About the Cream

22 x 16 cm

There's definitely the right way to serve tea in Ostfriesland.  The hostess adds the right amount of cream at the right time, the right way.

One day I offered a visitor a mug of tea.  She was on the job and didn't have time for a proper tea party, but I tried to be proper otherwise, and added what I thought was the proper amount of cream for a mug of tea.  She asked for more cream, and I was happy to oblige.  I added the same dose to my tea.  Traditions are nice, but what's really nice, is to enjoy tea the way we like it.

I know we get cream from cows, not chickens :-)

Family Matters

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Patches

18 x 18 cm

Sometimes the patches are on the inside.

Hard Boiled

13 x 18 cm

Hallelujah

22 x 27 cm

C.S. Lewis opened wonderful doors for me. The first one wasn't the door to Narnia, but was "The Great Divorce." Then I read every one of his books that I could find. Probably every other sentence I spoke referred to C.S. Lewis. After reading "The Chronicles of Narnia" I bought and restored an old wardrobe and made a lion and a witch.

That was a long time ago. I wanted to have another lion now, but I couldn't find one that was majestic and huggable until my friend and I went lion hunting in Kiel and found Hal.

Tea Run

32 x 22 cm

Three of us have office\studio space at home. When someone needs a break, or just decides it's time for tea, they collect everyone's mug, make tea, and deliver.

Tea Timing

11 x 18 cm

How long to steep the tea: feed the cat or take out the garbage. Or, if it's been a long day, vegetate and watch the clock for 3 minutes. 

Shed The Layers

14 x 11,5 cm

This Little Piggy

18 x 27,5

"To switch to a homely metaphor, just splash some cologne on the oinking pig of your essay, pat its hair down, and push it out the door."    GMAT

Spell It Out

30 x 31.5 cm

The Inside Story

18 x 24 cm

Happy Easter!!!

Funnel Tunnel

18 x 24 cm

"Can you hear me now"?

Odd Pot

25 x 30 cm

Tic Tac Toe

24 x 18 cm

A Little Bit of Garden

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Pigs for the Future

18 x 20 cm

See Through Things

11 x 17 cm

Out of Africa

30 x 24 cm 

Rose Blend

18 x 24 cm 

Good to the Last Drop

18 x 13 cm

Amy (our cat) got the last drop. That's why the handle of the cream pitcher is missing.

Tomaten

24 x 18 cm

... or "Anti -Vampire"

3 by 2

18 x 12,5 cm

The Bronze Affair

19,5 x 19,5 cm

As I head off to the flea market, Roland might as me to look for something particular. Sometimes it's something not so common, but as I walk down the main way I find one. Just one. And then I don't see one there again. That's exactly what happened in The Bronze Affair.  

Bottle The Beauty

23.5 x 27 cm

One Cheerio at a Time

18 x 13 cm

One of my hospital stays was at a low point in life.  I didn't touch the food brought in by the nurses.  They keep track of this, you know, and after a few days, the doctors threatened to give me an IV if I didn't start eating.  The next tray was breakfast, and I stared at the food.  I didn't want to eat, but I didn't want an IV.  I stared at the Cheerios.  I couldn't pour them in a bowl, and add milk, but after a few minutes I could eat one Cheerio.  I don't remember how many I ate that morning, but I escaped the IV and worked out everything one Cheerio at a time.

In Stitches

18 x 20 cm

They needled him, but he just laughed about it.

The Match Game

18 x 13 cm

Don't Fence Me In

30 x 24 cm

Dah Dit Dah Dah

18 x 24 cm

Dots and dashes. 

Likewise

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Not peanut M&M's, but they have pretty colors, and taste good.

Rock It

17.5 x 23 cm

Green Piece

25 x 15 cm

Dandelion

14 x 17 cm

A Gift That Works

18 x 11,5 cm

Roland came home with a small gift.  When he handed it to me he said something to the effect that I could eat it after I painted it.  I could take that a couple of different ways, but I know Roland, and there were no strings attached.

Complements of Nature

11,5 x 18 cm

Good Guy

18 x 20 cm

A good guy disguised as a good guy.

My Little White Teapot

18 x 13 cm

Speaking of Spaghetti

22 x 26 cm

There was a discussion on Facebook about who makes the best spaghetti in town.

The Goldenish Egg

11,5 x 9,5 cm

I don't have the hen that laid this egg.  But the egg wouldn't bring much money anyway.  It's not a golden egg, it's a goldenish egg.  And it's wax.

Tang

19 x 25,5 cm

My daughter's nickname is Tang, but she probably doesn't know it.  My other daughter and I were texting one day, and predictive texting wrote "tang" instead of the sister's name.   I didn't notice before I sent it off, and the texting daughter wrote back laughing, so we dubbed the sister Tang.
To texting, and people we love.

Chocolates

18 x 13 cm

Chocolatey

13 x 18 cm

Sticks and Stones

13 x 18 cm

Tradition

18 x 24 cm

Love Chocolate

24 x 18 cm

Burnt Orange

18 x 18 cm

Q

24 x 18.5 cm

Mangosteen

18 x 20 cm

Küchenfreunde

21,5 x 21,5 cm

I painted this awhile ago for the rectangle challenge on DailyPaintworks, but wasn't sure it met the requirements after all.
There are two pieces in the bucket that we actually call Küchenfreunde, and they will probably be a painting themselves one day.