I Like thursday #74 Lemons, quilting kits, scarf and a poodle

Welcome to this week's list of likes!
Let's start with lemons!
Lovely fresh lemons in a bowl I made as a teen, it's like a cabbage leaf. It's the perfect shape, size and color
Please notice the picture at the top and the brilliant shiny white highlights.

 Still life! As an artist, the way the sun reflected on the skins, sort of a square, a mottled square, intrigued me.

The most interesting part was looking at them in person, and not seeing the highlights. It wasn't til I saw the image that I noticed it. And it's strong but my eye didn't notice it. I thought the strong shadows were interesting, but only saw shiny not the distinct white highlights.

So, it tells me, that's why we add in certain elements to a composition. We assume a light source and exaggerate a shadow and highlight. Sometimes we feel it's too much, unnatural. Then I see this and say, nope! Real life.

Fresh lemons in one's water, in cooking, brighten a dish, smell heavenly and hold vitamins. Magic.
The clear colors of spring green, and golden yellow next to the dull yellow of the banana are a bonus.

I ordered a kit from connecting threads.

It was on clearance and Halloween.
I figured the fabrics came out to about $5 yard, it's enough for the whole shebang, and comes with a pattern.

All with free shipping and to my front door.

I ALWAYS love Halloween.



Now I need to find my sewing machine supplies...

I like getting children's books at the library. I admit when I placed a hold on this, I didn't realize it was a children's book lol. 

They are usually concise, easily read, full of facts and pictures and teach you facts quickly.
When I was undergoing regular allergy treatments with acupuncture, I used to stop by the library on the way home, and go up and down the aisles. I would pick a bood from each shelf til I had 10-12, sit at a table and read til I tired of it. A number of them were children's books on things like how a castle worked, or the orphan train.

I did it to avoid the allergens at home for a certain number of hours post treatment, but it opened my eyes to so much I would never have known.

I love my puppy.

He's almost 11 months old very tall and very skinny. He is persistent and wants a lot (read, A LOT) of attention. When I work at the computer, he comes over to see what's so doggone interesting!


Sometimes he just stands next to my chair and I drape my arm across his back to rub his tummy. Love.

He stands very still...

til he's full. Then he moves on...

It's amazing to me, that he looks like Cole for the most part, but his personality is so different. I tell people Cole was chill, like Cole Porter jazz. Milo should have been called Johnny Depp. OMG he's a handfull. If he were human, he'd be drinking shots and charming the pants off women, then jumping from airplanes, eating caviar, drinking champagne out of a high heel shoe, and playing baccarat.

I finished the scarf for dh...

I thought it would be shades of blue, but it's turqoise and blue and magenta.

In the ball of wool it appeared more blue. Life is full of surprises, no?

I'm finishing up the hat to go with now. One hank of yarn makes a scarf and hat, bought on sale at Michaels.







This week, I randomly looked at a new person's info after she left a comment. She had fave blogs listed, so I went to a random one and found this.... ain't life grand?
It makes my heart sing
https://globalnews.ca/news/2269097/hamilton-man-called-a-hero-for-act-of-kindness-to-special-needs-man/

I wrote a bonus LIKES post this week on my trip to a mountain craft show...

lots of fun pictures

Find it HERE!
and part two...

stuff I bought there!

find HERE!!
(some of you only come by on Thursdays so I thought you'd like to see the cool random photos!)

Milo always has a good time. He liked playing with this edible ball this week

Of course I was trying to throw it away, silly me! Thinking it was a dried up apple.
Oh No, Milo saw much more potential in it! He said, look Mama! It rolls, throw it! So I rolled it and he ran to fetch. Only when he picked it up he tasted something sweet. Something worth investigating... hmmm...
MILO: heyyyyyy, this isn't no ordinary ball-toy! Has this been here the whole time? Yum! So, I played with it, I hit it around with my big foot. I chased it, then sat down to chew it up like I do all my toys. Guess what? It tasted good, like food. So I ate half of it, until Mama got interested then I had to act like it didn't matter.

She threw it away just as it was getting good. Note to self, be really quiet about investigating new stuff.

LEEANNA: that's it for this week. Check out my two prior posts this week, and these fine people keeping their own cool lists of likes for the week! Join us sometime won't you? Let me know by email...

Please join these fine folks also listing things they liked this week,
1. .http://3poodlesandanana

2 craftscaviescontras

3.maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com
4...http://littlepenguinquilts
5. http://sandysnowden.blogspot.co.uk/
6.. http://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/
7.https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 
8...http://homesewnbyus
9..http://imworkingonaproject
10.. https://barrels-of-monkeys.blogspot.com/  
11. pug mom did an  I Like post.
   
 
 linking to some of these

Our World Tuesday
Travel_Tuesday  Our World Tuesday
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http://sky watch Fridays
http://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com
http://asoutherndaydreamer
Thankful Thursdays pet parade
http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com
http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/
http://shabbyartboutique.com
willy nilly Friday (random images)
habbyartboutique fridays
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/pink-saturday/