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Hi Everybody!

We had a grey and cheerless day here, I got soaking wet walking, and after that I stayed home and 'played', baked and relaxed the rest of the day.

For Art Journal Journey I have made another collage in my giant journal - what else. This time it was inspired by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter. I drew the squares, and painted some with acrylic  paints in red, blue, green and yellow. I filled the white squares with scraps of printed and handwritten papers from letters written in the 1930s and 1940s,  as well as 2 halves of an airmail envelope from 1945. The letter was sent from Germany to Israel, and opened - and read - by a 'controller'. I painted over the texts with diluted gesso. This collage tells a story composed of colours and lines, words and sentences, but we each need to interpret it  for ourselves.

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

At Moo Mania and More the theme is Merry Christmas, and I am showing one of my Christmas cards, made with figures cut from a paper napkin, fixed to card and fussy cut, and attached to  blue mirri-card with foam squares. The 'snow' has been made with Stickles and paper lace, and the scarf is a scrap of red wool.

And last but not least, some of today's visitors:

Have a great day you all, take care of yourselves,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This and that for Wednesday

Hi Everybody!

I had another busy day, with 2 doctor's appointments, one of which included getting an abscess on my finger sliced open and drained. And in case any of you are wondering if it hurt - yes, it did. Tomorrow it will surely feel better!

And here is my daily collage for Art Journal Journey. I used scraps of printed paper from an old Sears and Roebuck catalogue from the 1890s, scraps of cardboard, ribbon, washi tape, printed images, and some hand-painted and stamped scraps. They were first glued to the kraft paper and then stitched.

And as today, Tuesday, the first Chanukah candle gets lit, here are 2 cards I made using images from Gecko Galz. Happy Chanukah to all friends who celebrate it!

I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, anything goes

My balcony was feeding ground for a lot of feathered friends again.

Wonder what this one's looking at?

This dancing wild-goose was up at the top of the castle-ruins this morning:

I have 2 different pigeons visiting now:

And these 2 sneaked up and wanted to have their photos taken, too, I think they get jealous!

Have a great day, whatever you are up to, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Collage and angels

Hi Everybody!

Where does the time go? It always seems to fly, but at this time of year the days seem to shrink. I had a busy day with shopping, tidying up my rather chaotic arty-kitchen, and visitors. My Student came for coaching in philosophy, as she has to write an exam tomorrow about Plato's knowledge theory. Later her Mum came to 'play' - that means crafting, of course, so the day went by very quickly.

For Art Journal Journey I have another collage - what else? The background is a page which was started months ago and should have been a Frida Kahlo page, but never got finished, so I added another layer of paper scraps - DP, hand-painted papers, old letters, cardboard and lace, a badge and some butterflies. I enjoyed making this, and was pleased that the half finished page wasn't wasted.

At Tag Tuesday our theme is Christmas angels. These  3D tags are ones which I made last year, and I don't know if I showed them or not. Anyway, here they are (again). I didn't have time today for new ones, and these ones fit the bill perfectly!

I am also linking to Simon's Monday Challenge, anything goes.

The photos were taken on my Sunday twilight walk.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Collage, winter sunshine and birds.

Hi Everybody!

We had another very cold day, but the sun shone all day, so I enjoyed it, and spent a lot of time outside, visiting my fave places, and of course, the ducks and geese.

For Susi's wonderful Art Journal Journey I have another collage from my giant journal. The background has once again been made with kraft paper painted with gesso. I used scraps of DP, painted paper, book paper and antique linen. They were glued and then stitched. The unicorn is a stamp (LaBlanche) which has been stamped onto card, embossed and fussy cut. A few pieces of washi tape rounded it off.

My feathered visitors feasted on my balcony again:

This little bird, I don't know what it is, was a new visitor today. The robin tried to chase him away, but he just ignored the little bully and carried on with his breakfast.

This thrush was also a new visitor.

 Ma walk today took me to Kalkum, a beautiful village at any time of the year.

As always I had fun with the play of light and the reflections on the water:

My shadow walked in front of me:

I met lots of my feathered friends again:

In the afternoon I went for my walk along the Rhine and watched the sun setting.

The wild geese were flying home:

All in all a lovely day.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!