I Like Thursdays #83

Do you know what time it is???
Time for this week's I Like list!

 Looks like Spring is cracking open!  
This little flamingo is bursting out of his shell!

 watermelons were available in the grocery stores! Summer will be here soon!

It's been a hard week of turmoil around here but I still found a few things to share.  The weather has been good and sunny, Milo has made us laugh, and I've been sewing. 

 getting scraps from people is joyful. I would never have embroidered this phrase but someone discarded it so it went in my little triptych.  I added bits of leaves and water that will be quilted in hopefully  today, bringing the improv work to three finished pieces.

I love sewing... dh asked, "life would be easier if we didn't need to find a home with a studio... why don't you just start writing more instead? " 
 I can't not sew... it's my refuge and joy. I love to write, and have many interests including music, painting, travel, walking and watching movies but sewing is such a part of me. 
 

Details of ferns and stones... very small but I know they are there!

In two days I quilted  two improv quilts I've been working on, and put on binding to be hand sewn to the backs of them. Can't find my machine insert tray, or all my threads, but that didn't deter me.

Improv quilting makes life more fun, no planning or fretting about the quilting stitch or thread, just go for it! (Green neon and purple metallic threads)

 I used what I had and will share the finished works tomorrow. 

 These added a lot of sparkle to the pieces, along with rayon neon threads by metler and madeira.

I'm reading this Rhys Bowen book,

 latest on "her royal spyness" series, and love going to bed at night because it's easy and fun to read. 
Please enjoy the gratuitous poodle pillow case as well. 

I've spent time each day watching youtube "who do you think you are UK" and have learned so much history while watching stars learn about their ancestry. We see people from the past as sort of one dimensional  really, just a birth and death date, but this reminds us they had needs, and fears and challenges and loves on a daily basis like we do. If only every one kept a diary! 

I like Milo's new bright cherry red leash. I like it also because there are no frays on it. 

Gotta stop and watch the kids playing!

 Milo's Moment

Hi Y'all! Barking out loud! 
Yep, I bark therefore I am. 
It is all new to me, all things to see and hear and taste so I listen with my head to the side,

Oooooo I LOVE a freshly shaved poodle face!

  I sit in the middle of a walk to watch the birds or kids,

  I taste everything that looks different on the street. (the dirt wasn't the greatest)
I don't miss much! 
This week I will tell you about taste. I love to chew! I'm on a mission to chew everything I can get my Enormous Poodle Teeth on. I chew shoes, bones, grass, and Daddy's arms. Every night if I stare at Mama long and hard enough to break through her hard head, I get an alligator to chew! 

Oh yes, I know that word in Human...

(LeeAnna: he means whimzee Alligator chews)

One night we sat outside on the patio, and I chewed on a nylabone. From the time I wore the arm braces for 4 months I have liked my people to hold my chewy for me. It's a bonus that they have to watch for my Enormous Poodle Teeth so's not to be chewed on, and I likes attention!

If they refuse to hold a chewy, I use whatever is nearby, like a chair or table to hold the bone for me. 

Hey! I got used to that when I couldn't bend my legs, and now I just do it because... 

I have been hitting the bottle pretty bad lately too...

BOL! 

As you can see, I manage to hold the bottle long enough to chew off the cap... (which I bring to Mama because for some reason she loves them, and makes a big deal about my bringing them to her, so it's an easy way to make her happy) ...remove the label, and smash it down for recycling. If you haven't tried one, it's great fun way to use your Enormous Poodle Teeth.

thanks to google images since Milo and Tyson were too blurry to see!

I also have made some friends around the 'hood. My latest bud, speaking of chewing is Tyson. He's a BIG brown lab, I heard his Dad say he weighed 105 lbs. I weigh 55 lbs and he makes me look like a pocket poodle! Still, we play the game, "My teeth are bigger" and are pretty evenly matched. 

At least until we are dragged apart by our Daddies at the end, both evenly covered in spit! He's the best fun! I am so jazzed by the end, although Mama always carries on about grass and spit all stuck to my "naturally curly hair" 

That's it for this week, now SIT! Stay! clickety click on Mama's friends who also wrote an I Like post this week... and she says to give you my best cutest face to beg you to write an I Like post too! 
 1.    https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/
2. .http://3poodlesandanana
3 craftscaviescontras
4.maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com
5...http://littlepenguinquilts
6. http://sandysnowden.blogspot.co.uk/
7.. http://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/
8.https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 
9...http://homesewnbyus
10..http://imworkingonaproject
11.. https://barrels-of-monkeys.blogspot.com/ 
12. https://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/
13 https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com/2018/04/sewing-with-love-i-like-cars.html! All about cars! :)
 
 


 
 linking to some of these

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays
Main Crush Monday
the mop link party mondays
sew can do mondays
Make My Saturday Sweet @ Amanda’s Books and More
http://www.quiltfabrication.com/
Our World Tuesday
Travel_Tuesday  Our World Tuesday
Travel_Tuesday 
design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays 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/