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WELCOME TO TEAPOT TUESDAY
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING TEAPARTY
AND CHALLENGE MMTPT #287
MMTPT287 A Bright Light Of Hope
Note: Anyone is welcome to play! You automatically become a Teapotter the first time you play in our challenge. Also, you do not have to write a story. You just have to be inspired by the teapot or by the story about this week's location! Have fun! If this is your first Teapot Tuesday Challenge, please mention that in your commentary so we can be sure to greet you properly, in pure Teapot Tuesday fashion! Your participation in Destination Station is 100% voluntary and not at all required. Just have fun!
This is my story!
1. Well - you all know by now that when I host a Tickle, I'm not a wonderful storyteller like some of the other gals other, so I don't spin an amazing and inspiring yarn, I just pull out some anecdotes of my own
2. So - I was thinking about this being the first Tickle of the year, and even though it's now the end of January, it's still not too late to look forward with hope to what this new year might bring for us. That led me to thinking about lighthouses, and how they are a beacon of hope and safety to those out at sea, especially in bad weather. So I thought it would be fun to have a lighthouse themed challenge
3. When I was growing up, I lived in a seaside village, so lighthouses and the atmospheric sound of the foghorns (no more, alas) were very familiar to me. If I climbed out my bedroom window, I could climb up to the top of a big pine tree in the front garden, and from there I could see the lights from three different lighthouses up and down the coast. It was so peaceful up there at night with the lighthouses flashing, and the lovely smell from the pine tree. It's funny how lighthouses seem to evoke calm and tranquility for so many of us in spite of the fact that their main purpose is all related to bad weather! So I thought it would be fun to have a lighthouse themed challenge - and whether we need a beacon of hope to guide us through a tough patch, or whether we are happy to just sit by the sea and listen to the waves and watch the light, I'm sure we'll all enjoy a trip to the seaside this week.
4: My dad was very talented and made us a lot of toys over the years. I still have a coconut-shell pram with a little wooden hedgehog that he gave me on my 5th birthday. But one of the things he made that I always regret never made it through all the family moves was a wonderful lighthouse bedside light and locker that he made my brother.
CHALLENGE TRANSLATION: Create a card with a lighthouse on it, and share a lighthouse memories of your own if you have one.
EPEC ~ (EXTRA POINTS FOR EXTRA COOKIES!)Include a message of hope, support or encouragement.
DESTINATION STATION:
This week our destination is each other! Once a month, we send our cards to each other! A little payback and reward to the teapotters for always sending their cards to the recipient of the Destination Station.
I have started this new thread Tickle a Teapotter ~ _MMTPT287 A Bright Light of Hope in the Teapot Tuesday Extras Forum. If you are participating in the card exchange please go to this thread and follow the instructions.
Be sure to you use KEYWORD MMTPT287 in your upload and post a comment here so we can all see your card!
Ever want to get a jump on next week's challenge card? SCS has given Sheri (KSNurse) permission to create an email Teapot Tuesday Cheater Group and email the challenge out on the Saturday before the Tuesday of the challenge so you girls can have the weekend to make your card. Send her a pm with your email address if you wanna be a Cheater!
If you are confused about these challenges, see the first sticky post of this thread for more information. There is also a directory of individual challenges. Feel free to grab this I survived Teapot Tuesday Badge for your blog!
Thank you Sabrina for a fun challenge. Eventually this will live with a teapotter...last months tickle has not arrived in the USA yet!!!! ...anyway here is this months tickle card.
I adore lighthouses. My husband and I visit and climb as many as we can. The day markings are always so wonderful.
My card today is a little odd..........but my mind went with it. ha ha I will be leaving on vacation for a week or so and will be taking this card and my address list with me so I can get this in the mail from Myrtle Beach. Yes I know that Jan/Feb isn't beach weather but it's 80 degrees warmer down there then here in Ohio!!! I'm ready for a change. I won't be playing in next week's challenge but will be back home the following week!! If the wifi is working properly at the Wyndham I should be able to comment anyway!!! Great challenge Sabrina.
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I meant to get these photos ready to share yesterday - but when I was unexpectedly called into work, I spent the rest of the day catching up with things :rolleyes: .
The one I most wanted to share is the one of La Rochelle (France) - I've never seen a lighthouse in such a peculiar setting before. I found the photo of the Irish lighthouse when I was looking for the La Rochelle one - we got the ferry to France that year, and I snapped it as we sailed out.
The third one is a Greek one, at the northern tip of the island of Zakynthos.
I'm loving hearing all your lighthouse memories and dreams!!
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
And I forgot to mention in my story that the inside of the card reads: "Darkness cannot put out the light, It can only make God brighter".
__________________ Mary ~~ QFTD #152, FS#514CC Guest Design Team 2012, 2013, 2017 & 2022 2014 CAS Spring Design Team MemberSC Guest Design Team 2015 & 2022 SU Consultant "Life's greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life" - Lion King
You will notice a glaring light coming from the lighthouse which wasn't intended. I was going to redo the card but I decided both myself and the recipient could live with it. Here is my card.
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I as well loved this challenge and had fun...now can't wait to see all these seaside lighthouses and scenes and encouraging words... HERE is my lighthouse...HUGS
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I was so excited and inspired by the lighthouse theme as I grew up in a seacoast town and as a young girl we would go to the lighthouse park and have picnics and play. I still go there in the warmer months to have lunch, watch the sunset or just sit and enjoy the sound of the gulls and the surf crashing on the rocks. Here is my card, titled, "Lighthouse" aka The Leaning Lighthouse!
__________________ Robin ~My Growing Gallery~ Proud Fan Club Member FS324 and Tuesday Teapotter Life is about choices. Choose to live each day to its fullest.
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Here is my lighthouse card for last Tuesday's Tickle. I'll be checking out the TP gallery later today or Friday. Can't wait to see what cards ya'll made.
MMTPT287 ~ {28/Jan/2014} ~ A Bright Light of Hope
" Thy Word is a Light "
