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This one was hard. But, I chose this photo taken from the condo of Mt. St. Helen’s last February. I used the HD app on my iPhone. The beautiful sunlight illuminated the whole scene.
This one was hard. But, I chose this photo taken from the condo of Mt. St. Helen’s last February. I used the HD app on my iPhone. The beautiful sunlight illuminated the whole scene.
Dec 2nd didn’t get posted, I guess. This is sunset, Glacier National Park – May 2015
I am participating in Susannah Conway’s December Reflections. I will blog a photo every day (hopefully). Today’s prompt is On The Table. I love this photo of our family Thanksgiving in 2015.The whole family was here and you can see that we were doing what we love to do – eating good food together. Feeling blessed to have this family.
Some of my longtime readers know that I have two brilliant and talented daughters. Stephanie, who is mom to Mia and Miles, and her online partner, Maria, have written another book. This is the best one yet. A Year Between Friends is chock full of goodness. Yes, I am a biased Mom, but it is reall wonderful. It has crafts and recipes plus inspirational commentary via stories and letters that they have written to each other.
They are also both great photographers and their original claim to fame was the photo diptychs that they posted every day. The book has lots of beautiful full color photos, all done on film, not digital. (Click on photo for larger version.)
They are both really good cooks. They share many of their favorite recipes.
There are lots of doable crafts with great directions and photos. The yellow napkin above is a waxed napkin for wrapping brown bag items and is reusable. Directions are in the book. Steph is well known for her gorgeous wool and silk pine cones. She finally shares the directions.
There are natural dye instructions.
This would be a beautiful holiday gift for someone. You can order it HERE.
It is sometimes hard for me to get out of bed, get dressed and put on a happy face. I am still grieving the current political situation. I don’t see much ahead for so many folks in this country but doom and gloom. But, we have to carry on, don’t we.
For my long time readers, you may find this hard to believe, but that is my grandson, Miles, who turned 15 on Sunday. He has grown into such a fine and brainy young man. He is getting straight A’s in highschool. We all got together for dinner at a ramen restaurant and then that delicious mud pie, made by his Mom.
Before that, Mr C and I headed down to Oregon Wine Country for a benefit for Quilts for Empowerment to help Kenyan women who are getting their lives back together after surgery for fistula, a complication of child birth. You may remember that I took some of their embroideries and made quilts which were in a silent auction.
I finally finished my jellyfish stitching for my SAQA trunk show entry.
I also finished the one that I did in the wrong orientation.
I am feeling ready to dig in at the studio and to make some quilts to send out in the world. High Fiber Diet has a theme called, Heat Wave. The main color is to be orange. I pulled some fabrics today and I have an idea. I am almost excited about it, but have a little fear and trepidation as it has been a while since I have done a large piece for a show.
I did some major food shopping and tomorrow, I will get some pies and cranberry chutney made for dinner at Steph’s on Thursday. I am also doing the turkey. I keep thinking it is the last year for me to do the big bird, but no one wants to take it on!!
So, we keep on keeping on and wait to see what happens.