T Stands For Thanks Again

 

Please join me at my dining room table.

It won't be long and the background will be gone and the dining room table will return to its former boring self.  Even the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas china will be  put away for another year.  As you can see, 

my drink of choice is eggnog, which I will pour shortly.  I have washed this glass three times, and it still looks like it isn't clean.

I'm also eating some of the best pumpkin bread I have ever tasted.  My friend Scott prepared and baked it, along with a homemade pumpkin pie.  I attribute the wonderful taste to Vietnamese cinnamon, which he brought with him.  It was so much fun fixing meals next to Scott.  It made cooking far less tedious for me.

Now that I have my food and drink, it's time to share the wonderful cards I received this week after we met last Tuesday for T time.  I really don't like winter in my dining room because of the shadows that never ever go away.

It occurred to me this week that I had not shown Sharon's card.  We traded cards when she dropped some gifts off for me.  Don't you just love the cute gingerbread decoration and the bow?  It goes well with the gingerbread paper background. Sharon makes all one-of-a-kind cards.

Look at the tree on the inside.  I love that stamp she used.  Isn't it stunning?  And it's a TREE, too!  Thank you so very much, Sharon.  I am SO glad we met, too!

Speaking of trees, we all know who created this.  After all, she gave us a tutorial on how to make our own.  Yes, it's our friend CJ who created this beauty for the "boys" and me.

 

Sorry, Lisca.  For some reason, I couldn't get this postage stamp in focus, no matter what I did.

 

Look at the adorable Christmas greeting I got from CJ's mew (new) family members.  As I was looking at this, a light bulb came on.  I know I'm dense at times.  I've been told that for someone who has such a high IQ, I really need to be hit over the head with reality at times.

My mistake in missing the "clues" was I thought when CJ said they adopted two kittens from a shelter in AL and they were seven months old, their names came with them.  After all, that's the first thing I taught my cats: their names.  My first cat (Dog) was so well trained that if someone called "here kitty, kitty," he wouldn't even look up.  That's why it has taken me this long to realize the names Calli and Quill are ones CJ, and possibly her husband, have given them.  DUH!  Yes, CJ, please laugh, because I was so dense I didn't "get it" until now!  Thank you for this beauty, dear CJ and for thinking  of the "boys" and me this Christmas.

My final card comes from NH (which for international audiences is New Hampshire, a state on the east coast of the United States).  This stamp focused well.

My final card came from my dear friend Erika.  It may be store purchased, as she told me in the note, but it is a lovely card and looks like it could have been handmade.

Please share your favorite drink with us this week, and we'll be by to visit.  Remember the rules are simple.  A drink, any drink can be represented by art (digital, hybrid, or traditional), a cup, mug, teapot, etc.  Maybe you'll share a scrapbook page, or a favorite movie or book that focuses on a drink.  Maybe it will be something in a magazine.  And drinks don't have to be water, coffee, or tea.  You can always go off the grid and drink something we may not have heard of.  All you have to do is link below, so we can visit you, too.  Direct links ONLY, please. And Bleubeard wants to remind you these photos or scans can be taken at any time, not just on Tuesday or not even this month, if you prefer.

I would also be remiss if I didn't remind you to be "digging up" your Second Look on the 2nd, a post from the past.  That is the only requirement, that you have shown it on your blog sometime in the past.