Mixed Media Monday - Hello Dolly

Here's a little bit of fun I created for the theme of Hello Dolly at Mixed Media Monday this week.

Credit to Nichole Young for the lovely checkered floor and Dreams Fulfilled for the curtains. The remainder is a composite of bits and pieces from the internet.

Font : Actionls.

Thank you so much for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 45 - Bye Bye Blackbird

Marie is our host for the Three Muses Challenge this week and she has chosen BYE BYE BLACKBIRD as the theme. My Mr B Bird has taken me at my word, donned his most favourite hat, bundled up his belongings in his spotty hankie, tied it to his stick and is ready to fly. I loved this one Marie.

Credits to GrannyArt, Efie at her blogspot and Honey Designs.

Font : Brother Bear

Thank you for taking a look

Sundary Postcard Art - Bunnies

Bunnies is the theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art so here's my little contribution!

Credit to Playing with Brushes, Valerie Brincheck ( both Flickr free to use), Irene Alexeeva and grannyart.blogspot.com. Font is Chalkbook.

Thank you so much for looking.

Abbey Music

Late last year I attended a music festival at Kirkstall Abbey, the music and the lighting effects were fantastic. What can I say, I was inspired.

Credits : Photo is my own, the lady is a Dover image.

Thank you for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 44 - You Are What You Eat

This is my entry for the Three Muses challenge theme of YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. It made me think of Alice In Wonderland and how what Alice ate changed her completely ...... many times. This, of course is what happened when Alice ate the mushroom!

Credit to Joes Sistah, Granny Art blogspot, Irene Alexeeva and SusieQue. Alice (much altered) was from an image I found on the internet.

The font is : Whatshappened.

Thank you for looking.

Sundary Postcard Art - Time for Tea

Here are my two ladies gossiping over their tea, created for the Sunday Postcard challenge of Time for Tea.

Credit to Lost in Wonderland, CAJ Designs, Granny Art blogspot and Efie's blogspot.

Thank you for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 43 - A Nice Cup Of Tea

For this week's challenge at the Three Muses I chose the theme of A Nice Cup Of Tea and this is what I was inspired to create.

Credit to Joes Sistah, Efie's blogspot, CAJolines blogspot and Irene Alexeeva.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 71

For Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play With Crowabout. Great fun.

Credit to Constancet2009 for providing the collage sheet to work from this week.

Sunday Postcard Art - Steampunk

Sunday means Sunday Postcard Art and this week the theme is steampunk. Wow this was soooo much fun to do.

Credit to Vintage Printables (Flickr free to use), Granny Art's blogspot and Effie's blogspot, and Irene Alexeeva.

Thank you for looking.

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 70

I thought it was time I visited Nancy at Collage Play with Crowabout and this is what I produced from the elements for week 70.

Credit to Nancy Baumiller for the collage sheet.

Thanks for looking.

Theme Thursday - Masculine

The theme is Masculine over at Theme Thursday this week, but George refused to participate since he simply does not DO masculine. See what I mean?

Credit to Bits N Bobs at Scrapingbits.blogspot, Valerie Brincheck, Playing with Brushes, CAJ Designs and the font is Trash.

Thanks for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 42 - Incognito

My theme, for the Three Muses this week is INCOGNITO, and this theme made me think of masks and masked balls but in the end my imagination took me in an entirely different and probably dark direction.

I wonder if this bride realises her new husband is not all he seems to be? Oooh scary!

Credit to A Crafters Corner blogspot.

Thank you for looking.

Three Muses Challenge 41 - Newspaper

Great theme this week Bev, and I know I haven't done it justice, (jet lag and all that) but here is my 'newspaper' man anyway!

Credit to Efie for the background and to the unknown artist who created the man I spied in a shop window and photographed knowing I would use him sometime soon.

Thanks for looking.

Three Muses Challenge - Oh Man

Ha ha I had such great fun with this theme and here is my take on OH MAN. I would like you to meet Herbert who found he really could do two things at the same time.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for Herbert, the WaterLO Project ladies for the background and the font is MV Boli.

Thank you for looking.

