Happy Mail

Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing a beautiful package received in the mail from Mia of 

Craftartista

who recently sent out many beautiful gifts including handmade items that she gave away to celebrate her blogaversary. As well as the gifts and candies she included handmade items, such as the very unusual ring, the embroidered pendant and the hand sewn needle case, complete with contents.

Thanks for this beautiful and thoughtful gift, Mia!

And some photos from a walk along the Rhine.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

More this and that:

Hi Everybody!

Here it's still hot and steamy, and no sign of it letting up yet. And it is not really the week to be having 2 dental operations either, but  I have to see it through and hope that things will soon get back to normal.

I made some more hand-carved stamps at my group and they are all I have to show this week for PPF.

The birds are about 4 1/2" high:

  

I made a cat like this many years back with a linocut, and decided to make a smaller one this time (3 1/2" across) so I can use it on cards etc:

Here I printed it onto some DP:

Some photos taken out and about here in the past weeks: 

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for....

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. It's still much too hot here for my liking, feels like we've dropped into the tropics!

Each Tuesday we start a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and this time our lovely Joan is hosting, and has chosen the theme of 'A night at the movies', and she has 2 wonderful tags to inspire you on our blog. I made a rather quick and desperate tag - it's too hot for crafting! I used DP, die-cuts and some TH tickets:

On Tuesday we are also starting a new challenge at More Mixed Media. As always, our challenges are anything goes, this time with optional purple, so I hope you will be able to play along. You have a whole month to join in. Projects of all formats are allowed. I made a mixed media, hybrid piece on a canvas background, adding the cake, teapot and cup digitally. This also fits nicely to Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the T Gang, too. 

A few days back my friend N invited me to lunch. For starters we had delicious asparagus cream soup. My drink was water:

And she served coffee and cookies for dessert:

Last week I was out and about in neighbouring towns with my buddy G. We visited this old water tower, with a funky water museum attached:

Lots of old machinery from the tower:

Then we walked though the beautiful gardens of the little old palace next to it:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks, as always, for coming by!