I Like Thursday #109

Welcome to this week's list of likes! The above photo is from yesterday's post with lots of fun fall pictures from the festival we attended last weekend! I liked that they had tubs there for washing off your purchase before going home!

And this reminder we aren't in the East anymore!

Nope, maybe we aren't in big sky country but it's darn near close enough!
We have had a few cool days and the trees are trying to brighten up the landscape with color

and it's beginning to look a lot like Halloween!

 teehee! I went to a scrapbooking show with my friend Monika

and had SUCH a great time! Wow, this is a whole new world to me and just so much fun!!!
Why I could have spent a fortune and likely will next year. It was like, walking into Oz with all the colorful possibilities to make!

These ladies met doing it and have been together for over 20 years now! They go to shows dressed alike, and do retreats. I begged to join their little group, sort of reminded me of the Sweet Potato Queens books! They said they'd love to include me, even though I'm more of a painter/quilter and gave me their phone numbers!

I loved discovering a new craft, and finding stencils and stamps to use on my quilting

that's a little card with a snowglobe plastic on it with snow you can shake too. I mean, what
creativity! I got some stencils and stamps to use on fabric,

 lots of ideas from demos, and learning what's out there to use my way...there was a whole wall of laurel Burch stamps y'all! I got one. I had heard about Diamond painting from JulieRose so I bought a kit after watching the demo. Whee another craft to try! Mine's a pumpkin scene!

It was hard not to buy everything I saw, but I love this little tree stamp, and the scissors embellishments for totes.
LEFT TURN!
I love the little sugar cantaloupes we found at Sams this week! Yummmmmmmy with a bit of whipped cream for dessert

and I kept the little electric blue bag for "something" later
We also love these two new to us snacks from Sams

The coconut bits have 3 grams of protein per serving and are DELISH!!! All three of us give them 2 paws up!

The little box of natural delights was made from dates pecans and well, delight.

with a bit of pumpkin spices they are like little candies for when you want a sweetie. More healthy that a cookie I suspect. Being raised in Florida, I love vine ripe tomatoes and they are rare here...

Our trip to the garden center, (post and lots of silly pictures HERE) was planned for these. I've been enjoying BLT's made with turkey bacon and it's sad when I look at the last bite! So good.

The furniture repair guy came this week to fix two sewing cabinets the movers broke... I liked his calm confident demeanor... 

Here he is on our front porch repairing my current cabinet drawer.
I'll tell you, I'm sick to death of hearing people brag about being the "best" so it's a pure pleasure to meet a quiet artisan, with lots of experience at his craft, just quietly say "I've repaired a lot of these, and they came out good"

The movers piled boxes on my great grandmother's treadle, so he took the top off to take to his home to fix. I have such severe chemical sensitivities that he wanted to refinish it and let it cure before putting it back on. When he opened it, the machine had some rust which, now that I see, I'll have someone clean and service for me. Of course the hinged top will look great and the rest of the cabinet kind of shabby now, but time will tell. I'll let you know how it did.

I love tri-colored mums in one pot!
and the fall entry of our house

and the new to us table display

a perfect place for little gourds. Look at that swan! And the black one! Nature went all out painting these!
And the sun is setting earlier these days, so I like coming back from a walk and seeing our entryway

in the evening light
Thanks for looking...

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Milo's Moment

I talked a lot yesterday about my trip to the garden center where I saw so much cool stuff to sniff and played with lots of kids. I've been pretty excited with cooler weather myself.
It's hard to be a good poodle ALL the time.
It was hard I'll admit to walk around in a black fur coat when the sun was so hot my Mama nearly perished from the vapors! But now it's cooler and I'm ready to kick up my dog heels and run!
And bark!
Why I had quite a scare this week. I saw a flat baby and y'all it weren't natur'l. I barked and barked at it til I watched Mama walk over and touch it. Then I went over and had a real good sniff... well, it wan not like the usual babies. (editors note: it was a sign in a front yard that someone had a baby, "it's a boy!" with a picture of a staring baby) (Milo is big on faces, and doesn't like anything odd like a helmet, or a kid with a pool toy around them, or people holding hands...)
Yep! I also saw a weird two headed creature last night I had to bark at and warn to stay away which was hard because Mama barked back at me and said stop it but I was just protecting us from danger anyway!!!
(editors note: an older couple was walking hand in hand past us)

Please check out these fine folk also keeping it positive this week, and for those of us who are also "me too" it was a very difficult week to survive. (read my post HERE)

I ordered a book before it was on the stands this week, by my fave author on writing, Anne Lamott.
Her new book is on having hope. I have learned so much from her about writing, and need hope, so I'll give you a review when I get it!

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 maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com
.http://littlepenguinquilts
  .http://homesewnbyus
http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com/  (not posting this week)

https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/ 

http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/
https://grammasquiltingroom.blogspot.com/
craftscaviescontras
http://sandysnowden.blogspot.com/
Minou's Minute 
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https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/

Linking to parties
ruby tuesdays
pictorial-tuesday 
Our World Tuesday
Travel_Tuesday
sundays in the city
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http://sky watch Fridays
Thankful Thursdays pet parade
http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com
http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/