Skip to main content

Sunday’s Creative Endeavor


There just was nothing going on today.  I started poking though my fabric scraps and this is what I came up with.

fish quilt 001

It’s a fish, if you can’t see it.  Here it is draped over a pillow, but I think that I will put it on a stretcher and use it for a wall hanging.

I could have done some garden weeding, but it was kind of hot today and it is supposed to be in the 90’s tomorrow.  It has been a hot summer by Vermont standards.  Still, I haven’t had my bathing suit on since last winter.  Life has gotten a bit topsy-turvey.

I also finished Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.  If you enjoy laughing at serious panic attacks, social anxiety, and marital arguments, this is a really funny book.  Be warned that I  really do have quite a sick sense of humor.
Labels:

Comments

  1. TomJuly 24, 2012 at 10:33 AM

    I have to confess, I started reading "The Dovekeepers" but found it too depressing and difficult. Maybe I should go back to it.

    Love the fish!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Grandma KcJuly 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM

    Jenny Lawson has a great blog but I haven't read the book yet. I have to find more time to read!

    ReplyDelete
  3. MargaretJuly 24, 2012 at 10:35 PM

    Sounds like a fun book. I like funny.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Linda ReederJuly 25, 2012 at 12:16 AM

    I love your fish!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Grandma Yellow HairJuly 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM

    Right now I could use funny in any form. lol
    So I will have to see about downloading it to my Nook
    Thanks for sharing this info with us.
    I think you like your fish in a wall hanging. Go for it.
    Would love to visit Vermont. I was hoping if we go to Portland in Sept that I might could see a little of Vermont. Will have to check out a US map and see what are the chances.
    It is way to hot to do much. I finally quit my out side chores at 1:30 today and will go back out around 6 this evening. Too hot mid afternoon
    Take care dear friend
    Love
    Maggie

    ReplyDelete
  6. Lisa @ Grandmas BriefsJuly 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM

    Life has indeed gone topsy-turvy. And hot. I'm not liking this summer at all.

    But I *do* like your fish. Cute. Smart to stay indoors!

    I actually met Jenny Lawson at Blogher last year. The gal I went with (one of my former associates at the paper) is a HUGE Bloggess fan so we spent time TWICE hanging out in her little den in at the conference. Of course, my friend chit-chatted with Jenny and I just felt out of place. I did get a sticker from her and took pics of my friend with her. :o) She is indeed a funny lady, though.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

New Furniture

 We went shopping for a new couch. I liked this one, the first store we went to. Of course it would be an impulse to buy the first one so we trekked around to other stores -- something we liked more, a better deal? No surprise that we ended up going back to that first store the next day and purchasing that couch for our living room. Also a matching love seat for the den where we watch TV. Because I had replaced my old love seat with two recliners. We couldn't keep three households worth of furniture after all. Well, my recliner was not big enough to accommodate both Levi and me. Poor boy had to watch TV from his bed on the floor. There! This is much better! Spoiled much? The little tail on the floor belongs to his toy squirrel, Buddy. It's like having a toddler with the need to be picking up toys or risk tripping over them. But his very favorite play thing is that bathmat that can be found anywhere but the bathroom floor.
10 comments
Read more

Walking

 I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while L...
10 comments
Read more