Simple Easy Banana Cake

I was amazed at how good this turned out.  I had a few bananas that was over ripe.  I wanted to use them but didn’t want to make banana bread.  I wanted something fast a quick. This recipe fit the bill.  I am sure this would taste making it with butter cake mix. butter pecan…

Blueberry Pie Made From Frozen Berries-Easy and Quick

I see frozen blueberries all the time at the grocery store.  It just never crossed my mind to use them in pie.  Even though I used to pick blueberries when I lived in Ohio and froze them to use for pies years ago.  I usually buy the pie filling already made in cans because I…

Sewing Together Batting Scraps

I was taught a technique of piecing batting together so there would not be any waste when I was young.  There was always stories that went along with why this was done.  In the early 20th century women was still carding their own in remote rural areas.  All the trimmings was saved and used from…

Fabric From The Past-Toile de Jouy

  Toile de Jouy simply means “cloth made in Jouy en Josas,” a village in southwest France.  This type of cloth was soon just called by this name even though it was made in other countries. The factory became famous because of it’s monochromatic prints of scenes with people in the French country side.  Come…