Thursday, September 18, 2025

I Like Thursday # 469 mums the word, ballroom dance, and broken sidewalks

 

time for another list of likes for this week, mid-September. I love mums in the autumn so DH got three small pots for me. I can see them through my wildflowers on tall stems, that dance like ballerinas in the wind here. 

Shall we get started with a few pics of my walks this week? Okay! 

this is on one plot of the community garden, and it always strikes me as graceful
one of the water features on our golf course. I liked the glint off the water and reflections in the early morning. This shot doesn't particularly sparkle but it did in real life, and I like sparkles

I loved the broken sidewalks, the way they looked like a neurographic drawing, 

 


so took a pic of some to print and color in then one evening they were plastered over!!!  Clean, new, no longer of interest

Then I saw what I think looks like Yoda.... heh heh it's still there! 
there are always golf balls bouncing around us, (not a fan) so when I saw this I thought, another one.... 
when I looked closer, I saw it was a mushroom from our rain and humidity this week!
I made oven flautas for lunches, and combined the last of them with two spanikopita triangles that reminded me of quilty flying geese! 

Oh forgot to say, Halloween yard decorations are popping up... loved these
big skeleton from Grandin Road catalogue
the owner, a nice young man chatted with us a while, which makes me really happy. They also have this lady that scared their dog so she is over near the garage
Do you think the style of decorations we choose says anything about us?  

this sits on our entry table all year.... I love the texture, size and color so.... 

Conversation starter this week


Did you get a new notebook and paper to use that year? I remember picking a notebook was a big deal.

 I remember the year I got thin ruled paper instead of big lines. I remember getting flair pens to use instead of pens and I had a cartridge ink pen one year too. Do you still like having notebooks and calling them journals? 

I loved the organization (dividers) of it all. 
I admit those little snap rings sometimes bit me!

there always seemed to be a plastic zip bag in my new notebooks, with tools I seldom used. 
(We recently got something I did use back then, a wax pencil. We'll use it  to jot dates on open food containers)
I still have notebooks, I keep recipes we try ad like in them, and love journals, can't have too many


watching on tv

SO excited dancing with the stars and high potential shows are back on tv 
(I'm a dancer, or was before one too many injuries) I used to study ballet, tap, ballroom, and cajun jitterbug! I miss contra the most, and waltzing.... it's a real skill to follow someone's lead. 

Watching on youtube:

love history? This is a view into 17th century France....fascinating to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2VUSTySobI



https://youtube.com/shorts/Vt06EU6CsiY?si=Y_VuaXs1dYK1Ol5s

I like cool/ cold temps! 


let me know if you did an I Like post I can include here, and please visit these folk to see what they liked this week. I'd love it if you answered today's question with a story about your childhood


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Saturday, September 13, 2025

creatively speaking, this week Hexie spirals

 

This week, I finished the hexie spiral in light pale green, or pale as I could handle! LOL 

The image above shows the blocks made in pale green, regular green, and aqua scraps

does it change how they look when turned? sort of....
or depend on the color they are near?
I now have 9 blocks done
the scrap color this month at RSC is light or pale green and blue. 
I'm not generally a pastel gal but I admit to liking this combo to give the whole quilt a light/light element

now for the light blue hexie block!!

My cutting table shows the strip sets in pale/bright green ready to do the other RSC block

some light green and blue seen along my walks this week:


and in my kitchen

I'm about ready to move beyond last and this month's Aqua/pale green/ pale blue palette 
I'm ready to make some Halloween or Fall blocks! 
found this online this week....

I also think this would be a fun quilt for different Halloween prints

https://corianderquilts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Autumnal-PDF-pattern.pdf

Of course I don't have ginham prints but.... I DO have an abundance of Halloween fun prints!

