Autumn and Halloween

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and I am hosting. My theme is autumn / Halloween, so very seasonal, and I hope this will inspire some people to join in. I have 2 tags to start off. The first one was made using a piece of vintage linen, which I fringed, an image from Gecko Galz and some gold corrugated card, all of which I sewed together. I added the TH paper doll and sat her in the tree. The embellishments are natural bits and bobs gathered from the tree in front of our house, a TH sentiment and some fancy ribbons:

The second tag is a square one, cut from some DP I had in my stash. I sewed an acetate overlay onto it. Once again I decorated with nature materials and scraps of netting and hessian, all tied together with straw. The little boy has wings made from seed pods and is sitting on 2 leaves cut from hand-painted paper I used the same ribbon as for the first tag:

Tuesday is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so here a warm welcome to all of the ladies of the T Gang. I visited my friend N, and we enjoyed coffee and raspberry cake:

Today I am sharing more photos from last week's trip to South Park:

These dark red flowers are called cocoa plants - and they really do smell like chocolate!

Have a great day, Take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

A visit to the park

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well, mine is flying by very quickly.

For Paint Party Friday I made another A3 face, with various layers of colour painted, stenciled,  sprayed and dripped over the page. I glued some scraps of a Jane Davenport napkin top and bottom and coordinated the colours to match. A couple of scraps of washi tapes were used as trim. Three stencils were used for the background patterns and birds. I am linking to Paint Party Friday.

Last weekend we visited Südpark (South Park) and the farm which belongs to it. I think I told you before that the huge park, farm, organic shop and restaurant are worked by a special project which gives jobs to many mentally handicapped people, who do first-class work there. First of all we visited my faves, Doris and Heike, who were taking their midday nap: 

 The goats are always fun to watch:

The rabbits were also asleep in the sun....

While the sparrows were enjoying their food:

The cottage garden is beautiful:

The park is beautifully landscaped with lots of wonderful lakes:

More photos to follow another time!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!