Signs of the time

Three things to be happy about:
(1) a smile from a stranger
(2) coconut oil
(3) the great "fall back"

Signs of the time - or times of the sign?

Street sweeping in The District officially ended October 31, but truth be told?  That rascal hasn't shown up in my neighborhood for the last 4 weeks!

The sweeping schedule usually coincides with the time change, and nothing says Fall (or Spring) like the changing of the clocks!

The clocks on my iPad, iPod, Kindle, cell phone, land line, PC and TVs change themselves but you know something strange?  Even though they're supposedly controlled by that great timepiece in the sky, they don't all have the same time!

Go figure.



So how many, how many clocks do I have to change this year???

Starting with kitchen there's the big one over the doorway...

the little one over the other doorway... 

and the one on the stove. 

This one in my sewing room.

It's been more than an hour and 20 minutes slow all year, not fixed because it's in an awkward place over a storage unit.

But now that we've fallen back?  It's only 20 minutes slow, yesss!

Do you have a clock in your bathroom???

I also have a calendar hanging in there; a holdover from my childhood I guess.




Let's see ... I also have to change my watches, the bedside table clock-radio, the clock on my desk.  And oh yeah - the one in the car!  I won't bother with the one in my camera.

They all seem to be just a bit off  time wise, but it doesn't phase me.  But no matter what time the clock says, my tummy says it time for breffus!   Have a great day, take time for something fun, reset the clocks that matter, sew forth and sew on...

When is a jelly roll not a jelly roll?

Three things to be happy about:
(1) the spire of a redwood
(2) colorful backdrops
(3) the artistry of sushi chefs

Someone asked about the small quilt I sent off to Australia in the Little Quilt Swap; it was the one I named Superstition.  I tried to pull a picture that I already loaded but blogger is so undeniably slow at loading those pictures!  You can see the quilt here, it's the one on the left.  Also, it's in my photo stream on the right side of the blog.


By now I'll have to go ahead and accept that fall is here!  Not only is it colder and the leaves are falling, but it gets dark earlier, even after the fall-back of the clock.  And speaking of that, when I went to change the time on my bathroom clock, I was shocked to see this:

Do you see how corroded that battery is!?  Lately I noticed that the batteries in my camera seemed to be expiring way too soon, but then I wondered if it was only in my mind.  Now this clock battery gets me wondering if I've been using from a bad batch?  Or could it be the steam in the bathroom caused this battery to corrode??  It's never happened before and I'd hate to ruin my camera.

I saw these pretty bushes yesterday when I was out and had to take a picture!

I like the play of the rusty-red against the green... quilt color option?  I don't know one shrub from another, but they're not the same kind or they'd be the same color, I reckon. 

So, back to my original question ... when is a jelly roll not  a jelly roll??   

When it's a sushi!

My bee is having a jelly roll race at our next meeting and we're to have our jelly rolls sewn end-to-end before the meeting, so we can start the race at a trot.  I bought this sushi roll back in April, but in my mind I was thinking I had a jelly roll.  But it isn't...

This sushi has 24 strips but a jelly roll has 40... sew I have to make it grow up into a jelly.  No way am I buying an "official" jelly roll, I have more than enough batik yardage to cut 16 more strips at 2-1/2 x 40! 

I pulled these to cut from, I'll have em cut and sewn before next Saturday!

Well today is my guild meeting, it will be good seeing people I haven't seen since the last meeting... I'm looking forward to a fun meeting!  Have a great day everyone.

Sew forth and sew on

It's time to spring forward again... and again... and...

Hello all, thanks for visiting, and commenting! 

Today's the annual spring-forward day, are you ready?  My sister Michelle and I used to laugh at Ruby because she had so many clocks in her house.  It must have taken her hours to run all over the house, springing forward and falling back twice a year.  Well, I started adding a clock here and a clock there if I saw one I liked and guess what -- now I have a lot of clocks!  Let's take a look at the clocks I'll be resetting today:

this one's in the dining room...

this one is snuggled in a corner on my kitchen counter...

I got this little 2" one years ago at a gem show...

this hangs on a wall in the kitchen...

on the stove...

small one in the bathroom... are you keeping count?

I got this one at the Dollar store years ago, it's in a bedroom...

clock radio in another bedroom...

in my sewing room...

this sits on my desk above the pc...

in the car...

on the kitchen counter...

at the office...

and last but not least, can't forget my watches! I try to rotate them but I wear the Lucien Piccard most often.

So, now you  know how I'll be spending part of my spring-forward day!  The time on the PC and VCR's and camera and phones and iPod will reset automatically, thank goodness.

How many clocks will you have to reset today?  This looks like a lot of clocks but it isn't... not really... is it?

Sew forth and sew on til later!