i like thursdays

I Like Thursday # 448 blossoms, messy desks, shows, a journal page from Not Afraid of Color

Blue skies and blooming trees

blue skies, blooming trees, and a wee bit of snow equal a Colorado Spring... welcome to this week's list of likes

red stems and white blossoms on this neighborhood bush

Reading

trying to learn French part Deux

Edenbrooke come back for me to continue reading

Watching On TV

Murdoch Mysteries (Canada) Wolf Hall (PBS) and back finally, Brokenwood Myssteries (N Z )

we found on ACORN a new to us series we LOVE Darby and Joan

Fine dining

Made hot cross buns this weekend, FABulous

who knew? Kitchen hacks short video

I like conversation so ...

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I Like Thursday # 447 Pink blossoms, Easter baskets, portrait painting from Not Afraid of Color

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

Delicate in pink petals, strong enough to survive Colorado

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 ...

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I Like Thursday # 446 Egg hunts, spring views, books, pralines from Not Afraid of Color

We saw this view on our walk one day. A flock of birds in a budding tree. Spring. They were chittering at this guy

Squirrel in the Attic

who was eating their seeds!

Game for you.... what's this?

lush blue, reflective, curved,

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

Audio book 5th in the ...

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I Like Thursday # 445 Easter dresses, sewing, memories of a poodle from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this weeks (short) list of likes.... starting with my parasol finished block.

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

still life.... I love fresh fruit, honey crisp apples navel oranges

I made citrus salad again, and this week made waldorf apple/ walnut/grape salad

the goddess behind is Venus de garlic, and of course part of my cow collection

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 ...

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I Like Thursday # 444 the town you grew up in, art, food, books from Not Afraid of Color

It's beginning to look a lot like springtime....at least the temps and sun are HOT already, and you know how I dislike feeling hot... but I pulled out this cute quilt as it's cheerful on the easel in the entry!

On with the show....

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

looks like handwriting to me

from here

back door to yard

love this haircut

from videos of a stylist in Italy who does short cuts

I had a cut like this once, and the stylist couldn't remember how to do ...

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I Like Thursday # 443 bunnies and birth order story from Not Afraid of Color

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

Our yard bunny is still around and visiting but afraid of us

Fine Dining

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

used frozen strawberries but they had a wonderful flavor this time, big fluffy tasty

also tried a cumbrian gingerbread that was awful except for ...

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I Like Thursday # 442 brought to you by the color green from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's list of likes

this week brought to you by the color green...

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 ...

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I Like Thursday #441 from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's list of likes. it's a hard time around here for likes so I have a few really fun videos this time. the art above is a metal sculpture made in Haiti. I've had it for about 40 years. I used to work at my friend's art gallery and he gifted it to me. I've moved it so many times and it's usually one of the first things to go on the wall as it holds my keys.

this quote really spoke to me

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

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I Like Thursday #440 from Not Afraid of Color

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 )

what's this? can you guess?

answer, the sun peeped around a plant and hit the back hallway. I noticed during lunch one day

still happy to be learning French

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

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I Like Thursday # 439 from Not Afraid of Color

time for an I Like list! Thanks for coming by, and on with the show...

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

we had more normal weather this week, really cold and lots of snow, none predicted. We still toss out veggie peels, for any critters. They don't hibernate here since temps can be 60F one day, then drop that afternoon below 0 .

I saw my bunny and squirrel this week on our porch. So sweet, he tried to dig down into the ...

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I Like Thursday # 439 food is love, quilts are love, music is love from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's list of likes.... starting with another V-day quilt, this one is hanging on our upstairs rail

another one is on my Family room glass table

it is made with valentine fabrics from my collection/stash

I love Valentines day, the focus on love the way it should be. Connections not divisions, acceptance not judgement. Here is a lovely song

another song, from Kiss me Kate, I was in the chorus in a production of this play, a singer/dancer and loved this song. It's not an easy one for my alto voice but I ...

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I Like Thursday # 438 valentines, everyday cooking, French, and a question from Not Afraid of Color

Time for an I Like list for this week, starting with one of my older Valentine quilts. About 50" square.

I like this one so much. It is watercolor style meaning all squares were cut 2" and light to dark they create the lines. I did raw edge applique flowers and turned edge vines. I love the inset turquoise border with the tiny multi color trim couched next to it, and the thick binding of the same ombre border fabric.

Heart quilting lines done repeating every half inch.

