This year my husband and I have gotten really involved and taken positions on the board. I am in charge of the website, advertising, and design work. Since I have been a graphic designer for almost 20 years, it is no problem. It also gives me another creative outlet where I can experiment with my design. Here are some T-Shirt designs I worked on this weekend. I have many sample on various colored Tees but I will just show you the ones on white to keep it simple.

So why am I writing about a guitarist and a restaurant, when my primary creative outlet is quilting? Because, the whole time as I ate and listened, I kept marveling at the fact on how we are all made with such different spirits of creativity. I might be visual and my creativity comes out in my art and quilts, but I tasted and heard creativity last night.

I actually think I am going to cry. I felt the tears well up as I opened my Quilter’s Home Magazine and began to read Matt Sparrow’s article “Working from home: Lies, truths and my real story.” I wanted to scream to the world, “Finally, a man that knows what it is like to work at home!”

Maybe this will interest the husbands out there more than the quilters, but you got to admit the price is right. We have a nice large yard with one square acre. We wanted to have a patio for larger groups where parents of our kid’s friends could sit in a cooler spot and still watch the kids play. But a patio that size would have costed thousands of dollars in bricks or cement. Then my hubby had a revelation…

Even though I have had my business out of my home for 16 out of the 19 years it has been in existence, I have never found it more difficult than in the past couple of years. Early on it was easy, because my first child was calm and placid, not to mention I had a nanny to help with the cleaning and child care. But now, all my kids are in school and peace should reign throughout the land. Right? Wrong!

Calling all Mark Lipinski Fans – I don’t know if you noticed, but if you are a Mark Lipinski fan you have missed his mug and pug on the last few issues of Quilter’s Home Magazine. Back in September, he resigned as the editor. He promises that he will be having many new projects as well as signing on for several new episodes of Quilt Out Loud™. All American Crafts, Inc., announced in a press release that Mark Lipinski, has been named Creative Director of All American Crafts combined print and online content.