Behind the Crown

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Baking the red velvet.....

So far, the red velvet cupcakes have been way easier than the red velvet cake was.

Friday, July 26, 2013

March 2013-Monica brings hexagon ruler and cuts out cool quilt. I buy fabric and use ruler to cut out mine, put on the design wall and carefully took off and pinned together for my quilter. (Thanks, Mom!) July 2013-back from being quilted after Mom put the quilt together and attached binding and viola! It is so pretty. Love the hexagon shape and the colors.

Little nantucket baskets

When I was in Indiana at a basket retreat in April, I took a small Nantucket pail with Joni-Dee Ross, a new teacher to me. I really enjoyed her class and learned a lot. I bought a kit and borrowed a mold to make two 5" Nantucket baskets; one with space-dyed cane and natural spokes, another with space-dyed cane and space-dyed spokes. I wanted to make one for mom for Mother's Day and one for myself. Mom's is on the top and it is the correct height, mine is on the bottom, a little shorter as I had a spoke break almost to the top. They utilize the wood rim glued on top. Looking forward to taking another class with her in the future.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Around Paul's office

Here are Paul's coworkers....the first, he gets along with fine, even provides food. The second....his nemesis! The jumping and yelling at them does provide exercise. You know it isn't good to sit in your chair for too long.

And Mother Nature provided this little playground for the birds and squirrels for a few days until it was cleaned up. Thankfully nothing major.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Weddings: Two friends and a family

Had three weddings in three weeks.....two were friends and one was family. So here are the friends we were at the weddings with, and then us before the family wedding. Good times were had by all.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy 4th to you

A little pincushion my mom made for me......appropriate for today.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Popes and Cardinals

The cardinal pictured is a daily visitor to my mom's house. In fact, when I was staying over about a month ago, I awoke to this odd noise....thought it was a mouse. It was this cardinal flying into the window over and over again. Mom says he goes to different windows depending on what room she is in. My dad called the conservation office as this was happening daily...and EARLY in the morning. This cardinal did not know how to sleep in. The conservation officer said that he could put up a picture of a predator and that might scare the cardinal and keep him away. For some reason, the only picture dad had was of Pope Francis. Guess Popes scare cardinals as the cardinal has not been flying into the window lately.