Love those lady bugs!

The ladybugs are so cute!

Geraniums are pretty much a winter plant here unless you take them inside in the summer.  I'm pretty much limited my planting to desert flowers.  There are some beautiful ones.  Lots of pretty yellow lantana blooming now.

Great double pinwheel quilt.  Very colorful.  Should make the baby notice.

Sometimes Bob strings those robo-callers along and sometimes he just answers "Maricopa County Jail, How can I help you?"  They hang up.

Cathy (cacnurse1) said:

sometimes he just answers "Maricopa County Jail, How can I help you?"

I remember you telling us that once before.  I thought it was so brilliant that, for a while, I was answering our robo-calls in my very best professional voice with "California Department of Corrections.  How may I direct your call?"    It was very satisfying. :-)

If I understand your reverse applique, you turned under your background fabric and appliqued it to the butterfly fabric?   Was it easier or more difficult than your regular needleturn?

Your clay figures should be fun to have in your  garden.  Should they be durable for the winter or will you need to bring them in? 

Pirate (PIRATE_SR) said:

"California Department of Corrections.  How may I direct your call?"    It was very satisfying. :-)

It gets a pretty immediate hang up..........

I did an experiment last winter with polymer clay "applique" that had been baked on very smooth river rocks and they survived quite well. I had coated the rocks with a layer of polymer clay first so it was clay-to-clay adhesion. I don't see why these should not work. There were days when the temperatures got down well below zero degrees so I guess this colorful plastic product can survive Ohio winter weather.