THEME: Vacation Destination

 This time of year people want to travel all over the world to see other places. But where to go? Will you have a holiday from hell or find a paradise? This year i'm having a staycation. I'm curieus to see where your collages are taking me...!

Free for all - Feline Flux

From my archive.
 

Free For All - Mostly Floor Sweepings (FOund In Nature From Ye )

FREE for ALL -- Inspired by Hazel's collage

 

Hazel said she used things she found on her desktop. Well, I rummaged through pre-cut pieces on my worktable and came up with this image. 

As we know our Sun provides life on earth. Makes vegetation grow and keeps all creatures great and small alive. But we must protect our eyes and also the largest organ of our body -- our skin. Found this bit on the internet which also correlates to the young lady drinking milk, a source of Vitamin D:

Vitamin D is a hormone that can be generated in the skin upon ultraviolet light exposure.

Thank you Mr. Sun.

free-for-all: "I Wouldn't Steal that Picture if I were you Buddy"

Free for all..

 Thank you Angie for all the great themes…I used the free for all theme as an excuse to tidy the weird snippets from off my desk….this light bulb has been waiting for this moment.

Three For All - Alien Trio

From the archives.

THEME: Free For All

I will end my theme picking for the past two months with a break from picking a theme, so enjoy making a collage about anything you desire! 

And who will be the next in line to challenge us?

My favourite way to start the day....Books and Breakfast!

 

My Favourite Way To Start The Day - Not Coffee

I prefer I nice cup of English Breakfast tea.

My favorite way to start the day -- Musing about what I am going to wear today and gazing out the window to see what is currently in bloom in the garden

 

My favourite way to start the day - Very Slowly

 

My Favourite Way To Start The Day - Sorting Out My Options

favourite way to start the day: Coffee & TV.

Wish I could say a 5 mile run, but it's usually this.

How I Start The Day - Fish Juggling

Not really - my early morning meanderings wouldn't make for very entertaining collages!

My Favorite Way to Start the Day - Listening to the birds

From my archive.

 

Starting the Day with a Stretch

 A good way to get the creaky joints working!

(From the archives)

How I Start The Day - A Bowl Of White Hot Grape Nuts

From the archives .

How Margaret liked to start her day.

 At this time of year

Margaret always liked to start her day checking the measurements of her giant fruit and vegetables.

THEME: Your Favorite Way to Start the Day

There are a lot of ways to start the day...but I am not going to list any. Right now I am going to roll over and pull the covers over my head and dream of some. (I say this because I was supposed to get up about an hour and a half ago. LOL!) Guess that is one way to start the day.

Superstitions - Don't walk under a ladder (unless you've got a ladybug)!

 

superstition: The Scottish Play.

The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to Shakespeare's popular nickname. According to a theatrical superstition, called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre, other than as called for in the script while rehearsing or performing, will cause disaster.

At the 94th Academy Awards Chris Rock congratulated Denzil Washington on his performance in The Tragedy of Macbeth saying the name of the Scottish play aloud in the Dolby Theatre. Moments later, Rock was slapped by Will Smith after making a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. Viewers, including playwright Lynn Nottage, quickly took to social media to joke that Rock had suffered the curse of the Scottish play.

SUPERSTITION of South America: Do not have your feet swept over by a broom

If your feet are swept over by a broom you will remain single for the rest of your life. However, the curse CAN BE broken if you immediately spit on the broom! Most likely based on the adage: A woman who cannot keep house, does not a good wife make.

I had a hard time finding the right image of a woman to hold the brooms that I found in a DOVER book of "Victorian Goods and Merchandise". But I looked at my anatomy books and found the perfect pose, but she was wearing no clothes. Luckily I have a lot of old J. Peterman clothing catalogs (which are lovely and each item of clothing is a watercolor rendering) and I found a skirt to fit her PERFECTLY and fashioned a bra top out of an illustration of a scarf.

The tie-dye paper just happened to be sitting on my worktable and voila!

Black cat and broken mirror

 

Just when Madam Roland thought the day couldn’t get any worse!

Superstitions - Shoes On The Table/ Number Thirteen

It may have something to do with death, and the idea of placing a new pair of shoes on the table would signify that someone had just died, or you would have bad luck for the rest of the day, quarrel with someone or lose your job. Even among people who are not superstitious, shoes can be associated with contamination.

The head collage was intended for previous theme but didnt get it done in time. Added the rest to fit with this weeks theme so you get two for the price of one ( unlucky for some!).

Theme: SUPERSTITIONS!

Do you have a particular superstition? I am always fascinated when I learn someone I am close to reveals one. Have fun with real or imagined superstitions. And don't forget to knock on some wood today after you avoid those cracks in the front walk!

Anatomy Lesson: Open-minded

 

anatomy-lesson: Where Does It Hurt?

The Anatomy Lesson

 

Skeleton Twins

From the archives. 2001.

The Anatomy Lesson - Professor Tulp goes vegan

(Collage, based on the painting "De anatomische les van professor Tulp" by Rembrandt van Rijn.)
 

The Anatomy Lesson..part one and two.

 Great theme..had fun using these little treasures which I had been wondering what to do with for a while..

THEME: The Anatomy Lesson

 This is open to a lot of interpretation.

Dog Days of Summer - Hot Dogs

 

The Dog days Of Summer - Dog Collar

A page from my latest collaged FLIM FLam Zine.

The Dog Days of Summer and a child's imagination

Thanks to August Macke (1887-1914) for the use of his painting "Children in the Garden" 1912.
 

THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

 

I think of The Dog Days of Summer as hot and oppressive. I also think about how much more water my flower garden needs during this period of the season.