Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week has gone well so far. Time is flying here, as always, and the days go by too quickly to get everything done that I would like to, but that's life!

I have been clearing and tidying a lot, and my kitchen table is now free from the meter high pile of stash and painting stuff that was on it, and looks like a table again! I am reducing the amount of things I have, as it is just too much. A huge pile has wandered to a kid's art-school, a kindergarten and the thrift shop. I still have too much, so more will be going in the next weeks. Lots of older paintings have been cut up to be re-used and re-purposed. Here I have used a lot of scraps and other odds and ends to make some journal pages, with lots of sewing to hold everything together, using n old calendar page as background. I am linking to Paint Party Friday:

And I have a hybrid tag for Joan's summer fun theme at Tag Tuesday, using an image from Gecko Galz and some elements from Serif:

My clean and tidy table:

When it's hot and humid I go by tram to Düsseldorf, although it is much more beautiful and quieter here - there is a lot of air conditioning there in the big stores, and there are also lots of cool, old  churches, streets and alleyways to explore. This is the town hall:

The lion is the symbol of Düsseldorf:

Blind justice - I think justice seems to be blind, deaf and dumb today, that might explain all the terrible things that happen all the time:

Behind the town hall there is this beautiful, old square:

I enjoyed being in the photo:

The town walls in the 15th century:

Love this statue:

The goose fountain:

The lion high up:

And Düsseldorf is famous for its Lion mustard, strong and hot:

 The carnival statue:

An old bakery:

The spire of the Max Church - I will show the inside another time:

This was my husband's fave restaurant/pub - he was born in the Altstadt:

This little garden behind a wrought iron fence caught my eye - a garden of mourning, a place to be still in the middle of the bustling streets and cafes:

Outside the garden, life goes on as always:

Love this saying on a house nearby 'Anybody can wish me whatever he wants, God should give him even more of the same'

Strange things in this shop-window:

This chair outside a shop is there for people to sit, rest and take selfies. I think it looks nicer without me sitting in it:

I am linking to Soma's 'Wandering Camera'

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for loTs and loTs of This and Thats....

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend was good. I was out and about a lot as always,  and did lots of walking. Nothing new, but I still enjoyed it.

Today we are beginning a new challenge at More Mixed media. Our challenges are always anything mixed media goes, and the optional extra for August is 'brights', and we would love to see what you create. You have 4 weeks to link to us. I used a painted and stenciled background onto which I printed the vintage bird image, which I coloured with paint-sticks and Gelatos. I gave the birds some distress Stickles and sewed the piece to a bright yellow card background as I had just used printer paper:

I am linking to Simon Monday challenge, bright and cheerful:

And I have another tag for Joan's theme - summer fun - at Tag Tuesday. I used my seagull photos and some images from Serif on a hand-painted background:

And it is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday today, so a warm welcome to all  the lovely ladies of the T Gang who visit here. I am sharing some of my eats and drinks from this week:

Cappuccino at the Cafe de Paris in Oberkassel - a delightful place, I will be visiting again this week:

 

 Delicious salads with fruit and cheese and sometimes cashews as well for lunch each day:

A delicious brioche with cheese and lettuce and cappuccino. I was so hungry I took a bite before I took the photo:

 I found a 42 on one of the garages behind the house:

The neighbour's Sonnenhut always make me envious:

Close by Lambertus Church, which I showed last week, you can see the Düssel - the little stream which gave Düsseldorf its name - village on the Düssel:

I love this quiet part of the real Altstadt:

There is a group of bronze sculptures showing the history of Düsseldorf up to becoming a town in 1288, all made by Bert Gerresheim.

This house close by shows the date:

 One of the customs in the Altstadt was that kids would turn cartwheels and be rewarded with a penny.  There are still cartwheel competitions held year for year. This fountain shows it:

And the man-hole covers in the Altstadt have the same symbol:

The cartwheel 'racing track' by the Rhine:

Okay, that was enough for today!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!