Coffee, cake and birds

Hi Everybody!

Today is another busy blog Tuesday, so I'd better get started
right away. At TIOT we are starting a new challenge
🐤-Feathered Friends-🐦
As always, you have 2 weeks to link up to us, and projects of all
formats are welcome.
I made two birds from old book paper, gave them wings
made from black tissue and added some feathers
and googly eyes as embellishments. They flew all
over my living room and looked at everything:

I am also linking to 2 crafty critter crazies

Today is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday party, so

here a warm welcome to all of the nice ladies of the T Gang.

Help yourselves to food and drink!

Last week I baked 2 large fruit crumbles to take to the clinic
on my last day, one with sour cherries:

and one with mixed, fresh fruits - enjoy! I like to serve them warm,

with vanilla ice and whipped cream:

And coffee is being served, although I do have lots of different

tea-bags on offer!

On Thursday and Friday we had changeable

and stormy weather, but a nice sunrise:

Met this snail on a garden wall:

And I never knew there were poppies in this colour!

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

Sunny Sunday

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Today I am sharing the rest of the lino prints I

made last week. Once again they are A3 size. This one was part of 

a series I made some years back with the theme of masks:

For Go Tag Thursday, tape measure, ruler, I made a tag

and was able to use up a sheet of designer paper which

I have had for more than 10 years. I am also linking to Tag Tuesday, 

where our theme is anything goes:

And now we are going back to the gasometer in Oberhausen.  In the 100 meters high space you can view the world as normally only astronauts get to see it.

There is a huge 'globe', 20 meters in diameter, onto which pictures of the world

showing various seasons, day and night etc are beamed. The pictures are shown with 58 million pixels, which gives an incredible detail. The video shows how it was made. The text is in German, but it is worth looking at just for the pictures:

There is an arena with seating all round, and you just grab a

huge bean bag, lay back, and watch the world turning:

We then took the lift to the very top of the gasometer and

enjoyed the view outside. For me, the best views were through

the glass walls of the lift taken on the way back down:

All in all, a wonderful experience. More pictures to come tomorrow.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Colourful

Hi Everybody!

Yesterday I had my last day at the clinic, so now I am

back home completely. The stay there really did me good,

and now I just need to get back into my 'normal' life -

whatever 'normal' is!

I did a series of prints from one of my linocuts made

many years ago, as I wanted to have one for each of the patients

and staff there. The prints are all A3 size. I am

linking to Gill's theme at Art Journal Journey, elegance and grunge.

and to Paint Party Friday.:

And now I have more photos from the Gasometer

exhibition. Some of the photographers who contributed to the show

are  Ingo Arndt, James Balog, Bence Maté, Jürgen Freund,

Rob Kesseler, Solvin Zankl, Frans Lanting, Tim Laman,

Klaus Nigge, Lennert Nilsson, Ondrej Pakan, Anup Shah,

Christian Ziegler and Tim Flach - kudos!

In the next post I will be showing you the world!

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!