T Stands for Reflections from 2022

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Ps. 51:10 KJV 

I am posting this early for TSFT because I wanted to reach 50 posts for 2022!    I tried reading 50 books for 2022, but only read 45, none in December.  I also had a goal of 60 pages scrapped in 2022, but I only finished 53.   I am also, reflecting on a positive in 2022 and that is how I was blessed when  the Lord stirred my spirit to be serving him more and I was burdened to begin a Bible study that the older women in our church, like myself, would be able to attend in the daytime.  Some of us at this age are not comfortable driving at night.  God helped me to do this, and now I am looking forward to starting up again in the Spring.  Again, we are not comfortable driving in or getting out in bad weather. I was really blessed by the great response and encouragement of the ladies.  

 I journaled a weekly page for the end of the year:  We had a wonderful week with our family, and I just thought I would try to journal it.  I am still new at art journaling.  At least when I get around to scrapping the photos, I can look back and see what we did. :)

I plan to link with Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for TSFT, so here is my drink reference, a photo at one of our Christmas events at church.

I wish you all a Happy New Year!  Thank you for stopping by and reading my reflections.  See you next time.

T Stands for Too Cold!

 ⁹ And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. ¹⁰ And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. ¹² And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace,
good will toward men. Luke 2:9-14

 22 degrees, feels like 8!   The sun is shining but still cold!  Our family couldn't come in time for Christmas because of the weather, so are coming today.  Still not fun traveling in this coldness.

I thought I would show some photos of some of the decorations of the season.

Someone decorated the bridge on my trail.

People are so nice to decorate the trail; gives us something to look at as we walk.

Our decorated tables at Bible study brunch.

Last week, I told you about Carols of Carols & Cookies; this week I show you a photo of half the table of cookies.  There was another half.  

And here is a photo of our nativity scene in front of the podium.  Sorry it is blurry, tried to make it closer. 

Here are some pages of the junk journal I showed you last week.

This is last page showing pocket and on the left is a flipflop. It flips open and has journaling pages inside it.

Below is the front inside of cover with double pocket, on the right is one of the clusters.

Below are clusters I made and then put in the journal.

This turquoise envelope is a full-page pocket in this part of the journal.

And, in this part of the journal it is a double tuck. It is sewn in like a page.

I just thought I would show some of the pages as some were interested in seeing them.  There are at least 60 pages so can't show them all.  We will have our Christmas this week, so still like Christmas here. I hope you all have a wonderful week.  I am linking to TSFT over at Atlered Book Lover, joining Bleubeard & Elizabeth.  It is our tea party we have every week. If you post a blog and make a drink reference, you can join in also!  Can you see my drink reference?  Happy T Day to the T gang!  Thank you so much for stopping by; be glad you could do it virtually, because it is even colder since I started typing this post! Stay warm!

T Stands for 'Tis the Season

 ⁹ And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. ¹⁰ And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ¹¹ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. ¹² And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. ¹³ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace,
good will toward men. Luke 2:9-14

'Tis the season!  And it is busy!  I am sorry I haven't been around, but here is what I have been making this month.

I really enjoyed this challenge from Dearjuliejulie.  Here is the challenge:   LARGE COVER binder ring junk journal! 12 days to build a journal Day 1 - YouTube

To start the season, I went to a class and put together a wreath. Besides, the crafting I have been attending a lot of seasonal events, and decorating, and making Christmas cards, 62 so far, and mailing them and packages, etc.  I also attended a beautiful Cookies and Carols service at our church Sunday night.  A gentleman at our church gives us the history of the carols and we sing them in sets of three.  Besides accompaniment by a piano player, regular organist, keyboardist, one young man played an antique organ. One lady played the saxophone for a couple of the songs.  Then a lady sang "O Holy Night", and we ended singing "Silent Night" by candlelight.

Here is a photo of me with the wreath I decorated:

We will be celebrating more Christmas after Christmas as the weather forecast is for really cold wind chill and maybe snow, so bad for driving.  Our family will come after Christmas.  I wish you all a warm Christmas.

I am joining Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for TSFT.

You can check out the other participants if you click on the link.  You could even join us if you post something related to a drink of some sort.

Can you spot mine?  Thanks for stopping by!  I appreciate you.

T Stands for Junk Journaling & Catch Up #ntrjjc22

​¹ "O come, let us sing unto the LORD:
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,
and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
³ For the LORD is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth:
the strength of the hills is his also.
⁵ The sea is his, and he made it:
and his hands formed the dry land.
⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down:
let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
⁷ For he is our God;
and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand." Psalms 95: 1-7 KJV

 I don't know how the weeks fly by, but they do.  And now it has been several weeks since I last posted on October 24th.  I have even had a birthday since I last posted!  Our son came to visit for a week!  I finished Julie Dear Julie November to Remember Junk Journal Challenge, #ntrjjc22 Our challenge was to do at least 60 pages; I did 64.  We were challenged to make at least 60 different elements, among which should be a flip flop, fabric flip, pockets, double tuck, fluffy tassel, paperclips, tattoos, edges, antique ribbon closures.  We were to use something pink, a daisy, #8, bling, something that flies, a garden object, something to do with the sky.  We could use anything from our stash, plus, junk mail, unfinished embellishment base, large file card, index cards, envelopes, ink & dauber, stamping stenciling, die cuts, x-tra cardstock, torn book pages, and yarn!  We also have to use at least 6 pages of her digitals.

