The Grandboy and Fall plants

Hello again....
Saturday we traveled a couple hundred miles to have lunch an play with our newest Grandguy who is just over a year old.

He loves his Hobby Cow - especially when it's powered by Daddy.

 Couldn't you just eat him up?  So handsome.

This is the "little" Japanese Maple that we bought for $1.49 and it was about 5" tall. After about 12 years it's probably 12' tall.

 These are some of our bag dwellers. Goldfinches love these Niger seeds...

But they wouldn't stand for my camera at the window, so we had to trick them.

We tried really hard to get you some good pictures of the white Christmas cactus blooming.  3 flowers this year (one is on the other side).

Fabric comes in handy for many uses.  (This plant  is very dear to me. My daughter gave me a cutting of hers - a gift from her hubby.  She killed hers and I made her another, when that one died, I made her a second one. So this one is still not very big, but it makes angel-like blooms, don't you think so?)

I have made a few more  hexie red, white and blue blocks, but they aren't on the wall at the moment. Come back next time and I promise some quilty pictures.

Hugs,

Terri

Our Back Yard today

We were surprised to see our lilac blooming - today! It did bloom this spring, I guess it thought this was a second spring. (Not it's usual beautiful full cone shape, but fully scented!)

 

Some of the "dead" roses that my oldest son and I planted. He got them out of a dumpster at the construction site he was working at the time.

I like to call them tangerines, but they aren't the Honey kind. They are yummy! I picked 3 today - we will see if they are ready.

 

 

 Grandson (from Florida) says these are Mandarin Oranges. They are a bit milder than the above.

 

 

 Oranges - next 3 pictures - some are still green and others are almost there!

 

 

 

Now the Passion Flowers (a vine that starts on the neighbor's side and blooms on my side...LOL)

 

 

 

This Pecan was planted by my oldest son. Wish we could stay for the first nuts.

 

 

 Princess Dianna roses

 

 

 My Lavender plant - grown from a little cutting... I've given away dozens to the neighbors.

 And this Morning Glory given to me by a neighbor has been lots of Halloween plants, too. It grows wild, across the fence through the fence and along the ground where it can - up the roses, pine trees and lipstick vine on the other side of the fence... very opportunistic.

 

Don't want to forget this place.

Hugs,

Terri

Some of everything...

Howdy Folks! Yes, I'm still alive and living in California. We've had 3 Open Houses and 5 private showings of our house now, and nobody has offered anything.  We did okay at our 2 rummage sales, but only just okay... still have lots of stuff to get rid of.

We had a ball at Halloween!  Lots of folks told us they'd miss us (if we ever sell). They have enjoyed, over the years, our Hogwarts Greenhouse and all the plants.  Our neighbor across the street brought over their Friendly Cactus so I could see that it had grown A LOT.  Here's a picture of them.

The Trick or Treaters come in all sizes, and they all got plants if they wanted them.

(That's me in the chair explaining something about the plant - probably a Cork Oak Tree. )

Above is Harry Potter (played by my hubby) holding the Sorting Hat.... he did that all night. Some kids even came back to get a second reading.  One of the teenage girls across the street WANTED to be in Slitherin... she got her wish.

 

 

 

 Below is the abstract art that decorates our bathrooms during the Fall.

And I have gotten some time to sew lately. I've given up playing the games on the computer... lots of found time there. They are red, white and blue... the white looks a bit grey here, but it is white prints on white fabric. (Pattern is a freebie paper piecing pattern from Aunt Reen's Place.  Thanks to you Aunt Reen!) It's a really easy paper piecing pattern.

And a close up. I think I'll put a white strip between the rows. It'll save me from the bunchy joins. (I hate when I get the bunchy joins - don't you?)

I've been enjoying reading your blogs. (Love getting away from the incessant cleaning!)

Hugs,

Terri 

No Quilting yet...

I haven't done any sewing, but packing and entertaining moving van estimators and leaving the house for Open Houses and Realtors bringing potential buyers through. Ugh! (Recently, just a few miles away a burglary happened during an Open House. The Realtor was distracted by part of the party and the rest of them ransacked the house and stole jewelry, computer equipment, etc.  We take that all with us when we leave. Yes, it's a pain!)

Halloween is only 2 days off, so I have turned my thoughts to the little plants and the seed packets. Here is one now!

 The pit is just sitting on top... waiting to get into the packet. I'd have drawn an avocado for the front, but all markers, paints, pencils, etc. are packed up already. Sure hope we sell soon. It's hard to do without your equipment.

I've been kind of confused about things lately, so I didn't get signed up for the Quilt Bloggers Hop at Amy's Creative Side, but weeks ago I added the link on the sidebar thinking I'd join up this year... Well, you all know the quilt on my banner would be the one I wanted to enter.  Nothing new here.
Hope you have fun hopping.

Hugs to you all,

Terri

Found while packing.... a series

Okay... I've worked up to the sewing room... left that for last. (Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things to pack yet, but the sewing room had to be packed in order for the house to be shown... no way to get into the room without doing the work. Ugh!)

So while I'm in there, I find this sweet little chicken purchased years ago at a local quilt show. I love to shop the part of the show where guild members make things to sell. This lady (I presume) sure knew her stuff. 30s reproductions sewn into log cabin blocks - just two of them, I think; felt for comb and beak, the tail is just quilting fabric, folded - body is stuffed with the little plastic pellets and the eye is embroidered - French Knots, I think.  Isn't she a beauty?

NOW I notice my sign on the printer. It reminds me that this printer prints on the bottom of the sheet of paper. That helps me a lot when I'm making cards... which I can't do now until I open up all the boxes at the next house. All my card stock, stamps, inks and etc. are packed away. Sniff

Here's another sign...

 

We got a call today from an agent wanting to show the house tomorrow evening!!!! Wish us luck!

 

Hugs,

Terri

Dolly Quilt & Home for Sale

Hi Friends,
I'm getting the hexie dolly quilt ready to quilt.

I don't usually put a quilt on the table to pin or baste, but this time it's small enough. (See my "bouquet" of sticks from a palm where the seeds hung?  I feel a little like Morticia showing these. Remember on the TV show, how she used to cut off the roses and save the thorny stems? Love that!)

View out the front window showing our trees in their Halloween costumes and the For Sale sign out at the curb.  No calls yet, but last night the Hubby saw someone shine a light out of their car to read the web address. Want to see our advertisement?  Click on this

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/9500-Shumway-Dr_Orangevale_CA_95662_M24351-76995

 

(You'll only see the clean rooms LOL - I'm still working on the sewing room.)

 

Hugs,

Terri

P.S. Tomorrow we have plans to go to the Pacific International Quilt Show in Santa Clara, CA... got both camera clips cleaned off and I'll share some pictures if they let us take some....

Found While Packing

A crepe paper rose that was hanging in my craft studio (rubber stamp room, way back room). I remember buying it (about 15 years ago) cause I wanted to make some to give as gifts.... Never did.

If you want to make one, I don't have a tutorial, but I can tell you what the probable way it goes together.
The center is net around some potpourri, the rose is crepe paper, but it could be fabric. There is a skinny ribbon folded in half and glued under that, and some store bought leaves, and then the lace (here Battenburg) or a doily would be pretty, too. If you wanted a pin, you'd need a firm disk glued on the other side of the doily, and then the pin back attached with glue.

Back to the packing - I'm almost done with that room! Next the sewing room!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonder what I'll find in there. Lol

 

Hugs,

Terri