This is my own little corner on the World Wide Web.
Y’all are welcome here. Come on in!
This website is my personal site. I have other sites, including one for my art and design and one for my health. These are linked in the space to the right or below. I began my very first personal site back in 2000 on the Homestead.com platform. I named my site Your Cup of Tea because it sounded like a friendly name. After I became interested in web design and development and began learning some HTML and CSS, I started moving away from Homestead to other web hosts. There were several subsequent versions of Your Cup of Tea plus Marcia’s Escapades, which was my personal blog. This site contains some of the same and similar content to Your Cup of Tea — photo galleries, a biography, a page about my Christian faith, and a blog. I hope that you will enjoy visiting the site.
My Other Websites:
Marcia’s Art Studio (my art and design website), https://marciahart.art.
It includes galleries of my traditional and digital art work, web graphics, and web design plus a blog about my art.
Marcia Stronger (my health website), https://marciastronger.com.
It is the website where I chronicle my journey to better health. I am a senior citizen who has multiple health and mobility issues. By keeping the blog on this site, I hope to hold myself accountable in performing my health routines and exercises.
Designer Girl Gallery (my Etsy shop), https://designergirlgallery.etsy.com, where I sell personalized gifts (mugs, t-shirts, sweatshirts, home decor, kitchen items and drinkware, tote bags, and holiday items) for you and your pets.
Designergrrl (my RedBubble online store), https://www.redbubble.com/people/designergrrl, where I offer gift items, including tote bags, pillows, stickers, t-shirts, mugs, and more.
Books on Amazon from Marcia Hart, https://www.amazon.com/author/marcia-hart2004
Books on Amazon from Pursley Press, https://www.amazon.com/author/pursley-press2004
The Three Little Hearts (Harts)
At right (or below), there are three watercolor hearts with the words “Mama,” “Daddy,” and “Marcia” written on them. These little hearts symbolize my parents and myself. Our home in North Carolina — we lived there from January 1964 to May 1996 — featured a wooden front door with three small square windows stacked vertically in the center. I had always hoped that we could take the clear window panes out of that door and replace them with stained glass. Each window would contain a stained glass heart surrounded by an abstract stained glass design. These three stained glass hearts would stand for us, the three Harts who lived there. (Yes, I know that a “hart” is a male deer, a stag, and not a “heart.”) The stained glass would have been cool, but it never happened. I place the watercolor hearts on this site in tribute to my parents. Since I did not know of any brothers or sisters at that time (that’s a whole other story) , I always thought of our family in terms of “three” — like the Three Musketeers.
