I’m all for simple holiday décor and apparently something about having a little boy on the way is making me want to sneak a little more pink into the house. What better excuse to sneak in some pink than Valentine’s Day? Unfortunately, I also happen to be extremely...
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Tie one On!
Happy Valentine’s Day! This past summer I was trekking to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa – We were walking across an area that looked just like the surface of the moon – or a scene from Star Wars and all the sudden I walked past this little growth of...
Piping Made from Cuddle!
One of my very first patterns was called 6 so simple baby blankets - it has six different blankets you can make from soft cuddle fabrics - One of them was called perfect piping. It has become one of my favorite techniques to make a quick...
To Market … To Market
Twice a year we have an opportunity to go to Quilt Market to show our patterns to the quilt stores. It brought back a lot of memories for me. My grandmother owned Hughes Style and Floral store in Milford UT for over 50 years. I remember that...
Celebrating Summer Solstice
Where were you for the summer solstice? Once a year we get to 'steal' the granddaughters and take them on a road trip with our truck and trailer. This year we were headed for Craters of the Moon, Yellowstone, Tetons and Rocky Mountain National Park. We expected it to...
St. Patrick’s Day Cat Gnome Freebie
This post was supposed to hit the blog a few weeks ago so you’d have enough time to make a St. Patrick’s cat gnome before the 17th but we at McKay Manor Musers put the “pro” in “procrastinate.” Well, that and we greatly overestimated what we would be able to get done...
Getting Creative … Mermaid Tails
Kira saw a really cute sleeping bag that looked like a Mermaid and wanted to know if I could make one for each of her three girls for Christmas so I headed to her craft room and pulled out some cuddle fabric. I found three coordinating designs and started to work. I...
Valentine’s Day Decorations
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...
Happy New Year
Seems like every year I look back and think – what a great year – I am so blessed! And I also wonder how I could have packed so much into one year – I still work full time for HP as a product manager and run our little business with the best partners ever - my two...
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...
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