TMTA - Lovers

"Lovers" is this week´s theme for TMTA - and as I´ve just received this book page from Linda today, I thought it would make a great background for my stamped couple in their honeymoon. Thanks, Linda, hope you like it!

Counting Crows

Do you remember the 4 x 4 inch page I´ve done for a Counting Crows book swap? Now here´s a complete set of ATCs with the same theme, six for the swap and the seventh for the hostess.

Bird Watching

A little box made from a chocolate box.

Gaga

I just couldn´t stop with those bird pages before I had used these words by John Ashbery: I immediately fell in love with his silencing rose and gaga flowers when I first read them.

Fragile

This page (about 6 x 6 inches) has been made just for fun after the book project has been finished. I´ve found the chicken today and couldn´t get it out of my head (of course it isn´t speckled, it´s just the mood my scanner is in when I feed him with magazine paper ...).

Just playing around ...

... tonight with some new stamps, pics and ephemera.

Found

This is an entry in a journal themed "Found". My pages started with the little green ticket on the right page which I found at Berlin, Alexanderplatz, on August 3rd, 2005. It´s a ticket for the Montreal transportation service. This led me to thoughts about Alfred Döblin´s great novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929) and his life, his exile in so many places (which I´ve listed on the left page), finding and losing your luck and searching for it all the time.

Döblin himself used collage techniques in his novel, blending in newspaper scraps, advertisements, and so on.

And I´ve found a friendship with the owner of the journal via internet in March 2006, but that´s another story and not illustrated here ...

Women

Two ATCs for a "Women" themed swap.

All together now

So here´s the whole bunch.

Nature Swap II

... two more ...

Nature Swap

Here are my first two ATCs for a Nature themed swap.

A Lover of Nature

This is an ATC sized Cabinet card.

Maps

Some ATCs for a swap themed "Maps". It´s a bit strange making ATCs again after all those book pages.

No Answer

Here´s the last (?) page: Another sad woman who needs to get some good advice, and singing without a reason maybe would be an answer to her questions!? The words are by Maya Angelou.

A Good Advice

Does anybody know the "They Might Be Giants" song "Birdhouse in your soul"? It´s on their 1990 album "Flood" and inspired me when I heard it again today. It has a very different atmosphere than my tenth Bird page, but isn´t it a good advice for this sad lady anyway?

Hope

No. 9 is about Hope, the words are by Emily Dickinson.

Faith

Book page No. 8 is about Faith, the words are by Tagore.

Early Bird

We have the same saying in German, but only the first part of it: "Früher Vogel fängt den Wurm" - I love the second!

Why?

The sixth page, words by Pablo Picasso.

Bird and Fish 2

O. k., I REALLY liked that book, so here´s a second version of the same quote ...