For crafty people like me, Queens day is one big day because the whole
country changes into a flea market… and you can imagine the fun goodies
that can be found and bought for give-away-prizes! You might have seen
photos of peoples ‘catches’ already on other Dutch blogs and I will show
you what I bought…

This year, I focused on books and magazines to use for collages!

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The bottom magazine (see
the world  map?) contains
small pictures of different
cultures.

The big book is a
children’s encyclopedia.

A book with photos of
Zeeland. (my hometown
region)

A stack of smaller
magazines(‘Taptoe’)
which contains a lot of
fun photos and images.

Ten glossy (fashion)
magazines.

And on top, a magazine (‘Libelle’) from 1953.

It weights a lot, and I had to bring it all home before I hit the town
for the second time!

I found three ‘Snoecks’ – very thick magazines/books that come out every
year highlighting the art, films, plays, fashion and hypes of that year.
Great ‘artsy’ photos inside!

Besides this, I bought me two novels from the Irish writer Maeve Binchy.
(50 cents each!) If you like reading, she writes the ultimate ‘Summer reads’.
(Good novels – no ‘literature’, but not too ‘simple’ either)

On to some art journaling now…

The new prompt at A Year in the Life of an Art Journal

THE PROMPT: Busy!
THE SONG: Manic Monday by the Bangles
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Lace/trim

(8.3 x 7.7 inch)

Having your own company means that I don’t really work ‘9 to 5’.
Sometimes work gets crazy, and some periods are real slow with lots of
time to spend on creating. But life got a lot busier since I got the job
writing the articles for ‘Creatief met Foto’s‘. I mean, I write (almost) ALL
the articles!! The magazine comes out every other month. For me, that
means writing about 60 pages in 3 weeks every other month… and yep,
that can be called ‘Manic’…. I thought about this, while making my page.

I used a ‘text’ stamp to stamp the background. My son took this photo of me
for a project some time ago. I edited the photo in Photoshop. I used twill tape
(fabric) to stamp part of the lyrics on. I sewed the ribbon onto the page.
I also (machine) stitched a border.

The Chronicles of Marit 2011 – Week 17

(13.4 x 8.7 inch)

The photos of Ilse de Lange (see this post) are too beautiful not to use!
And ofcourse I had to document the ‘Royal wedding’. The image isn’t
high quality (I tore it out of the newspaper) but it will do as a reminder.

And this page is just for fun!

Laughing Yogi

(9.8 x 13.8 inch)

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge. then a leap taken…”
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

This awesome, big art journal has pages of thick, textured paper!
I used gesso, paint and water soluble crayons to colour it.
The figure is a pic from the Internet. I put my smiling guy stamp/head on top.
The quote is written with black markers (‘Steadler”‘) and copic markers.
The snails come from a magazine. I used a pearl pen for the dimensional dots.
The frame is made with all kinds of scraps.

You may have noticed that I put the sizes of each piece with the images.
I found out that sometimes it is confusing to my readers how big something is…
I will try to remember to note the measurements from now on.

Thanks for stopping by at my blog sweeties!
I wish you all a lovely, sunny week!

… the evening I spend with him on a large square in Eindhoven

… the free concert that Ilse the Lange gave there last night

… the photos Nout made…

… and her song So incredible!

I like Ilse de Lange

I don’t like Queen, but I had this stamp of a fat lady on a bicycle

I could not resist

Queen – Bicycle race (for Songs in my heART)

(Skinny card 3 x 5 inch)

Did I just mention ‘Queen’???

It seems to be all about Royalties these days… tomorrow we have our own
‘Queens Day’ in the Netherlands (I’ll tell you about it next week) and today
the world is under the spell of ‘the royal marriage’ in Great Britain.

Shall I say something about that???

Naaahhh… I will quote Tim Dowling who wrote a poem in the The Guardian

“Wish two crazy kids the best,
Line the route and pray it’s sunny.
God bless this waste of public money.”

(read the complete poem here)

Happy weekend dear ones!