By now many of you have gotten our latest eNewsletter announcing our new fabric collection, Daisies & Dots. If you're not on the newsletter list, be sure to visit our home page and jump from there to see what's new. There's a new pincushion video, there is a new free pattern, there's all sorts of fun stuff!

In other news, it snowed in north Texas yesterday! Steve did not jump in the pool. His plan is to jump in at least once a month and he's already been in twice since January 1. It may be the end of February before he braves the cold water again. Those of you who live where it snows a lot will laugh, but this snowfall has shut down most of north Texas, at least for Monday morning. Yet another excuse not to go to the gym.

I am not a wine connoisseur. I'll admit right here that there is a lot of cheap red wine that tastes just dandy to me.

Since there are a lot of inexpensive wines on the shelf I often resort to buying wine by how cute the label is. Friends (thank you, Carol and David!) gave us this bottle of Bubo.

The label makes me want to draw! And I love the shade of green on the foil/plastic around the top of the bottle. Wouldn't that be pretty in fabric?

And, because enquiring minds might want to know, Bubo is tasty!

See a close-up of the label below. I may have to begin soaking off and saving the best labels!

Some years ago I organized our good family photos into albums. I am not by nature a scrapbooker so my albums are pretty plain. They live in a cabinet and I rarely think of them. However, on Saturday, Jeff’s last day here, I pulled out the albums and we had a really good time going over them. Here are a few:

That’s my mom holding me in 1956! As I was filling in this sort of detail, I realized that I should have written a lot of it IN THE ALBUM! I can see I’m going to have to go back and do that.

These are my grandparents, Mabel and Dan Eckroat, on their honeymoon. They travelled often in their lives.

This is a Christmas picture with my dad, his sister, Helen, and my grandparents. I remember most of that furniture.

Here’s Jeff when he was 6 or 7. He was on a hike with Steve and Christopher. He has his tough guy face on!

And that’s Jeff on the right, sailing in Boston harbor. We took him for a week of sailing lessons when he was in high school instead of him going on the class trip to Europe that he had no interest in.

You know what else I realized on Saturday? I quit printing pictures just as our grandchildren came on the scene. I have lots of digital images but really, it’s not the same. I’m going to have to bite the bullet and make some more albums. I may have them printed in books (I know I can do that) or not. Either way, I have a new thing on the to do list.