T Stands for Trying to Start off the New Year Right!

2 Co 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."



Hello, T Gang and other faithful followers!  I have been communicating with our wonderful hostess Elizabeth and she is trying to help me get my Blog up to speed!  I now have the T Stands for Tuesday logo & link on my sidebar.  Also, I am trying a "scheduled post".  We will see if it works!

While I am thinking about it, I want to thank Elizabeth and the T Gang for all the inspiration to craft, and to Blog this past year.  It is the most posts I have ever posted in a year since I started my Blog in 2013.  I posted 47 times in 2018!  That is almost once a week!  The closest I ever came to that was 38 times in 2016.  I already missed last week, so will have to make up for that in the future! 

I haven't been crafting much, but will share a card I made for several challenges on SplitcoastStampers this week:

This card was inspired by a fellow SplitcoastStamper  as we were to make a card inspired by her for the Featured Stamper challenge.  They link us to her gallery to choose a card and copy it, but with changes.  The second challenge this is for is the Try A New Technique Challenge; this time to make a monochromatic card.  Use the same color ink and cardstock with one or two neutrals.  I used SU! Baja Breeze cardstock & ink, and white and black for my neutrals.  I used Sizzix stitched ovals dies and rhinestones on my birds.  I used Natural Beauty stamp set from SU! (2007) I stamped the white panel with one of the word stamps in the set, about 4 times with my MISTI and then sponged the panel, also.  The birds are stamped and sponged.   I fussy cut the birds. I also used Wink of Stella glitter brush on the flowers & buds.  The "thinking of you " was from another SU! stamp set Friend to Friend 2004.  The third challenge is for the Alpha Challenge.  Our letter was B and this round is to use natural. images.  Also, the double challenge was buds.  The name of my card was B For Buds & Birds.  The fourth challenge was to use an ignored stamp set or new stamp set never used.  I used the Natural Beauty for first time in ages.  I could do that challenge for years!  I have hundreds of stamp sets, and they probably all feel ignored, as I use mostly my favorite ones, or newest ones.  I think that is all the challenges!

Now for the drink related part of my post for T Stands For Tuesday.  For those that don't know we link up with our hostess over at Altered Book Lover and somewhere is our post feature a drink.

I forgot to take photo till after I had boxed my leftover up.  But it was a great sandwich with cream cheese and roast beef on a great hoagie!  That bread was  toasted but soft and thin.  Loved it!  Oh, so good.  Hubby had a reuben sandwich, which he said was delicious.  I had a side of potato salad and he had pasta salad.  We both had our waters.  I don't know if you can tell but at this sandwich bar they had the menus under glass on the table on each side, so we both could see the menu seated across from each other.  What a cool idea.

I thought this fabric picture was interesting, but should have took a photo of the count down clock.

This is called the Artichoke and they are big on St Patrick's Day.  On the inside they have a count down to St. Patrick's Day to the seconds!  On the outside they have this Blarney Stone replica.

They do have fabulous sandwiches, and since we had gone down town to our library to a Senior Wednesday to see a Mark Twain portrayer, we stopped in for some.  My photos of Mark Twain didn't turn out, but he was good and told a lot of funny stories.  

Thank you for stopping by to see me today,  We will see if this posts as scheduled.  :)  And then see if I remember to link it to Elizabeth's T Stands For Tuesday!
Happy T Day!

Happy 2019!

2 Co 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."



T Stands for the very best to you, my friends!  I am sitting here on New Years Eve looking at our hostess Elizabeth's wonderful cruise journal pages.  So fabulous!  For sure, I wish I was having high tea on an ocean cruise!  But here I sit with my tea and leftover Christmas Snack mix,  in front of my laptop.  I do hope to visit  you to celebrate T Stands For Tuesday.

Here is a shot of all the lovely homemade Christmas cards I received this year!  So gorgeous and creative!  Some came all the way from Australia and Spain!  Thank you to all my friends.  These cards gave me so much pleasure and enjoyment!  I hung them going down my stairs to be admired by family and guests during the holidays!

Now, I promised to show you my big gift project that I did this year and every year for the past 15 years!  I cut, stamp and color 15 sets of these little mini calendars for some family and friends.  They are originally given with a 3 1/2 x 5 inch acrylic frame.  Each month fits in the frame for display.

It has been a wonderful year, and you all have helped make it that way!  Thank you for all your comments and encouraging words in 2018!  I look forward to more inspiration and sharing with you in the new year!

Happy 2019!  Thanks for stopping by!

T Stands For Truly, Have A Merry Christmas

Luke 2:11 "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

I can not believe it is Tuesday (or almost) again!  I want to post so I can join Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands For Tuesday.  The T-Gang all link up with her and feature a drink related item in their post.  

