June is Over!

   Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

and into his courts with praise:

be thankful unto him, and bless his name.  Ps. 100:4

Between Doctors appointments, twice a week trips to physical therapy, and doing physical therapy at home three times a day, Bible study, and just life, June has flown by quickly! I did however get some crafting into the schedule.  I even took part in a 4 -day Prompt and Play Zoom with Tracy Sundue and Heather from Fun Scrapbooking Circle and Scrapbooking Summits.  Each day we had different prompts, but also, a 30-minute time limit.  I finished them all.  We could do any project, card, journal page, scrapbook, just any project.  The first day I did a card, but the other three days I did a scrapbook layout.

I will share the last one we did because the prompts were so interesting.  They had a wheel with National Days for June 27th on it.  They spun it 4 times, so we had our choice of four prompts or could use more than one.  The choices were Nation Helen Keller Day, National Onion Day, National Sunglasses Day, and National Big Dreams Day.  We could interpret it literally or in any way we wanted.

I went with Helen Keller Day, thinking of what this woman overcame in her lifetime.  I am not saying I overcame like she did, not comparing myself to her, just using the overcome for the inspiration for my layout.  I scrapped photos of me, thinking what I had overcome, a bad shoulder, surgery and recovery, at almost 80.  To me that is big accomplishment.  Then I went ahead and incorporated the sunglasses, red for red skinned onion, and the word dream.  I even printed the photos from my Selphy in the 30-minute time limit!  We all showed our end result on the Zoom.  I couldn't believe I could do it that quickly, but wow, what the others did, too! It is amazing how quickly you can do a project when you don't overthink.  I used what was out on my desk, and this swirly cut out paper, as well as the vellum sentiments, I had just run across in my stash and it was fresh in my mind.  So another win was using stash!

 I do want to say I could not have come through this ordeal without the many prayers that were prayed for me and for the strength and healing touch of the Lord.  I am thankful for all the encouragement and help from my husband.  I am thankful for the surgeon, the nurses, and physical therapists.  I am so thankful for the prayers and for how the Lord is healing me.  He after all is the Great Physician.  I trust that eventually I will be completelly healed and able to lift my arm above my head.  One thing I know is I have no pain, unlike before surgery!

My giant cup of water in the hospital photo is my ticket to the Tea Stands for Tuesday party over at Altered Book Lover where our hostess and host are Elizabeth and Bleubeard. They have this party hop every Tuesday (or Monday evening) where we share what we are doing over a beverage of choice.  That is the only requirement, to have a drink reference in your post.  You can join if you do that!

Thanks for stopping by.  See you next time, whenever that is!

Man on the Moon

   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.

I have decided to do a blog post today!  I know it has been a while, but I do feel I am on the road of recovery!  I am in physical therapy and am gaining my range of motion back.  Next will be strength building.  So, thanks for the prayers and check ins while my blog was on hiatus.  

I am doing several challenges with this journal page.  One is the "people challenge" by Matilde on **Art*Journal*Journey.  The other two are challenges on ACOT for the art journal sketch and the In The News Challenge to remember circumstances that you might remember when news happened.  I chose when man walked on the moon, and made One giant step for mankind.  I will always remember it because I was pregnant with our first child.  And because of that I always remember when it happened!

 It was fun to do this page and remember.  I used old book pages as a base, and then stenciled TCW Sea Glass Stencil butter through a My Favorite Things brick wall stencil.  I printed off the photos from the internet, because it was all on TV just like this.  You can go online and listen and watch it all again.  I used 49 and Market rub ons, Washi tape, and ephemera

Finally, I will join Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for Tea Stands for Tuesday!

Here is my entry.  We recently ate at Bagatelle's again.  We had wonderful talapia with rice and lemon sauce and the best chicken and rice soup I have ever tasted!  And it seems every time we go they bring us and everyone in the small dining area a complementary desert.  This time it was cheesecake!

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It is good to be back!  I hope to visit you all and see what you are doing this week.  Thanks for stopping by and welcoming me back!  See you next time.