Alphabe Thursday.

 

This week we need to study the letter X for Miss Matlocks class. Very difficult but I found something.

Here is my word : X-STITCH.

When I talk about my hobbies  I say X stitch is the most important because I have done that almost  all my life .  I had periods I did something else but I always come back to my stitching.  Several friends asked me to show some of my work. I have some left but most of it I gave away.  So here are just a few things I have put away and just found.  I will need to look for more.

 

 

 

 

This tablecloth took me forever  to finish. But it is just what I wanted. They are all different wildflowers which I love.

More wildflowers, I love them.

 

The photo´s are not very good but I wanted to show something.

More another time.

 

For more Alphabe Thursday posts go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.nl/

Monday, Tuesday.

 

It is Sunday again so time for another post. I went to the Rotterdam Arboretum this morning so all these photo’s are from there.

Today I am joining :

Mosaic Monday : http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.nl/

Blue Monday : http://smilingsally.blogspot.nl/

Mellow Yellow Monday: http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.nl/

Mandarin Orange Monday : http://www.lorikart.com/

and Our World Tuesday : http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.nl/

 

Autumn leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A big thank you to all the hosts.

Friday and the weekend.

 

Every Thursday evening I need to hurry for my Friday memes.

 

But I have it ready for Skywatch Friday and that is the first I participate in for the weekend.

 

 

 

A few days ago we had this beautiful sunrise, the start of a  warm and sunny day

 

 

This is a view out of our window. Green and yellow trees in our neighborhood  and  behind

that is a view at  what we call the skyline of Rotterdam.

 

 

Weekend reflections and

The weekend in Black and White.

 

I am linking this post to Skywatch Friday :http://skyley.blogspot.nl/

Green Day : http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.nl/

Friday Fences : http://lifeaccordingtojanandjer.blogspot.nl/

Weekend Reflections :http://weekendreflection.blogspot.nl/

The Weekend in Black and White : http://blackandwhiteweekend.blogspot.nl/

Alphabe Thursday.

 

This Week we study the letter W for Ms Matlocks class. Several Words came to mind and I found some photo’s to go With them.

Last year We Went for a Walk in this park that is full of Willows. It is situated at a river. There was no Wind that day so no Waves on the Water.

With thanks to the WWW we have friends all over the World and isn’t that Wonderful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more Alphabe photo’s go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.nl/

Thank you Jenny for making this happen every week.

Our World and Ruby Tuesday2.

Red is one of my favorite colors so I  like to participate in Ruby Tuesday2 as there  is always enough red to find in my world like this vintage chair that I have had for many years and the antique vase.

  A red plant in a pot and a vase with flowers make the room brighter in these darkening days. The hydrangeas I am trying to dry in that pot. I think they are doing well.

I am linking this post to Our World Tuesday : http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.nl/

and to Ruby Tuesday2 : http://rubytuesday2.blogspot.nl/

A big thank you to the hosts.

Monday.

After a few quiet days I am showing some  photo’s for different  Monday memes.

First for Mosaic Monday I want to show some vintage in my home.  Vintage is fashion they tell me.

And at my age I have plenty of that .

For the different memes I have:

First my queen Anne chair. Of course it has  had different upholstery over the years.

 

My Japanese teacups

The beautiful crystal glasses I gave my husband as an engagement present  53 years ago.

I have 4 wineglasses and 5 sherry glasses left.

And the beautiful hand painted Herend tea cups of the teaservice I have.

And another mosaic  with outside photo’s I made this week.

I am linking this post to Mandarin Orange Monday : http://www.lorikart.com/

Blue Monday : http://smilingsally.blogspot.nl/

Mellow Yellow Monday: http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.nl/

Mosaic Monday : http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.nl/

A big thank you to all the friendly hosts.

Friday.

Another week, another Friday. I have some photo’s to go with the different memes.

This morning I saw this sunrise. The sky was all red. Beautiful. Glad I took this photo and right on time as two minutes later it was all gone and pouring with rain. 

Good for Skywatch Friday : http://skyley.blogspot.nl/


This photo I took not far from our home..
Good for Green Day :http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.nl/
  and Friday Fences : http://lifeaccordingtojanandjer.blogspot.nl/

This photo I took last year in Kinderdijk.
Good for Weekend Reflections :http://weekendreflection.blogspot.nl/
and The Weekend in Black and White : http://blackandwhiteweekend.blogspot.nl/
A thank you to all the friendly hosts.

Alphabe Thursday.

 

This week we study the letter V for Ms Matlocks class.

This weeks V is very special because I want to introduce you to a very special person, Gustav Vigeland.

There is a park in Oslo,Norway, that bares his name because it houses 212 sculptures of bronze and granite , all made by him. When we got there I could not believe  my eyes, it is absolutely stunning. It is an outside sculpture museum representing different stages in a human life. Unbelievably beautiful.

I didn’t get to see the whole park due to too little time and very sore feet ( but I made as many photo’s as I could.

There are lots of photo’s and you tube films on the internet of the park and I picked one site that you REALLY should see. It has many photo’s of the Vigeland Park, Oslo.

 http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/gustav-vigeland-sculpture-park_2.html.   Do go there! Also many other sites you can find on the net.

Stunning right?

Down here I have some of my very favorites.

On the bottom right photo you see a tower that is called the Monolith totem. It is 46,32 feet high and is composed of 121 human figures rising towards the sky.  It portrays a feeling of togetherness as the human figures embrace one another as they are carried towards salvation.

The photo’s are all mine, the words I found on the internet.

Now can you see that I was so stunned?

Gustav Vigeland died in 1943.

For more Alphabe Thursday go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.nl/

Monday memes.

 

Today I participate in colorful memes. So I have colorful photo’s to show.

 

 

 

Orange, yellow , blue , lots of it in Kopenhagen.

 

 

 

And more of those colors near Dover.

 

 

 

And more colors in Honfleur, France.

 

I am linking this post to Mandarin Orange Monday : http://www.lorikart.com/

Mellow Yellow Monday : http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.nl

Blue Monday : http://smilingsally.blogspot.nl/

Whimsical Windows, Delirious  Doors : http://iwishiwereaphotographer.blogspot.nl/

Mosaic Monday : http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.nl/

 

A big thank you to all the hosts.

Weekend.

 

 

The weekend is here again. Doesn’t time fly.

I am participating in several memes and here I have the photo’s.

 

 

For Skywatch Friday this sunset photo I took a few days ago from my window.

Here is the link : http://skyley.blogspot.nl/

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last two photo’s are for these other memes:

Friday Fences : http://lifeaccordingtojanandjer.blogspot.nl/

Green Day : http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.nl/

Weekend in Black and White : http://blackandwhiteweekend.blogspot.nl/

Weekend Reflections: http://weekendreflection.blogspot.nl/

Shadow Shot Sunday2 : http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.nl/

Sunday Bridges : http://bayphoto.blogspot.nl/

 

A big thank you to all the hosts.