Thursday, November 27, 2025

I Like Thursday # 480 Gobble Gobble!

 

happy Thanksgiving and welcome to this week's list of likes

I've been less than well, too much to go into here, but a lot is from the gas pipe work here

so on with the short show of mostly photos

some neighbors have gone big to decorate this year
uh oh! Turkey down! (and a bit flashing too)



Christmas plans by zodiac sign.... short but funny!!!

https://youtube.com/shorts/_gK4m14ua-c?si=bR4xwd8ZUW6upRzc

I loved the color of these tree berries this week

I LOVE animals  first up a sweet dog and a wonderful owner

Chewy... small but mighty. She barked away all big dogs wanting a sniff. Her owner is charming, Joe remembers our names, and reminds me of his by a litany of Joe, Jo Jo, Joseph, Joey and others. Chewy was B O R E D with the blah blah and pulled to get his dad to get walking! 

next up these puppies are getting big. It's been a week since we visited, and they had forgotten me...

don't remember their names but Boy, and girl, boy barks girl wags and asks for pets! They are spectacular pups

last the donkeys and horse were out this week

the little black donkey had just walked right under the horse like it was a tunnel

Love you miss!!!
LOVE this cloud formation!

Hot and cool and hot and cold and hot   weird for November in the Colorado front range
Hmm not donkeys.... beginning to look like Christmas

beautiful straglers, hold on y'all!

one picked up on the walk  

finished my beautiful pumpkin quilt this week pics and story Saturday
Opened the greatest gift of scraps and flamingo patterns from my friend Pat in NY... I'll share photos of the beauties Sat too, so grateful...




our conversation starter this week 

would you rather go to someone's house for Thanksgiving (even a relative?) or host them in yours?

I LOVE going to someone else's house for Thanksgiving and have had a grand time having them to mine too. I think it's so nice, so sharing, to sit at their table for a celebration of friendship however most people don't want to have anyone but their families... sad for me but there you go! 

>  painted my nails with Ballet Shoes pink this week... 

>  changed out closet for winter and love cozy sweaters  

> Loved the finale of Dancing with the Stars

YES!!! cool way to wrap something to tuck a card into

https://youtube.com/shorts/U44Oh-qmh1g?si=gQ82nhLSw-B1YLiQ


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Thursday, November 20, 2025

I Like Thursday # 479 making turkeys in elementary school, dogs in dresses, and funnies

 

welcome to this week's list of likes.... interrupted by some dislikes... ahem...

my computer, with no warning, failed. Completely. Totally. now I'm sort of using dh's computer and updated operating system which I find unintelligible. I. Hate. most. Technology and I'll go ahead and throw my Iphone in there with that. 

I will do my best to list some things, but can't promise pictures, (grrrrrrrr) 

For fun watch this


Fine Dining


I had egg whites to use up, so I mixed them with cream, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon cardamom, soaked the stale sour dough slices, fried them in butter, and voila! 

the best French toast I've made... we had enough to have all week too

Highlight of my week was meeting this cutie! A 6 month old maltese poodle.... in a cute sundress! 


she took one look at me, hopped up on her back legs and wiggled her front legs in the air at me. Loved talking to her mom who also grew up in Florida! She spent, wait for it, $4000 for this pup. 

I want one too!!! with lots of dresses! 

Saw this heart shaped leaf on that same walk.... now I need a dog of my own again

I have begun quilting this now.... it's a joy to work on


our conversation starter this week is:

Do you remember making construction paper turkeys in elementary school? using your own hand? coloring them in or pasting on cut out colored feathers? taking them home and having a parent put them up in the house?

I loved making hand turkeys! I didn't like using those fat crayons they gave kids at school though, no points on them! We would all sit at one table and share the broken crayons! 
From this exercise, I learned how to work in a group, follow directions, use colors, then use scissors to cut out the turkey or feathers... Loved it, but pretty sure my mother threw it away quickly



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Saturday, November 15, 2025

creativity this week.... pumpkin for Fall

 

welcome to this week's sewing round up.... it's Fall despite the heat wave we're experiencing.... so I pulled out the bag of Fall Scraps and worked on two projects, first a watercolor technique of a pumpkin


inspired by this one on my walk....

also inspired by sunlight and the color gold 

First I arranged, then rearranged squares on the design wall this week,

whee! whaat fun this is! 

 til I sewed them into rows

I take them by rows to the machine, and leave them connected to each other til they get pressed. 
I press seams on row one to the left, then row two to the right, row three to the left, row 4 the right 
and sew on

press very well, then sew the rows together carefully. My squares are 2" unfinished size, 
aren't the prints cute? Ignore the color on this photo
the rows sewn together

it's fun but since I can't decide how to put the shadow on the bottom, this is where I stopped for the day

now, the quilting will add so much, that will talk a little thought. Right now it's 20 tall by 24 wide

From these scraps I pulled skinny strips of blues to make another needle book. I now have 3 and think I might keep one and give the others to friends. 
opened up


Love the colored strips together, tiny single fold binding anchored on by zig zag stitch
the inside, some folded in this time to hold some scissors, love those fishies! Batting to hold needles trimmed with rick rack scissors. 





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Thursday, November 13, 2025

I Like Thursday # 478 Fall Decorations, fun videos, pretty colors


the calendar says Autumn the temperatures are summery 80's in Aurora! At least the trees are very pretty! 

I think I'm sick, seeing double, and headachy because the neighborhood is replacing all gas tubes here. For 7 weeks now. But I just took yet another ibuprofen so on with this week's show

Let's start with two funnies




I had to pull all the teeeeeny tomatoes off the bush because of one overnight cold temp... so I tried to make fried green tomatoes like I grew up with. Slice, then salt, coat in flour saute in oil til crispy
they may look funny but they tasted SUPERB! 

we had two large Bartlett pears, so I made pear tart a good fall dish... and was it ever tasty!!!
made a half recipe and it's one I make often. 

then since it was cooler that day I went on to make pumpkin bars, sooooooooo good
pretty quick to make and the crust is like a thick cookie.... makes a big pan too

we like to make up a bowl of whipped cream to go with.... one cup cold cream, 4 Tbsp powder sugar, 1 tsp almond extract, whip in a mixer til firm. Lasts several days in the fridge too. 
pumpkin on the hoof (in a neighbor's yard)

I hung up one of my Fall quilts and am busy sewing on this year's Fall piece from scraps
I had a scrap bag of pieces left from my other Fall quilts, and after sorting through it, found a lot of little squares, more on this one on Saturday if God sees fit to heal me from the toxins around us

Conversation Starter this week:  Do you decorate for fall/ Thanksgiving? 

I love this basket to hold plants, that lovely plant was gifted to me from a friend in Maryland, it came here, pretended to die off but came back like Lazarus. I have that silk garland which fit around it, and 4 small candles that look like pine cones, I won't burn! 
on the baker's rack

mantel

the purse I shared last Saturday, made with fall scraps
from the scrappy squares bag! I am loving it

I have a boiled wool sweater with pumpkins around the yoke... old as the hills, but I wear it still

here's looking at you kid (eyes on a aspen)
I have orange lights on the stair rails, on timers to go off after I'm upstairs. 

had to purchase the 3rd book in my series, library has 10 of them but not that one.... oy, so I am finishing one of the Jana DaLeon Fortune books from the library

most heartwarming short video, spirit touches spirit horse and dog


https://youtube.com/shorts/WZwgJPtyhr8?si=98QmU26snmg5FJP_ 

I want these!!! 


please visit these people to read what they liked this week, and let me know if you want to be included in our merry group each week too. 

Do you decorate for Thanksgiving /Fall? tell me about it!






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