To Do List for the Week of 04/29/2025

I did spend hours in the sewing room last week, but some things take longer than you think they will.  I did make good progress on my list for last week, but didn't get to all of it.  

To Do List for 04/22/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Mail to Trudy ✔

2.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting fabric, start June blocks ✔

3.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress

4.  Old Town: Work on blocks at late night sew ✔

Three out of four isn't a bad week.  I made good progress on my top two priorities, so I'm not feeling too bad about how last week went.  This week will look pretty similar. 

 

To Do list for 04/29/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM:  Finish June blocks

The pieces for all the blocks are cut, they just need to be sewn into the blocks.  

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

The back of the quilt will alternate the light and dark large prints from the collection.  Hopefully I'll get back to the quilting by the weekend.  

3. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter):  Continue assembly at late night sew

Just a few more square in a square blocks to finish and clue 5 will be finished. I would have finished these last week, but somehow two of the gold corner pieces got left at home.  The plan is to keep making the 4 patches for clue 2 and make good progress on clue 6.  

4. Glowing Hearts (MMM Quilts): Cut fabrics

I've followed Sandra Walker of MMM Quilts for a number of years, but have never participated in one of her sew alongs. This year's project looked like fun and would be an easy project to quilt with straight lines using the walking foot. So I made a deal with myself; if all the fabrics could be found in the stash, I could play along.  

It didn't take long for me to find a half yard bundle of India Summer from Benartex in my precuts stash.  There is no copyright on the selvage, but from what I can find online, it looks like this line dates back to 2014. The bundle was wrapped in twine with a card saying "Enjoy". So I'm guessing I won this someplace?  Absolutely no memory of acquiring it.  I do remember buying the teal/yellow background fabric, it's from the Falling Leaves collection by Wilmington Prints.  It's been in the stash awhile, but it works well with the half yard cuts. This wasn't a planned project, but it will make a fun donation quilt and move some older stash out of the fabric closet (that's my justification for not sticking to my quilt plan).

That's my plan for this next week. Good luck with your stitching plans.  

What's on the Design Wall?

It was a very wet Saturday.  We didn't get the rain that caused flooding in the southern part of the state. But we got enough to make doing anything but hanging out in the sewing room miserable.  So that's pretty much what I did the whole weekend.  Unfortunately, I can't show off all the progress as most of my time was spent making the June blocks for the Guild BOM.  I have to have those ready for the next meeting. I should be able to finish those this afternoon and then get back to the project that's up on the design wall. 

Kate's Choice is up on the design wall, well at least most of it is.  The plan for the last couple of years has been to use this project to learn to quilt with my walking foot.  I finally made some progress there. 

The top row and half of the second row are quilted.  It's hard to see in this photo, but blocks are quilted with 3 nested squares. It's clearer in this photo. 

I've discovered the quilting isn't hard, just time consuming.  The plan is to get back to this project later in the week once the guild BOM blocks are done.  It definitely won't be finished this month, but hopefully by the end of May it will be done or close too.  

This was my Chookshed challenge for April.  For once I actually made good progress on that challenge.  Also linking up with my typical Monday linky parties: Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 17 of 2025

It's been a pretty chill week. I did take one day to go visit my mother. We had a nice afternoon of gossip and just hanging out.  Even with the day trip, it was still a good week on the stitching front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/April = 26/26 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 111/116 days
• Success rate = 95.69%

I've not done as well with my scrap processing and sewing closet reorganization the last couple of weeks. Hopefully, I'll get back into that effort soon.  

How did you do at getting in some good time in the sewing room? 

1. Frédérique 2. Gretchen 3. maggie f 4. Melissa G

5. Karen 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Deb in Canada 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting

9. Quilting Gail 10. Bonnie in Va 11. Andrée 12. Marsha's Spot

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Week 138 Photo Challenge: Graceful

This week's photo challenge has a lot of interpretations, so we all managed to take photos.  

Dictionary.com defines graceful as "elegance or beauty of form, movement or speech".  That's pretty wide open on the photography front.  My effort focuses on beauty of form. 

Kate: Graceful Curves

One of our orchids is blooming again.  They are such beautifully delicate flowers, very gracefully curved.  Definitely graceful in form. I've found places in the house where I can get good direct lighting and clear backgrounds.  I took lots of photos, this is one of my favorites.  

