T Stands for Time

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;

and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Psalms 33:12

Yes, T stands for Time!  How quickly it passes for example.  I haven't posted since the 4th of July!  I don't know how that happens.  I have done quite a bit this Summer, just not blogging.  I traveled out of state to our granddaughter's wedding and had so much fun.  It was joy to be with young people and our family!  Then we have had family here, and I am lovin' that!  I have made a couple of junk journals this Summer.  I have been reading quite a bit.  Our daughter recommended a new author.  That is always fun to have a new book list!  Oh, and we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary this month!  

So, here is a photo of the cover of a 60-page, 2 signature junk journal I made as a birthday gift for a friend.  I covered a gutted book cover with fabric from an old table cloth.

Inside front cover.

A page inside.

This is the middle between the two signatures.  Left side is a page covered with tissue, and the right is some brail paper.  The digitals are Jule Dear Julie.

Another page, this one covered with napkin.

And the inside of the back cover.

That is some of what I have been doing.  Next is my ticket for TSFT over at Altered Book Lover where  I think Elizabeth will be surprised to see me! 

Another one of my favorite mugs from Spice Merchant.

Thanks for stopping by!  I really appreciate hearing from you.  Do you remember me?  Since it has been so long!  I have missed you.  

Happy 4th!

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;

and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Psalms 33:12

I just thought I would post a Happy 4th to my USA readers!  This is a special anniversary of our independence as it is our 250th!  I am so proud to be an American and so thankful for my country.  Last Sunday in Church we sang some great patriotic hymns and I included the words on two of them:  

God of Our Gathers:  written to celebrate our 100th Anniversary by Daniel C. Roberts

Battle Hymn of the Republic: Written by Julia Ward Howe during the Civel War

America the Beautiful:  written by Katharine Lee Bates and originally titled Pikes Peak, 4th of July 1895

1 O beautiful for spacious skies

for amber waves of grain;

for purple mountain majesties

above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed his grace on thee,

and crown the good with brotherhood

from sea to shining sea.

America: "My Country Tis of Thee" written by Samuel F. Smith 1832

1. My country,' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring! 2. My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills; my heart with rapture thrills, like that above. 3. Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song; let mortal tongues awake; let all that breathe partake; let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 4. Our fathers' God, to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light; protect us by thy might, great God, our King.

I was crying by the time we got finished.  Despite everything that is happening, I love my country and am thankful we live here!

Since I am posting anyway, I thought I would post another card for the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge: Water Fun Midway Inspiration.

I colored this House Mouse image with an assortment of brands of pencils and added Glossy Accents and stamped the sentiment from a SU! set on a MFT die cut cloud.  The wonky rectangle white panel is a die from MFT. (MY Favorite Things)

Here are some photos of how we spent the 4th of July in 2008:

Watching the 4th of July parade in Ketchikan, Alaska from our ship

And here is a scrapbook page of how we spent 4th of July in 2022.

This year, hubby is grilling hamburgers out for the two of us.  You can see that is my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover.

Happy 4th!

Thanks for stopping by!

See you next time.

T stands for Another New Technique and House Mouse

 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Hebrews 12:14

Good afternoon!  I hope you are all doing well!  I am celebrating the new House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge for Water Play or Anything Goes.

I am sharing with you my House Mouse card: Colored with assortment of brands of pencils.  I added Glossy Accents to the fishbowl and splatters of silver ink.

Next are cards I made with a new to me technique called Double Vision.  I used Graphic 45 Designer paper from By the Sea Pad.  These are from a scrap.  To make this card, I cut 1/2" strips of the part of the paper I wanted to use.  Then you glue every other strip down leaving room for the strips in between.  Then you put those on with dimensional tape.  I added a charm to the lighthouse scene and a stamp to the seaside one. 

Which of the three cards is your favorite?

The only thing left is to share a drink for the T party over at Altered Book Lover, hosted by Bleubeard & Elizabeth.  This is our drink of choice when we got out to eat.

Sorry to be a little late, but here it is still Tuesday! LOL

Thanks for stopping by; I appreciate you all.

T Stands for Still Tuesday here

 

 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

Hello, hello!  I hope you all are having a great week so far!  I thought I would do a quick late post.  I am joining TSFT and House Mouse and Art Journal Journey.

In reverse order, here is my entry for the Art Journal Journey Challenge this month with theme of houses or buildings.  I just finished a junk journal for a very dear friend who is very ill, and this is one of the pages with a windmill:

and here is the cover and some other pages:

Also, I am joining in with the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge for the first time, with this sweet image.  The theme was anything goes.

