Frida and sunrise

Hi everybody!

Another week has flown by, and Friday is almost over here - where did the day go? I was up very early this morning as I had to go to the doctor's for a big check up, and was rewarded with a wonderful sunrise. I stood on the balcony, watching the sun and the sky, and it was a great start to the day.

Today I am sharing another Frida journal page. In case some of you are getting tired of Frida fever, August will soon be over....

The Frida image has been stamped onto a piece of hand painted paper. I was lucky to get 2 lovely stamps from an EBAY auction, and have used one of them here.

The background is a sheet of DP. I cut into the paper along the pattern  at one side and slotted the image into it. I highlighted some of the printed images with a white highlighter, and embellished with a scrap of net, some lace and washi tape. I inked the edges with a mix of pumice and worn lipstick DIs.

I am linking to Art journal Journey, Frida, Paint Party Friday, and to Manon's Paper Saturdays.

These are the photos of the sunrise this morning. I am linking to Mifoc, where the challenge this week is 'mood'. A beautiful sky and sunrise does a lot to make me feel good and set me up for the day.

Here's wishing you all a great weekend, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Funkie Frida, sunshine and rain-clouds

Hi everybody!

I can hardly believe it myself, but most of today was relatively warm and sunny, and I was able to enjoy 2 nice walks. But in the late afternoon it suddenly got dark and cloudy, and then it poured - but this time I was able to watch it from my balcony!

I have been thinking about how Frida would perhaps have been if she had lived today. Would she have got better medical treatment? Would we have seen her in talk-shows?  I am sure she would still have been such a glittering and extroverted personality, but how would she have dressed? I don't know, I just had some fun trying some modern costumes. I painted the background with acrylics, and textured it with a crackle stamp. The figures were cut out of magazine ads. I just used some washi tape for embellishing. This was just a fun attempt at something different...

I am linking to AJJ, Frida, and Simon Monday Challenge, anything goes, and to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin

I enjoyed walking along the Rhine by sunshine today:

I followed a little 'rabbit path' along the side of a turnip field, where several rabbits were enjoying themselves.

The horses were sheltering not from the rain, but from the sun today:

And then the rain came down:

Have a good day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Frida, rain and empty benches

Hi everybody!

Another day here gone with the wind, this is indeed a strange summer!

Today I have another Frida Journal page, made with the same drawing I used for red-hot Frida last week. This time I superimposed the drawing over a page from her diary before colouring with  oil pastels, water-colour pencils, gel pens and a white highlighter. For the earrings I used my metal foil again. I spread tacky glue onto the ear-rings, rubbed the foil over it and got a nice, metallic bronze shimmer on them. 

I am linking to Art Journal Journey, Frida,  and Simon's Monday Challenge, anything goes

I had a wet and windy walk through our little town today, and there was not much going on.  This is the door of the basilica, and I am always hoping I will one day see it when it is open - they always use the side door.

The horses stood under the trees:

Our flower shop is always beautifully decorated:

This seems to be one of the newer boats, but there were not many passengers today.

The Rhine is deep and wide just now, but it doesn't seem to worry the swans and ducks:

I love to sit on this bench next to the anchor, but today it was too wet....

And just today there were enough benches to choose from:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Double Tuesday

Hi everybody!

The weather yesterday offered us wide variety of weather conditions - sunny, cloudy, wet, warm, cold - a bit of everything! More like April than August.

Today it's time for new challenges at Try it on Tuesday and Tag Tuesday.

At  TIOT our theme for the next 2 weeks is 'use your stash', so a great challenge to join in. Just dig out that hoarded stuff and start creating! I used a kit from Paper Whimsy, sent to me by my dear friend Sandy.

After fitting the parts together I sprayed it with gold paint, and then went to work to decorate it. This is the result:

A Frida doll-house

I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, anything goes

 At Tag Tuesday our theme is fruit. I made a large tag with a distressed and stenciled background in Autumn colours. I used my goddess template to make the lady as a 'goddess of Plenty. ' I found a scrap of material with a fruit print for her skirt.

I am also linking to Manus Mifoc challenge, colour

This is a  little statue I have of the Snake goddess from Crete, standing in the same pose:

This morning the sun shone for a few minutes, and my angel figures on the window ledge made a beautiful shadow play on the white curtains:

This afternoon I took the narrow path along the stream:

On the right side is a cornfield:

As I looked up I saw how dark the clouds were, and by the time I had reached the end of the path it was pouring, so had to run back as quickly as possible. Well, at least I got some movement!

Have a great day, take care, and

thanks a lot for coming by!