I have been creating Christmas cards, still!  My list just keeps getting longer!  
Here is one I made today.  Both the die cuts were from a friend.  I just layered them on top of a Cuttlebug ornament embossed panel.  I was inspired by a Featured Stamper Challenge to CASE DiHere's SplitcoastStamper gallery.  She used an ornament with a sentiment in it, but I put Mary & Jospeth and baby Jesus in it.  I got the idea from her to make the dots with a white gel pen.  I added the little shiny stickers to the ornament.  Now, I have to stamp the inside, and the envelope and it will be ready to address.

The above was made for several challenges on SplitcoastStamper including my First Christmas VSN Challenge this week-end.

Here is a really simple gift card holder I made following a Dawn Griffith video using a Top Note die from SU!  The papers and cardstock is also SU!  The ribbon is from my stash

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That is what I have been doing!  Still need to show you another teapot!  If it is a Christmas teapot, I utilize it for decoration.  This is one that I used to decorate the top of my cabinets.

That is it for this T Day post!  Hope you all have a great week.  

                             Merry Christmas!   
   
  I probably won't see you  next  week as I  will have company, and it will actually be Christmas Eve and  Christmas!  Can you believe it, one week!  

Thank you for stopping by.

T Stands For Too Much Goodness!

Luke 2:11 "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."


That is the way I feel, like I have been given too much goodness!  Today, I had friends over for a small brunch, Christmas gift exchange, so of course I had to have the house decorated and cleaned.  We had such wonderful fellowship, as we heard Christmas music in the background, and smelled the aromatic  candles in the background and felt the aura of  the lit tree.  I just felt God's goodness as I enjoyed the closeness of my deer friends.  I know it is early, so I guess I could say T Stands for Too Soon!  I do have about everything done, except gift wrapping and cards mailed.  I think most of them are made, but I keep adding to my list!  I have made some gift calendars.  I will show those another time after everyone gets theirs.  But here are some of the Christmas cards I have made.  I tried to make them all year round.  Most are one of a kind, but some I made several. I try to stamp the inside sentiment as well as the envelope.  If I don't, that makes a lot of work at the end.

For Elizabeth's T Stands For Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover, I took some photos of our outing on this past Wednesday.  We went to a Senior's Wednesday Christmas program at the Art Museum, which meant we got into the museum free, too.  They fed us a scrumptious concoction of ham in some kind of bread thing.  I didn't get a photo of that.  But we sat right under a piece of art!  We heard some delightful third graders sing some wonderful Christmas songs.
After the program,  we visited the Kansas Farm Photos exhibit.  I am so glad I got to see that, but sorry I missed the Monet exhibit!  We also went to one of our favorite rooms, (my husband and I), the Western artist Russell.  My husband loves the western paintings.

After leaving the museum we headed to a popular diner!  And I ordered something very sinful!

I saw this waffles and chicken on the menu, and since I have heard a lot about this food combo lately, I decided to try it.  It was absolutely to die for!  The waitress said to be sure and put a little waffle, syrup & Chicken and sausage and gravy on each bite.  It was soooo good!  You see there were two big chicken strips on there.  I took one off right away to bring home.  In the end the waitress also gave me a little bowl of more sausage and gravy.  I brought home half the waffle, one piece of chicken and lots of sausage and gravy, and that is right, bacon with chocolate on it!  I had another meal on Thursday! LOL

You notice how good my husband was!

Best Breakfast in Kansas! Just ask Harrison Ford!

Don't you just love that name!  This is a gem of a place, almost hidden under a US Highway!

Waving to all of you!  Thank you for stopping by!  I appreciate it when you let me know you were here!

T Stands for Thanksgiving for my Health

Hebrews 13:15  "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." 

Good evening!  I hope the ones in the U. S. had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  As it is still November I am posting another thing for which I am thankful.  I am thankful for my health!  Sometimes I hurt, like tonight, as I have been unpacking decorations, putting up the tree.  All of this took a lot of lifting, twisting, stooping and other contortions of the body.  But I can walk, talk, hear, see, and craft!  I am thankful that I can put up our tree!  It is lit and some of the decorations are on it, the china cabinet is decorated and part of the upper cabinets in the kitchen have decorations on them.  When we moved here six months ago,  I had gotten rid of a lot of stuff.  So, I will be going to Hobby Lobby tomorrow to get some poinsettias.  I think I threw them out last year because they looked so ratty.   So here is a photo of my Christmas teapot for Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands for Tuesday.  We link  up with her and our post has something drink related, like a teapot! :)

Also, today, I am linking up with Tag Tuesday! We were to make a tag choosing items from  a tic tac toe board of items.  I chose stenciling, punch or die cut, and lace.  My stenciling was a failure!
But, I think it still looks okay on this tag. The die cut is a TH stamp and die, and the life adventure is a stamp in that set, too. It is the first time I have used it.  The cities stamp is from Mrs. O'Leary's Artful Illusions.

