Suzy-Homemaker

If you have ever visited San Francisco, you’ll understand why I feel so blessed to have grown-up in an area with such rich diversity. While we’re suffering through the coldest summer on record in a bunch of years, Mother Nature has ‘forced’ us to do other stuff when we’d more likely be out waterskiing and wakeboarding [...]

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I’m thinking about doing a giveaway.
What should it be? I need some help.
I can giveway an outfit for a child.
I can giveaway lovely cookware.
I can giveaway sewing supplies or fabric.
What do you think?  I need your suggestions.  What would YOU want to win?
Your chances are good since hardly anyone reads this babble of mine.
Okay, off [...]

At the beginning of this year I promised to blog more.  Etsy less, blog more.
Well that was a joke. I thought that it would be easier to blog instead of take sewing orders because I can blog in my free time and without a set deadline. The key words  here would be ‘free time’ — [...]

I have several muses that keep me sewing but a couple of them are extra special to me. I’ve been blessed this last week to spend each and every day with them (they unfortunately live in a different [less expensive] state than I do). This post is a bout of shameless bragging and don’t kid [...]

If I haven’t said it before, I LOVE America’s Test Kitchen.
I love the shows on PBS (America’s Test Kitchen & Cook’s County), the many magazines (Cooks Illustrated, Cooks Country) and the cookbooks! Oh the cookbooks; I read them like bibles.
I want everyone on the TV shows to move in with me.
Imagine my excitement when I [...]

I am going to make this over the weekend and put on Mister’s steak and my Mahi Mahi with a side of parmesan risotto and some grilled asparagus. I can think of a million things to use it for but Keller says “This tapenade is excellent with whitefish or with crudites or as the basis [...]

How sweet of Heather at Olive and Ollie to nominate me for a Sunshine award! Afterall, sunshine happens to be one of my favorite things! Please check out and Olive and Ollie Etsy store for some of the most adorable kids clothes.

Here’s who I nominate in return:
Brilynn Beads
Just Something I Made
Sew4Home
MODKID Boutique
Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
Fun Fabulous Finds
Mairuru
The [...]

I woke up on Sunday a little late and tired from the two hour drive home the night before. I had scheduled to head to my sister’s  new house to help her decorate, so off I went. I wasn’t two blocks from my sister’s place and I get a text (which I pulled over to [...]

Three beautiful things: Pebble Beach, California; Food; Wine.
I could write forever about the unbelievable famous chefs who shook my hand and even posed for pictures with me but then I wouldn’t be able to write about the amazing food they created and yet again no time to tell about the world class wineries sharing AMAZING grape [...]

Until someone taught me this method I used to dread making tubes and narrow straps that had to be turned right-side-out. I thought I’d share my method in hopes it would be helpful to y’all.
You’ll need the tube or strap you want to sew and a piece of spare yarn or string that’s around six [...]