Better Late Than Never: The Changing Seasons – June 2021

Yep, that’s right, I’m almost 3 weeks late for June’s Changing Seasons post, and here’s the reason why. I was reasonably proud for having completed my doodle calendar for June just in time, and was about to write the post, when I encountered a problem with my WordPress blog.Said problem was, that after clicking on

Unfinished paintings – The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

  In the days of social media it’s far too easy to appear like you’re perfect – just use the right filters, always smile like you’re happy and find the perfect spot to do a selfie, right? Since I know all too well that I’m anything but perfect, I thought I’d do this little series

Last Photo of February 2020

I found this challenge by Brian atBushboy’s World via Su atZimmerbitch and Darren at The Arty Plantsman and thought I might give it a try and contribute my last photo of February on my phone’s SD card. Brian’s challenge rules: Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for

The Changing Seasons – April 2019

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   This month is clearly dominated by one theme – flowers! April started with my beloved cactus showering me with its beautiful flowers! This cactus is a descendent from a plant that belonged to my great-grandmother, and is well

The Curse of the Lost Postcards

  At the beginning of last December, I´ve send quite a lot of handmade Christmas cards to friends and family because I wanted to surprise them with something especially made for them and because I rather enjoy painting these small motif cards that are mainly done in an hour or two. Unfortunately these two seem

In the Mood for Pumpkins

    I don´t know about you, but I just love pumpkins! There are five domesticated species of Cucurbitae (Latin for gourd), all of which can be treated as winter squash because the full-grown fruits can be stored for months. At the beginning of October I bought a couple of different looking pumpkins to make not only soup

Autumn is here

Autumn is here. Today it´s cold and windy – no, make that stormy what with wind forces up around 5 and 6 – and the tip of my nose resisted warming up no matter how many cups of hot tea I drank whilst painting this little water color of a tree this morning. The trees

Elephant Appreciation Day

  Today, the 22nd of September is Elephant Appreciation Day! And because I really love elephants and couldn’t stop after just one water color, I had to paint a second one. 🙂     Most of us only get to see elephants in zoos and/or documentaries, and some of us, like me, might dream to

A Floating Tree

  Due to some minor health issues in August I haven´t done much blogging or painting – some of you might have noticed. 😉 But thankfully I´m on my way back and even did  a little water colour painting inspired by a book that I have borrowed from the library at the beginning of this

Ideas, please!

    What can you do if a guest/house-guest overstays their welcome? Because that´s what happened yesterday to me and I simply have no idea how I should or could have handled the situation! I haven´t seen this particular friend in about three months but that´s actually no big deal with us, everyone has a