Happy Sunday

   Hi everyone. Happy Sunday. I hope you're having a nice weekend.

   Today I am joining Halle over at Art Journal Journey for her Fabric, Lace and Trims challenge.  I'm also joining Nicole for Sunday in the Art Room (SITAR), and I'm also joining Gillena for her Sunday Smiles.

    Here's another unfinished sewing journal page. Like the page I shared this past Friday, I made my page on some fabric I cut from an old pillow cover that I cut up. I will somehow be attaching this to a background piece of fabric, but since I just got my sewing machine back from the repair shop this past week (it was there for 3 months), I haven't been able to do much machine stitching lately.

   And yes, 3 months for a repair is a long time, but the man  I brought my machine to has taken a job as a teacher. He used to work for a local sewing/vacuum cleaner business, and he sold me my machine (which was used at the time) many years ago. Since then that business closed due to the owner retiring, and this man had chance to pick up a full time teaching job. He still repairs machines, but his repair business is at his home and happens when he has time. But the good news is that he is a pro at fixing machines, has lots of spare parts for old machines like mine (since you can no longer get them otherwise), and he charges a lot less than other comparable repair places. It was worth the wait.  

   To make the rest of this page (so far) I used a square piece of blue felt. I die cut Scottie dog from some scrap fabric as well as the bones. Then I used some colorful threads and lots of stitching. I'm not sure how I'll finish it off, but once I do, I'll share that with you.

   And let me finish off this post with some various garden photos. I have tomatoes, cukes and green peppers starting to produce. 👍

This pickerel frog has found a nice place to live in the garden.

I pulled out all my spinach since it had bolted. It doesn't like the heat.

My climbing rose is looking fabulous.

Lots of lilies are blooming. I just love these orange tiger lilies; I think they are my favorites. And my day lilies are blooming too.

Also in bloom are my delphiniums

some Shasta daisies

the hydrangea bushes

and my goats-beard is finally  blooming. That's taken a few years to happen.

Of course the milkweeds are still blooming too. I went out the other evening, and the smell of the milkweeds was heady. You could just step out the door, feet away from the plants, and smell the flowers.  I'd never really thought about night time pollination, but there were some type of  sphinx/hawk months busy pollinating the flowers. Sadly, I never got a photo of them though.

   That's all for me today. Have a super rest of your weekend and start to the new week.