Well hey there lovelies! I've missed you and have lots to catch up on now that I'm back from a fabulous week at the beach in Fenwick Island, DE with friends. Special cookies courtesy of one of our friends Wendy who is an amazing baker! Still have photo editing to do so I'll have more to share about the beach in future posts.
If I can that is.What is up with Blogger?? Not able to load my pictures in "compose" mode all of a sudden! Luckily I was able to figure getting them on the post in HTML or so I hope it all works.
Upon going through all the mail that piled up including bills and lots of junk was this treasure:
Last month Bleubeard and Elizabeth of
Altered Book Lover hosted an ATC swap to celebrate the 4th anniversary of T Stands For Tuesday and I received this lovely packet of ephemera along with that artsy ATC on the right from Eileen. I love it! The ATC is on my art table and I have already used a piece of the ephemera (on a tag a bit below:) Thank you Eileen!
Speaking of... for
T Stands for Tuesday:
Just before vacation Bill and I went to
New Hope, PA in picturesque Bucks County for the day. The eclectic community of New Hope celebrates the LGBT community and is home to many LGBT-friendly businesses. The main street is lined with unique shops, wonderful eateries and a Playhouse, along with lovely places to stay overnight. I don't have any photos because first off it was a gorgeous day and jam packed with people (and dogs) everywhere!! It was also "motorcycle Sunday" and there were hundreds of them-some quite loud. We went to a Cuban restaurant
Mojito Cuba Caribe for lunch and to see our friend Lorenzo play. Great time, and great sandwiches! Drinks were water and virgin mojitos.
My August calendar spreads :
I used gel print deli papers for the backgrounds along with photochips from Darkroom Door and some found words from a magazine. And in continuing with the beach theme:
a page in my small (7" x 9") watercolor journal. Thanks
Dianne for showing us how to create pages in this style ;)
Lastly, a tag:
painted tag from my stash; imagery-old collage sheets; strips of fiber, washi tape; words (Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers); gold shell charm; die cut scroll from Eileen; assorted Moonshine sequins(Simon Says Stamp).
Joining in with the
Simon Monday Challenge (theme is "nautical");
Tag Tuesday (Use Your Scraps); and
Paint Party Friday. I am also joining in with my journal pages at
Art Journal Journey hosted this month by
the lovely Jo with the theme of "Poetry in Motion'. Thanks Jo;) Looking forward to catching up with all of you!
"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."
Glad you had a wonderful vacation to the beach. I hope you had good weather. Those cookies look so yummy! Your friend really must have a fun sense of humor and must have been very excited to go. I can tell by that cookie plate. :) Your calendar pages and tag are perfect for August also. :) Happy T day. Hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteHi I enjoyed seeing all of your art-so nice to be on vacation-but then the stacks of mail to go through-glad you found some fun mail.
ReplyDeletethe food looks delish!!
Happy T Day Kathy
Welcome back, good to see you again and with so many goodies to share with us. Love the journal page and tag, and thanks so much to linking to us at Tag Tuesday, too, much appreciated. Glad you had such a wonderful vacation. Happy T Day, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteA great post today with lots to see and to read about
ReplyDeleteFantastic tag for our scraps challenge. Thank you for joining us at Tag Tuesday
Happy T Day Linda
Love Chrissie
Xxx
I was SO glad to read I'm not the only person who can no longer upload photos in compose mode. However, it appears you can still add links in compose, which I have been unable to do for several days.
ReplyDeleteYour calendar pages put mine to shame yet again! I love the beach theme, and it speaks fondly of summer, too.
Your tag is fabulous. It's hard to believe those are scraps from your scrap bin, except for Eileen's contribution, of course!
And finally, I think it's wonderful that you spotlighted New Hope for its LGBT business-friendly community and ate at a restaurant that is part of that community. Thanks for sharing your water and virgin mojitos with us, as well as your awesome cookies, art, calendar, and sandwiches for T this Tuesday.
