Now that I am rooting myself in the textile world - thanks Moda! - I have heard about a wonderful project started by a man on a mission.   I...

"I was all set to visit your store after the spot on Eye on L.A.  Unfortunately, you don't give any information about your location...

A little shout out goes out to my mom who arrived to French General (yes we really do have a new place!) with armloads of fresh laundry this...

I love this new trend of women's workshops. Over the years, I have found that teaching and holding workshops is one of my favorite thin...

Why do we have to work, write, post, design in the summertime?

In June I wrote about our craft bags that we had made up for the Chateau Getaway - including our vegetable dyed alpaca roving for needle fel...

We've returned home, back from our summer holidays in San Sebastian and our Chateau Getaway in the South of France. Coming home always ...

A while back I wrote about an old friend, Neville Trickett, who I met in New York over ten years ago. What I didn't write about Neville...

On the last night at Chateau Dumas, after we had eaten a lovely dinner of chilled salmon with dill and lemon, we played a word game. I aske...

When I was ten years old, I prayed that I would have a daughter that I could name after Sofia Loren. This afternoon, as we were walking thr...

Well, I have returned to San Sebastian to finish off the last bit of our summer holiday. Sitting in an old tapas bar last night, I felt as ...

It's taken me about a week to come down off of the chateau cloud - there were just so many interesting days and wonderful people that we...

Here is our last night together as a group - everyone donned their woad clothes and posed in front of the lovely abode...Chateau Dumas! Tha...

Our last full day has been spent in Montauban - looking through brocantes and antique shops. Margot G. actually said that I was like a truf...

This morning we took a nice 6 km walk to the medieval village of Montpezat de Quercy. Through fields of sunflowers, grapes and truffles the...

My favorite day so far! We spent our day learning about woad - an ancient blue pigment. Medieval Toulouse was built on woad, regarded then...

This morning we headed off on a field trip to the fortified town of Cordes-Sur-Ciel. Built in 1222 by the Count of Toulouse, the town was r...

We had a bit of a leisurely sleep in this morning - had a wonderful breakfast out on the patio and then retreated out to Lizzie's craft ...

The breakfast bell was rung at 7 and we awoke to a wonderful meal of fresh baked croissants, home made jam and coffee. Everyone piled into ...