Friday Favorites, it’s been a while. Here have been my favorite things of late:
Mabel’s new dog bed pillow. I sewed it in a Friday night a couple months ago. A quilter’s dog should have a quilted dog bed!
Dinner plates as garden border. I loved it so much in the front of the straw bale garden that I brought the technique to the front. It will keep the squirrels from getting the mulch all over the sidewalk. Plus, it just adds a touch of whimsy. I need to get to Goodwill for a few more to complete the look. (See the newly added cream separator planter in the back too? I’m in love.)
Planting flowers. I went overboard (again) but I’m happy with the pots and boxes surrounding the house. 
I can cook a lot of things but -now this will sound silly- I have a hard time cooking rice. Silly, right? I can handle risotto but I can’t master rice. It just never seems to have the right consistency, or there is water in the bottom of the pan, it’s soggy, etc. A couple months ago, I found 2-serving size bags of microwave rice at Hyvee. It’s perfect for me. Microwave for 90 seconds and get leftovers for the next day (but not the next week too). But at Hyvee, they were a bit pricey. Enter Aldi. Aldi has the same concept – two serving microwave packs of brown rice for half the cost of Hyvee. I stocked up!
Hope your weekend is filled with favorite things!
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