T sTands for Tag Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

The sun and the crows outside woke me up again this morning, and now I'm sitting here drinking my coffee and enjoying the fresh air. Yesterday was really wet, it rained nearly all day, and you could almost hear the dry earth singing a song of joy. I enjoyed several walks, and hardly saw anyone about, just a few dogs taking their reluctant people for walks.

We still have another week to go at Tag Tuesday, anything goes, and I would love to see more people joining in. So many keep promising to do so and never get around to it, I never know why it's so difficult to make a tag....Big thanks to Erika and Anne who always join in. I have another rather crazy one, made on another piece of the chopped up background I used for the last one, too. I did lots of sewing, added some small embellishments and used a TH image.

I have more tags ready and will show them in the course of the week.

Today is also Elizabeth's  T stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely  ladies of the T Gang who visit here. My drink was mostly cappuccino when I was out and about, but I do drink a lot of water at home, and always have a small bottle in my bag to drink in between:

Who ate my cookie before I could take a photo??

And some photos from my rainy walk yesterday, just taken with my cell phone, as my camera does not like wet weather:

I always love how the background melts away on rainy days:

The bridge has disappeared:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Friday post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. We had showery weather today, it was good to get a bit more rain, we need it so badly. This afternoon was art group, so had a happy time painting and having fun.

Last week I showed you the first side of my large art tote:

Now the second side is finished. I also varnished both sides to make it a bit easier to keep it clean. This time I used rectangles in various colours. The small ones and the dots were made with stencils from CWS and Seth Apter. The wonderful quote is from Nick Bantock:

 I also have a large  (10") tag. I used a painted and collaged piece (13 x 10") and hacked it into 3 pieces to make 3 tags.  I sewed it to some black matting and added a huge butterfly found in my recent clear-up,2 swan feathers picked up in Hofgarten and a sentiment (TH).   Quick and simple!

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and Tag Tuesday, anything goes.

Nathalie and I had some fun in the castle ruins this week. I'm holding up the rusty arches for Elizabeth:

And last but definitely not least I have some pics from the inside of St Maximilian's church in the Altstadt, usually just called Max Church. It is a beautiful late Baroque building, and offers regular, wonderful organ concerts. The organist was practising as I was there, so that was an added bonus: 

I always light candles for friends near and far when I am there:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Midweek Post - a tag, sunshine and rain

Hi Everybody!

It's Wednesday already, the days are flying again. We had a cool and blustery day yesterday, which I much enjoyed, and in the evening the wind dropped and the sun came out in time for an evening walk along the Rhine, which was just perfect. On Sunday we had some heavy rain in the evening, which was good, and we need more!

For my challenge 'Anything goes' at Tag Tuesday I have another tag (10"). As I already told you, I unearthed lots of treasures when I cleaned my working space, and I am using them to make my tags. Old paintings were chopped up to make backgrounds, and some of the lost and founds bits will be appearing on my tags in the coming days. I love crafting like this - no theme, no stress, just playing with disparate bits and bobs and seeing what comes out. This paper was painted and textured and reminded me of jacquard silk, so perhaps that's why the bride pair (TH) appeared. The roses were from some sheets of rub-ons which I also discovered in my clear-out. The text is from TH and I sewed it all together before adding the bridal bouquet and wings:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and to Soma's  Wandering Camera

and Simon Monday Challenge - the couple are marrying to get away from the midsummer blues!

On Sunday evening, as on many others, too, I watched the crows in the trees behind the house. They sit there every morning, too, and often wake me with their raucous cawing:

But then the wind came up and blew some very dark skies over us, and we had lots of thunder and lightning:

And it rained hard, which was good:

After the rain and clouds the crows came back again:

And brought a rainbow with them:

That made me happy! And yesterday's evening walk along the Rhine and through our little town rounded off a great day, too:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!