Midweek post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day is going well. We had a beautiful day here in Rhineland - sun, a few clouds, a nice breeze, no rain and warm but not hot - just perfect for me!

So I spent a long time outside walking, and visited some places which I haven't seen for ages and really enjoyed myself. My feet are still smoking, but it was worth it!

I have another tag for Wendy's 'apples and pears' challenge at Tag Tuesday, perhaps representing the goddess of plenty smiling on the beautiful fruits of the season. The background was painted, stamped and glittered. The fruit is from Free Vintage Clip-art:

And I have a WIP. Last week at art-group I once again used up my left-over paints to make an A2 (24" x 17") background. I scraped the paints in various directions using a palette knife:

Then I started to work on it to turn it into a new book-cover. Here I have folded in the edges after fixing recycled cardboard (from paper blocks) to strengthen the spine and covers:

The front was stamped using the huge stamp I carved 2 years back:

After crazy-sewing the edges I lined the inside with some designer paper:

The outside of the covers:

The back of the book:

Some more views:

I still need to make the signatures and sew them in. I am linking to Paint Party Friday and to Simon Monday challenge, use a stamp.

These are some of my pics from Sunday and Monday, I still need to organise those I took today:

 This huge bronze relief is on the town walls here and shows how boats used to be pulled along the Rhine - that's Kaiserswerth in the background:

Lovely skies on Sunday:

These ducks had different colours to their usual ones:

The old water mill in Kalkum:

Beautiful houses and gardens in Kalkum:

On Monday I went with Nathalie for a coffee in Oberkassel - this is a great place to people-watch:

On the way back to the car we saw these fun windows:

And this is one of my fave views (as you might have noticed by now....):

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for Tags, This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed a great weekend, and here's wishing you a good week to come! It's cooled off a lot here, so I was able to do lots of walks and enjoy being outside. This morning was really chilly when I got up,  it felt strange after the months of hot and sticky weather!

On Tuesday (well, actually Monday evening!) we are beginning a new challenge at Tag Tuesday. Our wonderful Wendy is hosting this time, and has chosen a seasonal theme - apples and pears. In Cockney rhyming slang 'apples and pears' means stairs, but I think Wendy is expecting fruit. I made a quick tag as I was out and about so much, using images from the Graphics Fairy on a digital background of skeleton leaves:

Hope to see lots of people joining in again!

Today is also time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday linky party, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang.

Recently I accompanied Nathalie to her dentist's which is here in Kaiserswerth on Market Street. The waiting room was a large lounge with a kitchen corner:

Lovely views out of the window:

A priceless coffee machine:

And wonderful coffee, to which we could help ourselves - and I did!

Two of my quick lunches - here a whole wheat sesame roll filled with chicken pastrami, lettuce and cucumbers and some tomatoes and cucumber to accompany it:

This time I used a Dinkel (spelt flour) roll filled with Rambol walnut cream-cheese and accompanied by pointy red peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes -delicious!

And of course, there were lots of coffees taken out and about:

And a very delicious lamb and veggie  hot-pot which Nelya made - served with red wine and water:

 As you can see, it was very tasty:

Some pics taken in Düsseldorf:

A huge rusty nail for Elizabeth:

Photos of the evening sky when I walked home over the bridge after visiting Nelya:

I had to walk fast to get home before the rain started!

Linking to Soma's 'wandering camera'

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!