Wintry days

Hi Everybody!

Hello from  cold, wet and windy Rhineland.

Streams and rivers are running high water

due to the snow and rain we have had, and the only

nice thing about being outside today was

coming home to a warm place and hot coffee!

For Joan's challenge, Christmas memories,

at Tag Tuesday I have a piece with my fave

penguins. I printed out a whole pile of these cheery

guys some years back, and in the past couple of years

they have been made into journal pages and cards.

This is the last pair today, mounted onto a tag

and ready to go out into the cold. The BG is

blue mirror card, the snow was made with Stickles, 

the paper lace was cut with a punch.

When I was small my great auntie took me to an ice

 revue  with lots of skaters dressed as penguins, but I

was convinced they were real - until they removed

their heads to take a bow at the end of the

performance!

For Paint Party Friday I am re-showing a piece made a 

couple of years back. It is an A3 mixed media piece,

 painted with acrylics. The houses were stenciled.

I have received several gifts of poinsettias. 

These were from a neighbour as a thank-you

for taking in his parcels when he wasn't home:

  

This one, in the fun, snowman pot, was a gift from

my buddy H:

And this one, which is a really huge specimen,

is from another neighbour, also as a thank-you

for taking in parcels!

 Today we had a nice early-morning sky,

but it clouded over very quickly:

And I just caught the moon before she went

off duty:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!