The Orchid..

This particular orchid of mine has begun to drop its flowers so I took this photo last night and made this digital collage this morning. It's been a joy on the kitchen windowsill I can see as I wash up.
I have many more images on my Flickr site if you have time to visit. Just click on the rose in the box on my sidebar and Thank You for looking today. xx

Just a smile.....

Where there's smoke, there's toast!

Punctuality is something that, if you have it,
there's usually no one around to share it with!

Friday Foto Collage..St. Brigid..

Over at Friday Foto Collage, Peggy gave us this challenge, make a collage with St. Brigid. She did give us some images but I chose this one on Google, a stained glass window. I put St. Brigid's cross at the bottom. It's interesting to read about the lives of saints and St. Brigid of Ireland is certainly no exception.
Thank you for looking. xxx

TAW .. REGAL..

The Regal Trio

The Fairy Flower Queen

I think they look regal enough for the challenge on Take a Word.

The top one digitally manipulated, all images Googled.

The bottom one, lady and crown found, the rest from my collection.

Looking forward to seeing others today. Thank you for looking.

Love and Hugs

June xxx

SoArtful Challenge..Georgia O'Keeffe

The challenge on SoArtful this week was to make a collage of/about Georgia O'Keeffe. I admit I had never heard of this very prolific American artist, 1887 -1986. I believe she was well before her time, keeping true to her vision. She painted landscapes and flowers, finding abstract forms in nature.
My collage takes one of her paintings for the background, layered with Sherry's rose and a portrait of the lady herself.

Thank you for the rose Sherry, I hope you don't mind! xx
Thank you for looking and have a happy Sunday. xxx

SPA Challenge..As Time goes by..

This is my Postcard for this week's challenge on Sunday Postcard Art.
Subject..As Time goes by. Lady from Dezinaworld, gent is actually a convict's image, but I thought he looked handsome. The rest from my collection.
Thanks for looking. xx

Lady in red. .Dezinaworld's Images..

Two collages I designed for June at Dezinaworld from her collage sheet 'Lady in red' which she is showing on her web page today.Gorgeous images, made to brighten anyone's day and such a pleasure and privelege to play with! Do pop over and have a look. They're FREE!!
Thank you June! xx

Digitalmania Challenge..

I take part in a few challenges over at Flickr. One of my favourites is Digitalmania. Started up by Marie of the Three Muses team it is a fun challenge.
This week we are asked to make a Zetti type image depicting a song or song title. I don't know if you are old enough to remember these two old songs but these are my efforts.

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January can be a depressing month for lots of people. The Christmas festivities seem so long ago, the days are often dark, wet and short and quite miserable when we don't see the sun for days. I have a very dear friend who is feeling just like that. It's not usual for her to be this way. She is usually cheering me up! But she's got family problems going on as well, which adds to the worry.

I'm glad we have Spring to look forward to! Coming home the other day I see I have snowdrops out in the garden and I shall soon see crocus and miniature daffodils poking their heads out!
And best of all we have the blessing of friends. What would we do without them?

'So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.'
Robert Louis Stevenson.

'A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Thank you all for being my friends.
Hugs
June xxx