Schnibbles Parade and Catch up!

Hello! 

Time is flying by so fast this summer - I have hardly had a chance to sit down.  Today Dear Hubby is working -- first time in 25 years he has worked on a Sunday -- but they need to complete the job by July 4th -- So I have had a very productive day and just got a call he won't be home til late -- so I see a productive evening in my future too!

Just a few cute photos -- this is a little chipmunk that got caught in the bird feeder!  He was very happy to be released!
 

I did my Dulcinea complete -- well it still needs to be quilted.....mmmm might have a chance to to that tonight!  I used the Glamping line of fabric -- just love it!!  It screams WE NEED A GLAMPER!!  Trying to get hubby on board -- I think I am almost there :)

   

My friend Kendra from Stone House Primitives, is stamping silverware and I was lucky enough to get a set of forks!! LOVE THEM!  Here is one in my planter on the front porch - it says Smile!!  Too Cute!

Here is the set -- I know hard to see, they say, Smile, Flowers and Grin -- they are all  nicely placed in my flower pots on the front porch!  Can't help but smile when you see them!  Thanks Kendra!

Is anyone working on Pam Budas - Sew Along -- Well step one was 164 half square triangles -- I am done with step one!  And the clue was just given on Friday and we had til the 12th of July to complete step one!  Finally ahead of the project :) I will put a link on the side bar so you can hop over to Pams blog it you want to participate, a clue will be given each Friday -- sounds easy enough - I think 12 clues and you will have a small quilt  -- sounds like fun -- I am using Kansas Troubles trying to use up what I have  -- i have way too much!! 

And one final project here -- a lady bug tabletopper -- had the blocks for years -- so I just whipped this up  last night.  Might get that quilted tonight too.

Well thank you for stopping by -- I have more to show you but you will have to wait til I post again on Tuesday I found a fabulous road side treasure and I was busy in the kitchen --

Enjoy the Parade and see you soon!

Happy Stitches!
Dorothy

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 Robert True Frye 
1921-1981

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Dorothy

Happy Saturday!

Hi there!

Busy times with summer here and all the gardening that needs to be done, seems like once you get the last garden weeded - the first one you started with has weeds!! Never ending battle!  But I love it.

Also tryng to clean out the sewing room so I can paint it -- also another HUGE chore, we have a computer in there so I am deleting all I can from there and saving some of the pics and other things I can't live without - worked on that for about 2 hours last night and still have more to do!!

Got the garage back to cleaned up -- we can only say cleaned up -- because cleaned out is never going to happen til winter time -- too many summer toys we need access to.

I do love to cut my flowers and bring them in and to work so I can enjoy them all the time  -- These peonies are from my parents house -- I transplanted a few of them when my mom came to live with us and got some more right before we sold the house -- they are doing fantastic and need to be split again.   These peonies are the old variety and smell fantastic.  -- I would imagine they are close to 50 years old -- and how I hated them when I was a kid, they always had ants in them - and I would always mow them over right after they bloomed and they still survived   - but we don't have the ant problem at my house.   And now I treasure them because my mom loved them so much -- funny how  your perspective on things change over time.  Here they are with some purple salvia in the vase too.

Speaking of another old time garden thing -- Rhubarb -- my mom had that growing like weeds out back at her house and I did like Rhubarb as a kid -- so when I got my rhubarb plants a couple years ago, I was looking forward to the day  I could bake something with it --- well today was that day -- I made a delish rhubarb cake, you make a yellow cake mix -- put that in a 9 x 13 inch pan - then add 5 cups small chuncks of rhubarb and then  sprinkle 3/4 cup of sugar on top of that and then a 1/2 pint of heavy cream  and bake at 350 for 40 minutes  and this is what you get!
MMMMM...good  - the cream and the rhubarb sink to the bottom during backing and it is so good, we had 2 pieces each tonight!
   

What have you been up to?

Have a good rest of the weekend!
Happy Stiching and Gardening!
Dorothy