GOOD MORNING ALL

 

Early Morning Light

View from my window 

while sipping frothed coffee...

[FYI : you can see our new fence 

blocking out that old blue bus and

junk all over neighbor's yard...;)))]

I love how the bare trees

lace across the morning skies...

Sunrise on another day....

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Look what I found at early morning grocery shopping

yesterday...

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A lovely red/mauve Christmas Cactus

to add to my meager collection...

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Today I hope to begin hand quilting

Fiona's Purple Butterfly...

Hugs from afar,

Julierose

La Blageuse

(grateful for another day-euse)

A-BLOOMING CELEBRATION

                        HERE IS THE SURPRISE AMARYLLIS BURSTING INTO BLOOM.....

                                and it looks like there will be a lot more to come;)))

                              AND MY NEWER ONE HAS DECIDED TO EMERGE....
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                             Here is my shocking pink, florescent  Christmas cactus...

                                                                Isn't it just lovely?

                                                         I guess it's happy here.......
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We had a lovely day on Christmas Eve at our son's home....
full of hugs, love, and laughter...
We are so blessed.....💕

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And look who's waiting for Santa....all ready for a good night sleep....

                                    My grandgirls:      Willa (L) and Fiona (R)....
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Thom and I  had a quiet, simple, restful Day yesterday --

I made brisket and potatoes and green beans Almondine...
with some chocs for dessert ---compliments of DAWN  (gobble, gobble)
;))) thank you Dawn and I love the pretty tin.

& now I will HAVE to eat up
all the chocs PDQ huh?

so I can use that pretty tin
to store my quilt pieces in..

                                               ????RIGHT????LOL;)))

[I am cutting pieces for LORI'S "Swiss Quilt" tutorial Christmas gift to all of us...
thanks so much Lori..such an adorable mini quilt...]

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas..

hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (starting to think of 2019-euse)

PUTTING ON A SHOW!!--------- "WALL OF SHAME"

My "Christmas Cactus" decided to put on a bloom fest for us this Thanksgiving!

I have 4 plants --2 of each color--that I collected the past few years..............

I think I like  that red, green and the glorious pink (with perhaps a bit of cream)
for quilt colors---what do you think?

Off to make my apple pies for tomorrow....peel, peel, chop, chop, measure, measure, trim crust, trim crust, oops--don't forget the butter-butter!  (LOL) 
Can you guess I'm making TWO???? 

Since I am not hosting thanksgiving this year and I visited Mom yesterday I had 
time this morning to step  into my sewing place: I (foolishly) decided to sweep up the floor --(I do that once a year whether it needs it or not --ROTFLOL) 
 Anyway--
one thing led to another--and I ended up in there for TWO hours--re-arranging my old projects and putting them up on my now-renamed: 

                                       "WALL OF SHAME"  !!! 

Absolutely nothing new will I do  until I finish these  few (or give them away to someone....)  There are things there from the 1970's---I mean really!!

AND of course, then I had to put labels on new containers and start to try to organize both fabrics and scraps...ongoing, ongoing (what is with with 2 today??)
SO....while I was in there, I started sneezing (maybe dust--ya think?) or from handling all those strips and scraps and strings of fabric--??? 

I think I'll have to W A S H  IT  A L L !!!!  OOOH NOOOOO!!!!

I complained to DH and he said (being the typical functionally minded person he is)
Why don't you wash all the reds, then blues etc and THEN you can also rearrange
them after....(S I G H !!)  It is a good method--but a daunting prospect

To be continued---ad nausem.......

I will end here, this was supposed to be a short two picture posting today...
And so it goes...plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose....and all that jazz

Hugs, Julierose La blageuse