Looking Back at fabric postcards 11-02-19

Ten years, or so, ago I was very into making fabric (or fiber) postcards and slightly larger ones I called Quiltcards.  I enjoyed doing it and even taught a few classes which the students seemed to enjoy.  I recently came across a box with material from those classes and am moved to try it again.  Here are a few from years past.  I cannot locate a lot of pictures due to my computer crash and the death of Picasa, but if I keep looking I will find some more. 

This one has a covering of illusion netting. 

This one I cut with an Exacto blade and used the cut away part to make another postcard. 

 "Bluebird in the Pumpkin Patch" 

Some of them would work as full sized quilts, I think. 

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Friday Food 11-01-19

Mystery Food tonight!  These are all pictures I could find searching my photo files.  But the captions are gone, so I am only guessing what and where.  

This looks delicious.  I think it is salmon at Solare in San Diego.

The inside of a homemade BLT on good bread from Con Pane in San Diego.   I only had a couple BLTs this year because I only like them with homegrown tomatoes and I didn't grow any.  And only one friend shared hers.  

This is the outside of the BLT.  That is a regular dinner plate, it was a big sandwich.

This one and the two below must be from Solare in San Diego.  Looks like their plates and elegant presentation.  

Surely it is salmon with a nice array of veggies. 

Maybe beet salad?  It is a favorite of my friend Carol. 

 A salad!  Looks like it might have asparagus and crumbled blue cheese and crumbled bacon.  Makes me hungry. 

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Wordless Wednesday 10-30=19

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Hats 10-28-19

I don't imagine that all of the blog readers know this about me, but I wear hats all the time.  Morning, noon, and nighttime, too.   I even have some "turban" type hats that I wear to bed when it is cold.  I've been doing this for at least forty years, so half of my life.  I always liked wearing hats, they were part of most women's wardrobes in the 40s and 50s.  But when I was diagnosed with rosacea I wore hats more frequently and I would take them off and put them under my chair at meetings.   And go home without them!  So, I decided to just wear them all the time.   I imagine some of my friends have never even seen me without a hat.  

It is difficult to find appropriate hats in the colors I wear, but I am always looking.  I hit the jackpot at CVS in Monterey, CA, a few years ago and added green, blue, yellow, pink, and turquoise.  They are very sturdy and are wearing out fast.  

I store them in the linen closet in the hall, but sometimes I just start piling them up on the table near the garage door.  It is pleasing to see them in their various colors piled up together.  These are all hats I have worn in the last two weeks, some more than once.  

Just thought I would share this tonight. 

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