Look Who's Coming and T Stands for a Journey North, Part 2

Hi everyone. It is Tuesday already! Not only is it T Day but I am also honored to announce I am the guest designer over at the latest and last of 2018 challenge at Try It On Tuesday The new challenge is Guess Who's Coming-It's Santa!!

I painted some cardboard with green and gold paint. Then I stenciled the stars in silver paint.

This jolly old guy was on the cover of a Vermont Country Store catalogue that arrived in the mail, and when I saw this I knew it was the image for this page. I fussy cut him out and carefully attached him to the page with some matte medium. 

I stamped the sentiment with this old stamp I had in my stash. I added a bit of trim along the bottom, as well as the little hey Santa button. And finally I finished off the page with some little gold and silver gem stars.

Thanks so much to the fantastic ladies who host for inviting me to join them for this fun holiday challenge.

I hope you'll join us too.

I am also going to link this page up with the latest Tis the Season/My Favorite Season challenge over at  Art Journal Journey.

I am also back this Tuesday for T Day with the rest of my journey north to Vermont.  Last Tuesday  I shared the beginning of my weekend away when my husband and I went north to Burlington, Vermont for a hockey game along with both of my sister-in-laws and their husbands. Today I want to share some fun I had Sunday on the way back home.

Tuesday is also T day and it is time to share our drink related posts over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog. Here's my breakfast before we drove home. We found a bakery/restaurant near our hotel and I figured it was best to have something substantial  to  start my day.

Cold drink selection was fairly limited so I went for a bottle of cranberry juice. These sausage were very very good and had a taste of Vermont maple syrup. After eating  this I was ready to hit the road.
Well, almost ready to hit the road. I mentioned that breakfast was at a bakery/restaurant, and I had to drool over this bakery case for a couple of minutes.

But I did decide  my husband and I needed a cookie for the road.

And these holiday fruitcakes looked yummy too, but I stuck with the cookies.

Once again our drive was under grey skies.  As we made our way south we hit a lot of rain, and in some parts it was heavy.

Also on the way home. I wanted to make a little stop at the King Arthur Flour baking store. I love this place. It is in Vermont but right on the border with New Hampshire. For those you who may not be familiar with King Arthur,  they produce all kinds of flour. They have a nice little baking store where you can buy not only flour but some baking supplies.
And when we visited this Sunday they had  some creative ideas for holiday cookie art.

Like these snowflake cookie trees.

And these Hanukkah candles, dreidels and this cookie wreath.

And they also had lots of cookies out for sampling. Between the cookie I bought after breakfast and all the samples I  ate, it was a cookie Sunday for sure!

The store also had this fun Christmas tree with some mini holiday baking molds and some gingerbread decorations. (As well as a few other things as you can see.)

And outside they had a tree also. It looked quite festive with the snow on the ground.

Other than a few baking ingredients, I didn't buy much during my visit to King Arthur, but

I was inspired  to dig out some of my holiday baking equipment and bake some cookies this past Saturday.

It is that time of year!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

And hope you have a happy T day.