Chexers the Baby Skunk

Elsa the Westie and I take a walk down a really great paved trail in Livermore. The trail follows a former golf course and between the old golf course and the trail is a creek.
Needless to say, the water attracts a lot of different animals. We mostly see birds, but often see squirrels.
Lately we have been seeing some juvenile skunks in the middle of the day scrounging for food. As cute as baby or juvenile skunks are, we really don't want to get to know them intimately, if you know what I mean. But lately we have been able to avoid them.
The other day I saw a child's shoe box with some green leaves and a note. The note read, "For Chexers the cute baby skunk." I thought this was adorable. No doubt this was from the children in the house whose street butts up against the trail. I assumed that the green leaves from a tree were for "Chexers" to make himself/herself a comfy new bed. Or maybe the kids thought that skunks eat leaves (but I'm pretty sure that they eat ants, bugs, grubs, and worms).
I got the cute idea to embroidery a baby skunk and frame it, and also write a little note back to the kids, thanking them for the nice soft green leaves, and explaining that I, Chexers, used these leaves to make my self a new bed.
I'm hoping that the framed "Chexers" gets into the right hands. I left the show box with the frame and note off the trail, in the yard of the house where I think those kids live.
I will probably never know how this all turned out, but my hope is that the kids will find the frame with "Chexers" picture and hold on to a really cute memory about their friend "Chexers the Cute Baby Skunk".

Being Creative

 Original kit

My "being creative".

As much as I would love to be very creative, the fact is, I am not. I am a great copier, I can see a great idea and copy it, but I always find it harder to go beyond the original.

This quilt top was a kit. I don't often buy kits, but it was on sale and I had a $10 coupon for the store, so I decided to try it.  I thought it was a panel quilt kit, but it wasn't, but it was still pretty easy. Then I found corresponding fabric from the same line from another source, which also was on sale and I had another $10 coupon from this store too, so I bought the fabric thinking that I could use it to enlarge the quilt, or at worst, use it to back the quilt.

So the second picture is what I came up with, after consulting with some other quilting ladies on quiltingboard.com and with my husband. I kind of like it, I think. I think I might embroider some scrolling or flowers on the 'L' shaped white border in the near future, but it did enlarge the quilt from a wall hanging sized quilt to almost a twin sized topper quilt, which is what I wanted. I like the 'A' symmetrical design, something off-centered is nice, almost like a real flower arrangement.

I would enjoy any comments you have after reading and viewing these pictures.