More Travels Around New Zealand

As the sun set on Whatuwhiwhi


Wonderful Pohutukawa trees on the beach at Whatuwhiwhi in Doubtless Bay



Waiting for the sun to rise. We were evacuated to the top of a hill at Taipo Bay because of the Tsunami


Reflections of a swimming hole - Coromandel



First sight of the sea - Coromandel



Sunset over Greymouth

I couldn't resist this shot when four people brought their chairs down to the beach to watch the sunset.





Aaah wonderful

Three Muses Challenge - Architecture

Gayle suggested architecture as the theme for the Three Muses challenge this week. Thanks Gayle I had great fun with this one.

I used an image of a keyboard by Lusi at Stockxchnge for my architectural designs and together with a few bits and pieces by Irene Alexeeva this is what I finally came up with.

Thank you for taking the time to look and when I get back from New Zealand I promise to get back to commenting on everyone's work too.

Three Muses Challenge - Nature

I loved Marie's theme of Nature for this week's Three Muses Challenge, and even though I am in the 'back of beyond' somewhere in New Zealand with a dodgy internet connection I couldn't resist having a go.

Credit to Sassy Imagination, Crafters Corner, Granny Art, Tangie Baxter and Joes Sistah.

Thanks Marie.

PS Please accept my apologies for not commenting on your blogs whilst I'm away. I promise to catch up when I return.

DAQ February Journal Page - Solitude

Across at Digital Art Quirks, Marie aka Ozstuff is our host for the Febuary journal prompt, and she chose Solitude as our theme. Thanks Marie.

Here is my interpretation.

Credit to Dover Publications for aspects of Mona, and to Joes Sistah for the background.

Thank you for stopping by.

Three Muses Challenge - Postage Art

Woohoo my first challenge piece in ages. This little holiday postcard is winging its way to you with good wishes from New Zealand for Bev's great challenge theme of Postage Art at the Three Muses.

Credit to Pixel Music for the postcard and postage backgrounds. The On This Day stamp is tagged BVA LYA Wornseals Special, so if anyone can put me right on who I should credit I would be most grateful. The two blended beach photographs are my own.

Thanks so much for looking.

More Pictures From New Zealand

Bluff part of the furthest most south city in the world


Our Campervan - true or false


Bruce Bay

A long beach where people passing through had each made a 'sculpture' and left their name and where they were from.




Our Campervan - true or false


More Lake Te Anau



Mr T doing boy things.

Taluula's Travels Around New Zealand

Ah ah, I didn't realise I'd actually managed to post the last time so I've started again.......

On a snow laden sub zero morning in mid January in the UK, Taluula, hubby Mr T and Taluula’s old Mum Joan, set off for a little adventure 12,000 miles away in New Zealand.

Joan destined for a few weeks stay with one of her other favourite daughters in Wellington, whilst Taluula and Mr T gad off in a teeny weeny little campervan, to tour first the South Island and later the North.

Starting in Christchurch our route, with more Oooohs, Aaahs and Oh Wows than Taluula could count, will end in Picton where we’ll board the ferry to the North.

Our travels around the South Island have taken us through such diverse and wondrous scenery : vast and magnificent mountain ranges, teeming rain forests, beautiful blue lakes, majestic glaciers, powerful waterfalls, sparkling clear glacial rivers and vast expanses of deserted white sand beaches. Aaaah!

And of course, along the way Miss Taluula has made a photographic record to share with you. So without further ado and in no particular order, for your delight and delectation, or for something to do whilst you drink your coffee here are a few to be going along with.

These are Lake Wanaka (I would live there). The Roaring Swine waterfall. Franz Josep Glacier (the second picture, if you look very closely has a group of people near to the entrance to the cave mouth - shows the scale of the Glacier). Lake Te Anau in the late afternoon.

Having A Lovely Time - Wish You Were Here!

Hi All ..... It's Me .... and I'm having a wonderful time on my travels around New Zealand and when I get the occasional decent internet connection I'll try to update my blog.

So this was the beginning of our journey from Manchester Airport in the early hours of a snow filled January day.

This is me with Mum who who we took to stay with my little sister in Wellington whilst we travelled around in a campervan.