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Hi All

I´m back from a wonderful vacation in Amsterdam.

We were so lucky to have the wonderful

spring weather.

Here´s a few word pictures from our trip

when looking through the photos I took after I got back

I realized there wasn´t a lot of city pictures...

I hope it´s give you an idea anyway.

tulips at the flower market

love the bright colors on these.

Also from the flower market.

Amsterdam is a great cyckling city.

How about this bike - pretty huh....

These next photos are from the Vondel Park

A big beautiful park in the middle of the city

see these tiny pink leaves on the ground

and pretty faded hydrangeas

Near the hotel was this wonderful shop

all filled with vintage clothes and stuff from 1958

There were so many wonderful things - quite expensive though

and now you may think - how about the flea market...

oh - that wasn´t a flea market. It was a market with

mostly weird cloth and bags and stuff. I didn´t even get a photo.

That was quite disappointing - so no finds for me this time.

Remeber the journal stuff I took with me..

Here´s the start of a journal cover.

I did get some sewing time too and

are really enjoying the progress on this.

With no plans and just using what I have in hand

the front is finished and I have started on

the back as you can see.

We´ll see where this is heading..

Going to finish some projects

and then start on some new bears.

Have some new ideas I would like

to work on.

Wishing you all a wonderful sunday.

Missed you all

and are glad to be back :o)

Tina ♥♥♥

A Canvas Collage and A Vacation Coming Up

Happy Easter Everyone

I hope you all have had some

lovely Easter Holidays.

I have had family visiting

and we have had a great time.

Today is packing day

as a long waited vacation is coming up

but first I wanted to show you

one of the creations I made with the

tiny waxed canvas.

The background is an old cover,

vintage book pages, fabric and lace

at the buttom I added a little metal piece

found at a flea marked

and an old rusty key.

Thought those pieces matched the book page

and the fabric perfect.

Here´s a closer look at the canvas.

more lace

and a bit of cheesecloth too.

The fihished piece.

It´s quite fun with those little canvases.

I made a few more ready for new creations.

******

so

The vacation....

A long waited vacation is just around the corner.

Actually this is the trip we had planned for April last year

but a vulcanic eruption came across and we had to cancel everything.

Now it´s gonna be

and tomorrow morning I´ll be heading here:

Amsterdam

and we´re also going to see this:

Keukenhof

and much more.

5 days of relaxing, excursion

good food and a little wine too.

There´s even a flea market I have been told

EVERY DAY...

Travel Journal in progress

I´ll be out of the studio from tomorrow

until May 1th.

I´ll take lots of photos to show you

when I´m back.

Wishing you all the most beautiful sunday

sweet friends

Thanks for visiting

Tina ♥♥♥

The Spines Project

Did you wonder what I was going to do

with those book spines...

I use the front and back cover of old books

for backgrounds on my collages.

They are perfect for that.

That leaves me with the spines

and I do find them too pretty to just go in the bin

and what would be more appropriate

to use them for other that

pretty bookmarks....

Here´s a bunch of finished bookmarks.

I love how they turned out.

a closeup of the decoration on them.

I used some of my good stuff.

Pretty lace pieces

cheesecloth, silk

and some sweet vintage images printed

on fabric.

isn´t it nice to have something pretty to look

at when you open your book to read

I was so lucky to get my hands on some

very pretty bookcovers, and more have just

arrived in the studio.

Love the colors on these old worn books

and I´m definitely going to have several of these in my books.

Some will be listed in the shop too.

******

I´m busy housekeeping today

getting ready for family visits during Easter.

I´m so looking forward to see them all.

Wishing you all a beautiful day

Tina ♥♥♥

A Mixed Media Spring Creation

First project from my work table

is this Mixed Media Collage.

I believe you can call it that

as I did mix a few things.... right.

I call it a spring creation too

as the main color in this is pale green.

It´s kind of hard to see in the photos

but is IS pale green

I used an old frame from a photoalbum

found at a flea marked

and a tiny bisque doll with no arms and legs

here´s a closeup of the top

and of the buttom.

Background: an old book cover.

Some silk fabric,

a bit of lace

and vintage buttons too.

Next up is the spines project....

Spring is here again

The weather report says sunny and warm all weekend.

I hope yours will be as beautiful.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

sweet friends and followers.

Tina ♥♥♥

On My Work Table

On my work table right now

work in progress

bunches of lace

tiny canvases with old book pages,

fabric images and beeswax

work in progress

pieces of bark

spines - an upcoming project

work in progress

What´s on your work table today?

Tina ♥♥♥

Incorporating Colors

that´s what I´m trying anyway

Incorporate more colors in my work

Even though I´m drawn to the neutrals - you all know that,

I have been wanting to try to add some

colors to my work too

Not an easy thing you know...

I´ve been working on a collage to see

how it would work out.

Here´s a little bit of pale pink

with some awesome vintage buttons

a beautiful claret silk ribbon

layers of lace

with a sweet image in the middle

also used the ribbon as hanger

everything is created on an old book cover

as background.

Here´s the back of the collage

Not a lot of colors

I know, I know

but that´s a start isn´t it...

Wishing you all a beautiful sunday

Tina ♥♥♥

The Most Certain Sign of Spring

So

Spring is finally here.

Not only do we have a bit higher temperatures and a

beautiful sunny day today

but the most certain sigh of spring is....

The Flea market Season has opened - yeahhh...

I wanted to go to a new one, and asked Hubby

if he would go with me, as I was a bit unsure how to get there

okay - I´ll drive you he said - you´ll get an hour....

but that´s okay and better than nothing

and he knows it´ll give him peace for the rest of the weekend  

Here´s what I manage to pick up in my one-hour-flea-market trip

A bunch of old book Always drawn to them.

A wonderful big one filled with natures drawings in black

A music book

A fun childrens book - from primary class signed 1956

in FRENCH

and a old danish Fairy Tale book

a few with some awesome fonts

and a very beautiful pale green with gold

Selma Lagerlöf novel book

two photo albums filled with

black and white photos

aren´t they having a party....

so

half my time was gone

needed to hurry now

two pieces of linen with crochet edges

and a bag of white ball of yarns

there´s even an unfinished crochet piece in there

and a bunch of lace, trims and more crochet panels

here´s some details close up

How cool is that.

Definitely need to visit this place again soon

Next week Hubbys favorite Flea Market opens

Even though my favorite season of the year is fall

I think I really like spring too...

Wishing you all the most beautiful weekend

Tina ♥♥♥