T sTands for TIOT and more

Hi Everybody!

After several days of sunshine and temps of about 25° we were plunged back into a cool 10° with rain and wind on Monday. But it's only supposed to last for a few days before it warms up again. At least it kept a lot of people home, only the dedicated and those being walked by their four legged companions go out early in this weather, so I enjoyed my walk very much.

This week I am joining TIOT as guest designer for the new challenge, 'fun with stencils' with my A3 piece. .I found the stencil of the chess pieces in my drawer, I can't remember buying it, but I suppose I must have purchased it at sometime and then forgotten about it, which gave me a 'new' stencil to use today.  The background was gessoed and then painted with yellow and orange acrylics and textured with a spiral stamp while still wet. The blue circles were added with a sponge. The small leaves and flowers were also stenciled. When it was dry I stenciled the chess pieces using Archival black. Then I doodled some  lines and dots in white and turquoise, putting white dots around the chessmen. I added the quote and did some sewing to finish it off. As it is full of geometrical shapes, I am also linking to my challenge at AJJ:

Today is also time for Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday link parTy, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T gang who visit.

Coffee is, with or without visits to cafes, my staple diet:

Here a scene from better days:

I made a delicious cream of Kohlrabi soup, which I served with roasted pumpkin seeds - delicious:

And I gave into temptation and made a blueberry pancake, here's it's still in the pan:

The shops were all decorated for Easter before  'Corinna' spoiled everything. As there are a lot of small, independent shops here, I hope that they will survive these hard times:

Most are now offering to deliver goods and people can order by phone or internet:

The restaurants are offering take-aways. There are supposed to be separate entrance and exit doors - here there is only one door, but with white arrows showing 'in' and 'out' - a good try!

And for the hitchhikers - an old photo from London:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!