Midweek Post

 Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well! Here the time is going by too quickly again. Yesterday I got caught out in the rain, and it really came down hard, so I was soaked by the time I got home, and had a soak in a hot bath to warm up again. And I have put my warm quilt on the bed again - we are still without heating, the spare parts for the heating have been ordered by the house admin, but are probably being transported by snail mail - snails with sore feet!

Some of the teachers at Lifebook offered free lessons on top of the LB ones, and this is a series of Halloween collages I made after watching Melanie River's lesson on making little collaged pieces. She also gives hints on resources that one can use, free images on the net etc. I used hammered cardstock in A5. I am  linking to Chris' challenge at AJJ and Simon Monday challenge, spooky:

Some more photos from Wolfgangs vacation:

He met this dapper lady driving a tractor, and she allowed him to take pictures of her. Afterwards, the owner of the hotel where he was staying told him that she is his aunt and is 90 years old! That lady has attitude! 

Yesterday we went shopping at ALDI, but beforehand W had to collect his glasses from the opticians's in a neighbouring town - Ratingen - and I had 10 minutes to race around and take photos till he was finished. This is the main street:

I love this statue in front of the Church:

The Church looks like a fortress:

I'm not sure who this is supposed to be:

A bas relief of the town:

I will show the rest of the photos tomorrow, I managed quite a lot in my ten minutes!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New Challenge at TIOT - Halloween

 Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT -

🎃🎃 Halloween 🎃🎃

Projects of all formats are welcome, and as always you have 2 weeks to link to us. Pop by our blog and see what my teamies have made!

I made an A3 mixed media page. I used a textured and painted background which I collaged with various Halloween motifs: 

Late afternoon at the Rhine is always beautiful:

It rained and we had real puddles so I could wear my wellies again:

The fire boat:

Veggies at the market:

I saw this at the tram stop. It says 'wandering building site'. There was no building site in sight, so it looked like it had wandered to the tram stop alone:

The following pics were sent to me by my neighbour Wolfgang. They were on vacation in a wine-growing region:

You can see the vineyards in the background:

An elegant bird house:

Strange wild life from the region:

I asked Wolfgang if I could show his pics on my blog, and he said he is happy that you all get to see them!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!