T Stands For Coffee

Today I'm Counting my blessings, Bleubeard's and my theme this month at Art Journal Journey by opening my home to each of you, my loyal T Tuesday players. 

"Home is where my

coffee is."   Of course,

I will fix tea, cold drinks, hot drinks, and even alcoholic drinks, if that's your choice. 

But for me, I'll have coffee, please.

Of course, there might be a bit of art, that hopefully 

looks better than the mess I made trying to use pan pastels with my new gifted stencil from Eileen.  I'm not sure which is worse, the pan pastels or the fixative I used to set the color in place.

One thing is certain, though.  I am truly blessed to have coffee, along with my bean grinder and coffee maker, that I can drink and share each day, not just Tuesday.

For this journal entry, I began by sewing the roof to the house.  Then I added the decorative ribbon.  Next, I stamped two of my Tuesday cups to backgrounds and added them to two 35 mm slide holders, one of which was decorated.  Next, using a yellow pan pastel, I stenciled the gifted cup to a piece of paint chip sample, then used a fixative to keep the pan pastel dust in place.  What a mess, though.  Never again!  To complete the house, I sewed the "door" in place, then sewed the entire house to my background, which started as 110 lb card stock to which I applied my blue handmade shimmering mist.  Finally, I colored the words using watercolor crayons and added the word "coffee" using stickers.

For those of you (like Eileen) who have never seen how my shimmering mists are made, they are on my Tutorials page under Handmade Shimmer Color Mists (updated).

But wait, please.  I am even MORE blessed.

Talk about happy mail!

Both these came the same day.

Chris lets the postal carriers know how she feels about the postage stamps after a carrier obliterated some on a package she sent last year.

Look at the beauties Sharon sent me. She sure knows me.  Not only did she send fabulous cat die cuts,

she also sent two wonderful ATCs (look at that texture)

and this incredible card that featured cats.  I have no idea where Sharon got that stamp, but it is AWESOME.  Thank you beyond belief, Sharon.  I am so, so grateful.

Next came all the beautiful goodies I received from Chris. There was everything from labels/journalling rectangles to napkins 

to fussy cut goodies Chris knew would be hard for me to cut.   She also encouraged me to use the cats from the envelope in my art.

Of course, there was this incredible ATC, too.  You KNOW you are always far too kind to me, Chris, and I am always very grateful.

Now that you can see how blessed I am, it's your turn to share a drink related post.  Feel free to discuss anything. Your post may include 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.  Then, please link your story below.  The photos don't have to be taken on Tuesday, and can relate to anything with a drink.  Please use the direct link to your T post, not your blog in general, so we can find you easily.



Bleubeard and I are delighted you chose to spend part of your computer time with us today and hope to see you at Art Journal Journey, too.