More this and that

Hi Everybody!

Happy Independence day to all friends and family living in the USA! 

This week it has got cooler here in my part of the world, for which I am very thankful.

Tomorrow we are starting a new challenge at More Mixed Media. Our challenges are all anything mixed-media goes, this time with optionel pastel colours.  I made an A3 mixed media piece, which I more or less copied from one of my own older pieces, as I just had nothing in my head while it was so hot. The background was gessoed, painted and textured with a background stamps. I used  stencils and some structure paste coloured with acrylics for the patterned bits. The swan was added with a napkin scrap. I added a textile bow made from leftover scraps and some flowers before sewing it all to some blue card-stock:

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

My July 4th outfit:

I spend some time most days at Hofgarten, and love to sit in the shade and watch the water-fowl:

Today I am showing some of the art outside at the Kunstpalast art museum, in my next post I will show some of the photos from the inside exhibits. I loved this huge, glass screen made from very rough glass:

My fave rhino:

A good place to sit if it's not too hot:

All the statues have had scarves added:

  I love the deck-chairs, which are all printed with information about various art-epochs:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for new Theme aT Tag Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend was good. Here it was extremely hot again, but from today it is hopefully getting cooler. Last week I spent part of my days walking through the big department stores in town, where they have air conditioning, and sometimes even free ice-water dispensers. And I discovered that by walking over the Rhine bridges you always get a good breeze....And on Thursday the Kunstpalast art museum offers free entry, so was able to spend some happy hours there cooling down. It was just too hot here to stay home! But I am hoping to get back to more normal pursuits this week, and to be able to take my walks at normal times and not either in the very early morning or late at night.

Our new host at Tag Tuesday is the lovely and talented Michele and her chosen theme is 'here comes the sun' (Rather ironic for me after these past hot weeks!) She has created some lovely tags to inspire you and you can see them on our blog. My first one was made using some cut-outs made from a sunrise photo on a hand painted background:

The second one is made from stamped and cut out pieces placed onto a painted background:

You have 2 weeks to enter the challenge, so hope to see you there!

Tuesday is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday party so here a warm welcome to all of the ladies who visit.  My tag above has a cup of coffee, my morning sunshine, and I drank lots of coffee this week, too - here a colourful example:

 And tomorrow will also be Elizabeth's 2nd on the 2nd, so here a repeat piece from 2015:

And here are some of my early morning and late evening photos taken with my cell phone on my walks here:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!