Saturday, August 29, 2026

still creative (yellow hexie spiral)

 


I'm going through a rough time can't talk about it, but I've never quite been this lonely and hopeless. 

That said it's been hard to be creative with so much on my plate I didn't ask for... still

when you have a creative spirit, it wants to be expressed and brings a sort of normalcy to the unpredictability of change. 

even in photography... seeing a wonderful light effect and capturing the moment



the color of the month at RSC is one of my favorites. I have loved yellow in all it's tones since high school.... I took yellow flowered sheets away to college and my granny's yellow scrap quilt. 

one of my little prep bowls

I am finally on my way to another yellow spiral hexie block

my yellow scrap bin is stuffed with color and pattern, and it felt therapeutic to handle them all






I have been sewing my GGG blocks together, 11 blocks wide, and 5 strips together so that maybe I can quilt them without injury to myself, then put those sections together  after quilting. With borders and another row added to the last of 3 sections, it might cover my toesies in bed. 

It is glorious so far

now to choose some quilting design
help!
in 3 large sections so far

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

I Like Thursday # 520 did you like school, is it hot where you are? a lovely rose and a poodle

 

Full moon alert! This was Tues night... LOVE the smoky clouds swirling around it! 

reflection shot

believe it or not, this is my shadow shot this week.... it was strong in person

it was a high bunny count nightime  last pee for Alfie, so he may have forgotten the purpose of going out altogether in the chase

He said it was his like this week, and gave him a head rush

Loved this sky view
but it was hot on this walk causing my poodleboy to just.... lie.... down


oh NO you don't, we are not setting up camp here, come on!!!

okay, mama, done at slow speed


lastly, LOVE the sun on this rose... looks like a painting doesn't it?

conversation starter this week: 

did you look forward to starting school (either elementary, junior high, senior high or Uni ?) 

I think I always looked forward to the new school year, new teacher in elementary, new desk, new notebooks, new books to cover in brown paper bags.... new school shoes!!! 

Of course there were also new PE uniforms that made even the skinny among us look fat, new KEDS to write our names on, new musical instruments to carry around all year in band and heavy wool uniforms in band complete with hat plumes that have been worn by hundreds of students (don't worry they were probably dry cleaned) 

Did I tell you this was in sunny Florida? 

the real excitement came in starting University.... setting up my own schedule, buying books, getting a USF t-shirt, and highlighters to ruin my new books with... good times! 

A highlight for me was going to the church school out of state which meant staying in a dorm, whee! My second year of Uni was spent in TN and i loved the dorm experience! Remember it was a church school so they watched us like a hawk, we went to chapel every morning, and they frowned on wearing make up and jeans in the 70's. Still... I liked sort of being on my own, no parent to wake me if I didn't have an early class to attend, no parent to remind me to brush my teeth or not wear jeans. 

I always liked learning, and was successful in it, so aside from coping with snotty students who made fun of a girl with big feet to grow into, I enjoyed school



OMG this is brilliant... if you have a drill bit like this and know how to use it! 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fj0rUM_d8jc



despite all this extreme heat, winter is coming. We had almost no snow last year but.... 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r-vzEuIZZq0

I am totally depressed about things I can't really discuss here, but if you have a prayer you're not using, I am at an all time low about home life.... sometimes you just keep putting one foot in front of the other hoping it will eventually work out.... but I am at my all time low... still love y'all, still trying to see the good in life.... 

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Thursday, August 20, 2026

I Like Thursday # 519 buns, questions, school supplies and a poodle

 

with all the upheaval in my current life, I sleep and eat less.... one morning about 6 AM I saw the sun reflected on this house  .. very Edward Hopper like,   while waiting for Alfie to pee.....  

for this week's list of likes, the only post I am sort of able to do these days, I have a few items to show
Hiya! want to see some things on a walk with me? come!

pretty orange flowers

early ducks on the pond


what's that?!! 

I'm the bunny finder! I stop and watch even when Mama doesn't see them right away

there are a LOT of bunnies here right now

I feel like a shadow of my former self and look how large alfie looks! 

but we're together and he is a godsend

He has become quite the dog lover, we've walked with Tango and his dad, Oliver and his mom, and  last night we met a couple who just moved here from Atlanta with their beauty, Mable a corgie 
She batted her eyes at Alfie who melted in love Sorry no pics

conversation starter this week
what back to school supply would you like to have now as an adult? Fresh new notebooks? markers or new crayons? fat pack of ruled paper? lunchbox?  LOL  tell us your fave

I love a fresh new notebook, new crayons with their distinctive scent! with the sharpener on the back of the box,  picked out a special lunchbox each year with thermos of course. 

