working on a little frock for Miss A to wear to the formal base closure ceremony, which is to be held later this month. The design is a Victorian middy dress. We did a lot of consulting together on this, and she is ( Read more... )

Being a good Southern girl, I adore chicken livers. Gotta have them with lots of sauteed onions, gravy and mash. Corn is nice, and biscuits a necessity. My daddy makes the best I have ever had, probably better than mine, which I have told him. I think that my dad would flip if he came here to the UK and made fried chicken livers, like I did the ( Read more... )

I have been trying to find bobbin lace classes for a while. My recent trip back to the States resulted in my mother-in-law giving me a bobbin lace book, which again prompted me to redouble my efforts to find someone to teach me lace making. After some investigation, I found that they had classes scheduled last year in Wadebridge at an adult ( Read more... )

I feel as if I am coming along well with my embroidery and research. I am trying to practice working on velvet and having trouble getting the design onto the velvet. I tried putting a bit of tearaway interfacing on the back and stitching with a running stitch over the design. Problem was that you could not really see the stitching through the ( Read more... )

So, Emma is really enjoying her surgical rotation at Vandy. Big surprise, I know. I told her not to worry, that she would find her niche, and of course it is the niche that she long ago knew she wanted to be part of ( Read more... )

I am just wondering who on earth hacked my account and put this interesting photo in of Eeyore as my default photo. I have never even seen this image...Brian knows nothing about it, so, who did it?