I Like Thursday #147.... plants paints flamingos and a doodle

Welcome to this week's list of likes! It's all about the little things that make up our days isn't it?

I love our fountain brought from MD. DH fixed the leak it developed somewhere between MD and CO, so it's burbling away like a songbird. I put a tiny petunia in the top, now it looks just like we live in Italy, heh heh

Our neighborhood had a casino night, where they gave us each $500 play money, provided snacks, and we could enjoy meeting other neighbors. We went thinking we'd stay an hour but ended up spending the whole time having fun.

Here's Mr Not Afraid of color (in the green hat provided by the organizers)  playing roulette and even sometimes winning. We could trade in tickets for chances at prizes, I won a Khols gift certificate. Perfect!
I mostly played blackjack because my friends were there, and I loved the dealer. We laughed so much at that table, he could have been laughing at us...

We visited a farmer's Market in Southlands for the first time, and tasted really good....and really bad stuff, met other doggies, chatted with people. It poured rain that morning but this was during a lull in the rain.

The home made Greek items are about gone already

but the wine and cherry balsamic is still with us.
I'm still drawing or painting each morning... this was a tutorial by Shayda Campbell on drawing herbs.

I love watching youtube and then seeing my own work improve with the lessons! I like my steadtler pen in gray too. I've had this sketchbook for years but it's now filling up with beauty.

I remembered DH got me a paint box one year, full of different kinds of paint, inks, crayons, pencils. I dug it out and tried the watercolors and they are still good. I think it will be fun to try the acrylics sometime too.

I like being a part of the Paint Party Friday group now that I paint more often. I'm posting my latest paintings Fridays, please come visit!

I've been sewing, I like to sew little pieces to each other and make stuff with it lol. I made more chandelier blocks after trying out a red white and blue arrangement of my blocks last week. I may not use all the colors in one quilt, I may make an entire quilt out of the green, blue and aqua blocks. But I made more blue and red blocks and turned them into a 4th of July table runner. It's not quilted but the top is done and I used old R.W.& B. fabrics, so that was great. (the box is still full)

I like the book on CD playing in the studio right now... The Lake House by Morton



It's complex but intriguing to quilt to.

I like all my pretty flowers and vegetables that are flowering right now. I have flowers on the zucchini and beans, peppers and tomatoes. No fruit yet but flowers are the sign of hope!

I liked this group of 10 flamingo cakes that Sally at craftscaviescontras sent me

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/6/23/sunday-sweets-celebrates-pink-flamingo-day

Milo's Moments

Hi Y'all! I like playing... I'm a player! I love my friend Gracie, a doodle, who moved in 10 months ago.

I can see her from my backyard, and if I didn't notice she barks hello so I can get my Mama to call for a play date. She's crazy about toys, and will pick up three at once!

I just like to run next to her, holding her tail in my mouth. She doesn't mind, and it's kind of like holding her paw. I also play hard with my friend Murphy who is little but mighty. He jumps up on my Daddy's lap which drives me crazy so I bark my head off, but he's the best for sheer running mates.
I like running into friends on walks, like last night I saw Parker my corgi friend. We didn't run but we still hung out, til I saw my human friend Otie. I can play with her like a dog! Ain't that grand? She makes me happy. Oh and I finally got Durango to understand I want to play, so he now doesn't try to bite me. I love his kids... maybe more than him!

This week's flamingo

Please visit these "I Like" Thursday posts:

maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com 

https://julierosequilts.blogspot.com/   
http://littlepenguinquilts 

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

craftscaviescontras 
Musings of a Menopausal Melon - mmm! quilts
https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com 
http://homesewnbyus  

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 
http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com     
https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/ 
https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/  

members but not posting this week: 
http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.com/
 http://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/
quiltingreadersgarden friday applique  
rosie and the boys nature pics  

 

https://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/

I Like Thursday #145

Hi y'all! Welcome to this week's list of likes! I like cows and wind sculptures that are cows.

I like grouping flowers in a pot, then watching them fill out and grow. I also like the colors here, purple pot with lime green creeping jenny, and red celosia.

I've enjoyed seeing the vegetables recovering from being put in the raised beds. I have high hopes for their producing before first snow!  I'll learn what can survive here.

I moved my easter eggs to the back yard for the turquoise color, and put one in the crab plant holder on the table

He looks kind of cross, no?
It's so nice to see summer after a winter of snow, and a spring of rain. I love flowers, and last weekend I found these 12 roses at the grocery store for $8. What a deal!

And they are healthy! Look at the pretty mix of color!

I like that my neighbor shared a raspberry lemonade mix with me, to make me drink more water! And she also told me she found out Johnson's baby oil cream repels mosquitoes. You can bet I'm going to try that!

I loved finding big ceramic pots and hanging baskets on sale at the grocery.
I like Amazing Race, Project Runway, Master Chef, and chopped Junior on TV.
I like watching the bachelorette, but the current one is such a mess I spend the hour yelling at the tv.

