T Stands For Two-fer

 

It's time to once again join Erika, aka BioArtGal and Chris, aka Pearshapedcrafting our hosts this month at Art Journal Journey.  Our theme this month is Inspired By (Eileen).  It's also time for T Tuesday.

  Today I want to share my summer garden with you.   It all started with watercolors.  I remembered how much Eileen enjoyed using watercolors, too.

I had planned to show the watercolors after they were on the page.  Somehow I got carried away and wanted to finish before daylight.

My summer garden has several recyclables,

including tea bags.  That's why this qualifies for T Stands For Tuesday.

Allow me to share a few photos of my summer garden.

I started this spread using 90 lb. watercolor paper.  I used red, lavender, green, and black watercolors and added black or more green to the green, and black and red to the lavender.  It was as much a study in mixing colors, as it was recycling items from my stash.  Once the watercolors were dry, I added the paint chips I picked up a long time ago at the big box paint store.  The tea bag came from one I drank during a recent T Tuesday.  I deconstructed it by placing the tea leaves in one of my plants.  Nothing goes to waste in my home.  I tore it in half and placed it over the paint chips.  I then used a tag from a different tea bag to write the sentiment.  That's what gave me the idea to share it with you for T this Tuesday.

However, I can't show favoritism,

so it's time to show a reason to recycle coffee: coffee grounds, that is.

Let's start with my ceramic kitchen witch that lives in my refrigerator.  I usually add baking soda, but I prefer to save my baking soda to stop rust in fabric I'm rusting.

 

After adding my coffee grounds concoction to my kitchen witch, I added more to my brass bowl. 

 

Included in the concoction are dried coffee grounds, bits of orange peel, and tiny sprigs of fresh rosemary.

 

Now all I had to do was find a place to set the bowl and let it spread its great scent and absorb any stale odors that are in the room.  You may need to place several of these in strategic places in a large room.  For best results, and to ensure the most freshness, I suggest you change the coffee grounds concoction every three weeks.

 

For Day 20 of 22, I recycled paint chip samples from my stash and a tea bag from tea I drank during a recent T Tuesday.  I also recycled four 12-cup containers of dried freshly ground coffee grounds, spent orange peel, and some fresh rosemary from my herb garden. Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am very, very grateful you took time to visit and check out these recycling projects. 

Now it's your turn to share your own drink related post.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, 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.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and most assuredly not just this year.