It’s Valentine’s week! We typically keep Valentine’s Day pretty low-key at the Conrad house. Kevin is usually working, and this year is no exception. I’ve never decorated for Valentine’s Day before and this year I decided that was going to change. By that, I mean I...
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Polar Blankets for Cold Winter Nights
Why does it always take me so long to get the house ready for Christmas? I'm always doing new projects so it feels like it takes half the month before I'm finally ready! It doesn't help that I have 7 boxes of Christmas decorations because I decorate pretty much every...
Seahorse Stuffed Animal Pattern
I’ve followed in my father’s footsteps in many ways. I think my love of photographing nature comes from him. My first photography love is flowers. My husband and children have endured hours and hours of me photographing flowers over the years. My second love is...
Valentine Critter Corner Banner
Today we are featuring a guest on our blog! We have mentioned Leona a few times. Sheila and Leona get together to sew and visit as often as possible, which ends up being at least once a month and more if we have a quilt show coming up. Some of you may have met her at...
The Natural Wonder that is Yosemite National Park
For us Musers one of the places we have drawn a lot of inspiration from over the years is Yosemite National Park. It is one of my personal favorites as far as National Parks go, and I use to only live about 3 hours away! My mom and I went when I was pregnant with my...
Christmas Stockings
When I was little we had the hardest time making ourselves go to sleep on Christmas Eve because we were so excited for Santa to come. I think we probably woke up around 3 in the morning to go down and gaze in awe at the Christmas tree, and the presents, and the...
Quick and Easy Christmas Gifts for Keeping You Warm From Your Head to Your Toes
It seems like lots of people in the blog-iverse are sharing their holiday gift guides right now, and I figured we should too. I personally love getting, and giving handmade gifts. However, as we all know, this is a busy time of year. I don’t know about you, but I...
Jelly Bean Bag Pattern
We introduced Kayla’s Jelly Bean Pillow pattern at the Sewing and Stitchery expo in Puyallup, WA. It has since become one of my absolute favorite patterns. It is also makes a really fun class. I just taught it at the NW Quilting Expo in Portland, OR and I hear the...
Thanksgiving appliques
It’s the first week of October! So naturally, we’re talking about thanksgiving. I wish I could say I’m kidding, and while we will still be talking about Halloween in the coming month, we wanted to feature our Gobble ‘till ya wobble pattern now so you will still have...
Trick or Treat Tote
As you may have noticed, our goal of adding a new post every Friday has quickly fallen apart. We’re not giving up though! We’ll try again next Friday. Anyway, back to the real reason you’re here. We’re still in Halloween prep mode around here and I decided to make...
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