I did a LOT of sewing in 2025, all of it clothing. After gaining weight with menopause, I needed to rebuild most of my wardrobe. Not only did I replace all my pants, I made several jumpsuits and dresses. My favorite pattern company at the moment is Style Arc out of Australia. The patterns are classics and the size 8 fits me well without any adjustments. The two Style Arc dress patterns I made were…
Happy Holidays, everyone! Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. I never thought of myself as a puzzle person, so this is unusual for me. How did I get here? I blame work. In the office, we have a square table surrounded on two sides by booth-like seats. One of our staff members brought in a puzzle and plopped it on the table for everyone to do…
My last update on the Cyber Cleanse I have been conducting was at the end of March. What have I been up to since then? It’s a bit like a tedious soap opera, with a few surprises as I go along. Once I cleaned out my primary Gmail accounts, I needed to sift through all my other online accounts, those for which I was using these email accounts as the user name. Let me say…