T stands for a new challenge at Tag Tuesday and more

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you all a good start in the last week of August. We are 'enjoying' hot weather again, with tropical nights, so I am longing for a return to cooler and for me more acceptable weather. This summer seems to have broken all heat records, and it's not over yet! 

We are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday again. It's called Tag Tuesday, but the challenges always start Monday evening. And if you want to know who the winner of the prize is, you will have to wait till the Tag Tuesday blog goes live this evening....Michele is hosting our new challenge. Her theme is 'Purple', and she is offering a prize, too, so hope to see lots of you joining in again.

I made a fun  8" tag using scraps of paper, card and netting, a TH dress-form die-cut and lots of feathers. All sewed together with purple thread:

And it's also time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T gang who visit here.

These mugs were on sale for 99 cents last week, so I bought them, and now they are mine - both great sentiments to get me going in the morning:

 I had a big struggle with a new art tote I made, and managed to bash my thumb with a hammer while setting an eyelet, but when I finally got it done and finished I rewarded myself with cappuccino and chocolate with crispy flakes - yummy!  I will show the tote in my next post:

Another cappuccino - I ate the cookie this time, I admit it!

This coffee refused to wait till I had taken the pic!

Some beautiful mugs in a shop here:

My weekend food - I made a chicken stir-fry with brown mushrooms and Chinese style veggies- very delicious. I made enough for 2 portions so didn't need to cook again on Sunday:

Another of Nathalie's snapchat pics where I look at least 50 years younger - virtual unreality!

The magpie was enjoying the evening sun:

 Some pics from my walks:

Early morning sun:

My dirty sneakers having a rest:

Down by the lake:

Nathalie went to Holland over the weekend and enjoyed the sunset on the beach:

Some of the animals I met on my walks:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you all a great weekend, and a wonderful loooong weekend if you live in England!

It's warmed up considerably here, but still nothing like it was a few weeks back, so I'm hoping it won't be too-hot-to-move-or-sleep hot again.

I have 2 more tags that I made for Tag Tuesday, very simple ones, just what I would call construction tags as they are just made up of bits and pieces from my stash and fixed together with some sewing - very quick and very easy. I will be using them as birthday greetings for friends. For the masculine one I used some images from Hunkydory, and the feminine outfit - maker unknown- has been sewn onto some recycled card:

The text reads 'with love and best wishes':

Yesterday I was out and about with Nathalie again, and she made some (not very realistic) photos with the snapchat app on her phone - how to look young and beautiful again without even trying:

We went to Südpark (South park) where we had a midday snack and then visited some of the animals at the farm there and met up with some strange folk:

The flower garden was looking good:

The goats were playful and friendly, as always:

Doris and Heike, the piggy ladies, were enjoying their midday sleep and did not let themselves be disturbed:

Here are some photos from a previous visit which show them without a muddy coat:

That's all for today, it's time to get moving!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Friday Post

Hi Everybody!

Time seems to fly past more quickly with every passing day. Today just disappeared. Had some long walks and then art group this afternoon, and now it's a warm and peaceful evening. 

I am sharing another tag for my 'anything goes' challenge at Tag Tuesday

This was once again made with a piece of painted and collaged paper left over from another project. I sewed it to some red matting, added the bird and the TH figure, and gave the collaged bird a feather that floated down onto my balcony last week:

This is one of the pieces I made last week at Art Class, today's piece is still a WIP. Here I painted the squares in various colours and used a black Edding for the edges:

Then I added some stenciling:

After stitching over the edges with zick-zack stitch I affixed it to a new, A3 journal with double sided,extra strength ds tape.

The last step was to give it 2 coats of varnish to make it easier to keep clean:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and Soma's Wandering Camera

Yesterday I went for a quick walk over the other side of Königs Allee, and enjoyed the fantastic shop windows. I'm hiding in this pic, too:

Loved the decorations here:

The WIP I made at Art Group today was inspired by these colours:

This canal divides the two sides of the street. It used to be part of the fortifications, but in the early 19th century it was re-planned as a source of water and is today a beautiful place to walk along:

The Hermes building is one of my faves here, it definitely brings some Parisian flair with it:

Today Nathalie and I went walking through a park and then along the Rhine:

And we rewarded ourselves at my fave ice-cafe after a long, hot walk. Nathalie had an ice-coffee and I had water and cappuccino. And I shared my cookie with Nathalie, after I had taken the pic!