to a clean Capri at meal times is one spoon full of food at a time.”  – Papa Daddy Obviously I did not listen to this wisdom…Papa Daddy did not think this was funny…I did 🙂

Thank you to everyone who voted for my items in last week’s etsy Voter.  I am proud to announce that my ‘Springtime Wonder Quilt’ was a runner up and is now featured in the ‘Member’s Choice Gift Guide!’.  This is the first time I’ve had an item in the gift guides and I really appreciate […]

Two Saturday’s ago, we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s setting up the apple store.  The girls did amazingly well and were patient with us for the entire morning…but Capri really needed a nap and she just wouldn’t go to sleep.  After lunch I decided to take the girls for a walk to the MacKenzie Center.  […]

On Saturday, we went to a family reunion in Belmont, WI (the same location for the QuiltsbyBarb Quilt Retreat).  I saw my husband’s aunt Barb who is the one that does the quilting on my larger quilts with her long arm machine.  Since apple season is quickly approaching I know I won’t have time to […]

I’m typing this blog post as it is storming outside.  All I want to do is curl up in a quilt with a good book and a hot cup of Friendship tea…but I’m putting together this post instead. Our apple store officially opens next Saturday…life is going to get busy!  I’ll do my best to […]

Someone asked me the other day how I add my newly listed items to facebook.  Here’s a quick tutorial.      1.  List a new item. 2.  Once the item is listed the icon saying ‘Post your new item to Facebook’ should pop up (circled in red above).   Click on that. 3.  A box will pop […]

This may be one of my last Themed Thursday’s for awhile.  I will try to continue this as often as I can but Apple Season starts up next week and my TIME will be very limited.  Themed Thursday will begin again on a regular basis in November (unless I come up with something else…) A […]

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the etsy front page keyword list.  Would love to hear if this is helping you out with your tagging!  Don’t forget to to see the themes/keywords that the Etsy Merchandising Team has laid out in advance go to the Storque article:  http://www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/merch/ This will also be very helpful! THE […]

Okay…well, her checkup was technically a 17 month checkup which shouldn’t actually exist but I forgot about scheduling the 15 monts and apple season lands right at 18 months…so we had a 17 month check up. After driving the the doctor’s office on Monday just to find out the appointment was canceled…we tried a second […]