THE HEART OF HOME: A Year of Remembrance Project, et al

My "Heart of Home" project is coming

along now...

I am celebrating our 60th

Wedding Anniversary by

working on this.

  

Sept 11th, 1965...

Phew--so many years ago--

a whole lifetime really...

Tempus Fugit for sure...

🎼🎹🎷📅

These four little vignettes I plan

to put together 

into one bigger

piece..

This block is really finished...

(our joyous life together);

and  this one

below

is just about done also

Almost, anyway--I need a 

heart of some kind in that large

pink area at the top...

with the Winds of Time moving

us along in life...

and

perhaps I will outline that area 

with some couched sari silk

echoing the outlined heart on

the first panel.  

(Our Gardens, so many meals, 

cups of coffee and tea, etc.--

family life together)

The following two are in process:

This block is all basted down with

the backgrounds in place; it

needs additional feature elements 

reflecting our home life...

AND...

This final block is just pin basted

with backgrounds only and a few

natural elements 

that have featured prominently 

in our lives:

Deer visits, owls calling

during the night, and

lovely snow falls under a full moon...

perhaps Christmases together...

These are my long term slow stitch 

project for this year of remembrance...

Finding meaningful feature elements

is such fun for me...searching my

novelty fabrics to find the 

"little" things that meant so much

through the years...

💙💜💞

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Meanwhile, my poor tomato plants 

are slowly fading away....

as summer passes into Fall 

here in SE CT...

Our driest summer yet has not helped at all either; 

even though we have watered assiduously, 

I think the colder nights have taken 

their toll on them...

They are still producing a few cherry

tomatoes --and lots of greens

They are hanging on for dear life.

While...

those naughty squirrels are 

feasting on them

by taking only

one bite and then 

leaving the remainder

to rot...

I found this travesty this morning...

are they teasing us????

I mean really...how annoying can you be????

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Here are the October place mats

 I made for Willa and Fiona...

along with those 

Harry Potter"kisses" for a 

little Halloween treat....;))

Isn't that fabric just a "Hoot"???

So cute and funny...

That's the latest "goings on" here from

the house on the hill for 

this First day of Autumn...

hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse,

("still-crazy-after-all-these-years"-euse)