I’m back at the drips, splatters and squiggles. I couldn’t help myself.
The partially obscured quote is:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
For this weeks edition of T stands for Tuesday, I just had to show you what Little J and I have done….
We’ve turned the game table into craft central for the week. We are borrowing the neighbor’s Cuttlebug and amazing amount of accessories…not even all on the table… so we definitely needed a bigger space to work.
As you can see I have a nice summer beverage in my favorite glass. Ice, 1/3 glass orange juice then fill with club soda. My usual is club soda and 100% unsweetened cranberry juice but I ran out.
I’m going through my scrap files and embossing papers for future use as well as creating some embellishments for cards.
Little J is working on her stash of cards for the year and some goodies for her Smash book.
These are a few cards she made yesterday.
With Mr. G at work and Big J at camp during the day, we crank up the Pandora radio and get our crafty groove on. It’s nice to get that special time with my favorite girl.
What are you doing today?
Another page in my cursed journal. Photographing this page proved to be a challenge. This was the best shot I could get and it still doesn’t have the look that it does in real life. I’m bummed because I think this is one of my very favorite pages EVER.
After I stamped and embossed the pocket watch image, it looked just too perfect. I took some sandpaper to it to mess it up a bit. This made me much happier. :)
I also had to show off my yarn haul from the thrift store. Woo-hoo…lots of knitting and crochet material for the less than the price of 2 average skeins.
Our new neighbor mentioned a while back that she hosted a monthly craft club at her house.
I was very intrigued.
Last week she stopped by to tell me the date and time.
So last night I packed up a small plastic tote with supplies to make cards. I limited myself to paper from my scrap files.
I thought this would be a good challenge for me.
I learned that limited supplies doesn’t have to limit your creativity.
There was only one thing that I was really missing…my foam mounting tape. One of the gals I just met was gracious enough to give me a few pieces so I could complete a couple of the cards.
I’m already looking forward to next month!
I was feeling the need to make some mail art. My favorite kind to do are large puzzle pieces. Several years ago I bought a large floor puzzle at a garage sale. I’ve been sending altered postcards naked (meaning just addressed and stamped on the reverse) through the mail ever since.
The people at the post office know me and always get a kick out of the objects I send through the mail…such as a water bottle filled with goodies. Altered CD’s are also fun to send. I can’t seem to find a picture of any I’ve sent though…grrr.
Yesterday was National Night Out. Our neighborhood didn’t have an event planned but a neighbor did come knock on the door saying they were having a hotdog roast and fire. Cool. I already had supper nearly finished, so we planned to join after. Of course, Gracie thought it was a good time to do a little yoga at the front door.
We knew we were under a tornado watch but went out anyway…heck, we were just across the street.
The clouds and thunder rolled in and scared us home none too soon. Within a few minutes we were getting ping pong sized hail. That’s the biggest I’ve ever witnessed.
We were very fortunate. We lost no tree limbs…or power. Mr. G got his car in the garage just as the hail was beginning so I don’t think there is any damage there.
This morning I went out to survey the yard. Our grill cover has several holes punched through. Again…not a big deal, other than the fact that we just bought the dumb cover a month or so ago.
My garden fared very well considering. I did lose 20+ yellow pear tomatoes but my big tomatoes suffered no loses.
Never mind the grass growing in my garden.
My very large hosta plants seemed to have suffered the most. The 6inch wide leaves have holes ripped through them. Again, we are very fortunate. Just about 8 miles down the road they had baseball sized hail that was taking out windows and doing much greater damage.
All in all I can’t complain. Yeah we have a little yard clean up to do but we’re all fine and the light s are on. It’s a good day.
I picked up a new mug from the clearance rack at Menards, of all places.
One lone mug with my initial…I had to buy it.
It’s much bigger than my standard size so I’m not sure I’ll use it for coffee or tea.
Maybe I’ll use it to hold my paint brushes….
I usually keep them in a cute little pink bucket.
Hmmm….decisions.
Although, it might work better here on my desk. I’m going to leave it here for a day or two and see how I like it.
Next on the list for today is knitting group, Target and grocery shopping.
I actually have been get some projects finished while attending my knitting group.
Here are a few dish cloths to prove it. :)
And can you believe this!?! We have leaves starting to turn already. I haven’t even picked a ripe tomato yet. Our growing season was majorly shortened this year.
Alright …enough blather from me…I’ve got things to do, people to see, blogs to visit.
What are you doing today?
You could stop by the home of T stands for Tuesday for starters.
EDIT: For those of you helping me on my flower/weed identification…here she is! A sunflower!