Actually I would love lunch tickets, and lunchroom ladies to make me a hot lunch each day! We used to buy them for the week and keep them in a flip top bandaid box in our gray metal desks




l made sausages for dinner, so I also made hot dog buns. Used my lovely perfect hamburger bun recipe that makes 8 buns. Instead I rolled half of the dough into 4 hot dog buns and it worked.

have you noticed when your life is changed, it's comforting to sort, organize, and reduce some things?

sorting thru art supplies 
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

I Like thursdays # 518 books or magazines? summer heat, skies and a poodle

 

welcome to this week's short list of likes... there is a reason it's short but I am not comfortable explaining right now

My list as most do, contains a brilliant sky photo above

I'm not sure why I took this photo of sniffing...

despite the high temps
we still walk. In fact I walked with a neighbor this weekend and the two dogs got along great! 
My friend Tiffany has a labradoodle and he looks like Alfie's brother. Forgot to take pics, sorry

loved this grouping (not mine) the puff balls confused me....

Alfie and I did a bit of porch sitting despite the heat

He was tired from life, but Mama knows how much he likes yogurt so I tucked the lid under his nose to wake him up



shadow shot

I trimmed a tree that has been hitting me in the face at night when I take Alfie out back





I've been slow to do everything this month, so the library snatched two books back in the middle of reading them and no list to go from... If only I'd mentioned the one here! 

sadly this is one they took 


Conversation starter this week 




when relaxing in summer do you like a magazine??   or novel?

what magazines do you like and what novels have you enjoyed this summer?

BOTH! I like home magazines and art magazines, quilting arts magazine, smithsonian but don't get it now.  At the beach or outside I tend to look at a magazine. I read on E Book now so glare outside is a factor. 

Tell me about your preferences so when I can think again maybe I can read them! 

still love sewing and was just headed up to try a video I saw when the power went out.... when we moved to Colorado the agent said don't worry about power here, never goes out! hahahaha



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Thursday, August 6, 2026

I Like Thursday # 517 ice cream or snow cones?

welcome to this weeks short list of likes. 
It's been a bad week but Alfie is still awesome and getting more comfortable each day. 
He always wants to say hi to people, dogs and is fascinated with workmen in the hood.

the conversation starter this week is 

ice cream or snow cones? 
I  liked snow cones as a child but now it's all about ice cream

a quick memory, DH and I visited Ben & Jerry's factory in VT the first time we went. They gave our labradaughter a cup of her own of vanilla and the three of us sat in the patio and enjoyed our treats!! 

Chelsea had never had her own before, so she'd pick up the treat roll it around in her mouth spit it out. Look at it
pick it up and repeat til it melted.
Not a speck was left

saw this on our walk this week


so many really good ones here... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Rtj_NEmDw


more of this music please


 


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGGeZAX1Yw&list=RDlMGGeZAX1Yw&start_radio=1


leas

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Saturday, August 1, 2026

how I spent my creative week

 

I worked on projects in progress this week. But, then I looked ahead to Saturday's post on RSC but a color had not been announced. 

oy vey, it's generally too late to post your color work on the day it's announced and we only have 4 post days so I tried to reason out the probability and decided chances are it will be yellow or purple. 

so I worked on both! 

this was one of last year's yellow scrap quilts and I like it so much I hung in on my studio door 

I start by organizing the scrap bin by shape and size. This time I took out squares of certain sizes to put in my growing squares collection boxes. Then the tiniest scraps are put by the machine to jump start my month. 

not knowing, I chose to go thru this process with both purple bin, and yellow bins 

I did start the border choices for last week's piece, and thought I might surround this yellow block with purples but stopped here since I like the way this looks now

It's satisfying to use little bits just as color but to also see them turning into something... a tote? a table topper? book cover? 

speaking of books I ordered this but haven't looked through it yet

as I mentioned earlier I also worked with purples... the tiniest scraps became another cutie needlebook

pieced then machine quilted with metallic turquoise thread, the inside

batting scraps become the needle beds

then some embroidery stitches by hand or machine


and beads put on with the hand stitched buttonhole to close the edges


squee! my friend Cindy sent me a box of beads in the Swa---eeeetist little boxes. SO thoughtful, and what a fine mix of turquoise sparklers to use. PLUS 
I did the hand work while chatting with her so it was a double gift! 

(I also sewed all the buttons back to my pink shirt while chatting) 

french knots with size 8 perle cotton in aqua

it's been so very hot, which drains me of energy and causes sleep disturbances, so I am just glad to be doing much of anything but necessities like cooking, laundry, dogwalking

how's about a walk Mama?

and the calendar monthly flip reminds me of time passing by


 



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