Just singing in the rain.....

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new theme at Moo Mania and More, music, and at Art Journal Journey it's For the  record, so I have combined both themes with this hybrid journal page. The stencil of Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds is from Stencilry. The wet look background is aluminium foil (thanks for the tip, Gill!)

Today we had weather here really fitting to my theme, it rained all day....

I went for a walk in the rain, and managed for the first time without my

wheewa, my trusty wheely walker. I am still a bit scared of falling, but that will pass in time, and I will use the walker when I need to do shopping, as it wheels the groceries home for me.

I wonder what the police were doing?

Yesterday I bought some plants for my balcony. I still need a lot more, this is just the first batch. I have planted them all out, and they at least seemed to relish the rain.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by

T stands for This and That

Hi Everybody!

It's Tuesday, so time for Elizabeth's T Stands for Tuesday, so hello to all of the T gang, and everyone else who drops by today.

I am taking part in a challenge with 5 other ladies in Europe and America. We each make our own album, and some pages for it, and then send pages with the appropriate theme to each other. My theme is birds, and these are some of the mixed media pages I made for my album:

This is the album and the dividing pages, which I showed some time back.

At the weekend I received a fat envelope with 15 (fifteen) stamps on it from Norma in California, with the gorgeous pages she made for my album:

Here the pocket is filled with birds made from hand painted paper:

Aren't they lovely?

And a pretty card to accompany the pages:

And a tag-in-a-bag:

The pocket on the tag was filled with bird images which I can use on other pages,

and with some bird book-marks, also made from hand-painted paper:

Thanks a lot Norma!

And as my drink for Tuesday and for every other day of the week is coffee, I made a coffee cup/face doodle:

And last but not least, a reminder that you still have a week to enter the TIOT challenge 'Use a quote'. My hybrid page on a hand painted background shows a quote from Samuel  Johnson and a photo of the Westminster Palace, better known as the Houses of Parliament:

(Photo courtesy of Wikipedia, and copyright 

by David Iliff. License CC-BY-SA.3.0")

The morning sky:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Made in England

Hi Everybody!

For Art Journal Journey, for the record, I made a hybrid page for 

Elton John's song  'Made in England'. As I was born in England, this song has some special memories for me. I used a vintage photo of Tower Bridge. I was born just a couple of hundred yards from there. I added the photo of Elton John, a blue Cortina (mentioned in the song) and a few of the lovely red 'accessories'.

And here the song:

My weekend walks were full of sunshine:

Have a great start in the new week, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!