Thriving Art

Two drinks, TV remote, my readers and my cell phone................all set to watch a couple of taped programs.  That was AFTER I did a post, three loads of laundry (one folded in the basket, one laid out on the spare bed and one still in the dryer) then there was a trip into Bakersfield to do two errands and buy something besides condiments for the refrigerator......phew!!  Why am I sharing this?  Cause it is time to join the T-gang over at Altered Book Lover .......you know, for a jaunt around the world being nosey about what others are drinking!!!!   I don't normally put ANYTHING in my coffee, but I needed to sit down and relax and a latte sounded good.  It is just sugar free syrup, coffee and heavy whipping cream.........a generic SB but I like it a latte better..................couldn't pass that one up....LOL!!    The Smart Water is one I bought on the run.................nope it hasn't helped at all, I feel no smarter than before I bought it.....*grin*  I

  Todays word, for Clare's photo challenge is NEW .  Everybody should be able to concur this since we just had Christmas........but these were not Christmas gifts...*grin*   The large multi colored binder and dry erase pens are for something I'm making for GD Hannah upon her request before Christmas.  The smaller black one is a new one for storage of my stamps......notice the new stamps in the upper left corner......oh ya it will house those stamps.   Hannah had asked me to make her a cursive practice binder.  These are the sheets that are now in the binder. I printed them off an educational web site and then put them in plastic page protectors, then sealed them with DH's soldering tool.  Now she can use the dry erase pens to practice and then wipe them clean.     I had made one for her little sister, Megan ( who is in kindergarten), to practice her letters and numbers when I was picking them up from school earlier this fall.  Megan wanted to do "h