My Guy's approach is covers the graceful movement point of view. 

My Guy: Scissortail

 

The Scissortails are back in the fields.  This one wasn't far from our house.  They are such beautiful birds to watch, very graceful with their loops and dives.  The photo is actually in focus, the blur is from movement.  

Grad Girl has had quite a week on the school front.  She had a statistics final, turned in the first draft of her thesis and started work on the final project for her statistics class.  That's on top of working to finish grading lab reports for 72 students.  So she can be forgiven for going with something easy.  

Grad Girl: Graceful Distain

There are few things more graceful than a kitty, especially one that can so eloquently judge you with just her eyes.  Not sure if Grad Girl woke her up or if she earned that stare by just taking up room on Queenie's couch. 

Last week's challenge was pretty easy on the subject matter front. This week's challenge is probably going to require some set up. 

Should be interesting to see what we each come up with for this prompt.  

To Do List for the Week of 04/22/2025

Not feeling well definitely slowed down my week on several fronts.  I barely got in my 15 minutes on the days I felt really bad, so I didn't do so well on my to do list even though it was pretty short.  

To Do List for 04/15/2022

1. 2025 SAHRR:  Finish quilt top prep, mail to Trudy - progress

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for June blocks - progress

3. Kate's Choice: Finish cutting batting, start quilting ✔

4. Old Town: Work on blocks at late night sew ✔

At least there was progress on every item. My goal most weeks is to just keep projects moving and I did that. So it wasn't the worst week, just not the best.  This week's list is going to look pretty much the same.  

To Do List for 04/22/2025

1. 2025 SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Mail to Trudy

I finished all the prep work, but the respiratory thing way laid my trip to the post office. It should go today since I'll be out running errands later today. 

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting fabrics & start constructing June blocks

All the fabrics for the inverted star block have been cut, so all that's left is the six sawtooth stars I'll need for June. 

3. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

I've finished row 1 and am just over halfway on row 2.  I picked a pretty easy quilting motif of nesting squares. For many of the blocks I can use the seams as guides, for others I've had to mark.  They aren't perfect by any means, but I'm pretty happy with how it's going.  I probably won't get this completely finished this month, there are at total of 30 blocks to quilt  (8 of those are quilted).  I'm hopeful that it will be finished before the end of next month.  That works for me.  

4. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on blocks at late night sew

This is my project bag with all the completed block components. Clues 1, 3 and 4 have been completed.  I continue to work on the large number of 4 patches for clue 2 and the square in square blocks for clue 5.  Late night sew is scheduled for tonight. I'm hoping to finish clue 5 and get a start on finishing clue 6.  

That's my list for this week. Good luck with your own to do lists this week.  

On Ringo Lake: Another Finished Quilt Top

The weather people certainly called it this weekend. We had lots and lots of rain.  The rain didn't break till mid afternoon Sunday, that probably made for some pretty soggy egg hunts in our area. Sunday was definitely a day for a good nap and lots of sewing room time. When the sun finally came out in the late afternoon, it seemed like a good time to get the documentation shots of the most recently completed quilt top. 

On Ringo Lake was the 2017 Bonnie Hunter mystery.  I didn't use the pieced sashing from the quilt along,  a simple sashing with corner stones worked out pretty well.  The yellow didn't photograph the best, it's a lot brighter in real life than it photographed yesterday.  I'm pretty happy with how this quilt came together. I'm hoping to get it quilted in the near future.  

One of my unofficial goals for 2025 is to get all of my Bonnie Hunter mystery quilts to finished quilt tops this year.  I've started 13 BH mysteries.  Of those 7 are finished quilts, 3 are now quilt tops and 3 still need the blocks made. With On Ringo Lake moved to the to be quilted list, I've gone back to working on the 2024 BH mystery, Old Town.  I'm still making making block components for it, so it's going to take a bit to get it to finished quilt top. 

Linking up with the Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts linky parties this week.    

Stitching Stuff: Week 16 of 2025

 

Normally we spend Easter with Grad Girl, but she's in the middle of exams and finishing up her thesis.  So for the first time in a long while, we won't be hanging out with any family this holiday weekend.  That may be just as well considering how much rain we've had this weekend. Not the best conditions for driving someplace.  Consequently it was another week on the stitching stuff front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/April = 19/19 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 104/109
• Success rate = 95.41%

I didn't get any scrap processing or fabric pressing done this week.  Being under the weather just wasn't conductive to getting much done other than a bit of stitching each day.  

