Chilly Friday post

Hi Everybody!

This week has flown by again, mostly cold and grey, with rain, snow and sleet, but we did have some sun on Monday, so that was definitely good. The weather man has promised  rain and ice over the weekend, so that sounds like a good time to stay home, read, play, listen to music or binge on TV - and perhaps catch up on some sleep!

Recently I have been chopping up some old painted pages and using them to create new ones in my journal. Here the strips were placed onto a gessoed and stenciled background. I also used a scrap of JD tissue and a stamped image of a little child. The child and sunflowers are a LaBlanche stamp, as is the swirly background which was stamped first:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday

And I have a last tag for our mail challenge at Tag Tuesday, assembled from various hand cut, stamped and sewn tags sewed together. The images are from CI:

On Monday I had an appointment in Dusseldorf, so traveled with the tram into the centre of town and then walked though 'Hofgarten', a beautiful park, to see how it looks in winter. The first photo was taken here in the shelter at the tram stop, you can see ice crystals on the glass:

Hofgarten is magnificent at any time of the year, and the lakes and ponds are kept ice-free for the water fowl:

The wild geese were very noisy and holding a cuss-out to try to scare away the swans, who just blithely ignored them:

I had fun with the long shadows:

 I love the bronze deer at any time of the year:

Have a great weekend. Keep warm or cool as the case may be!

Take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!