Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to my two favorite fathers: my dad and my husband.

Thanks to my dad for teaching me the following things:

How to balance my checkbook, and then, how to balance the books for a business

How to be a good manager. My parents ran their own business, and all of us kids would help out. When he was away he left us to make our own mistakes and he always trusted us to use our own good judgement. If we did make a mistake we would then learn how to fix it.

How to drive (he was endlessly patient) and Accident Forgiveness (Progressive Insurance has nothing on a man who had four teenagers, three of whom crashed all of his cars with varying amounts of damage.)

How to treat VIPS and regular people: exactly the same! He has no respect for people who are rude to waiters.

How to gamble. Some people never learn when to get up from the table.

My dad also cooked, changed diapers, did housework, attended school functions, was President of the PTA, organized community events and did everything modern dads do, but forty years ago. He was and is a pioneer.
Thanks again, Dad!

I hope all of you have a happy Father's Day with all of your favorite fathers.

A Tie Pattern For Father's Day

I was poking around the internets while I was waiting for my Ginger Shortbread to cook and I found this FREE Tie Pattern from Purl Bee. There are tons of cool theme fabrics you could use and it doesn't take much. ILUSTRATED DIRECTIONS TOO!
Father's Day is June 21st, so you'd better get started soon.
You're welcome!