T Stands for Full Deck Challenge, Needlefelting, Kitty Update and Spring

Hi Friends!

Happy T Day!  Well last time I posted for Tea, Miss Lily was unwell and here we are a month later and I am cautiously happy to report that she is almost back to her normal adorable self!  She was given anti-nausea, anti-inflammatory, antibiotics and appetite stimulants!  I had to stop giving her the antibiotics as they were really wearing on her little body and making her feel much worse rather than better.  They were really just a precaution to make sure she didn’t have some kind of bacterial infection, so I made the decision to stop.   Here she is at the weekend, being her normal little self, sitting in the sun in the kitchen and climbing up the bookcase to sit next to the ceiling.  Whatever was causing her symptoms seems to have cleared up and I’m very relieved about that as I was getting very worried about her, especially when she stopped eating.  But as you can see, she is feeling a lot better now.

Do I even have to say that I am STILL on crutches?  OK, just one crutch, but still need it and actually my other knee is not feeling too great either.  Hospital appointment is next week. I’m so over this!

Today’s art . . .

I needed something to do while taking care of Miss Lily and keeping her company on the couch, so I pulled out this needlefelting kit that I bought years ago in a sale and never started.  It’s a kit to make a Blue Tit in a wreath for Spring.  It doesn’t seem to be available anymore but I’m not surprised. I wasn’t very impressed with it because it wasn’t very realistic.  Inside the leaflet they suggested you look up photos of real birds to get the details right!

I did that, and then I gave up on the kit and just sort of winged it (no pun intended) so we ended up with this little bird that Miss Lily is very interested in!  I made some legs and feet from some wire so he can stand up.

Last time I posted for tea, I gave you an update on the Full Deck challenge, cards for weeks 1-8 above.  Here’s a look at cards for weeks 9-12 below.

The week 12 card is very Spring-like.  I was using bits and pieces that were left over from other projects.
Shanouki Art’s Full Deck challenge can be found in her FB group, on Instagram but mainly on her Youtube channel here.  I am following on Youtube because I hate facebook lol.  This is a year long challenge, where you alter one playing card every week till the end of the year.  The overall theme for this year is MINI COLLAGE which is totally my jam so I’m in!  There are only three rules which you can choose to follow or not –
1. leave one corner unaltered to show the number and suit,
2. carry something forward from the previous card, and
3. Use one thing the same in every card.
She also offers a prompt for each card that will get progressively more challenging.  The first seven are all simple colour challenges.

And finally . . .

Oh yes, I had a birthday, as did my BIL, so we had a thing at my sister’s and some of my cousins came down for it.  We hadn’t seem them for a while so it was a good excuse to catch up and have a nice family afternoon.  My lovely friend also gave me this beautiful Anemone gift.  I love Spring bulbs, it’s very encouraging that better weather and more daylight are on the way.  Our clocks will Spring forward this coming Sunday!

And for tea, here’s a photo of my art table this morning with my Cat Mum mug full of decaf.  I had recently bought some new Kilner jars for my teas and each jar had one of these very large inserts which to my brain were really asking to be recycled into something – a journal perhaps?

Let me know what you think in the comments below.   As always, thanks for reading and Happy T Day!Ingredients
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T Stands for – Tuesday