I wanted you to see the cities.

And I love this sentiment!

I will be making another tag.  I like this challenge.  Maybe a Christmas one.  I probably will use this tag on a scrap page.  What do you do with your tags?

Thank you for stopping by!  Waving to the T-Gang!


    

T Stands For Thanksgiving For My Husband

Hebrews 13:15  "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."


Here it is time for our drink related post for T Stands For Tuesday, over at Altered Book Lover with Elizabeth and Bleubeard.  Hello to all the T Gang!
      Again, there is so much I am so thankful for this entire year!  God is so good and faithful,  even when I am not.  I am thankful for my husband, especially when he is so good to me.  This past week-end,  I went to a four day Scrap Retreat, while he stayed home and made 10 loaves of pumpkin bread!  Isn't he good?  And, he had dinner ready for me when I got home Sunday evening! But,  I had a wonderful time, and got a lot done.  In fact I got my entire Maine vacation album done, 20 pages!  Here is a photo of all of them, but the ones one the top step don't show up very well.  I didn't realize that until too late.

Since I started doing these drink related posts for T Stands For Tuesday, I have taken more photos of eating out.  I never did that before.  Then, a couple of times I haven't posted and I have these photos building up.  I don't know what I have posted and what I haven't.  But I wanted to share these with you.  Recently, we had to go back on the side of town where we used to live (20 miles across) to run some errands, so we visited one of our favorite places over there.
It has been around for years and is locally owned.  They have really no atmosphere, but are heavy on the comfort food!

My husband and father used meet here for lunch when we were first married.

They have lots of roosters for their décor.

Comfort food!  They always give you homemade rolls and homemade cinnamon rolls, and then I even ordered bread pudding for one of my two sides!  I took half of this home and the desserts!

More roosters!

I always love looking at the old photos in the lobby. 

Cool photos aren't they?

Well,  thanks for stopping by!  For those in the U.S, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

T Stands For Thanksgiving For The Seasons

Hebrews 13:15  "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."

Here we are already celebrating T Stands For Tuesday!  I have decided that T will stand for Thanksgiving the whole month of November instead of just that week.  In fact like our November Bible verse says, we are to be continually giving thanks!  I am so thankful for God's wonderful world.  This past week I have enjoyed the changing of his seasons.  Where we live in a fairly new addition,  there aren't a lot of trees like where we formerly lived.  So, I am sharing with you today the view out my window. This was before the wind blew all the leaves off the tree.

 For What's On Your Work Desk? Wednesday I show my desk below!  This is my computer desk, but I do a lot of work here, when I am not turned around at my craft desk. When my stamping buddie comes over , I pack away my laptop and she sits here and crafts.  Check out the other deskers over at Stamping Ground, where Julia hosts this occasion.

Now all those leaves are on the lawn! But it was pretty. I enjoyed my view while it lasted!  But here is a photo of what the trees looked like in November where we formerly lived.  One of the reasons we downsized!  We love trees, but with the upkeep, trimming, leaves, disease, etc., it just became too much for us.

We took a day trip this past week-end and I will share my two photos with you!  I am so bad about remembering to take photos, yet I go to scrapbook them, I have way too many!  

 It turned out to be a glorious day Saturday!  We drove to Quivira Wildlife preserve. We saw birds, ducks, gulls, and even hiked a trail.  See that little hut out there, we walked down to that. Then we drove all through the area.  Just gorgeous.

On the way home we stopped here for lunch.  And no photos!  They have wonderful comfort food!  We brought home their gigantic cinnamon rolls!  We warmed those up for Sunday's breakfast.  So, for Elizabeth at Altered Book Lover for T Stands For Tuesday, where we share drink related posts, I took a photo of our Sunday breakfast!

This is a luncheon size, not pie, plate.  The two rolls were over a half pound each, because the package said 18 ounces. I am trying to give you an idea of how large they are.  My husband says lets split one today and one tomorrow, but no, I wanted the whole roll.  We both ate them, just fine, but weren't hungry for dinner!

Thanks for stopping by, be sure and check out the rest of the T-Gang over at Bleubeard's & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.  Sorry this is so late on Tuesday, but the good news is it is early for Wednesday!  I was gone all day.  I started it before I left early this morning and couldn't get it done before I left!    Happy T Day!  Thanks for stopping by.