Summer Project Finished!

I've been enamored with the vintage-style oilcloth

that has resurfaced in fabric and quilt stores.

 

 

While visiting a quilt shop this summer, I purchased

some yardage featuring strawberries and gingham.

I couldn't wait to try a sewing project

 that called for this textile.

 

I found oilcloth very easy to sew.

 

My tote is unlined, but pinking shears provided

a cute touch to the edges.

 

Here's my blue-eyed Sassy once again

 interrupting a photo session.

 

She definitely approves of the new tote!

 

 

The pattern for this tote came from the creative

Sophie Bester's Oilcloth Inspirations.

 

I have enough oilcloth left for an adorable lunch sack.

Hmm . . . .what else could I make?

 Before too long, I'll be getting out of storage

some unfinished

fall projects from previous years!

Where has the summer gone?

In my hometown,

school begins this Friday!

 

 

(I saw this storm coming in while at an area shopping plaza.)

I've seen some storms this summer.

 

 

I've seen what comes after the storm.

(The church children found this Lunar Moth after services one evening.)

I've had the time to stop and see

 God's beauty in the smallest of things,

 

 

(Martin's Branch Road.  Everybody needs at least one

road with a tree canopy.)

and I'm ready to see where

the next adventure leads.

 

What will you remember about this summer?

 

Amy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Feels Like Home

 

 

Blue feels like home.

 

Like aquamarine with teasing tide,

or powder blue with cotton clouds,

Midnight navy between the stars.

Nestled egg, the robin kind.

Deep indigo on Staffordshire, 

Aged, azure-tinted canning jars.

 It whispers out of Grandma's opal

appears sky-like in my children's eyes--

familiar, known, but new.

Ah, yes!

Cerulean turns and looks at me --

Their father's blue, what sky becomes,

a deeper, dearer, colored hue.

 

Blue feels like home.

 

 

  

 

I find blue very calming and use the color for my living room,

 dining room, and kitchen.

 

I don't find blue very often during my vintage linen searches.

If I happen upon a piece, I try more often than not to bring it home with me.

 

This square blue cotton tablecloth was probably part of

a bridge or luncheon cloth set.

(Think card table size.)

 

 This hostess probably received many gracious compliments

on her needlework and crochet -- both are beautifully done.

Her unique color selections would have made her table memorable.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are taking time to smell the roses.

Summer's quickly passing us by and with it the season's blossoms.

Enjoy them!

 

What color do you most enjoy?  Please tell me why,

 

Amy

Birds for Tea

 

 "Even when a bird walks

one feels it has wings."

Antoine-Marin Lemierre

 

 

This Japanese teacup had lost its saucer

by the time I happened to purchase it.

 

I thought perhaps I'd share it

with some of my feathered friends.

 

 

 

This cardinal couple loved stopping by

 to check on their "tea."

 

 

 

Enjoy June!  It's slipping away.

 

Amy