Friday Feet 10-13-17

High heeled shoes sometimes seem to be all about the heels

 

For the Disney fan.

 

For the ice cube fan.

 

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Camera Cover 10-12-17

Gotta get sewing again if only to make a new cover for my camera.  Even though I wash it periodically, it is looking very sad these days.

 

First camera cover which wore out on 11-09-12

Second camera cover when it was new.  11-11-12

 

Almost five years later it is a little tatty.  The black is paint from a fabric painting class.

This side doesn't look quite as bad, but worn.  

 

I'll get to it - SOON!

 

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Wordless Wednesday 10-11-17

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Where is Froggie? 10-10-17

"Where," asks KoKo "is my Froggie?"

"Oh, NO!" 

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California fires 10-09-17

Other than smoke and ash, we are not affected by the fire in Orange County which is about 10 miles to the south of our house.  Except for the terrible traffic congestion since the 91Fwy and the 241 toll road are closed, along with many surface streets.  I have to drive to south county in the morning and am planning to leave extra early because I anticipate hitting bumper to bumper traffic.  Can't take my surface street detour because all the roads in that area are closed.  

Fortunately we have not had any fatalities here with what they are calling the Canyon Fire 2.  But those poor people in Santa Rosa are really in a terrible way with many fatalities and missing people.  And no end in sight for any of the fires.

Nobody is talking about the cause of the fires, but I have always wondered if the fires that start along the highways/freeways are started by people throwing cigarettes out the window of their vehicles.  I have seen them do it, but have not seen a fire started. 

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Sharing a Charlotte Bird quilt from TCQC 10-08-17

 I purchased this small quilt from Charlotte when she had a quilt showing and sale at VAM in 2012.  This is the best I could do for the color, the background is more grey than this, but it looks great either way.   Lichens are all around us, but because they are small we don't notice them.  My house has a stone fireplace and there are lichen still growing on the stones.  When the humidity gets a little high for a length of time the lichens expand - my own little lichen garden indoors. 

 

"Lichen 2"  Charlotte Bird - San Diego, CA.  2012  15" square.

Cotton fabric & batting.  Fused, machine appliqued, machine quilted. Hand embroidered. 

 

 

Hand embroidered French knots scattered in a ring.

 

A nice deep sleeve set back from the edges so the ends of the slat will not be seen.

Nice computer generated label includes a website contact for the artist 

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Fresh fruit 10-07-17

At the Placentia Farmers Market last week I bought two Bartlett pears.  I wish I had taken a picture of them as they were the not-so-perfect kind we picked from the trees as children.  Anyway, they were the best Bartlett pears I have eaten in years.  So juicy that I had to eat the first one out of hand over the sink to catch the juices.  And the second went on my Cheerios this morning - so delicious. 

 

Pictures from Google - I couldn't find one that showed "flawed" pears. 

 

It made me think again of the special food I have eaten in my life; some that stands out in my memory.   The year that Buttonwillow, CA, was hit by an earthquake I drove home from San Francisco a month or so later and stopped for gas.  Across the road was a pickup truck with a stake bed piled high with cantaloupes.  They were being sold by two ladies who told us that a farmer had donated the truckload to benefit the Boys & Girls Club (I think) which had been badly damaged in the quake.  I had passengers with me and we bought what we could get in between the bags and suitcases in the car.  I had never been wild about cantaloupe, but the cause was worthy and the melons smelled wonderful.  I think I ended up with three when I got home.  They were terrific melons, juicy, sweet, fragrant, and "lip smacking good" (whose slogan was that?).  Since then I have purchased cantaloupe at groceries and markets, but none have been as good as those from the back of that truck in Buttonwillow. 

 

 

Can you recall some special food you ate years ago that still dwells in your memory?

 

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