I have no scrap photos to share, but I did get a lovely picture of Queenie from Grad Girl this week. 

My Guy usually sends Grad Girl a photo every day when he tells her goodnight.  She responds with a photo (it's just their thing). But if she responds with  Queenie photo, she has to send me one too.  This was the one she sent yesterday. I'm not sure what Queenie is telling Grad Girl, probably get up, you need to get busy so you can come home and pet me later.  

Did you keep up with your goals to play with needle and thread this week? 

Did you keep up with your goals to play with needle and thread this week?  

1.	Gretchen	5.	Donnalee Q	9.	Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting
2.	Julie in GA	6.	André e	10.	Bonnie in Va
3.	Karen	7.	Melissa G	11.	Marsha's Spot
4.	Deb in Canada	8.	Quilting Gail	12.	You're next!

 

Week 137 Photo Challenge: Bottle(s)

With Grad Girl's schedule, giving 2 weeks for each photo card seems to be working much better.  Her teaching responsibilities ended last week, but she still has lots of grading to do.  Her thesis should be done next week and her statistics class ends a week from this Wednesday.  Once she's past that, her life will get a bit easier, just studying for her defense is what she has left.  With that said, we had photos for the last photography challenge: 

This one was a bit easier because it's an object, you don't have to be quite so creative with those challenges.  

I, as is my habit, waited till yesterday to figure out what I was going for.  I tried for the artistic approach.  

Kate: Dresser Artifact

This interesting perfume bottle was a gift. It sits on my dresser but has never been used. Almost any scent makes my nose run, so I gave up perfumes back in college.  Still I like the bottle. It's not broken, the cracks are part of the design.  My aim was to make it look like a National Geographic museum photo of some historical perfume bottle. The vibes are there, maybe not the substance.  

My Guy's approach gives a sports advertising vibe. 

My Guy: Specialized Elite

I think it looks like an ad for a Specialized bicycle.  Of course the photo challenge part of the photo is the water bottle. This definitely isn't a new water bottle, it's seen a lot of use.  This one has a very nice cap to cover the top and keep it clean.  It's really meant for mountain biking, but even the paved roads here are pretty dusty and dirty.  So it's one of My Guy's favorites.  

Grad Girl hasn't done much but drive to school, go to class, then to her office to write.  She's not been in the lab much so, she's had a harder time coming up with photos.  But this week she was able to find a nice shot in the kitchen (her home "lab"). 

Grad Girl: Spicey Bottles

These kitchen spices are about the only "chemicals" she's handled since January.  She did a great job of getting a good angle that cuts out most of the kitchen.  It could be a photo in a cookbook don't you think?  On the page with a listing of all the things you should have in your pantry to make most of the recipes in the book.  

That's the photos for the last challenge.  Very different approaches to a pretty common subject.  I drew the next challenge card. 

My photo definitely won't be a selfie of myself, I'm the exact opposite of graceful.  I have some ideas, which is always dangerous. 

To Do List for the Week of 04/15/2025

It's the halfway point in April.  Already?  My progress this month is a bit of mixed bag.  I'm doing well on some things and no so hot on others.  The progress on the to do list is a bit spotty for last week.  

To Do List for 04/08/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Prep quilt for quilting  - progress

2.  On Ringo Lake: Finish borders ✔

3.  Kate's Choice: Learn to use the walking foot on my machine ✔

4.  2025 Guild BOM: Cut pieces for June blocks - no progress

5.  Wild and Goosey: Finish blue and make red blocks - no progress

6.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders - no progress

Definitely not the best week. I was on track to finish off the SAHRR till yesterday. My Guy was sick all weekend and yesterday afternoon I came down with whatever upper respiratory infection he had (he got it from work). I would have finished getting the SAHRR prepped for quilting, but it's hard to do much when you have to keep a tissue under you nose almost constantly. My nose isn't running so badly this morning, but I'm still pretty congested and feel pretty crappy.  My Guy was mostly recovered by Monday, so he felt bad for about 3 days. Hopefully that will be the same for me.  

This week's list is quite a bit shorter. It's hard to quilt and sew blocks at the same time, so since my aim is to get some finishes in the bag for this year, I'm going to concentrate on that front this week. 

