This morning, I worked on some of my QOV paperwork again. Added more information to my long list I already have done. 

Then we left at 10 am to go to the museum to drop off the paperwork for membership. Then we went to Walmart for some potting soil that I've been asking for all summer. Once that was done, we headed to the casino. 

We had a good time at the casino. Won some and lost more. We were there about 3 hours. The machines are pretty tight. The ones we play tightened up so bad that we ...

 Miss Morton Takes the Waters by Catherine Lloyd

I picked this book for the setting. Back when I was reading a ton of historical romances, Bath was mentioned frequently, without any details. Now my curiosity has been satisfied and I've enjoyed an intriguing mystery along the way. And, since I jumped in with the fifth book (there's just enough backstory included  that I didn't feel lost) I've got the opportunity to immediately go back and spend more time with the characters. I definitely want to find out more about Mrs. Frogerton. 

Disclosure -- The publishers provided me ...

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Permainan Dewi 4D tidak cuma hanya sekadar permainan, tetapi juga sebuah fenomenon yang menggabungkan keberanian, strategi, dan sedikit nasib. Dalam artikel ini, kita akan menjabarkan rahasia berhasil berpartisipasi dalam Dewi 4D pada era digital. Mulai dari ...

From now on this is how I’ll be answering all questions. If you’re old enough you know what this is.

Every so often, questions and comments come from readers, and I think others would like to hear my response. That’s when I feature them on the  blog. This is one of those days.  I have had two different blog readers recently ask me about hanging quilts off my porch. They were curious to know what I …

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Crochet Snowflake (Small)

I Like to start with a Magic Circle 

(or you can use a 4 Chain start slip stitched together to create a circle)

Either Or is fine

Make first First Chain of Magic Circle tight to start off

Round One

Chain four (this represents 1 Half Treble and 2 Chains)

*Into the Circle make one Half Treble then Two Chains*

Next

Repeat from * to * Four more times pull your Magic Circle tight from centre. 

Then slip stitch to 2nd chain of the four Chains at beginning of round.

(Round one should have 6 Half Trebles and 6 ...

Earlier this year we lost our girl Kiljeadean aka Killy. I can only hope we gave her a good life and she knew she was loved. The boys wandered around for days looking for her. She’s been with them their whole lives. I’m a firm believer heaven will have our pets when we get there.

Just random pics of the boys enjoying January. Our winter was unusually cold this year.

Good morning, my friends. There was plenty of activity yesterday, but it still ended up feeling like a slow day. Pickles were on the morning’s agenda, and so I made one more trek to the garden to find any cucumbers that could be included. Just that morning, I’d told Mike that none of the red sunflowers had bloomed. I planted all the sunflowers from the many seed packets I had from years gone by. I was pretty sure some red ones were in the mix, but I’d kind of given up on them. And then…there they ...

Good morning, my friends. There was plenty of activity yesterday, but it still ended up feeling like a slow day. Pickles were on the morning’s agenda, and so I made one more trek to the garden to find any cucumbers that could be included. Just that morning, I’d told Mike that none of the red sunflowers had bloomed. I planted all the sunflowers from the many seed packets I had from years gone by. I was pretty sure some red ones were in the mix, but I’d kind of given up on them. And then…there they ...

A little relaxing hand embroidery.

Small patchwork pieces, French knots and gimp secured with bullion knots. 

This piece has a base of silk dupion

I think there will be more of these small embroidery and patchwork studies.

After all, you can never have too many cloth books.

       

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• This is beautiful, so delicate by Liza

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Yes --- so true about the words of wisdom. There are times when we feel compelled to criticize a loved one - usually our significant other. But was that absolutely necessary? NO -- so the next time you want to be the backseat driver, or mention that the dishwasher shouldn't be loaded that way, just be quiet. They are loading the dishwasher - be grateful! 

Not saying things that you know will cause issues can improve a situation by 1000%. Don't be the one who invokes the negativity! As they say in Frozen - "let it go!"

OK -- I confess - I was a ...

WWL is a place where you can share photos of quilts you’re working on and get encouragement to finish them from our Wednesday Wait Loss group! As you can see, I’ve been doing this for years and so our group is strong, loves to share, and is very welcoming.

Here’s how it works. Every week I start out by sharing what I’ve been working on. Then I share the projects from the previous week that most inspired me so that they will inspire you too! This is followed by the actual link up where you can ...

The original block came in a hand me down bag. Awkward. Someone was, perhaps, experimenting? However it came to be, it wanted to be…something.

Blessed that the bag contained a small amount of the fabric used in the center of the block, I added corners.

And more scraps and borders from my own stash. Around and around…

Until it was…Ta-dah! A quilt.

Jennifer made it even better with the custom quilting. Someone will love it!

ps–Just because it didn’t turn out the way you wanted doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful.

Today is a monthly lunch with former coworkers - retired of course.  Last month we got a new member of the group who is newly retired.  And now I feel really old because she was one of my own students (high school).  She did retire a bit younger than most of us, but still . . . it makes me feel like time has gotten away from me.

The humidity was up a little but still tolerable with the windows open.