Thursday-Friday Post

 Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing another of my faces. This one has been built into an old journal page and completed with a cut out from a magazine:

This a summer country view for Alison's challenge at AJJ. The background is a water colour I painted when sitting by Lake Constance and looking to the mountains on the other side. That was in 1993 -  I added the figures in the foreground and the butterfly digitally:

And I have a new  tag for Sandie's music challenge at Tag Tuesday:

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday

The Theme at Rain's Thursday art date this week is favourite decade. I've decided to go with the 1920s as I have lots of old family photos from then:

My great uncle Bennie:

My mum 1926:

My great grandmother Rachel (1922):

My husbands grandparents, 1928, at their 25th wedding anniversary:

Erika, 1922

Erika, 1921

Aunts and an uncle of my husband, 1920

Erika with her class, 1929 (on the right)

Erika, 1922

My great auntie Fanny, 1920

My great grandmother and 2 great aunts, 1927

My great grandfather, 1924

Uncle Benny's wedding, 1927

Erika's brother Ralf, 1920

Thanks to all who asked about the floods here. Many areas will take years before everything is cleared away and rebuilt. Here in my little town, the floods along the Rhine are receding, which is good news. The big hole in our street is still under repair, the sewage and drainage pipes were badly damaged and have to be renewed.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

Today I am sharing another of my strange faces, made after the lesson from Karen O'Brien. I am having fun making these strange faces and collaging them onto magazine pages or old journal pages. Here I used an old painted page, a magazine picture which I beheaded, and my face (Sounds dangerous, huh?):

And I have some photos from a botanical garden in Duisburg, a neighbouring town:

And specially for Erika, a bee hive where it was possible to open the door and look in:

Visitors are told not to open the hive when the temperature is under 14°, and to remember to close the door again!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New Challenge at TIOT

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT

🦜- our feathered friends - 🐦

As always, you have 2 weeks to link your creations to us, and projects of all formats are welcome. Hop over to out blog and see the beautiful pieces my teamies have made.  I have filled my head with feathered friends and their beautiful songs. I am also linking to Alison's summer country challenge at AJJ:

The meadow behind the back garden:

Bachelor's buttons:

Lots of water on the meadows:

The Rhine has got very wide:

The jetty is usually at a downward angle of about 45°:

The ferry is parked on the other side of the river till the floods recede:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!