Earring 0064 - Geo Design

My sister and I went cruising after work today looking at houses. Both of us would like a house. Under the circumstances, I'll probably always be living in an apartment because it's easy to take care of. Never have to worry about shoveling or mowing the lawn even though I like to do both. Well, I like to mow lawn using a riding lawn mower. There are a lot of cute, smaller houses for sale that are just right. Of course, there are some big houses that are just right too.

One of the houses that was for sale looked perfect and was in a perfect spot. Close to the library, grocery store, theater, etc. It had beautiful windows which made the house have the Prairie Home style of Frank Lloyd Wright. There are several homes in our area that are Frank Lloyd Wright homes but this is not one of them. It faces east instead of south and from what I can recall, most of his homes face south.

Back to the house, next to it sat a house that was designed by the same person. There were three distinct differences. The first was the color. I'm not one to like mustard color but the house we liked was mustard-colored. The other house was....well, I can't even remember but it was not attractive like the mustard color. That amazes because it would not be a color of choice. The other difference was the glass used in the windows. The windows had a different type of glass in them and really brought out how big the windows were. The other house had new windows but they didn't do anything for the house. Plus the windows on the entrance was ordinary. The third difference was the other house had a geometric design above the entrance. I'm all for geometric designs (you can tell by Donna and my earrings!). Instead of the geo design being art, it made the house look almost like a farmhouse. Don't think that was the intent but what a difference it made. Both homes looked like they spent about the same amount of money fixing them up but the mustard-colored house won hands down for both my sister and I.

Have a great weekend!

Earring 0063 - Patterns

These earrings matched my blouse perfectly today. I couldn't believe that the pattern in my blouse was almost identical to the design of the earrings. How did Donna ever know that I would be wearing these earrings one day with that blouse?

Felt kind of silly tonight. I've been complaining about my camera and found a feature that I didn't know it had. Played around a little bit and then I realized that it changed because of the updating that was done of the phone's system. Can't wait until I take some outdoor photos to see how they turn out. Before I couldn't take an outdoor photo that you could tell what it was.

Yesterday on my way to work I saw interesting pattern. We have lots of puddles, big puddles at that. It was showering lightly but enough to see the raindrops bounce off the puddle. It was almost like watching a slow-motion movie. But what was really neat was that the rain went from the west side to the east side, almost like a musical instrument being played. Started on the left and ended on the right. Got pretty mesmerized by it and would have watched it longer except a vehicle pulled in behind me. Oh well. It's something I'll have to look for in the future.

I'm always looking for patterns to use in my quilts. Always searching for grass, leaves, water, birds, flowers, etc. Here is a photo I took a couple of years ago. Not sure if I'll make it into a quilt or not but you never know. Hope my eyesight lasts as long as my hopes.