Monday Madness! Need a holiday laugh? December 7 2020

 

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

I might still be laughing after watching this the whole way through. I do wish I could be friends with these two guys for sure! 

 

want some help with those decorations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfa3S5szDE

happy Moan-day y'all and keep laughing! 

Milo says, pour a cup of hot chocolate, put your feet up, look at the pretty tree, and pet a poodle! 

 

I would like a cookie, thanks Mama

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Getting to know you

Another Meme this time from Sunday Stealing blog, thanks Bev!
These are like a party conversation, a fun party!

1. How many gravy boats do you have in your kitchen?
A: none! If we have gravy we'd put it in the cow creamer where the liquid pours out the cow's mouth

2. Do the clothes in your laundry basket need ironing?
A: they might NEED ironing but...what's so bad about wearing textured clothes?

3. What is the last thing you wallpapered?
wow, in order to continue being married, one must NEVER wallpaper together.

4.  Wooden floors or carpet?
A: both

5.  Why do we put out guest towels if no one is supposed to use them?
A: everything in this house can and should be used! Useful and pretty are my goals

6.  If your spatula could talk, what would it say about your duvet?
A: well after the great duvet wars of aught 9 we separated them and the spatula is no longer allowed into the bedroom. Blissful peace reigns now

7.  Have you replaced the batteries in your smoke alarms this year?
A: we had to replace ALL of them two months after we moved in, because ALL of them started chirping, then screaming at the same time. It was not pretty!

8. If you could put thyme in a bottle, what is the first thing that you'd like to do?
 A: I don't even know how to crack wise at this one

9. Do eggs really crack or do they merely have a nervous breakdown?
A: oh they crack all right, under pressure everyone cracks. Why I'm cracking up right now!

10. Why are you whipping the butter? What did it ever do to you?
A: I suppose those extra 20 lbs mean nothing to you?

11. Do your spoons spoon in the drawer? Have you ever noticed? And more importantly, if wooden spoons spoon do they get splinters?
A: the spoons do spoon, and I'm a believer in let sleeping spoons lie

12. You hear: "Dumpling, my Dumpling, come hither." The candles are lit, the fondue is dipping, the Godiva is pouring, the scallions are steaming and the music is playing.....but wait, the windows are open.  Why did you close them?
A: what?

13.  Do you need a recipe to cook or are you a bohemian chef?
A: definitely bohemian, if that means finding a way to use the four ingredients on hand

14. Is your pot black?
A:  Our pots are all stainless steel and reflect whatever color I'm wearing
A: from my husband: we live in Colorado, the pot is always green here

15. What is the sexiest spice or condiment in your cabinet?  What makes it so?
A: dh and I debated this one... Salt and Peppa are pretty racy, Rosemary and BAsil played around for a while, but we think it might be Heinz 57 sauce... er... no that would have to be Heinze 69 sauce wouldn't it? 
nevermind... 
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monday's chuckle and a question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGyBXv6_eg

Just so we can mingle and get to know each other.... the question of the day is:

what was your favorite childhood board game?

I guess I liked monopoly a lot, and yahtzee
I also loved, and still do puzzles starting with those big wooden ones as a 3 year old, and moving along to today's online jigsawplanet puzzles of thousands pieces.

our family was big on card games too, go fish for me, poker for the adults

what about you? Any fun memories of board games as a kid?

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I mostly like BALL games!

birdie social distancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK13SW0QW04

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We all need a laugh...

National gallery of art Rooftop gallery

 Which came first??? Looks like the Chicken came first and as to why he crossed the road your guess is as good as mine. 

  I thought we could use a laugh. I like to laugh and life can be hard this time of year for a lot of us. I watch Hallmark movies and long  for family. A place to belong and be loved.

Well, this post will be my attempt to make you chuckle along with me today.

First of all that's a tree made of seashells found in Newport RI recently. Love a tree, especially an artist's interpretation of a tree. We should protect artists, and encourage free thought don't you agree?

I saw these coasters available at the store PrimaVera Newport, and I related
tongue-in-cheek...

Click on them to read if you need to.

I've made unfortunate jokes with enforcement officers before. I used to work with them in the juvenile detention facility. 

They didn't feel I was all that funny. 

I recently mailed packages overseas and shocked at the cost said, "first class? no! Send them third class, no, FIFTH class! Put them on the back of a donkey! Ask someone already going to Europe to carry them!" 

The poor postal clerk laughed and laughed, and shook her little head. Sorry Charlie! 

Yesssssss, I suppose so...
Tired of getting manicures? Just buy these gloves available at the National Gallery of art...

Have you ever seen anything like this? The second floor of the entire house is up on jacks, and I guess some construction crew will come in and build a bottom floor now.

Hmmm we need a new home. We like the great outdoors. You'd have great views.
We caught this guy in the Smithsonian Dinosaur lab... merry Christmas

I'll leave you with a video of skaters going in circles at the Washington DC sculpture Garden on Christmas Eve... enjoy!

If you cannot play it from here, this is the youtube link   Click here!

Tiny little cake...

