One World One Heart 2011

Hello!! Welcome to my blog, I'm so glad that you are here!
Like many of you who are stopping by, I'm participating in One World One Heart, the wonderful around-the-world-bloghop created by Lisa Swifka.

I'm Carola, a passionate photographer living in Northern California - however, I am a native of Germany , who came to the United States almost ten years ago, together with my husband and daughter. We're living a wonderful cultural mix of the "old" and the "new" world, treasuring our German customs and embracing the American ones. I'm also a mixed media artist, often including my photographs in my works. At the moment I'm also taking a class in Photoshop, learning how to transform photos digitally into little pieces of art. It is a fascinating journey that I thoroughly enjoy. There are so many things that inspire me - the warm colors of autumn, the birds in my yard, fog, the desert, poems... We love to travel, and whenever we can we pack the tent and the little camping cooker and off we go! Having lived outside my native country - I also lived for a while in Taiwan and Austria - I don't feel like a German nor an American, but more of a Cosmopolitan - I'm a citizen of the world!

Here is some of my photography and what I do with it:

Little Ginger

close-up of Jacob's beard

red wine

handmade greeting card using a photo of the Pacific Ocean

handmade greeting card using a photo of a winter sunset in Bryce Canyon

mixed media on canvas

mixed media on canvas

Now, I guess you are also interested to know what my "door prize" or giveaway is - here it is:

A handmade tag in my favorite colors. I have eight of these, so there will be eight winners. Here is a close-up:

The image in the tag  is NOT one of my photos; it's a sticker



In order to have a chance to win one of these tags, you just have to leave a comment to this post and a way how I can contact you. One of the OWOH-rules is that you MUST have an active blog if you want to enter the drawing, and I'll stick to that. And - this is worldwide! No matter where you live, I'll send the tag to you! The winners will be announced on my blog on February 17th (comments will be closed at 3:00pm PST) and I'll also contact them.

Now have fun looking around my blog if you like and checking out all the other participating blogs worldwide by clicking here.