The above blossom was at the community garden, it's new every week seems like
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| pretty.... tidy |
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| very inviting isn't it? |
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| it's beginning to look a lot like Autumn..... |
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| another bunny |
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| and....another bunny, sniffing a flower |
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| one of my roses |
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| Joy's challenge https://thejoyfulquilter.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-table-scraps-challenge-link.html |
conversation starter this week is
did you get school clothes and shoes for the start of school? Did you look through the enormous Sears catalogue at all the possibilities and dream? Remember going to the store with probably a mom, and trying on clothes? A shoe store for your "school shoes" I remember getting one main pair of shoes I wore daily. My clothes were usually kind of large because I'd "grow into them" same with shoes.
when I was 5 I got pink ballet shoes for dance lessons, gosh I loved those. I played for years in my dyed emerald green flat slippers I wore in my sister Kitty's wedding squeezing my feet in them.
at halloween I had these elastic high heel plastic shoes one year.... I felt glamorous
I remember one year I got penny loafers that I inserted an actual penny in
I remember the man who always measured my feet, and brought out uncomfortable shoes for that year.
Oh and we always had to have new Keds for PE ( I HATED PE) and mark our names on them. I remember clothing a bit big, and stiff and chosen FOR me through elementary and nearly junior high.
I chose the penny loafers, (finally)
sometimes I got a new pair of church shoes if my foot had grown. Usually black patent leather with a buckle.
videos
super short koala love for a cat, AWEeeeeeee
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so clever tee hee
https://youtube.com/shorts/B-wEm2-3a9s?si=al0Lsg01LVhNjq2_so touching
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20 comments:
Nice pumpkin! I've been painting pumpkins lately.
Cute little rabbit... Of all the animals that we have around our place, we never see a rabbit.
Love all of the flowers and the pumpkin and I also love your finished aqua quilt! My mom made my clothes so it was a treat to get one that was store bought. I did get to go to the fabric store and choose fabrics with her. Love Mary Jane's. They are such cute shoes and I hated PE too!
The signs made me chuckle this morning. The aqua quilt turned out very pretty, and that lime green is perfect. New shoes for school was certainly a yearly tradition. My mother made most of my clothes, but they also had to start out a little too big so there was room for growth. She was a very skilled seamstress, but I do remember begging for some store bought clothes that would have been more "stylish", at least in my kid brain. LOL
Gorgeous quilt!
Your rose is an absolutely gorgeous color. Is it a fragrant one? The lime binding on your quilt was the perfect addition. Love it!
Lovely photo walk with you and always great quilt works ~ thanks, ~ an artist reflects
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That is quite a pumpkin you found in the community garden! Pretty rose, too. I had Mary Jane's like that - and either tights or little frilly ankle socks. A must wear for girls of our vintage!
So sweet! Thank you for this deer hosting!
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My cosmos are looking pretty crazy like your photos, too. What a pumpkin! Cute buns. Pretty teal quilt - I really like the flange binding. Summer is allowed to cling a little longer... until I feel well enough to dive into the Fall stuff. :-)
I enjoyed your walk, especially the bunny!
Nice walk and I love pumpkins. I did get some new clothes/shoes for the start of school, but my mom was sure to take inventory of whatever I could still wear before we went shopping :) Thank you for linking up.
Those flowers are all so pretty and those bunnies are adorable. Hey, I always got new Keds too and I hated PE. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
I enjoyed your walk. Yes, Mom always took us shopping for school clothes in town. But we only got one pair of shoes to last us the year and maybe 2 outfits. Back in the day our small town had everything you needed. We didn't have big box stores then. I miss the days of walking around the square and window shopping along the way.
Great flowering season you have. Achool shoes I recall being black buckle overs with very thick soles at primary school and brown lace-ups at high school. I expect I also had Sunday shoes but I don't remember them. At home it was bare feet in summer (I vaguely recall a pair of old canvas gym shoes from my father's school years that I wore to attempt to play tennis) or gumboots in winter.
Yes, it's amazing what you can spot on a walk through the neighbourhood. Pumpkins! Oh it's nearly October. I'm actually looking forward to cooking pumpkin.
Your orange rose is beautiful.
As is your quilt. What a beautiful colour! How big is it? Is it going to be hung on the wall or is it big enough to be a bed spread?
The ballet video was hilarious! So funny.
And of course hate is taught. Children don't hate.
Have a lovely weekend,
Lisca
Nice of that bunny to sit still for a photo.
As for the conversation starter - I actually can't remember getting anything new when school started although I must have, at least sometimes. I do remember my clothes always being too big though and 'growing into them' was always the reason. I was tall and very skinny so nothing fit right anyway. Having a 36" inseam meant that any pants I got were always too short (still have a hard time getting them to fit).
What wonderful snippets of nature this week. Love the flowers...and those are adorable bunnies!!
Great post! love the sign puns and the child video
Congrats on finishing up your Hot Flash quilt, LeeAnna! Your entry feels just right for the challenge. I love the way you splashed specks of warmth across that sea of AQUA!
It's still too hot to walk here, but I love living vicariously through your walks! Beautiful community garden - and just look at the pumpkin and those flowers! Love your orange rose! How nice to live near water and that photo! Love it! Pretty binding! Nice way to bring out the lime green!
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