Day: August 21, 2026

3 Tags of Summer – Tag #3

Another Pinterest inspiration. I found an icon for the bubble topped cup online. With all the hotter than hot weather we’ve been having and we’re back in the triple digits again, I thought this would be a fun way to end the challenge this year.

I used acetate for front and back, so the “cup” is clear and can be seen from both sides. The seed beads are from Michaels and at the time of this writing were 40% off (all jewelry stuff). I’m thinking I should have used more beads and made the bubble top a separate section, but due to some time constraints, kept it simple for this version.

I used a couple of buttons from the stash and some banner shapes for additional interest.

AC white textured cardstock
red marker; blue ink
Bearly Art Glue
buttons
seed beads (red matte)

Have an awesome day!

find a happy moment today

3 Positives:
last two essential cards for the month are done
plans to have some studio time today — using some new dies that have arrived this month
CD player is getting a workout. It’s been fun to listen to a few of the older CDs I have in my library. They set a good tone for the day.

Our Journey Notes:
Today is T’s last day of eye drops. He’s pretty excited about that. He spent yesterday in the classroom, but he’s still kind of unsure of how many kids were working as his right eye is still pretty blurry. I looked at his patient notes from Wednesday’s visit and let’s hope there’s some help with a new lens for that eye soon. The shunt is working in the left eye and the bleb is functioning with no scar tissue in the right.

No call or message from the dr’s office yet. It will be 5 days since someone in the office looked at the report. I’d really like to be able to check this off and get started on next steps in this journey whatever it is. The waiting isn’t helping my stress levels at this point.