Sloane Solanto

More images over at Sonya Ina’s Flickr page Thank you George for letting me swipe your pictures of Art|Everywhere from Facebook…since I only took 3 pictures the whole night. You’d think I would have at least gotten one of mom and me in front of the window. I even went back the next morning to [...]

29th Annual Virginia Beach Christmas Market Dates: November 26-28, 2010 Hours: Friday & Saturday 10:00 – 6:00, Sunday 10:00-5:00 Location: Virginia Beach Convention Center, 1000 19th St., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Virginia Beach Convention Center Map and Directions Admission: $7 Adults; $2 Children 6-12; Under 6 Free – One admission covers all three days. Plenty [...]

Whew…it feels like it’s been one long weekend! Friday was very chill…I had gone for my yearly check up early in the day which makes me so nervous…so by the afternoon I was exhausted…I expended all my energy being anxious..I hate that! It was cold and rainy so I came home from work, showered, put [...]

Saturday night…my main squeeze, best friend, rock n roll husband is playin’ out for the first time with his new band! Come and check him out!

The blueberries are budding! Yeah!!! I got out this weekend and planted spinach, swiss chard, bok choy, broccoli and kale plants. I also seeded the sugar snaps as well as some arugula and bush beans in my cold frames…Here is my baby spinach… I have a nice sunburned V on my back from my overalls [...]

Judy treated my to a fun day at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival ! It was great going with a quilter so she could explain things to me as well as turn me on to secrets like…the double sided quilt! I had no idea! You’d flag down a person with gloves on and they’d lift it [...]

Ahhhh fresh air! I needed to get outside after doing some house cleaning this morning so I headed up to the garden to start setting up the trellis’s….almost time to plant sugar snaps!!! Chris gave me this groovy windmill for Christmas…we’ve had it set up in the shop so I brought it out today and [...]

Chris always likes to tell me I am an old lady….now I have proof!!Having been brainwashed as a child…I always shunned the crocheted afghan….especially the humble granny square. I have always been convinced that I didn’t like them until I noticed I became weak in the knees at the sight of one. Those bright bold [...]