"I Resolve in the New Year"

 What better way to start 2026! Make it a good resolution. Happy New Year to you and yours!

12-days-of-xmas: 12 Drummers (not all Drumming!)

"C'mon Ringo, put down that newspaper!"

12 Days Of Christmas

Sorry, cant seem to find the time or energy to do this one so one from the archives. Collaged CD artwork for Two Headed Emperor's festive EP "Selling Christmas" on the Falling A label.

NINE ladies dancing.

 

Theme: The 12 Days of Christmas.

Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope you’re having a great day.

A busy time of course, but if you want to create something in a quiet moment then here’s the theme for the week ahead. Collages featuring any aspect of The 12 Days of Christmas song.

Also, an excuse, of course to include a link to the brilliant 1955 Oscar-nominated short film all about it, “On the Twelfth Day”.

Directed by Wendy Toye with designs by Ronald Searle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMw6Hhw--A

***** Have a Kewl Yule! *****

KEYBOARDS and a holiday wish in the coming year ...

 So...here it is! Our 2025 holiday card (currently at the printer as I type this)! Our greeting reads:

The fundamental things apply

as time goes by.

Best Wishes for all the happiness

you can find

in the coming year.

Love,

Angie & Ted

A caption, inside left bottom, reads:

Piano in collage is a studio 58-key piano, with wood and plasticine keys, likely manufactured by Kohler & Campbell, 1927. It is the piano from the movie Casablanca on which Sam plays "As Time Goes By."

keyboards: Sitting on my Piano the Other Day!

QWERTY Keyboard.

 With Xmas fast approaching I rushed this one…

A factory where they make colourful keyboards.

Keyboards...............................Tickling the Ivories

Theme: Keyboards

Collages with a keyboard to appear somewhere, be it musical, typewriter or computer etc…

Could be a favourite piano player ripping it up, a prog-rock synth wizard or a data inputter.

Er, maybe not that last one. :D

Jack & The Beanstalk

Fairy Tales /Folk Tales............................Hick Dickory Dock/Puppet Lady

Two for the price of one!

You have to kiss a lot of frogs…

 I know I have a picture of little red riding hood somewhere…but I couldn’t find it…

Luckily I have a lot of frogs.

Fairy Tales / Folk Tales.................................Kats In The Kremlin

An obscure Russian folk tale about the gang of cats that take over the Kremlin. They hire an architect mouse to re-design the whole thing and all goes horribly wrong when the cats eat the mouse before the job is completed!

KRAMPUS -- (hopefully) a FOLK TALE

From the archives (2017). I was invited to submit a work of art for a Krampus show at a local gallery.

I am of Eastern European descent and the legend of Krampus makes all children behave so they are not terrorized by the demon-like creature at Christmastime! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSKfdaCIuBM
 

Theme: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

’Tis the season when favourite childhood stories take centre stage in theatre shows and in TV/Movies.

Collages inspired by anything from the lands of “Once Upon A Time…”

Rhyme Time.........................Synthetic Cow

Rhyme Time...

When her husband goes to sleep, miraculous images begin to creep...
                         And soon her mind is keen to tread a dream-filled path to collage instead!
      All the very best to my Kollage Kit friends for a very Happy Holiday and Wonderful New Year.
 

 

Rhymes..........................Targets

An Olde Country Rime.

Rhymes............................He Showed Me A Pure Rat Of Wiverer

Rhymes ..................I Never Expected That!

From the archives .

Herbert Stang’s Secrets

 

Theme: Rhyme-Time

After the jokes and the sleight-of-hand tricks,

Some verse inspired collage and limerick mix,

Be they fresh from your pen or from poets you quote

I’m calling it quits now. I’ll get my coat!