Saturday, 7 July 2018

Floral Frida

Hi Everybody!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

For Tag Tuesday I have another tag. It was put together digitally, using hand-painted papers for the background and a photo of Frida Kahlo, one of my favourite artists. The flowers are from Serif:




And some more pictures from last Sunday's walk....After leaving the botanical garden we drove to the Rhine and crossed over with the ferry. The first 3 pics were taken by my friend H:




After arriving in Orsoy, a tiny, walled town, the first thing we saw was this bee house, which can be opened to look into it:



We walked along the old walls under the trees:



There was an old cemetery outside the walls:




This group of homing pigeons was flying loops:




Loved the colourful cow:


An old 'Lore' - a wagon for pulling coals in the mine:


The view over to the cooling-tower on the other side:






We found a shady seat outside a wayside cafe and were able to have refreshments and watch what was going on in the little town:


And the crows watched us to see if they could beg some food:



The rest of the photos will follow in my next post!

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

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Pastels at More Mixed Media

Hi Everybody!

On the 5th of each month we start a new challenge  at
As always, the challenge is anything goes, this time with the option of using pastels.  I made a card for a friend. The background has been water-coloured, the circles, plants and dragonfly stamped with Archival black. The quote is from Tim Holtz:




I also played some more with a couple of my hand-carved stamps and made  2 more A2 sheets. I am linking to Paint Party Friday.

Odd man out:



Buddha with Om script:



And I would like to wish all bloggers on the other side of the big pond a happy Independence Day:





On Sunday I went for an outing with G and H. First we visited a botanical garden in Duisburg:


I was fascinated by the seed-heads:



There is a small aquarium there with some wooden statues in the hall at the front:








It was very peaceful to wander through the garden, admire the flowers and enjoy the shady paths and corners:















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