T Stands for Trail Walking

  ​¹ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

² A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
³ A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 
⁶ A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.
⁹ What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? Ecclesiastes 3:1-9

Our son is here for his yearly visit, and we have been walking the trail; the Red Bud Trail, mainly.  Monday, we started in Andover and walked it to the end as far as they have it done.  We were surprised that the bridge across hwy 400/54 was finished.  We were able to actually walk across it.  I tried to get a selfie on the bridge.  You can tell it was very windy!  I intended doing this post yesterday, but after a 10 miles round trip walk, I wasn't doing much of anything last night!  LOL

I have included some photos of our walk:

We walked from the Andover Rec Center so, not the whole 6 miles, because its starts the mileage before that point.  We walked 5 miles to here.  The bridge is up ahead, yet.

A nice rest spot maybe half way.  And I rested! 

Someone did some art by the bench and we felt loved.

We made it to the Bridge and it was done and open!  A nice surprise!

Our son.

Me on the bridge over the highway.

It was a gorgeous day on the trail with quality time with our son.

Here is a card I made in the morning before we left.

It is a tri fold and opens up going down.  I made it for a challenge on Splitcoaststampers using scraps.

I still have scraps from this kit from years ago.  Someday, I may get all the pieces used.

Now for my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover:  Photos of decorations from our Spring Bible study kick off brunch last April.

I took the photos the day before when we decorated, so no food yet. 

I had made the little favors by the plates.

The book we used this year to study all the remarkable women in the Bible.

I actually didn't get to go as the day of the brunch, I had my shoulder replacement surgery, April first.  And that is not April fools joke!! LOL

As you can see, I am doing great now.  Thank you for stopping by!  Please let me know you were here.

I appreciate you all.

Tuesday Stands for Too Busy!

  ​¹ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

² A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
³ A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.
⁹ What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? Ecclesiastes 3:1-9

Yes, too busy to post, but doing it anyway!  I wanted to do the Art Journal Journey November challenge.   Wendy’s challenge is A Moment in Time.  Mia generously offered photos for this challenge for free on her blog.  Thank you, Mia!  I remembered these time quote stamps from My Favorite Things.  I am doing this challenge for two other challenges:  sketch challenge on ACOT and the Alpha challenge for letter Q on SplitcoastStampers.  I included a stamped image of a lady writing a letter with a quill.  I thought it worked well with Mia’s photo.

I used stamps from 3 different sets, Stamp'n Up! "Vintage Postcard", Stampin' Up! "Sense of Time", and the My Favorite Things "Clearly Sentimental about time".  I used a coffee filter for the element in the sketch, I followed.  I added postage stamps just because I thought it worked with the whole theme, of the photo.

I am doing zoom with friends while doing my blog, although this is photo is from another time, but it is my ticket for the party at Elizabeth & Bleubeard's at Altered Book Lover for TSFT.

Happy T Day to the T gang.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week.  See you next time.

T Stands for Time for Baking

 "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." Acts 2:42 KJV

Hi readers!  How are you today?  It is grey and cold outside here, perfect for baking!  It took me most of the day to bake a loaf of orange cranberry bread and to clean up after! LOL My hubby claims when I cook, I dirty every dish in the house.  Judge for yourself.  I took a photo of the dishes I wash washing afterwords! LOL  I was baking the bread for our Bible Study Brunch tomorrow morning.

Before I baked, I did have a nice morning from 9 too 11 at Panera with friends where we were celebrating two of our birthdays.  I forgot to take any photos but still had my Panera cup and it is in one of my photos for TSFT over a Bleubeard & Elizabeth's at Altered Book Lover.   I even spy another cup by the sink, although that doesn't have tea in it.

For a craft, I will show a project I am currently making for my sister, a heritage album.  The page I am showing you has a photo on it over 100 years old.  The baby girl is my late mother, and she would have been 100 years old this past April!  And the lady is my grandmother!  The photo had been colorized so even though it was a heritage photo, I did the layout with colors.  I will add journaling to the banner.

That's it on this dreary gray afternoon.  Happy T Day to the T Gang.  Thank you for stopping by.  I really enjoy reading your comments, too.  It is like we are talking to each other even though many of you are live across the pond or at least across the country!  See you next time!

T stands for Terrific Day!

  "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," Philippians 1:3

I did get outside for a walk after a busy morning.   I was hubby's designated driver for his eye appointment, as he had to have his eyes dilated.  I read my book on my iPad while I waited about an hour and a half for him.  We then did banking and headed to Mardell's Christian Bookstore where we bought items for a church ministry.  Then we headed home, and I took my walk.  I did not wear Elizabeth's hat today as it was very windy! The temperature was really mild, even cool.  Even though I begin my walk wearing a jacket, I soon took it off and tied it around my waist.  But it was definitely an enjoyable walk. 

Now to show you what I did over the weekend.  I attended virtually another card summit and learned lots of new techniques and crafting tips.   One of the speakers was Alicia with www.papercraftsecrets.com.au.  She gave us a free digital to make 6 cards with envelopes. Her digitals are gorgeous!  The theme was Steampunk/ Country Western.  I will show you one that I made.   She made the digitals to be printed and cut with a Silhouette or Circut machine.  I have neither, so all were fussy cut. I added pearls to flowers, butterfly and cowgirl's neck.

Maybe you can see the pearls on this one and the front of the envelope.

