Day 13 - Tea

Oolong Tea has properties that cleanse the liver.  So I generally have a cup or glass a day.  I will pop a tea bag into my measuring cup full of 2 cups of water and let the tea bag sit for 3-5 minutes.  If you like bitter tea, you can let the tea bag sit and soak its goodness until you finish your drink.

I saved my bag from yesterday, knowing I would be playing with it today.  And it still was not dry!


Here are my tools:  tea bag, ice pick and light colored plate on a clean (even if it doesn't look it) tea towel!

I appreciate my ability to move tiny tea leaves around on a plate with my ice pick and ultimately my fingers.  Tea leaves stick to everything.

Here is where I started from.  A mighty pile of sticky tea leaves.  Even now, I had tea leaves everywhere!

Simple blocks first.  Half Square Triangle.  HST, the workhorse of the quilt world.  Wait, this might just be the Drunkard's Path.  It is hard to tell in tea leaves!

Yep, that was the Drunkard's Path, this is the HST workhorse.

A Nine Patch.  How many of these have I made?  Millions!  Well,  maybe not millions, but a lot.  They are great second blocks, leaving the first block to take the glory.  They are very versatile, filling in places where you have no idea what to do next!

Oh, the Rail Fence.  This block is also a staple basic.  If you turn them on point you get a really nice zig zag!

The Block in a Block.  Nice to use in a Signature Quilt, or if you  want a wonky look you can make the edges uneven.  Sort of like my block here!

Caroline's Day 6 - Fruit

Caroline is eagerly awaiting her book.  We decided it must be coming on that slow boat from China!  Although I have heard about the supertankers that can move so fast they get here in 3 days!  But then they have to dig through tons and tons and tons of merchandise to get to the book, which is probably at the very bottom of everything!

Day 10 and Day 11 Combined with little effort!

I had a bad day physically yesterday so I didn't get anything done on my 365.  I set out to catch up and found these two days combined very easily!

I can envision Sophie's feathers floating down an idyllic river, or Caroline collaging a beautiful blue lake reflecting the brilliant teal sky.

I went for utilitarian!

Day 10 was the water day.  I use distilled water in my iron because it has none of the minerals that can clog up those little holes in the sole plate.  I have needed to add it to the grocery list for, like, two weeks and I keep
forgetting.  I only remembered this time because they stacked a huge pile of bottled water near the exit door!  So 96 cents later, I owned water.

Since I am a total klutz, I have three Tonic Water bottles that hold the water in smaller units to
make it easier to pour into the iron.  They are quite attractive and may make a nice art quilt piece.  Hmm.  I will have to see about that.

Day 11 is working with your non-dominant hand.  I am right handed so I took the camera and manipulated it with my left hand.  Not so easy to do, mind you.

The first thing I did was hit the wrong button and turn the whole thing off!  I re-ignited it and see that I was a little off on the straight!

I then switched the gallon jug over to my left hand, and overpoured the smaller bottle by a bunch.  Do you know what a funnel does when there is no more room in the bottle?

It slowly pours out the water all over the countertop, the dishwasher and the floor.  Looks like musical notes on that towel. I wonder what song it might play!

But luckily, I had Bassets underfoot and they took care of the excess water.

Caroline's Day 5 - The Collection

Caroline's whimsical approach to her collection day brings a smile to my face.

 Here is the little bird hatching from the egg.

An intruder tries to convince the little one the nest is hers.

Then there are others looking enviously at the nest as well.

Day 9 Breakfast is now Dinner

The Purple is where
the snake was hiding

I made the most beautiful salads for dinner.  It is supposed to be breakfast but we had so many things going on.  We had lunch with Carrie and Andrew, so so nice!

Andrew was coming over to work on my modem and he reluctantly killed a four foot water snake
in the Wandering Jew by the back patio.  Yes, I gave the order to execute.  No snake is a good snake in my back yard.

So by the time I read what Day 9 was it was way past breakfast!  Dinner was looming even.

There is chicken salad with pecans and blueberries and safflower mayo, cucumbers, bosc pears, cantaloupe, rosemary olive oil beets, a huge tomato, blueberries and raspberries sprinkled with these wonderful bleu cheese crumbles.  All from the Farmer's Market yesterday!  Well, not the chicken.  Or the safflower mayo.  But everything else!

Do you like it on the green plate or the blue plate better?

The REAL Day 8 - Day 9 will have to wait for supper!

Day 8 dawned with lots of expectations and a CAAWS event.  We got rained on pretty badly at the Mash Bash Run for Wounded Warriors.  The CAAWS Dogs were there to let the racers and soldiers and ex-soldiers pet them for Pet Therapy!  But the rain came down in buckets.  This needed to be the water day for 365!

So this is Book Day.  I bought some fabric for a journal cover for friend Theresa.  So since I don't have a book to manipulate, I will manipulate the journal.

Here is the fabric.  Bikes, she is a big biking enthusiast riding
in marathons all over the country and does 20-30 miles a day here in the summer heat even. She is constantly in training.

So I think a nice bike Journal Cover will be perfect!

Here is Caroline's Paper Day, I think it was Day 3.  She is concentrating on collages.  This one was torn paper!  Inventive!

Day 8 - The moon

All I can offer you today on Day 8 is the photo of the moon.  I was at a CAAWS event all day, in the rain, and didn't get my 365 done.

I promise to do two tomorrow!

Wasn't the sky beautiful after the rain?