Hi Linda...I can tell you had wonderful time during your vacation...that's great! I love your page and tag...the background made with gelli prints is beautiful! Take care...Simona
ReplyDeleteI'm so pleased to hear you had a fab time on your beach vacation and those cookies your friend made look amazing 😁. Your happy mail from Eileen is wonderful, such a lovely ATC and all those crafty goodies! It's always nice to catch up with friends and those sandwiches look delicious - yum! I can see that your recent vacation has a inspired some stunning artwork 😁. Your calendar pages are perfect for August and you have included such wonderful quotes too - I definately agree that life is better at the beach 😁. I adore you beach themes page too, it is full of beautiful images and the quote really speaks to me, what could be better than being by the water! Your tag is a real treat too with the wonderful image, colours and fishes 😁. Welcome back and wishing you a Happy T Day! J 😊
ReplyDeletep.s. As you may know I live right by the beach and coincidentally I'll be sharing some photos of my beach walks tomorrow over at Art Journal Journey. Both your calendar pages and beach page would be very welcome at this month's theme over at Art Journal Journey too and I'd love it if you would join us 😁. J x
Thanks so much for making me smile today by linking your fantastic pages with their wonderful quotes to AJJ! I know you must be playing catch up so I appreciate you taking the time to join us, you're a star! J 😊
DeleteI love the beach theme on your pages and tags. Even your fish cookie dish fits the theme. I've been having problems with Blogger, too. I haven't been able to find a reason why and Blogger help is useless. But at least the HTML format works. Hope you have a happy day.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you back dear Linda - sounds like you had a fab vacation again! SUPER!
ReplyDeleteI love all your wonderful calendar pages - and the page in the watercolour journal is just AWESOME- thank you do much for being with us again over at AJJ!
The tag is so beautiful as well !
HAPPY T-Day my friend! Looking forward to see more photos of the beach holidays!
oxo Susi
Looks like you had a great vacation! Enjoy the rest of the summer!
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New Hope, PA, is a place I've actually been. We went there during a trip to Philadelphia. We ended up going there several times lol, as it appealed to us a lot.
ReplyDeleteI always add my photos in the HTML mode. I've never tried doing it on the "compose" side of things. Hope it gets fixed for you soon.
Happy T Tuesday
wonderful the journals with Quote und Tags, the cookie delicious!You have great ideas!!!
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Elke
So glad you had a nice vacay Linda! What yummy looking cookies! And a gorgeous collection of goodies from Eileen. I love to hear about PA... I spent alot of growing up years around Easton , PA... Your Calendar and Journal page and tag are all lovely... You have been very busy and artsy this week... Its a good life!! :) Happy T day! Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteHi Linda ~ Welcome back ~ your vacation sounds divine and look at all the beautiful creations you have made ~ love the tag and journal pages ~ they are all so creative and well done ~ Happy Week to you ~ ^_^
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting on my Tuesday post of Our World Tuesday ~ keep up the great creative work ~ Happy Week to you ^_^
ReplyDeleteWonderful artwork Linda!
ReplyDeleteThanks for popping over to my blog.
Alison
Looks like it was a busy vacation and lots of fun...look forward to more photos! Love your calendar, journal page, and tag!! ♥ I do adore the beach or any body of water, so I'm in total agreement with your sentiment. happy T day! ♥
ReplyDeleteLove your calendar and journal pages! Glad you enjoyed you vacation and now you have some lovely goodies from Eileen to play with! Your tag is fabulous too! Looks as though you found some good food again! Happy T Day! Chrisx
ReplyDeleteBucks County sounds LOVEly! And I love your recent pages, especially the little one in you watercolor journal, it's so bright and cheery and your tag with the little fish is adorable. xo
ReplyDeleteHi Linda! Sounds like a fun vacation. Love your page, calendar and tags! Cute fish plate. Looks like spritz cookies! Yum!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back after your wonderful vacation. I'm not a lover of the beach myself. It's too hot and I get easily bored. Out of season we sometimes go to the coast. Beach walks are lovely and the sound of the surf is mesmerizing.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to get happy mail waiting for you when you came back. Beautiful ATC and other things.
