Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week has gone well so far. Time is flying here, as always, and the days go by too quickly to get everything done that I would like to, but that's life!

I have been clearing and tidying a lot, and my kitchen table is now free from the meter high pile of stash and painting stuff that was on it, and looks like a table again! I am reducing the amount of things I have, as it is just too much. A huge pile has wandered to a kid's art-school, a kindergarten and the thrift shop. I still have too much, so more will be going in the next weeks. Lots of older paintings have been cut up to be re-used and re-purposed. Here I have used a lot of scraps and other odds and ends to make some journal pages, with lots of sewing to hold everything together, using n old calendar page as background. I am linking to Paint Party Friday:

And I have a hybrid tag for Joan's summer fun theme at Tag Tuesday, using an image from Gecko Galz and some elements from Serif:

My clean and tidy table:

When it's hot and humid I go by tram to Düsseldorf, although it is much more beautiful and quieter here - there is a lot of air conditioning there in the big stores, and there are also lots of cool, old  churches, streets and alleyways to explore. This is the town hall:

The lion is the symbol of Düsseldorf:

Blind justice - I think justice seems to be blind, deaf and dumb today, that might explain all the terrible things that happen all the time:

Behind the town hall there is this beautiful, old square:

I enjoyed being in the photo:

The town walls in the 15th century:

Love this statue:

The goose fountain:

The lion high up:

And Düsseldorf is famous for its Lion mustard, strong and hot:

 The carnival statue:

An old bakery:

The spire of the Max Church - I will show the inside another time:

This was my husband's fave restaurant/pub - he was born in the Altstadt:

This little garden behind a wrought iron fence caught my eye - a garden of mourning, a place to be still in the middle of the bustling streets and cafes:

Outside the garden, life goes on as always:

Love this saying on a house nearby 'Anybody can wish me whatever he wants, God should give him even more of the same'

Strange things in this shop-window:

This chair outside a shop is there for people to sit, rest and take selfies. I think it looks nicer without me sitting in it:

I am linking to Soma's 'Wandering Camera'

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!