T Stands For Tuesday

 Welcome to T Stands for Tuesday with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth, link in my sidebar, where any one is welcome to join just share a drink related photo.

 Another week here with rain, wind and storms most every day. Friday into Saturday was a 24 hour event that finally brought in the sunshine around 9 am Saturday and we even warmed up to the 70's f  Hoping going forward this new week we will have more dry time so I can get back to outdoor work-I am sooo far behind with everything.

  If you didn't catch my previous posts I did make use of the rainy days with pantry organizing, ordering in canned foods as each time I go grocery shopping there seems to be more and more items missing. We are set pretty good now going forward with the year except for mostly fresh items now.

 I did have another watercolor practice day over the weekend, and I enjoyed it. Decided on trying the dragonfly. The first try is the one to the right. I do love the leaf but the dragonfly not so much-haha. I placed the wings in the wrong spot I was happy that with the paints I have I made a turquoise-how cool is that? I am also using India black ink for the wings and highlights

 So that evening I wanted to try again with the dragonfly-to the left-and was more pleased with this one. Decided to add a light wash around him and the background. This practice sheet I will not make into a card but will cut the dragonfly off on the left and include him in a slow mail letter to one of my friends. 

  You can see I am still drinking a coffee in my spinning mug

This past week I picked some violet flowers and dandelion flowers to dry. With all the rain the dandelion flowers are large and beautiful.  After dried will use  these in my melt and pour soaps.

I dried two sheets of the flowers to get what is in the bags below.

    I need to collect some fresh wild violet leaves to make into a melt and pour recipe. It's from Jan the nerdy farm wife.  Can also use chickweed leaves but I am not real sure what that looks like. The soap will be a lovely green color, would love to make this one. here is her photo from the link

Update: late Sunday afternoon, I did make this soap, loved the pretty green that the violet leaves gave.  if interested here is the how to post for this soap

    For my drink share this week, I made us a mango margarita. We love these so I had bought a large mango last trip to the grocery store and I had picked up two of these cups since they are insulated, made in the USA, and has the name of the lake we live on

My vita mix filled to the top will make 4 of these, so we each had a glass, and saved the rest for the next evening. Tastes like summertime

  Sunday morning very early I spotted two bright planets looking over the lake-I thought they were planets as one for sure was bigger than a star. So I asked on facebook if anyone knew what would be up in the sky? and one of my friends came back with lots of information for me including this screenshot from instagram-this is exactly what I saw too.

                         

Here is my photo-I had one that came out-need to enlarge for better viewing

We never know what surprises await us looking out the wall of windows over the lake

  Happy T and our new month of May