...sleepin' in the sun, how you gonna get your day's work done? Sleepin' in the noonday sun...
Why yes, I do know an awful lot of old songs!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Lazybones...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Button, Button...
You really want to click on this picture to see a bigger version! It's a quilted version of one of the old "feather trees" that were so popular many many years ago. This one is decorated with mostly old buttons, including a few (like the blue lovebirds) that I remember from my grandmother's button box.
There's a second one of these trees, which looks nearly identical, but it's done with brighter colors (in the plaid border) and much more contemporary buttons--airplanes, and gummy bears, and the like.
They'll be coming down soon. Not sure what I'll put up in their places, since I don't have many quilts this size. Guess I need to go look around!
Monday, January 2, 2012
A Watched Pot
...produces dinner. Raviolis with portobello mushroom filling, marinara with meatballs--dinner out of the fridge and freezer. The meatballs and ravioli were frozen, from Trader Joe's, and the marinara--also from TJ's--had been opened to make English-muffin pizzas. I like to simmer the meatballs in the sauce while the pasta is cooking. There's enough left for another meal, too.
Not only did this dinner taste good, but it helped make a little room in the freezer. Currently there is an inordinate amount of turkey broth in the freezer, most of it in smallish single-recipe size containers. I froze the leftover turkey, dressing, and even the mashed potatoes, too. When it's too good to toss, but too much to eat, what else is there to do? If winter ever comes to these parts, there may be some nights when a little soup, or a hot turkey sammich, will make a good meal!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
French Toast
Mmmm! Can you almost smell the luscious aroma of cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar and pecans topping this decadent pan of baked French toast? Caitlin made this for Christmas breakfast--served it with warm maple syrup that was infused with vanilla bean.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Last Day of the Year
What could be more appropriate for an end-of-the-year post than a photo with my Chinese Zodiac animal? Yes, I am a snake--as are two of my daughters, the ones known on my blog as D1 and D5. Ring out the old year, ring in the new one.
This hasn't been a successful year for my photo blogging ambitions. Kind of hard to take and post pictures when one is flat on her back. However, the back surgery is now behind me (snerk) and I am trying very hard to get back to normal--or more appropriately, get to the new normal.
So, in the spirit of new beginnings, I'm going to declare that for 2012 I will try to post a photo every day. I'm going to allow myself the leeway to maybe post a day or two after the fact, depending on what's going on in my life, but by this time next year (assuming the Mayas just ran out of room for their calculations) there should be 366 pictures on this blog.
I've signed up for a couple of challenges for the year--one is called Take a Stitch Tuesday, and the other is a crazy quilt block challenge. I'll probably post pictures here as well as on my "other blog" but the details will be over there. I reserve the right to make this blog about whatever comes in front of my lens, whether it's my cats, my kids, my grandkids, my flowers, my trees, the skies, clouds, quilts, knitty stuff.
So, for now? Here's wishing you a happy new year, and I'll see you tomorrow!
Monday, November 21, 2011
In she goes...
Love t his picture of Abby going through the "magic" blue door into the Children's Garden at the Huntington, with her auntie Jennie taking a picture!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
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