NOUVEAU LADIES NOW A FLIMSY!

 Les Belles Dames all wanted to go out on this beautiful day...I heard them 
chanting as i walked by my sewing room--

                                                   " dehors, dehors, dehors!!"  LOL 
                                          (outside for you non-French-speaking ladies)

Tomorrow I will bring my Nouveau Ladies over to show Mom; maybe it will perk her up --she
has been a bit under the weather the past few days....;--(((

Now for a backing, label and binding....then les dames will be gaily sipping wine over my wine chest in my dining room....;--)))
                                   
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(Wait a moment--what's this I hear--?????
A muffled motet ("La la lalala")being sung---What is this???

Now Les Autres Ladies want their time in the sun....et, c'est la vie, non???...

I guess I will be doing more embellishing this summer.... 

hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse   {Allo Cecile ;--)) }

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MUTE MONDAY(FLOWERS EDITION)

                                                                 
                                                              BLEEDING HEARTS 
                                                 (a gift to me from Jean's garden last Fall)

(AND)

                                                                        FIRST IRIS

                                                      SEA GRASS JUNIPERS
                                                        (DH's new garden)

Hugs, on this coolish Monday
Julierose, La blageuse garden-euse....

CRAZEE FOR GREEN

                                              GREEN (RSC) work for this week!

Hooking up with RSC15, go over here to see everyone else's green projects.....

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse

POSTAGE DUE

      

RSC YELLOW POSTAGE STAMP BLOCK-- playing catch-up here    ;--)))

GEISHA SASHAYED IN HERE, TOO (LOL)

AND, HAPPY DANCIN' MR. CROW--READY FOR SOME CORN!!

AND HOW TO OMIT MY FAVORITE?? 

POTATOES!! YUM!!

And so another block is added....

next comes pink.....all laid out.

Now how much fun is this?? 

hugs,

Julierose, La Blageuse (playin' Post Office catch up lol)

TOTALLY CRAZEE

                           I have managed a bit of sewing a few things this morning..

.I had found some pink and purple VELVET (Yummy!!) rick-rack--(that didn't cost an arm and a leg either) and am using it over the main seams...the pink has been stitched in place; maybe tomorrow I can manage the purple cross bars...(see above)

                                                My Lady's  "dream" of a vine and fern...
(.with some button flowers added ---- bottom left corner...)

                                                My Lady is in her Bower............

(purple RR to be sewn on next and a few pansey pieces left over from my hexie table topper on lower right)  I love Crazy Quilting---- Embroidery and everything all rolled into one....
how much fun is that!!  ;--)))

                                       A petite fleur at top center on top of pink rick rack.

(This is one of the lovely hand dyed laces that I got from "Ravolee Dreams" Etsy shop--
just gorgeous stuff--am getting another pkg as part of my Birthday gift--hmmmm this birthday goes on and on....LOL) 

                     A few stitches at a time ........and.................this is becoming

                                            "Nouveau Ladies Bower"  

I have 6 more blocks in the wings ........... all awaiting finishing touches. Another Bevy of Beauties....

hugs 
Julierose, La Blageuse, (" Still crazzee after all these years...")

OVERDUE JANUARY POSTAGE & Stuff

                                                                 "Am  I  Blue"

                  ( My first postage stamp block and also RSC catch up for January)
                                                       
                                                              

Favorite fabs:

                                    
                                       That Japanese Iris shows up once again 

                                                                    Fun Fishies...

I was able to sew on Helga for a while this morning as all my 2.5" squares are either precuts or mini charms, so no rotary work is necessary.
and afterwards:
 I went to Big Y for some needed shopping (tomorrow we will be having our
driveway sealed so wouldn't want to have to haul groceries in from the road!;);
 also iced my shoulder/arm for 20 minutes; then my back for another 20, followed by rehab exercises; then two loads of laundry...phew...who said I'd be bored in retirement. ;--000 Not me, MGee (lol)!!

Meanwhile my DH was out planting four new junipers (Sea Green variety) in our new front garden; now he is off to Home Depot for mulch....errands day.....

A cold front has swept in and erased all yesterday's humidity--so lovely out....
Off to make my salad for lunch--hugs,
Julierose La Blageuse 

SEASONS OF A GEISHA (Aide Memoire)

Since I cannot do any handwork (my arm is getting better, but it's a slow process ack!!)
I thought I'd put up my small geisha seasons quilts on my design wall : the above is called
                                             "Can Spring be Far Behind"

Here is Summer

AND

                                                      WINTER BY THE SEA

                                                            LATE AUTUMN FLOWERS

In an effort to use up my Asian fabrics I have decided to make a lot of these little
blocks--I don't know if they will be a lap sized quilt or a medley of little quilts; I do want to hand quilt them...I LOVE LOVE LOVE Asian fabrics; they speak to me.....

I have also been enchanted for many years by Haiku--I am thinking of printing out a 
few verses on the reverse sides  of these.....

Because my hands cannot work, my mind is a'spinnin' --round and round.  I am writing down my ideas as, for sure with my "advancing" (hahaha) brain, I will forget.  So this is another Aide-Memoire posting....
Hugs to all
Julierose, La Blageuse (Asian-euse)