Tag Archive: sisters

& That’s How the Toffee Crumbles

Christmas is just days away, and I’m neck-deep in finding those last few gifts, sending Gift Fox packages, mailing the last of the Christmas cards, and getting together the fixings for Christmas Eve & Christmas… Continue reading

Indian Summer Creations

Finished. This quilt, I mean. Ten hours of British television later (All Creatures Great & Small and new fave, Midsomer Murders), I’ve completed the hand-quilting, which means its now a quilt that’s ready… Continue reading

Cape Cod + Quilts + Snowy Owl + Quilts

Why is it still snowing & super cold in Kittery, Maine?! Another 3″ of snow today. This month has certainly been in like a lion. The past weekend, though, was certainly a welcome… Continue reading

The Stars in Our Sky

I discovered an old mix CD that my sister, T made me for the Fall of 2005 and I’ve been playing it the past two weeks. It’s a mix that goes heavy on… Continue reading

A Wabi-Sabi World

No pictures can do justice to just how hard and  heavy the snow is falling right now in Kittery, Maine. Looking out over the now blanketed stream, the trees have shouldered their wooliest… Continue reading

Relax :: Nothing is under control

It’s barely 2014 and I’m  newly 29 and everything in my world has already drastically changed. Recently, this meme came into my minifeed and I’m going to keep reminding myself that change is… Continue reading

The Friends that Tote together… Kathleen Maris

Kathleen (Mary, Katie, MK, Carlson, Cobb, Maris, Paltrineri) has had many names. I think it’s a tribute to how many people have loved her. Kathleen & I met at UNH’s MFA writing program,… Continue reading

The Friends that Tote together… Caro Clark

Behold! The tote I lovingly handcrafted for Caro Clark, fiction writer, boat builder, tropical island bartender, Alaska tour guide, and social networker extraordinaire. Caro & I met during our tenure at UNH’s MFA… Continue reading

Totes ma goats

In December 2012, I made a tote bag. It was so easy! so fun! & used up so many quilt scraps! So, I made sixteen tote bags in two weeks. I became the… Continue reading

Sister Song

My sister, T and I are thirteen months apart, just shy of Irish twins. For some weird reason, we have almost always got along. There have certainly been those vicious hair-pulling, gut-kicking fights,… Continue reading