Birds and collage

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all enjoying your celebrations.

We had wonderful winter weather today, cold but sunny, and just right for walking. My neighbour and I were invited to visit a friend in a neighbouring town, and walked all the way, nearly 2 hours, but we enjoyed it a lot, and arrived with a good appetite and were able to enjoy our little coffee party. And we travelled home this evening by bus!

We are nearing the end of our collage challenge at Art Journal Journey, and it has been most enjoyable. I loved seeing all the  different projects from all who joined in. My piece today has once again been made from scraps of painted and printed papers, washi tapes, a crafty individuals image and a bit of sewing and stamping. I used craft paper for the background.

The birds were hungry and ready for their breakfast when I got up:

This wood pigeon is a very handsome chap....

The heron was walking through the fields along the Rhine

So  were the horses:

The birds were chirping in the trees:

The cormorant was flattering its wings to dry them in the sun:

The thrush was singing loudly:

Wonderful weather for walking!

Hope your holidays were pleasant, too!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Little dolls and big birds.

Hi Everybody!

Hope you have all enjoyed your holidays, whatever you have celebrated!

Today I have a wintry collage to show for Art Journal Journey. It is one of the DT projects I made for Gecko Galz. I used my giant journal again, and first of all textured the page with crumpled tissue paper and mod-podge. When it was dry I painted it with gesso, and added in the blues and yellows while it was still wet, and lots of glitter, which unfortunately doesn't show well! The images are from a Gecko Galz collage sheet; I printed them out in different sizes and glued them onto the page along with a few glitter stars and an angel. The text was computer generated. I am also linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin.

Today I looked out of the window and saw the tree behind the back garden full of wood pigeons, and on one of the lower branches, a hawk. The tree is good 50 meters away, so had to zoom in to get the photos.

I had fun watching him and taking photos till he spread his wings and flew away.

He has very strong looking talons, too.

He really is beautiful

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Happy Holidays one and all

Hi everybody,

Here's wishing you happy Christmas, happy holidays, happy everything....

At Moo Mania the challenge is 'merry Christmas', and I am sharing these tags I made for Tag Tuesday.

I saw this lovely fountain yesterday in Ratingen:

The musicians were playing wonderful Christmas melodies:

This fountain is next to the Church:

Some of my feathered visitors today:

Have a great day, and wonderful holidays, whatever you celebrate!

Take care of yourselves, and thanks for coming by.

See you again on Friday, I'm taking a day off!