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Flower Faeries-Apple Blossom Faerie

 The Apple-blossom faerie is done


and she didn't give me half the trouble the Pear-blossom faerie gave me!



she seems to like to play with  lots of critters


 so there are ladybugs and butterflies


even Dimsdale and Terrence came out to play


I also gave her a garden to play in with lots of flowers


and pretty seam treatments to play around



there is a key to this secret garden can you find it?

  

gardens and flowers RR- Andrea's block

I didn't think I would finish this one so soon!


I put lots of lace and lots of flowers on this block

a bird
there is a lot more SRE than I usually place on a block.

I'm more of a seamtreatment/embroidery girl but i think it turned out ok
and not too much in the way of beading though I did do some

since this is going to be part of a bedspread I didn't want to do too much that would be "catchy"

I tried to stay in the pastels but there needed to be some contrast to the overall purplieness of the block.

there was some dark blue/black in the detail and a few of the other blocks so I don't think I wandered outside the parameters too badly

garden and flowers RR - Dana's block

 here is Dana's block all done



a nice flowering vine


a bird


some nice flowers



a dragonfly





with a bit of lace thrown in for funsies

Ravens block

 This is what I have really been working on.




 I have all these lovely "downton abby" prints I got from Susan over at

 Gathering fabric when she had her theme day trunk sale featuring the fabrics I got a few of them.

I love seam-treatments so I went a little crazy..

 I also love my critters so I featured the neighborhood crows in this block.

they are a noisy busy bunch!

I hear them in the trees calling to one another "ooh! look! something nice and dead over here!"

I like how it all turned out,

I wasn't sure for a while there,

then I found the perfect beads in my local bead shop,

 that were just the right color to blend in with the fabrics.

I used some of them on the faerie block because they worked well there too

Unfortunately I went back for more and they were gone!

quelle fin tragique!

I hate when that happens!

 any how I think I have it just about done now so I can show it to you all


 I love the look of SRE and I must practice more of it.    I don't use it much or maybe I don't feel comfortable using it much.

even though it takes up a lot of real-estate and is great for when you have to fill in a spot that is just a little too bare

 I still don't know if I need to do a little more with the stars on this part,
they feel a little undone to me

there are the beads, see just the right color!

Oh, the Sanity!

we went to Hawaii for our honeymoon in April and as is customary I bought more fabric than I meant to.

I have (finally) finished the pattern I bought for it all

as may of you may know I wander off into sane quilting every once in a while and when I do it takes me months to finish what I start mostly because I know find the cutting peacing and sewing down of regular quilting well, BORING! OMG! somebody shoot me please, what was I thinking!

OK now that I have gotten that out of my system I feel really proud of myself, when I can actually finish one of these things in under a year!


the first one is a little wall hanging I saw the turtle pattern in the quilt shop in Volcano village I didn't get it but it played with me in my head until I sewed it down I was originally thinking of putting more turtles on this but my appliqué skills are so rusty I don't want ruin what I have so far .

the second one I couldn't resist (even though I tried!) I bought as a kit for a table runner with one line of pineapples and then fell I lust with more of the fabric so it has turned into a lap quilt.

now I just have to sammich, quilt and bind the darned thing.
this is where it may take longer to finish.....

Vegi boxes

 my herb garden, looks like I need to make some smudge sticks!

the vegi boxes from the west side of the garage

 box 1 has peas beans, celery, tomatoes radish, zucchini and broccoli which is mostly gone now having been eaten last week

 box 2 has more tomatoes, corn and blueberries, though you can't see them as they are hiding under the tomatoes

 box 3 has you guessed it more tomatoes! I am going to have hella tomatoes this year!
raspberries more zucchini of both colors melons and some more beans

had to sow you all the Huge zucchini plant in box 3

look at that zucc!



my bowl of happy! that zucc is going to make a meal all by it's lonesome!

flowers in the garden

I like a garden the way I like my CQ



wild and
 full of colors

which may explain a few things

you saw these last time

I have no Idea what kind of roses I have because I saved them from a Home depot dumpster 3 summers ago I have two kinds of tea rose in the front verge garden the yellow and a dusky pink

 I love the deep red of these dhalias






and the purple clamatis climbing the west corner of the garage

this little section I was trying to carve out a bigger bit of the lawn but it got to difficult to hack through the clay soil so this is as big as I could make it by hand.

its where the purple butterfly bush and most of the lilies live.

I'm not sure what the red flower is but I love how it contrasts against the purple of the bush  and the orange of the lilies

the daisies have taken off this year

I think I am going to have to dig them out and separate them 

 

they are getting too rowdy over there!

the waterbarrel is slowly getting covered by baskets

again I like the contrast of colors

hanging baskets are fun but you have to keep them well watered 

a way to help with this I fill the bottom half with packing peanuts to make them lighter and peat moss mixed into the dirt and manure mix i use for them this helps keep the moisture in

 here is the deckside 

the snowball bush is getting bigger but not big enough to bloom yet and it's too early for the hydrangeas give it a week and they will bloom too