What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

I started with another neighborhood lawn ornament... cute red truck with strong sun lighting it

We walk a lot and I enjoy seeing lawn ornaments and pretty flower displays. Our rose bush is adjusting to life in our yard, no blooms yet but they might be these colors...

this yard had 5 of them, orange, yellow, coral, sunset, pink

Hiya! can you see me? I'm a little happy gnome behind the fence

I'm a yard bunny not an ornament!!!

 I came out this week, to paint my nails and startled the yard bunny who leapt off the patio, then stopped to see if I'd go away. Since I continued to paint my nails, he sat, then laid ...

Anyway, I love the way it looks against the stone, the beautiful plants/flower baskets and the bench next to it all on the front porch of this house. The house next door has a kokopelli tucked into a tree stump

I enjoy walking and looking at what each person adds to their yards. 

I notice things such as the roof on this house turret is the exact same shade as their shiny VW bug

which was charming in the ...

abundant blooms on rose bushes promising lots of pretty pink blossoms

pink is happy

two raisin eyes, a tiny nose, and sideways smile!

Our housing development is very large, but on the edge of it are some farmettes and on this day I was drawn to the donkeys

and tulips in a neighbor's yard,

beautifully set in their front yard

almond thumbprint cookies with raspberry, and a pear crumble

The mixed media workshop online (free) on Willowing.com which has inspired me to paint... the image above is a thumbnail close up of the whole picture done one morning while waking up. The full photo will be on my creativity round up post Saturday (with others) 

I try to live a creative life, and being in that mind space provides me calm, peace, and excitement.

Music Love

 Just LOVE Burt Bacharach's music, always will, enjoy it here.   He wrote ...

I like that artists see the world in unique ways, and are driven to interpret it

The lilacs have bloomed on our bush

I Like shadows....Shadow photo of the week

tree in bud

attempt at mixed media 

blossom season

 click to make the image larger to see the delicate pink of these blossoms, and welcome to this week's list of likes

listening on audio

I like sewing and liked this video of how to not skew thick seams... a short video

https://youtube.com/shorts/NMWQsCTEaVs?si=EPqzwEWRMyeWE7_i

conversation starter this week, last of Easter prompts

did you get easter baskets as a child? Please describe them, what was in them, did you get them in the morning? After church? Did you make them for your kids ...

who was eating their seeds! 

Game for you.... what's this? 

Love this color and splash of color on our porch

turquoise, red chair, pink flamingo, yellow rock wall

speaking of a splash of color... only one person in this enormous subdivision planted daffodils

and they return each year even in our hardscrabble soil. They moved last year but the flowers are here 

not large but very happy, I made three stand alone blocks one year, and this one sits on mantel for spring

love cool weather   it returned for a few days here: 

DH looked at the sprigs of grass pushing through the snow and said "Colorado, where ...

More shadow art... transient, moving with the earth, caught in an instant

looks like handwriting to me

back door to yard

love this haircut

 It's been a hard week in the USA, and I'm stretching to find good things to note. Here goes

I lined up the felt bunny brigade on the mantel for an Easter display, made these several years ago, hand stitched and embroidered differently on each side

Fine Dining

made some delicious strawberry cream muffins this week from https://www.365daysofbakingandmore.com/easy-strawberry-muffins/

 welcome to this week's list of likes 

allergens are threatening to take us down this week, and I go to bed with stuffy sinuses and wake up with them even worse. I often hold my warm cup of coffee up to my forehead and along the tops of my cheek bones (between sips) and they start to drain quickly. Do you do that? 

before showers make up or hair fixing  looking rough there Lana!

I love these hand dyed (cherrywood fabrics) fabrics and there are three sets of them to ...

this quote really spoke to me

"If life is a never-ending loop of ...

my fabric cutting tablescape

time to remember the little things we liked about this week... for me the shamrock out of fabric I made for a challenge to use our birthstone color, mine is emerald and I like the emerald ring dh bought me. 

( I showed whole photos of the shamrock on Sat's post )

 still happy to be learning French   

En Francaise : Je suis reconnaissant  (I am grateful) although it's testing my memory and ...

above is a little painting I did this week, like a paint doodle. No goal in mind. I love colors, all of them