Tuesday Mix

Hi Everybody!

Today we are beginning a new challenge at TIOT - make us smile.
As always, projects of all formats are allowed and you have 2
weeks to link to us - hope to see you there!

I made a double page in my journal using a floral DP as background.
The ladies are sitting in their garden, stitching and bitching, and having fun.
The stamp is from Lost Coast Designs. I am also linking to Art Journal Journey, in my garden. 

Our theme at Tag Tuesday today is cups and cutlery. As it is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, my tag fits there, too. It's the third anniversary of the challenge, so BIG congrats to Bluebeard and Elizabeth.

My drink is, as always, cappuccino:

I had a bumper week for happy mail. One of my envelopes was filled with goodies from Elizabeth - lovely, bright tissue papers, napkins, stamped cards, 2 stamps which will be great for TSFT and a gorgeous ATC:

I love the colours and stitching. THANKS Elizabeth, this was a great surprise:

 These are the last pages for the swap I have been taking part in this year,

from Annette AKA Voodoo Vixen - Thanks for these lovely pages and for the gorgeous goodies!

The paper feathers on the right page are so lovely!

These goodies were in my packet:

And I love the stamping on the envelope:

We are enjoying sun just now:

This jazz musician was really good:

This time the ship has a huge advert for Uerige, a Düsseldorfer Beer.

I prefer coffee!

And we have a new 'attraction' on the little square between the beer garden and the café - a model of the town as it was in 1700, with the water symbolizing the Rhine, streams and moat which made the town to an island. On the left is a drinking water fountain:

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by! 

Summer garden fairy.

Hi Everybody!

The weekend is nearly over here, hope you had a good one!

I had a Sunday afternoon nap, but woke up feeling rather disorientated, 

and thought I had to go to physiotherapy at 5 o'clock. Shock - it was already 4:30! After a frantic scramble to get ready and get there on time, I looked at the clock, which has a built in day/date, and saw that it was Sunday. I then decided that a coffee was needed!

Good that I looked before running all the way there!

For Art Journal Journey, in my garden there is, I am showing a 6x6" canvas made recently. This is my summer garden fairy, made from a glass vial, a vintage doll's head and some wings. I used my hot glue gun to stick it ll together. The background was painted, textured and crackled over an old kid's Disney canvas that I got for a few cents at the thrift shop. The glass vial was painted, heat dried to give texture and then rubbed with iridescent wax  (LaBlanche) for some shine.

 Today I took a walk along the little stream before going along the Rhine, and the path is almost overgrown - the rain and the warm weather have turned it into a jungle!

This fellow let me take his photo:

The hydrangeas, hollyhocks and poppies are in a neighbour's garden:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

A corner of paradise

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend is going well!

For Art Journal Journey, in my garden there is - Yvonne's lovely theme - I have another hybrid piece. The main part of the picture is the side entrance to Schloss Kalkum, a moated castle near here. I love going through that door, which is really like an entrance to another world, a corner of paradise. I placed it on a background made with a piece of canvas and some floral images. I added more of my bird photos, and some digital elements from Mischief circus.

Yesterday we had blue skies as well as grey,  as well as clouds and sunshine:

I love to peek into this entryway to one of the houses here:

The crow was sitting patiently waiting for breakfast:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!