DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

After an unanticipated two week break for the flu and house hunting, I’m back in my Bookmarks folder today to share another Melange on this happy Monday. Today I’m surfing through some art, computer and Internet related links. The Art of Monica Van der Weer—I love her artwork, and she offers it for download to [...]

Today we took off for Heidelberg to go to the Arts & Crafts Center, where they have all the quilting fabrics and supplies, to pick up a quilt book that my good friend Liz recommended. She said that making a One Block Wonder was great fun, and it sounded intriguing, so I thought I’d take [...]

Valentine’s Day came and went rather peacefully here. ITMan and I shopped for a couple of things for the girls between house viewings on Monday, and then when GuitarGirl put her guitar in my trunk on Tuesday evening before her lesson, she said “Way to hide the Valentine’s presents, Mom!” I’d forgotten all about them [...]

Note: Works-for-Me-Wednesday is hosted at an alternate location today, because it’s usual mistress is away in Africa! Thanks to comments from Kim and Kristin, I was able to finally come up with a solution for storing quilting stencils. I ordered binder rings from the States (I had to order a box of 50 to actually [...]

After a very long day driving around Heidelberg looking at houses and meeting with people in the housing office there, we finally found a lovely house yesterday evening. We’ve always been so lucky finding houses and cars; every time we need to move or find a used car or something, something presents itself that’s just [...]

Here’s where we are, one week into the hunt for our new home: House #1: Huge, and sorta within the price range. Problem was, it was built in the early 80′s, and the inside hadn’t been updated, at all. The bathrooms were tiled, floor to ceiling in medium brown tile, the fixtures were dark brown, [...]

I can finally share this big secret with everyone: ITMan has a new job in Heidelberg, and we’ll be moving asap! We’ve known it was coming since the first part of December, and truly thought we’d already be moved by now, but thanks to the Army’s infinite wisdom, we’re still sitting here cooling our heels, [...]