T Stands for Trouble

Overcome Power of Fear study: Mathew 10:31 "Fear ye not therefore, ya are of more value than many sparrows."

T does stand for trouble today, internet trouble.  Recently my laptop doesn't always let me online.  All other devices in our home have no trouble getting online, so our wireless is fine.  But several times a day my laptop tells me it can't connect.  I restart and  stand on my head, not really.  But I feel like I am trying all kinds of things, you know the drill , running the task manager, etc.  Then, I come in here right before bed, and now I can get online!  Go figure.  This is a great case for scheduling my blog ahead of time, but I am not much good at doing things ahead of time! 

I have been junk journaling again.  I made tags for a mini challenge in our challenge for Dear Julie Julie September Stashbuster Junk Journal Challenge.

The finished products, bases with 6 added items.

I began with 6 patchwork shapes I had made previously for my bases.  I added quotes from old grandmother calendar, torn music page, photo stickers, lace from scrap, fiber, and eyelets.  We are busting our stash and I was glad to use 5 eyelets from my stash of hundreds! LOL

Close up of finished tags.  I love those little photo stickers.  I have a couple of sheets of these that I purchased years ago at a garage sale.  Using stash! 

I thought those calendar quotes went well with these adorable children.

I might use these in future junk journals, or on cards or a scrapbook page.

Now for my ticket to Elizabeth's TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover.  I just have to have a drink related part to my post.  I remembered to take photos when we went out to eat this week.  It is a Home Grown local restaurant with comfort food for sure, just breakfasts and lunches, which is great for us.

We both had sausage, not just any sausage, but Yoder sausage, from a nearby Amish community. It all was delicious!  The food, service and décor were all great.  Just a little noisy, but we were in a kind of side, so not so noisy where we were.

My husband had the sausage & gravy & biscuits, and I had the sausage 2 eggs over easy with French toast and strawberries.  Of course, a sign of the times, you see my mask on the table.

This photo is for Elizabeth; it was on the wall right beside me.

Loved this artwork on the wall I faced while eating.  Sunflowers again!  I am sunflower crazy all of a sudden.  I guess I always knew  I loved sunflowers.

Actually the name of the restaurant, on the wall by our table.  Looks like grass in the letters.

I did want to share some photos of my walks this week, but it is late, so I will just share the one from this morning of the double rainbow.

Happy T Day to all the T Gang.  Have a great week!

TSFT & Art Journal Journey

Overcome Power of Fear study:  

Ps. 27:1  "The Lord is my light and my salvation;  whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

Blogger is being obnoxious today!  Finally found a place that gives you choice of "compose view" or "HTML view".  Somehow it had gotten on that later view.  I didn't know that even existed and I have never noticed it before! LOL  

Oh, Good afternoon!  It is time for another TSFT  post.  Today I am also joining Art Journal Journey with a vintage scrapbook page.  I read the rules, and I think a scrapbook page works because it is 12"x12" page.  Elizabeth and I discussed this and I think she said it was okay.  :)

I have begun a heritage album for my sister.  This is the 4th page; the other pages are an actual family tree with names and dates on them. I will try to share other pages with you in the future.   I don't think she knows any of this information or seen any of the photos before, so I hope it is a great surprise and treasure for her.  She won't see it on my blog, I don't think....

The flowers were cut out of an old piece of lace I had.  The frame and corners are just from my 20 year old scrapbooking stash.  The letters were rub ons that I then punched out with a small circle punch.

Words from Tim Holtz

The little tickets are from Tim Holtz.

Tim Holtz people.

I just wanted to keep it simple as the photo  of our great grandparents is the real star.

I did walk this morning, later than normal, but even though it is already 90 now, the breeze was cool.  

I usually walk two mile East and back on the Red Bud trail which has been redone to be a concrete sidewalk, but today, I went west, which is gravel.  It was shadier, and not as busy, so I enjoyed it.  

A nice trail, but I am still in the city, after all, as you can see below.

Through one of the openings I could see a mixture of rural and urban, but for the most part it is quiet on the trail except for the birds singing.  It was a lovely walk.

I am  still am into sunflowers, so below is a photo of the door to my beauty shop.  She had this wonderful decoration, like a bottle cap. :)

This afternoon, I am working on addressing October birthday cards and writing in this week's challenges in my older journal on the right.  On the left is my newer sunflower journal which will start in November.  I am already beginning to write challenges in it, and the birthdays for those months. It occurs to me to include the Art Journal Journey, TIOT and Tuesday tag challenges in my journal.  Maybe I would remember to do them more often!  

 I also cut some frames to send my crafty friends in their birthday cards. 

Oh, and here is my beverage for TSFT in my favorite cup.

