T Stands for Celebrating and Hanging it Up

     Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And also I want to say hello to everyone who stops by for T Day at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . This is T day's 12th year celebration! 🎉🥳🎂 More about that at the end of this post.

   Last week was a busy week, but one thing I'm  celebrating is some new or rearranged garden decorations. This past spring I bought this ceramic moon for my garden at Costco, and it finally got put up  this past Saturday. 😀 I had a  metal sun hanging on my husband's workshop behind my garden, however, the sun was copper colored, and it didn't really show up very well against the dark wood. I think the moon looks great on the workshop's dark wall.

   And now the sun has been moved onto the end of the house where it shows up great and is much more visible.

    You can see where the sun was hitting it because it looks shiny. It actually is all that shiny finish, but depending on the light, it doesn't always look shiny. This photo also makes me think it's time for the house to get stained again. Oh boy. I suppose all this will have to wait until the hubby retires. 😏 Either that or we'll have to get someone come and do it for us. 

     But those weren't the only things that I finally got put up.  I bought this wind chime last fall at an end of the season sale. The bottom is glass, and it's heavy. I finally remembered to get a heavy-duty hook for it so it could go up in my screen porch.

And also, one of my bird houses fell down when the rope that was holding it broke. 

    When I bought the hook, I also got some new rope to hang it. I did a terrible job lining up all the string, but by the time I did this job the mosquitoes were horrible, and I think I got 5 bites while doing it. I was standing on a step-ladder so I couldn't swat the bugs and hang the birdhouse. 😏 In frustration and a rush to get away from hordes, I just quickly wrapped the string and then picked up the ladder and headed inside. Maybe one of these days I'll go back and fix the string. 

    For my T day drink this week I have some photos from our family July 4th celebration. Since it was a celebration,  I have  party food and drinks. 👍 And since today is the 12th year of T Stands for Tuesday, let the party begin.

    You can't have a birthday party without cake. Would you like a piece of lemon sheet cake with lemon frosting? 

     One of the nieces saw this idea on Instagram to make a Snacklebox. You take a fishing tackle box and instead of putting fishing lures and hooks in it you fill it with snacks.  You also need lots of finger food at a party too.

     I'd never had one of these pink and white candies before. They are called Squashies, and I liked them. The niece had tried  them on a trip to Scotland, and when she found them locally she decided to add them to the box. I think I ate half of them because I really liked them. 😏 (And so much for healthy eating-grin.)

In this photo you can see the candy coordinated with my drink cup. Hee-hee. And yes, it does look like an eraser, doesn't it?

   For the party we have festive party cups.  Pick a color and fill it with your drink of choice. 😀

   I hope you have a super T day and week ahead.

   PS- my ATC's are in the mail for those of you who I am swapping with! ❤