Happy Sunday!

Good morning everybody! I hope you have all slept well and have some good plans to enjoy your Sunday.
I am staying with a friend just now, but have my little Net-book here, so can still be online; I think it's an addiction!
The journal pages I am sharing with you today were made in the night from Friday to Saturday, as I couldn't sleep. Cutting and pasting and gessoing is such a calming activity. The music pages are once again from my old music book from 1900, and have been lightly dry-brushed with gesso, and then inked a bit. The pictures are all of me this time - except for the ballerina ! They show me in various stages between 1 year and 11. I realized while cutting and pasting them, that my hair was somehow always wispy and looked uncombed, and it is just the same today. No hairstyle keeps for more than a few minutes! Never mind, there are probably worse things! My journal is getting more and more difficult to photograph, as it is now so fat and bulgy - sounds like another description of me - that it won't lie flat! I am linking again to AEDM at Creative every Day

And here are some of the Xmas cards I made this week for my neighbour, although they are not my cup of tea again....

Okay, enough for one day. Hope you all have a great Sunday, whatever you are up to! Take care, and thanks for dropping in!

It's the weekend again....and Lynn is having a Giveaway!

Lynn Stevens over at *Trash to Treasure Art* is having a great Giveaway to celebrate her third Blogaversary. Hop over there and see the wonderful creations she is offering as prizes, they are all fantastic. If you don't go and see and join in, it's your own fault! You have been warned!

I am sure the time flies by more quickly from year to year, from month to month. Once again I have only managed half of what I wanted to do this week, and all the good intentions to do this and that are leading nowhere. Yesterday I just needed to do a bit of food shopping, and then had the whole day for crafting and painting....or so I thought. Every time I started working, either the telephone rang or the door-bell, sometimes both. Mostly I get rung up perhaps twice a week, and hardly anyone visits. They all waited till yesterday. Anyway, I did manage a card and a tag, but that was it! I am linking this post to the AEDM at *Creative Every Day*

The card is for the Just For Fun Challenge, where we have to use our favourite stamp(s). Difficult, I have so many I love! But I chose this stamp of a little girl in a lacy dress from Scrollswork, who unfortunately closed down. I distressed the card with ancient paper, vintage photo and Victorian lipstick, and stamped the image with vintage photo before clear embossing it. I did not want to add too much, so just used a scrap of lace, some beads, a feather and 2 little silk roses. I stamped *Postcard* onto it, and that was it.

The tag has been made for Gingersnaps GC 125 *Farm Fresh*. This is once again a theme which is not really my cup of tea, but I have tried. I like the background of the tag best, which was sprayed, splodged and splattered with distress inks in spiced marmalade, forest moss and faded jeans. When it was dry I stamped a row of turkeys along the bottom edge, added a turkey picture from *Crafty Secrets* (thanks Jan!) and a vintage scrap of a country girl, which I fixed with foam pads after *rounding* it on my glue stick, to give more dimension. I added some straw left over from my Halloween decorations, and that was it.

And I have another joke from Narda for you.

We had a power outage during a thunderstorm. As we peered from our dark cubicles to the outside world, my Director commented that it looked like power was out
for miles, since the office buildings as far as we could see were also dark. Our temp admin said, and I quote: "Can't be too far, that plane has lights!"

Have a great day, take care, and thanks for visiting.

Creative Every Day Challenge

Good morning! It's Thursday already, and we are enjoying some very unseasonable and mild weather, almost like spring. This really is something wonderful in November, and it should stay with us for another few days. So I hope to go for a walk along the Rhine later.
I was out most of the day with my friend, so it was nice to settle down to some crafting when I got back home. But I do need a better light in my kitchen; the nights are drawing in now, so I will have to arrange something that's good to paint and craft by. That will be my next priority. I made another spread for my journal, using a blended paper background, gesso and some black and white elements. It was fun to make, but for tomorrow I will make something with colour again; I feel that I need it just now. I am linking again to the Art Every Day challenge

Hope you all have a good day. Take care, and thanks a lot for visiting!

November Calendar Challenge

Hi everybody. I'm pleased to say I feel more normal today, the side-effects of *witches' brew* have worn off! The time is flying by, Halloween is over, November is here, and that means it's time for new calendar pages. This time I made some rather untypical ones for November. I have painted a row of houses with blue sky - perhaps I am hoping the month might be like this, instead of the usual cold, wet and windy month. The verse I have written round the roofs of the houses is from a song by *Guns 'N Roses*. The clouds have been cut out of an old book, painted with diluted gesso and lightly inked with dark blue. The *windows* have been cut from some Daisy D's paper. I think it looks like a row of toy houses, which wasn't intended, but it just turned out this way. I am linking to *The Kathryn Wheel* and to *Art every Day*

And I finished the journal pages that I started at the weekend, once again in patchwork. The photo shows one of the old ladies I cared for at the Old People's Home, many years back when she was just married, I think it is a lovely photo.

So, enough for today. I am going to visit my friend Inge for breakfast today, and then have a look round the Euro shop....
Have a good day you all, take care, and thanks for visiting!

The day after....

Good morning everybody!
We witches had a good time last night, and enjoyed our party.

But I think someone swapped my head for a pumpkin over night; I just don't dare to look in the mirror and check!
I have made myself some coffee, and am heading back to bed for another hour or so of rest and quiet!

Have a nice day, and see you all tomorrow!

Halloween at last....

Hi everybody. I feel really proud of myself that I did so much clearing up and cleaning yesterday. My apartment looks quite different; the table in my arty-kitchen is completely cleared, I think this is the first time that I have seen the whole table top for a long time. I know it won't last long; as soon as I get back to work it will magically fill itself up, but now it looks like a table again, and we will be able to eat there like civilized people. The whole of the couch is also free to sit on, and my sandals and summer shoes - which were still littering the hall are now all away; I think boots are now more appropriate.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday we put our clocks back for winter time, and so it was dark really early yesterday evening, which I can't say I like. It makes the evening very long, and as I don't really want to get up early, an hour extra light in the morning is not my thing. Oh well, I suppose it helps some people.

I didn't have much time for crafting yesterday, I just managed a very quick journal spread, which will be the last of my Halloween things for this year. I coloured the pages with water soluble crayons and then sprayed over them with some diluted distress inks, before adding the last of my Halloween bits and bobs and doing a bit of doodling. I will try to do a bit more doodling or scribbling on them in the course of the day, if I have time. The skull tag on the right hand side can be taken out of its pocket,

Hope you all have a great day with lots of haunting memories! Have a hoot, but be careful if strange creatures come to your door, and make sure you feed them well!

Sunday

Hi everybody, I need to get my apartment tidied today, as I have visitors coming tomorrow for Halloween. Yesterday I did a bit of crafting in the morning, and spent most of the rest of the day sleeping, I think I needed it!
I made the November page for my friend's calendar, and finished collaging some journal pages made from my never ending store of scraps....

So, that was it today; if I don't get started now there will be no space for witches in my mess! Have a good Sunday, take care, and thanks for visiting!