T stands for Time / Clocks

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend was good - have a great week!

G and I visited a friend who was feeling poorly yesterday. After that we went for a walk in the woods, which was great. Walking under trees is always something very special.

On Tuesday we are beginning a new challenge at 

Tag Tuesday

Our theme has been chosen by the lovely Joan, and it is

⏰Time /Clocks.⌚

Tags of all formats are all allowed, and I hope to see lots of people joining in again. I made a large tag using  scrap card from some packaging. The background was stenciled with some time/steampunk motives using old paper DI. The stamps used are from Paper Artsy.  The sentiment is from TH:

Today is also time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang. My drink is, as almost always, cappuccino, served with lemon cake:

This is the wonderful painting Jeanie made of my cappuccino, isn't it fantastic?

Yesterday we went walking in the woods in Duisburg, a neighbouring town where H lives. A local artist, Regina Bartholome, created these wooden statues:

The path through the woods leads up to an open air chapel in a clearing:

The text says, 'praise the Lord, all who have breath'. Services are held here on a regular basis:

Then we walked further :

This is a spring, which is unfortunately almost completely dried up as there has been almost no rain these past months. Usually it flows away down the hill:

I love the log piles, and am sure they make a great home for many small insects and animals:

And I got the feeling that this tree was watching me:

We saw some toadstools, too, but I think they, too, need more rain and moisture to grow properly:

 On Friday evening we had a wonderful moon:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Summer is winding down....

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - have a good one!

I made an A3 mixed media piece using one of the backgrounds I made at our painting session on Tuesday. I added part of a paper napkin, adhered with art potch. I used lots of figures from T.H., and some numerals and alphas from my stash. I underlined the text with a stitched line, made a stitched 'floor' for my group of kids, and stitched round the edges of the page and the napkin. I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, back to school.

My balcony flowers have perked up now the hot weather is over, and thanks to the TLC from my friends:

You can see the grass in the background, burnt yellow and brown. But the chrysanthemums are doing well:

The variegated clover is growing fast:

My rubber plant is sprouting lots of new leaves and evidently enjoying its summer holiday on the balcony:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Stitched up men

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. Yesterday I had an art-play-day with my buddy G, and we had a fun day painting and crafting. We didn't starve either, I made us veggie soup, meat balls, strawberries with yogurt and of course, lots of coffee and cookies. N came along in the afternoon, and we enjoyed time sitting round the table for a good natter. We spent some time on the balcony, too, and G and N tidied up my flowers, watered and sprayed them, and made them look good again. Thanks, you guys!

I painted a few A3 backgrounds in various colours and styles, and then started making one of them into a mixed media journal page with a vintage touch. I stuck to neutral colours of cream and burnt sienna. The background was brayered with cream and I stamped into it while wet with a script stamp. After it was dry I rubbed on the burnt sienna with a damp sponge and stenciled some diamonds in the same colour.  Then I added the bits of paper napkins and the flowers, which were stenciled with metallic paste and then heat-bubbled, as well as the stamped splodges. The men were drawn with pastel chalks in burnt sienna, black and ocre. I added some sewing to finish it, leaving the thread ends to give them some 'hair'. The quote was made with chit chat stickers. I am linking to Paint Party Friday

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And I have another 'landmarks' tag for Wendy's challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I stamped onto a scrap of hand-painted paper, coloured the image with prismalo pencils and matted it with more scraps, sewing the layers together:

I watched as the cornfield behind our house was harvested this week:

These photos were taken in June when we still had some green grass. They were on my other camera and I forgot to download them before:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!