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Friday, September 19, 2025

I Promised A Little Fun

I took so many pictures in my wildflower garden this summer that never made an appearance here.

- bumble bee gathering some pollen -

- blanketflower -

- praying mantis on a cosmo -

I have been working on a few craft projects and have kept myself busy indoors for various reasons.

I am making these shells, covered with napkins for my favorite 
"Trick or Treaters" 
and also for the children with the best costumes.
I have only made 5 but I will get back to them, I would like to have 10 to give out, with candy of course.
I just got paint from Amazon, orange and black to paint the undersides.

I started this blanket as a Christmas gift for my son
Knitted with Sierra Yarn 
Andean Solid
60% Baby Alpaca and 40% Pima Cotton
I ordered this as a kit from Sierra Yarn, the kit included everything I needed,
the yarn, needles, pattern and a tag, I really like that.

I found these flowers the other day under some books.
Sometimes, a deep cleaning is necessary to find hidden treasures.
I started the process last year and forgot all about them.
I remember now there were more, now to find them...and I am not sure what I am going to do with them.
Any suggestions?

I made up my Fall Bucket List...It has some really great ideas for fall.



We got some much needed rain, it came down in buckets...
I don't know where that expression came from, but in this case it is true!


This is a picture of the last vase of flowers from the garden...
they brought me so much joy this summer.

11 comments:

  1. Hello Debbie,
    Lovely post. Your flowers and bee images are beautiful.
    Your craft projects look great, I like the painted shells, the pumpkins. The blanket is a wonderful gift for your son.
    We had a day of rain, sometimes coming down in buckets.
    Take care, have a great day and happy weekend!

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  2. You are so talented and creative- love all your crafts but its your photos that are incredible. How did you capture that rain so clearly? Amazing photo

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  3. Those are LONG raindrops! Linda in Kansas

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  4. Rain, rain, glorious rain! It's dripping heavy here right now and I love it! Your garden flowers are beautiful, and your knitted pumpkins are adorable.

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  5. Lovely wildflowers! I love the knitted leaves and pumpkins. Pretty colors. Those shells are fantastic. The trick or Treaters would love them. I look forward to seeing the blanket. I love it when it rain likes that. So beautiful. This was such a lovely read!!

    -Soma

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  6. That rain really did come down!!!

    A lovely mix of photographs.

    All the best Jan

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  7. You take the most amazing photos, Debbie. I love your macro photos of wildlife.

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  8. I loved each and every one of your photos, each told a story in themselves. Have fun tomorrow.... Go Chief!

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  9. What pretty flowers and insects! And, rain, glorious rain to keep the flowers blooming and healthy. I love to watch the rain... not crazy about thunder and most definately not lightening. The pressed flowers... bookmarks, note cards, frame them. just a couple ideas.

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  10. Debbie,
    I LOVE and I MEAN BIG TIME LOVE the shell idea. I did some shells with our church ladies this summer using napkins and modge podge. They and myself included loved it.
    You are super talented. I love the fall bucket list printable. I read your plans and they inspired me!!!

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  11. We have those blanket flowers too, I didn't know what they were called, thanks :) We have white and pink Cosmos too...neat to get a praying mantis on one.Neat idea to hand out to the trick or treaters, they are cool, I just love your yarn leaves with the pumpkin.
    I have an old phone book that I keep all my dried flowers in. I have been making some little tags for my journals to display them, maybe I can share that on my blog.
    Looks like you have a good list going there. Nice you got a good soaking rain, we just got our first rain in weeks today and it is so nice.

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