Sunday Threads

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
Psalm 119:105

WOYWW 210--Cards, Art Journals, Knitting...Just the Usual Happy Stuff

Happy WOYWW Desk Hoppers! I'm making it short and sweet today--I've got too much to do! I've just been through a week of special birthdays and our 24th wedding anniversary, and now Father's Day is coming up! I've been trying to put together an upcycled creative art journal...working on knitting those squares for what I'm calling my yarn quilt...longing to do some embroidery and sew a summer dress....I've made very special birthday cards...I'm in the garden, baking birthday cakes, and going out to special dinners. I also work--crazy!

I need more of me, because I just bought a Sizzix Texture Boutique, and I'm in love with that little thing. It is sooo cute, and I picked up not only a Sizzix embossing folder, but some Paper Studio brand embossing folders that also work really well in the texture boutique. This is going to make some really fun layouts for art journaling and scrapbooking, not to mention pretty cards. I am feeling so happy and blessed, except for maybe one thing. Something has gone awry with a tooth--and I just got a checkup a few weeks ago. So it's back to the dentist today...dreading, dreading.

In the meantime, I will have plenty to keep me happy and busy, whatever he does with this tooth. And honestly, I am thankful we live in the day and time that we do where you can just go to the dentist when you have a problem. Can you imagine the dental horrors if you lived in medieval times for example? It's these thoughts that make me feel a little better. Because I am not the ideal patient.

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Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, Emboss

Sunday Threads

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23

Me and My Little Typewriter...We Stick Together

Just a little update about my little typewriter. As I wrote in a post a while back, it was discovered that Brother no longer makes the ribbons for my typewriter--and neither does anyone else in the world!

Read: It's a Qwerty Kind of Thing

Lucky for me, I had purchased a quantity of ribbons, way back when, and then put it all away at some point, but now have brought it all back out to art journal, mainly. So, my little typewriter is about four ribbon cassettes away from being put in a storage closet forever. (or possibly disassmbled for art, we'll see)

Anyhoo...I decided to decorate her. She's always been such a sweet but plain little thing--I'll never sell her--so, why not go a little crazy with the stickers! The ones you can't see in the photos are heart stickers all along each side. Makes it all so much more fun now!

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, Type

Bento Box Lunches

Years ago, I purchased a couple of Tupperware containers from my friend's son for his fundraiser. Now, mind you, Tupperware is not cheap stuff. But it was a fundraiser. I didn't realize I was actually purchasing a Bento-style box. Over the years, these things have held up well, and I love them for bringing breakfast on the go or lunch...hey, they'd even work for dinner. Just depends on what you bring. And we all know the huge savings of bringing vs. buying.

 I snapped pics of these box lunches during a busy week when I didn't have that much variety in the fridge or the pantry--but somehow, pulled some Bento lunches together for both my daughter and I. 

So here they are...and watch for part two. Cause I'm so crazy about bringing a box lunch like this, that I've already found and purchased some more  Bento boxes in some cute styles and forms! Sadly, I can't seem to find these very boxes in the Tupperware catalog anymore--but there are websites that specialize in the Bento box, and I have found plenty of styles at various stores. Now that we are getting into summer--I hope my Bento lunches are packed with fresh fruits and veggies and much more interesting salads. This was a week where we were just getting into spring--so that's what I had to work with. But I love fresh veggies, and this makes lunch easy and fun. Happy lunching!

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, Bento

WOYWW 209--That's Right...I Can Make My Own Envelopes!

Happy What's-On-Your-Workdesk-Wednesday Lovelies! If I sound a wee bit proud of myself in my post title, well...I am! I got a new toy, a scoring board, and I am amazed at the beautiful envelopes I've been making. But even more amazing is this: I have a stash of scrapbook papers that I no longer think is cute enough to scrapbook with (because I'm always finding something cuter) and yet these scrapbook papers look sooo cute when they're turned into envelopes! Especially the double-sided papers, because it looks like the envelope has a liner.

Oh happy day! I'm an envelope artist! Thank you Martha Stewart for making these tools!

So, now the trick will be to actually make cards with envelopes that match--instead of sitting around here just making envelopes and being in awe of the transformation of my old stash. But, mother's 87th birthday is in two days, then daughter's 19th birthday the day after that, and then my 24th wedding anniversary two days after that. (I was in the hospital with a baby on my fifth wedding anniversary...the nurses brought us a special dinner that night.)

So I have great reasons to make cards and matching envelopes!

In other news, I am knitting those squares right on schedule so I can begin the painstaking task of sewing together a throw. Then, I suddenly started having this urge to knit a cute tank top--so I'm tackling that next.

I had a Hobby Lobby shopping spree on clear stamps. Very excited about my new clear stamps!!

Oh how I wish I could have attended the WOYWW anniversary crop--love all you ladies, and from afar I so appreciate Julia and Jan and how they give of themselves to the deskers, and make these magical things happen!

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Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, Play at Your Worktable Today!

Sunday Threads

Early dawn outlines the hills like stitches on clothing or sketches on clay.
Job 38:14