You won't believe this!
Hit the play button on the picture to watch

 ( In case it won't play from my site, try this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWW41tufSZs )

 is of a Japanese man making edible food in a teensy tiny kitchen, Barbie sized!!! I LOVE it!

This is in honor of my friend Joann .teatimegardening. who loves to bake
my friend Mary daybyday who also likes to bake and shares her cakes on her blog
and my friend Nancy  pugmomquilts.who enjoys sugar but then, who doesn't??!

I just like miniature things and creativity!  Enjoy!

Giveaway Kitsch

A definition of Kitsch is:
art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

Welcome to my giveaway!
To my friends here, I present...

The Crab Pen!
from as the natives say it, "Bawl'more"
You could read about that excursion in the
 post here (LINK)

Anyway, around Christmas we took a little trip to the harbor and I went into a tourist shop full of fun stuff and asked the clerk to direct me to the tackiest tourist stuff he had.

He was flummoxed because well, let's just say it, the whole shop qualified.

Little crab fridge magnets, change purses with claws, Old Bay flavored chips.
I chose this little gem for you, just in case you can't make it to Baltimore to visit with me, you can say your friend LeeAnna went to Baltimore and sent this to me!

Instructions for use:
move the little lever, the crab claws pinch something and the nib pops out. 

To enter, leave a comment (make sure I have your email addy) and tell me the tackiest trinket souvenir  you ever bought or received.
I am having the time of my life meeting you all online, thanks for visiting. LeeAnna

UPDATE the winner has been chosen by Mr. Notafraidofcolor and it's quiltshopgirl! I wish I had one for each of you cause those stories were priceless. There is another giveaway coming up. Good luck! LeeAnna

Happy Spring!

what am I supposed to do with this? I know I said I wanted a bunny....

Happy Easter y'all!  Happy Spring! Bunnies for everyone!
love,   Cole and the humans at chez Paylor

A thank you gift, an experiment and a funny sign

I've been experimenting again. This time with ink pads. And it's not good.
First of all, I turned the failed experiment into a pouch that has a really nice shape. I like it.

What I learned: The ink pad I've been using on fabric for years, that leaves a strong black line, isn't waterproof. Even after ironing.

Why is that important if you aren't washing something you ask??


Sit this little pouch down on a damp counter and the ink runs.
If you don't mind adhesives, which I have a problem with, you could coat it in gel medium to set it.
 Well I'm not throwing it away, I'll use it somehow! I don't mind a little blurring.

It started a hunt for permanent ink. I discovered two, VersaCraft and Scribbles. I haven't tried them yet as I just ordered them from Amazon.
I also discovered another ink and way to make your own pads but need to keep that info for an article and classes.

Remember this dog fabric?
I made a quick thank you gift for Miss Tammy who watches Cole when we're gone for the day

She has a cute little beagle named Chloe.
She likes French Country colors so I used the gold with red hearts for a border. The beagle print had a weird box under it's paw, so I appliqued a coffee cup for fun, since it's a coaster.

When I gave it to her she said Chloe LOVES coffee and licks their face after they drink a cup!

A sign at the restaurant Cracker Barrel. And another one...

Don't you love the little teapot guy? With loafers on! I wish I'd gotten him but didn't notice him til I looked at the pictures!
That's it for today. I'm sick with my third cold of the winter.

Well, red is a color...

 What's wrong with this picture?
Cole's porch bed cover has blown off?
There is a box in the chair?
The cardinal is INSIDE the screened in porch?!

 That's it!

Cole and I were chillin' in the Family room, I was having another cuppa coffee, he was watching the yard, and

surprise!
A flash of a brilliant orange-ish red on the porch.

What!?! Poodle alert!

 I tapped on the sliding glass door, and the gorgeous cardinal f-r-e-a-k-e-d out!
Maybe it could see the  predator 8 feet away, and hear the high pitched whining thru the door.

 

It was beautiful, and all shades of red,  and in full blown panic. It could not remember how to get out! 

  

I COULD remember the time a bird flew into the house thru our front door, thru the living room up the stairs and into the open office upstairs.

It was a looooong night. We ran up, it flew downstairs. We went down it passed up flying back up to the office.

No rescue organization was interested in helping.




 I finally got an idea. They are attracted to light, so we turned off the overhead light, shown a flashlight on the floor and it went for it, I threw a blanket over and we re-located the bird outside.

Meanwhile, the poodle is running up and down the stairs in a frenzy of frustration! Barking. He almost never barks. (news flash, if you're a hunter, you don't bark and warn the prey)
Cole leaves the porch door open when he goes out to the yard and critters sometimes find their way inside the porch. It always causes a ruckus. I mean that bird was pacing around on Cole's bed.

Cole was not amused.

He looked at me, and I didn't need a psychic to tell me what he was thinking.
"Oy! My mother is the WORST hunter EVER! Open the door!!!
All I could see happening was Cole getting covered in bird poop. Oy for reals!

Luckily when our collective backs were turned, in prep to deal with this, the cardinal left the building.

Feeling blue? or Aqua?

