Weekend Post

Hi Everybody!

Here's hoping we all have a great weekend, and that the temperatures are bearable - not too hot and not too cold! Today I am sharing one of my faces again, I love making these girls with big hair:

These are the pages made in Melnie Rivers' challenge last week, which was about trees and roots and growth and the wisdom that comes with age. We started off by texturing all of the pages, and added the various themes on the following days:

The tree of life and wisdom:

The last is an elderly lady, connecting her wisdom and spreading her roots:

And this is my Great Grandmother Rachel who escaped from the pogroms in Russia in the 19th century and went to London to give her children a better chance of life. She, too, was rooted in her faith that she  would reach her goal:

Some views from mybalcony:

My lovely blue flowers all burnt by the heat:

Trees are already turning colour:

And some thinkies / funnies:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Thursday/Friday post

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all doing well. It is cooler than last week, but still very hot, and still no rain: The Rhine is shrinking day by day, the fields are all parched - so sad. But I now have a good fan at home, which helps a lot. Thanks to my good friend Sarah who sent it to me!

Today I have another page to share for Chris's 'when we were young' challenge at AJJ. I know I showed you another elephant already,  but this was actually  the first one I made. And there's another one in the making, sort of Hippie style. I was fascinated by elephants when I was younger, and I know I told you about  riding one, and if I ever get the chance I will do so again. I am also sharing to Friday Face Off   and  Gillena's Friday Fun:

This is beautiful, too!

Yesterday I went with my friend Heike into 'town'. She had an appointment at the doctor's, and while she was there I went round and took photos. Afterwards we had a drink here near the Rhine, Heike chose cappuccino and I had an alcohol free white beer, as I was really parched! The wasps kept trying to share our drinks, too!

This is our police station, usually open twice a week for a couple of hours:

Beaches where none were before - at the moment there are only 32cms water in the Rhine:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Tuesday Post

Hi Everybody!

I'm happy to say that today is a tad cooler, it's cloudy, and doesn't feel so scorching. Today I 'only' have 28° inside, and although that's still hot, it feels wonderful in comparison to the weekend. The pieces I am showing today were made during one of the lessons in the Kaleidascope taster, and I think it was from Jenny Grant, but I really can't remember. We made a large masterboard collage using recycled paper or card and were supposed to cut it into 4 pieces. But I decided to cut mine into several different pieces:

This was one of my fave pieces:

I like the face and flowers, too:

This was just a smear of black paint put on with a scraper and somehow it looked like a figure:

This one was sort of tag shape:

I like this one, too, although it's not straight:

I added some gold wax which I wiped on to give some shine:

And as I couldn't sleep because of the heat I was on the balcony and took pics of the sunrise. I was happy to see the clouds, but we haven't had a drop of rain. The Rhine is only 43cms deep just now, and we have 'islands in the stream' as well:

And a couple of funnies:

 Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!