Thursday, October 8, 2020

I Like Thursday # 214


I Like fall breakfasts!

 Welcome to this week's list of likes... let's jump right in shall we?

2)  Lovely music to listen to here while reading


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

traditional halloween dishes!

 useful and fun

3)  I liked bringing out the fall kitchen towels this week, and the fall dishes too. The temps may remain in the 80's and the smoke persist in giving us nosebleeds but I get to eat from something fun.

 
morning coffee!
Fine dining

 


4)  I fondly remember apple cider donuts eaten in the car while driving through New England each year, so we ordered some cider
5)  cooking with apple cider
and I tried making apple cider muffins with apple pieces. They came out dry so I'm not even passing on the recipe... I'm sure you can find one that's better.   Oh don't think being dry stopped us from eating them... we find heating them and putting on peanut butter improves the taste!

gardening

 

6))  the blue flower is finally flowering...we purchased two more mums
and deadheaded these

painting

just trying some calligraphy lesson from Start your Art
7)   I steadfastly slogged through my online course this week, often stopping in the middle of a video lesson. I did like one speaker however, who talked about play and intuition in creation. Another one spoke of the value of story boards which I think might come in useful in art quilting. More on Friday's paint post.

sewing

 
I liked finishing the quilting on this year's Halloween quilt

8)  I quilted the Halloween piece for this year... not making one interpreting masks but that might have been timely, no? Masks come in many forms... more on the quilt on Saturday's sewing round up, but I enjoyed quilting it, while listening to the book this week. 

reading

 City of Girls - Gilbert, Elizabeth

9)  This is the big Like this week, my audio book by Eliz. Gilbert City of Girls. Please listen on audio, the reader is AWESOMELY entertaining. The story is so clever about a young woman of means who moves from conservative life with parents to her aunt's in NYC and learns about life and theater.  

I finished my ebook, started another and the library took it back! I'm on the holds list....luckily another hold came through to read in the meantime!

watching

we watched an awful movie (The big wedding) with terrific award winning actors... go figure... we watched so you don't have to. 

10)  dancing with the stars.... a bit lackluster this time but still I enjoy watching dance. 

10.5)  Amazing Race is returning soon

funniest video

11)  I showed the funniest video  on Tuesday about a husky in fall leaves... Here it is!
REALLY fun!
 
 

12)  How persistent are you? Watch  this physicist bird watcher try to build structures to baffle the squirrel both of which are very persistent!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YthEm5qIk 

Love

13) I felt a surge of love for Milo this week, I always love him but for some reason he has been my saving grace this week. I am increasingly ( I thought I had reached the pinnacle but no) worried for the lack of uniting leadership in my country and fall into deep depressions. My puppy seems to sense the worst of it and come quietly lean against my leg, allowing the tears to fall on his soft hair, allowing human hugs, and looking into my eyes with connection. I felt a surge of love for Milo this week...

Milo's Moments

 I liked the surprise gift I found this week!

Mama: well you weren't supposed to find it, on the top of the bathroom counter

Milo: I'm a super good finder mama.... I followed Daddy into the room where he washes his face, and this was up high, and called to me!!! 

Mama: that was for later, I took it in to cut the tag off and thought there was no way you'd notice something on the bathroom counter

 Milo: I'm just that good Mama! I LOVE (love...obsessed, tomato tomah-to) I ran immediately down to show Mama what I had, but did not let her get close since she's been known to take these from me

Mama: I also give them to you. You do get obsessed with these and want to take them on walks, carry them around, take them to bed. 

Milo: Ain't life grand?? Just when a poodle is bored almost to death, a ring toy appears! I hope all of you have a world full of your own ring toys! 

see my halo???

 now sit! Stay! Visit Mama's friends who kept lists of likes this week and let her know if you do one so she can add your link in!

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

T is for Chooseday!

ridin' into Fall

 It's "chooseday" again...and I'm linking into T is for Tuesday this week...where we discuss our creative outlets while enjoying a beverage... at the moment I'm excited to be drinking morning coffee out of our Halloween mugs, only brought out for October!

