Friends, I simply couldn't wait till 2012 to show you my refinished Singer Featherweight table, which I fished out of the trash only o...

Friends, I'm not a big fan of year-end wrap-ups.  I mean, are our memories so short that we need to be reminded of what just happened?...

Readers, I hope you're not disappointed but I will not be disrobing today.  I will , however, be finishing my featherweight table, oth...

Isn't this an amazing transformation, readers?  Wow! Unfortunately, this Featherweight table is not the one Santa left for me in the...

Readers, I was both excited and troubled by a feature I saw in the most recent (January 2012) issue of Consumer Reports magazine.  Their ...

Friends, do you believe in Christmas miracles?  You don't?  Well, read on -- you soon may!

Readers, do you think fashion is in a rut?  I ask, having just read a very thought-provoking article by Kurt Anderson in the January 2012 ...

Friends, I certainly hope viewing this pic isn't putting anyone's job in jeopardy.  But I just finished my cherry leopard stretch ...

Readers, the pants are coming along.  For you jumpsuit fans -- what can I say?  Maybe next time.  I really don't wear jumpsuits, to be...

Friends, do you remember the leopard print pants I made at precisely this time last year?  Oh, if I had a dollar for every time some stran...

Friends, to say that the chorus girl was a popular stock character in old Hollywood movies (by which I mean the pre-Sixties studio days) is...

Friends, particularly at this time of year, when nobody wants to be judged naughty instead of nice, one wants to keep one's promises.  ...

Good morning, Ann Margret fans and others!   Huh?   Keep reading.

She wasn't thin, she wasn't young (not at the height of her fame anyway), and she wasn't particularly beautiful, yet there'...

Friends, it is but a tired cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yet isn't it the truth?  I open with this photo of Barbra ...