Friend and Monica

  "Praise the Lord.  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good:  his love endures forever." Ps. 106:1

I did a card for House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, Celebrate It!

Stamp House Mouse Berry Birdie (Friend & Monica)

I colored image with Copics and die cut with MFT Wonky Rectangles.  I added gold twine, and glossy accents to the berry.  The sentiment is a digital.

Challenges:

1. House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge #393- celebrate or anything goes.

2. Splitcoaststampers MMTP778 Nature's Beauty

3. Splitcoaststampers F4A366 In The Garden

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T Stands for Trail Time

 "Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul; thank you Lord for making me whole.  Thank you, Lord, for giving to me your great salvation so rich and free."

" When peace like a river attendeth my way; when sorrows like sea billows roll.  Whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say it is well, it is well with my soul.  It is well, it is well; it is well with my soul"

I got my time on the trail early this morning. I started out at 6:30 a.m.  It is a good thing too, because it is in the 90s this afternoon.  We are in for temps in the 3 digits later this week.  I will try to get started even earlier tomorrow, because I usually walk about an hour and a half, walking 4 and 1/2 miles and I have Bible study at ten and need time for a shower before I go.  But I love my time on the trail.  Besides, praying, singing praises, and working on my Bible verse memorization, (a couple of the songs I sing are above.) I also, meet dogs. :)

Today I met this trio of doggies.

The small dog is Stell and she is a Shih-a-poo.  The middle size dog is Henry and he is a cavapoo.

The largest dog is Lucy and she is an Airedale Terrier.

On the web it says that the Cavapoo is a designer breed dog consisting of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Poodle. 

Also, the on the web info says Shis-a-poo is a Poodle and a Shih Tzu, described again as a designer breed.  The shih tzu is a toy dog breed originating from Tibet and believed to be bred from the Pekingese and the Lhasa Apso.

The Airedale Terrier is said to be the king of the terriers, and also the largest. 

I see these dog trio most days that I walk.  Everytime I see them coming, I just have to smile.  I think the little one would have come home with me this morning.  They are just all three so cute! Elizabeth has her Friday smiles; these are my morning smiles!

Speaking of Elizabeth, she is our hostess over at Altered Book Lover for our TSFT party.  What is my ticket this week?  Here is a card I made several years ago.  I don't even have this stamp set anymore.  But I do still have that embossing folder which is very versatile!

Happy T Day everyone!  Thank you for stopping by.  See you next time.

T Stands for Doing What I Love

 "Praise the Lord.  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good:  his love endures forever." Ps. 106:1

Hello Readers & T-Gang! I have been watching videos of free lessons they gave away on the Planner Summit that I subscribed to last week.  Lots of inspiration!  Of course, they want to sell you stuff, but I just get the free items they offer, and lots of inspiration!  I even got a lesson and print offs for making a prayer journal, so have started that.  So much to do and so little time! LOL

 I do love playing in my craft room, and today that is what I did.  I played with inks and stencils and finished up a journal page for the **Art*Journal*Journey* All about the Numbers Challenge this month.  I started the page at Elizabeth's a couple of weeks ago.  I used her background technique of Stazon ink drops in alcohol.  Then I used oxide inks through stencils.  I did a little stamping, added a Tim Holtz quote and a leftover scrapbook photo I had.

Although I did get up and walk at 6:30 to 8:00 this morning, I didn't take any photos, but have some from the first part of June.

A selfie shadow photo.  

Sunrise

And, now my ticket to TSFT over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's.  It is a photo I took of the huge strawberry on my plate at a recent retirement party at our church.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful week!  See you next time!

T Stands for Tea at Elizabeth's

 "Praise the Lord.  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good:  his love endures forever." Ps. 106:1

I didn't take any photos!  But I went for a play date at Elizabeth's.  She had some lovely tea for me.  I already forgot the name.  It was a black tea, and it had rose in it's name.  I really liked it! Besides tea, she served me lunch!  She even bought meat for me!  She doesn't eat meat!  So, I had a lovely little lunch on her sunflower plates, and sunflower place mats, with a sunflower napkin.  Of course, I fogot to take photos.

So, here is a photo of the napkin (that I refused to use so I could bring it home with me to use in a future craft project.  LOL  Some of you will understand about that!) along with a photo of her sunflower table off her blog.

We also played with Stazon inks and alcohol.  This is the project I started  that day.  It is a Stazon & alcohol background.  I made several on the 12x12 paper she provided but also did some in my journal and on watercolor card stock.  She invited me to play with numbers for the **Art*Journal*Journey* Challenge.  I had taken some oxide inks and stencils and used them on this page also by stamping, and using sponge brushes thru the stencils.  Today, I finished up the page with some stamping , pasting, and more stenciling with modeling paste.  The faces are Crafty Individuals by Magenta stamps.   I am looking for my style....

Here are photos in Blogger's order, not mine!  The last photo shows the whole page.

Elizabeth and I took time to have a good visit, also.  She is a fabulous hostess.  She does too much work preparing for my visit.

Talking of Elizabeth here is my ticket to the TSFT this week over at Altered Book Lover.

 A couple of weeks ago we went to another Italian restaurant; those are our favorites.  We just like Italian food.  It was Carrabba's.   Here is a photo showing the scrumptious food and my water.  We go around two, so we get the lunch special, and it is our lunch and dinner.  I actually took a lot home and had it around 6 for supper.  This was something called Lunch Trio for $10.99.  I chose for my trio, soup, Italion salad,  & Meatballs & Ricotta .  I can't remember what the soup was called but it was delicious, and it was a bowl not a cup!

Hubby had a cup of soup I think and manicotti, maybe.  I can't remember.  But we ate all our soup and bread, and a little of the other stuff, then took home plenty! LOL We loved the food, and the service!  It was a great experience.  We had been a couple of times, when everything was terrible!  I was glad we tried it again.  Maybe it has different management, now. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Welcome to the T Gang!  Have a great week!  See you next time!