Just getting in a quick post on my monthly garden. It’s finally raining here in Southern California! No photos of the rain, but I took a few during the month. After visiting a local nursery, guess who came home with me? I think our dog Hiro is not convinced. He eyed the newcomers with suspicion… […]
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Boy, time does fly. It seems ages since I last posted. Well, I have been keeping very busy with one thing or another. One of the quilt groups I belong to is doing a row by row quilt exchange. We each picked a theme, created one row, and passed it on to the others to […]
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It seems unimaginable that the rest of the country is having such severe weather. Here, it’s like spring/summer. For this months garden post, I took a few shots of my front yard and spliced them together. My gardener is helping with a lot of yard clean up. Today, I went to several nurseries to find […]
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Today is my dear mother-in-law’s 90th birthday. Happy Birthday mama! I hope you have a wonderful day! Thank you for raising such an amazing son, whom I am lucky to be married to 🙂
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The best part of the holidays were and will always be the gathering of loved ones. Dear older son flew back to Arizona yesterday, and younger two return to University today. Here is a photo of the kids taken at my parents house, playfully shoving each other – always hard to get a good photo […]
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Dear Hubby gifted me with a Long Arm Quilting Class. It was fun, exhausting, and a bit frustrating all at the same time. As usual, my current skills and where I want to be are not aligned. It was fun, because it was all new to me. Exhausting, because there was so much information to […]
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I have finally finished and given the quilt to my mother. I love how it turned out. It was fun to make (no constraints of a pattern), and I picked out my favorite colors. And mom loved it!
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Just a quick post to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season! Still into vintage 🙂 – My “new” old Santa:
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December in Southern California has so far been gorgeous! The air is fresh and crisp with the sun shining upon us. Satsuma mandarins are coming into season, as well as Meyer lemons. Just in time to make lemon squares – yummy! And the leaves have fallen from the persimmon tree, showcasing the pretty orange fruits. […]
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Yayyy! I finally got my aluminum Christmas tree up! I mentioned earlier that I had been on the lookout, and finally found one. Well, here it is, with a color wheel too. I set it up in the bonus room, where the kids hang out when they come home. It so reminds me of my […]
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I am once again participating in the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies blog hop. These graphics are from the same cute vintage children’s activity book I used to make last years kit. I love Nativity Scenes – isn’t this one just wonderful! It’s been quite a while since I did any digital graphics/scrapbooking, so it was […]
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