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MEthod to the madness

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outlined MEthod to the madness

I wasn’t sure that you could see it in last night’s picture, but there is an underlying structure to the explosion of flowers.  This is the same photo, with the heart vine outlined in Photoshop.

So my latest “thing” is words, text on my quilts, and I’ve been trying to think of how I could incorporate words on this one.  I’m going to be framing the center section somehow, and am contemplating something that would run along the bottom left edge.  All I could think of last night, though was

Bloom and Grow

or

Bloom where you are planted

And both of those are way trite and not what I’m looking for.

I thought about

SPRING

which led me to

Hope Springs Eternal

cause I’m really freaking hoping that Spring will actually turn up soon.

But I’m not sure that’s right either.

I’ve even contemplated complete non sequiters.

Like

The truth is out there

or

The wonderful thing about Tiggers

But I think those are more related to the cold-that-I-don’t-have than anything else.

Any ideas?

Papier mache update

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Well, we’ve learned a few things.  First off:  don’t let your unfinished project sit for a week while the air leaks out of the balloon.

When you go back to try to put another layer on, the balloon is no longer supporting the structure and it gets all lumpy.

Phooey.

At least mine was open on the top, so I was able to get my hand inside and smooth the lumps back out.

The boys have already got ideas for what these are going to be once they are dry and we get the paint out.  They no longer look like cannonballs, I suspect they might be monster heads or something…

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At least the supplies won’t be crowding up the kitchen island anymore.  Can’t wait until we get the paint out for these….that will definitely be an outside project…

This morning I was sitting eating my breakfast and Katie was whining at me.  I looked down and realized that what she wanted was for me to play.  Her green spiny ball was sitting on the floor next to her and she was looking up at me with those great big puppy eyes.

She’s adjusted to life without Toby pretty well, but I think she does miss him as a playmate.  She’s wanted us to play with her and her ball a lot more lately.   (We just roll it, we don’t throw it in the house…)  It’s funny to watch her go sliding around our hard wood floors chasing it.

Here she is waiting not-so-patiently for me to put the camera down and play with her some more:

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I’m not sure if she was in motion or if the camera was….

We’ve got a lot of stuff blooming outside our front door right now.  I took the camera out to see what sorts of things I could capture.  We’ve got several varieties of lilies.  I thought this picture was kind of cool.  I wish I knew the proper names for all of the flower parts.

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I suppose I could always Google….LOL…

Sorry for the continued lack of quilt content.  I did put a customer quilt on the frame last night and got some work done.  I’ll try to get some more done later.  I’ve been doing some hand applique here and there, but I don’t want to bore you with pictures that don’t look any different than the previous ones…

TTFN-

Suzanne

Paying attention to my surroundings

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Monday night we were driving home from the Lion’s Club Steak Fry.  We happened to pass our old house, which has gobs of peonies out front (and in back, too…).  I said to my husband “You know, we need some peonies at our new house.”

He gave me the long-suffering-my-wife-is-an-idiot look and said “We *have* peonies at our new house.”

Ahem.

Not only do we have peonies, but they are in a really out of the way spot that is hard to see.  Like, right at the end of the driveway next to the mailbox.

Ahem.

So, after noticing them (they weren’t there before, honest…LOL), I decided to take a few photographs of them.

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And one of the few blossoms that is open:

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I’m glad I know where they are now, I’ll be sure to keep an eye on them.

Yes, I am incredibly unobservant sometimes.  It’s almost embarassing.  I keep reminding the DH that this sort of thing is part of my charm.  He still doesn’t believe.

One last shot:  another 26 Things Scavenger hunt photograph:

Landmark

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This beautiful pine tree graces our front yard.  Before the current house was built (about 14-15 years ago), this property was a farmstead.  Somewhere on our 2 acres the remains of an old house and several outbuildings are buried.  I wonder how many years old this landmark of a tree really is — I’m sure it has weathered storms too numerous to count.  It’s getting some rain tonight — it’s raining quite hard at the moment.  Thank goodness!

TTFN-

Suzanne

p.s.  Yes, this post is still part of my attempt to avoid the quilt.  I couched the Madeira around the binding and you know what — it disappears into the ditch created by the binding.  So it was pretty much a waste of time.  Phooey.  Now on to Plan D.  Or maybe it’s closer to about Plan X by now….

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