In and Out, Out and About ~ Spring

  Hawthorne or ''shadblow'' on the dunes.

Good evening, friends. Things are perking up here, what a good thing! Even a diehard spring-hater like me  can enjoy warm days and sunny blue skies. Okay the wind is howling, but still. I even got very brave and took down some of the storm windows and bubble wrap insulation and Opened The Windows. Crash! Today, barely forty degrees, w a freeze warning, 30 mph wind, bloppy rain. I must trot out my favorite spring quote, slightly edited by me:

Dorothy Parker: "Summer makes me [happy]. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring!"  

Still, it was nice to be out and about with my friend L, just like old times. We went to local jeweler to pick out a special charm in Mo's memory. It will be added to the fine chain necklace I always wear, never take off--that represents my children.

 I did love the dog bowl, so very Mo.

I also ordered via Etsy a lovely memory bracelet to add to my bangle collection. The words are from ''our song''...

Quick run to Old Navy again, got some everyday pants to try. No pics, way too big. Then on to the little crappy Trader Joe's for fresh veg and flowers. I love spring radishes and these bags of small single serving avocados 

Mixed nut and dried fruit trail mix, endive, asparagus, tiny red potatoes, ciabatta and cheeses. And this decadent sauce. Soooo good.

Spring flowers to brighten the house: 

Don't they just shout, Bramble Berries!

And ''pink'' daffodils, too.

Switched the dining sideboard display the lovely blues.

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A change from Boardwalk, I started pulling fabrics for Posies:

My colors! Inspiration from my deck gardens and tiny bouquets:

Andy Warhol's Flowers.

Fabrics....

For the flowers. The black and cream ditsy [tiny baskets] is the probable background.

Flower cents and leaves/ stems.

This is the soft neutral I had intended to be the background, but as so often happens w stashed fabrics, I don't have enough and it must be 15, 20 years old. I found nothing equal and went [in my mind] w the little baskets instead, for a more modern look.

"Tiny Baskets''
, from TQC:

I didn't order but I bookmarked this darling little print, so cute for a border or backing?

Okkkay, that was fun, choosing fabrics is my favorite part of quilting! You may recall I hate to machine sew, lol.

Have a lovely week, enjoy the flowers and the birds.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...

other friends' beaches a mile to the west...

and mine, look at that blue sky! And goes on forever, not a soul in sight, just me.

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A final amusingly grumpy Spring quote, from John Updike:

be warned of rather crude use of language

“Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature groaning, the old bitch; she doesn't want to do it, not again, no, anything but that, but she has to. It's a fucking torture rack, all that budding and pushing, the sap up the tree trunks, the weeds and the insects getting set to fight it out once again, the seeds trying to remember how the hell the DNA is supposed to go, all that competition for a little bit of nitrogen......”

― John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick