T stands for 2nd on the second

Hi Everybody!

Hope September has started well for you. Have a great week and a wonderful month.  At Elizabeth's blog it's time for 2nd on the 2nd, a linky party where we share a piece posted in the past. (Spellchecker  just tried to alter 'linky' to 'kinky'!) Later on it will also be time for T stands for Tuesday over at her blog, so I am rolling both posts together here. I chose this A3 journal page as it was made at the beginning of September back in 2015. The upside-down text is also worth reading!

And this piece fits for TSFT, and was made in 2016, so I am including it, too. I altered an old photo with some graphics from Serif. And here also a hearty welcome to all of the ladies of the T Gang who visit here:

And this is my new Coffee plant. It should grow into a sturdy and leafy tree in about 10 years, so check back then for a pic of me hopefully sitting under the tree drinking coffee from my own beans!

At the market place:

I saw this furniture waiting to be collected yesterday afternoon. Pity I couldn't carry those chairs home, but 3 miles on foot with them was not a possibility!

Transport on transport:

Nathalie enjoying ice coffee - I enjoyed mine, too:

Salads from this week - with lettuce, tomatoes, mini-peppers, cheese, cashews, blueberries and pumpkin seeds:

Clouds and sunshine on my evening walk:

Have a great day, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend is going well! We had another hot day here, but the weather folk have promised us that from tomorrow it will be cooler - I soooooo hope they are right!

At Tag Tuesday Michele's theme is purple, and this time I have made 2 tags with lots of purple splodges and put them together to make a tag concertina book. The 6" tags were collaged, and sewed to painted corrugated cardboard which I recycled. I cute a long strip of cream coloured card stock to 68 x 15 cms and folded it to make the pages each 9 x 15 cms. I fixed the pages to the back of the tags with DS adhesive tape. I sewed some smaller pages into the middle of each side to give more room for journaling.

The front(left) and back (right):

Both sides of the 'concertina' folds:

A view from above - sorry about the messy scribble pad underneath, I took the photos in my arty kitchen:

I had 2 walks today, the first one along the Rhine and through our little town, and the second one through the fields and woods to Schloss Kalkum:

The renovation of the facade is now finished after over 2 years, the tarps and nets have been removed and the building is now as it should be, in all its baroque glory:

The flower bike in front of the cornfield:

 I loved this narrow path between high hedges:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Friday post on Thursday evening

Hi Everybody!

Another week is flying by and it's nearly weekend. It was a little bit cooler here today, and although we still have 2 or 3 hot days in front of us it should really cool down after that  happy dance! And that's a good word to introduce this A3  (12" x 17")journal page. I made it weeks back and forgot to post it. The centre piece is painted, textured and splattered, and stenciled with the dancers using a Stencil Girl stencil. I framed it with a piece of DP  from which I cut away the centre. This  I used it to fussy cut the flowers with which I decorated it. I gave the dancers some textile skirts which were also sewn on:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and TIOT, in my garden there is - flowers and 'little maids all in a row'

The tag (10") is for  Michele's 'purple' challenge at Tag Tuesday. The background is a remnant of painted card, which I matted with some purple card-stock. The 2 young ladies (TH) are at a ball - and they are having a ball! Their mum said they had to be back home by midnight, but they haven't looked at the clock. I think there will trouble in store for them when they get home, unless they can think up a very good excuse! The words are also from TH.

I am linking to Simon Wednesday challenge, anything goes

Also linking to Soma's wandering camera

The photos were taken on last Sunday's walk through the fields to the next village and back again along the Rhine:

The cattle were clever and hid in the shade:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!