I'm enjoying my novels for summer reading, (especially forgotten garden) and quilting again. It's hard to go up to the studio in summer, with all that sunlight calling me outside. I liked going for a walk yesterday and meeting a neighbor who has formed a haven in her back yard.

 She took me on a tour of her flowers, and I loved her rustic birdhouse, fence and bush. She grew up in PA and her Dad made this. It's so nice to meet new people who share an interest with you!!
She had this plastic guard around her tomatoes to keep tomato worms off...

I love my art supplies. I have a great assortment now, paints, pencils, markers, brushes. I'm enjoying printing quotes to put on my pictures too. I still quilt and bead, but I'm having a love affair with paint on paper at the moment.
Making this art is influencing my writing,  how I look at objects and my quilt making.

I noticed this shadow on a walk, and loved the gradation of light to  dark as well as the organic image.

Last week, Shannon put some pretty pics of her trip to Scotland on her I Like post, and I painted one of them... fun!

 Diann at little penguins shared a hike picture on her I Like post, and I had to paint it too!

If you missed their original photos, check their blogs for last Thursday.

Milo's moment

I LIKE BELLY RUBS

I love my neighbors! Tonight while Daddy was trying to get the sprinklers to work, I ran off next door to play with the boys.
Hey! I'm a boy! I brought my ring toy, to make them jealous and want it.
 At one point all three boys held hands pulling together to get the toy away from me but I won the tug of war!It was hilarious, you should have been there!
I like my ring toy. First you gotta bite off all the fuzzy covering, then it's just great to carry around.

Even human puppies like it!

visit mama's friends also keeping lists of things they liked this week! Gotta keep paw-sitive!

maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com 

https://julierosequilts.blogspot.com/   
http://littlepenguinquilts 

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 
http://homesewnbyus  

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com     

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 

 https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/   

http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/  

https://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/ 
http://sandysnowden.blogspot.com/




Linking to these parties!

shadow sundays
Pink Saturday!
http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.com/
https://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/
 http://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/

rosie and the boys nature pics  
Thankful Thursdays pet parade 
http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com
 http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/

I Like Thursday #143

hey, where's the best place to find some poodle art???

Welcome to this week's list of likes!
We went to two craft festivals last weekend in Stapleton near Denver. It was a pretty day and all three of us enjoyed being together.

I asked this guy to let me take a pic of his shirt... quilters... can you relate?

While Milo was checking out the critter art, I spied a flamingo...
and a cow

teapot being held by a tin man. Cows and flamingos what could be better?

I met many very interesting artists, and it was intriguing how many were engineers or had been! DH could relate to them easily.

How about I show you some of what we saw?

 I liked this Michigan artist for his circles... the eternal shape, and also loved by quilters...

Andy Carter of  the Crookedstick.biz was very knowledgeable about varieties of trees, and how time changes the look of the rings. The colors were so pretty in person, organic, swirly, like watercolors.


He does mail order, this is his card...

Whew! Glad Mama trimmed my hairs, it was hot in the sun. I had to take a little rest while she looked and had a bottle of water. Then I chewed the lid off the bottle and was ready to meet some more people and dogs. I liked most all of them, look at this little dingo-dude chilling under a tree.

I really liked being petted by this lady, so I laid down and let her get at my back.

My advice at craft shows? Never ever turn down an ear scratch or a back rub!
This lady said I was a really good boy! Hear that Daddy?
a GOOD boy!







We all enjoyed a visit with this stained glass artist, and I did a mini-interview with her while basking in the color!

Barb has been working with glass since the '70's. She worked as an engineer but one day decided to make glass art full time. She works out of her home, dedicating a spare bedroom for "clean" work, and using the garage for the "dirtier" work of glass cutting. I always want to know about studio space.

I asked how she handles roadblocks. She said she usually has 4 or 5 pieces going at once (quilters... you can relate right?) and when she hits a difficult spot, she walks away for a bit, or works on another piece.
 Her companion said, sometimes she even comes over to visit her for a day or two before returning to solve a design problem. She said rarely does she scrape it all off but she has done that to start over.

 Her process involves  laying out the colored glass onto clear glass, building the design as she goes intuitively. Her colors are clear and bright, with contrast. She likes all colors. People tend to return for more pieces after living with one for a bit. As we talked about the design concepts of line, repetition, movement and her use of color, I felt a real affinity with her. I told her I've been enjoying watercolor again to refresh my creativity, and she said she had been considering working with it too.

Ah, it's my opinion that working with different mediums is a good thing, all creative work adds to the whole person's artwork, right? Do you enjoy working in different mediums?

I liked talking to one acrylic artist about her process, no pictures but she uses a persian plaster over doily's to build up texture before painting, and she made some awesome chair seats with belts!

We enjoyed looking through some really modern kaleidoscopes while talking to the artist. He was an engineer too, and the exacting nature of his work showed that.
A very modern jeweler from Taos, Cristina Radu is an environmental engineer and turned us on to a movement called Long Now project. I checked it out and it's just fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation

waiting for Daddy to return with lunch in the park

 She is passionate about her day job and her art work both! And loves dogs too. 

