Update on Gypsy Caravan 2

Here are the latest photos of the Gypsy Caravan I took this afternoon. My sweetheart and I were still working on putting in the new floor but I just had to take some photos before it got too dark. 
The caravan is now standing - with permission - on the driveway of my neighbors across the street. It's easier for me to make the finishing touches having the caravan nearby.

Here you can see a small piece of the new floor. It looks really cool IRL! The knobs on the kitchen cabinet are made of porcelain and I bought them in Sweden at Indiska. 

I bought the orange lamp with embroidery and beads on a huge flea market a while ago for 1 Euro. I think I'm going to hang it above the table in the dining area.

Update on Gypsy Caravan

My sweetheart and I have been working very hard this weekend on the Gypsy Caravan. I wallpapered the upper part of the door and I have also been painting a lot. I couldn't finish all the painting but it's almost done! My sweetheart has been busy making a new lower part of the door because the inside of the old one was ruined by mold and he also put a tow bar under my car, since we're going to use my car for our little trip to France in September.
Here are some new photos of the inside of the Gypsy Caravan with the new cushions I made of denim.

 This is the door and the dining area seat with new cushions.

These are the new cushions for our bed. The plan is to leave the bed down all the time and not use this space as a sitting area. We can sit in our dining area and use the bed as a daybed. We will be taking a lot of small cushions with us.

And this is the kitchen and the other dining area seat with the new cushions.
The inside of the kitchen cabinets still has to be painted, but I think I will be doing that when we get home from our trip or even next year.

Wallpaper love in the Gypsy Caravan!

Yesterday, I finally wallpapered the Gypsy Caravan. It took me a big part of the afternoon and a part of the evening! But it looks great (at least we think it looks great)! 

These are photos taken after I had finished wallpapering the upper part of the wall.

And these are photos taken after I had finished wallpapering the whole wall in the evening.

Now we only have to wallpaper the door in the caravan and finish painting the cabinets that are in my sweethearts house. They say it's going to be a very warm day tomorrow, so I will start the day with wallpapering the door in the caravan and then move into the house where it's cool and more comfortable to work. I think we will need 3 more days of painting and another day for gluing in the new floor. 

The Color Purple

Our Gypsy Caravan is getting purple!
The first color we picked wasn't dark enough in comparison with the lilac on the walls. So, yesterday I bought a new can of paint and this time we think it looks great!! 

Here are some photos of the first color. On photo it looks better then in real. In real it's a more in your face kind of color combination! 

 So that's why it had to be a darker purple, like this one!

In case you're wondering where the wallpaper went .... I had to take it off the wall because the glue wasn't drying at all. So we had to look for another glue first. Lucky for me I just did a small corner! Now I'm waiting for the purple paint to dry before I can start wallpapering again! When that's done we have to put in the new ceiling and put everything else we have painted back in again. We only have a couple of more weeks to go before we'll leave on our maiden trip with the Gypsy Caravan! 

Rosegarden

I finally made a page in my A Lovely Dream (from a Suzi Blu class) art journal again! I was in the mood for some collaging and used lots of images that are normally used to put in a so called 'Poesie album'. This is a small album in which family, friends and teachers of young girls are writing small poems on one page and then decorate the other page with images like the ones I used. 
Here are 2 pages of my own and my mother's Poesie album, just to give you an idea:

And here are some photos of my Art Journal page that I took outside in the evening light ....

.... and I also made a scan:

I used the lyrics of the song Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson. I made the girl with Pan pastels, Prisma colors and watercolor pencils. The background is a vintage sheet of music paper with Glimmer Mist. The card of the girl on the left page I found in a new Dutch magazine called Daphne's Diary.

Finale ICAD!

Here are my final ICAD's! I made all 5 cards today! This was a fun challenge to do and I managed somehow to complete it! I'm not sure yet, if I'm going to continue Tammy's Daily Paper Prompts challenge. There's still so much work to do in our Gypsy Caravan and my son will also be home for 4 weeks in August. So I think I will pass this challenge. Happy and proud though to have accomplished the ICAD challenge!

 #57 payne's grey: scrapbook paper, transparency, rub-ons, black pen

 #58 flower: card from a typical Dutch card game 'Kwartet' with one of my favorite flowers

 #59 bird: image from magazine, typewriter letter stamps

 #60 raindrops/lyrics: lyrics of Raindrops keep fallin' on my head printed on white paper, acrylic paints on one side of a transparency (used a brayer), black pen. This is my less favorite ICAD.

#61 the sun: white watercolor paper, Neocolor II, water, rub-ons.

I put neocolors on a piece of paper, used a brush to wet the drawing, then quickly put it on another piece of paper and rolled over it with a brayer.

  

ICAD week 8

Just a couple of more cards to go and I will have completed the ICAD challenge!
It took me a couple of days to get started on this weeks prompts but here they are:

 #50 numbers: Scrapbook paper, letter stickers, Neocolor II, black pen.

 #51 draw a face: white paper, pencil.

 #52 cup of tea/use a photograph: my favorite herbal tea (fresh mint from my garden) with some honey in my favorite teacup from Indiska!

 #53 draw a map: scrapbook paper, black pen, dymo tape. This is a map from my neighborhood.

 #54 paint: acrylic paint on watercolor paper. When the paint is still wet put another paper on top and use a brayer or your hands to create this effect. 

 #55 make an index card in public: washi tape, black pen. 

#56 dice/use a photograph: a photograph of an old Dutch board game: the game of goose. I won this game 50 years ago and it was my first game where you had to use dice.