To Do List for 04/15/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Finish quilt top prep, send out for quilting

The bottom quarter of the quilt still needs to be pressed and de-threaded. Depending on how I'm feeling today, I'm hoping to get that done. Then I need to find a batting and a box.  Fingers crossed it will get sent out before the end of the week. Trudy is going to quilt one last quilt for me before she retires from commission quilting a bit later this year.  So this will be the last project she does for me.  

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for June

These BOM blocks take a bit to get together and I don't want to get behind.  The April guild meeting is tonight. Thankfully that block was finished weeks ago. I'd like to be in the same place for next month's meeting so I best get to cutting.  

3.  Kate's Choice: Finish cutting batting, start quilting

I've got the backing squares all cut and about 2/3 of the batting squares.  Shouldn't take me too long to finish cutting the batting.  I'm still trying to decide what quilting I'm doing in the blocks. Should it be one consistent pattern for each block or do I echo quilt along the seam lines for all of them?  Still deciding on the path forward there.  

4. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on blocks at late night sew

One of the local quilt shop offers a late night sew once a week. It's a nice chance to grab dinner with some of other quilters then sit and sew for an evening.  I need a pretty easy project to stitch on for that. I've got lots of the pieces cut for Old Town, so it's an easy project to grab and go. Hopefully the respiratory infection is much better by then.  

A much more pared down list for this week. I really want to focus on quilting the blocks for Kate's Choice.  I've got 30 blocks to quilt, so it may take a while.  I'll see how the first few blocks go then maybe decide to quilt so many a week till I'm done.  

That's my list for the week.  Good luck with your to do lists this week.  

Slaying the Big, Scary Walking Foot Dragon

I've put off learning to quilt with a walking foot for years.  The walking foot was this scary sewing machine accessory that I didn't want to take the time to figure out. I'll give myself a break for when I was working, I barely had time to piece a few quilts each year. But I've been retired for almost 2 and half years.  I have lots more sewing time. But the idea of getting out that walking foot and doing something with it was just off putting. I'd so much rather piece.  But with the wonderful quilter that has worked with me for 10 plus years retiring, I am going to need to find an alternative that fits my budget. Especially for the smaller finished quilt tops hanging in my closet.  So I located the walking foot. It wasn't where I thought it should be, but I did eventually locate it and figure out how to attach it to the machine. 

Armed with a practice quilt sandwich and a couple of quilting with a walking foot references (I can definitely recommend "Walk" by Jacquie Gering) this happened. 

I followed the exercises in the book and filled up that practice quilt sandwich.  Then I got brave enough to pull out the second Kitty trivet that Grad Girl made when she was home last Christmas.  

The photo angle makes it look a bit wonky, but at least the quilting shows up pretty well. Here's a better photo of all the quilting on the kitty. 

I told Grad Girl this one was the sad kitty trivet since her whiskers were drooping.  Her response was "Well I'd have droopy whiskers too if someone was going sit something hot on me all the time". It's certainly not perfect, but I'm mostly happy with how it turned out. It definitely gave me a chance to practice using the walking foot in different ways.  It wasn't nearly as scary or as hard as I expected. We'll see if I still feel that way once I start quilting on Kate's Choice sometime later this week.  

Linking up with Monday Design Wall, Patchwork & Quilts and for the first time with Free Motion Mavericks.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 15 of 2025

 

It was a good week on the stitching front.  I have a plan for the guild BOM for next year if needed (the tea leaves are reading as yes it will be).  And I made good progress on figuring out how to use my walking foot.  So it was a full week in the sewing room. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/April = 12/12 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 97/102 days
• Success rate = 95.10%

I'm happy with my progress year to date. My only regret is not getting more finished quilts. Fingers crossed that happens in the next month or so.  It's scary how close we are to June and the halfway point of 2025.  It creeps up on you!  

There has also been some progress with the scrap/stash organization. I emptied out the working scrap bin again and started on my last big bag of scraps. 

A few strips got cut to size.

During my scrap processing time, I remembered that Operation Clean House was going on. Once a year the city and local companies sponsor an opportunity to recycle typical household chemicals and electronics.  I had been working on cleaning out our attic this month and needed to go drop off some old electronics.  Scrap processing had to end so I could load the car and get that done. Still every little bit adds up.  I'll do more scrap processing next weekend.  