And, lastly, my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover where Bleubeard and Elizabeth host a blog hop every Tuesday. Just have a drink reference on your post.  Here is mine.  Do you think I was double dipping?  I just forgot that I had brought coffee home in the to go cup from Bible study this morning.  I was really just having tea while watching a video on you tube.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hopefully, you will post a comment so I will know you were here.  Love our little one sided chats. LOL

See you next time!

A Play with Mixed Media

 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

I have been playing today with mixed media.  I had watched Nadine Milton (Hop-A-Long Studios on YouTube Channel) on the Art Expression Summit.  I used her ideas for this page.  I stamped, watercolored, stenciled with acrylic paint, and collaged with a napkin and with stamped and die cut acetate pieces.  I just totally had fun!  I am submitting this for the Art Journal Journey Challenge to use birds this month.  Thank you, Mia.  There was a bird on the napkin I used, which by the way is from our napkin swap a few years ago for TSFT.  Also, there are birds in the stamped image with the lighthouse.  I also submitted for the ACOT Rewind Challenge of the Mixed Media Hidden Journaling Challenge and to SplitcoastStampers for their Free4All challenge to use paint and for their Mix-Ability challenge to use the letters of the word Grads for elements in our project:

G- green
R- round, the stamped acetate pieces are circles.
A- acrylic paint, acetate
D- daubed paint
S- stamping, stenciling

I used Ken Oliver Color Bursts which I have had for years!  I used Stampers Anonymous TH Leger Script background stamps, Stampendous stamps, Art 101 acrylic paints, napkin, and acetate, using Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and Stazon Jet Black ink.

I hope you are having a great week!  Playing in my craft room today was very relaxing.  I hope you have something you like to do for relaxation.  

Here is a photo of another relaxing element in my life:  A cup of tea.  (photo from archives).  I am posting this for my ticket to TSFT.  However, I am posting early so I can get in on May's AJJ Challenge. 

9Thanks for stopping by everyone. 

T Stands for Try Try Again!

 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

 I will try to post a video from my hike at the Junk Journal Retreat, or as we called it, God’s Gathering.  I tried last week but couldn’t figure it out.  I wanted to share that one thing from my fun time.  Because, not only did we craft, but we shared our junk, ate some great meals, and took some day trips, including the hike at Elk City Reservoir, a visit to Little House on the Prairie Museum, and one day to several flea markets! 

Okay, finally, after trimming most of the content I got about 30 seconds of it.  Apparently, that is all I can load.  But, I think this will give you an idea of our hike.  We did two, and this one was the easiest.  The other was more rocky.

Here are some stills:

This is called The Keyhole, and my photo doesn't do it justice, because looking through the keyhole you are looking down into a gully hole like place.  One of the hikers went down a little way into it.  Not me!

We are up high looking down to the lake.

Me at the overlook.

Here is our guide: Dan (Monk's Reflections on YouTube)

Another Day we went to see the Little House on the Prairie Museum near our event.

I Liked these signs with quotes from Laura Ingalls Wilder

I learned a lot about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her books that I never knew.  This was well worth the visit.  

I did take a photo of one of the Flea Markets, just because. LOL

The Rusty Nail

More than rusty nails around here!

I took photos while waiting for everyone else to check out with their purchases.

I had so much fun at The Gathering, (God’ Gathering is what we called it.) I met ladies from all over the country, including Florida, Arizona, Indiana, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri , and of course, Kansas.  I made new friends!  We enjoyed crafting together.  A couple of the ladies led games and challenges and had drawings for prizes.  I won my ticket for TSFT party over at Bleubeard’s and Elizabeth’s at Altered Book Lover!

Below is a photo of my messy desk when I was making pockets for my friends at The Gathering.  There was a total of 20 of us.

I will share some more photos next time as I have shared too many already!

That's, it for this week.  I hope you have a great week.  Thanks for stopping by.

Oh, and.............................

T Stands for Birds Singing

 "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?" Matthew 6:26-27

Good afternoon!  I am scheduling this for Monday afternoon, but am actually writing it Saturday night.  I will be out of town at my junk journal retreat.  But I will be checking in.  I had some wonderful walks this week and wanted to share what I saw and heard Thursday morning on my walk.  I am going to try to insert a short video with sound.

I had a lovely walk!  Here are some more photos:

Honeysuckle, I think.

For the first two miles I saw no one but the wildlife!  This was Thursday morning.  But Wednesday morning, I went to the dentist, and that is where I see Ruby.

She has her own calendar, and April is her birthday month.

Here she is for real!

And here is the photo in the ladies room above a basket of complementary toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Isn't she just too adorable.  It makes it worth it to see her when you go to the dentist.  She is quite the celebrity!

That is it for this week.  Thank you for stopping by and I will try to stop by and see you all.  See you next time.