Blech!......in suspension.

Fungus out of our yard. Blech! My husband thinks these Morel mushrooms are da bomb! They've been sitting in the frig and for some reason the water froze. These sell for $25 a pound in the store! My husband thinks we have been blessed to have them right in our yard lol.

I still say....blech! I mean really....look at them!

Thrift store finds today. This silk tie is really unique, I think. 50 cents, couldn't pass it up. Now I just need to know if I take it apart or put it in a CQ just the way it is. I found a couple of bracelets that I might be able to use on the next block I'll be getting. Those flower earrings look like Mother of Pearl and a neat little kit for beginners Pulled Thread! Wish me luck on that one! lol

It was a beautiful day and the sun was shining and I had a very nice time with my mom at a mother - daughter dinner at her church.

Life is good...

Beautiful Beginnings Round Robin

I have mentioned that I am in a Round Robin in the Yahoo group CQI novice group. There are 5 of us in the group, we each do part of a block and mail it on to the next person. I have finished my part of the first block that I have received! Yay! This is Leslie's block, or blocks. She sent out 2 - 6" blocks. I chose to work on the one on the right. I love both of these blocks, the color and type of material is just beautiful.
This is a close up of my finished product! I did a Herringbone stitch in the upper left corner with DMC Rayon thread along with straight stitches and beads on the bottom. A feather stitch on the right below the spider web in Vicki Clayton Silk Perle 8 thread and the leaves are DMC Perle 5. The Lazy Dazy flowers are a Vicki Clayton Silk Perle 8 variegated. I love the variegated threads. Adds such dimension! I used a Sulky thread for the spider web, another great thread! The ribbon rose is made out of The Thread Gatherer ribbon, Fairy rose.
And this is the whole block. I so enjoyed working on this, I didn't want to mail it on to the next person! LOL I love the colors and how it turned out. I guess I will just have to start making something for myself soon!

The weather has been dreary for days! I am so ready for some sun! Is there a sun dance...you know...like a rain dance? I would be more than happy to do a sun dance if there were such a thing. ;)

Stash ANGEL!

I know, I'm a day late! Sorry but here it is....I have mentioned before that I belong to a Yahoo group, CQ for newbies and that I have an awesome mentor, Shari. Shari emailed me one day to ask if I minded giving my address to her to pass on. One of the lovely ladies on the group saw that Shari was mentoring me and asked Shari what I needed. Shari told her anything and everything lol. Sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake but not this time...I said, of course that is ok and here is my address lol! A week later a big squishee postal bag landed in my box and this is what I got. In the picture above is a beautiful winter silkie. I can't wait to use it. I see a Christmas Crazy Quilt something. Silk ribbon, lace, beads and buttonhole twist thread. I think that is neat within itself just cause it has Japanese written all over it lol.
In this picture is more silk ribbon, perle cotton, wool thread and silk thread.
All the material is velvet of some sort. The pictures turned out terrible but the picture above is all purple! My FAV!
Look at these beautiful reds! And the patterns on them!
That really is a green. I have no idea where I went wrong with these pictures but there is black and blue in there also.

I can't seem to get away from buying cotton at the store. I don't know if that is because that is what I used to buy all the time for crafting I used to do, but thanks to others, my stash is expanding to "fancy" fabrics.

I am so grateful that I have found this Crazy Quilting community. These are wonderful, caring and giving people. Like I said when I received this in the mail....it just made my heart sing.

Thank you Stash Angel....you truly are....an Angel.

This and That

Have you heard of Freecycle? It's a great idea. It's a Yahoo group where you can send an email out if you want to get rid of something instead of sending it to the dump. You then get emails from people who want it, you decide who gets it and they come pick it up therefore saving it from the dump. Great thing. Or, if you are looking for something you can post that also.

Somone posted the fabric in the picture and I was lucky enough to get it! It is awesome! A Batik and a solid pink and that lighter blue is so neat...each patch has a different pattern along with a textured embroidery. It's so pretty! I can't wait to see what I am going to do with it! LOL

Not sure what happened to spring. The temperature dropped and we had snow this morning! I hope this isn't a sign of the rest of spring. Last year it was cool and wet and we ended up with no garden growing. We have put in a second garden this year in hopes to grow more of a variety so I hope that this year's weather is better!