Happy belated T-Day,
Lisca
Welcome back, Linda. I'm glad you had a fun week at the beach. Love your closing quote: "We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked your ATC package and were able to use something from it so quickly! That's a very cute tag.
Happy T-Day! Hugs, Eileen
Great beach tag Linda! Love how you made the fish swimming in the background of your vintage bather! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge! hugs, Maura
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post Linda.... your holiday sounds fantastic, glad you had some happy mail on your return... not just bills :)
ReplyDeleteI'd really love one of those biscuits right now!!!
Karen x
Love all of the beach theme art and those cookies look so good I just had to reach out and grab some :) ♥
ReplyDeleteLOVE your August calendar pages....what's not to like about the beach!
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of us that are reconnecting after summer activities.....mine ....not so fun, but the move is finished...yeah!!
LOVE the fish platter...;))
Happy T-day
So glad you had a fabulous beach holiday, I know how much you look forward to it each summer! Love the fish plate and all your beach art! Thanks for sharing your beautiful heart!
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Hi Linda! It's so cool that you received such a wonderful gift as part of the swap! And I was happy to read that you enjoyed your day at New Hope! We live about 1.5 hours away and am happy to hear that they have many LGBT-friendly businesses!!! WOW, Linda! Your calendar pages are so beautiful. I really liked the backgrounds you created and loved the sentiments!!! Your tag is beautiful, too! And it's only 8:00 AM here, but I am now hungry for a sandwich and delicious-looking cookies! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for beautiful art and delicious bakeries.
ReplyDeleteHappy PPF and weekend 🌼
Happy PPF Sweetie, have a great weekend, hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteLovely art welcome back from vacay
ReplyDeleteYou've made me long for sea, sun and sand! So much summer joy in your art and pictures.
ReplyDeleteYou've made me long for sea, sun and sand. Lovely to see all that summer inspired art and pictures
ReplyDeleteBeautiful art. Love the calendar pages. I know you are squeezing out as much summer as the last remaining days ebb to a close before fall. Your vacation sounds lovely. I lived in Wilmington DE. I'll have to check and see if that is near Bucks Co and New Hope.
ReplyDeleteSo much fun here!!!! Now I want to go to New Hope PA to get a cubano! :D
ReplyDeleteHi Linda, thanks for your sweet comment on my blog! My new bee sticker is my favorite piece of ephemera ever, lol. I'm loving your pieces today and don't you just love coming home from a great vacay and finding prezzies??!! I'll have to go say hi to Bluebird and Elizabeth, haven't connected with her in a while. Have a lovely weekend. Oh and ya, I hear you with blogger, I've been having trouble for ages with little functions, seriously thinking of taking the time and effort to switch to wordpress. But WHERE will I find the time to learn a new platform!!! *sigh* LOL.
ReplyDeleteGreat projects
ReplyDeleteBeautiful creativity full of happiness, colours and summer.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful watercolor and journal page. I like the colors you used for the souvenir shell.
ReplyDeleteIt's inspiring! I'd like to make ArtJournaling once again, as some time before. Thanks for showing it!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! So glad the beach vacation was fun! You're back at it creating away. I always love seeing your creations, Linda. Happy PPF on Sunday :)
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How wonderful your art journal is! The tag is also very lovely. I'm glad you had such a nice trip.
ReplyDeletewonderful spreads that made me smile. Love the Mermaide mall stamp.
ReplyDeleteAlways wonderful to get away and always wonderful to get back. Beach theme is perfect. I miss it. . .I'm too landlocked now. Love the colors and the designs. Blessings, Janet
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