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T and I visited Maine a few weeks ago and at the Portland Museum we saw this amazing installation of paper-mache bird sculptures, by Christopher Patch. 
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Flags at half-mast in honor of Commissioner Van McLeod (1945-2016)

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Hoppy Saturday!

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Violets blooming next to the NH State Library earlier this month. 
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NH Democratic Primary Ballot (unmarked) 2016

The quiet following New Hamshire's first in the nation primary is lovely. My phone isn't ringing, my mailbox isn't stuffed with flyers telling me who (and who not) to vote for, and roving bands of canvassers are no longer filling the sidewalks. The primary is important, but it is also exhausting.  For those of you outside the Granite State I thought you might be interested to see how long the list of candidates on our ballot was. Only a couple get national media attention, but there is a long list to consider. The republican list was even longer. I'm linking this up with Saturday Snapshot at West Metro Mommy.

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It snowed here yesterday (I thought we were going to get an early spring) and I decided some spring flowers were in order to take my mind off the shoveling to be done. I'm linking this up with Saturday Snapshot at West Metro Mommy.

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Last week we were in New York for my nephew's birthday party. This was his cake -- a moose cake filled with mousse. It was designed, baked, and decorated by my sister. It was delicous! Linking up with Saturday Snapshot.

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Since Thanksgiving, when I heard she had a baby girl,  I have been working on a quilt for a family friend. It is almost done--this is the binding going on. I liked the way the light falls in this photo.Linking up with Saturday Snapshot

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Another Christmas picture from the past (I promise this is the last one). My niece sweeping up after the festivities. The fabulous shoes were a gift from my husband that year.

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Another favorite picture from the past: my nephew sporting his Portsmouth Brewery Tshirt. 
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This is one of my favorite Christmas pictures ever. She's not a baby anymore, but she is still a reader.

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Towers of beer cans waiting to be filled with IPA at Great North AleWorks, Manchester, NH. If you visit the brewery be sure to check out the Urban Quilter Growler Totes.

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NH State Library, Concord, NH, Fall 2014

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October 16, 2015, Dover, NH

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I missed a few Saturdays but here, as promised, is the fish quilt. I used fabric, stuffing, various trims and beads and some more artificial leaf bits to make the various fish. I am linking this up with Saturday Snapshot at West Metro Mommy.

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Detail of Fish Quilt, 2011

This is another detail photo from my fish quilt. 
I made this quilt as part of a Amoskeag Quilters' Guild challenge and one of the items in the box of stuff you had to use was a set of artificial leaves in autumn colors (the silky-kind you often find on wreaths this time of year). I used those by cutting little fish (they are roughly the size and shape of goldfish crackers) out of the leaves and then tacking each one onto the quilt with a single bead to be the fish's eye. The resulting school of fish looks flat in the picture, but actually stands out from the quilt a bit as the leaves the fish were made from were fairly stiff. 
The seaweed is also dimensional. It was made with strips of one of the required fabrics (basically the construction I use for handbag handles) to which I zig-zagged fluffy sparkly trim. The end of the seaweed (see last week's picture) is sewn into a seam between the water and the sand and then the strip was twisted a bit and tacked here and there to hold it onto the surface. 

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Susan from Buch Handling visited last week's post and she asked to see the whole quilt. That will be next week's photo.

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Detail of my fish quilt, 2011.

I made this quilt as part of a Amoskeag Quilters' Guild challenge. It is 3-D and has lots of embellishments. The seaweed and the sand, and the fish are all made from fabrics that had to be in the quilt (per the challenge rules).

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The entrance to San Franciso's China Town taken on our trip last year. 
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I have been photographing items for the Etsy shop I am working toward launching. My friend Lisa and I spent an afternoon taking lots of photos on our patio of various things, this one is a group of purple pouches. I like the rocks and wood as a background.
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This year the window boxes on our back patio have coleus and purple petunias.
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