T Stands For Random Mugs

 

This has been another week from He]].  I have been without electricity for four and a half days.  Before you ask, ALL my utilities (phone, internet, gas, electric, and water) are all on auto-pay, so that was the furthest thing from my mind.

High winds (registered over 70 mph) snapped the electric cable that brings electricity to my home.  As a result, I had no heat, no phone, no internet, etc.  Even my new furnace has an electric starter.  I finally asked to borrow my neighbor's phone and reported the outage.  It still took the electric company over a day for them to string a new line to the house.  I wasn't sure I was going to make T Tuesday on time, but I hope to be just under the wire (so to speak).

 These mugs don't fall in any single category, so I am calling them random mugs.

Pretty flowers caught my eye here.

I've shown you mine, now it's time to share your own drink related post.  It can be photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I will gladly visit, as will other T participants.  Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and not just this year.  Please remember to visit your fellow T participants. 

January and February complete and March already written in

 

 

My completed January and February, 2025 calendar pages are below.
 

It occurred to me that I never showed my completed January calendar.  This is my very boring life.

This was the month from He[[.  First my furnace went out, then I got very sick.  To top it off, my friend Scott lost his mother to cancer.

Now for my March calendar page, which was created with my friend Erika in mind.

Erika is hosting Art Journal Journey the entire month of March.  Her theme is Home Sweet Home.  I don't have any "home" stickers, but I know Erika loves light houses.  She and her husband often visit ones, so I decided to show them as homes.  I hope she approves.

Here is a detail shot.  BTW, my friend Sally was supposed to have a shoulder replacement on the 4th, but she told me last week they have now postponed it to May.

I hope you will join us at Art Journal Journey as you share your own interpretation of Home Sweet Home.

T Stands For Mardi Gras

 

I took over 40 photos of my coffee and two envelopes from friends I received last week.  None of the photos were legible.  I own a large tripod that extends to six feet.  It is too heavy and big for me, so I gave it to my friend Scott a couple of years ago.  I have decided to look for a small tripod I can place on the dining room or craft table to take decent photos now that my hands are so shaky.  In the meantime, I will bring back a post from several years ago that is relevant.

  I call this T Stands For Mardi Gras.  Some of you may be concerned that I threw two babies into this cup of tea.  However, these babies bake in a King Cake at 350 F (176.67 C), so a bit of warm tea is like bathing the baby in bath water.

I've shown you mine, now it's time to share your own drink related post.  It can be photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I will gladly visit, as will other T participants.  Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and not just this year.  Please remember to visit your fellow T participants. 

Second on the 2nd: My Dream Home

 

As most of you know, I like my second look each month to reflect our host at Art Journal Journey's (AJJ) theme. That means I needed to find something related to Erika's Home Sweet Home theme.

This post is from a challenge in September, 2018.

Let me introduce you to My Dream Home.

My dream home is filled with love.

My dream home has a lovely flower garden

that surrounds my love-filled

art studio. 

It's no secret I love to make houses, but I'm not good at drawing.  I was surprised I pulled this fantasy house off.

For this page, I began by laying down heavy lines of water soluble crayons.  I filled in the house with more water soluble crayons I adhered using a lighter touch.  I added the green stem and the grass at the bottom of the house using two colors of green.  I painted card stock red and yellow using bingo dabbers, then cut hearts, flower petals, and doors to add interest to the house.  I placed blue dots around the insides of the hearts and petals using a felt pen.  You can tell when I began to get tired, making the pen hard to hold.   Finally, believing it needed something more, I used a word stamp around the perimeter.  The stamp is called V-mail, and I got it in the discontinued bin one year when several of us went to River City Rubber.

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Now it's time to share your own Second on the 2nd.  The rules are quite simple and everyone is welcome to join the fun look back.  All you have to do is bring back a post that you are especially proud of, or perhaps one you shared before anyone knew your blog existed.  It could even be one that holds special meaning, like mine.  Any post, any genre, any artistic endeavor is acceptable, as long as it's been published sometime in the past.  Then link below (direct links only, please) and Bleubeard and I, along with other Second on the 2nd friends, will be by to visit.  The link will be live until 4 p.m. Monday, which is tomorrow, so it is best to share it on the 2nd.

 

The House Bach Built

 

I want to begin by thanking our second time host, Vicki Parsons of Stamped Smiles for hosting during the month of February at Art Journal Journey.  She did a fabulous job hosting and we look forward to having her back next year.  I only wish I had not been so sick in February and could have participated more.

This month my dear friend and co-administrator Erika

is our host the entire month of March at Art Journal Journey.  

Her theme is   Home Sweet Home

She provides all kinds of examples on the AJJ blog.

This is the house Bach built.  Detail shots are below.

 

I have several pages of painted sheet music I didn't use last month and I decided to start this month using some of those to create this house.  Various pages were used to create this home.  I painted vintage sheet music pages using Phthalo Blue in a green shade and Phthalo Green in a blue shade, and Silver, all Golden brand fluid acrylics. I added a piece of gifted twill tape between the roof and the house.  I added the "tree" because the house looked bare sitting by itself.

Erika, Mia, Bleubeard, and I are delighted you joined us and hope to see you this month at Art Journal Journey as you share your own interpretation of Home Sweet Home.

Please remember we welcome art journal pages that meet the theme requirements, altered book pages, canvases, loose, or stand alone pages including fabric and digital art.  I (and the administrators) cannot leave comments on Facebook or Instagram entries.  We do not allow cards!!!  We also don't allow tags, index cards, ATCs, or ATCoins, unless they are part of a journal page, and as much as we don't want to, will be forced to delete your entry.  Please remember if your blog is not in English, we ask that you translate it for us since the translation tool doesn't work on some blogs, including mine.  Hope to see you and your Home Sweet Home entries soon at Art Journal Journey.