T Stands for Totals from CalvinBall

  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

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

Even though I could still do another project for CalvinBall today, the 31st, I am done.   My total points were 1020.  Right now, I am 14th in the standings.  First place has almost 4000 points!  My totals included 17 scrapbook layouts, 2 journal pages, 25 place setting favors for our Bible study (with help at our church craft day), 1 junk journal project, 21 cards.  I call that pretty good for one month, and there are some things I didn't bother to count.  I call it a good crafty month.

Since I featured this event in a blog post, I thought I would share this two-page layout I did, about the Chinese New Year event we attended.

I used the place mats on the layout as well as the chopstick sack and fortune, and the invitation.

I am in 14th place now, and sinking lower, but here it was in first place at the beginning. LOL Here is proof, a screen shot. 

And again, it was all for fun, the points don't mean anything!

My ticket for TSFT is in the layout photos.  Be sure and stop over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.  They are the host of T Stands for Tuesday.

Thanks for stopping by, I don't know what I will feel like after surgery or whether I can stop by and see you, but will try. 

Happy T Day.

Chicken, Chicken!

  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

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

No, we are not playing Chicken!  I had recently taken a photo with my phone from the car of a chicken, a giant chicken, and had to look up what it was all about?  What is this chicken doing, and why is it so large?  It turns out it is an advertisement for a Chicken Chicken Drive thru soon opening in this location.  I had never heard of it, but it turns out it is the second one to open in this area.  Probably that sign that I didn't notice or include in the photo, tells us this info.  But I had to research when I got home.  Anyway, giant chicken siting! For Elizabeth, it is at the corner of Mosley & 13th.  She has probably seen it already.

We were on our way to eat that day at Copper Kettle, one of our favorites.    He ate a Rueben, and I ate a healthy chicken salad, although I helped him with his fries.  And of course, we had lemon with water for our ticket to TSFT over at Bleubeard &  Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover where we all get together once a week to celebrate with our beverages. 

As I ate, this is what I was looking so, I had to take a photo of the pretty mural but had it on movie.  So, I have been down a rabbit hole to figure out how to just have a photo out of it.  Googled and found how to use the snip it on my PC.  Took me a whole bunch of tries.  Now, I have to go figure out where they are and how to delete the ones that were wrong!

You can see it was not busy, because we usually go in the middle of the afternoon when restaurants are busy.  We like it that way. :) Actually, there were two more areas that were full. 

This excursion was back in February.  I do have a photo below of how Spring has Sprung in our neighborhood.   These people even decorated their tree. Most the balls are on the ground however as it is so windy!

 No craft blog is complete without a craft, right?  I watched vidos on the four day Card Makers For Success Summit (CMSS) over the weekend.  One of the presenters gave us some free digitals, as many did.  Then I watched her class and made this card.  Her digital was really for children's cards, but I don't have a need for those at this time. So, I adapted it to be an adult card.  It is a special fold, to be slightly interactive for a child.  I think adults like interactive cards, too.  It just opens a few times.  The crafter was Alicia McNamara of Paper Craft Secrets.

Bottom right is what it looks like closed.  Bottom left is with one part opened, and top is open all the way.  I also submitted to CalvinBall and got 50 points, because if you had less than ten on Twisted G.R.O.S.S Day, then you automatically got 50.  LOL  All just for fun!

I don't know if I will post next week or not, but next Tuesday, I am having Reverse Shoulder Replacement.  My husband says I am going to come out of surgery with my arm on backwards. LOL

I hope not!  I hope it means that eventually I will have less pain and more mobility. Anyway, I am not sure of how much I will be able to blog for a while.  They say 6 weeks in a sling and 6 months for complete recovery.

Thanks for stopping by.  I will see you next time.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 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

These are Bible verses I try to pray each day.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We really don't celebrate, but this year we were invited to a St. Patrick's Day event at a senior living facility last week.  We were given coins with our assigned number and a piece of paper with the names of places we were to visit, like the library, model apartment, movie theatre, cafe, fitness room, etc.  At each place spread over three stories, we got our paper stamped, deposited our coin and ate a snack.  At one place, we had guitar music and tall green drinks with fancy straws which we got to keep.  The drink was a flavor of Hawaiian punch mixed with Sprite.  The idea was for us to see all these places in their facility, in hopes we would pay them a lot of money and move into it!  Also, they would draw coins out for prizes.  We weren't called, so I guess we didn't win.  They also had a photo op where they took our photos with a lady dressed all in green.  I haven't got that photo yet, and I didn't take one with my phone. :(

I took one photo at the event but first here is one of the fancy straws because you really don't see them that well in the next photo. 

