The 1000-piece puzzle we completed over the Christmas holidays. I didn't take a very good picture. We donated the puzzle to a local church after we finished it. This is the first time that we used felts for sorting and puzzle-making and I have to say they were really helpful in keeping pieces from sliding off the table. I only had to search for two pieces at the end. The table is on a busy oriental rug, so I have to get down on my hands and knees with a flashlight to find fallen pieces as they are almost impossible to see on the rug.

My clematis, one of the few plants I have managed not to kill. The urn from dad’s ashes is right next to it. It also has a few of my mother’s ashes. My sisters and I put their ashes in the Elbow River near to where we grew up and no one wanted the leftover urn. I took it and now it sits on my front porch year round. I like to think it is what keeps my clematis thriving.🙂 You never know. Picture from last year.

10 year-old granddaughter chose this fabric. She is learning to sew on one of my old machines. Starting with a 3-tiered skirt.

Annie and Outside, your pictures reminded me of a necklace that was my mother's. She was born in 1910, married in 1930. It isn't gold but it seems to be the same vintage. There are stones on the ends of the bottom part. They look like turquoise but I don't know for sure. I found the little silver perfume bottle in a laundromat in San Francisco in 1972. I think the stone on the top may be an emerald.