RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS

Each week, in a random act of kindness, Chris Rowe who I call friend on Facebook, puts up one of her lovely pieces of art to be won by one lucky person, and earlier this month that lucky person was me   :D

This morning my post lady dropped this beautiful, eye popping and simply gorgeous bird hanger through my letterbox.  Yay!  Thank you, Chris.

Chris is an accomplished artist, she lives in the north east of England, and creates art in a wide range of mixed media ..... and she creates faces to die for!

If you'd like to see more of her work try looking her up on facebook.

THREE MUSES

BLACK AND WHITE WITH A DASH OF .....

It's my turn to host at the Three Muses this week and I chose red as my dash of colour!

We have very sophisticated mushrooms in our garden it seems.  :D

Credit to Clix at StockXchange.

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DIGITALMANIA

  

INSPIRED BY MICHAEL PARKES

Created for the Digitalmania challenge where this week we are inspired by the work of Michael Parkes.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva, Bluesse (Deviantart) and Finecrafted Designs.

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TAKE A WORD

This week we have TATTERED as our word for inspiration.  Looking at the state of this chair me thinks I should go out and buy a new one ..... and a clock.  Anyone seen my other shoe?

A very enjoyable challenge theme.

Credit to HolliewoodStudio.

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THREE MUSES

When I was a child  there was a song we used to sing when skipping a rope with friends : There's a party on the hill will you come, bring your own cup and saucer and a bun ....'  the next girl would jump into the twirling rope and we would chant her name into the song 'Mary will be there throwing peanuts in the air' .   And then the whole song would begin again as an invitation for the next girl to jump in.

It's my turn to host at the Three Muses and I have chosen the theme of INVITATION by Mail Art.

Credit to Scrapping Cop, Plainster, ObsidianDawn and AlicePopcorn.

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TAKE A WORD

WINGS

We have WINGS as our word for inspiration at TAKE A WORD this week and that reminded me of what I saw in the pale moonlight not too long ago.  There was the hoot of an owl and then I heard what sounded light sticks being broken underfoot.  I stopped and watched, and then I saw her, the goddess of green things bathing in the light of the moon.

Mmmmmm.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs.

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THREE MUSES

THE CASE OF MISS SCARLETT AND THE STRAWBERRY

Bev, asked for STRAWBERRIES this week so I felt compelled to tell you it was Miss Scarlett in the Morning room ....... with the dagger.  :D

Credit to Bluesse, RubyBlossom and BethRimmer whilst the strawberries were filched from Google.

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WOOHOO - AND THERE'S MORE

MY JOURNAL PRIZE FROM PAULETTE

During April of this year Paulette, from the beautiful ART DUST art blog,  worked on an altered journal specifically to give it away at a prize drawing later that month.  It looked absolutely stunning and so I made a comment  and entered the draw.

Then my husband was taken seriously ill and for me the land of art and blogs disappeared into the blue as my world turned upside down.

In early May Paulette having had no response from me emailed me to let me know I was the lucky winner!  One or two quick emails passed between us in which all was explained.

The journal never arrived and I assumed it was lost in the postal system and I worried Paulette would think me very rude indeed for not thanking her.  Then an email arrived from her in which she told me she had just discovered the journal she thought she had already sent!

Well, two weeks on and I am the very proud owner of the beautiful journal which finally found its way to me here in the UK.    Thank you so much, my friend.

Why not pop over and see Paulette's fabulous Art Dust blog.

TAKE A WORD

MEMORIES

This week Deann is our guest host at Take a Word and she has chosen MEMORIES as our word for inspiration.

After much consideration I thought family memories might be a way to go and I got out my box(es) of old family photos.

Here are some very happy memories of our children and grandchildren (now all grown up) our parents, grandparents and great grandparents.  I am so lucky, not only to have the memories but also the photographs to show them off.

Thanks, Deann.

Credit to Irene Alexeeva for the book and window frame, the clouds background is courtesy of Night Fate Stock (Deviantart) whilst the rest is my stock of family photographs.

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WOOHOO - I GOT MAIL

Across on Facebook there is a group of artists who are making art and then abandoning it in public places in the hope that whoever finds it will love their unexpected gift and might even use the attached email to let the artist know it has been found.

It's lovely to see pictures of  some of the art that is being abandoned and often I wish a small piece might be abandoned where I might find it.

Imagine my surprise and delight then when this lovely mail art package came through my letterbox this morning.  I knew immediately it was from Bev my fellow Muse as I had unashamedly hinted that she might consider abandoning something near my home for me to find.  Impossible, of course,  as she lives in the US and I live in the UK.  Undeterred Bev abandoned this mailart in the mail system and it found its way to me.  I found it abandoned in my letterbox.  :D

Thank you so much, my friend, you made my day.