Yummy Goods Blog

A year has passed since my brother's suicide and I still haven't taken his number out of my cell phone. It's fair to say that anyone would have expected it of me, or others in my family, before they would have thought Michael would ever kill himself. I'm definitely not suicidal now, but  from 12-15 years old I struggled with suicidal thoughts constantly. In tenth grade, I walked to a grocery store in the middle of the night to get sleeping pills to chug with a bottle of vodka a friend had left at my house. I didn't have any...

12/16/2009 yay! thank you so much for all the book love, wow! Just a little bit about Small Stash Sewing: The projects I've created are a way to use your precious designer fat quarters, without being a fat-quarter-only book, if you know what I mean! The idea was: oooh how can I feature this little morsel of fabric that I love so much? So, yes...I have made up 24 projects that feature fat quarters... and sometimes something else!  You know me, I'm not one to stick rigidly to a prescribed format! So, some projects use more than one fat quarter...

thank you for all of the love you have been sending. i feel it. You know me- I'm open and don't usually shy away from sharing the hard stuff. I do hesitate to tell you  this, just because it's so raw and harsh. But it will be in the paper in the next day or so anyways, and more people will read it there than they will in this post. So (with my father's blessing) I am just going to say it : Thursday night, my brother Michael killed himself. He didn't want us to dance around it, so we...

Did you know that I think about you all the time? I am always thinking about what I want to photograph to show you, links I want to share, what you might find interesting or inspiring. I haven't been posting as much as usual, though, because I am pretty much consumed with my shop and I don't want you to get bored if that's all I post about! But again, I really should just post it all anyways to record the progress for myself. Creating Yummy Goods, the shop, is really just another creative outlet.   Here, look at some of...

  We opened our little brick and mortar gift shop on Cape Cod! There's Stuart putting up the sign he made.   xo, m