JillyBeJoyful

A report on this year's Artistry in Fashion is a little belated, but I have to say a little something anyway, because the event is SO w...

How wonderful it is to be living in an area that is so rife with talented and social-minded sewists!  In spite of the fact that I've sp...

First, heartfelt thanks and smiles to everyone who responded so graciously to my post about the burglary.   Although I had hesitated to even...

It was not a dark and stormy night; it was a lovely, balmy, California evening, spent with a particularly delightful group of local sewing m...

Life is still biting me in the butt with busy-ness (it's a good thing, really... but oh to be independently wealthy and unemployed - wha...

The conversations at dinner the other night with shams & badmomgoodmom covered a variety of topics (3 women, 4 hours = you can imagine!...

....in my experience, it's ALWAYS a good time!   Fun, educational (we are a creative and curious lot), inspirational, and sometimes even...

One of the more delightfully stylish bloggers I follow is   Judith of Style Crone  (check her out!) - I think she may have started an avalan...

I'm still loving my frabjous new pencil sharpener (I just wish I had more pencils to sharpen....), and hope the winner of my Giveaway lo...