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 March Madness!

Psalms 37:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."



I am madly scrapping for March Madness Virtual Scrapbook Night (for the whole month) and for Calvin Ball 2019!  We have challenges every day on the last one!  So far am keeping up, with at least one layout a day since March 1st!  I will show you my latest that I just did today.  There are certain things to use on both the above challenges for points.  These are items such as die cuts, stamps, a certain color, stickers, assorted embellishments, and the list goes on and on.  Both challenges inspire you to  not only get some photos scrapped but to use some of your stash!

  I will just show you two pages that I did today.  I am trying to scrap some old photos that have set in the little white photo boxes too long!

And here is my post for the  T Gang over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover celebrating  T Stands For Tuesday

Dessert one night on our cruise!

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a great week!

T Stands For Tea At Sea

Psalms 37:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."

Greetings to those out in Blogland!  It is that time again when the T Gang link up over at Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover for T Stands For Tuesday!  Besides sharing a drink, we share photos and artwork.  So come a long and join us!  Just click on the link above and you will see Elizabeth's post and links to all the T Gang.  You could joins us, too, if you want!  Just be sure you share a drink related item in your post.

My husband always does Valentine's Day in a big way because he proposed to me on Valentine's Day.  He usually plans something really special, this year, it was the Hawaiian Cruise.  He proposed 53 years ago, and we will celebrate 53 years of marriage in September.  Yep, I do think he is a keeper!  
We were on the ship at sea on Valentine's Day.  This is our dessert, and all the ladies got a special one.

Tea at Sea

This cake was outside the Dining room as we entered.

The celebration as hundreds of us re-did our wedding vows in celebration of Valentine's Day.  The captain officiated.  Valentine's Day was really special on this cruise!

The above card I took on the cruise to give to my husband.   I can't remember if I made it or not.  It was in my stash of cards and might have come to me in a swap!  Sorry, that if someone else made it and I can't remember who!

Thank you for stopping by and for all your comments and input.  Happy T Day!

T Stands For Cruising!

Psalms 37:4-5 "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."


Hello blog followers and T Gang!  I have been gone for a couple of weeks.  I did think I was pretty smart and scheduled one post for while I was "at sea", but then could not link it to the T Party or Tag Tuesday, and of course could not comment from my iPad!  I don't know why, but I can comment from my iPad on Altered Book Lover.  So, thank you to Elizabeth who linked my blog post to T Stands For Tuesday.  I tried to comment on Tag Tuesday, but couldn't.  It was really frustrating. You know, I used to be able to do a post to my blog from my iPad and can't do that now.  I think this is all to do with Blogger!  Today when I got on, I had a message that beginning in March, there will be a lot more changes.  I may not be blogging anymore!  I like blogger because it is free.  

Ok, enough whining!  I had a wonderful 15 day Hawaiian cruise! I won't share it all in one post! But here is a photo of some of the wonderful  memorabilia I brought home.  It will used it in my scrapbooking!  I even attended crafting classes on board!

 Sharing the menu from the night we left Maui. 

Our view from our dinner table that night.  We had just left Maui, where we had seen whales all day.  We even saw several real close to the ship from our window while we ate!  What a show they put on!

And for Elizabeth's T Stands For Tuesday, here is a photo of our water at our meal. First  I had the Black Tiger Prawn!  Then I had this scrumptious Shrimp Bisque, before my wonderful Maaine Lobster Tail main dish.  Hubby had the steak. Then we both had the Fudge Obsession!  After two weeks on this floating city, with so many wonderful food choices, we will have to eat less for a while!

Happy T Day!  More Cruise and food photos next week!  Thanks for stopping by!

T Stands for Tea Set!

                                           Phi 4:4  Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.



Hello to the T-Gang from Elizabeth's T Stands for Tuesday over at  Altered Book Lover as well as everyone else.  I have been cleaning house today, so it is nice to sit down and make this post. Warning:  This is a photo heavy post!

 I have been posting and making a inventory of my tea collections on the T Stands for Tuesday posts.  I am keeping this set.   I bought it about 20 years ago at a garage sale for $20.00 and it also came with a tea cozy.  But somehow I don't know where that is.  It is possible it could still be in an box I haven't unpacked yet.  Yes, there are still some of those!

 I turned the back cups around so you could see what is on the back of all the pieces. 

I thought I would share with you some photos from our Alaskan cruise in 2014. We made a stop in the lovely  Victoria, BC Canada,  where we toured The  Butchart Gardens. I took so many photos of the gardens, a lot of them didn't make them into my album so will post them!

Me

Gorgeousness!

 

Wow!

Weird, but these were sculped from greenery, and they are having a tea party! Elephants?

I took about a dozen photos from different views of this!

Although we did not got in for the famous high tea, I took this photo.

This photo is off their website, just to show you what their high tea would look like.  Should have gone!

Capitol Building as Victoria is the capitol of British Columbia.

I took this as we sailed out.

Another shot as we sailed out.

Our sunset that evening!  I have about 50 shots of this sunset!

And finally my drink for Elizabeth.  Do blizzards count?  Hubby had a coupon that if he bought a medium or large blizzard, he could get a small free!  Yay!  That was for me.

I hope you enjoyed my photos.  Thank you for stopping by.  Have a great T-Day! 

Tuesday/Wednesday Post WOYWW #455

Rejoice in the
Lord alway:
and again I say,
Rejoice.
Phil 4:4

Hello everyone!  We woke up to ice and snow this morning:

Not much but it was cold.  This afternoon the temp was 25 degrees feels like 12 degrees!  I was glad they cancelled Bible study.  I just stayed in my pjs all day!  Did my steps in the house and read.  Didn't even do any crafting!  This is my desk:

When you don't craft, it looks pretty nice!  LOL  I am showing you my desk because I am linking up with Julia's world wide desk hop over at  Stamping Ground.

And I am linking up with Elizabeth and Bluebeard over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands for Tuesday where we feature a beverage.   I thought of showing you these photos from  a Canadian cruise we took in 2012.  We  had a stop in Quebec City and visited Montmorency Falls.  After our walk to the Falls we had Tea at Le Manoir Montmorency.  Here is a photo of the front of the Manoir, and of our tea, (for my featured beverage)  even a close up of the light refreshment they served us.  

Had to show you the Montmorency Falls, since that is what we went to see.  We were actually on that bridge. 

It was a beautiful Fall day for a walk to the Falls.

It was fun to take time to remember part of this trip.  And we loved Quebec City.

Have a wonderful week, everyone!  Happy Tea Day, and Happy WOYWW!