Rain's Thursday Art Date - Leaps and Bounds

Hi Everybody!

After a winter without a single flake of snow, it snowed today, and we got a light dusting even here. By the time I was ready to go out it was already gone, and it was back to our wet and drizzly weather of the past days. But we might get a few more snow flakes in the next days, we shall see!

When I read the theme for Rain's art date, my first thought was to have an early night and forget it. But I put on my thinking cap and found a few things which just about qualify!

I made this journal page today and want to link it to Elizabeth's hearts challenge at AJJ as well. I used elements from Mischief Circus, Serif and me:

And I made another one for the dog-lovers under us:

This page with the jumping kids was made some time back:

Here the people are jumping over my home town, London:

And the dancing queen can jump and spring too, perhaps with help of the little mushrooms....

And here my Nanas, inspired by the beautiful figures of Nikki de St Phalle are leaping around and having fun:

And here photos  (from Pexels) full of leaps:

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday

I hope that you are not all tired out after all these leaps and bounds!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Midweek Post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week got off to a good start. After  very wet, cold and stormy weekend we had a slightly better day today, with some sunshine, blue skies and dry intervals, which was great. The Rhine is quite high again, but not as bad as it was a few weeks back, so hope it stays that way.

Today I am sharing another journal page meant for  Elizabeth's 'hearts' challenge: at AJJ. I used elements from Mischief Circus, Serif and me:

At this time of year, especially when the weather is bad outside, I try to bring spring into the house:

I used an old paintbrush again to support the top-heavy hyacinths:

And outside it getting greener day by day:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for Tag Tuesday and more

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you all a great, new week. In my last post I boasted that we had 2 days without rain. Well, the weather gods made up for it, and the storm brought us gale force winds and very heavy rain all day. I tried to go to the Rhine yesterday morning, but had to turn back because the wind was too strong. I had to drink coffee instead! The wind was so strong that it blew 2 huge containers from a Rhine ship, which had to be rescued from the shore here by police and the fire-brigade!  You can see photos here. All of the carnival processions in Rhineland were cancelled, so many people were disappointed. I am not a fan of carnival, as so many use it as an excuse to get drunk and behave badly. Today there is less wind, so  the parades can take place.

On Monday evening we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday. This time Sandie is our host, and has chosen the theme 'Paris', which will surely make many hearts beat faster!. She has some beautiful, inspirational tags on our blog, and I hope to see lots of people joining in. The challenge goes live Monday evening at 19:00 MET. And the winner of the prize from last week will also be announced!

My tag, made with elements from Serif and me, shows Paris in the spring. The girl is enjoying a glass of red wine - hope she doesn't drink too much and fall off her bike! And the tag links nicely to Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday gathering, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang.

I had lots of opportunities to visit cafes in the past week, and drank quite a lot of coffee - what else? Last week after an appointment in Düsseldorf I saw this sign on my way back to the tram station:

So, I decided to take a photo through the window:

A lady sitting in front of the cafe said, 'Don't just take a photo, go in, the coffee's wonderful!' So I did just that - and she was soooooo right!

It's a small place,  simply furnished, with clean, clear lines:

 And the coffee really was the best I have had in a long time, so yes, I will be going there again!

And we often went for a coffee in 'our' ice parlous:

Here's Nathalie enjoying a cheese cake with her Latte:

And some cups and plates in our thrift shop here:

We had some nice sunrises this week:

My indoor garden is growing fast:

The trees and bushes outside are starting to go green:

And my daffodils are now huge:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!