Architecture can be fun

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, architecture, and Moo Mania and More, patterns,

I made another A3 mixed media page. The background is a brush-wipe page, collaged with a cur out from a magazine. The graffiti artist is called Stik and the drawing is on a house in Bristol. I added my own graffiti with a marker.

I took these photos here 2 years ago, somebody just added a smile to the 'eyes' in the wall of the public toilets by the Rhine. I love how the sunlight is reflecting from the stained glass windows of the Basilica opposite. I was rather sad to see that the powers that be painted over the smile :(

I watched the sky growing lighter from inside today:

This slug in fashionable leopard-look oozed across my path last week:

I never tire of watching the horses grazing:

These photos are from Bad Honnef, a little town further up the Rhine.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!