The to be fabric to be pressed bin was also visited.  It was about half full. 

 

Back in November of last year I raided the unwashed and unpressed stash for my blues and greens, colors that I could wash together.  I did a bit of pressing then, but haven't touched it since.  These are 3 and 4 yard cuts, so they take a bit of time. I managed to press 4 pieces. Now they are in the fabric closet ready to use.  

The lighter blue fabric on the bottom right is probably about 15 years old, the rest are less than 5 years old.  Maybe they'll find a home in one of this year's mystery quilts?  

Did you get a chance to stitch this week? 

1. Frédérique 2. Gretchen 3. Amanda 4. Julie in GA

5. maggie f 6. Melissa G 7. Karen 8. DonnaleeQ

9. Quilting Gail 10. Bonnie in Va 11. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 12. Marsha's Spot

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Photo Play 2025: February and March Summary

Quilting goals for 2025 are going well. That's not the case for my photography goals. There have been opportunities, I just haven't reached for my camera during them. I'm not sure if I'm going to try to make photography a priority or just let it go for now. The weather this spring with the cold, wind and fire danger hasn't been very conducive to walks or going places.  Maybe that will change once we get into warmer weather? At any rate, I'm not going to force it. There are too many other things going on that have me worried and stressed, I'm not adding to that. 

Having said all that, I did actually take a couple of walks in February when the weather was nice so I have a few photos to share. All photos taken with a Canon 70D DSLR with a Tamron 18 - 400 mm telephoto lens.  

One thing about Oklahoma is that you can see the sky. Partly cloudy days can look really cool. The trees just add that mystery and tension. Makes me think of a old horror flick.  

  

Normally it starts to green up in the later parts of February, with the colder days that didn't happen. There was lots of brown around. So a gold leaf floating on a brown pond caught my eye.  Maybe not a beautiful photo, but it's an interesting one.   

We didn't get much rain in February. That meant that all the sediments stayed out of the ponds and lakes, leaving them beautifully blue. These geese were enjoying the nice day out on the lake.  

 

Not a bad effort for February, but definitely nothing spectacular or different.  Which for where I'm at with my photography this year it's OK.  I didn't take any photos in March. We'll see what April brings.  

To Do List for the Week of 04/08/2025

I saw a meme on Instagram stating that someone should pour out Mother Nature's beer while she's doing all 4 seasons in 24 hours cause she's drunk enough.  I'm sure there are a lot in the US that agree with that sentiment.  Hopefully we'll actually see some spring weather this week (without tornadoes  and floods would be nice). 

It was a good week to hang out in the sewing room and work on last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 04/01/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Trim backing, start quilt top prep - progress

2.  On Ringo Lake: Finish assembly, start borders ✔ 

3.  Kate's Choice: Lean to use walking foot, practice - progress

4.  2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for June blocks - progress

5.  Wild and Goosey: Finish blue, start red blocks - progress

6.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders ✔

Only two check marks, but there was progress on the other items.  That counts as a good week.  The plan this week is more of the same. 

To Do List for 04/08/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Prep quilt for quilting

The quilt back is trimmed and prepped.  The quilt top will take longer, but I'll hopefully get to that this weekend. 

2.  On Ringo Lake (Bonnie Hunter): Finish borders

The plan is to add one more narrow yellow border and finish the top with a wider red border.  That should happen this week.  

3. Kate's Choice: Learn to use the walking foot on my machine.

 

Last week I pulled out my machine manual and actually found my walking foot. I've also been reviewing some of the quilting books I have.  Several blog buddies have mentioned the book "Walk" by Jacquie Gering.  It's one of the books I've been studying.  Once Ringo Lake is a finished quilt top, the plan is to get the walking foot on and make some progress on this project. 

4. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut pieces for June blocks

Last week I managed to pull all the fabrics for June.  I need 17 fabrics for the Inverted Star block and another 6 for the sawtooth star border blocks.  Last month I remembered to check my 1.5" strip scrap bin for any white on whites that I could use for the Sawtooth Stars. This week I checked my 2.5" and 3" strip bins for greens.  I'm getting better about checking the scrap bins before I start pulling fat quarters.  

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish up blue and continue making red blocks.

I've gotten started on the red blocks, I just need 8 of the 3.5" blocks to have enough for the planned layout.  That should be doable this month. 

6. Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter): Continue as leaders and enders project.

Pretty much the same projects from last week.  I'm hoping for a few more check marks this week.  We'll see.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Closing in on Finishes

We didn't see any snow yesterday, even though radar said it was snowing at our location.  We did see the cool temps which normally mean a whole Sunday of stitching for me, but after lunch a 2 hour nap under a warm quilt seemed necessary.  Once I worked through the groggy feeling, there was still time for a few hours of sewing. I finished another border for On Ringo Lake.

On Ringo Lake is my version of the Bonnie Hunter 2017 Mystery.  I have two more borders to add. A another thin yellow border and a final red border.  Yes it's a lot of borders, but I really like how the final version looks in EQ. Hopefully it will look equally good when those are finished.  

I also finished cutting and prepping the backing for the 2025 SAHRR.  Next is prepping the quilt to go out.  That will probably be on next weekend's to do list.  It's not one of my favorite tasks.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts. 

Stitching Stuff: Week 14 of 2025

 

It's been a productive week.  I've gotten lots done in the sewing room and went on my first shop hop.  Even being on the road most of the day on Wednesday, I still managed to get my sewing time in.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/March = 31/31 days
• 15 minute days/April = 5/5 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 90/95 days
• Success Rate = 94.74%

March was the first month this year that I managed to sew every day of the month.  After last year's 100% success rate, I needed to break the momentum so I didn't feel compelled to keep it at 100% for this year.  It takes a lot of prep to be able to sew everyday and I didn't want that burden this year.  

Now that the Bonnie Hunter and SAHRR quilt alongs are done, yesterday morning I took some time to address my working scrap bin.  

Best I can tell from my photo records, I've not cut scraps since last July.  I've actually emptied this working bin a couple of times into my one remaining scrap bag and its full to overflowing. So it's definitely time to deal with a few scraps.  What's in the bin became these piles sorted by size.

These have all been put away in the scrap bins.  Not a lot of progress, but you have to start somewhere.  

How did your stitching week work out?  

1. maggie f 2. Julie in GA 3. Frédérique 4. Melissa G

5. Jennifer in Indy 6. Meloney 7. DonnaleeQ 8. Gretchen

9. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 10. Bonnie in Va 11. Marsha's Spot

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Week 136 Photo Challenge: Fairy Tale

It took all of us a month to come up with photos for the Week 135 photo challenge.  At that end of that post back on March 1st, I wrote that it might take us another month to pull together photos for the week 136 challenge.  

Looks like I wasn't wrong, it's been just over a month since that last photo challenge post. Grad Girl is still pretty swamped with trying to finish up grad school and I just couldn't come up with any ideas for how to approach this challenge.  Only My Guy had any photos. He wanted to move on, so I promised to figure something out and post whatever we had today.  These aren't the best photos we've taken, but they work.  

I finally took a few photos, but absolutely nothing was working for me.  So I got creative. 

Kate: Sleeping Beauty (and her cat)

This is not AI created. Wish I could blame it on that, but I did this with one of my photos and My Memory Suites. It's far from perfect, but it strangely works. At least I think it does. As My Guy said last night, we set the rules. I'm just glad to be done with this challenge. 

My Guy made a special trip out last night to get a toy for his photos. I think it paid off.  

My Guy: Classic Tale

That's one large frog and one small princess (Also known for her sleep habits, sense a theme?).  I don't know where he got the doll, but he improvised really well.  

Grad Girl has been insanely busy and stressed.  She really hasn't had much creativity to spare since she's trying to write her thesis.  So I went through the photos she's texted over the last month and picked one that worked if you had the right point of view. 

Grad Girl:  Rosina Leckermaul's Pantry

If you don't know who Rosina Leckermaul is, that's the name given to the witch from Hansel and Greta in an opera from 1892. The German translation of the name is Raisin Sweet-Tooth. The witch is given no name in the original story, but is also known as the Gingerbread Hag (thank you Google).  Grad Girl sent me this picture with the question, "Am I getting an Easter basket this year?". She dearly loves Peeps.  

So that's our efforts for this challenge. Did we do it justice?  I'm hoping it at least gave you a smile.  Sometimes that's the best kind of picture.  My Guy drew the next challenge card.

When I told Grad Girl what the next challenge was she texted "Oh good, an easy one". My sentiments exactly!