Not Afraid of Color

Thursday, February 24, 2022

I Like Thursday # 285

welcome to this week's list of things to like... starting with a doodle I made using a small watercolor paper, a staedtler pen, and tombow watercolor markers... along with my imagination

I love the last quilt I finished, and the post is here describing my love of Lake Placid NY

post link: https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/2022/02/sewing-saturday-and-morning-on-mirror.html

reading on ebook

so good, characters are interesting and I want it not to end...

Sponsored Ad - Red Mountain: A Novel (Red Mountain Chronicles)

reading via audio books

just finished a book of short stories. Usually very unsatisfying but these were interesting. I love the cover art

now hearing a fictionalized story of a real person and event. If you can listen to it being read please do

watching on tv

Glad to see my shows return, like This is Us, A million little things, New Amsterdam. Glad Amazing Race and Big Brother are still on but the two PBS shows had finale's this week. Enjoying the show about rich adult kids of celebrities working on a ranch... as a recovering social worker it's fun to watch people learning and growing.

now that the temps are around 0 degrees F, I love my cuddle duds fleece leggings with big sweaters

as always I love my friends and talking to them on the phone lifts me up

Fine dining

we had cottage cheese unopened but just past it's date, so I wanted to use it and found this recipe...

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/260458/easy-broccoli-cheese-casserole/

I think it's good...

and I tried a third recipe for cinnamon buns... what a tremendous amount of work, and I'd say she calls for too much butter in three stages of these, and way too much icing for us. She says this is just like cinnabun at the mall...here is the recipe

https://www.tastesoflizzyt.com/homemade-cinnamon-rolls/

and our buns

really good recipe!!!

yummy icing!

rice and oat flours, cheddar, almond butter and eggs

https://lovemischka.com/easy-3-ingredient-cheddar-dog-treats/

made some new flavored dog treats, unlike this recipe I used a mix of oat flour, rice flour and oats. I used slightly less cheese, egg whites since that's what we use, and a tbsp of almond butter.

Milo is not adventurous with new food, for instance it took a long time to accept fish (!!!) so he sniffed, then tasted, then sniffed, took it and dropped it in the "chewing place" where he takes bones and treats, picked it up, rolled it around his mouth, spit it out, then walked away, then sneaked back and ate it.

he liked these cookies right away

the frosting is poodle approved!!!

Milo's Moment

Milo: just when I get into chasing off an offender by barking, mama interrupts me with unintelligible words, and calling to me to come and whatnot... sheesh! It's hard for a poodle to remember why they were barking!

Mama: I looked out and don't see why you were barking either

Milo: sure, because I chased them off!

love song for February

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKpNL2Nm9SM

and, oh so lovely

now please visit these lovelies to read their lists of likes, and join us if you want... it's healthy to remember the small things that make us smile through the week

https://www.mmmquilts.com/2022/02/gratitude-61.html

https://quiltschmilt.ca/blog-posts/

https://www.mmmquilts.com/

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

http://littlepenguinquilts

craftscaviescontras

http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/

http://www.piecefulthoughts.com

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/

https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

the knitty quilter

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/

Melva Loves Scraps

https://100sweets.blogspot.com/

Faith, Trust and Breast Cancer

LINKING WITH

https://brianshomeblog.com/

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://www.knitbygodshand.com/

https://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

rosie and the boys nature pics

friday smiles at a stitch in time

friday bliss

Saturday, February 19, 2022

sewing Saturday and Morning on Mirror Lake

Welcome to this week's sewing round up!


"Morning on Mirror Lake" 16.5" X 25"

The prompt at Project Quilting this week was "diamonds" and this is my finished work, which was to be started and finished within the week.

I call this "Morning on Mirror Lake" it's 16.5" X 25"

I put the green edge treatment on to "face" this one, and when I folded and clipped it all back we tested it on DH's office wall. The piece melted into the wall color and looked unfinished so, that's why I left a tiny bit of binding showing.

It was made from the blue and blue-green scrap bins... strip piecing then cutting diamonds, diamonds pieced together in diagonal rows.

during quilting with cotton and metallic threads

blocking and trimming before binding

We used to visit Lake Placid NY every late summer, spending 10 days in peace and clean air... looking out our balcony at the yellow sunlight burning off fog over the lake, hearing loons, watching ducks on our grass below us, seeing employees setting up chairs for the day, drinking cups of strong coffee before taking the 3.5 mile walk around Mirror lake to start the day.

detail of quilting

We'd shop, have meals, go to the Olympic skating rink to watch adults take classes, sit by the water and sun, walk down to the boat landing area to read or bead( me) and never get back in the car the whole week. We usually had a novel that we took turns reading aloud to each other, as we sat on the balcony drinking a glass of wine before dinner.

morning light is so gentle

A winery and a brewery were within walking distance too... ahhhhh we are missing it so

I am grateful for the prompt, and my box of scraps, my love of improvisational sewing of tiny strips together to see what happens. This happened...

We wistfully remember our times at Lake Placid. This song is called Summer me, winter me...

for today's love music in honor of February... one of my favorite romantic songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3T-h7Rk8ec

linking to:

off the wall Fridays
http://busyhandsquilts.blogspot.com/

tgiffriday

finished or not

myquiltinfatuation Thursdays

https://fortheloveofgeese.com/

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

https://kimlapacek.com/2022/02/miningfordiamonds.html

patchwork Sunday
oh Scrap Sundays

Thursday, February 17, 2022

I Like Thursday # 284

welcome to this week's (short) list of likes. The pic above is from the post on Valentine's day of this year's Valentine quilt with dangling beads.

I've been sewing a lot this week, forming a landscape with diamonds for project quilting... story and pics to come

I've been reading the best ebook, from amazon, Red Mountain... first in a trilogy, which the library does not have so I now have to purchase the next two on amazon, dang it!

Listening to on audio:

with some good ones waiting in the wings

I've been playing wordle unlimited as I can't seem to get enough 5 letter words

I wanted to use some unopened apple cider and try this recipe for cider muffins, they sure looked pretty! but... didn't taste like apple and called for wayaaaaaaayyyyyy too much nutmeg

Joy suggested I use our fresh spinach in a quiche... so I did

and it was perfect!!! I made the easiest recipe for crust, and it was perfect, so we had delish breakfasts for three days! recipe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHUwGaJD2pw with only 3 ingredients plus a dab of salt. Easy peasy

on the Entertainment front...

I'm watching what's available on tv but frustrated with some shows. Even around the world in 80 days made me flinch and cry this week from prejudice and violence, on PBS ! We tried to watch olympics but then the skating scandal made me sick.... why even have a law if it isn't enforced (and the question goes also to congress) a lot of shows were not on because the Olympics were.

I took a 5 day workshop on breath work which opened my awareness to all the different approaches to healing with breath.

I liked talking to friends on the phone this week, and one of them suggested I bead my two valentine quilts So I did!

I want a donkey....

This couple was the highlight of the week for both of us. When DH hears them he comes and watches too. I laughed and laughed at this couple, (now on the Amazing Race) that does the funniest videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHPIGAW9mM

songs that you mishear... be sure to go to youtube to read people's responses like this one....:

My coworker once sang "I've got 2 tickets to Paradise" as "I've got 2 chickens to paralyze". Very different. One is bragging. One is a to-do list.

and

“This is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus” Correct lyric: “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”

and best yet here's my love songs as they should be sung by your mate...OMG... so funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZ9Pn_004A

Milo is doing well, but quiet this week except for excessive barking. He's a good watch poodle but has no sense when taking a bite of snow then urping up his breakfast.... never learns...