Thursday, February 19, 2026

I Like Thursday # 492 and there's a new dog in town

 

O. M. POODLE!! We picked up Dewey on Sunday wayyyyy out in the middle of Colorado and he's now our new son!!! Hooray, 

It's been a long time coming as the song says. Milo passed over a year ago. We think we've found the sweetest boy to join our family and help us love again.  He is 20 months old, a standard poodle, very skinny at 50 lbs   and such a gentleman. 

His first mom said he may be too scared to walk, but he wants to be with us. Each day he's gotten more curious and brave and gone on smaller walks, is increasingly interested in things.

Something smells here

 

On Wed, (the 4th day with us)  he found his sniffer! He sniffed and sniffed and sniffed every tree, bush, grass blade and wanted to sniff these big boxes! 

He also got brave enough after doing the sniff test and finding a Meeeelion dogs peed on trees, he lifted a leg to try it himself, and promptly lost balance and stumbled away. (his previous owner said he wouldn't pee while wearing a leash) and he's only gone in our back yard so far. 

he discovered he could go upstairs by himself, but panicked when he didn't know how to get back down to us... he'll learn soon enough! 

He knew no words when we met. Not come, not sit, not really his name... speaking of names, we kind of want to replace (mountain Dew) with maybe Dylan... what do you think?

He is frightened, of people, noise, cars, the crate, his yard, losing sight of me... 
a bit scared of the Daddy even

scared of the pumpkin jar?

Okay with walks with Mama

anyway, he is adorable and a mama's boy and I love him

I made this waterlily to add to my round robin quilt last week... loving that!

Conversation starter of the week
what was your favorite subject in school... elementary, high school, or college... or did your favorite subject change over time? what was the teacher like? do you still have an interest in that subject?

I always loved history. I liked imagining living in other times. I read a book on time travels as a little girl, 
I also loved English and reading. I remember telling my mother I couldn't go to school because I didn't know how to read and she said, oh you're going and they will teach you no worries! In first grade we sat in a circle, and each read a paragraph of a simple book. When it got to me I was daydreaming. The teacher was cross when I said where are we, I finished it already. 



I decided to become a doctor in university. I took all the first year courses, majored in biology which also interested me, although calculus and physics not so much. But.... my real interest was in psychology by then, so I changed to that as a major and worked in field as my career. 
ps I still love history, and time travel, and archeology, and Diana Gabaldon novels.

my nature pics this time are of the ranch Dewey came from:
chooks by the hundreds

turkeys

donkeys! also a bunny, lots of dogs, and other critters. 


different from our hood, in some ways, like loud cars but we do live close to donkeys!

I'm watching figure skating from Milan but the coverage here isn't great NBC 


a few words from quiet Dewey (Dylan?) 
I love being the only dog and having all the love and pets and snuggles. I like walking, and seeing dogs along the way but going home to only our family. I love to eat, and that my pawrents feed me more than I used to get, (it's still not enough! is it ever? ) 
I think I'm going to like my toys, not yet, I don't know what to do with them yet
(editor: he picked up a ball rolled to him today) 

suggestions for names? 

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Dragonflies and waterlilies happy V-day


My posting schedule is kind of sporadic now that I have 3 deadlines to make and post my work. 

Today I am sharing this week's work for the stay at home round robin, the prompt is "curves" and I needed to make the prompt fit in my scene


this week I joined the hourglass blocks, love how they blend and look, thank you to the challenge organizers. Then I worked on this week's curves.... decided to use this fabric

I used some misty fuse on a fussy cut strip, then cut out petal shapes and arranged them into lily shape
and chose a background fabric to fit in with the double blocks row I did last week, and pieced this week
I fused the top portion of petals together to make one flower to then move around the background
it's easier to move the whole thing than keep individual petals together

heat bonds the petals and mistyfuse

seeing it with the components, I realized it needed a leaf. Used a scrap, sewed seams in it to create texture




tucked it under the petals and I plan to embroider all the petals and leaf when the quilt is basted, to create more dimension, and that thread color will create more depth then

I'm liking this, and plan to move the strip I chose last week to let the watery fabrics blend


awe, I love coming in the studio to see this on the wall!
no time to rest, this is the Valentine pull for a special hexie spiral block


and this is the pull of green scraps for Rainbow Scrap challenge 

A hexie block in St. Patrick's day fabrics, and green scraps for this month


and one of my photos from walks this week, enhanced to really glow green! since it's mostly brown in Colorado without any snow basically all season. We never got winter this year  near Denver

and my calendar is especially pretty this month, with a V-day collage

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

I Like Thursday # 491 romantic date

 

welcome to this week's list of likes and photos starting with the big blue traveling ball I see daily, always in someone else's yard! this is a real close up

Our friend's doodle (and town crier) Oliver

(c)LAPaylor  twig impression in concrete


artsy photo of the creek (c)LAPaylor

(c)LAPaylor   working on my dragonfly piece, and my dragonfly design wall guard

(c)LAPaylor  I made a tote with one of my photos for PQ

conversation starter this week: Tell us about your most romantic date



welllll it was with my fiance  (at the time) Michael

for my birthday, he bought us tickets to fly to San Francisco, (he had to go for work ) rented us a red convertible, took me to the fine craft show he had to attend, we did touristy stuff, stayed at a great hotel, did wine tours, and I had the time off because he called my boss and set it up all secretly for me. 

It was lovely way to celebrate a birthday. All I had to do was pack a suitcase and wake up early!

Liked the exuberance in this video

exactly how I'd behave if we ever had snow again

the link if you need it

fine dining like

I love orange sicles and this recipe uses 3 ingredients:  jello, hot water, real cream whipped

makes a mousse dessert

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

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Dragonflies next SAHRR row

 

I worked on the prompt for stay at home round robin (animals or live things) row this week

(first, the dragonfly doll was made last year for PQ challenge, she guards my design wall) 

My piece for SAHRR this year is one of dragonflies, they have eyes, so I continued in my theme. 

my first thought, because I am having trouble with my bodily pain this week, was to cut a row from a print with dragonflies/frogs/and turtles. I started by sewing together the hourglass blocks from another prompt, having to commit to placement. 
hmmm not sure,
what about another print with just dragonflies? 
cut a strip of it...



it's there under the hourglass, 

gotta add in this print somewhere

maybe if I add in this little batik strip in the sky, it has dragonflies 
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Project quilting the prompt :Horses My photo on a tote!

 

The prompt for Project quilting this week, and we had one week to make something from is

Horses

I take a lot of photos on my daily walks, and visit this small ranch often... I took this photo

so I printed it onto fabric, adding in prismacolor pencil here and there on the printed fabric and started
I had a brilliant sky fabric scrap to go with the rocks, horses, SW design  fabrics and began designing 
I knew I wanted a tote bag. 
I sewed the outsides of the tote (then 15 X 16" approx), layered it with lining and batting and began quilting it like any quilt
decided on a top binding to put on after I folded it RST and sewed the sides. First I made quick handles
placed and sewed into place
used a gorgeous batik SW print for lining

fold them out of the way and add some rock fabric along the top to finish the edge

box the corners along the bottom so it will sit up
love the back of the tote



it's ready to use and I L O V E how it came out! I get to see my photo more often, it's useful and is made of specially hoarded fabrics years old so I get to see them too




I love horses...

another of my photos, taking in the neighborhood walk

a sweet horse video... enjoy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZa9ZQkd05E

fabrics from my stash, I'll need to use soon they are so pretty







these turquoise nuggets might make a fine tassel or embellishment among the rock fabrics later





 
linking to some of these



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