T Stands For Family

I want to begin by thanking so many of you for dropping by while I've been sick.  I took your advice after my foodie friend Sally decided I had more than food poisoning and took me to the emergency room at a local clinic.  What might have started with food poisoning either turned into or masked the fact I have pneumonia.  Thankfully, according to the ER physician, because I got plenty of rest and didn't overexert myself, I should be feeling better in about 48-72 hours.   Now that I know I should be eating real food instead of starving myself on crackers and water (coffee, too of course), I can grab soup from my pantry and a few solids that don't come from my freezer.  I'm still not allowed to overexert myself and must get plenty of rest, but after being sick for a full seven days, I am feeling marginally better and vow to catch up with as many of you as I possibly can today.  My genuine and sincere apologies for not visiting these last few days when you sent your love and caring in the form of kind comments, while I totally ignored my blog.

Today you will find me at my dining room table showing what I bought myself at the Asian Market before Christmas.

And because I have been absent for so long from Art Journal Journey, I had to pay homage to our host this month, dear Rike of Rike's Art.  Rike wants us to use yellow as a notable ingredient in our art.

Today I created an entry I call We are family. 

Here are a few step out photos.

The middle square is different from the rest, in the sense it was not made from white card stock alone, but had a part of a sheet of a day planner glued to the square and colored.  Because the main piece had a line of black already in it, it became my inspiration for adding the black to each of the squares I recycled from my 365 somethings.
 
For my substrate, I started with a sheet of black construction paper (9 X 12 inches; 22,86 X 30,48 centimeters).  To that I added four squares I originally colored yellow, orange, and pink.  To that, I added a line of black to each when I recycled them.  The final entry, added on the diagonal, included the sentiment which I colored using (believe it or not) a yellow metallic gel pen.

So glad you were able to join me for this art journal entry I created for Art Journal Journey.

That brings us to today's tea cup and spoon holder.

The various cups, etc. they sold at the Asian Market all had different signs on them. 

They also sold two sizes of bowls, saucers (small plates), and tea pots.  If it wasn't obvious on the design, the marks helped you recognize which designs went together.

It's now time for you to share your own drink related post.  It can be gifts you received or purchased for yourself, 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 and not just this year.  I hope you will join us at Art Journal Journey with your yellow inspired art, too.


UPDATE: Please remember to click on the Free Kibble blog today (Feb 19). You are donating 20 bits of Kibble to both cats and dogs today. Remember, regardless of the answer, it costs you nothing but a few seconds of your time and you might learn something new, too!