Here is more of the kit I printed.  Aren't these adorable images?

I plan on making more cards using these.  I even decorated the inside of the card.

Remember last week when I said I had made 20 cards for challenges on ACOT for World Card Making Day?  I won one of the drawings and here is my prize that I already received on Saturday.  Lots of goodies.  I haven’t even had time to play with any of it yet!

Since I am joining Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands for Tuesday, I will share the following.  We had a scrumptious lunch at Longhorns, but I forgot until after to take any photos.

Our drink of choice:

Western decor: 

My favorite: 

That is about it this time.  Thank you so much for stopping by. Just like my posted Bible verse says, I am thankful for each one of you.

 Happy T Day to the T Gang!  See you next time.

T Stands for Time for Fall!

 "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," Philippians 1:3

I can't believe, it is cool today!  Yesterday it was 87!  The sun is peeking out from the clouds, but it is supposed to rain sometime, today.  I should be out walking while I can, instead of doing this post! But too many weeks have already passed since my last post. 

I wonder what you all are doing.  Are you crafting?  Are you outside enjoying your weather?  I have crafted a lot.  I celebrated World Card Making last weekend doing games and challenges on ACOT.  I made 20 cards of which 8 are Christmas.  I made a special 75th birthday card for a friend, and anniversary cards and more birthday cards.  Hopefully that will hold me for a while.  I however am still in need of masculine cards and sympathy cards.  

Right now, I am in the process of making a mini album as a thank you to a lady who hosted a mini retreat a couple of weekends ago.  No photos yet, until I am done.  But here is a photo of the 75th birthday card.

On a base cut from So Saffron cardstock by Stampin' Up, I layered 49 and Market paper and rub ons.  I added a die cut sentiment and shadow from Altenew, and the 3-D bees' stickers from my stash.  Oh, and the numbers are cut from Tim Holtz alpha & number dies.

Here are photos from a walk a couple of weeks ago:  I had a doctor's appointment and decided to walk after around the building.  When I walked around behind, I discovered the 96 bike trail and got on it.  I walked from Webb to Greenwich and back.  I had never walked this trail in this location before.

I had to watch where I walked as there were very big cracks.  I wondered about the bikers on this trail.

I guess I won't sit there and rest.

And, I can't go in here.

But it was a lovely view from the bridge.

And this is where I turned around and went back.  Although it is just a mile between the two signs the trail curved around a lot, so I really think I got more than a two mile walk round trip.

Time to share a drink related item.  We went out to eat hamburgers last week and I just had to take a photo of where we got our drinks!  Thank you very much!

Be sure and stop over at Altered Book Lover to see what all the gang is doing for T Stands for Tuesday.

Happy Fall!  

That's it for this post.  I thank you for stopping by.  See you next time.

T stands for Trail

"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," Philippians 1:3

This morning, I was finally able to return to the trail. The weather was dry and cool, providing the perfect conditions for a 4-mile walk.  Unfortunately, rain returned later in the day. Despite the weather shift, I managed to capture several photos during today's cloudy walk.  

Any one know what those berries are called?

By the way, last year when I walked the trail with our son, one of these hedgeapples dropped on my heard!

Here I am in Elizabeth's hat!  There was no wind this morning either.  There was no sun either, so really didn't need it.

I also have photos from Saturday, when the weather was sunny, creating a striking contrast with today’s overcast conditions.

Thank you for visiting! I hope you take a moment to check out Altered Book Lover and meet our hosts for T Stands for Tuesday, Bleubeard and Elizabeth.

T Stands for Truly Cool

  "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you," Philippians 1:3

Good afternoon! Yes, it is cool here; highs in 70s!   I am enjoying it, going walking and spending time in my craft room.   I have been working on my submission to Art Journal Journey challenge for September.  Mia has challenged us to make our own background.  I had just made a card where I did a color wash with watercolor and still had my paints handy.  So, I started my page with a watercolor wash.  Then I did some background stamping and spraying.  I stamped my title and added a photo I took this Spring on my trail. Be sure and check out the entries at Art Journal Journey.

I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and Tim Holtz Distress Mica stains: Sugary Gumdrop and Wonderland and Frosty Mint.   I stamped the letters with  Stampin' Up inks, and   stamped the Stampendous background writing stamps with Archival black ink.  The panel in back of the photo is a gel print scrap.  I used the weekly art journal sketch from ACOT.

And here is the card I made with the color wash and doodling.

I had fun doodling the people and then hand wrote the sentiment, too. I was just practicing this technique while watching a YouTube video.

That is what I have been doing craft wise and of course we went out to eat, this week to Hog Wild.   We always get the $5.99 special.  He gets the fries for a side and I get the coleslaw, then we split them.  We like the coleslaw on our pulled pork sandwiches to make it Carolina Pork.  Yum, yum!  Sorry, Elizabeth. :)  This time our drinks came with our combos, so he got cola and I mixed the lemonade with the unsweetened tea and had an Arnold Palmer.  This is my ticket to the T Stands for Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Elizabeth and Bleubeard.

Then we went to an ice cream social!

I put almost every topping on my ice cream.  It was like I had ice cream on my toppings!  Also, besides the variety of nuts, different candies, and cocoanut, they had chocolate and caramel syrups, cherries, and whipped cream!

Thank you for stopping by.  It is always fun to read the comments and see who visited me.  Happy T Day to the T Gang.  See you next time.