T is For 10 Years of T-Day, Too much food, and The Art (Always the Art)

Hello Friends.

Most of today's post is about celebrating 10 years of Elizabeth hosting T-day parties on her blog.  If you have visited me before, you know that I regularily participate in T-day where we all post something about a drink of any type (the drink can be anything including water and the post can be a real drink, words, movies, art, etc.) on Tuesday (or Monday lol) and link it to Elizabeth's T-day blog post for the week.  

This year Elizabeth is asking us to post several things in celebration of the big anniversary.  

#1.  Post a picture of something that makes the number 10. I used 10 art supplies that were near me.  I am starting to make more Christmas cards so these were right at hand. 

#2.  Post our regular T-day picture/post.  My drink picture today is a lunch we had in Tybee Island last week during our Georgia trip.  We ate at Pier 16.  Great food and service. It was our favorite meal during the trip. 

I had a Merlot and hubby had water.  The steamed platter had shrimp, crab, sausage, and mussels along with potatoes, corn, and coleslaw. Hubby had the fried platter but then took off most the breading.  

#3. If we participated in any of the swaps, post pictures of what we received.  I participated in the ATC and tea bag swap, and my partner was Deb.  She also sent a pretty card she made along with some seeds.  I LOVE EVERYTHING she sent including her pretty stamps.  Side note to Deb - sorry my postage on the package I sent was not pretty but you saw what happened when our post office actually used stamps on Elizabeth's package - she had to pay $1.81 to get it - things are weird with our post office here in rural Alabama).  

Here is the ATC she made and sent me:

Notice she put a 10 on the bunny and made that really pretty tea/coffee cup for the lovely flowers. 

Here is the pretty card she made:

Here are the tea bags and seeds (I already drank the tea - lol).

So fun.  The seeds appear to be from GA.  We just got back from a week in Georgia (I will post pictures next week), and we did see lots and lots of pretty wildflowers.  Thanks so much Deb - it was lovely celebrating the 10 year T-day anniversary with you in this way.  Your package is much loved.

I can't wait to see what everyone else is doing to celebrate the anniversary.

I also have some art. The first one is a watercolor bird nest done for last week's Watercolor challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com.  The tutorial was the birds nest and eggs.  I decided to add a few tree trunks, some berries (from in the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com), and some leaves.  My eggs got a little lopsided so I covered them with a sentiment stamp from SU!  The bottom needed something darker so I stamped the branch from SU! Ornamental Pines.  This one is going to my youngest daughter. 

This next card was made the week before.  It was for a challenge to send cards to a man who has been battling some health challenges and just got out of the hospital.  He loves blue (I meant to use more) and golf. The plaid was dipped in blue for one direction, but I never cleaned off the green so you can barely see it.  All the images and words (including the plaid) are from DRS Designs. 

Happy T-day everyone. Especially to Elizabeth.  It takes a lot of dedication to continue something every week for 10 years. She invests in each person who participates with her time and encouragement.  I found her during Covid, and she, along with the whole T-day and AJJ teams, helped me feel more connected to the world when we were all in isolation and facing an unknown future.  

Hugz,

Nancy