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Shoreline, CT, United States
I would love for you to join me (a retired senior)in my zany crafting adventures with quilting (waaaaay too much fabric); scrapbooking (will I ever catch up?); redwork; counted cross stitch; crossword puzzles; reading; and cooking.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

FALL JUNQUE JOURNAL, et al

 

Here is my Fall Junque Journal;
first, I ATE UP all the 
delicious crackers 
[of course I did-- hahaha]

and then.....

I created my new 
Fall Junque Journal
from the box...
;))))

There are five signatures
and plenty of room that will most likely
take me through December...

Here is today's page
for the 5th of October:
⇊⇊⇊⇊
Staying true to the concept of
a junk journal, you can see
that I even included my 
allergy med label that 
came in today's mail...;)))

A Lot of the pages come from 
an old, used cookbook
that I saved from my 
last journal which was 
an that cookbook Altered
into a Journal...

Sometimes, as above, I write 
right on the page; other times
I add journaling pockets and
cards for a more private
scribblings...

Here is tomorrow's page:
The page is from an old Monet
calendar; there is a little mushroom
journaling card in the pocket 
on the right...and just bits and
bobs that drew my eye...
{stamping my girl on each
page...}

[you can click if you wish to enlarge
all these photos]

Across the top is part
of the packaging from my 
9 1/2" squaring up ruler
from Quilt in a Day...

What fun to include 
all these little items...
πŸ’ƒ

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On the Covid Booster Shot
front:
FOILED AGAIN!!

We were scheduled for
appointments at 9:40 and 9:50
at Walgreens this morning--
Just as we were leaving our phones
rang to tell us that they couldn't
do them as they had too
many to handle ...
???????????????

What kind of reason is that?
Why let us even schedule
an appointment?
AAAARGH

Well, after fussing and fuming
for quite a bit, the two of us
decided to do the weekly food
shopping instead...I mean
we were all set to go out anyway...

S I G H .....
πŸ‘ΉπŸ‘ΊπŸ‘½πŸ‘ΏπŸ’€

I have friends that have been 
cancelled 3 and 4 times..
Who IS getting those shots?

So, we are trying one more time
and have made appointments for
Monday morning....
STAY TUNED...
Fingers and toes crossed!!

Hugs, Julierose,
La blageuse
(making-myself-feel-better-by
having-fun-with-my FJJ)

 






Saturday, September 30, 2023

WINGED STRINGS PROGRESS, et al

 

I got Winged strings together...
I used almost all the cut off scraps to make
that center coin strippy--
I had to take the bottom row off to re-sew
so the blue sashings would match on
either side of the coins...
That was the tricky bit πŸ‘€πŸ‘Ή!

Here it is vertically:
I think it will look great on my
dining room table with a
pretty centerpiece.

Now to find a backing and layer
it up for pin basting...
This is such a lovely pattern
and really fun to make--um...
now that I have that 
squaring up ruler figured out.
πŸ˜‰πŸ˜€πŸ˜πŸ˜‚
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I am making minnestrone
soup for our supper tonight.
A rainy-day special ;)))
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I'd love to make some of these:
↓↓↓

or maybe these....

or these
↧↧↧

or these little "Posies" 
SO CUTE;)))
↴↴↴↴

I think any one of them would make a nice
Fall quilt...
[I gave my Fall quilt to a friend a
while back and need to replace it...]

I hope you are having a wonderful 
weekend...
Hugs,
Julierose, 
La Blageuse
(pondering-euse)

 









Friday, September 29, 2023

SLOW PROGRESS, et al

 

I am hand stitching around the blue
background stars --slowly..

(the blue is SO much more vibrant
in person, 
but as it is so DARK 
out today
I needed interior lighting which
has washed it out a lot)

I can only do one every other 
day or so...
But....
The binding is all sewn on and
I have 5 more stars to finish up.

In progress....↟↟↟
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It is pouring, teeming rain here this morning
and weather says it will be with us
all day long...
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In other news:

We got our flu shots last Monday and
when we got to CVS--they told us they
had run out of Covid shots..and
they had no idea when they
would get more...
πŸ‘Ώ
Seeing as they do walk-ins (!!!)--
(so why make an appointment???)
we will be going to our 
primary physician's office
for the Covid shots...

I hope you are looking forward to
a nice weekend...
TGIF everyone;)))
πŸ’™
Hugs, Julierose
La Blageuse
(slow-stitching-euse)




Tuesday, September 19, 2023

SCRAPPY "WINGED STRINGS", et al

 

Since I've been away from sewing,
I've been sorting by color what is
left in my stash...

AND at the same time--
haunting Youtube,
watching sewing
videos...
for some inspiration...

