New Challenge at Moo Mania and More

Hi Everybody!

My journal page today is meant for the new challenge at

  Moo Mania and More, 

show patterns. 

You have 2 weeks to join us with your creations, so hope to see lots of you there.

I drew a face and doodled her hair and eyebrows. I kept the colours minimal, as I find these sort of patterns look better in black and white. The birds were added with a Dina Wakley stencil and the houses with an 'anonymous' stencil.

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, architecture, 49 Faces and Kim Dellow's show your face.

Here 2 digitally altered versions:

The photos are from the weekend, I really have to stay home for a few days and rest, not something I like, but it's necessary.

Here you can see the new railings they are erecting along the Rhine:

And these photos were taken in Zons, a little town from the middle ages, a few kilometres up the Rhine from here.

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Tuesday this, that and the other

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. I am a bit under the weather just now, so need to take things a bit more slowly this week and get plenty of rest. Luckily I always work in advance and have my journal pages ready!

For Art Journal Journey, architecture, I made an A3 Collage using scraps of paper serviettes. I painted the background light grey, as I was only planing to collage the middle of the page, but somehow got carried away and filled the whole page. This left no place for journaling, so I got out some huge alphas I had in my stash and just stuck them on top.

At TIOT there is still a week to enter our colours of Autumn challenge. My new knitted jacket has the right colours, so I'm showing it here. I started knitting it last year using a bag of wool I bought from the charity shop, and had to stop as my fingers were so painful. But bit by bit I got it finished. I had to knit the design according to the wool I had, so it is an asymmetric pattern, which I like.

Today is Elisabeth's T Stands for Tuesday, so I have some related topics for the T gang.

For drinking we need cups - this is a set I made last year:

And of course, my cups have to be filled with coffee - hot and strong, no sugar, and some frothy milk with a sprinkling of chocolate on top.

I was not feeling up to baking this week, but remembered that I had some frozen pineapple upside down cake in the freezer, so got it out for you - help yourselves!

I should be showing my tag for Tag Tuesday here, but will do so tomorrow as this post is already rather full.

And last but not least, a few photos showing the colours of autumn:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New York and more

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, architecture, I made another A3 mixed media page, using paint, collage, stamping etc.

New York is really a place where you  see architecture dominating the views, and although I mostly prefer a quieter environment,  it is a wonderful place.

I gave Miss Liberty a new place to show her off better.

The quote is from Pete Hamill.

We had wonderful weather again, so good for walking.

I was pleased to see that they have really started doing some much needed repairs at Schloss Kalkum - wonders never cease!

I love the watery reflections here:

The cows had me humming 'lazy Sunday afternoon'

Autumn is showing its beautiful colours:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!