Going shopping

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well - here it's just

going too fast to catch up on it!

For Paint Party Friday I have a mixed media collage
using  an altered postcard. Once again I used

a b/w postcard from the 1930's, showing a statue from Georg Kolbe.

He was a prolific artist and sculptor,  but a little too eager to please the Nazis 

for my taste. I coloured the card with soft, feminine colours to soften

the hard lines of his work, using oil pastels.

 I did a lot of sewing, and stitched it all onto

corrugated card, adding some coordinating colours of burlap

and feathers:

I am also linking to altered eclectics, anything goes, and 

eclectic Elapu, anything goes

For Art Journal Journey, Jo's theme of 'poetry in motion', I have

a digitally made piece using freebies from Serif and Foxie Squirrel.

The little girl in the centre of the rusty frames is Erika

again:

Today I had planned to go for a walk along the Rhine, but as the

weather was very inclement, I changed my plans and went on

the tram to Nord Strasse, a shopping street almost in the centre of 

Düsseldorf,very 'towny', always busy, and 

with lots of 'normal' shops - in comparison to the beautiful

 and for me much too expensive

shops in our little place here.

There are lots of street cafés, and there is always something going on:

The road is always busy; bikes, cars, buses, pedestrians and trams

 often struggle to get through:

There are some quiet yards behind the houses:

This shop only sells candies and chocolates -

I did not go in!

Organic fruit and veggies:

A cow guarding the snack bar:

Kebabs with and without meat:

Fashion:

The street also boasts several Euro-shops and 2 thrift stores,

so I did not come home without some bargains. More

pictures to follow tomorrow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

On the other side of the tracks

Hi Everybody!

First of all, thanks to all who made fun suggestions about

my mystery picture yesterday, I enjoyed reading them

very much!

Today is flying by again, and I haven't even started on anything yet!

I made several things suitable for the postcard challenge at

TIOT, which is still running for nearly 2 weeks,

so here are a couple of the other things I made. First off, I made this

very simple postcard album to take my vintage cards of London.

I used a TH embossing folder for the front, and the pages can 

easily be removed or added to as they are only held by the string.

I now have three of these albums in various colours:

The spine:

Some of the vintage photos:

The 'family' has definitely grown older since then!

This postcard was stamped, collaged and sewn  onto linen and then

painted:

The reverse was stamped:

It has now safely arrived at its destination!

When I leave the house I first need to cross the bridge over the little stream:

Then I go round the corner to the tram stop. I can't walk so

much these days, so go one direction on the tram

and one on foot. While waiting, I always look over at

the 'no man's land' on the other side of the tracks; this shortens the

waiting time:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Cats and a mystery.

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day is going well!

Donna recently sent me a whole sheet of cat stamps, and I

needed wanted to try them out. I made a quick background using 

distress oxides in peacock feather, salty ocean and twisted citron, with 

a hint of black soot to add depth. I stamped the cats in rows using 

Archival black, and added some colour to their eyes 

and noses using Gelatos. I sewed the 8" tag to a background

made from a recycled calendar, and added a black bow and a cat

charm. I am linking to Moo Mania and More, cats,

and Country View Challenges, blues and greens, and to
Tag Tuesday, my fave colour combination:

I made this digital piece using 

 a freebie set from Mischief Circus, called

Songbirdy debut. Now you might be wondering

why those people are where they are, and what they are doing there. 

Who is the ghostly woman in the background? Why are they

with a zebra and not a horse? And above all - what is hidden in that box

at the front right? And could it all change when the clock strikes 12.00?

If YOU know the answers, please let me know!

And this piece, made a year or so back is meant for Elizabeth's

2nd on the 2nd. It shows my late husband as a rather

rebellious school boy:

The photos were taken yesterday morning,

I love watching the sun rise:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!