Happy New Year (a little belated)!  Despite the Mayan warning, the fiscal cliff, and an extended family Christmas down south for eleven ...

After a long fall season with not enough playtime, I just had to go to the annual Christmas party/ornament exchange...despite the fact t...

I am a late bloomer.  I have just now discovered the mindless joy of making yo-yo's.  Be still my OCD heart! Some of you make the...

The double bass, or string bass, is block #15 of my original applique project called "Baltimore Rhapsody."   (You can read abo...

Here we are at the violin, Block #14 of "Baltimore Rhapsody" (see the back story here ).  I drafted so many versions of this ...

The next block in "Baltimore Rhapsody" is the cello.  It's full name is violoncello, which means "little bass viol...