Tuesday, Tea and easing mild Tension

Good Morning Tuesday

It is amazing how quickly the weeks are rolling by. 

Once again it is Tuesday and time to get together with

 Elizabeth and friends for a little cup of kindness.    

Oh lord I must be tired, because I would never say that in real life.

Do you find yourself doing that?   Do you 'speak' differently on your blog?   I don't do it often. But sometimes when I can't think of how to say what I want to say . . . it comes out sounding a bit fake.    Not completely insincere . . . just not me.  Not the way I would really say it. I'm not sure if I would even say it at all.

whatever

So what have I been doing since last week? 

Sewing the binding on a quilt, painting, drawing, reading, 

walking dogs and planning a few trips.

 If all goes well I will be going out west for a week in November. 

It's been a bit tense around here.

 As the seasons change,

The lifeguard and I shift our routines. 

His work-life is less hectic and he 

comes home a bit earlier each day. 

He doesn't like to see my 'stuff' on the dining room table. 

Since I have the room in the basement 

he thinks I should stay down there.

But I like to play up here. 

In the natural daylight, with the dogs.

So there is a little tension there.

Nothing a cup of tea can't cure.

I've been working on my September Calendar and  

just added  "T" on Tuesdays. 

 The Art

the words were cut from my tea bag wrapper

I also added our local rubber stamp stores anniversary date . 

  "A Happy Stamper" is  10 years old. 

 I remember the day Angela opened her doors and all the rubber stampers poured in. She was an instant success.    I took several bookbinding classes there as well as classes from well known artists. Angela has just the right mix of cute, classic and edgy in her shop. Stampers and mixed media artists love to shop there. 

 I have introduced many close friends to her store. 

And sadly I don't get down there very often as I used to.  

So I will definitely be there on the 28th to help her celebrate.

The Tea

Yogi brand - Calming

I love the messages on the tags.

The Mug

Another 'everyday' cup from Pier 1 . 

 My favorite shade of green.

My goodness I feel chatty today.

I think I'll write another post 

maybe one for WOYWW.

Thank's for stopping by

Hope your Tuesday is not too tense.

Marianne

Tuesday, Tea and Twelve Photos

 Hello Dear Friends,

This morning I slept in....as in ....slept til noon kind of sleeping in.
The lifeguard allows this especially after I put in a long day outside
with mowing weeding and digging in the dirt.

When I realized it was Tuesday I grabbed the mug that
 my dear sweet Lifeguard gave to me last week,
  made a cup of tea and sat down to catch up on my collage.

I am trying to combine my efforts to keep up with Daisy Yellow's 61 Daily Paper Prompts and Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday weekly link up.   So far it seems to be working.

 The Tea

The tea I chose today is a 

Holiday Tea from 

Harney & Sons. I buy it at

 Barnes and Noble when 

it is available in November.
I love this tea so I buy
three tins to last all year.
 I also love love love their  

Hot Cinnamon Spice tea....

but I ran out of that.  boo. 

The photo on the right 

shows the tiny black tea

and the orange peel and
teeny teeny tiny safflower.

The Art

The prompt I am working on is
#5 - Linear.
I think I am a day or two behind.  I'll try to catch up. I was a bit shaky so I didn't draw a lot of lines....

just enough to appease the prompt gods.....       ......I hope.

The Mug

I love how he surprises me with small tokens of affection. 

Although I could not be Dog Mother of the Year without him.

I hope your Tuesday is a very very happy one.

Thanks for visiting.

Marianne

T stands for Tuesday is a new weekly blog link up party 

hosted by Bleubeard and Elizabeth

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Tuesday, Tea and Play Time

Good Morning Friends !

So what do you do when you have three or four deadlines for specific projects?

Well if you're me, you pick up an old project that was cast aside
...who knows when....
 and resurfaced during "the great craft room purge and clean up".

I don't know when I started this fabric collage.

But....even though the theme might be a bit overdone. 

I decided I still want to finish it so I could hang it next to a clock.

( Remind me to get a clock for the craft room. )

 this is not attached yet....I'm still pondering

 These are not attached yet either.....same pondering.

