BUTTERFLY DREAMS

I REMOVED THE BATIK STRIPS, THINKING THEY WERE TOO GEOMETRIC AND
A BIT ON THE HARSH SIDE :
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                                                                Not my style at all....
Soooo....
Instead I put that peach flowery print around and then FOUND more of this surrounding print
in my greens pile...I had forgotten that I had MORE--what a nice surprise....;))):
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And then,
I added that Dark green flowered print (above on the bottom)
                                     YES!!!      that's more like it.....                                                 
                             
 --I will continue the rounds with those two for a bit in courthouse steps style...
                                       (So much for taking a break from sewing, huh?)
and this is.........
My story (and I'm sticking to it!!) :

I was trying to nap, as I hardly slept last night...and this butterfly vision kept swirling around in my brain--I just knew the 1st look wasn't what I truly wanted...just not right...too stark...pretty batik
and nice colors but just not ME!! And I want to make it pretty...;))))))
So,
Now: My lovely butterfly is surrounded by a garden...🌷🌹
How lovely is that thought....especially in this really cold weather  brrrrr....
Hugs, 
Julierose La blageuse (and....I dream of quilts-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).

WINTER ROSES, ET AL

 

                               I've been working along on my Winter Roses canvas...
                                           Enjoying the soft colors emerging......
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AND--
I have:
One more Mrs. Secret Santa project to bind and label......
T H E N ...I can start another project.....;))))
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Right now I think it will be a log cabin--
 Courthouse Steps variation...

And so I am in the process of 
searching for a fabric to be the focal square--
will a Santa make it? 
a birdie?
                 a tree?
                                Or a beautiful batik? 
                                                                        Or an Ocean scene...?????
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AND............

I've been looking for a really good book to read; but have been finding myself 
reaching a certain point in the books where 
I just  "don't care" about the characters anymore...
sad.....but true....;(((

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So, 
(" in the meantime, in between time--ain't we got fun....")

Crossword Puzzles and Diamond Painting to my rescue...
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hugs from a windy and c-o-l-d 
house on a hill.....

Julierose, La Blageuse (searching-euse)

SHHHHH

                                         CHRISTMAS IS THE SEASON AND
                                           THE REASON THAT..........................

Mrs. Secret Santa  cannot show you what she's  working on...

My little Dancing Santa table topper sits in our tv room....(above)
and ........................

my HOLIDAY BASKETS perch on my living room glass table 

Both trees are pre-lit and just glow at night.....;)))

These 
baskets 

were





such a fun





project....

And my little, really old fabric border just sets them off

                                     All the little birdies are nestled in their Christmas houses....
                                                             waiting for Santa........

Decorating my little table top trees is next--I think the smallest one will be all
little red velvet bows...hmmmmm

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (caroling and sewing-euse)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

                                Wishing all my wonderful followers a 
                       HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am grateful for all your comments and continuing support throughout
the year.....thank you all so much...

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (thankful-euse);)))))

WINTER FLOWERS, et al

                      First flowers emerging in my Still Life Diamond Painting.

I thought this would be fun to work on, as we are moving into the Winter Season here and
all our outside flowers have gone by.....
you can see the sparkle on some of the diamonds shinig out...
so sparkle-ey..;)))

It looks like a needletpoint, doesn't it?  
This makes me happy as I can no longer ply that
needlepoint needle as I did in this one below....

This was my craft of choice for many years and every other one has been gifted away---
this is the only one I kept...
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I love how my diamond painting is coming out so far...
I like the "confetti" (little bits of colors ) that a lot of DP-ers complain about doing...the little changes of color that eventually make a whole entity adds to the
look of the painting, I feel..

I am posting about this as I cannot post about my Secret Santa projects.....they are
too far along...Shhhhhh....

What other crafts do you like to do?
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And
we have yet another G R A Y Monday morning...
Both the Hubster and I cannot seem to get used to 
this time change this year--

and I feel as if we are living in a totally gray place....
very little sunshine...
and more snow on the way and/or rain...;0000

I am still hungry and tired at the wrong times...We are not coping with the
change this year very well; why can't they just leave it one way or another?
Huh????????

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (smelling the roses-euse) 

MORE SECRET WORK...

                                                                  SHHHHHH.....

                                                       DON'T TELL..........................

                                        "  SANTA CLAUS is comin' to town..."
                                                                    🎶 🎄🎅🎶

Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (doing "undercover works"-euse ;}}} )