Time to share with you all (if I haven't done so already; my memory for past blog items is fuzzy) my very best bargain from a thrift store. I was told the set had just been brought in from a farm house about to be sold. The sugar was still in the sugar bowl. This is Petit Point by Royal Albert, a pattern discontinued in 1997.
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I heard the Barred Owls calling Wednesday night, one to another from different parts of the woods. Hubby saw one on his late afternoon walk last week flying silently and low through the trees, low enough that Ned chased it. Below is another shot from that photo shoot last month...a little better than the blob I showed you before.( I didn't realize I could "lighten" the photo; duh, always learning!) Beautiful feathers and that very dark staring eye. He was staring at me!
read moreI tumbled down a rabbit hole this week I can tell you!! On a whim I decided to get out my scrappy Quilt Bible blocks and see what they looked like all together. The floor was the only space free to lay them out. I'd already made the decision to use a light blue fabric for the sashing as Rosemary had used in her book. I figured she's the expert and actually I think it is working okay.
So many things to like and share this Thursday!
Just now on our walk, the barred owl flew over our heads low enough I could hear the sound of its wings flapping. Ned chased it, not very far as he doesn't stray from me. I realized I give this a significance, like it means something to see it and I wondered why. I realized I tend to think of all the critters and birds I spy as here for me, their audience somehow. A foolish notion but if that be so, I guarantee I am an appreciative one.
Always a surprise when I see these very late blooming ...
read moreRule #7 All life on earth is vulnerable. Money, intellect, education or prestige don't protect against all the ills that can befall us. So there is nothing that has happened to me or will happen to me where I can say those two little words, why me. While I didn't say that out loud when I lost everything in the fire, a part of me inside felt let down by the universe.
I'd been through enough by then with my various losses to know I wasn't special enough to be given a free pass from bad ...
read moreIt was a week of horrid muggy weather setting a dew point record. I had a vague idea of what that meant but looked it up anyway. Muggy is what a high dew point means; in our case, very muggy. Dew point is not something I ever had to concern myself with in Newfoundland. But that broke overnight on Saturday and the temperature went down to 10C so very refreshing on the morning walk with the dogs.
The last of the lilies coincided with the hostas in bloom which is happy news for the bumblebees.
read moreYou'd think my 69th March would hold no surprises for me. But the suddenly melting snow, emerging sidewalks, sun feeling so hot on my back I had to unzip my coat and remove my woolen toque, all took me by surprise. This happened in just the last three days but so wonderful. Temperatures above zero and even into double digits one day like what spring is meant to be. Now if only the snow can stay away and a hex on freezing rain too.
And the birds started chirping just like that. I've heard the male cardinals now ...
read moreViews from our bedroom windows this morning.
The black thing is my compost bin. Snow softly falling all morning.We've had a good week here at the wooden house or as SIL says "in the pines". Got in enough exercise to feel vindicated in treating ourselves to dessert and got our Christmas gift list in order to name a couple of things. The cut off for delivery to Canada was midweek so that stopped the dithering and we got our decisions made and everything ordered. Not that there is that much because our family circle is tiny.
Rail Fence quilt 56 inches square |
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There are blogs I visit simply because they make me smile. Odile Baillouel's blog is one of those. I love seeing what her mice are getting up to.
British Library Asks Nation's Children to Write Miniature Books in Lockdown
The Bronte's miniature books have always fascinated me, as does anything miniature (like the mice and their activities above). Many kids would enjoy creating their own books, then writing and illustrating them.
"The library is asking children to share their homemade miniature books with its Twitter account @BL_Learning using the hashtag #DiscoveringChildrensBooks, or send them by email to ...read more
I've had the flu for most of the month of February and haven't felt well enough to do any sewing to speak of. The flu has just sapped me of any energy or ambition, and I'm having a hard time getting back to normal. I go into my quilt studio and just sit and look at everything I want to do or should be doing. The Dr. said it takes 2 weeks to recover from 1 week of being sick. So I should feel better in about 2 months. I sure hope it's sooner! There are ...
read moreHaving the flu put a crimp in my blog plans! But it's Day 8 now and I'm pretty sure I'm going to live after all. So here we go.
I missed my blogiversary because of that darn flu. It was on Wednesday and it's been 12 years! Hard to believe that I haven't run out of things to say yet! Thanks for hanging in there with me!
My secret pal finally received her Christmas gift from me, so now I can share it with you! This was through the Tacoma Modern Quilt Guild. We have ... read more
I haven't ever done a series of posts before, and I'm going to even try and include a linky widget so you can add links to whatever theme I've done for this week, which happens to be APRONS, you know, things we use when cooking, painting, cleaning (yes, I do know what that is, I looked it up in the dictionary!) etc to protect our clothes from getting messy, or just because we love wearing them. I know when I'm cooking, if I don't wear one, I sometimes get splatter marks up the front of ...
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