Fabulous Friday

For today: 

Looking Out My Window: Yes, it is beginning to look like fall.  

 

On my front porch

My Weekend Plans Include: I'm going to visit the nursery and get some more tulips and daffodils bulbs to plant.  I always seem to miss doing that in the fall.  It will make the spring more colorful.

I’m Reading: Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush.  This is a great book.  She seems so down to earth.

Movie Marquee:  I finally got season 2 of Mad Men from the library.

Something Quiltie: I've been working on a charity quilt.  I still had Christmas fabric leftover from making those pillowcases.  This easy pattern, A Streak of Sunshine, is from Bonnie Hunter's website, Quiltville.com. Check it out. Do something good for your stash and your heart.

One of My Favorite Things: Fall has such a distinctive smell.   It's spicy with the warm homey smells of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, baked apples, warm pumpkin bread, and spiced hot tea. Funny how I thought of everything connected with food!

I’m Thinking About: It funny how one whiff of something can transfer you back to special memories. I loved the smell of burning leaves. ( a nonfood smell!)  I can picture my dad burning piles of leaves in the front of my childhood house and Jane and me running through or riding our bikes through the smoke.  It's what we use to do in the fall.   I'm sure we didn't smell too good afterward, but it was wonderful fun.

What’s For Dinner: Ed's having tamales and I'm trying to get my body into shape for Florida, just a protein shake, not that that's going to help at this point. LOL

A Favorite Photo:  

 Elizabeth and Ed, Fall, 
1986

The tastes of fall

Until Next Time-Kyle

Reverse Sewing

I knew I had to do.

I didn't want to.

There's something seemingly negative about going backward,

even if it means you can go forward more positively.

 

I finally had started a

Crabapple Hills pattern,

Snowmen A to Zzzz.

 

 

 I don't do a lot of embroidery, but this quilt is so delightful, and, well,

my friends are all working on it too, soooo... I just had to join in.

I had bought the listed embroidery floss and started on two blocks.

Then I was reminded, when I saw another friends beautiful 

interpretation of the pattern this past weekend, that you can

choose your own floss colors.  Dah!

Wow! I liked it even more.

 

So last night, small scissors in hand,

a movie playing, I did my

reverse sewing.

 

I'm back to the beginning and heading

off to HL to see what colors speak to me.  

I'll get some seed beads too, in loo of,

the dreaded dangling french knot.

Why not!?!

You have to dance your own dance.

Until Next Time-Kyle

Squirreling Away

There have been several busy squirrels

in our yard this past week.

Each one is hectically burying some

horse chestnuts from a tree down the street.

My flower barrels seem to be a favorite 

spot.  I guess the dirt is soft.

I'll leave the nuts there when I pull up the 

flowers, but will

they remember they're there?

I went to the farmer's market again.

There were good deals today.

I have felt like a squirrel, busy storing food 

away for the winter, squash, pumpkin, chili rellenos,

Ed  made carrot juice, and cabbage rolls.

The squirrel family and I might have a similar problem.

Once I put it in the freezer, sometimes I forget

that it's there. 

Hopefully, we'll both remember and

enjoy the fruits of our labor when the cold weather approaches.

Until Next Time-Kyle