For the Thanksgiving season 2021 I filled a bowl with two pumpkins and a squash I knit a few years ago and I found a turkey to stand guard. Then the last Friday of November I received a stunni...
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Welcome to a glimpse of our major harvesting event! We decided it was time to cut the umbilical cord of the Birdhouse Gourd! Since my youngest daughter, Elisabeth, had started growing the...
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Ahoy! Welcome to a view of the biggest Bird House gourd growing on the trellis on my patio. It has been great fun to watch the gourd develop over the last few months. Will it grow large en...
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Welcome! Thanks for visiting! I wish I could share the bounty of my friend's garden with you! She and her husband raised these lovely fruits/vegetables in their backyard. I have been enjoyi...
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Ahoy from 95F/35C weather near Portland, Oregon, USA! I know some of you endure hotter temps than that on a routine basis, and I admire your ability to do that when I just want to complain abo...
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Thanks for checking out this Saylor's Log today! I launched this blog a little over ten years ago in search of creative expression and shared adventures in the crafting blog community. I ...
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It is so difficult to accept that dear Teresa passed away in a hospital Thursday afternoon, May 6, 2021, after a short unexpected illness. Her beautiful photographs brought her blog to ...
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This peachy-colored Sweet Pea bloom appeared in the first week of April out on my back patio. The vine it grew on had been buried under a huge snowdrift in February! Such beautiful determinat...
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While the southern hemisphere is simmering in warm summer temps, the weather around me near Portland, Oregon, USA, is working its way from Winter to Spring. If you saw my February post yo...
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Last month in my post I confessed I hoped we would get a little snow and I posted a photo of the pretty little snow we got. I had resigned myself to being satisfied with that...until THIS H...
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Seeing the natural beauty of Mt. Hood rising above the cluttering signs of civilization inspires me! While riding with my youngest daughter doing an errand last week I was able to craft this ...
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🎶 Do You See What I See?🎶 Thanks to my youngest daughter who contributed a basketful of greens and pinecones, I was able to make a wreath in December. The never-ending circle of g...
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Giving thanks in 2020 has ranged from muted to thundered in volume in my thinking and conversing, but I was especially mindful of it during November because we have a special day of celebrating i...
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Ahoy there! Thanks for stopping by to visit. This fine fellow smiling at you welcomes me rubbing his ears when we meet while walking in our neighborhood and I am certain if you w...
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Looking out from the back patio on September 9, 2020, I saw this ominous cloud of smoke! Wildfires broke out in a number of areas in Oregon, USA. At one time I heard on the news that 38 a...
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The glorious golden-orange Sturgeon Moon rose on August 2, 2020, and I enjoyed crafting a photo of it from across the street and further East of my condominium unit. A friend in NY had sent m...
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Ahoy! Thanks for sailing in through cyberspace today to see where I am near the grand Mt. Hood close to Portland, Oregon, USA., and to learn a bit about what crafting I have been involved in ...
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"Come, all of you who are gifted craftsmen. Construct everything that the LORD has commanded:" Exodus 35:10 NLT This is one of my favorite quotes. It invites the six-year-old artist within...
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Now as you drive or walk into our condominium community these two gorgeous Dogwood trees are on the right. Coming from my unit this is the angle I see across the street and headed toward th...
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Welcome! I'm so glad you stopped in for a visit and I hope you will leave a comment and let me know you were here. February had some lovely sunny days and I was happy to see Mount Hood, n...
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Welcome! I'm so glad you stopped by to visit. Have you been involved in crafting? Above is one of my recent crafting explorations. When I was in third grade...more than 60 years ago.....
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Happy New Year! Sunrises like this one I saw not long ago from my parking spot by the patio continue to excite my desire to be creative and craft! Does the beauty of creation do the same ...
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While searching for the autumn-themed crafts I knit a few years ago, I discovered I had just stuffed one pumpkin I knit with a big ball of yarn rather than finish it off properly. Somehow the ...
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Welcome to some views of the wonderful days my youngest daughter and her husband helped me enjoy at Tillamook Oregon State Beach while camping in their trailer with them. The weather was...
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Ahoy Mates! Time spent with my dear older sister, Margaret, who flew north from Burbank, CA to my home near Portland, OR, and with my local dear youngest son, Tim, and with other dear fam...
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