Category Archives: General

General, Photography

Northern Lights – craziness

I have chased the northern lights the last couple of years, I have gotten some cool pictures, but nothing matches up with what happened around here on 11/11/2025.

I was driving home and the sky to the west started to brighten and turn pink/red.

At first I thought something was on fire, but as it got larger and larger – I started screaming – screaming because it was crazy how bright it was.

I drove for 40 minutes to get home, I was calling my hubby to get out and look up – he has always wanted to see them with his naked eyes, not thru the camera and this was it.

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General

Caramel (Carmel) anyone?

Caramel / Carmel – which ever way you say it or spell it, it’s always delicious.

Made a Caramel Charcuterie board/shelf for a baby shower, with home made Carmel.

I made a little too much, we will be having Caramel covered everything for awhile.

General

Prince Mural

Last October I finally got to go to the Prince Museum and see the Mural that was down on the movie theater in that town.

Just last month they tore down the theater – to make way for development.

This was so sad to see, but so glad we got to see it.

General

This is us – August 2024

They say summer goes fast, faster than you can even imagine.  Well our summer came to a screeching halt with a storm that blew thru on a Monday evening.  90+ mph winds.

Under all those trees are 1 truck, 1 suv, 1 service van and 1 storage trailer.  All of our vehicles. The house and garage are behind this pile. No real damage to structures – both need new roofs, but nothing else.

I also lost all of my flower crab trees that I planted back in the 90’s.

We planted those trees when we moved into this house in 1982. We used to have a beautiful shaded driveway – well now I have lots of sun. More than I know what to do with.

So the views are gonna be a little different now. But that’s nature for you.

Crafting, General, Quilting

I See Stars

I purchased this kit at a local discount fabric shop, many years ago.

Every once in awhile I pull it out and work on it a little.  Evey little bit counts on this project.

I have been struggling with how to fill in the outside corners. I tried making a template for the fill in spots = big fail there.

I decided to just continue the 2 1/2″ strips out.  As you can see it is not complete yet, but there is a spot of wonderment that just made me stop and take a breath.

The original pattern had the side points cut off – but I didn’t like that and since they gave enough fabric anyway, I decided to keep it whole and just kept going with it.

The whole reason I am posting this picture here is because of this:

 

 

 

 

 

That, my friend, is the center of a 5 point star quilt. I was more that flabbergasted when I turned it over and saw that it as close to perfect as anything I have ever seen on my table.

Sadly this now sets the bar for this quilt. I have the quilting design sketched out, I have a couple corners to fill in and trim this up.  The size is somewhere between 76 & 80 inches square.