I made this journal for my own use.  It has charts for my weekly SplitcoastStampers challenges as well as a place to keep track of birthday and anniversary dates of friends, family, and church family so I can send cards. It is a 6 month journal December thru May.

Here is the cover:

The cover is from adhesive backed Fabric Paper from my stash.  I got 12x12 sheets of this years ago from Tuesday Morning.  I have covered several journals with it.  The adhesive no longer works so had to use glue anyway,  I glued it to the paper for the inside with the lace in between the layers.

Inside cover and page one:

That is a library pocket decorated with a stamped die cut panel, colored with Copics.  A triple tag with gold ring and lace is the insert.  The first page is one of her Colorful Daisy pages, which by the way is a digital set I won as a prize for doing another month's journal challenge.  If we finish our monthly challenge, we win a digital set of usually 30 to 60 files, and a live party on you tube.

Here is the fabric flip using a seed bag.

Under the flip is a book page pocket and insert.

I wanted to show you the hidden journal card made with and index card. I will use the card to write down January cards I need to send.

Don't worry, I will not show all 64 pages! LOL  But here is the center of the signature, I just did one signature.  I folded the doily over the binding threads and glued it down as a tuck.  Again, Julies beautiful colorful Daisy digitals.

Last one I will show you is one of my favorite pages with the half page tuck.  The insert is a card I got for my birthday.  You can also see some of the edges and tabs in the journal on the right.

Below are photos of one of our 6-mile walks while our son was here.

We pretty much had the trail to ourselves!

We had finally gotten some rain, so there was water in the creek!

I want to join in with Bleubeard & Elizabeth this week at Altered Book Lover for T Stands for Tuesday.  I hope I can come back after being absent for so long!

Here is a drink I got with a gift card for my birthday.  It was a London Fog with Earl Grey tea.  So good!

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy T Day to the T gang.  For those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving.  Be thankful.  I am thankful for all of you. 

T Stands Trail Info

 ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13 KJV

Hello!  We finally have some rain here, and cooler temps, 49 degrees Fahrenheit! Yesterday it was so windy and still in the 80s, that we had fire alerts in our area. So dry! I didn't walk yesterday or today but did the previous three days.  However, today, I am going to show you information about my trail I walk.

First photo is of a sign on the trail with a bit of history.

Our trail even has rules:

And it has a bike station for airing the tires.

And doggie doo baggies and trash can.

This part of the trail is really kept up quite nicely!

And we have sunflowers on the trail.

I met with friends last week at Panera, and just barely remembered to take a photo for this week's TSFT party over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.  I was drinking what Panera calls Earl Greyer hot tea.  We also were looking at this book that I may use for our daytime Bible study next Spring.  This author is who was the speaker at the retreat that I went to in September.  She is a very good speaker.

I have been crafting this past week, scrapbooking, card making and other papercraft projects.  I had commented to Iris that I had done a little planner type journaling and she encouraged me to share, even if I am not good at it yet.

I decided I will only do one when inspired, and not worry about doing it every day.  I am doing them in my mixed media 7"x10" journal, so far just on the backs of pages that I have already done.  I actually did this one while watching a video about doing them.  I thought I would use items I forget to use, like a variety of markers, crayons, etc.

Again, I got supplies out that are hidden in drawers; thus I forget to use them!  Gel pens, metalic pencils, distress crayons, etc.  I did use some stamps, the footsteps, the pumpkin & leaves.  The rest is doodling.

 We will see if I continue.  I think it will be fun if I just do it once in a while, when inspired.  I think it would feel too much like a job if I did it on a daily or even weekly basis.  

That is, it today.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week!

T Stands for Pickle Juice

 

 ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13 KJV

Whaaaat? you ask.  That is right, Pickle Juice!  A friend, a year or so ago, gave me a 6 pack of these little bottles when I was getting leg cramps quite often.    I had drunk most of them right after she had given them to me.  Just last week I thought I had drunk plenty of water, but was experiencing terrible cramps in my feet, legs, and even my hands were cramping terrible.  I remembered this last bottle in my refrigerator and drank it and got relief!  I don't know why, but it worked for me.  So I am sharing this as my drink for the T Stands for Tuesday party over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Bleubeard and Elizabeth.

I think Elizabeth will be amused with my TSFT ticket this week.   She has been missed, although Erika did a fabulous job filling in last week.  We all can't wait to hear about Eliabeth's jury duty adventure! :) 

With the cooler temps, I enjoyed a 4 mile walk 5 out of 7 days last week!  Not a lot of color on the trail yet, but a little:

But mostly still green:

I have found time to craft, too.  I have been working on my heritage album.  Here is a very simple layout using a branding strip for a border and a Hallmark greeting.  I decided to pair the Hallmark birthday greeting to my dad on a page with his baby photo.  I thought that a little bit of history worked well with the heritage album. I stamped the title and punched with a SU! label punch.

Thank you for stopping by.  Have a great week!