Winter or spring?

Hi Everybody!

Just a quicker than usual post today, I am having big computer problems, and hope that I will be able to get them sorted myself....I will perhaps be leaving shorter than usual comments on your blogs, too.

For Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin I have 2 pieces to share. The first is a mixed media piece, which I am also linking to Simon Monday Challenge  and to Simon Wednesday challenge

The second piece is a hybrid one - we are all so longing for spring! I used a photo found on Pexels for this one:

I slept badly last night, too many computer problems in my head, and my early start this morning was rewarded with these wonderful morning skies:

My first mini daffodil is blooming:

The crows were up early, too:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Positive thoughts

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are doing well. The weather seems to be playing games again, lots of places have snow, and we have been threatened with very cold weather and snow from Friday on, so it doesn't look like winter wants to let us go yet.

I have a hybrid piece to share today. The background and head are both hand-painted, and then I digitally added some lovely figures from Nancy Baumiller's Crowabout Studios (Mischief Circus):

My orchids are still doing well:

Nothing much changes in our little town:

The buds are getting bigger:

Here a new sewer is being dug:

I always love the shadows caused by the morning sunshine:

Some rusty bits for Elizabeth:

The shops are all full of spring and Easter themed things:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for This and ThaT

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and this time our lovely Joan is hosting. Her chosen theme is Spring /Easter, and tags of all formats are allowed and welcome. I hope to see lots of you joining us there.

I made a hybrid tag using elements from Serif and me:

You still have a week to join in the 'Mum's the word' challenge at TIOT,

for which I made this hybrid journal page as a reminder. The photos show my late husband as a toddler and with his beloved grandmother,

with whom he had a very loving relationship, much more so than with his own mother.

Today is also Elizabeth's Tea stands for Tuesday, where we share a drink, so here a warm welcome to all of the nice ladies of the T group.

On Saturday G and I visited this wonderful cafe in a room at the flea market, and enjoyed our breakfast. The room was furnished with groups of chairs, sofas and tables where you could sit and eat from old china and enjoy the bizarre surroundings:

I had a cheese plate for breakfast, G a sausage and cheese one:

These ladies were above the serving hatch:

All in all we had a fun time there. And later in the day we went to a second cafe, but I will save those pics for another time....

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!