I trimmed the mums last weekend, deadheading them a bit and finding some new buds hiding in the thicket so hopefully they will continue to bloom for a while. Trees are turning or at least dropping leaves... the smoke continues to ruin air quality making being outside difficult. At least we saw the sky again this weekend despite having code yellow and red quality. The temps have been in the 80's too, not what we hoped for when we moved from sealevel to 6000 feet foothills of Colorado. 

I found a prompt this week, where the host offers a question a day (https://www.kwizgiver.com/)and today's question is  do you like your handwriting?

I guess I do... I think it's a big mistake to stop teaching children to write. Mine changes depending on task and mood. I had to keep a log of contacts at my social work job and it became more slanted as I had to write faster. I love doing calligraphy in my artwork now. The above image is an OLD recipe for minestrone soup, used often. I love writing supplies, new pens, new pads of paper, new notebooks!

I've been painting more this week, and this is from an evening spent on the patio for a few minutes one evening... a shared glass of wine, dh reading and me painting


cherry moscato for me, chardonnay for him

as to studio time, I'm quilting my Halloween quilt today finishing up from the bulk of it yesterday

so it can be hung in the stairwell. I make a Halloween quilt every year, this one is 22" X 48" 

I must go and make iced tea for the week, this time using a mix of cinnamon tea bags, and green tea bags... no we don't add sugar or ice, but do keep it cold in the fridge.

I'll leave you with the joyful video of a dog enjoying a leaf pile. As we age into adults, we sometimes feel silly playing, but it is important to find some way of keeping play in your life,  just for balance, right?

 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xEX-48RHCY&feature=emb_logo 

 

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Sunday, October 4, 2020

sunday questions

 

what do YOU think???

From the questions at Sunday Stealing...a chance to answer silly questions in public... just pretend we're at a cool cocktail party and answering these... I'm wearing a little black dress and birks...

 1. If You Could Use A Time Machine To Go Back In Time To Fix One Thing Or Go To The Future To See What It Is Like Which Would You Do?

I would go back and fix something... not saying what

2. If All Of A Sudden There Was A Depression Or There Were No Stores To Buy Food, Clothing, Etc. How Would You Manage?

this is a little too close to home... I might just not have new clothes (like now) but build a green house

3. Are You Concerned With What Other People Think About You?

I am but less than I used to. We are a social animal and like it or not, we depend on others, so we need to at least keep peace. I no longer care what people think of my fat, or hair at least. I don't mind if they don't like me but they don't need to say it out loud. That's the problem now, people write things that are unnecessary, and expect others to cater to their list of likes. 

We over use the word like

4. How Do You Handle People You Don’t Like?

usually avoidance. I get terse, and uncommunicative. I don't like to waste my words or brilliance on them (lol)

5. What Do You Think Of Garden Gnomes?

I like one. More than one is a herd and that's too many in my yard, IMHO. Now a flock of plastic flamingos is another story altogether!

6. You’ve Been Given An Elephant. You Can’t Give It Away Or Sell It. What Would You Do With The Elephant?

easy! Elephants need other elephants and safety. It would go to a sanctuary. (are you giving me one? please? )

7. How Would You Design A Spice Rack For The Blind?

braille, and like my spices laying down flat in a drawer next to the stove.

8. How Lucky Are You And Why? not

9. What’s your biggest kitchen fail?

I have no idea, we just eat the evidence and never speak of it again

10. What’s the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in school?

In junior high, I fell up the girl's stairs and everyone laughed. I started my monthlies at age 11 unprepared, and got it on the back of my skirt and had to walk home like that

11. If you could kill off any character from a current television show, who would it be?

12 . If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?

tell the truth

13. Would you rather be a hobbit or an elf for 24 hours?

14. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?

when I drove from Florida to Alberta Canada, my friend and I drove thru the grand canyon at night in a rainstorm that put out the power. Dark... everyone had gathered at the grocery store as they had a generator and the food. We chatted with some guys on motocycles, one of whom offered to take me for a ride on his. 

