Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is gong well! It's cold and damp here, which is not good for my bones, but that's life - we have to take the good with the bad.

Lately I have been hearing a lot on the news about the hate attacks on politicians, people of public interest and others. The people who leave these comments on the internet use false identities. It is so easy to hide behind a mask and spew hate, make threats, and cause others distress. I hope sooner or later that the possibilities to do so will be curtailed. Freedom of opinion is good, but this does not give anyone the right  to insult, mob or threaten others. We don't have to agree with everything people do or say, we don't need to like everybody, and are all entitled to a personal opinion. 

This is a remake of a piece made a few years back, as I want to use the message again. It is an A3 mixed media collage painted with blue and black acrylics. The sentiment from John Lennon was stenciled. :

I am linking to More mixed media, anything goes with optional black.

And I have more impressions from beautiful autumn, my fave season:

The prehistoric menhir (standing stone) is the oldest object in my little town, from about 2000 BC and is on the corner of our street - I pass it at least twice a day. I wonder what this stone could have seen in the course of all those years?

The ruins of the imperial castle are also very ancient, dating back more than 1300 years:

Loads of toadstools this year:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for loTs of This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend was good. Here we had very mixed weather, but with longer dry spells so I was able to get out and walk a lot and meet up with friends, so that was fun.

Today we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday

Our lovely Michele is hosting and has chosen 'seeds and plants' as her theme, so hope to see lots of you joining in. She is also giving a little prize this time. I have chosen a winner for my last theme there, and you will be able to see who it is when the TT blog goes live on Monday evening. I made a hybrid tag in autumnal colours again, using a vintage greengrocer scrap, which was fussy cut. Lots of seeds and plants here:

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

My drink is always cappuccino, so here some of this weeks beverages:

I just managed to stop myself from eating the cookie on time!

And on the 5th of each month we start  new challenge at More Mixed Media. All of our challenges are anything mixed media goes, and you have 4 weeks to join us there. The optional colour this month is black. I made an A3 mixed media face on a blue, black and green painted background. The face is one of  'my' heads, and the town was stenciled. The stars were collaged, the sentiment hand-written. I have used this head so many times, but I always seem drawn to using it again and again!

And I have some photos from my walks. On the day before we visited Xanten, which I showed last week, Nathalie drove us to  'Unterbacher See (lake)' . The lake is surrounded by beautiful woods, and we walked all round it, giving us a total of more than 18000 steps. It was a pleasant walk and afterwards we went to a snack bar near here. Nathalie had a huge pizza, and I had roast chicken, and we were so hungry we forgot all about photos till it was too late!

Somebody recently asked me if I didn't have hair, as I always wear a cap or hat. Yes, I still have hair, I just mostly like to tie it back and keep it under my cap!

Anyway, here you can see it, where I was getting ready to go out for my walk yesterday:

That's all for today!

Have a great one, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!