NOT your run of the mill

trick or treat

Happy Halloween!

from all of us at NOTyourunofthemill, because we really are NOT your run of the mill!  Check out Gourd in his spooky costume thanks to Flickr!

gourdie, gourdie, gourdie

This is our cat Gourd (yes! it is spelled that way) before his costume change..see above. Rachel's first cat is an orange tabby, hence his name is Squash. She had to have Gourd to go with Squash.  Funny now that I think of it our first family pet cat was named Turk except everybody called him Turkey. 

We have a thanksgiving feast of pet names 1. Turkey 2. Squash 

3. Gourd What next?  Pumpkin?  I hope not! 

toadstools or mushrooms?

Thanks Wikipedia for setting me straight!


The terms "mushroom" and "toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.

The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.[3]

The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). There may have been a direct connection to toads (in reference to poisonous properties) for toadstools. However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.

sprites of tillbrook

please note: is it mushrooms or toadstools?

sprites of tillbrook

oh! so charming 'sprites of tillbrook'
by Alexander Henry

bali batik

beautiful hand dyed Bali batiks

free! holiday gift giving ideas

 

  

A beautiful early Christmas present from Amy Butler.  FREE  patterns!

giving thanks

Please eat your turkey responsibly!
Happy Thanksgiving

photo shoot of the many Oliver + s patterns

sizes 6 months up to 8 years old. 

Would it not be fun to make your someone

special, pajamas this Christmas?

 

 

what a really, sweet idea.  This was created using paper, I think I would use fabrics...of course.  Check it out here & here  for the before picture.

here is a little sunshine on this wet & windy day. Amy Butler fabrics using Denyse Schmidt's hop, skip & jump pattern. It is always a great idea to take a photo while you are arranging the quilt blocks. Somehow the camera lens 'sees' what you don't.

Oliver + S pattern set

photo shoot of the many Oliver + s patterns

sizes 6 months up to 8 years old. 

Would it not be fun to make your someone

special, pajamas this Christmas?

 

 

updated screen

what a really, sweet idea.  This was created using paper, I think I would use fabrics...of course.  Check it out here & here  for the before picture.

amy meet denyse

here is a little sunshine on this wet & windy day. Amy Butler fabrics using Denyse Schmidt's hop, skip & jump pattern. It is always a great idea to take a photo while you are arranging the quilt blocks. Somehow the camera lens 'sees' what you don't.