Happy T Day to the T Gang!  Thank you to all of you for stopping by.  I appreciate your comments.  Have a great week!

T Stands For Tea

 Hebrew 13:6  "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear"

Hello readers!  Here I am posting again, on a Monday evening.  I am sharing some of my lesson from church last night, and some art and a photo for the T Gang.

Last night at church we had a missionary who talked on the topic of "How To Overcome The Power of  Fear", which is very timely. So many people in our world today are afraid of so many things: bad news, sickness, loneliness, failure, and even death.   People are afraid of so many things either real or even  imagined.   Fear can cause physical and mental illnesses.  Our missionary listed some ways to overcome the power that fear can have over us.  I just wanted to share them with you.

How to overcome the power fear?

II Chron. 20: 3-19

1. See the Lord in prayer and fasting verses 3-4

2. Trust God's sovereignty  verses 5-6

3. Trust God's faithfulness  verses 7-9

4. Hear what God has to say  (See what he says in his word, below) verses 15-17

5. Worship God even when afraid. verses 18-19                           

Their are 365 mentions of "Fear not" in the Bible.  Here are a few:

For the fear of being alone:  Is. 41:10 "Fear thou not; For I am with thee"

For the fear of bad news:  Ps. 112:7-8 "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord

Fear of the devil or death:  Heb. 2:14 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."

I plan on doing a search for all the mentions of fear nots.  There would be one for each day of the year.  I hope you will do this search a long with me.  Let me know what you think.

I am carrying on the theme of sunflowers again this week I am afraid.  I have started a September Junk Journal , and guess what?  It is sunflower themed! LOL

So, I am making this journal for myself as a journal to keep track of challenges

Here are a few photos: 

I am making the cover out of an old tablecloth and a file folder.  It will be soft.  I like soft covers rather than hard book covers.

I am using Dear Julie Julie digital "Frosted Sunflowers"

I found these papers at a craft sale cheap and will be using these papers in my journal.

We went out to eat for our 55th anniversary, and of course I forgot to take photos.  I hear you laughing, Elizabeth.  LOL  So, I took this photo of my warm ups of the left overs.  Delicious.  I ordered sausage & shrimp with pasta and pesto sauce at the Red Rock Canyon Grill. It was just as good the second day as when we ordered it in the restaurant!   I didn't even know what pesto sauce was, but I do now, and love it.  Elizabeth can I make it with the basil I froze?  Would that be the same as fresh?  Also, in the photo I have t bag sacks and loose tea.  I was thinking of filling the bags ahead of time because I haven't been doing it as I go as I am usually not that patient when I want a cup of tea.  It is still sitting on my dining room table; as I haven't done it yet.  At least the photo is my ticket to the party over at Albred Book Lover where Elizabeth hostesses TSFT.

Well, that is it for today.  Hope everyone has a wonderful week!  Thanks for stopping by and for your comments. 

T Stands For Time For the T Gang

 Romans 1:16  "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation  to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

Good afternoon!  Another hot day in Kansasland!   However, I still managed to get in  a walk early enough to get home by nine, before it was too hot! On my walk this morning I noticed sunflowers beside the trail and  I thought of Nicole  as she told us last week the wind blown down  her sunflowers. So that thought inspired my Blog, today.

 For those that don't know, Kansas is the Sunflower State.  It is our state flower.

 I saw these on my walk and had to photograph them.  Someone must have planted them along our rail to trail.  After I started thinking about it, I wondered if they were black eyed susans. I looked up online and sunfowers have bigger leaves, like in my photo and tend to be taller.  These were over 6 feet tall.  So, I think they are sunflowers.

Here is a photo of  what are definitely sunflowers.  This was from a road trip through Kansas near Tallgrass  Prairie National Preserve in 2016..

Here are some better photos than I could take from the internet of sunflowers in Kansas.

I think sunflowers are beautiful.  One of my favorite flowers.

And since this is supposedly a craft blog, here is a Z Fold Sunflower card, (keeping the theme).  This is one of the cards I made for our Dare To Get Dirty Challenges on SplitcoastStampers earlier in the month.  The papers are Stampin' Up.  I used a pierced rectangle die to cut the one panel.  I added a sticker flower and stamped the sentiment which is River City Rubber Works.  I sure miss that company.  They were right here in Wichita.

And here is a photo of my Sunflower Tea pot, which I had to look for.  I was afraid for a few minutes that I had given it away when we downsized!  This is for my ticket to TSFT where we post something drink related on our post in order to join Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands For Tuesday.  Some of us post on Mondays because it is already Tuesday over seas where some of the T Gang are.

I hope you enjoyed this Sunflower Post.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful week!