Hike, eat, sew

I've been doing a lot of hiking lately now that the weather is cooler. These two photos are from the Sweetwater Preserve, an area flush with saguaros in the Tucson Mountains west of the city.

After that hike, my friend and I ate at Teresa's Mosaic Cafe, an iconic Mexican restaurant nearby.

Every table has a different mosaic ...

... and the color continues with festive Mexican paper cutouts, called papel picado, hanging from the ceiling.

In sewing news, I finally made a casserole carrier from a pattern I bought years ago using fabric I bought when I visited Tucson in February 2020 on my house hunting trip.

And I made three more spirit dolls commissioned by a friend to give as gifts. She sent me descriptions of the three friends and I used that info to choose the fabric.

Now I'm waiting for a painter to show up to repair the mess left by the previous handyman who had glowing reviews that were probably all fakes written by his friends. If you can't trust the reviews and the handymen recommended by your friends are all too busy, what do you do? I found the disastrous one on Angi.com, which I'll never use again. My ex-husband used to do all of our repairs, but now it takes me months to find anyone to help.

Have a colorful day