Friday Mix

Hi Everybody!

It's time for Paint Party Friday again, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin.

I am sharing 2 more mixed-media double pages from my 'new' journal.

I am really having fun just doing what I feel like, using up scraps, trying out colours etc. I am also linking to Moo Mania and more, floral.

The last 2 days started off with lots of clouds and a little sunshine, which

soon disappeared.

On my walk yesterday I saw this collection of bottles, very neatly arranged on the wall round a tree by the Basilica - the mind boggles! Was it the vicar?

Was it people from the assisted housing for the elderly? Or just a few naughty youngsters who tried not to leave a mess? We will probably never know!

Today a neighbour brought me a beautiful bunch of flowers to thank me for

taking in her parcels, as she is mostly not there when the post-man comes. I

take in parcels for the whole house, and do it gladly, but it was  lovely

to get such a wonderful  surprise:

Today was a little warmer, the sun came out here and there, and blue skies and clouds were both trying to get a winning hand:

Tomorrow I will be showing the beautiful pages I got from Elizabeth

in a swap she has organized, so come and have a look!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Turn, turn, turn

Hi Everybody!

Today I have some more pages from my 'new' journal, this time featuring some wonderful verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes, which were sung so beautifully by the Byrds in 1965. The song was written by Pete Seeger in 1950. I have written the text in English and in Hebrew.

I am linking to Art Journal Journey, for the record.

More photos of my visitors:

 The little tits (chicadees) are so pretty, I love watching them flitting about.

The horses are all wearing their winter coats again:

These three were racing about, having fun:

The Rhine is very full again:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Living with nature

Hi Everybody!

It is really freezing here again, I soooo hope that spring soon comes

back and stays with us.

For my tag at Tag Tuesday, with the theme 'go rural', I decided on a sheep die cut, which has been flying around in my bit box for years, and the morose Farmer, who appears in Shaun the sheep. The background was made from recycled scrap card, which was gessoed, inked and painted. The tree was embossed with a TH texture fade folder and then inked. I mounted the tag on a second tag made from peeled and painted cardboard to give a rustic look. The fence is a TH die cut, and has been distressed, painted and embossed. I mounted it with foam squares and curved it slightly.

And some photos from today:

This huge raven was sitting on my balcony yesterday morning and took off , screeching loudly, when I dared to open the balcony door. Scary!

The pigeons are not my faves, although they are very pretty. They love to trample my flowers flat and eat EVERY crumb they find, and no matter how often I tell them to bog off, they fly once round the trees and come back to attempt to find more food....

The jay is nearly as greedy, but not so destructive or messy!

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Tuesday this and that

Hi Everybody!

Here the week started cold, wet and windy, with icy rain, and some places they even had snow - I hope spring will soon come back!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT - vintage photo.
Projects of all formats are allowed, and as always, you have 2 weeks to link up to us.

I once again used the lovely photo of Erika as a child, and placed her in a TH glass and metal frame. The background of the tag is part of a master board made some time back. This is one of the last pieces, so I have started on a new one. I placed the tag on a recycled and party peeled cardboard tag, which was painted with gesso. As embellishments I used some recycled flowers, lace and grass and a real leaf.

I am also linking to Moo Mania and More, floral.

Today is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so a big welcome to all the T gang. The photo here shows the house of John Wesley in London, now a museum. He was the founder of the Methodist Church. There seems to be tea and coffee and something to eat for everybody:

But my drink is, as always, cappuccino....

For Art Journal Journey, for the record, I made a hybrid piece, using a wonderful galaxy photo as background.  I heard this song on the radio yesterday, and was straightaway inspired. 'There's a kind of hush all over the world' was sung by Herman's Hermits in 1967, and by the Carpenters in 1976

(Starry heavens photo courtesy Wikipedia, Eso, www. eso.org/public/ images/ eso1118a,CC By 3.0, https//commons.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15388288)

And here the original song from Herman's Hermits:

And here some lover-birds in love:

On Sunday evening the sun came out after the rain and then we saw the rainbow:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!