Rain, snakes and more

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, Jo's 'Poetry in motion' theme,

I made a hybrid piece featuring the opening sentences of

Charles Dickens'  'Tale of Two Cities'. These sentences had me 

completely fascinated when I first read the book as a child,

and have remained in my memory every since:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

In my page I have shown some glimpses of Paris and London to

illustrate where it all happened. I am aware that the Eiffel

Tower did not exist at the time of the French Revolution, but I needed

a picture which makes an instant identification possible, so

let's call it 'artistic license' - and if you have never

read the book, please take the time to do so.
I used elements from Serif, Mischief Circus and me.

At Go Tag Thursday the challenge this week is the letter 'S'.

I cut out a snake in the form of this letter, once in black and then 

slightly larger in green card. I sewed them together with a 

snake-like zigzag pattern, and added some dots as well as some 

green gem-stone eyes. The background of the tag was wiped 

with distress inks in gradient colours and stamped. 

The snake was glued on and the top tag 

sewed to  recycled black card.

This week has varied between wet, very wet and extremely

wet. I have been dodging the showers all week. Today was,

however, so wet that I decided to have a crafty day at home,

which I am enjoying. It also means waffles, as you need waffles for

inspiration, they give you instant mojo.

The gulls don't mind the weather:

Wednesday was market day by the Rhine. There weren't many

stalls, I think the weather was not encouraging:

And now to the wonderful stall that sells fresh, crispy, fried fish.  

I was determined not to eat any this week, but as I came out of the

hairdressers after having my hair cut (It's the house directly 

behind the fish pla(i)ce), I sort of felt compelled, my feet just went 

there and I asked for a portion, I really couldn't stop myself - yummy!!!

I saw this sign on a house at the top of the street leading from the

Rhine, well over my head - W.H. means 'Water height'  in the floods.

I hope it stops raining soon!

This is the other market:

Can you see all those peppers?

 Yesterday evening the clouds got darker and darker:

Have a nice day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!