A lot going on

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT - 

Hand Made by YOU.

As always you have two weeks to link to us, and projects of all formats

are allowed, but this time no digis or shop bought embellishments!

I made another button back album, using papers from 7 Gypsies. The back, front and back were made with thick card from a drawing block, and covered with the paper. For the pages I made 2 signatures using coloured paper to coordinate

with the DP I used. The signatures are sewn together and held in 

place with buttons fixed to the back of the album, hence the name. I cut a figure from the leftovers and decorated the front with it. This album is easy to make:

For Art journal journey, Indian summer, I made a hybrid piece using a rusty background and one of my autumn photos:

Last weekend I went to Duisburg looking for more walls from the middle ages.

Err,  no these shops are not from that time:

But at the old market place you can see the foundations of the ancient town hall, and the metal sculpture shows its size and style:

The model was most interesting:

By the harbour I found huge stretches of the walls, dating back good 1000

years:

If you enlarge the photo you can read all about in in German and English:

On my way back I stopped to listen to this man playing classical music,

and he was really, really fantastic:

This shop was filled with Christmas biscuits and tea, which brings me to Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, and here a big welcome to the T gang:

Before I went home on the tram I warmed up with a cup of cappuccino

at a little Italian ice-parlour.

Have great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!