FRIDAY PROGRESS

                       Soup bowls are on the "table"  and up on my design wall

                              I have sprinkled bits on top....

                        I am still not sure if I like these in the centers...


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                                   SNOWBALLS MOVING ALONG..............

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and..........
New Diamond Painting 
                                                    "GIRL":

                                  A cute Christmas giving picture....

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Another grey and rainy day here,
On The Menu....
Pork Roast dinner tonight with boiled potatoes 
and almond string beans..
Hugs, Julierose, La Blageuse (resting day-euse)

SUNFLOWER DP & WATERCOLORING

                                     My Sunflower Diamond Painting is finished...
                                           &  All the extra drills are bagged by color 
                                                                     and put away.......
I loved the brilliant colors in this one...
gave me such pleasure on these
gray days.....

I am waiting to frame my various canvases until I have a few done,
so I can decide which ones to frame in a grouping. 

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                    Here's a little watercolor I did in my Hobonichi Weeks...
                             if I don't have much to write,
                                 I like to fill the pages with my little watercolor trials...
                     I used watercolor pencils and a waterbrush for this one.......


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A rather warmish day today for February; it's  clouding over right now 
in preparation for the rains to come this evening into tomorrow...

Hugs,
Julierose, La Blageuse (DP-ing-euse)

TOM BRADY OR MR. DARCY?

                     Tonight's Superbowl hunk.....Tom Brady......[sigh]

                                                  OR.....

                         Hunky Mr. Darcy from "Pride and Prejudice?

I am watching the Superbowl and rooting for The Patriots....
                                          while
Re-reading "Pride and Prejudice" and thinking of Mr, Darcy.....lol

Who would be your choice, I ask.......????? 
Discerning quilters
NEED to know...;)))) {be still my heart}

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse (dreaming-euse)

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)

ATHENE BLOOMING AWAY, ET AL

                    Athene, which came from the grocery store, is STILL blooming away  ;)))

                    what a treat this is to see during these grey days..

My phone didn't capture the snow outside here, 

Athene, though, is

 leaning out trying to capture any  light...

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Latest Snowball:

      Peaches and strawberries....

the corners are happening as they fall....

what a fun project this one is....

  Here is the latest grouping of blocks...

not in any particular setting order....

I feel as if I still need some more colors....

perhaps some darker ones...

  some warm gray and turquoise...to throw into the mix....

Stay warm and safe on this frigid

windy night...

hugs,Julierose, La blageuse (hunkered down-euse)

IS IT SOUP YET?

                                                         Six bowls sewn and simmering

                                                       .....and

                                             Six more to stir up...........
                          and Slowly develop the flavors.............

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AND.........

                               Two more snowball blocks...with corners
                                                 changed up....
[I've discovered that I can trim with my scissors 
and avoid rotary cutting burn out...];))))

Basically this has been my week's sewing out put ; 
along with two days' of complete rest.......

hugs, Julierose, La blageuse 
(lil' ole soup & snowball-maker-euse)

RAINING SNOWBALLS

          Pondering new combos here....and ,
                                     solid or not, I want a scrappy look...
                                            thinking more black right now.....

                                All lined up to do flippies...only 2 at a go
                                   so when i am ready to 

                                iron the corners and

                                    then trim them up 

                           I won't hurt my hands with the rotary work....
[These are not really pink as they appear, but 
a purple sort of mottled  -- not truly a solid, 
but I don't have many solids on hand so, make do, use it up
RIGHT?]

                      Here they look like purple-y grape they are...yum;)) 

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                               On the Stone Soup recipe......

                      I am getting those ingredients mixed together...........
And..........
According to the rules I will need to add some kind of trim to my 
soup bowls...something to ponder..........
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And last but not least--my Sunflower progress....

What appear to be white dots are the sparkley bits...I am really loving the
warmth of this one...maybe 2/3rd done...

          when my hands get too sore from rotary work or hand sewing
 [and not to mention-- my falling down the grandstand over the 
          weekend at my grandson's B-Ball game right on my 
                    "good hand" and wrist, knee and back!!],                                          
                                                            {s i g h },😢
I move over to diamond painting work...
I love seeing how the image 
emerges with each added row...
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I worked in 20 minute sessions on the sewing and ironing and cutting after coming home from my early morning weekly shopping--
I wanted to get my errands done before the B I G   R A I N S  
hit this afternoon....
We have been having  weird weather this year so far....
Frigid temps to balmy 40's and 50's  and back again..
a see-saw of conditions........

Hugs, Julierose (snowball-euse)