Oh how I want him!!
Do you buy stuff like cream pitchers just for the color and shape? I guess I do. I haven't bought him yet but..
And look at these

that color resonates with me. I need a set of everyday dishes and considered Gordon Ramsey's new line, that same shade of aqua but the pattern is like a bullseye and the curve of them would cause trouble in the dishwasher.

This little teacup on feet!! I'm smitten! I want it too!

And... to a store employee of Antropologie, just wrap up the store, I'll take it.
 As if the elephant and teacup weren't enough...

Their displays are like entering an art gallery.
The scale from enormous in the window, to this little tiny city scape above the housewares.

They must hire artists to design their displays.

What becomes of displays when the store is done with them?? Are they thrown away? What a waste when they could come live with me.

(I can hear my husband now... "where?! in our little house? " )

Lights, camera, action!

And a one, and a two, everybody now!!! 

So here are a few more Christmas decorations for your viewing pleasure... Of course more flamingos. One might think we're in Florida!

So looks like Santa has either been hitting the hooch again, or fallen on hard times.Maybe the flamingo is going to place those lights on Santa. Poor Santa.

Or is he?? Maybe he's just camping out, roasting a few marshmallows and resting up...

 

  I don't know what set off these reindeer. They obviously aren't happy with their working conditions. They seem mad and not going to take it anymore! 

You know how people have geese out front year round? This person has a Heron. So naturally the heron is decorated as Rudolph for the holidays. Check out the nose. And refer to the pic above, Heron, as you may not enjoy the masquerade. 

This person seems to decorate with a real sailboat. When you have a sailboat in the front yard, might as well light 'er up!

 

This might be one of my favorites this year. Whether it's a flamingo, a heron, a sailboat or a gargoyle, might as well show some spirit and decorate it! Hey, gargoyles are ALL about the Christmas spirit!

Friday night lights

I'm happy to announce an increase by at least two homes, of Flamingo Lights this year.
Yea! Keep it up! Want to see some Christmas lights?? We LOVE lights around here. This particular yard had quite a menagerie. Giraffe, bear, dinosaur, igloo with penquin, and more.

They also had a cow, causing me to ponder if I should knock on the door, and meet a person who invests in both flamingo and cow lights.

Of course the cow had a bit too much of the Christmas spirits. Nothing sadder than a drunk cow.

Cole has shown interest in large animal lights like deer. This one didn't phase him. I had to bribe him with treats to get him to walk up and pose.

Doesn't smell like much to me...

This house had two dogs lit up, and this one looked particularly Poodle-ish.

Again, Cole wasn't interested...

(Cole: oy! mommy has stopped again. She keeps stopping when there is absolutely nothing worth sniffing or chasing, and pointing the camera.
If I could only train her to stop when I tell her to)

Uh oh!
Snowman down! Snowman down!

Another senseless killing due to global warming. Wasn't it just yesterday we had a snowfall?? Life goes by so quickly, then one day your carrot nose falls off and it's downhill after that.

I liked this tree. Small, twiggy and bare, but wearing the best in ornaments for the season. One must update their wardrobe each season, you know.
So while we were walking in this neighborhood one early evening, we hear sirens. Not your grandmother's sirens, a LOT of them and increasingly close by... We three began to nervously look around. Then the natives of the neighborhood began to run amok. Kids swarming. And here came about 8 (!) emergency vehicles including a fire engine with santa and the missus on it!! Throwing candy to the kids! Cole couldn't decide whether to wait around and see if there would be liver treats too or run for the hills as his hearing is better than ours. We ran!
More lights tomorrow, as I've gathered quite a collection to show you... but for now I'll end with Santa,

A shell of his former self. Gosh I hope this is only one of Santa's helpers and not the big guy! Looks like he missed the chimney and had a great fall.
One might think Rudolph would stick around to help... can't get good help these days

Happy Thanksgiving from Cole

From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving and hope the dinner table is full of laughter, and good food, and remember if you are put at the kids table, it can be more fun than the adult one!
Love, LeeAnna, Drew and Cole

Odds and Ends and a waaaay cute video

In case it doesn't open on your viewer, try this link click
My friend Suze, who is a very good friend that I only get to speak to on the phone as we now live far from each other told me about Marcel.
She knows me. She knows I am creative and appreciate creativity. She knows I like humor and whimsy and she's right, I want to be friends with the makers of this video.

It would probably be another long distance friendship.

I thought I would also show you the statue I bought at Houston Quilt Festival.

It's Dorothy from my favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz.

It was a once a year treat to stay up late and watch this movie when I was growing up. It was shown once a year only. I only really flinched when the flying monkeys came out, but used to sing the munchkin song while in high school to make friends laugh. I do that voice pretty well. I thought Dorothy was the luckiest girl in the world, as she had not only a dog but three friends who went through life with her. She belonged.
And had great shoes.
LeeAnna

when other animals want to be poodles ( or flamingos)

 

from poodledogblog

and this oldie but goodie not a poodle or lookalike but keeping it sewing related!

 A gratuitous flamingo pumpkin from preservation in pink.

 

 from craftbits tutorial

and to close, for my good friends who read my blog:

from ecards  www.someecards