IS IT SOUP YET?

                 Stone Soup blocks are all sewn into "bowls" now; 
I am looking for setting ideas and eye-balling fabrics...
                                and thinking to myself that 
                                  this looks like Borst Soup...

                        { "Imagination is funneee.." songs again;))) }

I think you float sour cream on top...???
                     NOW....there is a challenge to depict that
                         in trim, which is one of our Stone Soup rules
                            --maybe in my Crazy Quilt basket
                                    I can come up with something...

                                 
                Maybe this fabric laying there will be the "tablecloth"????

and this:

                                              For the borders....
                        a country print that uses some coordinating colors.

And I'd like to include this one--
altho' the color is not in the same family--
                                                        but ..."I like it"..;)))

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On the diamond Painting front:

Sunflowers is coming along pretty well...

only about 1/8th more to go....

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My Hubby cooked his homemade spaghetti sauce 

and we ate an early dinner -- @1:00

It was especially good as i haven't eaten any

REAL CARBS (!)

all week long on my lo-carb journey.

I have lost 4 lbs (+/-) ;)))

And am taking today and SuperBowl Sunday

off...

[G O   P A T S  ]

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I am reading a "new to me" book by Jane Haddam

[In her Gregor Damarkian series]

called "Hearts of Sand"

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I leave you hoping you are having a wonderful

sewing day or crafting or reading or

whatever you really want to do...

Hugs, Julierose

La Blageuse (doing it all-euse)

WINTER BUTTERFLY and ROSES

                                                         Terri (click to visit her)
sent me this lovely paper pieced butterfly as her giveaway  winner.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, TERRI, I JUST LOVE IT 
I would like to learn paper piecing this coming year...so many pretty blocks....
AND 
I have put the first set of borders around it ;
and will be playing off of that small bit of orange
on its body...
I've put up some trial fabrics to see what I may do...

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We'll see how these go (or not)....I love that flowery one...a lot.....

AND
somehow, in my mind (those strange corridors with so many doors..lol) it goes with
this:as perhaps for the reverse side...

                       the leftovers of my Geisha Prints for a Springlike setting and
                                               also not finished ....
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Here is another project that I want to continue to work on...I don't recall just what I had
in mind even...but I found it wrapped in the above piece...it fell in my lap and
called my name....;))))

                     
AND
I found (yay-- after a LOT of searching)
some more of that Geisha Faces fabric you see above on Etsy
and plan to make some more of these little arcs in the NEW YEAR
(my gosh!! 2019--just imagine!!) .

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My Winter Roses are really coming together--to me this is looking like a Renaissance painting...

Here you can see the sparkle of the little drills:

Each one is carefully placed and sticks to the stickified (is that a word, no? Well it should be haha)
canvas....

such lovely colors

I am so loving this craft....it has definitely become one of my
                                                 <<<<<<<<<FAVORITE THINGS>>>>>

("When the bee stings, when the bug bites, and I'm feeling blue,
I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad.." apologies for
the paraphrasing. lol)..
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On the Holiday scene, I got gifts for Willa and Fi today and finished my gifts to be mailed out
around the 10th...
AND
I hope you are all giving yourselves some quiet time during this busy
Holiday Season...I am settling myself down to read for at least one hour a day...

My latest gem is:
"Divind Inspiration" by Jane Langton...
isn't the title just PERFECT for this time of year?
And it is such a great, fun read..
.her detective, Homer Kelly, is so funny and
likeable...
I highly recommend this entire series...
I just finished "Dark Nantucket Moon" by her--also amazing..
If you got to the end of this VERY WORDY post of mine....

I COMMEND YOU 💓💕💚;)))

hugs, Julierose (DP-euse).

NADA

Add to that we are going to be hit by another Nor'easter Monday night into Tuesday--

tons of fun right?

Not any sewing or crafting going on here--still resting the arm/shoulder over use...
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FYI:

I have also disabled anonymous comments as I have been getting some unusual
comments--a bit disturbing.  :~{{

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I am still following blogs, reading  "White Nights" in the Ann Cleeves Shetland
series, and watching YouTube a lot...
I didn't realize just how many hours per day I had been spending 
piecing and quilting......:*((---a whole LOT to fill up it seems...
(Too bad I cannot really do any cleaning either--boo-hoo--NOT)
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In the meantime:
My neutral blocks are getting very restive on my design wall--I think they are 
moving around during the night into new configurations to see if i will notice 
lol
At any rate, every time I look at them they inspire a bit of a guilty feeling....

I will sign off for a while as even typing is uncomfortable...
hugs, Julierose La Blageuse ( pacing-euse)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

                                Happy (Rainy) Mother's day to all you Mommies out there!!

                                        I hope you get to talk to or see your children today....

                                                Missing my Mom on this, the 1st Mother's day
                                                     since she has been gone....;-((((

But, we had a whole lot of them together and I cherish many good memories...

I am sitting and sipping my morning cup of java and slowly entering the world of the wide "awakers.".lol

Still no sewing to show you..but here are a few pix of my mystery book shelf for your bibliophiles out there...
{.I used to bring a book (we both loved a good mystery) when I visited Mom, and read to her--she loved that and would doze off and dream......}

These are my "keepers" that i have read a few times and will most likely read again.....
I hope you will have a relaxing day --i know I'll be reading:the Carolyn Graham 
Barnaby series: "Faithful unto Death" (2nd in the series...) 

hugs to you all

Julierose, La Blageuse (bookworm-euse)

A FLIMSEY + and Reading Update

Here is Steven's quilt top finally all sewn together in QAYGo method

As i am sure you know: it has been quilted, square by square, (uff dah!!) and then sewn
together in rows.  So I am  calling it a Flimsy+.

A closer look at Steven's saxophone and...

My piano with some music,
and

And some surfin' at our beach in the summertime...among other novelties (eat up your oranges now! lol)...

So now onto the backing---I plan to attach it by sewing 1/4" on either side of the existing horizontal and vertical seam lines on the front--nothing fancy just really solid--as I recall things get tossed around dorm room quite a bit hahaha...

My first Flimsy+ in 2016...YAY!!

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I am a bit under the weather today (up at 4 am isn't good for this old bod!!) so
will be pretty much resting this afternoon and reading my first Christmas book from my son, Jeff, in the Longmire Series "The Cold Dish" by Craig Johnson.  DH and I have been watching the series on NetFlix and loving it....

I had just been reading Elizabeth George's latest "A Banquet of Consequences" but I just couldn't get through it--I do not find it enjoyable to read about graphic child abuse....need I say more?? Also, lovely Lynley was not much in evidence--this book really disappointed me....i hate it when a former favorite author goes off the rails....at least in my humble opinion.....;--(((

Hugs to you all from
Julierose, La Blageuse