and the winner is ....

(teatime giveaway)

congratulations Nancy!

e-mail me your addy and I'll get this off to you right away!

for my sanity

I've been doing quite a lot of this:

so I took some time to do this:

see you tomorrow when I announce the giveaway winner

teatime giveaway

H a p p y   B i r t h d a y 

to Art in Red Wagons!

(it's been 3 years of blogging and many many friends!)

Today's tea is a giveaway

I carved a new rubber stamp 

... a wobbly little teacup ...

and made some cozy little kitsch:

notecards

teacup  coasters

leave a comment and I will enter your name to win!

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we'll still have tea (or whatever) as usual

you know the drill

:)

and if you don't, 

click on the "What is Tea On Tuesday?" tab at the top of the page to find out more

Mister Linky is my friend

meet Mister Linky:

p.s. 

No Tea 

here at Art in Red Wagons 

next week

I am anticipating a lost week due to NO SCHOOL

(why do they have to do that to me?)

but, 

please, 

don't let that stop you from having your tea (or whatever)!!!

simple math

 one store bought pie tin

plus

great stash of bottlecaps

plus

homemade rust

plus

elbow grease

equals

art by kim

(click HERE for this piece)

as seen in WA

cranes folded out of tea bag paper

(Japan Relief)

as another person on Etsy said so well:

"I don't have much, but I still have my hands"

as seen in L.A.

yup, they're teabags

pretty cool

thanks Elizabeth for the picture

makes me want to go make myself a cup of tea

(and save the tea bag of course!)

groovy tea tuesday

I received this serendipitous gift of a fun "tea towel"

and a beautiful tea mug

from a far away (in distance only) friend

it actually came in the mail last tuesday

but I had already posted my gig

so I can vouch for the absolute fun of this mug

I've been using it all week!

I wonder if I've been developing scurvy 

what with all my cravings for oranges and citrus

peeling an orange

drinking the tea

and look who just flew in

The Middle Child has been home today

she saw me folding cranes

and

folded me this orange one

she is reading

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

in class

there are no coincidences in life

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welcome to Tea on Tuesday!

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You can leave your "calling card" here with Mister Linky

He's our butler today for tea ;)

Please See New Tab ...

click here: "Japan Relief"

Dancing Cranes

the bird of happiness

Japanese Crane

a good day for a guinness

also a good day for

The Pike

"Kilt Lifter"

yup, that's the one

magnets ...

... jewelry for the fridge

(on etsy)

happiness? (t on 2sday)

I found this tea tag really irritating

the idea of being happy as much as I breathe seems so ludicrous to me

who can do that?

any thoughts?

if I made a tea tag about happiness and breath it would say something like:

"happiness is over rated ...

... breathing is not"

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and now, let me take you on a garden tour

snowdrops

hellebore

muscari

korean lilac "miss kim"

heather

rhubarb

mock plum

primrose

Thanks for dropping by for Tea on Tuesday!

if you want to play, just link your blog here on the Mister Linky gadget

and don't forget to breathe (all the time)

and smile (when you feel like it)

a world of grief and pain

even when cherry blossoms

have bloomed

-Kobayashi Issa

the land of counterpane

quilt landscapes:

I'm nearly done with the piecing together of this scrap quilt for my oldest child

it is completely hand sewn

and no I am not crazy

:)

it's very very pleasant to

sit

and

sew

I call it

"the slow sew"

a haiku:

why do the slow sew?

same reason to do the slow dance:

touch and breath and love

today ...

... the crocuses are sealed shut against the rain

tea and lighting

I had the idea of showing you some signs of spring from my garden

and I got quite distracted when I got down to business with my camera

so I'm having a change of subject here

crocuses (with back lighting)

I noticed a couple of years ago

while shooting pictures for this blog

that backlight is what I love

crocuses (with front lighting)

when I get between the sun and my subject

the colors and shapes go all flat

and remind me of old magazine layouts 

or jigsaw puzzles 

or those awkward family photos 

(with everyone squinting because the sun is in their eyes)

morning tea (with back lighting)

to me, backlight is more like real life

I like to sit with MY face to the sun

and what I see around me is bathed in light

morning tea (with front lighting)

.... not flooded in light ....

... just a thought while in the garden today ...

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... oh yeah, and my tea this morning is Red Clover Tea ..... with the LAST Girl Scout cookie

what are you having?

I'm still trying out Mister Linky

if you are wondering what Tea on Tuesday is all about,

just click on my "What is Tea on Tuesday?" tab at the top of the page

spring banner

using my hand carved rubber stamps in the previous post

I made this banner

and it's on Etsy

 :)

see you on Tuesday!

carved stamps

I made my own stamps 

using rubber gasket material from the hardware store 

and a speedball linoleum cutter

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there's a great tutorial on this over at Genine's Art Blog

bloom & grow

a couple of you noticed these in the background of my pictures yesterday

I finished them a week or so ago and forgot to show you

I used pie tins

(they're in my etsy shop too)

a cup of sunshine

my tea today is a new one I picked up at my local tea shop

I'm in there about once a month to pick up my

Montana Gold Tea

(which you can order online at everythingtea.net)

the Montana Gold is really for my daughter

(it's a delicious rooibos tea with orange and cinnamon .... she drinks it in the car on the way to school)

but every time I'm in there

I find something tempting for me

I don't succumb to the chotchkas

(although I would like to get an owl someday)

but I do love to bring home a new tea to try

and on rainy days such as these I need something full of sunshine

what are you having today?

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What is Tea on Tuesday?

... click on the tab by that name at the top of the page to find out more.

Today I am experimenting with "Mr. Linky"

I usually have a blog list and may go back to doing it that way,

but I thought we could try something a little different today ....

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