I LIKE Thursday

 

This Maundy Thursday before Easter, LeeAnna posed this prompt.

Tell us about Easter Baskets!

The image above is my recollection of my Easter Baskets in my growing up years.I remember hollow chocolate bunnies and jelly beans with stringy green Easter grass. Maybe some devoted eggs too. We never had Peeps. I guess my mom didn’t like them so she didn’t buy them. Maybe they weren’t available back then! I know we always got new socks, I don’t recall much else. As parents we always did Easter Baskets for our two. They varied from plastic woven baskets to metal or plastic sand pails with shovels. Always chocolate foil covered eggs, jelly belly’s, M&M s in pastel colors and of course socks and bottles of liquid bubbles with the tiny bubble wand inside the bottle. One time for our great grands I filled colorful rubber rain boots. Candy, socks, crayons, sidewalk chalk, and bubble liquid too. 

I’m trying to finish the selected read for Page Turners meeting on Monday. I’m struggling. The book is good, it’s just my concentration that’s failing. 

I did a Fully Finish on the Easter Rabbit Alphabet Sampler.   Note to self: “don’t be so darn stingy with the fabric.”  I almost  couldn’t get the cross stitch fabric wrapped around this block of floral foam. 

Our trees in our yard are leafing out. And snow is predicted for today. TYPICAL!!

Photo taken at 7:20 am can you see the snow starting to build up on the porch railing? 

Mr Busy and I are binging on LOST! We never got hooked when is was current, but now we are. 

It’s Sci- Fi and created by Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof. It’s definitely strangely addicting and wonderfully confusing. I joked that I am “lost” a lot. 😳!

I dug out a shoebox of Triple Treat block. A leader and ender project from Bonnie Hunter. I had thought needed 42 blocks for a smallish baby quilt, I had 46 in the box. What the heck! I put it up on the design wall and immediately didn’t like it. 

I like it better this morning. I guess I just needed to sleep on it. 

So what did I do? I decided to make 10 more for a 7x8 layout. So, there’s that. 

Last week I showed my SAHRR finish and when I got home from my stitching group, I found an email from Quilting Gail, stating that I had been randomly selected to win a prize. A pattern from Denise at A Quiltery. Hurrah for me. Thanks Gail and Denise. I’ll get it downloaded and show which one I chose,  next week!

Go find links to other I LIKE Thursday participants at Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Safe and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday May the 4th be with you!

Happy “I LIKE Thursday” and May the 4th Be With You!



Joining up with others who find the good things in the everyday! Go check out LeeAnna’s blog for links to other bloggers “shares”.


LeeAnna’s prompt for this week:




do you like to sing for yourself?


I used to, but not any more. Even I don’t like my voice now!

For others?       Oh heck no! See above!

or has anyone said you're not a singer? do you sing to babies?


This makes me think of a favorite story. When our first grandchild was a baby, she and her mom lived with us for awhile. Sometimes when her mama was working, I got to put her to bed. She was maybe 7-8 months old. ( ps, she’ll celebrate her 38th birthday, the 21st of this month) I was rocking her and singing a lullaby. She reached up her hand, patted my check and said, “no,no, no!”. I think she just didn’t want to go to sleep, but Grandpa says, to this day, that she didn’t want me to sing! 😄😳🎵🎶



other suggestions: do you make up songs during the day? Are you more comfortable singing high or low…… if I sing at all, I sing low! As my dad used to say, “ Sing low, so low no one will hear you!” 😳




Entertainment:


The Diplomat with Keri Russell. It’s on Netflix and know that there is another drama with the same name, a British political series, airing on Alibi.

This is a really good one. Slightly political but in a fun sort of way! I scoffed and giggled more than once. And be warned, adult language and brief nudity are involved!

We watched the second episode of Rabbit Hole on Monday night! We again came away at the end saying, “What??” It’s a thriller alright.


Spring has finally, just maybe, sprung in Wyoming. Not all parts though…this video from the Montana Highway Department

 

The Beartooth Highway is actually US Hwy 212, that runs from Red Lodge MT, to the northeastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. It’s a fabulous drive in the summer!


Other miscellany


I received some Happy Mail on Monday. For signing up for Hands 2Help at Confessions of a Fabric Addict. It’s called the Nest! I am excited to use it and it’s PURPLE!

I was so excited that I started to open the packaging before I remembered to take a picture. 

  

There is a large horizontal space/slot, maybe for a rotary cutter! 

I’m going to use it to park my phone! I’m always laying down and forgetting where!

And Saturday, Cathy K @ Crazy by Design announced that I won a PDF copy of Preeti Harris’s new pattern A Fishy Story. Have you seen it? It’s awesome. Tuesday , the pdf arrived by email! I am going to have to look for some awesome fabrics like Preeti and Cathy used. So gorgeous!


Not much else going on here this week, except an in home visit by, not one but two, health insurance agents. They saved us $$ though, so we are happy!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!