brodie

I am a mom of four kids ages 23-12. I enjoy quilting, reading, collecting aprons and cookbooks. Our family is very involved with church and I work with the little kids and love it. I have a married daughter living out-of-state, two boys in college, and a "bonus baby" daughter who is in 7th grade. I love spending time with family (harder to do now that they are getting older), walking and playing board games.

I love 70's rock, jazz, show tunes and some current music (I listen to that when my 12 year old is in the car)

I love historical fiction, especially 1800's era. I am just starting the Twilight series (I think I'm the only one around here who hasn't read them) I also like a good suspense novel now and then.

Quilting and sewing are my favorite hobbies. I am just finishing a civil war reproduction quilt and a fun yellow, red, black and white strip quilt. Fabrics I like: Amy Butler, polka dots, 30's/40's repro and civil war repro, and food prints charm squares (for a picnic quilt I want to make). I don't like: batiks or too contemporary. I'm not too particular on colors, whatever I can't use my 12 year old will (she likes to quilt too)

I love to bake. I like to bake desserts the most. My kids have always loved cookies, so we make those almost weekly. For Christmas I am putting together a cookbook with all my favorite dessert recipes to give to friends and family.

I love collecting vintage aprons. This started when I was given a few aprons that belonged to my grandmother, now I find them in antique stores and thrift stores.
I collect cookbooks too. Those are fun to find at thrift stores or used book stores. I especially like old family/church cookbooks because they are usually tried and true favorites and it's fun to see what was made years ago. My other collecting favorite is Nativities. I like those from other countries because they are so unique.