I Like #397 morning person or night owl

 

this is a lamp

welcome to this week's list of likes...

books

listening on audio

the next book in the pieshop myteries

reading on ebook

Italian for beginners on Pimsleur

 

Io verrai comprare perfavore  ( I want to shop please)

Attempt failed

I took a free workshop on Resonance and play this week. A TOTAL letdown but I stopped trying to make myself fit in at day3 at least... deleting all notices happily after that. I consider that an improvement over trying so long to make something work for me... Self awareness builds, right?

 on TV 

still enjoying American Idol... I liked the entire group on the second night this week. Talent!! One boy is 15 and has the maturity and depth of a much older decent man... I'm impressed with each person overcoming something in their lives to do this show

Survivor and amazing race... yep I kind of like all the contestants. Deal or no deal Island... I like Rob 

The good doctor is a good show, and the last drama on commercial tv I watch, and it's ending... 

I found The Traitors UK and am now watching that... love the complexity of that show and the challenges. 

I am relying on TV to sooth my pains at night, and doing hand sewing while watching. Or playing IPAD games while it's on. 

 

Prompt: Morning person or night owl?

seems like a lot of people think morning people are somehow "better" than night owls. I see it as energy... when do you feel the best, when are you most productive. left without demands would you lean more toward getting up early or staying up later?

I've always been more of a night owl.... even as a child it was hard to go to bed when others were still up talking, watching tv, etc. 

It's hard to wake up and get functional. Coffee helps but that's the drug caffeine's job. 

That said, now that I'm at an age when a lifetime of injuries and wear and tear have taken a toll on my body, I have to do things before the extreme pain starts. Ironically the pain stops me from resting/sleeping well too. So I'm being forced into being a mid day person. 

Add in bad dreams lately, from a state of chronic anxiety, sleep isn't as restorative as it should be. 

I have a memory of going to the Paducah quilt show with my older sister. We shared a room with two beds. I woke around 6 AM  to see her sitting on her bed, completely dressed purse on shoulder, hair done, looking at me. 

Crikey! what the heck? Let's go she said

I get chores done as early as possible now, to get them out of the way, knowing after lunch to 7 ish I want to be in the zone in my studio. I read at night or sometimes when I don't want to face the new day, I read before I get out of bed. If I'm into a handwork project, I do it while watching tv at night. I like it when dh and poodle go to bed, and it's quiet for me to watch tv without interruption. I might even check the computer for messages during those later hours. 

I think I'm a night owl still 

fine dining

tried this "healthy oat, apple, banana, raisen loaf with no sugar" recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjboJMyZnk8 

 I found it tasteless with a slightly gummy texture. All good ingredients that didn't work with oats. 

Oh we will still try to eat it, I don't like waste... toasted with some peanut butter helps

youtube show

OMG we don't get this show here but it's Repair Shop with Dame Judy Dench, Dawn French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOPnI7fScg

 Milo's Moment

I like water in my raised bowl

 (editor's note, Milo pushes his nose out of the way on the far side of a bowl to drink. I never had a dog do that)

Hiya! Milo here... it got weirdly dark this week during the day. My problem with that was all the people outside... I had to guard and bark from the windows to wake them up and force them back into wherever they go when they aren't bugging me. 

I don't have any grand thoughts this week for you...but... some guidance for pups out there

 I guess I'll say watch your peeps' faces to see how it's going... if they are laughing I wag my tail since I rarely if ever actually laugh. If they have hard faces I leave the room and lie on the green sofa til they soften back up. 

I'm not brown, the color is off. I'm a mix of black and gray, called a blue poodle

 

Their faces tell a lot about their moods. Oh and if the mama makes noise in that sing song baby voice, that means she loves me and there might be treats. 

Please visit Mama's friends to see what they like this week

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

http://littlepenguinquilts

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

 craftscaviescontras   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

the knitty quilter

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

chasing my stories

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/ 

 

 

   LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

               friday smiles 

creativity this week... yellow study in fabric and in painting

 

this was actually a full week of creativity for me...I'd like to invite you into my world, my happy studio space. I love my sewing machine...  

When I'm stressed I like to sort fabric scraps then take the smallest of them to the machine and make order out of the chaos. My scraps are all shapes, all sizes, all color values and patterns. The focus color of April is yellow, so I pulled out the yellow scrap bin, and started sorting. 

