Last year people said they would love to buy Christmas cards with my tree on it ( Read more... )

My first time of acrylic painting! I finally did something with the paints I bought ages ago! This picture is a bit naive but it was mainly done to learn different techniques how to apply the paint ( Read more... )

Seeing dustbunny105's colorful Transformer collection I compared it with my pastel, wanted to put up a link - and found I had never posted these pictures that you are about to see now. They are from April 2015. I used them for background in this story where Jack Harkness meets John Tracy (who was sent to me by a friend in Belgium): Read more... )

Today (June 21st) is World Giraffe Day. Here are two Giraffes I have drawn. The first is one of a series of animals looking straight at the camera, I found the picture in a magazine. It's done with water colors ( Read more... )

More crafty things here

It was my grandmother's funeral today. While cleaning out her apartment, I found lots of things that I had made for her as a child. Some amazing things there. If you click the LJ cut then I'll give explanations for each item.

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For hamsterwoman! Many years ago, back in East Germany when I was a child we were at vacation, and there was a manufactory for porcelain / china stuff. They had used all the broken ones to mend a walkway in the woods ( Read more... )

Previous entries were here:

Crafty things 1

Crafty things 2

I found another box with even more painted stones. Enjoy! More pictures behind the cut.

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See my first post with crafty stuff, all the things I did as a kid and my mother kept http://dieastra.livejournal.com/172522.htmlWhile putting my stuff back into the new furniture, I found a box with stones I had painted. I should go back to that, it is so much fun, thinking about the shape and what it could be. Here are some of the ones I did ( ( Read more... )

Sorry, I just realized that I have another page with Happy Hippos which I forgot in my original post here


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After the world had changed in 1989 and we suddenly got all the stuff from Western Germany but I still went to school, instead of collecting all the stickers that came with those cute Hippo figures, I drew them whenever a class-mate had a new one ( Read more... )