And the drinks were really green, just doesn't show well here, no matter how I tried to fix the color.  This is also my ticket to Bleubeard & Elizabeth's TSFT over at Altered Book Lover.

This particular food was some kind of potato pancake.  Other food was fruit, like berries and grapes.  In the theatre they served a tiny cheesecake thing, and we were there too early for some kind of chicken thing.  The food wasn't all that impressive.  We did get a gold coin that when opened was chocolate.  I couldn't figure out how to open it, and decided it really wasn't anything to eat, but hubby broke it and there was chocolate in it. :)

Today I also am showing a journal page I did for Art Journal Journey, CalvinBall and ACOT Art Journal Sketch challenge.

For AJJ the theme was Home Sweet Home, and on the right side of the page I show that I am thankful for my home sweet home and that it is my happy place, and I do count it as one of my blessings.

I used the 2page sketch as given on A Cherry on Top. For Calvin Ball I think I got 34 points.  Again, the points are just for fun and inspiration. 

Points: 2 pages, star, date, real or faux stitching, frame, heart, polka dot, stripes, sketch, handwriting, film strip, hexagon, circle, grid, coffee or tea, stamp, pink, flower, fussy cut, splatter, butterfly, banner, bling, 2 social media shares, 2 blogs., among other items!  We have over 100 items to choose from for points, and we can double dip which means, the circle with stitched die counts two points, for stitching and for being a circle, except on "no double dipping day".

For the background on my pages, I played with some new Distress Mica Sprays from Tim Holz.  I had picked them up at JoAnn's which is closing.  They were only 20% off though.  I am sorry they are closing, but I sure didn't think they were having much of a sale, and everything was about gone in the store where I was.

All of the items were just in my stash.  So, I just used what I had already cut and stamped.  The top stamp is Paula Best, and I don't even have it anymore, but found it in a container with pre stamped and cut images. I love using up stuff that I didn't want to toss but saved! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure and check out the links above for inspiration.

See you next time.

T Stands for Time for Warmer Weather

 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

The above is a prayer I try to pray every day.

Hello!  Happy Day!   76 degrees F outside today!  I am so ready for warmer weather.  I didn’t go outside though because I have crafted all day.  I have made 16 cards using Crafty Al’s March sketch.  But I am personalizing each one.  I am trying to get my birthday cards made for April.  These are mostly masculine, as I never have enough.  I make mostly flowery feminine cards, so have some of them on hand.  I also am still doing CalvinBall as it is for the whole month of March.

Here are some of the cards I have made today.  All the little details added up to a lot of points for me today.

Can you see they are all one sketch?  Which one is your favorite?

I already know who some of these go to, and one has already been sent.  I also am busting a Graphic 45 6x6 pad of paper I have had in my stash for a couple of years!  By using all these bits and pieces, I am really using stash.  It hardly makes a dent in my “Craft collection “. LOLNow for my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth!

From the archives, here is a photo from a dinner on our last cruise.

This was taken on February 14, 2019.  It was a Hawaiian cruise.  It was fabulous!

 Happy T Day to the t-gang!  Thank you all for stopping by. See you next time.

T Stands for Time for CalvinBall

 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

The above is a prayer I try to pray every day.

Yes, it is time for CalvinBall!  Every March in recent years, I have taken part in this great scrapping event.  It is free and like a game!  Most of all it is great inspiration to get you scrapping those photos you always meant to scrap!  The way it works is Alice adds permanent and temporary items to a list, daily.  If you use those items, you get points.  The fun really begins when you see how many of the items you can get on your layout, or a card, or a junk journal page, or whatever craft project you are working on.  Another fun element is that some days the temporary items are removed, that is why they are called temporary!  If you want to make something with that item, you better do it today, because tomorrow it may be gone.  So fun to see how many points you can get!  And March is usually a big month for me to get craft projects done and to use up all that stash!  For example, ribbon is on the list.  I have drawers of it and forget to use it.  This makes me use it!  I do try to use it in a way that helps my page or project.  Here is more information: CalvinBall

As she adds to both lists every day, (and sometimes removes items), by the end of March you have maybe hundreds of items from which to choose and ultimately get 100 points!  So fun!

