TSFT & Retreat

Happy TSFT!  I know it is only Monday, but I post Monday evening because it is already Tuesday over the pond.  First, I will post stash that I brought home from my Junk Journal Retreat a couple of weeks ago.  We all took junk and swapped! I have to say I should have taken a lot more, because I brought home a lot more than I took.  I met a junk journaler from UK who was over here for her daughter's graduation.  I met several others.  We were all meeting for the first time.  So fun!  Here are photos of things that will use in future junk journals or projects.

The hostess made & bought some of these for each of us!

Do you recognize this?  It is player piano music!

Lots of goodies!

And more goodies!

I didn't have a lot of stuff that junk journals call for, but I do, now!  No excuse to not junk journal! LOL We had a lot of fun.  I just stayed for the day, but the rest of them were there for the week!  Our hostess was wonderful, generous, and also the best cook!  Of course, I didn't remember to take photos of the food or drinks while there.

So, below are photos looking both ways on the trail, and me drinking my water, which is my ticket to T Stands for Tuesday.  This is a party held over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Bleubeard & Elizabeth.  

I used Sage Shadow & white cardstock.  The image is Inkadinkado.  I blended Oxide inks through a oval cut out, and then stamped the image with Archival Jet Black ink by Ranger. The Bible verse is a Verve/

This is a card I made today for about 4 challenges on SplitcoastStampers: Virtual Stamp Night Mini to feature a hummingbird, Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge, Featured Stamper Challenge to feature FayeMakesCards and Creating, Challenge Your Stash.

I wanted to say that I tried Elizabeth's method for taking apart the napkins, and it works!  Thank you Elizabeth for the great tip.  Wishing everyone a great week!  Thank you for stopping by.

T Stands For Tuesday and Tea Cup

Our memory verse for Bible study last night:  II Cor 3:18 "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord."

I am late to the Tea Party as I am trying to catch up from being out of town for four days at a scrap retreat!  I got lots of layouts done, and even  card, and worked on Christmas gifts, too.  Now, I am trying to unpack all of my craft items and sort them back into place!  Last night I went to our ladies Bible Study potluck, and there I received a gift of this beautiful tea cup from my secret prayer sister.

So fun!  It came with a lid and a diffuser.   Isn't it beautiful?

That is my post for Elizabeth's TSFT over at Altered Book Lover.

Now, I will show you one layout of the 15 I was able to complete.  The photos might look familiar, as it is from my walk at the retreat back in June. The companion page is of the people at the crop, so not showing it, because they might not want their faces shown online. The rest of the title "Love" is on the second layout.

And here are photos from my walk this time around, to a different part of town. 

I don't know why it is called Wall Park.  It is a nice park, 60 acres of excercie trails, tennis courts, handball courts, ball fields, playgrounds, a skate park with a four acre lake.  By  the time we walked over to it and along the creek and around the small lake, and back to the house, we had walked well over three miles and for over an hour.  Then we got back to scrapping.  A nice break!
Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great T Day!

Scrap Till You Drop!

Or was is it shop till you drop?  Hello Blog visitors!   I just got back from a great 4 day scrap retreat, where I scrapped, walked, shopped, and visited with other scrappers.  It was kind of like a giant slumber party!  I got lots of pages done, among them some heritage pages of my husband's family. I will show them another time.

  It also was fun to have a new place to walk. We had the retreat in an old Victorian house and there are several old restored homes in the neighborhood. I took lots of photos to share of my walk.  I finally remembred to take my camera the last day!

These two houses were my favorites.

 Love the screened in porch on the side.

And the large wrap around porch!

And the upstairs, that round window upstairs front!

This next house had spectacular landscaping.

Notice the shaped bushes between the sidewalk and street.

 Great potted plants on that porch!

Great iron fence and posts.

Fountains and water treatments.

I just had to photograph this bottle tree next to the porch on another house!

Then I went to the city park:

 I wanted to go through the arbor path, but there was always someone sitting in there or sleeping in there!  So, I was  a little anxious about walking through it.

Below you can see the courthouse in the background.

I hope you enjoyed the walk.  I got 15000 steps that day! 

Above is the house of our retreat.  I enjoy coming out on the porch in the mornings for alone time.

 I just walk across the street to church on Sunday mornings.  Although the church building is a hundred years old, and magnificent on the inside the church that calls it home now is only 8 years old.

And for the T Gang and for Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover where she is celebrating T Stands for Tuesday here is my submission.  Here is a photo of a  tea card from my archives. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great Tuesday!

T Stands For Turtle Tea Mug

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 just got back from a scrap retreat from Thursday thru Sunday.   I had so much fun, and made some new friends, and was plenty enabled for new craft tools!  We ate a lot, scrapped a lot, talked a lot, and there was very little sleeping.  Think giant 4 day  slumber party! LOL
Still  I was so happy to complete 24 layouts!  
Oh, yeah, we scrapped in our PJs!  LOL

Here is a group photo of some of them. 

Saturday night I went to bed about two Sunday morning.

You see I am scrapping our  Hawaiian cruise.  For Bleubeard & Elizabeth's  T Stands For Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover, I will show one of the gorgeous mugs I was gifted by a special friend I visited in Hawaii.

Lastly I will share some exciting news I received while I was at the Scrap Retreat! At my  favorite website, SplitcoastStampers, I was named Featured Stamper Of The Week, so I have a brand new badge on my side bar.  I am smiling ear to ear for this honor. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great T Day!

T Stands For Thank you God!

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."

Thank you God for the gorgeous Spring like weather!  I have even been out walking the last two days!  So energizing!  But, I am still, scrapping and crafting, and even played yesterday with my Pan Pastels and created a journal page. I like to think of it as  my technique journal.  I watched several videos and found a cool technique.  First, I stamped with VersaMark, then rubbed the Pastels over the sayings I stamped.  It really worked.  Then I applied paste over stencils.  I also sprayed TH Distress Stains over it all. I stamped another saying on a separate piece of paper then gessoed it on my page, then used some  Faber Castell Gelato on the edges. I colored the suns with gelattos, too.  I added a die cut butterfly that I edged with gold Gelato.  I added a metal button that I colored the sun with an orange Copic.  I had fun  with spray, paste and pastels!  I couldn't believe how you could stamp with VersaMark and not even see what you stamped until after you rubbed the pastels over it.  Pretty neat, like magic!

I should have lain the spray down, because you are just seeing the top.  It is the TH Distress Spray Stain Broken China.

For Elizabeth & Bleubeard over at Altered Booklover, it is T Stands For Tuesday! So for the T Gang I will post my drink.  We went out to eat at Chick N Max, but I didn't have my camera.  I thought their pictures and décor were kind of neat, so next time I will take my camera.  But here is one photo off their website.  And I brought my drink home so I could get a photo of that.

These pictures on their walls aren't as cool as their chickens dressed in outfits or chicken on wood.  Next time!  Because we will go back.  The chicken sandwiches were good with large piece of fried chicken on them.  I want to go back and try their chicken and waffles!

Also, I am  getting ready to go to a scrap retreat this week-end.  I am taking everything but the kitchen sink! LOL  I am taking my electric teapot, and my large number digital clock that I can see at night!

I am adding things as I think of them.

These aren't fully packed yet.

And there is also a tv tray in basement that I will take to set my laptop on.  And I am taking my camera, iPad, Selphy photo printer, and also a suitcase of clothes!

I found a quote on Riley's stamps online that I love that says;

 " I'm not a craft hoarder.  I'm the curator of an extensive private Craft Supply Collection."  

That describes me!

That is it for this week's Tea Party!  Have a great week, and thanks for stopping by!