"BLUE MOON, YOU SAW ME STANDING ALONE....", et al

 

Here's my "smudgey" image of that 

beautiful, ginormous

Blue Moon...

Tom and I went out to view it and

I tried to snap a pix with my phone...

It was cloudy here as you can see...

[File under Songs for all occasions--

Tom tells me 

the song is in the key of Eb];))))

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Here is a cute pix of Willa on her 9th

birthday showing off the glue book

I made for her as part of her gifts:

This girl has the best smile, she just

lights up a room....;)))

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Here is my Nellie Stevens Holly putting

out tons of beautiful red berries

the big plus with this shrub is that

the deer won't eat it at all!!

I just love it...

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Can you all believe that it is 

Labor Day weekend already?

My daughter's three youngest 

have returned to

college and so,

another school year begins.

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I have no sewing to show you as

I haven't done anything this

past week...

except

re-organize and de-stash...

which, I guess is "something"

after all...;)))

I wish you all a wonderful 

long weekend

Hugs, Julierose

La blageuse

{ How many songs with 

Moon in the title do you know?}

(humming-them-euse) 

FALLING STARS, et al

Falling Stars 

has gone through

a complete change..

I had made these blue wonky stars quite a while ago and while looking through my 

unfinished projects I came upon them....

They just seemed to "go with" my Autumnal stars...

they have metallic gunge star points....

and are on mini charms with tied dyed sky backgrounds

(at least they look like skies and clouds to me)

and the centers are a country Fall landscape 

I've had on hand for a long time...

SO.....

A very serendipitous kind of morning here.

;)))

I will not be using any sashing now...

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On the Diamond Painting Front:

I have the first half of my 

Blue Moon

done...

I love the intense colors in this one..

I bought it on amazon in a two pack--

also included was this tree in a sunset sky

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this will be the next in line....

I thought the two of them would look good 

framed as a pair.

Here is my work station in one corner of my craft room

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Diamond Painting doesn't take up a lot of space

so, it  fits in nicely on that part of the front wall.

[You eagle-eyed viewers may notice an old toothbrush 

in that jar holding implements...

It is used for brushing off any bits of the setting

wax or dust that may get onto the drills...]

I have been spending quite a lot of time that

corner lately...

getting back into the swing of diamond painting.

;)))

I have 3 more canvases coming in in the

next few months...

that should hold me for a while...

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Stay calm, enjoy your crafting time 

and 

STAY SAFE

~ ~ ~ waving on another HOT day

Julierose, La Blageuse (keeping busy-euse)

SUNDAY MORNING AFTER

      TWO LITTLE TURKEY-ETTES CAME TO VISIT IN THEIR HANDMADE HATS...
                                                                 Gobble-Gobble Girls ;)))     
                                                                (Willa (L) and Fiona (R)

                      AND BIRTHDAY BOY, STEVEN (now 18--Whoa how did that happen??)

HOME FOR THANKSGIVING FROM UCONN...We had ice cream cake--so only one quick candle or it would've become an  ice cream pudding  lol...
                                           We had a wonderful day...all together..;))))

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And here is the opposite of my "Blue Moon" strip work:

                                                         "MORNING HAS BROKEN"

More leftover strip work...I think I could do strips and squares forever and be happy....

And here are a few more ready to go with this set of colors...

These are all leftovers from other projects that I salvaged; I like that aspect of strip working too.
I have saved the cut off bits and bobs for my Junk Journals--so almost no waste except for slivers too tiny to even glue...makes me happy...:D

I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend and are pleasantly stuffed with turkey and all the fixins'....as we are...

We had leftover sandwiches (Thom had, but of course, a hot turkey sandwich -bread- tower with gravy and I had a cold--with mayo and cransauce--sandwich and just a wee bit of leftover green bean casserole with those now carmelized onions on top--oh heavenly!!)

 Aren't we lucky to be able to enjoy our food and have so much bounty...we are so thankful....

Hugs, on a sunny and chilly "Sunday After"...

Julierose, La Blageuse (still full-euse!!);ooo

BLUE MOON REVISITED

I was able to do a bit of machine sewing today--just 1/2 hour...

I took out this old series from a long time ago and made two more blocks...

Little Fairy Princess and.........................................

                                           BLUE MOON herself....

I think that my mood has been very blue and down as I am not able to do any handwork...just a bit cranky, ya think???
BUT..................these blocks 
really spoke to how I've been feeling......they are on the darker side...
but as I sewed  them together, i felt that they made me feel better....

Do you quilt your emotions?  I guess I do...
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On a brighter note my Cactus has gone overboard
 blooming amazingly....

How gorgeous is that color...I love my Christmas cacti even though they bloom 
early....

Beautiful striations of pinks to cream....with my little gnome peeking out 
 in the background...
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I am going to wait until after Turkey Day to try a bit of hand work....want to really be rested....

Hugs, 
Julierose, La blageuse, cranky-euse! ;(((

SUNDAY'S WIPS

I put "Blue Moon" up on my design wall as it uses 1.5" strips and thought that it, along with my new project over at Diane's ,

 (her beautiful and well thought out pattern for her star sew- a- long also uses strips-- but 2.5" ones--who knows how one's mind works, but there it is!--;))) --go and check it out--just really cleverly worked out!!) would be good to sew using the leader-ender method...
Uhhh, do you get what I meant--both strip works??? Anyhoo.....;*)))

Here is the Blue Moon fabric that sparked my whole idea for using all sorts of blues and teals in close color families for the bands...(a lot of older stash in this one) .

I also, it seems, began another colorway--if I recall-- to use up my H U G E pink stash that I never seem to use...

So here, pinks and purples...with a bit of light blue thrown in and whites...
I have no idea where this is going (either I've forgotten, or never really knew in the first place...which may be more likely considering how I seem to work LOL).

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AND...Butterflies Are Free has reached this point:

I finished up appliqueing those golden leaf-ey circles...I am happy with them...
and so...now what?? 

Am thinking maybe a little flange all around of what's left of that
circle fabric...and then the low key strips I have already cut...

But then, of course, someone mentioned that flowers go with butterflies--should I do a flower-ey border too??  

Decisions, decisions--borders, of all kinds, I guess, are difficult for me to figure out--
But,at least if you don't like how they look, you can un-pick (gasp!!) them fairly easily....
so that is where this one waits....fluttering....

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Sewed the binding onto Star Rise--finally!!;000-- yesterday, despite the fact that I am a bit under the weather--both the DH and I seem to be feeling like we have some kind of stomach bug...I was determined to get this one done...I folded it in half and over after sewing it on,,,haven't done that in a while, but I like how it came out...

the binding is a big array of scrappy binding bits--all
in blues that I had in the leftover
bindings bin...
So, that worked out well...





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I will leave you with my latest flower in bloom, my glads...

I have a yellow just budding and another
shade of this yummy apricot...

I cut this one about 4 days ago and it is still 
ok inside...do you put sugar in your flower water?
I do and it seems to work well...





I hope you are enjoying your Sunday--it is a beautiful Fall-like day here--cool breezes
and sunshine...ahhhhh
Hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (binding-euse)