Saturday This and That and Happy Mail

Hi Everybody!

Hope your weekend is going well.

We are enjoying some (relatively) mild

weather and sunshine today, a real treat

after the strident winds, snow, rain and frosty

temps of the past days.

Some time back my buddy H gifted me this colouring

canvas, (in black and white) and the cold weather outside

gave me enough indoor time to colour it.

I used spectrum noir pens in a limited

colour palette, and am quite happy with the results:

I digitally cut out the image and placed it onto a 

water-colour background, this will make a nice 

card. The quote is from William Blake:

I like to sit in my armchair and watch the 

birds outside - and sometimes they seem

to be watching me:

I went round the market on Friday:

The ice parlour is closed in December and January:

Always good to see flowers and plants:

This stall was offering wooden boxes of clementines

for just 1€, so I had to take some home with me:

Yummy!

And this beautiful purse arrived in a parcel from

Sandra - thanks so much, I will enjoying using it

and thinking about you!

Apart from that, nothing new. I'm having an easy 

weekend, and need to do some baking next week,

so I will be thumbing through some recipes.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

TGIF

Hi Everybody!

This has been a busy week, so I'm ready for the

weekend - TGIF!

For Tag Tuesday, Joan's lovely theme of Christmas memories,

I made a tag  with various scraps of paper from DCWV. 

The 'lights' are red gemstones, and I used a red pearl-pen

for the red noses. As a kid I was always hoping to see a
real reindeer, especially one with a red nose,
but alas, it never happened!

Some early morning photos:

My balcony visitors - a flock of

hungry starlings:

Down by the Rhine:

Mr Heron, looking grumpy, as usual:

Bad hair day?

And a little robin I captured on my phone:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!

T stands for Snow

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday.

Our lovely Joan is hosting and has chosen

Christmas Memories as her theme.

As always, tags of all formats are welcome.

This time the challenge will be running for 3 weeks

instead of the usual 2, and the next one will start on 

January 2nd 2018.

I made a simple tag, which reminds me of my

childhood. At school I loved singing carols,

and when we went singing to collect

money for charity we wore old fashioned

coats and bonnets, which inspired my

tag today. I used DP for the BG and the little

girl is vintage German scrap:

Today is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday

so I would like to welcome all the nice ladies of the T Gang.

My drink is, as always, cappuccino,

served today with lemon cake:

Yesterday we had a snow blizzard which lasted for

5 hours, so I had to stay home again. I took the photos 

through the window:

Somebody didn't put the sunshade away!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!