In my bin was a bag of blocks, improv starts, left overs. A treasure chest! I started with the smallest bits and begin sewing one to the other, the bits growing with each addition, til it gets bigger than my biggest scrap in this pile. Then I start over, make another odd section... and another, til I had 5 sections. 

I start moving them around the table til they fit together, then sew sections together

I liked the geese but returned to the triangle scraps and made a section in yellow and browns

and learned it's okay to use just two fabrics to create a design. (More is better, excess is not enough is my usual mantra) Put the sewn square onto the design wall and pulled out larger scraps to see how a border might look... 

reevaluate... I like the repeated geese, I like the scrappy larger border strips, but... I don't want to use that pretty one in center right... it's too pretty for an experimental piece isn't it? But it fits, it looks good... 

I inserted another random pieced block into the boarder and like how it brings the chaos out. This is where I stopped for the day. I'm considering putting on final borders of one fabric, but not sure yet... 

I took the last of the tiny scraps to piece this long block... and decided it looks like a row of houses to me

dh came in at the end of the day to see what I'd been so involved in, and said he sees the houses! 

I also got inspired by some older improv drunkard path blocks in the bin... deciding I wanted more to go with them. I looked for my template set, 

but they weren't in their place... I ended up going thru a lot of stuff looking for them, found them obviously after the long search in the drawer above the one they live in, oy vey. But in searching I was reminded of templates, and rulers and things I'd like to make so it's all good! 

Ooooo I'm liking these, I had fun adding in that skinny 3/4" strip. Now what? The top three are slightly larger than the bottom three, but I just added in some coping strips and am thinking about that middle divider

and I'll wait til I get further along to show you the first border I chose, and an applique... but this one is exciting to me... which always comes with it's little friend, FOMU, (Fear of Messing Up) so I will take some time to find just the right shade of neutral gold or yellow or tan 

I started the week of yellow with my paint sets. Just done on copier paper printed on the other side and used for sketching. Two shades of yellow and one of yellow green became this... 

I liked the paper slightly dissolving and the words on the back peeking thru... 

a few inked lines, and another page in this junk journal is filled. I didn't even notice the page before it from weeks ago... I need healing

I've written several essays this week one of which is on Thursday's I Like post about my love of the beach... one was for my memoir about Granny's treadle machine  

I was forced to use creativity in meal prep to make things we'd like with what we had on hand. Not my favorite way to create but necessary. 

I am on lesson 7 of my Italian lessons... and try to use what I learn each day in real life. I speak. slowly. in. Italian. and comprehend slowly too... but dh reminded me I've only been doing it for a week... and I will get more comfortable. 

Not sure I'll ever roll my R's without a lot of effort, breath and spitting on anyone in front of me, lol

Italian phrase of the day,  " vorrei bere del vino perfavore"

from amazon

 

My mama quilts

linking with

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

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

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

I Like Thursday # 396 Easter Basket, two stories for you, one of a beach one of a poodle

 

welcome to this week's list of likes...

A bunny hops into a house with a basket of gifts...

 

See's candies two truffle eggs, orange cicle lolly's, Irish cream truffles, and butterscotch chocolates. Oh and a new ball and a new shark and some power bites for Milo!

Fine dining

 more garbanzo bean soup with cuban spices (adobo), potato, carrot, celery, leeks and onion, beans and broth simmered til tender

a secret ingredient is some perpperacini vinegar brine poured into the cup to eat. Adds excitement to the bowl

audio books

this series by a fave author,  Ellery Adams,    feels magical around the mysteries sort of reminiscent of Alice Hoffman but maybe more approachable. I'm on book two of the charmed pie series that is revealing layers of storyline as it progresses

 I'm studying spoken Italian via this audiobook from the library... 30 min lessons one a day. 

pimsler method

  our prompt this week... amusement park or day at the beach

Rehoboth beach Maryland, vintage photo with Cole-buddy

I know it's hard to pick one preference when you like both but it sort of makes you define yourself a bit

I used to go to Disney World often... I LOVE it. I used to go to Busch Gardens often and love it too. 

but...

I'm a beach baby at heart. I grew up near the beaches in Florida, and went all year to find peace. The west coast of florida beaches have soft white sand and gentle warm water. 

