Knobbly trees and faces

 Hi Everybody!

Another day has raced by, It's still cold here, the heating hasn't been repaired, so I've been keeping myself busy with my art and even did a bit of the dreaded - and sorely necessary - housew**k. And I gathered all of the papers and instructions etc that I printed off for the Lifebook taster courses, and put them all into a ring folder to get them safe for further perusal, as there were some ideas there that I would like to repeat. While making holes in the paper to file them, I accidentally got my lovely silk scarf caught up and made several holes in it, sigh. But I have gained lots of silk for crafting other things....

Today I am sharing 2 more lessons from Lifebook. The first one is a lesson from Kassi Martin about 'the knobbliness of trees'. Kassi is a wonderful person and therapist, and shared lots of valuable insights on living and how we (should) see ourselves. I also enjoyed painting my knobbly tree. I made a textured A3 background and painted my tree onto it, adding a sparkly hologram glaze at the end:

The second piece I am sharing was made after a lesson from Andrea Gomoll

about plant spirit girls. These are both painted on A4 watercolour paper:

I am linking both pieces to Chris' 'hold the line' challenge at AJJ

And here are the rest of the photos taken this week in Ratingen:

The lion is the heraldic animal of Ratingen:

I loved this decoration with the old wash stand:

This sculpture is in the remains of the swine herd tower on the town walls;

The stream is the old moat:

 

Have a great day, take care,

and thank a lot for coming by!

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!