It is hanging in our family room for February, on a curtain ...

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I Like Thursday # 437 books, art, and a Danish from Not Afraid of Color

welcome !

Time for another list of likes for the week, starting with one of my Valentine quilts...The gold and white bit is textured paper, sewn with gold thread, the is a bracelet under it, hand beaded.

I did a post Saturday with my finished basket for Project Quilting challenge, here it is holding one finished sock, and the second one ready to have the heel turned tonight

I love making stuff... don't you? It's never tedious to me, and it's soothing to my spirit.

Paiinting

I tried an easy tutorial this week,

I don't love ...

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I Like Thursday # 436 snow and valentine quilts, memories of childhood from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's list of likes.... not too many, life isn't so good right now around here, but there are a few things to mention and like. I have been going through my 30 valentine quilts and hanging them up around the house. The one above is a close up of "in my heart of hearts"

it's interesting to see an older piece hanging next to the TV, so I can just let my eyes linger on it, really seeing it.

I made oven baked buritos this week... take flour tortillas, fill with a mixture of ...

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I Like Thursday # 435 from Not Afraid of Color

another week of likes, thanks for joining me!

I like having a lot of quilts to change out during different seasons. The sweater quilt stands for January, which luckily has given us several snows that remain covering our lawns like white blankets.

I like flax and oatmeal on cold days, with some peanut butter mixed in, and a cup of coffee,

One of the hundred times a day I think of Milo and miss him.... mama's beautiful boy

Who's gonna lick that peanut butter jar clean?

I loved this book this week, and the reader had the best ...

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I Like Thursday #434 from Not Afraid of Color

it's Thursday, my list is one because it's a bad pain week. Sorry, but I did have a pic of my Cuddle Duds fleece stretch leggings.... I love these cozy pants (from Macy's) so much I wear them as soon as they are laundered. I also love striped socks made from bamboo.

I must add a thought or like to my list all week, taking moments of less pain where I can.

Now please visit these fine folks to see what they liked this week

the knitty quilter

https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/

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On and on it goes... I Like Thursday # 433 food art and kindness from Not Afraid of Color

on the first day of the year we eat some traditional good luck foods. Above are the home made hamburger buns, just perfect for any sandwich. Not hard to make, and the dough feels so soft in your palms as you form them. That warm soft not sticky dough is one of my favorite sensations.

recipe here https://www.jennycancook.com/tag/best-hamburger-buns-recipe/

we made baked crispy cod and made my own tartar sauce, mayo, sweet relish, grated onion, lemon juice, hint of tobasco

For NYDay we always have fresh collard greens wash well, pull veins out, roll leaves and ...

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i like thursday # 432 from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to a short list of likes this week starting with a vintage Santa card I painted from a tutorial

I love vintage 40's and 50's

I love seasonal kitchen towels and flamingos so... had to purchase these two from Khols

tried to make thumbprint cookies my recipe uses half almond flour and it lovely and crumbly, with all natural raspberry seedless jelly

it was ALL good til they spread in baking this time

no I'm not on pinterest obviously but they still taste delicious. Wonder why they spread and ran this time?

Our Prompt

did you ...

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I Like Thursday# 431 Christmas as a child, from Not Afraid of Color

just a few likes this week but I do like this IKEA star we put on a timer to come on each night.

I caught site of it's shadow one morning... thought it was artsy!

I tried making sugared pecans this week

they came out so good, easy to make and we sneak in and grab some a couple times a day

Watching online: very intriguing puzzle ... don't blow off the elders' knowledge....

https://youtube.com/shorts/2JHsowO3o2E?si=0CJxVhl5g26QvdlY

I put up just the mantle decoration this weekend, to lift our spirits

Our prompt this week:

How ...

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i like Thursday # 430 cookies, quilts, squirrel, and memories of a poodle from Not Afraid of Color

Middle of December, we still have some snow left from a couple weeks ago, and this is my list of likes

Starting with a close up of a quilt I made years ago in Maryland. I love looking at it while the tv is on, and I'm in the sit and stare portion of the evening. I actually painted something this week

4 X 6" from a tutorial on youtube

Our prompt :

If you could eat only one type of cookie this holiday season, which cookie would you be eating a lot of?

easy, sugar cookies! I love the ...

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What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Reading

Watching On TV

Fine dining

I like conversation so ...

conversation starter this week, last of Easter prompts

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

love this haircut

Fine Dining

this quote really spoke to me

still happy to be learning French