Friday post

Hi Everybody!

It's nearly weekend, enjoy!

I have a vintage journal page to share today. Some time about 2 years back, a friend sent me an envelope full of scraps with the instructions to make a journal page out of them. Recently I found the envelope again, so I tipped them out onto the table and started to organise them. I used a 12" x 12" page as substrate. I painted it with some left over rust colour, stamped it randomly with a script stamp, and then added the images, including a couple of bits that were already on the messy table. I did some sewing after lightly gluing the pieces in place:

And I made another tag for Wilma's peace challenge at Tag Tuesday, where we are remembering the events of 9.11.2001. I used one of my hand-carved stamps and a Buddha quote to make the tag:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin.

And I have some more photos of the lake at Abtsküche to share:

The 2 cygnets on the left are as big as the swan already:

The Church and old school house on the other side of the road, I will show what we saw there another time:

A tower, a remnant of the fortified building that was there in the 14th century. I was almost expecting Rapunzel to look out....

Have a great day, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Having colourful fun

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

Today I am sharing 2 journal spreads made in the past couple of weeks. I am enjoying using lots of colour and some of my Jane Davenport goodies. Here I used some bits of tissue paper and 2 different sorts of washi tape. Stencils were used to add the hearts and stars. The 'eye candy' is a die from JD. The background was painted with water colours and I added some splodges with it, too. I am linking to Paint Party Friday, and Simon Monday challenge, use more than one stencil.

The second spread was just made for fun. I drew the girls with water colours. The words are from Dina Wakley, the old girls from TH

After visiting Neviges and the Mariendom (photos were shown in the previous posts) we visited this beautiful little lake at a place called Abtsküche (Abbots kitchen). There used to be a priory here, and a house where food was cooked for the Abbot and his brothers:

Can you see what's on that log?

I counted 14 turtles in all - I have never seen so many at once!

More photos from our visit to Abtsküche to follow!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for Peace

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and our lovely and very talented Wilma chose the theme of 'peace', as it is the anniversary of the awful attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001. I hope a lot of people will join us to remember this awful day and all the people who lost their lives in that senseless act of terror. I made a simple tag, but please take a look at the beauties Wilma created for us on our TT blog. I used blue card to represent the blue skies, the white dove of peace, ( a Sizzix die-cut) and a white rose for those who lost their lives:

Tuesday 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.

I visited my friend N. We had a wonderful meal of  stir-fried veggies with chicken. My drinks were water and coffee:

Later we went for a little walk and ended up eating frozen yogurt at Yamaro's - yummy!

Today I have more photos to share, this time from the Mariendom (Church) in Neviges.  As I wrote last week, the Church is a huge, cement building, like an over-dimensional tent, built in the brutalist style. Inside it is very impressive. It is always dark inside, there are just a few spotlights and the wonderful stained glass windows to let in some light:

The rose, symbolizing Mary, is a recurrent theme there:

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Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!