Thursday, March 16, 2023

I Like Thursday # 341


 

 welcome to this week's list of likes, and since our prompt is  

"  do you like Spring flowers? Which ones are your favorites? Do you plant them in your yard? is there a particular color you like? Any interesting story to tell about seeing Spring flowers emerge? Is there a time you were stunned seeing a whole collection of them somewhere like I was at Longwood Gardens?"

Best Places to See Cherry Blossoms in D.C. in 2023
cherry blossoms in Washington

 

My opening pic is of  cherry blossoms... we lived in the Washington DC area for many years. Just being that far north allowed me to enjoy and grow Spring flowers for the first time in my life. I fell for flowering trees especially cherry trees with the delicate pink soft petals. It was magical to walk along the elipse and look up seeing the brilliant white and pinkness against blue skies!!!

I love tulips, any tulips, but especially

Caroline's Treasures BMBO1033GF Purple Tulips by Maureen Bonfield Flag Garden Size, Garden Size, multicolor
purple ones

I planted tulips in our yard, watching daily the green stalks grow tall, buds on the end, then just as it was time to flower, squirrels ate the buds overnight, WAH! 

Miniature Daffodils | Dutch Flower Bulbs at Wholesale Prices - Colorblends®

daffodils the tiny ones

Iris  any and all

Shop Mixed Dutch Iris | Breck's

meaning of spring flowers by type 

As to the rest of the week.... 

Fine Dining

Pecan Pie tarts, oat bread loaf, roasted cheese stuffed little peppers

and for breakfast... some turkey pepperoni, a tortilla, some butter in the pan, some cheese,

toasted til light and crispy, cheese melted

Reading

Just finished this terrific audio book


oh my, such a good story, so well read I stayed put in studio to hear the next chapters! 

now listening to, by one of my favorite authors, and the reader is engaging too!

on TV 

We found one of the great british baking shows (netflix) professionals and are working our way through the season. Not as fun as amateur bakers but interesting. Top Chef world winners is really good on Bravo

I saw the traitors reunion on Peacock, am enjoying American Idol, A million little things, The good doctor, The bachelor, Real housewives of NJ, and SURVIVOR!  

Then there is Firefly lane current season, LOVE this series! 

I'm painting, and quilting a lot. Trying to finish a quilt this week

I like the image on my calendar this month

and changed the mantel from snowflakes to roses for spring

Milo's Moments

Hmmmmmm now let me think.... do I like Spring Flowers? I guess they are okay, I've sniffed a few, and any plants are fine to pee on...

Mama: MILO! what a thing to say!

Milo: I didn't say I'd pee on YOUR spring flowers... if you grew any

Mama: nothing much grows here, it's dismal and brown but I remember the blankets of flowers back east.... 

Milo: we gotta get you some flowers, I'll get daddy on that ! 

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

I Like Thursday # 340 dreaming of a dream studio

 

Welcome to this week's list of likes! This pic is of a shelf in my studio... I love hula, poodles, flamingos vintage images and books! 

let's start the party, shall we?

 

 Fine Dining

 two fails this week, both keto biscuits (scones for the english among us) one from almond flour and one from oat flour, both tasted like cardboard would, flavorless with odd texture. 

dh reviewed that even with butter and marmalade they steadfastly remained tasteless

can't win them all

 O. M. Gosh these kitchen shortcuts are simply amazing to me. I actually do one of them already!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1kxJYW7SWo

 

 

Watching on TV

it's been a fine week, of Survivor return, American Idol, The Good Doctor, A Million little things, Miss Scarlett and the Duke, the bachelor (I should be ashamed) Pillow talk where people watch TLC shows and comment on them much like we do.

The Empress (Netflix) historical drama based on a true story about Elisabeth “Sissi” von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and her journey of becoming Empress of Austria.Anne with an E. 

Reading


on ebook, the current Rhys Bowen book which started me researching Coco Chanel who was both very bohemian and a Nazi sympathizer. I do not understand how people can be free thinking and closed minded with hatred at the same time. The story isn't about her but involves her a bit.

on audio

Painting

 signed up again for the Sketchbook Revival.... my absolute favorite free workshop each year: 

👉 Use this link to share the workshop www.sketchbookrevival.com

 

I took a workshop on art journal this week, and made two paintings, I'll share what I learned on Saturday's creativity post but here is little view of them

Quilt making

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finished project last week. 

the prompt challenge was to make something in one week, with no squares.


and these additions to my Spring quilt... 3-D pinwheels I'll add sticks to in the finished top  Post HERE





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Funny but true

Pin on Funny greeting cards - some of our favouritesPrompt for this week:

 what would you like to have in a dream studio space? Think about layout, cabinetry, tools... Have you ever seen a studio space you wished you had? 


studio one 11' X 13" my sewing table

this is the link to a studio I've been in and found incredibly useful as well as pretty, Debra Gabel and I used to be in an art quilt group in Baltimore MD together, and we often had play dates are her home.:

 https://zebrapatterns.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/want-to-tour-zebra-studio/

one of my book shelves in studio one

 There are many things I'd love to have in a studio... 

 More closed closet storage, meaning I could close a door to the shelves



built-in area to store my  fabric drawer units on wheels,  that can be rolled to the cutting table. That would keep sun and dust off them, as it is now I keep curtains over them but don't like the look.

a center cutting table I could walk around and open larger to baste quilts on

my cutting table is against the wall to give me space in the room
 
a sort of work height rolling drawer unit to go in my fabric room, to place drawers on to work from

a larger sewing cabinet, with room to the right to put scissors etc. 

a design wall that can roll one in front of another to host more than one project

a comfortable painting area, a comfortable beading/hand embroidery area with storage units with large shallow drawers to hold supplies and finished items. Flat files take up a lot of space

great lighting that doesn't cast shadows over a work surface

The truth is we make do with what we have, and I'm doing that. I'm grateful for what I have but my true dream is to have a house behind the main house, that I can walk to, with a bathroom, a small fridge and microwave, and plenty of built in storage. At one point my mother opened a ceramics studio, in a small modest house near our home. She had a room to display greenware for sale, a place to pour clay, a kiln to fire it, space for classes. It was small but all contained. 

I doubt this will happen for me but it's my dream....

I am a maker. I paint or sew, bead or embroider, knit or crochet or felt, write or dream every day often teetering supplies on the edge of a crowded table. I'd love a large space to fill. 

uh oh, the snoopervisor is here... must be time to eat or walk

Milo's Moment

Milo: guess what i'm old now! I have 6 years here on earth and i think it's time I got to do everything I want to do when I want to do it.

Mama: oops.... no one gets to do that honey... we all share earth and this time period, and homes and food, and air, and you get the idea, you're a poodle-with-deep-thoughts.

Milo: still.... feels like I should be allowed to do what I want to do.

Mama: what do you want to do my little...

Milo: let's start with having a plate of food when you eat, nothing special, whatever you're having would be fine. My own plate of food just like yours that smells so good!

Mama: I'll work on that, but I suspect your food is healthier for you

Milo: hmmm then because I love you, I'll trade you! my kibble for your plate!


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