Paint Party Friday

Hi Everybody!

This week has raced by again, and already it's time to write a post for Paint Party Friday. I have not been feeling so good these past days, but it can only get better - I hope!

I have another page for my family scrapbook, this time using photos of my husband as a little boy. He used to like helping out on a nearby farm! I used elements from me and Serif.

In the past weeks i have been doing a lot of stamp carving at my group, this gives me something to do but leaves me free to talk with the others, too. The little houses are reminiscent of the ones here where I live. There are 2 more but I can't remember where I put them. I have a huge number of stamps, so they are not really necessary, but sometimes I like to use these 'primitive' ones which remind me of old wood-cuts:

The birds are inspired by the ones which visit my balcony each day:

And cappuccino and muffins belong, of course, to life's necessities:

Flowers and leaves will be useful for journal pages:

They look good in colour too:

For Tag Tuesday I have another 'bling' tag collaged from scraps when I cleared off my work table. Everything on it has been recycled, and that's also our theme at TIOT this time round:

Today is a another cold day, but we have had several warm and sunny ones this week, and from tomorrow it is supposed (hope, hope!) to get really good. The trees are blossoming, some are starting to get green, and flowers are sprouting:

I took this one through the bedroom window:

The farmers are getting busy again:

Have a great day, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Mellow Yellow

Hi Everybody!

On the fifth of each month we start a new challenge at

More Mixed Media. As always, our challenges are anything goes with an optional colour scheme, which is yellow for this month. The BG of my A3 piece was gessoed and then brayered with yellow using a stencil to give some texture.

I filled my head with some figures from Crowabout Studios (Mischief Circus), as I just love these positive affirmations. I doodled more dots and stenciled a couple of birds. You have 4 weeks to link your creations to us, so hope to see you there!

Some more photos from the beautiful forest at Grafenberg:

I loved this long-jump sandpit - I think I might have got as far as a mouse if I had tried!

A carved seat:

I wonder what lives in that little shelter?

The red deer were curious to see what their visitors had brought with them:

Carrots seem to speak a universal language:

Love that this split tree was still standing:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for Things beginning with T

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend as I did. It rained all day on Sunday here, but I was invited to a friend's for a wonderful meal, so enjoyed my day very much.

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at TIOT - 

Recycle something. We want to see things which have been re-used or re-purposed, and you have 2 weeks to link your creation to us.

I recently found a pile of shabby notebooks, which had been stuffed into a drawer and forgotten for many moons. I made some covers for them using a sheet of printed card which a neighbour was throwing away, and offered to me. The little tag was one sent to me as part of a gift, and I fitted it to the cover as an embellishment. The ribbon was tied onto a free sample in a magazine. I used the last scraps of card to make a pocket inside each cover:

I am looking forward to seeing what you create for this challenge!

At Tag Tuesday you still have a week to enter our 'diamonds are forever' challenge. I have a small owl tag with pearls for eyes:

And Tuesday is also time for  Elizabeth's tea stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the nice ladies of the T gang. Last Friday, which was a warm and spring-like day, I went for a walk with my buddy G through the wild-life park in Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, and afterwards we went for a pizza. G had a 'quattro stagione' pizza and I had a small margarita one. I had a diet cola with mine and G had a 'real' cola:

The wild life park is in a hill-top, wooded area, and we enjoyed walking around in the sunshine, eating ice creams, and of course, watching the animals.

The wild pigs and the little squeakers were fun to watch:

Lots of deer:

Mufflon:

Wild cats:

 This notice was on a lot of the enclosures - be careful, we bite!

The raccoons had just woken up and were thirsty:

The frog was sunning itself on a path. And before you ask - no, I didn't try to kiss it - who needs a prince?

The trees are still bare:

More photos to follow another day!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!