Going shopping

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well - here it's just

going too fast to catch up on it!

For Paint Party Friday I have a mixed media collage
using  an altered postcard. Once again I used

a b/w postcard from the 1930's, showing a statue from Georg Kolbe.

He was a prolific artist and sculptor,  but a little too eager to please the Nazis 

for my taste. I coloured the card with soft, feminine colours to soften

the hard lines of his work, using oil pastels.

 I did a lot of sewing, and stitched it all onto

corrugated card, adding some coordinating colours of burlap

and feathers:

I am also linking to altered eclectics, anything goes, and 

eclectic Elapu, anything goes

For Art Journal Journey, Jo's theme of 'poetry in motion', I have

a digitally made piece using freebies from Serif and Foxie Squirrel.

The little girl in the centre of the rusty frames is Erika

again:

Today I had planned to go for a walk along the Rhine, but as the

weather was very inclement, I changed my plans and went on

the tram to Nord Strasse, a shopping street almost in the centre of 

Düsseldorf,very 'towny', always busy, and 

with lots of 'normal' shops - in comparison to the beautiful

 and for me much too expensive

shops in our little place here.

There are lots of street cafés, and there is always something going on:

The road is always busy; bikes, cars, buses, pedestrians and trams

 often struggle to get through:

There are some quiet yards behind the houses:

This shop only sells candies and chocolates -

I did not go in!

Organic fruit and veggies:

A cow guarding the snack bar:

Kebabs with and without meat:

Fashion:

The street also boasts several Euro-shops and 2 thrift stores,

so I did not come home without some bargains. More

pictures to follow tomorrow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!