Thursday, September 25, 2025

I like Thursday # 470 photos, Halloween decorations, dogs and conversation prompts

 

Welcome to this week's list of likes.... it must be shorter today as I am beset with physical pain.... 

Above is some wildflowers that just bloomed, with one of our Halloween decorations in the yard. 

I love flamingo, even flamingo ghost skeletons


on the walk this week... the mountains were smoke covered.... 
On this day we met a woman walking her daughter's dog... and chatted for a few minutes, a perfectly lovely conversation! 

Saw this vignette in someone's front yard.... pretty. Bet we'd like each other too

saw this cute pig 

this neighbor must like pigs, we saw several decorating their yard

I've been watching all this person's dog and cat interviews this week on youtube.... hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlFpv0G7F8

Our conversation starter this week

1.Did you do the pledge of allegiance every morning and then sing a patriotic song? 

we did. We stood, hand on heart and said I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands

one nation under God indivisible for liberty and justice for all

we were taught the Golden rule in Sunday School and from adults in our lives. 


2. what is your learning style, then and now? The main styles are auditory (hearing) rote or memorization, visual (maybe reading or seeing charts)  kinesthetic (that's me, learn by doing something like writing or making or touching) Are there other ways to learn I've forgotten? Is it still your style today?

When I taught quilt making skills, I tried to cover all styles in presentation to adults giving everyone a chance to find success. 

In college, if I took notes on paper I'd remember the info better. Now I watch (for example a dance move) then try it in order to remember it. Must be kinesthetic! 

I'm reading and watching TV. Enjoying this book on audio 



and this on E book


Survivor, and Golden bachelor started last night... whee!!! Along with "High Potential" dancing with the stars,  finale of Big Brother, and the return of Gilmore Girls my all time favorite show on Start TV 


I'm content. 

I am sewing a version of my spiral hexie block in light blues while watching TV this week

I'm sewing a Halloween quilt in the studio, well two actually. 



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 20, 2025

Creatively speaking this week.... challenge to use light green/blue and moving into Halloween!

 

I enjoy working in colors of the season so I pulled out the bag of halloween fabric scraps and played!

it's always messy in the beginning, and I love seeing scraps laid out in piles according to size... 
Now what? I think
I get to know the prints, think of what I can make, I start sewing littles to littles

I get lost in the "scrap puzzle" as I think of it

looking so closely at it is one thing, but it will be viewed from more of a distance so I try to get some components up on the design wall. 
A lot of my halloween scraps are dark, so how to introduce some color? Some orange/lime/gold/ 

Improv geese are always good, color geese and dark halloween prints around them let them float
there are always blocks in the wings... and I think a few pinwheels or 4 patches would look good. Where did I put that candy block I wanted to try? 
 


I finished up this block for RSC each month, in light green to go with the light blue. 

I am not inspired nor jazzed by these colors but the hexie spiral in light pale blues might be more fun, hope to share that next week. 

Along the way I made a free form hexie scrap piece with pale color plus garden prints, I think I will applique this onto a landscape fabric for a tote or apron front...

It hasn't been pressed yet, and I can't seem to leave it alone, what if I add another blue one here???
The ones that look orange here are actually golden yellows, the pale green batiks seem to wash away
anyway it was fun to make, and I never applique hexie forms so that will be different

I like this pattern but it's hard to find the actual pattern to print out online...
and around the neighborhood, pale or light blue and greens are as uninspiring to me in real life as in the scrap challenge to use them in fabric


I chose this view for the smoky way the mountains look this week, and the smoky pale blue of the sky


I've moved on to wanting Autumn colors... 
the rocks have a lot of colors if you look closely but each color is very pale.... I guess I like a more saturated color palette most of the time. 
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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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