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.

T Stands for Chinese New Year!

 

  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

I finished another journal and gave it as a gift to a friend at church for her birthday.  I pretty much personalized special it for her, with her color, and favorite poem, and some things I knew she liked.  She loved it.  I will share some photos of it.

I constructed the cover by sewing the fabric onto a padded mailer.  This fabric was from my stash and was perfect!  I have no idea where I got it but used every bit of it for this journal.

Inside of front cover with pocket.  I made a writing board with an 

Edith Wray digital(Scrapbooking with Me on YouTube) on the front and the words of the song she liked on the back.  Also showing a recycled journal page. 

Below is the back of the recycled journal page and another of Edith Wray’s digitals.

This is a recycled page from a very old hymnal that I bought at a garage sale.

This is another digital and some braille paper.

This is the back of the braille paper, more digitals and I added some stickers I had, and some 49 and Market elements.

This is a recycled envelope, doily on left. On right I created a belly band with one of the digitals and put a bookmark I made under it.  I stamped a quote from her favorite poem, Footprints on it. Also, this is a full page pocket and I put a large photo of us in it.

This is the last page with pocket with a small notepad I made her, and bookmark.

This is just a couple of the pages as it had 60.

For my ticket to TSFT, I have some photos of a Chinese New Year event we went to.  And there might be a beverage in one of the photos.

This was supposed to be a video but couldn't get it on here.

The food was delicious, and the entertainment fun!

Well, it was a gorgeous day here except for a cool wind. Now a cold front coming in!  I did walk a little. Be sure and check out T Stands for Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

T Stands for Totally done with January Junk Journal!

  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

Yes, I am totally done with this month's Dear Julie Junk Journal Challenge!

It has 60 pages with lots of room for journaling.  The above are a couple of favorite pages.

My ticket from the archives for TSFT. I found this from February our 2018 Hawaiian cruise.

Happy T Day everyone!  Thanks for stopping by!

T Stands for Totally Junk Journaling

 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

I meant to post earlier, but got distracted with this month's Julie, Dear Julie Junk Journal Challenge!  I have been working all day on it.  I am making a completely different kind of junk journal this month.  I am recycling an old 2 ring photo album into a junk journal.  I am really excited about it because it is so different.  It is even smaller than usual.  I made eight of the challenge pages today.

We are to use Julie, Dear Julie's digitals in our journals:

Photo album:

Double Pocket page made from recycled calendar.

Page from wallpaper with side pocket:

Page with recycled gift bag with side tuck and top tuck:

Well, that is what I have been doing!  Now for my ticket to TSFT over at Altered Book Lover, where Bleubeard and Elizabeth host a blog hop every Tuesday.  T stands for Tuesday.  Get it?  All you have to do to join the hop is have a drink reference in your blog post.  Oh, and I know it is Monday here in the states, but it is Tuesday for a lot of our bloggers in other countries.  Feel free to join or to blog hop and see what they all are doing.

Back to my ticket: It did warm up to almost 40 a couple of days this past week.  We took advantage and ventured out to eat at one of our favorite comfort food diners for comfort food!  So good!  We didn't have to eat but one meal that day. LOL

I appreciate your visit.  Please let me know you were here.  I hope you all have a wonderful week.  We are in the deep freeze again with our temps, and we even had snow flurries again today.  Our other snow is still here.   So, my parting words are STAY WARM!

T Stands for This & That

⁴ 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

 We still have a lot of snow.  I can't remember when I was away from home.  Maybe when I went to the doctor on January 3rd?  My husband went to the store one day in between our snowstorms and it was terrible out then.  He didn't try going out anymore except to shovel.  Our neighbor shoveled the first snow, but hubby has been doing it since.  He has our driveway clear, but our deck is a lost cause because the sun never hits it. 

I have been working on a scrapbook layout today, even playing with stencils and modeling paste. The photo shows how much the snow was coming down on Thursday, January 9th.  I couldn't even get the door open!

Now for my ticket to TSFT over at Altered Book Lover with our hostess Elizabeth, and our host Bleubeard. We have to include a drink reference on our blog post as an entry to her blog hop party. This is difficult since we haven't been anywhere.  I will dig into my archives.   Here is a photo of a teapot card from 2016! LOL  You are invited to stop over and visit the ones who link up to the party.

Thanks for stopping by.  Please leave a comment so I know you were here.  I really appreciate it. Hopefully, I will see you next week!

Happy New Year

⁴ 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

Last post, I named Snow.  I should have saved it for this week!  Here is what it looked like yesterday at our house.  I couldn't get the door open wide enough to take a good photo, and I couldn't take it through the glass as you can see.

Today after early temps and feel likes of 0 and -5, the sun is shining.  My husband who is elderly like me, went out the garage to begin shoveling.  He was standing there as the garage door opened, and surprise, there was our neighbor shoveling our driveway!  My husband asked, "what are you doing?"  He said, "helping you".  He did the whole driveway and most of our walk to our porch.  How wonderful!  Hubby did a little and cleaned off our porch.  Well, the neighbor is nice for sure, but also about 60 years younger than my hubby!  We haven't got to know them really well as they just moved in a couple of months ago.  I took them a plate of goodies at Christmas; I am sure glad I did!  Thank you, God, for good neighbors.  We live on the right side of the street, so with the sun shining, even though it is still 13 degrees out, it should hit that concrete and do some major melting.  I think we had over three and a half inches on ice, as it had rained and sleeted first.  So everything is closed here, and we had alerts on our cell phones to warn us not to get out on the roads!  So we are in for a while.  Temps are going to remain below freezing and with feel likes below 0!  So, we continue to leave cupboards open at nights under sinks and leave the faucets dripping!  

Okay, enough about the weather!  Let's craft.  One thing about the weather being this way, can't go anywhere, can't go walking, so it is great for crafting.  I have been playing today.  

 

I found this note I had taken when watching videos sometime, don't ask what video as I have no clue:

So instead of cleaning, which is what I had started out doing, I tried this technique:

So, first I looked in my gel print drawer and came up with this piece, which I thought was quite ugly, so I didn't think it would matter covered in black:

Then I found an old embossing folder that I wouldn't care if the black ink ruined it.  (it didn't, it washed off real easy)

I then inked it up with VersaFine Black Onyx ink.

I had cut down to size the gel print to run through in the embossing folder through with my Big Shot.

I don't think I got a photo of it after the black.  This photo shows after I ran white ink over the raised parts.

I glued to a turquoise base.  Then had to decide how to decorate.  I decided it looked masculine  card and I always need those.

I added a vertical greeting that someone had given me and added some chipboard from 49 and Market, my newest mania.  LOL

What do you think?  It sure improved on that gel print, or at least I thought so!  I will try again with different gel prints, (after all I have a drawer full on them!) and different embossing folders.

Today is TSFT over at Bleubear & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover.  All you have to do is have a drink reference and you can join the t-party. (link to her blog and be part of the blog hop).

We went out for the first time in 2025 at Braum’s one of our favorites.

What we love about it is we get the combo, cheeseburger, fries and shake!  Their ice cream is wonderful!  My shake was peanut butter. Then despite knowing it was going to be record setting low temps, we bought ice cream to bring home, and we have been eating it! LOL He got Chocolate Carmel Moose, and I got Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup frozen yogurt.  So good!

Happy New year!  Thanks for stopping by.

Stay warm! Stay Safe!  Stay Crafty!