The sky disc of Nebra

Hi Everybody!

Our challenge, light and darkness, at 

Art Journal Journey is drawing to an end - thanks 

to all who entered in spite of holiday preparations

and general stress.

I have a hybrid piece today, showing the Nebra sky disc - 

an ancient disc made of bronze and gold, and the oldest depiction
of the cosmos, dating back to 1600 BC.

It was found in Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, by treasure

hunters, and after being illegally sold several times

for astronomical prices  it was brought into state property after

a night time raid on dealers who were about to sell it again.

You can read more details here

The background was painted with black gesso, the stars are from 

Mischief circus and the image courtesy of Wikipedia. I am
also linking to Paint Party Friday:

This morning we had a wonderful sky with the pale yellow

sun rising through the clouds:

Ad now for some more of my glass, hope you  

 are not all bored to tears by now.

First some small pieces; the largest one at the back is about 3" high.

I made these,  too, at the glass blowing course, 

and as you can see I did not get them straight:

This is an antique jug that my husband bought for me many years ago -

I love the patina:

This little flask is made of glass which is made to look like

stone, and is called stone glass:

This vase is very tiny, less than 2 inches tall and made of very thin 

speckled glass, and was also a present from my husband:

One of my visitors asked if I still had my first bird -

yes, here it is:

These are elegant cut glass vases, but not really my faves:

This speckled and very thick glass vase is from the

1970s, they made a lot of cool stuff:

This was another wedding present, and again, not really a fave:

More wedding presents, and we got 24 of each sort.

Also not my faves! 

These tea glasses were a present from a Turkish student,

and I love the colour:

More small pieces:

And more vases from the 70s again, rather huge, and standing on

the top of the book shelf, which explains the strange angle:

This is a fun piece with nice colours:

There's still more to come, but not today!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This and that on Wednesday

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at

Moo Mania and More

-Asia-

As always, projects of all formats are welcome and you

have 2 weeks to join us, so hope

to see you there!

I made a tag using background paper and an image from Gecko Galz. 

I faded the paper for the background behind the tag 

and used it as it is for the tag:

And this is the tag I made for Tag Tuesday yesterday,

where our theme is

'A winter walk'

Here I used a photo taken in the lane behind the castle ruins by the Rhine.

I added a couple of shadowy people, and a photo of Erica 

in her winter finery:

And for Art Journal journey, light and dark, I have another hybrid piece, using

one of the shadow images from the tag on a painted

background with a quote by Helen Keller:

And I have some more of my glass to share.

First of all some very elegant Art Nouveau vases:

Lots of birds:

Ronneby Art Glass in Sweden makes beautiful pieces- I love their technic of making patterns inside clear glass. The pieces are all rather heavy, and feel so smooth and cool:

Here we are in the swinging sixties with some space age pieces:

I love the repeated reflections here:

And this vase with the abstract flowers is one of my faves, and

is from the 1930s:

I will show some more another time!

Have a great day, take care,

ad thanks a lot for coming by!

Let your light shine

Hi Everybody!

Hope your holidays were good!

For Art Journal Journey, light and darkness,

I have another hybrid piece. I merged photos of the watchman, seen in Kettwig, and a grungy wall here by the castle ruins, and placed them on a very grungy background with a collaged quote.

And here is the night watchman 'at home'

 Tomorrow is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so here a hearty welcome to all the nice ladies in the T Gang.

 I recently had another coffee in the K20 art museum cafe, where 

some strange figures are always hanging out:

The cappuccino there is really good;

Recently several people  asked if I collect glass, as I often visit the glass museum. The answer is yes, I have collected bits and bobs

of glass since somebody bought me a little glass bird 

when I was a child. Perhaps not the best hobby for

someone who likes dusting as little as I do!

Anyway, here are a few things from my collection:

This glass bowl  is extremely thick and heavy:

This Scandinavian bird is one of my faves:

The blue and white one is one I made myself (with a lot of help from

Sepp, the glass blowing instructor), when I did a course many moons ago.

It's not quite straight, but I still like it:

Birds are still my favourites:

This ash-tray from the fifties is a so called 'rest of the day' piece,

as the glass blowers used to make this sort of glass 

from leftovers melded together. I would never allow anyone to use it for ash!

I have more to show another day.

Have a great day, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!