Hi everyone! Summer has arrived! We went from down jackets to shorts in just a couple days. [or is it just a cruel hoax by evil Springtime?]. My friend L has the best birthday, always Memorial Day weekend. We went out earlier this week for some fun shopping---she is such a sweetheart, so good-natured, she indulged my choices, albeit packed in a two-hour window of time.
First returns to Old Navy! All the shorts and the gauze sundress I was so excited about were waaaay too big. Girls, we'd all fit in that dress! Then Trader Joe's for potted herbs. But no tarragon or rosemary or lavender.
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Yum. They will be a maybe inspiration for the next [faux] Sarah Sporrer hand app'ed block.
The peonies are so beautiful! And stock. More on this later.
Then we went to the little, not so little? church flea market.
It was very well stocked, halfway between thrift-shop and flea.
They let us in! I thought it opened at 2 PM but nooo, new hours are 5-7 pm. It was lovely with no other shoppers. L just left cash by the door for her find. I didn't buy but had so much fun looking. [notice the interesting ceiling in the old rec hall, like a reverse Viking ship, w teak buttresses etc!]
Lots of china...
I loved the teapot with the white-on-white dimensional flowers, below/ center far left.
Interesting linens.
Once I'd have snapped up this jar of buttons but as the years go by, I want less not more, sadly.
Sometimes good things are shoved under the tables, like these ironstone platters. I like the square ones to hold quilt blocks in work.
Holidays! Have to keep an open mind, they do nice booths for pretty much year-round cast offs. Halloween ~
love both matte punkin and BOO mug.
Thanksgiving~
Turkey platters
Nice pink transferware Woods platter, scene of Pilgrims and Indigenous people at First Thanksgiving.
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Back home I arranged my flowers.
They almost look like a bride' bouquet.
peonies don't last long but just once a year they're a must for me.
The pretty bouquet inspired me to begin the switch to just blue and white for summer.
I left this photo, even though Mo, left home alone, made chaos of the cushions, because you can sort of see my big widows and how they look right out to the dunes and ocean.
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I worked hard all week, here is an update on Silent Night. Its main body is put together and oh my goodness, even without the borders it is enormous. A monster quilt. I'll make the borders as narrow as possible but the applique prevents much trimming on three sides. It's just so much too big, sigh.
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Mo had his annual ten years old checkup. He got a good report! We had the really nice vet who understands Pugs, but I was still worried sick all week. But good news, "in good shape for ten!" Yay, Mo.
Tomorrow is planting day, I hope. My back and hips are so painful. Then I have one more week til June 1 to finish Giant Night, its new name.
Google pic. These red clover have returned with the coreopsis.
Have a great weekend! Welcome Summer of 24.
love
lizzy
gone to the beach...
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