colors

 I need more colors in my world. Summer has lost it's appeal to me...I mean this heat!

 Watering has become a chore.

This is the Public Market in Seattle. All I could do was admire the flowers as we were boarding a ship the next day.

Hats that I knit recently in some fun colors.

~b

alaska

We've been talking about seeing Alaska for years and just never could decide how to get there...

by land, by sea or by air. Beating up our vehicle and camper to get there just didn't sound very fun.

We finally made the decision to drive to Seattle

and take an intercoastal cruise through Alaska's inside passage.

Mr. b visited the Space Needle at the 1962 World's Fair with his family.

He was nine at the time and didn't meet the height requirement to go up

so here he is 64 years later at the top.

After a night in Seattle we got on our 7- day cruise ship.

 

It was a beautiful trip and I would advice everyone to put in on their bucket list.

~b

Paper

Add making paper to my list of endeavors.

  I've had this on my "try it" list for awhile thinking it would be fun to do with the granddaughters at grandma's summer camp.

I bought my inexpensive frames from Amazon but will ask my resident woodworker to make me a couple more of them in different sizes. We always have a bag of shredded paper from old bills and such.

I stamped a couple to use as notecards.

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Eggs

 While we were gone this winter I found a few projects for dakota man to make once we got home.

This egg holder didn't keep him busy for long.

It will keep my eggs from rolling off the counter when I'm cooking and it won't take up any space in the drawer although I bet it never gets put away for long.

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Birds

Spring birds for a new quilt. 

It's always fun to start a quilt. I need 40 birds for it so hope I can hang in there and finish it before I get bored making them.

It's a scrappy project and you know how I love using up what I already have.

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Happy Easter

             We are back home from Texas and raring to go after a nice winter break.

              I put the heavy quilts away and got this one out. The house is still a little chilly.

Our lunch will be an egg bake and there may be a couple of pieces of key lime pie that made it back. 

Yesterday I printed off two new patterns, a tote bag and a quilt. I need to learn how bottle up this feeling of euphoria.

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Oh Galveston

We enjoy that Galveston is so historical.

I like to vision the city when homes like these were built.

They are in the heart of the city not far from the gulf.

We leave here to head north in 11 days. 

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