And the butterfly....tilt left?, right?, no tilt?

not attached....

....this pondering will go on all day.

But they are just a distraction. Because what I am really pondering right now is

how to quilt the piece I made for the HO HO HO Blog Hop coming up very soon.

( can't show you yet .....sorry )

soon   ...   very soon.

Do you do this too?   

Do you work on a "less important" project while noodling  out

details of a "more important" one?

For me the distraction actually helps me focus. 

I'm sure this is probably a brain disorder....

but who has time for analysis? 

  

Christmas is coming .....it'll be here in no time at all.

Marianne

T stands for Tuesday is a new weekly blog link up party 

hosted by Bleubeard and Elizabeth

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The Pink Scarf Project

 Pink Alert!  

pink 

pink

 pink

Lots of pink in this post.

While I was in Florida this past winter I saw Vicki's post asking us to

 make pink scarves and send them to Kentucky, where they will

 become gifts of hope and given to women who are battling cancer.

I am not a fan of pink. 

It is one color that I rarely reach for. But this project tugged at my heart.

When my daughter came to visit, she snapped this photo of me, 

knitting,

 in 80 degree sunshine....

 of course I did have a cool drink.

When I came home I continued to knit. I also bought some pink fabric. 

I decided to make more than one scarf. A few knitted. A few sewn. and a few woven. 

 

I am still adding the finishing touches to the woven scarves....I'll show you when they are done.

Oh and I used the leftover yarn to make a banner for a local chemotherapy lounge.

I need to add some charms and beads and a few words of hope and it will be finished.

 

I like it so far. What do you think?

oh and can you believe I actually posted a photo of myself here?
  brave?  or stupid?   time will tell.

looking back at a cool technique

I am still feeling very very sick. So I thought I would pull up an old post of a technique I shared a few years ago. I hope my new readers will love this and add it to their bag of tricks. I hope to be back to normal next week. I am going back to bed now....Please enjoy this fun re-run.....

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You know how sometimes you have a rubber stamp image that goes one way....but you wanted it to go the other way?  .....And yes, I know all about mirror image stamps and many other ways to flip the image. But I don't have one of those with me .....and  besides....this technique is so cool...
   
For demonstration purposes I am working on a small notebook from 7Gypsies.  I guess I should mention that I am not affiliated with any company or product I show you here on this blog or any of my other blogs...I am just a consumer...a very active consumer...I use a lot of stuff.....I should probably add some type of disclaimer in the sidebar...   I am a consumer and an enabler... 

...Sorry I got off track didn't I?

ahem...anyway...........here is this cute little notebook after I covered it up with some decorative paper* and some of that lacy paper that I showed you last week.

 I even covered the cute little pockets on the inside

I need to put  that bird image* on the back of the book...but I want it to face

the other direction
 Here is where the varnish comes to the rescue....

but first I have to tell about this....

 here is another favorite product....acetate

some artists and  crafters call it window plastic

 No I am not going to use the acetate...

I am going to use the sheer tissue protective sheets that are in between the sheets of acetate

They put them in there to keep the acetate from sticking together.

I guess some people throw them away

But not us crafty types....

We use everything

 so... here I have my stamp, the tissue paper and the ink.

water based inks will run, so use a pigment or hybrid ink

 Stamp the image on the tissue

 Slather some varnish on your project where you want your image to end up.
~ see the shiny wet varnish...

 lay the tissue paper with the image

FACE DOWN

so the image is reversed

pat it down a bit and

gently tear away the excess tissue.

hard to see in the pic...but I am gently tearing...see

now gently use your brush to smooth it down

be careful ...it is wet and it will tear

so tap tap tap

gently 

 I folded the excess tissue on the edge around to the inside.

See......reversed image !

and it's transparent.... look....you can still see the script on the decorative paper

This technique is great for altered books and journals

as long as you have time to wait for it to dry.

And of course it's great for collage

edited to show you the completed book:

 I used a gold leafing pen on the edges

 page edges before:

 page edges after gold leaf

front

back

see you soon....

*the bird stamp is from Crafty Individuals and is made by Magenta in Canada

* the decorative paper is from Prima Marketing Pastiche Collection " Seaside"