I Like Thursday: Seasonal Good Stuff

It's Thursday and time again for Not Afraid of Color to host things we like.  I ran into a lot of little likes this week.

The best part of making all those cookies is giving them away.  Well, not entirely - I like eating them, too.  But I really enjoy the looks on people's faces when I drop off cookies:  oohs and aahs and smiles and hugs.  I simply left the box for my vet with her receptionist, not wanting to interrupt her day (Thursday is surgery day).  Before I even pulled out of the parking space, she burst through the front door to say thanks.  Yeah - that made both of our days!

I am amused by Miss Havisham's insulting tea cups (scroll down to For the lady who speaks her mind...).

I like that I figured out the perspective tool in Gimp (a freeware Photoshop).  The quilts tops I recently finished were too big to shoot straight overhead.  It irks the anal-retentive side of me when photos of my rectangular quilts look trapezoidal.  I learned how to square them out.  I'm not sure if I quite got the proportions correct, but I think my touch-ups look great.  Maybe I'll no longer need to balance off the edges of furniture to get a perfect floor shot?

I like the new quarter-watt bulbs Rob got for the candles.  They're bright and very yellow for LEDs.  The wattage is so low I skipped putting the timers - these are on day and night.  I was restless Monday night so I calculated electricity usage in my head in an effort to fall asleep:  leaving these on 24 hours a day for two months will take less energy than lighting the incandescent ones for two weeks at five hours a night.  Cool!  (Plus I loved not trying to synchronize three different timers.)

The threat of voice activated flashing lights hasn't happened (yet), but I do have a new nifty timer (now that I don't need any for the candle lights).  There's an app for that!  The timer is small,  silent and can be shut on and off for whatever time combination I want.  Pretty cool.  It's ridiculous the types of apps that work with smart phones and tablets.  The technology evolves so quickly.

I like my clean fridge.  I can't even tell you how much I like it.  Spent well over an hour on Monday scrubbing it inside and out.  Damn - it needed it.  Now every time I open the door I go ooh.  Everything's so white and shiny!



I moved around some of the magnets on the fridge.  This little stuffed lobster (it has magnets in its claws) is now hanging on my sewing machine.  Isn't it cute?  I figured I'd try it as a pin cushion.  We'll see if it works or just gets in the way.  I'll admire it for now.


All good stuff that makes me happy.