I love to sew and make handmade quilts. On a good day I sew a little. On bad days, I watch quilt shows on tv, or search quilting websites to get ideas for future projects (even though I know I will never get to do them). It just makes me happy to see them and get the creative juices going on what colors I would use or how I would do it differently. I used to love to garden, now I have just do a little container gardening. It makes me happy to see something I planted, flower and bloom. It reminds me of a favorite poem (another passion)

Red Geraniums

Life did not bring me silken gowns,
Nor jewels for my hair,
Nor signs of gabled foreign towns
In distant countries fair,
But I can glimpse, beyond my pane,
A green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame
Upon my window sill.

The brambled cares of everyday,
The tiny humdrum things,
May bind my feet when they would stray,
But still my heart has wings
While red geraniums are bloomed
Against my window glass,
And low above my green-sweet hill
The gypsy wind-clouds pass.

And if my dreamings ne'er come true,
The brightest and the best,
But leave me 'lone my journey through,
I'll set my heart at rest,
And thank God for the home-sweet things,
A green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame
Upon my window sill.

....Martha Haskell Clark


I used to do oil paint too as well as lots of other crafts.
kathie