T Stands for Tuesday

 Time for a T(ea) post and a linking up with Elizabeth and Bluebeard .  Tonight (Monday) this is my Tea shot for this week.  Last fall I was doing a lot of free hand, loose type painting and did a bunch of tea cups in ATC size.  While cleaning and sorting last week ( still in progress I might add) I came across these little paintings and decided they needed to be put in a journal.  I chose one of my smaller journals for this project, now they are safely out of harms way.  Next to the journal is the bottle of water I am drinking, right out of the bottle, not even in a pretty glass or cup. (yep, I recycle these)

 This is one of the 9 drawers of scrap paper I have been going through.  This one has not been touched......yet!  It is all metallic and I really don't use these very often, but they will get a going through this week......I hope LOL  Things kind of came to a halt with other life type things that happened.

 Here are 8 of the 9 drawers of paper that you saw piled on my desk last week, all sorted and generally sized, and filed in a long narrow basket at arms reach.  I just used binder clips to keep the groups together and then plastic dividers between the colors.  Solid colors in front and prints in the back.  I did keep all the smaller, useable, pieces.  I clipped them together and put them in a drawer marked ATC size. I also made a card from an image that I had stamped and colored and then put aside.  With these papers sorted this way it only took a moment to find background papers and prints, instead of pulling out a drawer and digging through all the sizes to find one that fit.  I am so glad that I did this and really can't wait to get it ALL like this!

I had my GD, Hannah last Tuesday and once I taught her to use the labeler, and wrote her out a list, she made all my labels for me. That really helped me, she is just growing up too fast.

This is the pile of 12 x 12 scraps that is my challenge for this week.  The brownish box actually is holding alphabet stickers.  These are all scrapbook scraps that I do use for other things.  I am going to cut these down to a smaller size, at least 8 x 8, I think. I also have a HUGE stash of 12 x 12 paper, that I think I'll just keep as is, until I cut into it.

 I have been re-thinking the scrapbook thing, as much as I love to make them, they take a lot of time, ink to print the pictures, supplies (ie. embellishments) and they are rarely looked at.  I have started putting everything on DVD movies with music and special effects, that they can play them on the TV.  They seem to like this a little better, and the kids love to see themselves on TV.  I don't have G-kids, I have G-HAMS!  LOL

I also joined a gym last week :O !  I keep putting off doing something at home, so I took the plunge and joined.  I'm still working out a schedule to make it a routine thing.  I used to walk 4 miles everyday and belong to a gym, until I had started having trouble with my foot, then had foot surgery.  I really didn't think I would walk like that again, and I probably won't now that I'm 10 years older LOL.  But I do need to get more physical  exercise and get back into better shape, and loosing a few pounds would be a really nice side effect (grin).  I finally have decided that ROUND is  the shape I no longer want to be in!

So what have you been doing this week?
I'll be around early in the morning, with my coffee in hand to see what's in your cup.
Inky Hugs
Krisha