TGIF

Hi Everybody!

This has been a very busy week for me, so I am looking

forward to the weekend without appointments and with plenty

of time for doing nothing.

Lately I have been making a lot of pieces combining paper, fabric,

sewing and other media. Here I altered an old b/w postcard

from the 1930s (Adagio from Georg Kolbe)  by colouring it with
oil pastels. I gave the hair a coat 

of glossy accents to make it stand out even more. I sewed the

postcard to some recycled card coloured with the same

oil pastel colours. I added some textile embellishments to 

pick out some of the colours, and sewed it all onto some peeled, 

recycled corrugated cardboard, which I sprayed with various

acrylic sprays. I like how this one turned out:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and Simon Monday Challenge, 

you've got the edge:

For Go Tag Thursday, seaside, and Tag Tuesday, Chrissie's challenge of 

'my fave colour combination' I made a tag using a photo taken

many years ago at the Dead Sea, where I was on holiday. I love the

colours of the water and sky and the creamy colours of the salt

'statues'. I used one of my fave stamps for the quote:

Early morning from my balcony:

Recently I walked with a friend to the neighbouring 

village of Lohausen, and then through the park there:

A plaque commemorating all the trees which were destroyed by 

storm Ela

New trees:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

An owl, a hedgehog, some geese and more....

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well - time is flying by

here as always.

For Paint Party Friday I have a large (A2) mixed media collage

made last week at art group. I did lots of collage, stamping, doodling, painting, stenciling and sewing, and it was fun to make!

I am also linking to Simon Monday challenge, you've got the edge, as I have lots of edges here which were all worked over differently.

And I have another tag for Chrissie's lovely 'fave colours' challenge

at Tag Tuesday - the soft pinks and creams of full blown roses

always touch my heart:

And I got a good bargain from the discounter Lidl this week. Their

special offers included some sewing sets, and so I bought 2 sets of sewing threads for  4,99 each, and now I have enough thread to keep me happily sewing for months. The first set also includes gold, silver and transparent threads,

as well as various colours of elastic. The reels in the second set each have 500

meters, that's an enormous amount.

And today an owl post arrived, almost like in Harry Potter. My dear friend

Chrissie sent me one of her hand-knitted owls, I have called him Ollie,

and Freddie the Hedgie,(also from Chrissie) who has been living here for a couple of years, was really happy to get a companion. They got together

straight away and are now inseparable. And Chrissie is offering one of her 

lovely owls as a prize this time at Tag Tuesday....Just saying!

And these lovely gifts were also in the parcel. Thanks Chrissie,

your kindness made my day!

And last but not least some photos. It didn't rain today,

and the sun came out:

Down at the Rhine the Egyptian geese had settled

in for the day. The heron was really disgusted, and after

a short but loud cuss out the heron took off and the geese stayed

as conquerors of the beach:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

This n that again

Hi Everybody!

I have enjoyed sitting on my balcony watching the rain pour down,

listening to the lovely sound of the wind and rain

on the leaves of the trees, and it was so refreshing

and relaxing, just the thing after so many hot, summer days.

For Go Tag Thursday, flags or bunting, I made a tag using 2 of the
little Union Flag tags that Donna recently sent me. I collaged a paper
napkin onto an 8" tag and sewed it onto a piece of recycled
black calendar. In case you're wondering, 'ONDO' is London without the
first and last letters - they didn't fit! Or perhaps they sold off
The L and the N to pay for the Brexit....
I let the little flag tags fly as
embellishments:

This is the other set of mixed media ATCs I made for 

Elizabeth's TSFT. One is

already en Route to the States, one will soon be on its way, and one 

is staying with me. The background was painted, the cups were stamped first to create a shadow, and then stamped and fussy cut from white

card before being mounted on the ATCs. The 'text' was stamped

with my typewriter-key alphas and glazed with

liquid glass:

Yesterday evening, shortly before dusk, I spotted this very 

dishevelled magpie sitting right at the top of the tree in

the field. I zoomed it in and got some photos of

its evening feather-care-time:

Looks like a punk here:

More bales of hay have appeared in the field:

 The roses in my kingdom Queendom of Balconia will be

blooming soon:

I love this variegated clover I bought this year - the bees love it, too!

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