Here is layout I did yesterday: From the permeant list I used label, selfie, date, washi, ribbon, & frame.  From the temporary list I used green, sloth, white pen, music notes, and because I shared it on two sites, plus my blog, I also got points for a total of 15 points.

I used washi tape with music notes, and that is 2 points because we can double dip, unless it is a day we can't! This layout is a selfie I took when Be Real (a social app our family got me on) popped up and the selfie included Alice on our Zoom that day.  Oh, and we got points for being at the Zoom, too.   Also note, the sloth ribbon!  I have had that in my stash for several years, and it had never been used!  I like it paired with "Enjoy the moment.''  LOL Oh, well, so fun.  I also entered this in the ACOT 1-3-5-7 challenge.  I used one photo, 3 pieces of washi tape, 3 pieces of drywall tape, 5 different printed papers, (using up scraps) and 7 sloths!

You see my ticket to TSFT on my layout?  

Thanks for stopping by and for saying "hi" so I know you were here.

T Stands for Friends

   Delight thyself also in the LORD;

and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

⁵ Commit thy way unto the LORD;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalms 37:4-5

Hello everyone and happy Monday.  We are getting ready for another snowstorm here!  What a Winter!  Thankfully we can stay in and craft!  I am having a fun time, as friends have stopped in for a visit for a few days.  And what is better than that?  Oh, yes, a friend who also papercrafts! LOL We even walked today on my trail!  Tomorrow it will be 8 degrees, today it was 31 when we went walking, but didn't feel too bad. 

Here is my ticket to the T Stands for Tuesday.  (Be sure and stop over at Altered Book Lover and our hostess, Elizabeth hosts the weekly blog hop.)

Comfort food at one of our favorite locally owned diners.  Livingstons has been around 1910.  We go to one of the newer ones.  It has fabulous homemade food, great service and is very senior friendly.  A tagline on it's website is "it brings back memories of a simpler time."  

Thank you for stopping by and hope you are warm where you are.  

T Stands for Touring Day

   Delight thyself also in the LORD;

and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

⁵ Commit thy way unto the LORD;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalms 37:4-5

By touring, I mean running around all over the city, not really, just downtown, where I normally do not go.  It is our last day before a snowstorm, and then another behind it, too.  I took advantage of the day and I met a friend for a brunch of soup and homemade cinnamon roll, no photos.  We then went to three places I wanted to go to for shopping for a Valentine gift.  First, I stopped and took a couple of photos of two more Keepers replicas to add to my collection.  

One was right outside the diner where we ate, and the other was around the corner in front of a bank.  I think there must be a couple hundred of these replicas of our Keeper of the Plains around Wichita. I linked you to the Wikipedia that tells you about our Keeper if you didn't know about it.

After I got my photos, my friend and I headed to Spice Merchant.  Elizabeth has been talking about this for ages, so I wanted to see for myself.  My friend got some coffee for her grandson, and I found a mug for me, my Valentine's gift to myself.  My favorite one cracked last week when I poured hot water into it.  I had used it for several years; don't know why it finally did this.  Anyway, I looked for the one that said Foxy that Elizabeth saw and photographed, but the clerk couldn't find it for me.  So, I got this one.  It is dishwasher safe and microwavable.

They had added the extra room as a teashop since I had been there many years before.  I don't know where the photos went that I took of the entry way into the teashop but can't find them.  These mugs were out in the main part of the shop.

But inside the teashop near the windows, they had these stained-glass windows with the China imbedded in them.  I thought they were pretty neat.

Next, we headed to Cocoa Dolce Chocolatier, and I forgot to take photos. They make upscale chocolate, and I was able to pick up a small gift.

Next, we headed to The Nifty Nut House and found more tasty stuff!  I did take a photo of the entrance:

It is huge and they have every kind of chocolate and candy you can think of to buy by the pound or half pound.  

By now, my friend was tired, so I took her back to her car at the diner.  Then I went into a bookstore there.  Oh, my goodness, they had lots of goodies.  I found some items, but when I looked at the price put them back! LOL Nothing, I needed anyway.  I took one photo in the bookstore. For our dog and cat lovers, I noticed these.

Finally, after a stop at the post office, I got home to a package: it was a prize I won. It was a surprise as I didn't know what I won.  I happen to like 49 and Market and there were several items from them.  The 12 by 12 pad of Spring paper has 40 double sided sheets of premium quality paper.  I know I will like at least one side of each. Pretty nice prize.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure and stop at Altered Book Lover and see Elizabeth.  It is our once-a-week tea party or TSFT.