Not Afraid of Color

Thursday, January 1, 2026

I Like Thursday # 485 and a new year

ahhhhh new year, new week, new list of likes! Starting with some beautiful dried grasses and blue sky

I have a few likes & a few images to share so let's get going!

I do have a short list of things I want to do this year, but let's start with a comic

morning coffee in my fave Mary Engelbreit mug. Plus as my friend Cindy said, hydrate before you caffeinate so my pretty glass of water

high chairs

how fast must they have been running to throw and insole!!!LOL

no need for a fire, the hot temps (78 F in Jan, in Denver will have the same affect)

We watched the Madam Blanc holiday special and it was as charming as ever (we've seen all the episodes available to us)

We've been cooking and baking... tried chicken enchiladas for the first time

boil boneless chicken thighs, then shred meat, layer whole wheat tortillas in pan, Mexican cheese grated, enchilada green sauce. Repeat layers three times then bake til bubbly.

We made zucchini bites again, Grate three small zucchini, let rest in a colander with some salt and squeeze water out. Mix with 1 cup of cheese (pepper jack for us) chives, two eggs (whites only for us) spices like garlic and onion powder, spoon into mini muffin tin (24) and bake about 35 min at 350F

SO good even leftover as a snack or side

trying to walk twice a day... snow is still on the tallest peaks but melted in the foothills

Moon is almost full... don't get tangled up in these trees or life

new bathroom rug is plush and was on sale at Khols

amazing how one new thing lifts your spirits

I want to talk to friends more often this year, want to chat?

I would like to sift through my quilting books and let some go to a new home

I want to use my supplies to make things that are pretty and fun to make

Finished this table runner

would like to resume painting and drawing this year , write more, try more crafts, you know....

I am planning to start a craft/art link party this year, I'll provide prompts but still trying to figure out whether to do it once a month or more often. You can do any craft based on the prompts and more details to come maybe in a month or so, as I hope to do two sewalongs starting in Jan.

Stay at home round robin at https://quiltinggail.com/

Project quilting at https://www.kimlapacek.com/project-quilting

what about you? any hopes for this year, goals? tell us!

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Sunday, December 28, 2025

better late than never.... Christmas creativity

I finished my scrappy Christmas strings piece, as a table runner, maybe to be hung vertically who knows, I have a year to decide LOL!

Pieced the back of the 24.5" XX 14.5" top, and got it ready for machine binding. A gold on green stripe all sewn by machine this time

sewn to the back, brought to the front, tucking in the raw edge for machine straight stitch finish with

BRATTY mylar thread for top stitching

time for a cup of tea first...

came out pretty

time to quilt and finish Pat's gift now that the hexies are hand sewn together to look like a garden

will this book loving lady go on the back?

a finish,... is a finish.... celebrate that!

This year I hope to renew making with paint, pencil, weaving, photography, beading.... and more art quilting.

I'll share my plans for a new link party next week.... stay tuned and get ready...

I take many photos on walks and plan to begin manipulating them artistically in the upcoming months

the rooftops look like mountain plateau don't they?

I have always loved sandra boynton cards and now she makes the best videos... LOVE...

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffhSkKviw1I&list=RDffhSkKviw1I&start_radio=1

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Thursday, December 25, 2025

I Like (Christmas) things to love #484

I'm dreaming of having another poodle ...Merry Christmas to you all, Happy Hanukah too

https://youtube.com/shorts/6st6csIAnm4?si=XdUXxvm5mIJDp_ub

Our conversation starter this week:

do you decorate with traditional things year after year? what are they and can you show us? has there been a year when you didn't feel like dragging out the decorations and how did you handle that?

Like most people I have traditional things, certain Quilts I always display, and if the year is like this one, very few come out....because anything that comes out will have to be put away and I am

JUST TOO TIRED

I put easy things out, and love lights so that will have to do but PLEASE tell me what you do???

(and to be honest our artificial tree stays up all year, I just plug in the lights at this holiday!

I'm sorry, things are out of sorts here, and I have lights out back, and on my evening walk, I walked around the other neighborhood to look at everyone's lights... LOVE , and walked 3.5 miles or so.

the entire fall and winter so far has been too hot for me in Colorado

the skies are sunsetting nicely

I'm in love with these two aussie puppies I talk to every day on my walk. The boy races around barking his head off, the girl stands quietly on a patio stone and licks my fingers... I love them..
I love hand sewing on my christmas spiral hexie at night, til I dropped a needle.... found it bless my angels!

my computer got rid of all my email addresses, then hid 2 weeks worth of emails (I just found hundreds of them from you guys and a slew of ads) (I'll be going thru them over the next few days)

I've baked several trays of different cookies, frozen some of each to have later on a mixed try, eating my way through the candy cane ones, and tiny pecan pies though!

No trad Christmas meal this year I'm going to try a new recipe for chicken enchiladas. Wish me luck.

several of my fave BBC series have specials this week, and here comes "the Traitors" new series

I'm dreaming of a white christmas, it's just a dream now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd2Xjg2Y7nQ&list=RDCo-uk3fvneY&index=4

AWE all this creativity plus a great song!! enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9AU0gUGumE&list=RDCo-uk3fvneY&index=2

still laughing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-uk3fvneY&list=RDCo-uk3fvneY&start_radio=1

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