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

I Like Thursday # 468,breaking fashion rules, donkeys, changing seasons and lunchbox memories

 

from a yard in our neighborhood


time for this week's list of likes . I think of sunflowers as being harbingers of Autumn 

Let's start with some photos, shall we? (I love photography) 

beginning to look like fall in our tree, always the first to color
but still hot especially in the sun, to need this
and although we got our first little mums, flowers are still thriving here

alongside images like this
I made sugar cookies this weekend and coated them in orange crystal sugar to bring on cooler temps lol
we enjoy having cookies as a little sweet after lunch
For a sort of dessert we made applesauce cake with caramel frosting (of course from scratch)
need to add more applesauce next time
the recipe source:
one day the sky is like this, 
looks like a painting right?
an hour later can be like this
but it never even rained! 

we walked to the farm neighborhood again to visit the donkeys and horse.... see the little donkey under it's horse friend? adorable. 
we stood and watched, they all came to the fence to say hello

my favorite one, don't tell the other one
a guy walked up we've talked to several times. He had standard poodles and like us chose to rescue a smaller breed this time. He doesn't seem happy with the choice, and his cairn/ chihuahua mix bolted to the fence to rile up the donkeys
and hilarity ensued. It took a good 10 min after the fence fracas for the two donkeys to stop running around bumping into each other and acting like brothers arguing. Eventually they regained their peace and the horse shook his head over them, and long after the little dog left, it all returned to normal.

a few blocks made for a scrap quilt 

I am skating on thin ice here, wearing white pants after labor day, LOL but as I said, it's hot still. My peepers are swollen from allergies and smoky skies from wildfires, that are clearing out finally
yes, that's the top of our year round xmas tree behind me

one of our wildflowers 
conversation starter this week:
Did you take your lunch and did you use a little brown bag or have a lunch box?

 Oh I loved having a lunch box with a thermos and picking one out was a big deal. I remember the way a baloney sandwich smelled in that box, with a little bag of chips.
I remember having ones like these


I usually bought lunch tickets too, for days when they had a really good meal like, for me, salisbury steak or sloppy joes. We stood in line on Monday mornings outside the cafeteria, bought tickets that we stored in a flip top bandaid box inside our desks. What meals did you look forward to?
I took lunches when I worked in schools, but often someone took mine as if the lunch fairy left it for them
 Oh I loved having a lunch box with a thermos and picking one out was a big deal. I remember the way a baloney sandwich smelled in that box, with a snack bag of chips.
I have three cute adult lunchbox style craft containers I fill with beads, threads, etc


(extra credit if you show a pic of one of yours) (the Smithsonian site has pics of lunchboxes) 
I'll leave you today with a view on our walk to the edge of the neighborhood. Makes me think of that song, "get on down, get on down the road..."

or this one....
long winding road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4HjTH_fTM

please visit these folks to see what they liked this week, and if they had lunchboxes

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Living a creative life this week.... sewing mostly

 

I've focused my creative time this week on finishing one quilt, and on photography. 

the changing seasons are exciting especially coming into the possibility of cooler temps. 

the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pale green and pale blue.... so on walks I look for those colors.... 

An artist paints what she sees but what she sees is primarily what she looks for

nature paints the world with all the shades and light to dark providing contrast

I admit I'm drawn to saturated colors so focusing on pale ones is more difficult. 

what kind of tree is this? 
Most of my photos this week are glorious saturated colors, but that must wait til Thursday's I Like  post

it's difficult for me to go from "aqua" a light blue green, to the RSC chosen colors of 

light green and blue... so I expect to veer from them soon, 

I was able to keep my machine moving along this week, enough to finish the quilting and binding on this runner. Here it is after the binding went on, was turned to the front to be straight stitched down...


and since this machine couldn't handle true piping layers, I found this cording in my stash

and carefully zig-zagged over it with a lime thread next to the finished binding to look like piping! 
and voila! 
fini! 
finished and on to the next thing, making some light blue blocks for this year's RSC quilt

it was hard to stay to low contrast light to medium shades, without the usual joy color gives me

so I pulled out some other blue and green tone finished blocks to see how these might fit in... there is  a stack of these blocks in all the colors so far... and it is a scrap quilt
just a few of the finished blocks  along with this month's
This tells me if I wanted to make a bed quilt in a limited color scheme, it might look okay, as long as I added in colors nearby on the color wheel too

as I make these blocks there are always bits cut off... so I sewed them together just to see what they might do, as one does lol. 


then I chose light green fabrics to make the hexie swirl block

isn't this a lovely fabric? 




and cut 2.5" squares to hand baste onto the paper forms later this week
ack, how long can I last sewing pale fabrics to pale fabrics? 
Guess we'll find out next week! 

busy as a bee!
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