Bright spots in my day.

 Spring brings lots of flowers and birds.

This is the first year I had an Oriole in the yard.

They sure stand out.

I was dyeing fabric yesterday and the sun yellow

turned out a bright orange so I dulled it with brown.

I did some amethyst too.

I will go out in a couple minutes and start rinsing

them off under the pine trees.

My day is so busy yes I am going out a 5 am.

It should be light.

Hopefully no snakes like yesterday.

Went out to move the sprinkler and saw the end of a snake

my eyes followed the body back to the head

just an inch from my toes. I moved pretty fast.

I almost stepped on the head.

I DO NOT LIKE SNAKES.

ever.

Results of play date with FibR

 Finally showing you the results of my play date.

In 3 hours I was able to make 2 large background for

landscape art quilts that will be matted to 11x14.

I have 5 small backgrounds that will be cards.

 The top 2 are my favorites.

 The small ones were made from my scrap box.

 Some are abstract and will be embellished with objects,

Others were from stamped fabric and foiled paper.

I may not get back to these until after

the Columbus trip.

I hope everyone who are mothers had a great day.

I did my son and his wife hosted the lunch.

I am thinking of giving up on being the hostess

on everything except Christmas.

It was nice not to have to prep everything.

More time to play that way.

Sweet spring Flowers

 I love my flowers.

I am so lucky that I get a lot of blooms.

This peach peony was a gift from my daughter

some years ago on  Mothers Day.

It was a gift that keep giving each year.

The Stella lilies keep blooming all summer.

Today was a beautiful day.

Sunshine and bright blue skies.

I sorted out lots of fabrics to take to Columbus.

I have 2 weeks to get myself ready to go.

Looking forward to the experience.

Temporarily out of commission.

 My computers and I were out of commission.

One fried and one had corrupted files.

I wasn't fried or corrupted just having

trouble with cellulitus in my legs.

Tangled with a woody shrub 10 days ago

and the scrape turned nasty.

No more heavy duty yard work for  me this year.

All of us are back on line today.

I am getting antsy.

I haven't created or been is the studio for a week.

Will solve that today with a play date with FibR

group in Lafayette this evening.

3 hours of creative play.

I will show you Friday.

Have a great day.



Celebrating 50 years of marriage.

 We ate a great meal, cut the cake and enjoyed our family.

 Our 3 grown children.

Their children plus Owen our newest great grand child. 

Best man Jim and My sister and her husband

were there too.

Look at all the grey hair.

50 years does that.

Opened our cards.

My daughter gave us $50 in scratch-off tickets.

We won $40.

Best of all we had a great time.

This was more fun than our wedding.

Weddings are so stressful.

But it cost almost as much as the wedding.

Life is good and goes by too fast.



Evenings on the deck

 Most nights after supper we sit an the deck

 by the Koi pond watching nature.

The yellow pond iris are starting to bloom.

A pair of blue birds have claimed the birdhouse.

We will enjoy watching them this summer.

Yesterday was exhausting.

Spent most of the day in the emergrncy room

with an old friend with a huge tooth abcess.

She got some heavy duty antibiotic injections,

pain pills and an appointment for oral surgery

for 9 am Monday.

I was going to take my painting to Lafayette Friday

but on impulse went Thursday.

I was going to be needed Friday.

Good to know our lives are in good hands.

Sunset in Indiana

 Yesterday was hot.

86 degrees.

I was sore from cleaning the garage Wednesday so

I decided instead of dyeing fabric I would take my

Char-i-ty entry to Lafayette.

There are some neat entries.

I especially liked the Swiss cheese chair.

Drill some big holes out of the back and seat-

paint it yellow and done. Great idea.

Last nights sunset was a beaut.

Stormy nights produce great sunsets.

Well back to the dye pots today.