Second on the 2nd: DTGD

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


I have never done this before, but it always sounds fun.  I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for Second on the 2nd.  It is a fun thing that  Elizabeth  hosts for us to share  a previous  post for a second time on the 2nd!  Clever idea!  I found this post close to same date five years ago.  Dare To Get Dirty, special challenges for the SplitcoastStamers Fan Club had just finished, and this year it is just starting on Saturday.  I thought it was appropriate to post again.  It was only the 7th post ever to my blog. Fun to look back to the beginning of my Blog.

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Splitcoast Stamper DTGD Challenges

  Happy August everyone!  Where did July go?  I have been busy this first week of August creating cards for DTGD Challenges on Splitcoast Stamper.  I thought I would just show you what I have been doing. These cards represent many different techniques.  Later I will feature a card or two from them.  Maybe you see one you would like me to feature.  Just let me know. :)    Have a wonderful day!

22 projects for 42challenges

Kind of fun to see cards I made five years ago!  Hope you enjoy seeing them.  Thanks for stopping by!  Happy Second on the 2nd!

T Stands for Trading ATCs

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


Happy Tuesday to the T Gang!  I was so happy to receive in today's mail an ATC from my partner Kate!   So fun to do this, however, I got the better end of the stick because it was only the third ATC I had ever made! LOL  Here is the lovely multi-layered ATC Kate sent.

Uncle Lee's Tea was the title.

I wanted to show a closeup of Kate's wonderful detail, but I am not the greatest photographer!

Thank you so much Kate for my lovely ATC!  I am a little bit proud of it as you can tell!

That was my happy mail today!  I am smiling!  I guess I could stop there because that would cover my drink related post for T Stands for Tuesday over at  Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover, but I won't!

I wanted to show you that I do use my  delicate tea set  I showed you last week. We have a tradition of tea parties for the grandkids and the adults around here.  In the following photos, we celebrated our granddaughter's birthday several years ago with a birthday tea with the very set I showed you last week.

  The girls & the boys had tea!

Lovely birthday cupcakes!

I do use the tea set!    Have a happy Tea Day, and thanks for stopping by.  And thank you all for all your lovely comments last week!  How fun!  Thank you, again , Elizabeth for hosting our fun Tea Party every week!

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #477 & Using Stash

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


Good morning WOYWW Deskers! Good morning to all other visitors.  Welcome to my blog.   I am actually going to post on Wednesday this week! Sorry about being late last week.  The week does go so quickly!  Nothing too exciting on my desk this week.  I almost cleaned my desk off after I made a card, and stopped myself.  So, you will see what it looks like, at least one area, after I have crafted.

This photo is not taken from a drone, but from me stretching my arms over my head.  LOL  I do not stand on my stool any longer.  Learned my lesson about that!  You can see enamel dots, my bottle of water, my camera case, a container of adhesives, a corner punch, and an  oval scrap I didn't use on my card.  The card sitting there, I made using a 15 year old CTMH stamp set that had never been used!  Why do I buy stamps and not use them, or for that matter paper, markers, and oh, so many other items?  Do you do this?  I do know I totally enjoy this crafting hobby!  Do you?

Short and sweet, this week! Thank you so much for stopping by and looking at my desk.  Please stop over at Julia's Stamping Ground and check out the other deskers!  It is a fun blog hop!  Have a great Wednesday!

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! 

WOYWW # 476 (a day late)

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


I'm,  I'm  late for a very important date!  So sorry!   I took my photo and got ready to join Julia over at Stamping Ground for What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday, and then forgot to do my post!
This will be real short today.  I will just show you what I did last week-end!  We had VSN and are still having VSN over at SplitcoastStampers.  There were 17 challenges and I was hostess for one on them. I did complete 15 of the challenges and the photo is showing the results.

Thank you for stopping by!  I hope to stop by and see you.  I always enjoy seeing what you are doing.  Have a great week!

5th Anniversary for T Stands for Tuesday

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

It is time for the big Tea Party over at Altered Book Lover  as Bleubeard and Elizabeth celebrate five years of "T Stands for Tuesday"!  Now I have only been visiting for a couple of months, but have really enjoyed the tea parties each Tuesday.  

I am not only celebrating by participating in an ATC swap but also by returning to my original idea of posting my teapots!  Before I moved I was doing that, but then life got very busy.  I have given many away and some have been packed    Well here are some I have unpacked.  You might think I have overdone it, but here are the just the teapots I have in my set of dishes.  Not one but three!  

Ok, and the funny thing is I heat the water in my electric pot and pour it directly over the teabag in my cup! :)

 I probably over did it on tea stamp sets, too, as you see below!  I tend to go overboard!

Same thing with tea themed paper, but couldn't find it to take a photo of it!  But here is a card that I made with some great Kaiser Craft from a tea themed paper pad. Oh, and do you notice I even have a teapot punch?  I even have a teapot die!  

Happy 5th Birthday T Stands for Tuesday!

Thanks for stopping by for tea.  A special shout out to my dear friend Linda who peeks in sometime.  I am thankful for you!

WOYWW #475 & New Media Mat

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


Good morning, WOYWW deskers!  Don't know what a "desker" is?  Check out all the deskers over at Julia's Stamping Ground.  Every Wednesday she hosts a world wide blog hop of crafters showing their desks.  We show what is on our desks, and what we are doing and do a lot of enabling, but mostly we get to know each other.  Fun!  So let the fun begin! :)

I just had to show my new TH Glass Media Mat.  I had built up some credit at a scrapbook store, where they host a craft garage sale, but instead of you getting cash for what you sell, you get credit, because they do all the work!  It was like free!  :)  I got rid of stuff and got a mat to boot!  So, after watching several You Tube videos about this mat, I used my credit to get one.  I love it!  It is going to be perfect for scrapbooking, besides the mixed media techniques. I am getting ready to mail out some birthday cards so had to cover them up.  I still have to stamp the inside sentiments.  Also, there is a some leftover oxide backgrounds, (which I did on my new mat.) I was playing with a friend's dies, and have been looking at my new catalogue.

That little green corner die is one I bought at the Expo for $5.00.  It has tabs on the back and can be like a pocket on scrap pages.  Isn't it pretty?  I was thinking of adding it to that oxide background and putting it on a card.

So that is what my desk looks like this morning.  I am looking forward to seeing what is on your desks.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!