I love the breeze, the feel of soft white clean sand, the smell of suntan lotion, the sound of the waves crunching over the cocina shells, the sound of gulls calling to each other, the way floating feels with a gentle push from waves, the way water refreshes sun heated skin. 

I would show up, choose a spot, set up my beach chair and towel, my drink and magazine, take off my shorts and put on a hat. Imagine sifting soft sand through your fingers, lifting a handfull and letting it sift through slightly open fingers. Repeat. 

NO music please, just the sound of nature. Palm trees sing a song as wind ruffles their fronds. Waves are rhythmic as they sing of water movement starting far away, ending on the beach in a soft  woosh. 

gulls sing "I found some human snacks come see!" They soar and swoop in the air to a song we don't hear. Theirs is a dance done on air waves we can't see.

The sand is wet along the shore, changing how it feels between toes. 

It's cool, you sink down into it a bit with each wave. It's fun the way waves sometimes come far up the shore but other times stop just short of your feet. 

Coquinas still living in their shells surface with a wave, then quickly dig back down and tickle your feet if you're in their way. 

long walks on the shoreline where it's easy to forget how far you've gone if you let go. Just walk. 

of course there are the annoyances of  flung frisbees, of shore surfers on pieces of cardboard, of people feeding the gulls on purpose, of loud music, of screaming children, but there is the entertainment of watching people in various states of undress, in various states of physical health, the super tan oldsters who look like tanned leather. Big butts wobbling with a slight string up them as their swimsuit. There are the strutters who know they're being admired, just ask them. There are the kids carrying buckets of water up to make castles in the sand. Sadly there is trash abandoned as if the garbage fairies will cart it away. 

sometimes there was redtide when it smelled like the dying fish it contained. Sometimes there are jellyfish or sharks, but sometimes there are dolphins. 

The pier is made of buckling old wooden slats, and feels warm on bare feet. You can look down to see some creatures, or watch old men patiently fishing. At the end of the pier you stand and look out, looking out so far you don't see the end and know you're just a small part of the whole

sewing last week

 

and drawing this week... more art talk on Saturday's post!

 watching on youtube

 OMG I can't believe all these easy methods to make cooking and cleaning easier! wowie! 

link to the video or watch from above

Milo's Moment

 

I got a new shark! I never had a pet shark before!

Hiya Milo here to discuss people and their sounds

Mama: speaking of which, we used to call you a shark as your baby teeth could rip anything apart. People used to ask if you were going to be a standard poodle, (oy vey) and daddy would say "we think he's part pterodactyl" 

I gots a new kong ball too! yipee! my others are all broke-down

 ahem, my turn mama

My mama is a BIG sound maker, some of them are to the Daddy, some to me, some to the thing she taps on that sits on the table (computer) 

I have lived with these two hoomans for years now and have learned when mama's sounds stop a little higher the daddy is supposed to take over. I watch the Mama trying to make sense of her, and when that happens, I look to the daddy. I never know what he means! When he stops I look back at the mama. 

some sounds seem to mean something I learned. Like "eat" or "treat" or goforawalk and the good one "cookies" Some I don't like. When I hear wait it means I'm not getting what I want right now. 

the curse word is "ears" it means mama will touch me inappropriately in my sore ears and pull hair out or put drops in. 

the other curse word is Bath. Sometimes when the daddy says that I run to the mama for safety. I lean against her and growl at the daddy just to let him know to get over this scheme to drown me. He disappears upstairs, so I relax a little with the mama who by now is petting me, then he comes back down in his swimsuit!!! What a nut-case he is! 

He'll say bath again, I growl (I can do this all day y'all) and then has the nerve to manhandle my person away from Mama, and sometimes even pick me up bodily and carry me up the stairs. 

well! how rude! As if I couldn't run up twice as fast as he does if I wanted to. I prove that every time I race him to get the stuffed toy he threw up there. 

is this my good side? (see my new ball? I carry it around with me to show it the house)

so, they make a lot of sounds all the day long, but I'm not allowed to bark to chase off intruders I see through the window. Sure I bark loudly, you have to, to be heard through walls but sheesh! at least I'm working and it makes sense unlike their sounds 

now please visit these people to see what they liked this week

https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/ 

https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/ 

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

http://littlepenguinquilts

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

 craftscaviescontras   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

the knitty quilter

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

chasing my stories

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/ 

 

 

   LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

               friday smiles