Monthly Archives: July 2021

A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 18, 2021 | 9 comments

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. -Kobe Bryant

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If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. -John Wooden

It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. -Daniel Kahneman

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. -Joyce Meyer

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. -Dalai Lama

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. -Helen Keller

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain. -Robert A. Cook

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. -Betty White

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. -Thomas Carlyle

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. -Joel Osteen

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. -Jenn Proske

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. -Lee Iacocca

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people. -Bryan Clay

So long as you’ve got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don’t really have to care what everyone else thinks. -Gail Porter

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. -Wade Boggs

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 11, 2021 | 9 comments

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. -Yves Saint Laurent

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True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind. -Isabella Rossellini

Elegance is elimination. -Cristobal Balenciaga

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it. -Diana Vreeland

Now, St. John could have been born into his elegance. It’s a dangerous kind of elegance—he doesn’t raise his voice, he lowers it. ― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. -Mary Browne

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. -― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems

Etiquette teaches the distinct elegance of demeanor. ― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I have a different idea of elegance. I don’t dress like a fop, it’s true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven’t washed away. I’m always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. ― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

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Garden Baskets Update 4

Posted on July 5, 2021 | 16 comments

I’ve not been sewing very much. Betty Boop (otherwise known as my Janome sewing machine) is in the hospital and awaiting ordered parts. I hope to have her home soon, but there is no telling when. So, during this drought/heat season, I have been spending a whole lot of time with Ancestry and having fun pursuing family history.

Nevertheless, some hand work is happening.

To remind you of the Garden Baskets project, here is the flimsy that I am working on:

I have the borders and the vine stitched on. I am currently working on the hundreds of buds and a few other appliques.

I’ve drawn all of the parts onto freezer paper, ironed the freezer paper to the fabric, and cut out all of the shapes.

I am using the ‘freezer paper on top’ method. Why?

I don’t know…I just decided to do it that way. I have stitched as many of the shapes together as I can. In other words, stems and beaks and other parts are fitted together to make the whole before I stitch them to the quilt top.