New challenge at AJJ - Butterflies

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at AJJ and this time Mia  of Craftartista is hosting and has chosen butterflies for her theme. Journal pages of all formats are welcome, and you have the whole month to join us. My page is 8" x 8". The central image is from Gecko Galz:

Today I am sharing some archive photos of a trip to the harbour of Neuss, a neighbouring town:

The 'Pegel Uhr' measures the depth of the water:

We were surprised to see a turtle swimming around in the water:

And we enjoyed refreshments in an Italian ice parlour afterwards. And no, I didn't eat it all!

I'm looking forward to being able to out again soon!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for Tag Tuesday and more

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend, or for those with a long weekend that you are still enjoying it. Here we have had 2 sunny days, I can hardly believe it! But it's good not to freeze outside!

This evening at 9 pm at Tag Tuesday we will be starting a new challenge, and our lovely and talented  Michele is hosting. Her theme is Faces, so please all show your faces for this challenge! As always you have 2 weeks to link your tags to us, and tags of all formats are welcome. And thanks to  our wonderful Pinky who hosted the last challenge and to all who joined in.

I made a tag using an image from Mischief Circus. Is it a pensive face, or sad? Is it masculine or feminine? I don't know, what do you think?

This evening we will also be celebrating Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday link party, so here a warm welcome to all of the nice ladies who visit here.

I am sharing a coffee page made in previous times and some more coffee stamps:

The Wednesday Market:

Light breaking through:

Stormy weather:

The castle ruins are greening up:

A cloud in the shape of a goose:

More flowers:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Speechless

Hi Everybody!

I have a last piece to share for Elle's language challenge at AJJ. This is an A3 mixed media page. The background was painted with acrylics, and I used some left over painted strips, cut into squares, to form a random pattern. This was fun to make, it's relaxing to just push the pieces around and see what effects they create. It has no words on it, but when I look at it, lots of words come to my mind - squares, spirals, cogs, stars, spots, colours, wavy lines, and movement. The pictures speak their own language and tell their own story. Perhaps you can think of more words:

 Some more pictures from the Zoo in Krefeld. Blogger changed the photos round, so they're not in the order I wanted:

This huge tortoise shell caused lots of laughs when people crawled into it to play tortoise - here a friend who did not want to be named:

The kangaroos were hard to photographs as they didn't want to keep still:

Self service:

Another beautiful sculpture:

Just chilling:

In the tropical house:

And the baboons:

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