Journal pages etc

Hi everybody!

The week is flying by again, sometimes I don't know where the time goes. Yesterday I had a long walk and then was pleased to be able to sit down at home and do somecrafting. These journal pages have been made in my giant journal, and I am ashamed to say I started them 2 years agao - and finished them today!

The background has been painted with brown and yellow acrylics, and the other colours were added with pastels - I like making a mess. The Michelangelo image is from a paper napkin, and I used tiny scraps of fancy papers to make the mosaic frame around it. I have also hidden 2 moos on the left page, hope you can find them. The theme there is also hands, so they fit well.

The colours look strange here because the flash went off - sorry.

I made this journal page for the 'doors' theme at AJJ, and it started out quite seriously with the door and arches from Darkroom Door stamped with archival black. Then it just grew, and things started flying onto the page, and now it's hard to see the door. Anyway, it is as it is!

 When I got up this yesterday morning it was still misty, and I was able to watch the sun rising through the mist, which was beautiful.

And as the weather was so good I decided to walk to Schloss Kalkum again, and had a fun time taking photos of the trees and the reflections in the moat - it all looks different each time I am there.

This was my fave photo :

And last, but not least, a photo of me and my shadow taking a detour through the fields

And I am so pleased I had that great walk yesterday, as today is wet and cold, with sleet coming down. I needed some shopping, so went to the market, which was not as crowded as usual, perhaps because of the weather. I got all these lovely things for 4€ - 2 kilos of cox apples, over a kilo of huge tomatoes, which even smell and taste like tomatoes, and a pound of gorgeous grapes:

And the nice chap gave me 4 speckled bananas as a present to top it all - Tomato salad is on the menu this evening, and I think an apple pie would be good for the weekend!

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin, and 

Art Journal Journey, and Moo Mania, hosted by our sweet Susi.

Have a great day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Cards, soup and this and that

Hi everybody!

Hope you are having a good day.

I had a busy day today, with laundry, chopping veggies and cooking. While the first machine was washing I went out for an hour's power walking with Nordic walking sticks along the Rhine, and got back just in time to race up the stairs and get the second bundle of laundry to be washed. I sometimes wonder who gets it all dirty, surely it can't just be me?

I chopped the veggies while the second lot of laundry was washing,and made a card while my one-pot was cooking.

I used another of the lovely Gecko Galz collage sheets (owling for you), and printed my image onto canvas again. I matted it onto some leather-look paper, then a piece of dark brown miri-card, and a sheet of designer  paper. I added a strip of white sacking tied with some thin brown ribbon,  a Prima flower and 2 beads rolled from the leather paper. The leaves were die cut, stamped and embossed. This will be another male birthday card.

  Here I have made 2 very simple one layer cards for the 'trees' chalenge at So Artful. We are to use orange and one other colour. I used a CWS stencil for the trees.

And last but not least, the cabbage I showed yesterday joined some leeks, carrots, tomatoes, celery root and  red peppers in a delicious veggie one-pot, which I served with sour cream and crusty bread:

Have a good day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Tag Tuesday, Moos, and more

Hi everybody!

Tuesday means that it's time for Tag Tuesday, and our theme this week is 'all stitched up'

The lovely image I have used is from Gecko Galz 'sew and sew' collage sheet, and has been printed onto canvas. I distressed the edges before sewing it onto the partly stripped and painted corrugated card from an old box.

I actually sewed it onto the card! As I don't see well, I needed a long time to get the needle threaded, but then it worked. And I hope that I will be able to see better after the eye operation at the beginning of next year. For the bow I used some very shabby seam binding, fixed on with a pin.

I made the cat  moos  for the last challenge at Moo-Mania, but I somehow forgot to show them, and 'hands' is the current challenge. For the cats I used some scraps of painted paper, and for the hands various tiny scraps.

The Rhine is carrying a lot of water just now, the 'beach' on our side has disappeared and a lot of the trees are getting wet feet. Not so the birds -I hope all these gulls are not waiting for the pleasure boat, as far as I know the next one doesn't come till spring....

And this beautiful Savoy cabbage was on special offer at the supermarket for 59 cents, so I brought it home with me, and tomorrow it will be turned into a veggie 'one-pot', with cabbage, tomatoes, onions and various other veggies.

Have a good day you all, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

A Door and More....

Hi everybody!

It's been a cold weekend here, but I still got out for some walks in the (very) fresh air.

But it's also good to stay home, and sit in the warm kitchen and do some crafting when the wind is blowing!

The challenge at AJJ is 'doors', and this is my take on the challenge.  I used a piece of cardboard on which I have been cleaning my brushes for weeks, and a silver metallic pen for the lettering.

The challenge at So Artful is to make a tree, using orange and one other colour. The background has been painted in orange and yellow, and the tree and geese stamped with black ink and embossed with black EP. (Stamps from Lavinia)

I decided to make it into a 6x6 card, using various papers as matting, and some home made crackled leaves as embellishment.

And the sky here was beautiful today, in spite of - or perhaps because of -  the clouds racing by all the time.

This was taken this morning as it was just getting light:

And these pics were shot this evening just before it got dark. It looked like the sky was on fire.

That's all for today, took care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Mixed bag for Saturday

Hi everybody!

I have had a couple of chaotic days here. My printer went on strike, the fridge gave up its ghost, I got soaked when I nipped out to the post, and in the evening a lightbulb exploded when I switched on the light....

The printer is running again, the fridge will have to be replaced, and all the glass from the bulb has been removed from my bedroom, so things can only get better - I hope.

I had a commission to make a card for a male 90th birthday. Not easy, especially as I don't know the recipient. I layered various papers in gold and bronze tones over each other, and printed the photo onto canvas. Apart from that I kept it simple, and hope the Golden Oldie will like it.

The photos are from my Wednesday walk, when I went to visit an old villa set in a beautiful park. I showed some of them yesterday, here are the rest:

This tree was so beautiful:

The villa looks rather neglected:

I wonder who this is?

The remains of the old farm:

The porter's lodge :

The beautiful ironwork of the gates:

The village:

I am linking to Manon's Paper Saturdays.

Hope you enjoyed your walk.

Have a great day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!