Welcome to Mountaintop Quilting Studio
This is where you find me exploring a variety of creative adventures mostly about but not limited to quilting. I'm a firm believer that one increases their creativity by being open to and playing with a variety of cretative endeavors ... at least that my excuse for today. Enjoy your sourjourn through my studio playroom. May you find encouragement and inspiration, and on occassion, a little pin-prick that may be thought-provoking or spark your imagination. Thank you for stopping by.
FamilyPILGRIMS & POPCORNThere isn't much fact to support the myth that the Pilgrims were introduced to popcorn by the Indians but since I have a frequent craving for this tasty snack I thought today might be a fun day, in light a particular new movie release, to enjoy some tips from ... ...read moreQUILTS QUILTS AND MORE QUILTS
One of the ideas cooking in the back of my mind is to develop a art journaling project centered around the theme of houses, homes, the comfort of home, castle in the sky ... you know ... It just takes a heap of living to make a house a home. I just ... ...read moreHAT-TITUDE
HAT-TITUDE: they say that's what you've got when you're wearing your favorite hat and feelin' kinda sassy! Just a quick update/progress report on the current knitting project - Eryn's hat ... I'm a little more than halfway finished with the crown section. I need a total ... ...read moreSNOW DAY
The first order of business ... Miso needs to go out. But I can't get the door open until I shovel the snow out of the way ... kind of like Little House on ... ...read moreSEARCH NO MORE
So ... at the risk of opening a potentially touchy subject - How do your mornings go? I'm one of those people who doesn't have time for sleep. There are just too many exciting things happening out there in the world and I don't want to miss out on ... ...read morePICKING UP ..... where we left off last fall ...
I thought long and hard about how best catch up with everyone and to get going again and photo collages, in the end, seemed like the most fun way to reconnect. Guess it the proverbial "picture worth 1000 words" kind of situation. And we ... ...read moreTRASH OR TREASURE
I love going for my daily walks and seeing a sign like this along the road boxes and various ... ...read moreSADNESS AND WOE
We talked, we laughed by L.J. Sattgast They're ... ...read moreCOOKS IN THE KITCHENHELLO
... snack time lounging ... The question: "Hey, Kay, where have you been? You dropped off the face of the earth in April!" The answer:
DESIGN CHALLENGE WRAP UP
Our March Design Challenge is almost finished ... just a few more days to take advantage of the $1 pattern special on 1402 Hearts A Flutter Block 2. Remember me telling you how easily it could be divided for additional design play in Creative Studio? All you have to do is ... ...read moreA BLESSING
HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY! I've been having a wonderful break from all the construction by hanging out with Eryn in Alabama during her Spring Break. Lots of movies, a little shopping, working on projects, eating REAL food and cooking on a REAL stove, and wonderful time for chattering ... ...read moreKITCHEN UPDATE
Time for an update on the progress we're making with the kitchen. It feels like home more and more each day. It's true what they say about the kitchen being the heart of the home. Not only was the house physically warmer when all the holes to the ... ...read moreHAPPY VALENTINES DAY
Aren't these little mini carnations just the perfect color with the variegation of red and white. On my "bucket list" of quilts is a traditional red and white school house quilt. Someday ... sigh ... Thanks Mike for the Valentine tussie mussie bouquet. I don't care what they say on ... ...read moreGRAB BAG
Christmas Greeting 2008
I find the holiday season one of the hardest times of the year to have family scattered across the states. Most of the time I can fill my life and times with quilting and enjoy the solitude of a quiet house, but the emptiness looms with ... ...read moreREMODELINGThings I've learned about myself: I have no desire to ever have a job that consists of day-in ... ON THE ROAD-LAST LEGS To finish up the last legs of our wonderful adventure driving across country ... a brief overnight stay in Pittsburg and drive up 28 on some beautiful country roads on our way into Boston. As you can see, the CRV was packed from front to back with all of Toby's ...
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THEY'RE HERE! I'll bet you all thought I went to the retreat and just ran away ... never to come back. Actually, that sounds like a pretty good idea, but if I was going to run away, it would be back to those two sweet little grand babies!Yes, they are here ... GRANDBABIES COMING SOON!
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