T Stands for Tuesday Book and Coffee

   Another Tuesday is upon us-Wow we are almost at mid December already. You are welcome to join us for T with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-link in my sidebar. Just show a  drink related photo.

 This past week seems like I have been busy-but not sure what I have really accomplished to share. haha I have been bouncing around with different projects.

  I did finish the book The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick Mcintyre. So far this is a three book series of the author's observations with the Yellowstone wolf project. I found it very interesting and would recommend if you enjoy knowing about wolf family behavior.  I am going to take a break from this series and will read a book that was gifted to me from one of my slow mail and blog friends: O Rugged Land of Gold by Martha Martin-a true story living in Alaska The Foreword says it is a book about Spirit-I am anxious to get more into this one.

I have not done any Holiday baking or candy making as of yet. Have you?  We don't really have anyone to share these goodies with anymore so I am not going to bake too much. I will start this week to make up a few things for us.

   I love cut out cookies so will do gingerbread for sure and perhaps the sugar cookie cut outs as well.  I make peanut brittle and give that away to one of our workers-whom we haven't seen since early summer but I am sure he will check in.😀      I may play around with walnuts or pecan brittle too.

I did break down and buy a quart of eggnog-it was an off brand but was mostly natural ingredients, So have been enjoying a glass of that in the evenings.

  My drink share is my decaf coffee with half and half in this pretty Harley mug. Larry dug it out of the cupboard one day, it looked like Christmas with all the gold on it-which is not showing up well, so I snagged it the next day (smiles)

Do you grind your own coffee??  I have always searched for quality coffee beans and then grind up a container full. Over the years that we have been married in the past I had joined Gevalia coffee club. They always gave away really nice ceramic coffee containers-shown in photo-and also coffee makers. One year I even got a ceramic pour over coffee pot set up. We like the dark roast European style coffees and they had allot of those.  

Now I just look for quality coffees mostly online. This one was at Sam's Club and was such a bargain price wise-and it smelled really good too Last time I went to order they no longer carried this one, but I found two other brands for Larry to try

Gevalia even sent along this coffee measuring spoon one year

I wanted to share a photo of this tea bag after dried-I had shared this tea last week. As you see, these dry with lots of art possibilities

and I did treat myself to a few items from Crayola online. Around this time they have a very good sale So if I want something that is when I pick it up. Thought these would be nice for journal pages-as the few gel pens I have left have all dried up on me and are no good now.

I picked up this adult coloring book from Crayola too-I think I will enjoy this one

  I am not the greatest with coloring but I thought it might help me with colors for when I try painting again

This is a photo of what colors are included in each set

Years ago when my husband bought a very antique ladies desk for me, we also ran into two of these ink pots-Now I can finally use them.  I picked up the nib and this pen on Etsy-the pen was handmade

  I have been playing with calligraphy the last several days-this will take much patience on my part for sure. I have tried different things-I have the feather dip pen, then I found the two pilot parallel pens I had forgotten that I picked up last year. Even after watching videos online I am not doing well with the pilots at all-switching from the thin edge to the thicker side of the pen is not going well. I have given up on those for now.  

  Yesterday and today I set up my oblique dip calligraphy pen (in photo) and have been watching a lesson on Craftsy - Calligraphy 101   I love the feel of this pen allot but so far having trouble going from thin lines to thick The strokes are all mostly thick sigh.  So I am taking a break and will go back to it soon.  I know from reading and listening that I need less pressure for thin strokes but when I go to thick and back to thin-I can't get the thin line again.  The Craftsy class suggested to buy a zebra G nib to start--CJ if you lived closer I would pop over to you for a quick tutorial-hugs

I don't have a new sky photo to share so I am sharing one my favorites that was mostly purple from last month.  This one inspires me to try again at watercolor painting.

Happy T and new week everyone.