OM (One Moment): First attempts at sewing

I’ve been sewing for as long as I can remember. My mom used to let me color squares of muslin with fabric crayons and she would let me sit next to her as she sewed them into pillows. I made millions of those (I wonder what happened to them)? My senior year of high school [...]

OM (one moment): Shhh… I’m camping

Growing up my family would go camping fairly frequently at this little lake in the Adirondacks. We would load up our canoe and paddle out what seemed like miles to one of the sites that my dad visited with his family when he was young. There were no signs of civilization, just the sound of [...]

OM (one moment): A baby’s love

Reasons #589 I love to work from home? I can drop everything and schedule an impromptu field trip in the middle of the week if I want to! And this week I really wanted to. I realized that I hadn’t seen my goddaughter, Bridget, in a couple of months. She’s still a baby (only 9 [...]

OM (one moment): A sale and an umbrella

This is my first One Moment but it’s such a lovely idea I couldn’t pass it up. Do you ever have those milliseconds where everything seems right in the world? I had one of those on Tuesday and it’s a two parter. Part 1: I got my first sale! From someone I don’t know! I [...]