Mother's Day Surprise and More!

The days are warming up and we were able to take Hazel outside for a bit one afternoon.  She loves looking at my quilts and she was pretty happy staying on the quilt for several minutes just checking it out.  She gets all around now with a pull crawl kind of movement and sometimes with a knee/foot combo so far.  She rolls all over and spins too.  Such a personality even so young.  I love this little one!

For Mother's Day we went all out and made more butterfly feet.  One for me, my mom, Jeremy's mom and of course Hannah.  We only had the one mold so did this four different days and her mom did not find out (that stuff sticks to the toe nails!) and we will gift it to her tonight.  I think they turned out alright though neither Kathy or I are painters.  We figured that part would be a bit hard for Hazel so she just did the feet!  Table runner underneath was made by my dear friend Michelle Bright who passed away a few years ago now.  I think of her often and have some of her sewing stuff so I feel she is close to me!

I made a pair of cows and Hens.  That one hen is super busy but I thought it would look better..oh well, used up some of the strips that were given to me!  

May is red and so here is the Pine Tree Point block in red.  This one came together pretty well.  This is not my favorite block to do...very fussy.  Glad I am only doing one a month!  Linking up with SoScrappy for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Finally got my haircut two Fridays ago--it has been since just before my brother's wedding (weekend before Pandemic got going) last year.  Our sort of landlord lives down the street and does hair.  So she cut mine out in front of her house.  It was a little chilly and windy, but am super happy to have it a little more manageable!
 

Mother's Day Weekend!

 Yesterday after Pilates we ran over to a fabric estate sale that my former student (now friend) Kim told me about.  I really didn't need to go nuts, so I kept my eye out for some reds for my Lil' Crumbler quilt I am cutting out.  I also could not resist the cute nuetrals and a few of the other fat quarters.  They were only a buck apiece!  I was OVER THE MOON when I found four inch squares of various fabrics in several plastic bags (four sets) for eye spy quilts.  What a find.  Of course the ones I had cut out were either smaller or bigger than that, but I was getting low and decided to just do some that size and cut up extras that I had to fit, etc.

 My stack of red fabric is growing!  We also stopped at Schnepf farms to hand pick peaches since we were way out that way.  It was a gorgeous day to walk out into the orchard and the peaches are organic.  We didn't hang out for the peach fest or whatever was going on because we had tons of cleaning and prepping for Mother's Day with the family at our place.

 Kathy was so happy this weekend to finish up clue five and get started on clue six of Grand Illusion.  Hers are the same colors as Bonnie's and it looks fantastic!

 Here is the eye spy with all of her fabrics and a bunch of mine too.  I am still working on the hexie one...did a few more rows, but I couldn't lay it out to decide the order to sew the rows because the dogs were all comfy in here..so I moved on to this for the night last night.

 Here I am with my mom and (step) dad.  Mom got her hair cut short because she liked how mine looked.  How fun is that?

 Kathy got me a new Lemon tree to replace the one that froze.  The leaves are turning yellow..the guy said it could be from the shock of transplanting it, or it could mean it needs iron.  So we are watching it a few more days then adding iron.  Gonna read up on lemon trees--I want this one to live!  Our other trees are getting huge.

 This year, mom and dad brought me this cool plant.  I have never seen one spray painted like this...really makes it cool.  Hope the plant doesn't mind it.  I may plant it out with the gnomes.  My windowsill is full of plants now!

 Mackenzie and Liz sent Kathy and I this Rose of Jericho.  Apparently it will open up when there is moisture present and close up when there isn't.  Interesting, learned something new and it is so Mac!

This is the third year I have bought a plant for the mom's in our family and this year I just went with a pretty purple flower.  

I didn't have the best eating day (egg brunch, ice cream cake for Dad's bday and Indian for dinner...oy!) but I did work out for 30 minutes on the elliptical.  Lost 1.4 this past week so I am at 90.8 down!