Random Notions – Not Much Going On

Haven’t been doing too much of anything the last couple of days.  Everyone in the house is still feeling the effects of being sick for a couple of weeks.

The Tropical Birds wall hanging has a new border and the top is finished – if you remember, when I put the blocks together, I thought it was just a little too much green.  My solution – add orange:

As far as I am concerned, orange ALWAYS works.  I will use the dark green for the binding.  However, after looking at these blocks for a few weeks, I am thinking that perhaps instead of calling it Tropical Birds, I should call it Decapitated Birds.  I don’t know- too sick? 

I am anxious to start on the next piece in the Rainbow Project – green is up next.  I also promised Layla a small wall hanging to put up behind her bed, and I found a great piece of pink just for that.  I haven’t really done a lot in pink before, so maybe instead of going into more green in that next RP piece, I will work on the pink for a break.

Other than that, I haven’t done much of anything else except try to keep up on school work.  I did take some pictures of some things Casey is growing right now – he has some chives and green onions that are starting to go to seed-

I love the purples of the chives-

And the green onion hasn’t quite blossomed out yet-

I love photographing plants up close.  It’s like entering a secret world.

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Random Notions - Really random stuff

Time seems to fly by, doesn’t it?  Last week, I turned 56 - what?!  I don’t feel 56.  I look 56 – maybe even older.  But you know, I feel pretty good.  I am tired all the time and I won’t be running any marathons any time soon, but I do okay.  Drop me off on a cruise and I will walk 10 miles at each port, even though my knees will be cracking and popping the whole way.  I just really need to see what I can do about refurbishing my personal temple - it is in desperate need of fixing up.

I got a chance to go to IKEA in San Diego a couple of weeks ago – another place I can walk about 10 miles.  I love that place and honestly think the IKEA people are crazy for not building one in Las Vegas.  With our transient population, they would do well.  And that way I wouldn’t be limited to buying only the stuff that fits in the car.

Anyway, at IKEA, I found this interesting little item –

I was quite pleased to find that it is a double sided picture frame-

I love picture frames!  I probably have about 100 of them in storage that I haven’t seen for 5 years.  The first thing that came to mind with this one was that I can paint it – there are so many colors in those spray paints made just for plastic!  And they were only 99 cents apiece – I grabbed 4 of them!

I decided that I would use one for pictures of Layla, one for Harry, and one for the girls, and then, what to do with the 4^th?  It hit me!  You know all that information that you can never remember that you wind up having to look up and you get really annoyed?  I always had these bits of paper with info all over the place, but they would get misplaced or thrown away.  This is a perfect way to keep important stuff where I could find it!

This is just the start – as I think of more stuff to add, I can just add to the Word doc and replace it in the frame!  And I have 2 sides!  I will have to put something dark between the 2 sides so I don’t have a bleed through effect.

Sometimes, I’m so smart I amaze myself.  LOL

Okay, on the sewing front, I finally got the tropical birds blocks together-

Once that was all together, I was like, wow, that is a lot of green!  So I will be adding another border, probably two, and I have a few options. 

That’s my world – how’s it going in yours?

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