Birthday Fun..

Here are a few snaps from yesterday, all taken with my camera.

I love the one in the centre of Ashton.

Skyela..

This is my lovely great granddaughter..Skyela.

The photograph was taken last week at Playschool.

I've placed her in a room by Joe's Sistah and added

some birds from my stash.

School photos never used to look like this.

I look like little orphan Annie in most of mine!

Yesterday afternoon we gathered at my grandson Richard's house

to celebrate Ashton's 5th. Birthday, to have a cuppa and a piece

 of delicious birthday cake.I haven't looked at the photos

on my camera yet.

Take a Word..Flight..

A lovely challenge from Take a Word this week. Flight.

The Magic carpet picture I made last year but I thought you

might like to see it again.

I have made lots of collages with the same quote below, which

I love. This is a new one.

Thanks for looking.xx

The figures in these two collages were taken from

portraits painted by the Russian artist

Ivan Makarov.

I love the rich colour and detail of his work.

And I loved that babe's sweet face and dimples.

The Russian princess in the second picture, if you enlarge it you

can see the wondrous details in her dress.

The fabulous background is by Joe's Sistah, with thanks.

I hope you like them.

Sunday Postcard Art..Summer..

My Postcard for the Sunday Postcard Art Challenge.

The theme this week is Summer so here is a selction of

postcards rolled into one.

Thank you for looking.xx

Saturday Experiments..

It's a wet, dull and cold Saturday so I've been doing a little

experimenting this morning.

The top picture, my Butterfly girl I made a couple of days ago.

She was something a little different for me.

The collage below I called Fragments and I've been playing with

it this morning, using lots and lots of layers, so a

real experiment,

I like to try different styles and methods of working.

I'm not sure if I like my Fragments but I've put it here for you

to see. What do you think?

The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson wrote many well loved and enduring tales, among them 'Kidnapped' and 'Treasure Island'. He also bequeathed us a number of interesting quotes about people and his life in general. Among them is this little gem of wisdom..

'A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note. He or she is a radiant focus of goodwill and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.'

Aren't we fortunate if we have encountered just such a person along the way?

Love and every blessing to you.

June xxxx

A New Day..

I love this quote by Emerson.
So forget your troubles,  begin serenely
and LET'S MAKE SOME ART!

From a kit by I Murphy

 So I started my day by making these two collages. The sun is shining and it's a bright new day.
This beautiful portrait of Siblings is from Dezinaworld. Aren't they the sweetest pair? Such a smile!
                                                             I hope you all have a happy day.
                                                                            Hugs
                                                                                June xx