T sTands for Too HoT!

Hi Everybody!

It's still sweltering here, and sitting at home by 34° inside is no fun. I keep taking cold showers to keep me going! Today I have another tag for my spots and stripes challenge at Tag Tuesday, and you still have a week to join in!

And this journal spread is meant for Chris's 'when we were young' challenge at AJJ. I disovered them in an old book from my childhood. They are very tatty, but brought back some fun memories:

And this evening we will be celebrating Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday challenge, so here a warm welcome to all of the nice ladies of the T Gang who visit here. This is one of my strange paintings made some time back - sorry, the writing is hard to read!

Now I cannot understand this game:

Sorry, not much chit-chat today, I am just totally exhausted and everything is difficult just now. I feel like I've hit rockbottom, so now the only way is UP!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

Greetings from another scorching hot day here, I slowly have the feeling that the world is changing rapidly!

Today I have a piece to share for Chris's 'when we were young' challenge at AJJ. This time I have a spread from my 'left-over' journal. When I have paint, or images or other things left over they get put here. I don't try to paint nicely or do a lot with intent, it's just used spontaneously:

On the left is a photo of me with curly hair, I remember begging my sister to curl it for me. and I know we were invited to a picnic. I used this (shocking) photo of me with a few stickers and some leftover pieces that fitted. The photo on the right side was one in my folder, I don't know who the kids are. Sorry about the the very bad handwriting, that's the best I can do these days!

We had such a beautiful full moon this week, here you can see the lovely moon accompanied by the planet Saturn;

And some funnies:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by! 

Thursday / Friday post

Hi Everybody!

Another week is speeding by, the weekend is coming nearer! Today I have a piece to share that started out more or less by accident.  This is what it looks like finished:

I started out with some cream paint which I wanted to spread with a card. When I looked it had developed sort of ridges, and I decided to make something from it instead of flattening them out. I grabbed my clay balls and pushed them into the still  wet paint:

Then I dripped some of my home made brown coffee ink over the beads:

Then I decided to add some gold:

After that I added some scraps of old letters, some gold dots, and some white feathers tipped with gold glitter:

Then I added some honey coloured glass beads:

A cut out eagle flew onto the page:

Finished:

This was a fascinating process, making something that was not planned, and not meant for any challenges, just for me. And I've made a new folder in my photos, 

'just so', as I intend to make more spontaneous pieces - just so!

And I have another piece for my challenge at Tag Tuesday, dots and stripes. I am also linking to Nicole's FFO and  Gillena's Friday art day:

And some funnies to finish off:

Have a great day, take care, 

And thanks a lot for coming by!

Tuesday Post - new challenge at Tag Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and this time I am hosting. My theme is spots and/or stripes, you can read more about it on our blog here . I hope lots of people join in.  Here I glued a piece of  a jelly print made a long time  ago onto recycled cardboard. I added the stripes by hand, the spots were made with a stencil:

. The striped legs were on my table, as was the leopard:

This morning early I went with my neighbour to our Aldi store, which is right under the flight path of incoming planes:

They seem to fly so low I'm always scared they will knock down the lights:

I took the photos with my smart phone, they're not so good, but I think you can get the idea:

And it's very, very loud, the planes arrive every minute or so.

The evening sky on Sunday:

Sunrise on Monday:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!