Leannderthal

When I came home the other day, small people had taken over my walkway for an art project.  Pretty cool, huh?

This past weekend I was lucky enough to get to go to a happening in Detroit, a Night Market.  There was a truck full of fabric that played wonderful deep organ tones (when you hit a hidden sensor with a laser):

This was a wonderful place to wander, with a comfy couch filled with balloons!

There was a life sized juke box in another truck:

These are the coins to make the live band play your song.

These are some of the songs you could select!

Another truck had battling robots.  Unfortunately, murder machine murdered Jane’s Grrr.

Mark took a photo of me and Jane.  We were so surprised when a hideous gargoyle appeared in the photo behind us!

As I promised, these are some more pictures of my mom’s crazy quilt.

a piano

fan and tea

palette and paints

cardinal

spider web

tulips

This is the hand embroidered border that surrounds the entire quilt.  Very remarkable!

This is where I stood last Sunday, up north, on a dock, checking out the stones.

This Sunday I am off to celebrate mothers.  But before I leave, I want to honor my mother by showing you the crazy quilt she made.  Any creativity I have I got from my mom.  At 53″ square, it’s pretty large for a crazy quilt, and I’m happy to say, it now hangs in my bedroom.

In this section is a portrait of two sisters, me and Jane.  I’m the little one.

This was my dad’s dog, Sparkle.

Dorothy, over the rain bow.

A child on a swing.   There is so much to look at in this quilt that I think I’ll show you a few more pictures of it tomorrow.  It is an amazing work of art!

At our last ATC meeting Jane taught us all how to make origami boxes, aren’t they cool!

While up north, Mark and I visited our friends Todd and Deb.

They had just been out mushroom hunting, and found a pretty good supply of morel mushrooms!  (very yummy!)

They took us to the secret hunting ground and we found a few more.  Now it’s your turn, can you find the morel mushroom in this picture?

Shelly is getting married, and for a bachelorette party a bunch of us neighborhood girls went wine tasting on the Leelanau peninsula!  It was a wonderful time of too much celebrating and not enough photos, but I did document some of the wineries we hit.

I also got this great shot of the bride and her mama!  It was a wonderful time, and I am grateful to the folks that put it all together!

Hmmm…..seems to be some sort of tractor I’m tracking.

Mark found these amazing stencil letters for me at one of his radio finds.  Four complete alphabets and a set of numbers!

Yesterday (when we had our yard sales) was cold and clammy, but today is a wonderful day for a walk around Maybury State Park!