Food, delicious food!

I am visiting my family in Montreal, Quebec.

My brothers Paul and Wayne, and our mom, Elizabeth.

This photo was taken at Miss Italian, a pizza restaurant we frequented, growing up.

We ordered an extra large with veggie on one half and pepperoni on the other half.

I was the bright one who said "extra cheese"!

I'm not kidding, each slice had half a pound of cheese, gag!!!

Despite the cheese, it was extremely yummy!

Only one and a half slices for me thank you ;)

Schwartz on St. Laurent has the best smoked meat in Montreal!It isn't pastrami, it's closer to corned beef, but not really.....it's Montreal smoked meat. You have to taste it to believe it!

At Schwartz', you have to share a table with other people, the atmosphere isn't very good, and they only accept cash. I have a secret to share with you... Directly across the street is a restaurant called "The Main." They serve the exact same smoked meat and fries, and you get to sit at your own table, and the ambiance is a little better. The Main accepts credit cards too.

Mom and I went to "The Maharaja", an East Indian restaurant. They have a huge buffet, with every type of Indian food you can imagine, even desserts!

Paul and I went on our annual walk together, which means miles and mikes of brisk walking, looking at all the architecture and historical landmarks. We are luch at a creperie in View Montreal, called "Chez Suzette". The crepe was good, but definitely not the best I've ever had.

 

Walking through CN station, I snapped some photos of this bread!

I have a thing for Macarons. These beautiful pink ones were huge and instead of frosting in the middle, there were raspberries! Yum!

Loved seeing all of these cinnamon rolls :)

 

Nothing beats Mom's cooking! She made some delicious soup for us!

I hope you've enjoyed my food experience with me. Maybe someday you'll be in Montreal and remember these restaurants :)

Au Revoir!

 

Autumn Decor

It's definately not autumn weather in northern California yet, but I decorated for fall/hallowe'en/Thanksgiving anyway.

This decor will stay in my home until Thanksgiving is over, then I'll decorate for Christmas.

Here's a little nook.

I always have my flag from Brazil displayed to remind me of my son, Sean (Elder Horst).

He is serving a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.

He will be coming home at the end of April :)

This is the mantel over the fireplace.

I love my pilgrim and native american, my mother gave them to me years ago.

This is my "flower garden", but the photos are outdated and I'm missing two of my little grandchildren.

This isn't a photo of a family member.

Turn a little sideways, and.....

.....he turns into a "scary guy" as my grand daughter Charlotte would say!

I love this little antique table, we bought it years ago in Arkansas, for $50.

My daughter Lindsay made the beautiful table runner for me.

I made this wall sampler with two very dear friends, Nanette and Liz.  

I told the story about it here.

I love this table runner, and my mom gave me these little pilgrims too!

This little display is beside the sectional couch in the family room.

The sun was streaming through the window.

Lindsay made me this table runner also, it's reversible.

Last but not least, I just relocated this beautiful quilt to the family room.

It is one of my favorite quilts and you can read a newspaper article about it here.

It's called "A Tribute to Joseph", celebrating the sesquicentennial of the birth of Joseph Smith.

I will blog about this quilt at a later date.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my "autumn decor".

Patchwork Please! Triangle Patchwork Box Pouch

I finished Ayumi's "Triangle Patchwork Box Pouch.

I posted a tutorial of the paper pieced triangles here.

This is the fun book that is full of goodies!

I love the triangles!

Look at all of these delicious colors!

I really like the grey chevron bottom :)

This is a view from the top, I like the contrast of the red zipper and the blue Amy Butler fabric.

A bird's eye view of the "sew cherry" lining.

The lining was hand sewn to the pouch.

The pouch wasn't a quick sew, partly because of the paper piecing, the zipper and the hand sewn lining.

I really enjoyed making it because the end result is so cute!!!

North State River Run, continued...

I finished the shop hop, it was a long day.

I drove the back way there, stopping at all the shops on my way to Redding.

I made it to Redding, only to face the 3 hour drive home.

There was one quilt shop on the way home that broke up the time.

I arrived in Sacramento just in time for bumper to bumper rush hour traffic.

I was pretty tired when I got home.

My shop hop passport was full, and hopefully I will win one prize!

This was a cute Hallowe'en quilt I saw.

The fabric was colored with fabric crayons.

I've always loved this quilt, I've seen it in blue and in black before.

Look what I found, a whole shelf of "Sew Cherry", Lori Holt's first line of fabric.

I found a treasure, Sandy Klopp's American Jane "Wee Play" from 2008.

I have a little collection of American Jane fabric, so I bought some fat quarters.

I bought 2 fat quarters at almost every store and these are my purchases.

Thanks for sharing the quilt shop hop with me :)

North State River Run Shop Hop

I really wanted to go on this quilt shop hop last year, but my daughter's little boy was born the night before.  

He was eight weeks early, so I flew to Utah the next morning and helped her by looking after her then two year old little girl.

Rebecca's little boy Benjamin just turned one year old.

I went to five quilt shops this afternoon.

Look at this!  A quilt of Audrey Hepburn!

I think it's gorgeous!

Apparently, you can make a quilt from a photograph.

Isn't this quilt beautiful?

I love the ominous sky with the lightning bolts!

I'm not interested in making one of these quilts myself, but they are works of art!

This quilt shop was in Auburn, and their theme was

 "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

I loved their theme decor!

Cute little cupcakes!

I went to a really sweet quilt shop in Grass Valley.
They had so many bolts of fabric, that half of them were stacked up on the floor.

I've never been to that town before, it was old fashioned.
 I want to go back with my husband and look around a little.

I saw another quilt that was designed from a photograph.

As you can see, it was sewn with patchwork squares.

Tomorrow I'm going to finish up the quilt shop hop.

I'll have more photos for you :)

The Quilty Barn Along!

This "quilty barn along" journey has been so much fun and I even made a new friend, Joanna :)

I really like this quilt.

Like all the other quilts, it was loads of fun choosing the fabric.

I made four barns that weren't red, they were patterned after one in Quebec, and three in Prince Edward Island.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with this quilt....ha ha!!!

I loved making it and was able to use up some of my stash.

Here it is!  TaDa!!!

Thanks for following along, I loved reading your comments :)

The Quilty Barn Along, sashing

Here are my blocks, all laid out the way I think they look the best.

Four of my blocks aren't red, I patterned them after ones I saw in Quebec and Prince Edward Island.

 I wanted to wait until I finished all the blocks before I sashed them.

I rummaged through my scrap basket and found these strips of fabric for the sashing.  

One of the reasons I love scraps is because they bring back memories of previous quilts and projects I've sewn.

I can see a baby's cradle I made for my grand daughter for Christmas, a baby quilt I made for my grandson 7 years ago, an apron I made for my friend at Christmas, fabric for some baby pants I made for another grand daughter, a doll dress I made, a travel pillow, and so on and so on.

Does it make you nostalgic when you use your scraps?

On Friday, I'll show you my finished quilt top :)