Hi everyone!
I've been unable to post here on my blog since before Thanksgiving! Phone, computer, photo upload, Cloud sync issues. I think it is fixed now, but it even took my friend two days to make it all work again. I did fix my printer myself, as quite proud...but the Cloud etc! I read and read to fix-it posts, but nope. Just words, no comprehension. So now, hopefully back to usual format, tho pics may be meagre.
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Earlier this week was the Cold Night Full Moon, a supermoon. It glowed huge and white in the bright inky blue sky, accompanied by Jupiter and brilliant stars Sirius and Aldebaran. The light was so bright there were clear moon-shadows on the deck and I could clearly see the dune grasses, the waves, the details of the ships 10 miles away. Even the outline of the New Jersey coast to the southwest, and the shapes of the lighted buoys that mark the shallows here.
The Cold Night lived up to its name though. Gale winds rose in the night and temps ''plummeted'', weather guy's fave word, to 19* with a 12* windchill.
I woke up 2 AM to a very cold bedroom and no power. Taken aback because the windows looked almost like daylight, but my wonky phone said 2.07. A confused, sleepy Mo was asking to go out. The moonlit beach and super-visible night sky were stunning with all human light pollution gone. This is what ancient people must have once seen. The starry sky---moon, Jupiter, Orion, Gemini, Pleiades and their stars, the Milky Way. I wore my fleece over my nightgown and Crocs, stood out on the deck and marveled. Yes, cold and scary but also a joy. Unforgettable. A different world, filled with sparkling blue air and moonshine.
A moment out of time, timeless......
If it was summer I'd have dressed and gone out to the beach.
I've been working on my 2025 Christmas little quilt. It is rather last minute, not what I planned.
Based on the TQC October 22 quilt that was so fun to make,
plus a baggie of their Christmas "$6.oo Shop Scraps" and some Two Thimbles Christmas pretties.
I saved this rough hemp faux feedsack for years. Just barely fits.
Now I have set it aside to do my tree and prep cooky doughs. My brother sent pics of his beautiful house looking like a chic fairyland--the outside all illuminated in the snow, the interior filled with darling tiny trees and their big tree of course. Each tiny tree has a different kind of antique or vintage ornament collection.
All the Christmas quilts are out, anyway. Priorities! Ready for display or airing.
Mo had a spa day to greet the holiday month. New groomer, so wonderful. Here he is doing his ET in the Bath impression.
And showing off his last year's sweaters.
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My little friend [age 5! Homework! Crazy.] came by to do a homework assignment art project w my help. [I didn't butt in, it was meant to be a child/adult project.] I supplied a tray of buttons and trims and wielded the glue gun . Fun! I showed her Silent Night, the Star quilt, but she and her dad gave it a a brief glance and a fast NO! I was sad, but not surprised. I'll finish it anyway, just have to do the Snow Babies. [January proj] It looked pretty great on my bed for the show and tell/ no takers thot.
Off to try again to find my Tree decorations. This is fresh ilex, leafless holly. Trader Joe's. They also had peonies, if you want some. [ilex is poisonous to pets! I have it high and inaccessible. Mo wouldn't eat it but just in case. I had forgotten why I don't usually buy the holly I love so much.]
Happy December, Merry Christmas! Have a great week.
love
lizzy
gone to the beach.....
December sunsets....
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ReplyDeleteYour ilex is so beautiful--what a heartwarming color and so au natural for a decoration.
I usually collect bittersweet cuttings, but none have appeared this year nearby...Will do some holly cutting from our wonderfully productive "Nellie Stevens" ones...
Pix of Mo are so sweet, Lizzy--what a cutie...
I love your little Christmas piece--hoping to take out our table top trees tomorrow and pull out my own Christmas pieces...trying hard to get "in the mood" for Christmas this year...
Hugs Julierose
I had no idea that the holly berries are poisonous to pets - wild birds certainly eat them so that's one good thing. But now I know not to bring them in the house - my little dog wouldn't eat them but visiting dogs might. I love your Silent Night quilt and am pondering making one in the new year, not that another project is needed. But I do have lots of blacks and dark blues and it could be lovely.
ReplyDeleteCheers, hope you and dear Mo are staying safe and warm.
Ceci
Before I read your comment, as soon as I saw Mo in the towel I thought ET ! The full moon was beautiful and had a halo around it. It was so bright it lit up not just the garden but all the surrounding fields. We've had a few frosty nights but the temperature has varied so much lately . When the nights are clear I've always gone out and looked at the stars.
ReplyDeleteAs for cold, my central heating boiler pump broke down on Tuesday and the heating engineer couldn't come until Thursday at 4pm to mend it. The house got so cold I was not only walking around in trousers, jumpers and gloves, but slept in pj's, jumpers and gloves, covered in blankets. We get so used to our central heating in the winter.
I wrote a reply to you when you had a photo of your pumpkin in a bowl, but once again it disappeared before I could publish it.
I'm currently decorating my Christmas tree. It takes me ages as it's a big one and I'm a perfectionist. Lots of lights and twinkles together with baubles including some of my Mum's when i was a child, ones bought by my husband and I, some in memory of special occasions, some in memory of late pets and some bought on holidays. All are precious to me.
Your quilts are lovely. by the way.
That is from Jean.
ReplyDeleteI know it's you. I ll answer here and email it if I can also. Just catchining up w comments etc due to the ongoing device issues. I m sorry your post went lost tho..
DeleteSuch a beautiful collection of Christmas quilts--all red and white with green. They look warm and wonderful and perfect.
ReplyDeleteYou did have cold weather! Our temps were really low a few days ago but we had a balmy Sunday at about 40 degrees. I loved that beautiful Cold Moon!
Your little 2025 Christmas quilt is gorgeous. It's fun with "Merry Christmas" on the front and the Santa Express on the back. Delightful. What can you tell me about the green print you used for the border?
Dear Mo looks adorable ding his ET impression. I hope he's doing okay.