Gone To The Beach
from Mo and lizzy.
☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Mo says, Kiss me I'm Irish!
Is there a parade, mommy?
(We'll see, we met a darling puggle girl the other day, her mom all dressed in green, w leprechaun and shamrock socks. Party on!)
💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
We have Irish soda bread, locally made, but alas, no green beer.
☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
Poor Mo, his lovely weekend walker came at noon, her way of adjusting his time set, but I have gotten him up early super early! so that he'd he perky and ready an hour early. Pretty sure he didn't care either way, as breakfast was served on time.
I'm still enjoying my art journals. I have never been good at a daily recording of my [small boring quotidian] world, but I am ok at doodling things that interest me, no schedule enforced.
 |
My all time favorite journaling project was the Circle Journals I shared with my mom for about the last ten or so years of her life. They are ''circle in the sense that they circle back and forth to the journalers, they are not round.
You can still find the kits online sometimes, though the publisher of the actual books has long since gone out of business. We'd write back and forth, sometimes a prompt, sometimes photos, drawings, scrapbook stuff. Each person kept the books for a month. I have all the journals, I cherish them, stored in their pretty box, but have never looked at them since my mother died. Much too sad/ maybe someday? I hope my kids keep the books when I too die, maybe not to read but as recorded lives at the Millennium? Circle Journal
Anyway, the Covid years got me drawing and sketching again. Instagram excels in artists and their journals, inspiring if intimidating. [the site is not just big butt women posting duck faces]
This is my perpetual nature sketch book's beginning. Year one. I have accepted that the project leaders are often professional botanical realism artists; I try not to compare. Photorealism has never been my artistic gift.
Pages:
Then this past week or two:
I plan to go back to using colored pencils and markers for Scribbles; the watercolors buckle the paper too much. They are beautiful for the Nature Journal though, as it has thick watercolor paper despite its tiny size.
There are many beautiful inspiring journals on etsy: HERE and ideas online. How fun it would be to have an art journal pen pal! here
And you must note Julierose's fabulous artist trade cards she is making on a vintage Rolodex reel. here
*********************
Flowers
As my bulbs garden has faded I treated myself to glorious bouquets at Trader Joe's last week. Tulips, a double bunch, 10.99.
Yellow ranunculus, [egg yoke yellow, like sunshine], only 3.99 a bunch.
Now a final tiny bouquet as I eke out every last joy filled bloom in grey March.
....
I think t's time for me to walk Mo...not sure. He is sound asleep though, and snoring , lol.
have a great week!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach...
So excited for the Oystercatchers' return on Wednesday, St Paddy's Day. I am scanning the skies every morning. Harbingers of summer to come.
Bulbs update:
The blue amaryllis is growing. No sign of a bud though.
In early January I quickly zapped out a simple nap quilt for a child.
Her parents strongly dislike patchwork so I just took a stack of sweet pink and lemon yellow batik 10" squares and set them randomly.
The best part is the Ladybug quilting, by my friend Lori C. who always brings my ideas to life.
I had planned to use wide pink satin blankie binding.
Pink polka dot binding instead, not sewed very well. A wasted rush as the child's birthday was canceled because she had Covid again. [how sad is that!].The backing is soft cream and white polka dot flannel. I know pink and yellow is a reach for these friends, but I just cannot make a grey play quilt, sorry not sorry. "Pink Lemonade" ~ a Summer Quilt for ****
....................
The Thanksgiving quilt is also finished and just waiting for deck time/ and summer for its binding.
I'm still not sure what to put in the open spaces next to the Pineapple. L * D, my initials/ 20---23, its date? 1623 [! wow, synchronicity] first Thanksgiving, which my family loved celebrating on the Pilgrim shores of Cape Cod.
Right now I'm not loving poor Pineapple, it has sad connotations now, of holidays uncelebrated, changing times. And---too literal, after seeing blog friend Dorothy's neutral, graphic, and beautifully made version.
Another issue: The raw edges require me to wash it, as the edges will lift and fray and add textural depth. Yet--disatser in the making?
.................................
Most afternoons, sewing hour has focused on Winter Marsh, making Flying Geese blocks for spacers and border. On sunny days I bring my trimming tools and the blocks out to sit facing the beach, pretending from my dining room table that the sun is warm and summer is on its way.
A quilt like this, so random!, really needs a designs wall.
that I do not have,
My next two goals are to piece the setting Sun block and to piece the top's columns. I'd love to have this completed for next winter.
..............................
I want to share photos my friend sent me of her recent quilts she has made as they relocate yet again and wait for their new house to be built. She cheerfully calls the long wait in a rented condo, a ''staycation'' and has focused on these small projects. She does lovely work, usually handquilted.
......................
Friday I made a big stir fry w left over pork tenderloin and veggies from fridge and from Trader Joe's.
Mo says Hi! He will be nine in a few weeks, imagine that.
Have a great week!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
.jpg)