I was shy, I was fearful in general, and I said, okay. I hopped on the back of a BIG bike, wrapped my arms around a stranger, and let him whisk me away into the dark slippery road. 

CRAZY! And fine as it turned out. A very nice guy who played his radio at top volume, and was trustworthy and kind. When he dropped me back off at the grocery storefront, my friend just laughed at me. It was a different time in the early 80's.

15. Would your rather shoot spaghetti out of your fingers or sneeze meatballs?

well, who wouldn't want to do both? er, kidding. Cooked spaghetti? yes, definitely that for all the times that would be useful! 
  

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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Sewing... which way do I go?

 

For today's sewing round up, here are the paper pieced geese in yellow for RSC color of the month!

When my beloved red computer died in it's sleep one night, I took over DH's computer to learn windows 10. Then it was so slow after the updates that he ordered me a new computer. (some people get the newest versions yearly, we wait til a disaster falls to make changes!) 

Anyway... he was able to install my old Sew Precise Software for paper pieced blocks, Yea!!! I missed them...

Lots of blocks that can be printed easily in any size you want. I have fun with that! The trouble is some blocks didn't make the transition and are now lost, but I still have most of them! I printed some out in 4" squares, 6" squares and 4X6" rectangles, got out my yellow scraps and whee!

two small ones sewn together

I love foundation piecing, an happily finished one audio book, and started another while sewing!

now I want to do other colors, and figure out how I want to set them!


 

you can't buy this version of sew precise but I think you can get it when you purchase Electric Quilt.

I also chose backing and got the Halloween quilt sandwiched for quilting this week

and found the pumpkin pin cushion I made a couple years ago, to make the studio feel like Fall 

Smoke and hot temps have made going outside a misery so I have spent more time this week painting and sewing, and luckily reading now that I have audio books.

Quilting Humor | Quilting humor, Crazy quilts, Quilting quotes

(wake up... putting on masks in public and keeping distance is all we can do to stop the spread of covid right now... there is no herd immunity as you can catch it more than once, over 200000 people in the USA alone have already died because people refuse to acknowledge it.  Put on a mask when outside your family unit, lets defeat this together)

linking to

off the wall Fridays
can I get a whoop whoop Fridays  

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss
Midweek makers wednesdays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays
sew can do mondays

oh Scrap Sundays

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Friday, October 2, 2020

painting show and tell

 

Welcome to this week's painting post... I am taking the course Start your Art with two instructors daily for 14 days. 

I find I have little patience for the talk at the beginning of each video so I tend listen a little while I draw the speaker's portrait, then skip to any instruction they give

The sunflower painting came as a result of the teacher on the top right who encourages you to wet the paper, drop in color loosely, then layer more dynamic lines and color after that dries. 

I LOVE it... and when it went on my mantel exhibit space, I compared it to the last sunflower painting. I like them both but the layering of color is so much prettier to me. I add color, removed some with toweling. Yep, I tried this again outside when the wind shifted and we had an hour without so much smoke yesterday


DH and I poured some wine, he read while I painted what I saw
while not as pretty as the sunflower, it was a joy to paint. When I paint outside here in CO I note the paper dries almost instantly though so there is less drift.

 I liked the purple gray painted for concrete at the end of the session though...
AND dh looked up from his kindle and said, "Oh, geraniums" so I clapped that he recognized them!
One lesson was fun, very like me to see faces in nature, and to add whimsy...
more teacher portraits in the sketchbook. Sometimes that's all I get out of a lesson but I'm painting and really looking at a subject which is valuable
 

the next lesson taught me the value of doing swatches... holding them up to your subject so you can choose colors that are true if reality is important to you that is!


Now for some beauty in music


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c 


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Thursday, October 1, 2020

I Like Thursday # 213

 

I love this mug
 

Sometimes it's challenging to find likes for the week. Sometimes you need to look under cushions, and behind the bushes but there is always something to put on the list... so let's get this party started.

Fine Dining

 

we had tuna sandwiches for lunch one day, and for a side I decided to make a salad again. We used to eat salads daily. We found out heads of lettuce were safer when you pulled off the outside leaves, and I decided to relive my youth by buying iceberg. 
 
1) We wash it well, and spin it, and store it in the spinner where it stays crisp. 
A bed of lettuce, slices of fresh ripe pears, blue cheese dressing and some walnuts made a wonderful side dish. 
 
Are you tired of cooking by now?  But our desire to eat keeps us on our toes.



2) I also pulled out my Canadian Minestrone soup recipe and we invested lots of time cleaning, chopping, stirring the soup. Luckily it makes a lot, so we had soup as a starter for the week. If anyone is interested I'll try to scan my old recipe for you. It's full of great ingredients and very satisfying. 


Gardening


 
3) what is this thing? I don't know but I like it!  The chinese forget me nots is next to it but this is different. Still hasn't opened. We continue to have record heat and smoke chokes our air. Maybe mother nature is confused here. 

Writing

4) I did another question and answer post on Tuesday that I just loved when it was finished. Want to see it? 
Look HERE

Painting

 
more paintings on Friday's post!!

5) I'm taking a free online class with "START YOUR ART" that provides two instructors daily for 14 days.
Positives... 
it's free
I'm painting again, at least portraits of each instructor
It provides some techniques and I love what I'm making!!
not so positive
there is way too much chat between the host and instructors at the start so I skip that part and go to the class part, but they are talking about how to jump start yourself into making art again so you may like it

Social

6) I love zooming this past week with Mari (Academic Quilter) and Joy (the joyful quilter) and talking twice to my friend Diane in Texas. 

Watching

 TV review: Hugo Rifkind on Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father | Saturday Review | The Times
7)  We are on season two or three of "Travels with my Father" and OMG it makes us both snort with laughter at the shenanigans of these two British men traveling the world together to form a bond as adults. SO FUNNY! (netflix)
continuing the series Escape to the Chateau where those two built a quilted wall around a staircase, built a new greenhouse and got the arbor started, and traveled to a small town in the Loire country to get copper pans re-tinned... (on peacock)
8) Oh I'm half-heartedly watching Dancing with the Stars, covid edition. I love ballroom and watching people learn dance, but Tyra... so melodramatic! It's hard to cope with her antics and expressions. She cuts the judges comments so she can ask inane questions, no doubt prompted by the producers. 
 
9) We watched a fun clever movie on netflix called Enola Holmes... hope there are more to come!

Reading

10)  STILL reading my same Ebook  A single thread at bedtime (after two pages I doze and the ipad falls on my face!) and listening to a fun book on audio called "The House" by Danielle Steel... comforting and entertaining in a formulaic way. Easy to sew to. 

Learning

12) I finally figured out how to overcome The Quilt Show's reluctance to let me get my newsletter by email on a different account... must they make life so hard? It's been fun to see Alex in her studio. 

I like that my friends send tutorial  and pattern links to me like this one on how to make a sewing machine pin cushion (from Joanne at teatimegardening) 
 

Accomplishments

13)  getting Milo bathed and shaved for the month with minimal injury to all concerned. (He feels we focus too much on grooming around here)
 

Milo's Moments

 

Milo here, there's something in my kong! I love that!  The Mama she picks it up, I follow her to the kitchen and she puts yummy peanut butter, or my glucosamine treats in there and I have lots of fun getting it out. Sometimes I work on it for a whole 15 minutes (fur-ever!)

 
I spent a lot of time fetching my ball this week, I have to get more exercise so I also chase the Daddy (who also needs more exercise, just sayin') around the round table in the watchy watch room (TV area) and let me tell you, it's all I can do to get him up and running. I bring toy after toy to tease him with until finally he gets up and chases me!  I lost my ball upstairs for a few hours, but don't worry! I found it in time to take it to bed with me last night! (Mama put it on the floor when she came up... WHY???)

Now Sit Stay! visit mama's friends keeping lists of their likes too. You can join them let mama know if you wrote a like post too!

 
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