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On the fifth of July I saw a strange dog near our house. Thinking it might be someone’s pet scared off by fireworks I tried to check for a tag but could not get close. A few days later it showed up inside our fenced yard! It is much smaller than our dogs so must have squeezed under a gate. We have been feeding it in hopes of gaining trust enough to catch it but so far not even close.

At least I see that it is a “he” which is a relief! He has learned to come for ...

I think the napkin saga is finally coming to an end.   On Saturday I was supposed to meet up with friends, Robin and Judith at Robin's house.   She has a great screened in living space that we were going to work in.   We had everything we needed and the day looked promising.   Here is the venue we were working in.   They use it as a guest room in the summer time. Robin is a fabulous

Summer is always a busy time of year, especially if you live on a lake. All picnics are here. I have four of them in the next week. Sunday is my quilt guild picnic, so you know I have to get my sewing room in order. ;)

So I spent some time this week organizing my scraps.

These are the scraps for my Victoria Findlay Wolfe scrap quilt project

A tote full of the rest of my scraps

Scraps of solids and batting to make practice FMQ samples

My fairly organized sewing room

Here are additional interesting ways to hide your book stash decorate with books. They can be put in lots of places, not just on shelves.  I used this set of Monica Ferris’ Needlecraft Mysteries as a display in my sewing room on the mantle over the fireplace.

A tiny quilting book is in the lap of a little bear in his rocker.

Up in the library, a trio of rabbits looks at a book with pretty watercolor pictures.

A dark corner of a Victorian shelf holds a stack of books waiting to be read.

Next to the gas fireplace is ...

I know all you Tula Pink fans have been awaiting the day we were able to start carrying her lines!

Well you all can rejoice...

Fox Field by Tula Pink is here for you!

Clay's Choice

Those of you who "know" me, know that when I take a blogging break it usually means that I will come back with something worth the wait.   And you are correct!!!  In the Midwest, we are having a particularly cool summer.  Truthfully, it is far too cool than I prefer.  I had to put a hoodie on today!!!  Yuck!!!  On the bright side, the super cool mornings have been perfect for running.  Nice and

Spring Water Designs in Columbia, MD, is another great little shop.

More on the Hexies for Diamonds are Forever – I got the row attached and working on another - After that photo I did work on it a little more and have more of that shorter row finished and I got to thinking it looked like I didn’t have enough white hexies left to finish […]