We met many dogs and kids that day, giving Milo a very fun outing. At one point he closed his eyes, and a little 2 year old squatted down to pet him. He opened his eyes, the boy reached into his granola sample bag and gave a handful to my pup. Then he stood up and walked off eating his cereal! Milo said, hey! What's your hurry?

I liked chatting with this couple who just adopted the doodle there. After he and Milo played a bit, they both laid down trusting each other to have their backs! If people could make friends so easily! Well, I guess we did as we enjoyed a relaxing moment chatting too. This was their first dog, the man saying he always wanted a poodle, so when they got the chance to adopt this two year old they did!

We also liked returning to the botanical gardens to see if the Iris was up yet. All of our gardens have taken a hit from deep wet snow and hail lately.

some were out in their Sunday finery, and some were still buds. I love iris, and bought some at Trader Joes after we went to the gardens. Here are a couple of pics of what I liked there this visit

this is an esplaired apple tree!

and tomorrow's paint post will include some pics of flowers. I've really loved painting again. Seeing the colors mix on the paper is soothing and exciting at the same time.

Quickly, I've loved the raspberry rugelach from Trader Joe's, the BBC show Queens of Mystery, watching numerous painting videos on youtube, eating Thai food, having DH home for the three day holiday. 

Now please enjoy these fine folks also sharing their likes for the week. Let me know if you do a post, I'll add you in too.

www.sewyouquilt2.com

maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com  

https://julierosequilts.blogspot.com/   
http://littlepenguinquilts  
craftscaviescontras

http://minousminute.blogspot.com 

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 
http://homesewnbyus

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com/ 

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/

  http://sandysnowden.blogspot.com/
http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/ 
https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com/

https://quiltingreadersgarden.blogspot.com/
https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/  
http://sonotorganized.com/ 

Linking to these parties!
https://comedy-plus.com/ Awe Mondays
 http://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/
rosie and the boys nature pics  
Thankful Thursdays pet parade

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com
http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/

Writing prompt a story of love

Mountain Climbing Poodle Puppy

The words today come from a new source, The Sunday Whirl.... they reminded me of how lucky we are to have a poodle in our lives!!! We love our Milo-Baby!



"Throw the stick"  Milo barked at her!
"Throw it again"

His long legs ate up the ground between her and the thrown stick. His instinct to chase was stronger than his instinct to return the stick however.
He was a baby still at two. He lived life at such a fast pace, has to be the first at the door to greet the Daddy returning each night, the first to grab a treat, the first to see a dog walking two blocks away. He lives in the moment, with no plans for the future, no worries either.

This being her third dog, and second standard poodle, she had the benefit of knowing the others, and how they changed over time and their lives. She knew this was a stage and knew enough to try to view life his way while he is here. All too soon he would become more adult, and calmer with the passage of time.

get me outta here!

So now the pranks and misadventures should be enjoyed as momentary, even though she suspected he might belong to the Peter Pan club and remain a silly boy. That would be okay too... she might get peeved at the torn up papers or socks abandoned after the fun, or the stolen food from tables, but she knew he had a good heart.

gimme that fabric!

yum, socks are so nice right out of the dryer!

She thought back to her lab Chelsea, and her face so sincere looking up into her own when she returned home one day. The bags of peeps were lying across the room, and Chelsea's black face was covered in pink sugar. There was a Chelsea bite out of every thing she owned.

She remembered her last Poodle Cole running off to catch a swooping heron flying by. He ran to the house across the street to stare up at the heron on it's roof, then looked back at her as if to say, well what are you gonna do about this!?

She remembered him at age 12  chewing up her precious dance shoes out of separation anxiety and how mad she got. Then she remembered how hard it was to let him go when the cancer took over.


Perspective.

Milo is a mess, a busy cyclone of a mess leaving destruction in his wake.
 He's got a sincere face with no malice, just trust and love in his eyes. He tears through the house leaving a wake of debris, then flops onto her feet while she watches TV, curls up next to her in bed sleeping the sleep of the innocent. The bar was set high with Cole (Porter) the poodle before, but Milo set his own bar.

He is his own dog, ....and theirs

While his capers cause temporary annoyance, his good heart shines through and wins over the world.

did the sprinklers make my hair curlier?

She has learned it is better to have loved and lost than never love at all. There is room in one's heart for many loves. One never knows how deeply in love they can fall when a little puppy enters their lives. Milo has woven his life into their lives, so  completely that they are all one now, belonging together and accepting each other's quirks. They love each other, and must enjoy each stage of life as it comes. He has taught them to live in the moment, to accept love and touch, to laugh at the little things that seem big but aren't. They have developed patience and understanding. He has taught them how lucky they are to have another pup.
linking to

https://comedy-plus.com/ Awe Mondays
https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/