T Stands For Merry Christmas

Since Bleubeard and I are hosting Art Journal Journey this month,

we are meeting at my dining room table with another T inspired journal page.  I hope I'm not the only one playing today, but I will understand if you can't make it to T time, since it's Christmas (or Christmas eve, depending on when you visit).

You should know me by now that once my sewing machine was fixed, I would be back sewing words to the page again!

"Seltzer,

Sage,

Rosemary,

and Thyme."

Note how I wrapped excess thread around the stem of the glass on the left.

For this page, I began by laying down pink dye ink on my 110 lb card stock substrate.  When I found these images in a magazine, I immediately fussy cut them.  All the stems were cut away from the background.  I tried to position each of the stems on a staff line on the vintage sheet music.  I chose sheet music as a background because of the reference to the Simon and Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair that was part of the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme.  The song was also used in the movie The Graduate.  The words were colored using water soluble crayons, and sewn to the page using variegated thread.
 

Of course, I had to drag out one of my tree inspired glasses, too.

I also want to share some lovely cards and gifts I have received in the last few weeks, as well as a couple of gifts I made before my sewing machine meltdown.

I know many of you saw the one I made for Susi, but it wasn't finished when I took this photo.  My machine had started to go crazy about that time.  The one on the right was ready to be mailed, so that's why I rushed the photos.

Here are the gifts and cards I received in the order in which I received them.  I turned several into mosaics because we would have been here all day had I not!

Kathy's gorgeous handmade card, meant to be taken apart and used in my art.

Linda K's incredible card, gifts, and Dina Wakely papers

This gorgeous card came from Sharon.  It is hand stamped and has lots of glitter, too.  She definitely lives up to her foxy stamping name.

This came from Halle.  She always sends me lovely cards made with photos of their family.  I would NEVER mention their names or show their faces, but since Marvin was listed as part of the family, I thought it would be OK to show his name.  We've all enjoyed Marvin and his antics during T before, so I had no qualms there.  In order to hide both my address and Halle's address, I decided to show Kathy how her wax seal on her envelope arrived at my house.

RO!'s gorgeous gift and card.  I kept the washi tape, too.  She admitted she didn't make the card.

Cindy's incredible hand painted bingo card and tons of postage stamps I can use in my art.

My friend Ed, with whom I went through the Ph.D. program at Wichita State sent these pins and an adorable card.

I am so honored that each of you was so kind to send such incredible gifts.  I thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart.  Words just don't and can't convey how grateful I am.

And last, but certainly not least, are these incredible gifts I won during Mia's birthday bash last month.

Lovely handmade pieces and lots of goodies I can use in my mixed media art. Sadly, I don't have pierced ears and am allergic to all metal.  I will use these in my art, though.

Everything except my glass has now been put away (have I not mentioned I'm a bit anal?).  I will wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy holiday.  I'm off to cook various squashes in preparation of Christmas dinner.  I may even show them if they turn out OK.

By now, I'm sure you know the drill.  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, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday.  In just a week I will also be able to say "and not even this year!" which also means you should be looking for a Second on the 2nd post.