I saw a gorgeous block on 
Beth's "My Sewing Room"
YOUTUBE video tutorial
and I knew I just had to 
try one:

But first things first--
I have to confess that I've never been
really good a squaring up 1/2 square
triangles...nope--just could not get my head
around the ruler--
πŸ˜•πŸ˜–πŸ˜—
Yesterday I finally, finally
[gosh, after ALL these years]
figured it out and decided to use my 
blues-ey scraps to make this block.

Here it is laid out ready to be sewn
I must admit it took me a while to
figure out that layout--went
back and forth from Beth's video
for sure...;)))

And
TAH-DAH
Here it is together:
I really LπŸ’™VE it!!

Thank you Beth for the great
inspiration and tutorial
πŸ’™πŸ˜‡
Here is a photo of her block:
So pretty...

I am calling mine
 "Winged Strings"
I will be making a few more
S  L  O  W  L  Y....
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It is such a beautiful, sunny day
today; I plan to sit outside and
read and relax...

Tonight will be bbq'ed cheeseburgers,
on toasted bread, with
tater tots [and broccoli for me].

Fall is just around the corner--
time to take out my 
Autumn table toppers
and such...
I was hoping to have Autumn Stars
quilted and ready to hang--but it will
have to wait until next year...

hugs, Julierose,
La blageuse
(Stringing-along-euse)






 

Monday, September 18, 2023

MONDAY'S SCRAPPY SEWING, "FA-LA-LA..."

 

I found some old red strip sets and some leftover 
KF green squares and decided
to make us a couple of Christmas Placemats and
a table runner...FOR US.

Mat #2
↧↧↧
they are slightly different as I only had a couple
of Kaffe squares that I felt would work colorsie.

These are in the first stage and haven't as yet
been trimmed up.
And .......
with the leftovers from these
leftovers πŸ˜‚---
I made a really scrappy table runner
to go with them...

Bits and pieces, cut-offs etc...
very hodge-podge for sure...
but fun to make...

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And...
I have been  
S L O W L Y
stitching the binding on Autumn Stars

I can only do about 1/2 of a side at one sitting
every few days...

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This is the first day I have allowed myself 
to do any kind of sewing work...

My hands are starting to recover, 
so I will be taking a few more
days' rest before trimming 
these placemats and putting them 
together--just to be sure...
And, 
I plan on raiding my Christmas box 
for the backings and bindings...

It felt so good to sit and sew a bit...

Hugs, Julierose,
La blageuse
(Christmas-sewing-euse)






Sunday, September 10, 2023

THE HEAT'S ON, ET AL

 

Here's where you need to be today!!
Muggy yet again :
Temp not quite as high=79.4
but Dew Point is at 76--
murky skies with 
thunderheads looming...
Wouldn't rain be nice???

Where O where are you
Cold Front?????

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I spent the morning catching up on 
household chores and making these 
Twice baked potatoes
to go with our BBQ-ed
Steak dinner tonight...
Y U M !!!
I know this sounds ridiculous
but.....
I am so happy to be able
 to work around
the house once again
without pain most days...
😊
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I ended up machine quilting
Autumn Stars--with
straight lines on the vertical
and horizontal seams..
I will try to just hand quilt 
around the blue stars
but after doing just one yesterday
my hand seized up once more...
Soooo
back to wearing this
I will try a bit of handwork 
while wearing this, but just typing here
hurts, so it'll be awhile....
Here is where I am right now:
 
Here is that little bit of echo quilting
around the star points...
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Our 58th Wedding Anniversary
is tomorrow
[I know, don't ask!!]
and for my present Tom got me
this lovely item:
A Canon Ivy 2 printer that
prints photos off my phone
:)))))))))))
I am just thrilled with it!
It works so well and the little
photos are 2"x3"
just perfect for my 
Junque Journal pages...
He got a new laptop with
a wonderful 15" screen...
Great for our aging πŸ‘€πŸ‘€.

I hope your Sunday is a cool one

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
(catching-up-euse)










Friday, September 1, 2023

"BLUE MOON, YOU SAW ME STANDING ALONE....", et al

 

Here's my "smudgey" image of that 
beautiful, ginormous
Blue Moon...

Tom and I went out to view it and
I tried to snap a pix with my phone...
It was cloudy here as you can see...

[File under Songs for all occasions--
Tom tells me 
the song is in the key of Eb];))))

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Here is a cute pix of Willa on her 9th
birthday showing off the glue book
I made for her as part of her gifts:

This girl has the best smile, she just
lights up a room....;)))

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Here is my Nellie Stevens Holly putting
out tons of beautiful red berries
the big plus with this shrub is that
the deer won't eat it at all!!
I just love it...

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Can you all believe that it is 
Labor Day weekend already?

My daughter's three youngest 
have returned to
college and so,
another school year begins.

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I have no sewing to show you as
I haven't done anything this
past week...
except
re-organize and de-stash...
which, I guess is "something"
after all...;)))

I wish you all a wonderful 
long weekend

Hugs, Julierose
La blageuse
{ How many songs with 
Moon in the title do you know?}

(humming-them-euse)