Mosaic Monday - Blue Monday

I'm joining Mosaic Monday and Blue Monday meme's this week! Enjoy all the pretties, at the below addresses:

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com'

Mosaic Monday/Blue Monday

This is my header on my photo studio blog. I think it's pretty cool! I hope you have a great week, and enjoy going around visiting other Mosaic and Blue Monday blogs! I use my photo blog to post people pictures online so they can share them with their families, and see them a lot faster than they would otherwise. It is very expensive to pay others to post your photos for you, and this is free!

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/
http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Blue Mosaic Monday

This is my Japanese china tea cup and saucer. I have a pair of them. About 15 years ago, I was at an auction and the auctioneer says, "Sandi, I can't even get a dollar for this box of stuff, you'll give me a dollar won't you?" Of course I said yes. In it with a lot of junk there were 5 cups and saucers. I took three of the 5 to a flower shop here in town, and had a dried arrangement put in them for my 3 good friends, and gave them to them for Mother's Day one year. I no longer keep in close touch with these girls and have wondered several times if they knew what they had. I've been told since then, that these are pre-war Japanese china, and are probably worth quite a bit if I had the right buyer. Ha! I still have the two left, and keep them displayed on top of one of my china cupboards. They are very delicate, thin, and painted with gold trim. There is so much detail. Please click on the photo to enlarge it and see what I mean.

I took last week off, seemed to have a writers block, but kept watching the folks I'm following. So, I'm back this week, I've been taking photos all weekend, hope I have enough to get me through the week. Be sure and check in at the Mosaic Monday host and also Blue Monday, found at the following addresses:

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

I hope you all have a safe, wonderful week.

Blue Monday

I haven't participated in Blue Monday for awhile, just don't have much blue or time! I have something that's such a pretty color of blue though that I thought I'd share. I have always collected Princess Di things, but in the good ole USA we never had a queen. Well, in my opinion, Jackie O was as close as we'll ever get - so I collect a few things of hers. Below is my Jackie O Beanie. She's the prettiest color of blue, isn't she? She has her signature pearls on her chest in an "O". Join the others for a wonderful Blue Monday at the below blog: http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Blue Monday

Happy Monday! My blue Monday post is short and sweet. I found another vintage item in my china cupboard that fits the qualifications for a Blue Monday. Below you will see the Beatles figues that were on my 16th birthday cake. They are about 1 1/2 inches tall. The drum for Ringo sticks into the cake and stands up on its own. Yes, this dates me, but I'm proud to be 50ish! Have a great week, and see you later on in blogland. Thanks to Sally for another Blue Monday!

See more at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Three or More Tuesday

Welcome to Three or More Tuesday! Thanks to Gypsy Corner for hosting us for this fun peek into each other's lives! You can go to http://gypsycorner.blogspot.com to see more of the Three of More treasures!

My three or more for today is wooden clocks. Our wooden clocks are all special, because they signify different stages of times of our lives.

The glass clock on the left was a 10 year anniversary gift to my Mom and StepFather from all 9 (combined family) kids. The wooden clock in the middle was passed down from my dad from his uncle, and the wooden clock on the right was a gift from my husband's job for 30 years of service. The clock above was given to my husband by his company for 20 years of service. Since we have 3 children, we are happy that each one will have a wooden clock someday, that has a story to tell of it's own. They all chime on the quarter hour and 2 of them we don't wind or else it would be very noisy! Thanks for looking at our wooden clocks!

Metamophosis Monday and Blue Monday

Double Post! Blue Monday and Metamophosis Monday!

This is the strip quilt I made I believe in 1992 when we were snowed in for 5 days. We were lucky to not lose our electricity like so many did, so I was able to sew. I used fabrics that were important, such as cloth that I had made clothes for the kids out of when they were little. I actually made ALL of their clothes when there were only two of them, and I was a stay-at-home Mom.

The quilt is very simple to make. Cut fabric in strips 4 1/2 inches wide and sew together -length ways, using 1/4 inch seam allowance, making each strip 4" wide after sewn. Cut the strips in strips, 4 1/2 inches wide, the opposite way. Once again using 1/4 inch seam allowance, shift the pattern one square down and sew again, this time ending up with 4" squares. You then trim off the odd shaped ends, and sew them together, add to the quilt and you are done. It sounds kind weird, but if you actually get to this point, you will understand what I mean.

The reason this is a double post, is because the back of my quilt is a twin sized navy blue bed sheet AND it takes this

and turns it in to THIS!!!

Thanks again for Met Monday and Blue Monday! Join everyone at the below sites to see much, much more!!! Met Monday at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ ; Blue Monday at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ Thanks for all the fun and great ideas!