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.

 A treat for John, my snowblowing neighbor from across the street who has gone above and beyond the call of duty this winter in keeping my front drive and side yard cleared away so Miso can go out and play.

Cranberry Nut Muffins usually show up as holiday fare ... a ...

Seven days if you take something to ease your pain and misery or a week if you do nothing. That's what they say about treating a cold. I'm in my 3rd day ... only 4 more days to go. I washed my hands frequently, didn't touch my face ...

You can find this dish listed in nearly every posting of the top ten comfort foods and almost as many variations in preparation. Strangely enough this is a dish that was not served in our household as I was growing up. I was introduced to macaroni and cheese with hot ...

After the first taste I knew I had died and gone to heaven! The menu:

• * a hefty serving of GAZPACHO (freshly made chilled overnight to heighten the melding of flavors) garnished with avocado and sour cream
• * grilled prawns seasoned with lemon pepper
• * Tuscan Artisan bread "painted" with EVOO and toasted ...

Andrea and I had a good chuckle last night about zucchini. Yes, we all have plenty growing in our gardens faster than we can even begin to pick and beg the neighbors to enjoy.

For me, zucchini is like the be-all-end-all kind of vegetable. Zucchini is like the chameleon of ...

My friend Pat celebrates her birthday in March. As a part of our birthday celebrations in our Tuesday sewing group the birthday person would get to choose the lunch menu for the day. Pat never cared what  particular dish was fixed as long as it had avocado and shrimp in ...

I must confess, I have a love-affair with mugs and tea cups.  Celebrating the seasons with special mugs is one of my ways to treat myself. I saw this mug at Anthropologie last year but didn't get it because it didn't feel right in my hand. I put ...

There were two of the best things about having the girls over to my house for our Tuesday Open Sew Sessions.

1. It made me have to clean and decorate my house. Why is it that we might tend to let these two important duties slide just a little when ...

As I was thinking about which recipe to share this week I realized, we are a "no-dessert" house. Oh my goodness, we do desserts when we eat out but it is a rare occassion for me to fix a dessert dish. Desserts need to be gluten free so I don ...

I never worry about going hungry when I go to visit Eryn. My goodness what a good cook! No matter what she fixes ...  It's healthy; it's fresh; and it's ten times better than we could ever find on a menu from a restaurant. This is a recipe ...

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Does this describe your pattern library ... "One of the advantages of being disorganized is constantly making exciting discoveries." A quote from AA Milne, I can hear Winnie the Pooh's voice in my ear and his excitement over finding something new in his collection of STUFF ...

This was the view of our world when we got up this morning. Continued snow showers, windy conditions causing drifting snow, and occasional bouts of freezing rain happened all through the night and greeted us in the morning with beautiful snow/ice crusted limbs and a sparkling fairyland. The whole ...

I'm always on the search for or trying to come up with gluten-free recipes for my husband Mike and my daughter Eryn. I think I've hit on a new "house favorite" with this salad. The crunch of the fresh jicama, the celery, and the nuts; the tang of ...