I was bad the past week and didn't post! Bad me! But, tomorrow I am going to post about an angel! Stay tuned!

Time to find the nail brush!

What a beautiful day it turned out to be! It was 28 degrees when we woke up this morning but this afternoon was around 60ish and we had yard work to do! And, it's just the beginning lol.

Around fall time last year we acquired a pond and waterfall and all of the rocks you see above. It seems...over the winter....one of the kids....you know them....Not Me and I Don't Know...stepped on the pond and put a crack in it. One of these days I'm gonna find one of those kids...

So last week Jay and I found a pond on clearance at Lowe's! Woohoo! And what you see above is how spent our afternoon. It takes a very big hole. lol

But, we also were able to get 2 blue berry bushes planted, papers down on the herb garden, garlic bulbs planted and some other herb plant that I don't remember the name of lol.

Here is to Spring is here and good weather for yard work! Enjoy!

Shopping is so much fun!

Aren't those hankies beautiful?! We were supposed to work all weekend but the race was cancelled. Lucky us! Instead we went antique store shopping again and have been relaxing the rest of the weekend. We have very few relaxing weekends left so we are taking full advantage of it.

My friend Shari wanted me to blog about the hankies I found so she could give me hanky lessons lol. So here they are! The red hanky in the upper left corner had a piece of paper attached to it with a woman's name on it and a date of 1958. WOW. I keep telling myself it is ok to use it in CQ because I will be preserving it this way. On one of my Yahoo CQ groups, we will be doing a Garden themed swap. We are to include most everything to make a block. It was the first thing I thought of when I found these hankies. They are perfect. Now to decide which one to include!
I love all of these hankies. The top one in this picture is sheer. It reminds me of the sheer aprons women used to wear for dinner parties. Too bad there weren't more, I could have made an apron out of them. What is also neat about the sheer one is that the blue flowers are bumpy.
These two pieces are not hankies but, I hope to be able to fit them into something CQ. I love the hand embroidery and the lace on the table runner.
I love this piece, it seems to be a very thin linen with the delicate flowers hand embroidered.
And this piece was so neat I couldn't pass it up. I don't know if it was a baby blanket or a table cover. It is pretty stained in the middle so I'm going with baby blanket. lol

I hope you have had a nice and relaxing weekend also!

The Good List and....Spring has Sprung!

I believe that spring has arrived! Even though we might get snow on Sunday! Phoey on that! I was doing a little cleaning today (not as much as I should have) and ran across something I wanted to share. The pictures are from around our house.

theGoodlist
Little things that mean a lot

1. A firm handshake
2. Handwritten thank-you letters
3. A sense of humor in a bad situation
4. Turning off your cell phone at the movies
5. Sincere compliments
6. Vacuuming behind furniture
7. Clothes you never have to iron
8. A small gift for your hostess
9. Making sure the tooth fairy always arrives
10. letting the woman with just two items go ahead of you
11. Minty breath

12. Birthday cards
13. Closing your mouth when you chew
14. Finding unexpected cash in your jeans
15. Volunteering to help without being asked
16. And then following through
17. Saying "bless you" when a stranger sneezes
18. Fresh flowers for no reason
19. Finding time for a walk
20. Clipping a news story for a friend who'd be interested
21. Passing along a book you love

22. Dancing at wedding-even just a little
23. Wiping the bathroom sink every morning
24. Babysitting for new parents
25. Goody bags at kids' parties
26. Clean fingernails
27. Calling your mom just to say hi
28. Paying back borrowed money-fast
29. Wet napkins when you serve BBQ
30. Fresh towels in the guest bathroom
31. "Please" and "thank you"

32. Edging your lawn after mowing
33. Mowing for the older lady next door
34. Surprise notes tucked in lunch boxes and suitcases
35. Bringing muffins to the office
36. Turning off the lights when you leave a room
37. Sharing your umbrella
38. A sparkling-clean fridge
39. Knowing one good joke
40. Letting someone else have the parking space
41. No wait at the doctor's office
42. Hugging your kids every day
43. Replacing the TP roll when only a few squares are left

Hope you've had a great spring day like I have.