Dream a little dream of me

Stars shining bright above you

Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"

Birds singing in the sycamore tree

Dream a little dream of me

I chose this delightful song as an inspiration for my contribution to this week theme in Take a Word: DREAM. Dream a little dream of me came out in 1931, music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, lyrics by Gus Kahn. Several artists recorded it, including Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Shore. but the version that always come to my mind is the 1968 recording by The Mamas and The Papas.

Background by Createwings Designs.

The key(s) of her heart

He thought he kept the key of her heart, 

but apparently some gentlemen had spare keys...

Hi, guys! This is my contribution to this week challenge in The Three Muses: Lock and Key. 


Thanks to Carol Ann's Boutique, Createwings Designs and The Last Door Down the Hall.

You are so vain!

you probably think this picture is about you...

Hi! I hope mommies and grannies have had a great day! This week the theme is PEACOCK in Take a Word and I decided to work with the white one too. These animals are splendid, don't you think? Thanks for dropping by.

Background by Elizabeth Golden (The Last door Down the Hall). The photo on the background (blue peacock head) is mine. feathers: Graphics Fairy and  Zeldona.

Three times Louise

This week The Three Muses asked for VINTAGE GLAMOUR. To me that means Louise Brooks, the quintessential flapper.


I cut out and color the images. There's a Kim Klassen texture and a background I found in a russian site (I guess) I don't know who the author is.

George Clooney: a gentleman of our time

Hi! This is my gentleman for this week theme in Take a Word: GENTLEMEN. Instead of working with lovely mustachioed vintage men, I thought it would be refreshing to have a more up-to-date subject and why not charming Mr. Clooney?

I also tried to evoke the work of Joseph Christian Leyendecker in those gorgeous magazine covers, but keeping the contemporary look. Mr. Leyendecker is the theme this week in Digitalmania.

The dog, his owners, their girlfriend and her daughter

- But mom, they don't have wings! What is that? A propeller?And look at that dog! So weird.

- When you get used to the idea you'll see they are the kindest men you ever met. 

- They? Are you dating both?!?

The challenge in The Three Muses is hats, crowns, wings and things and I came up with this little fantasy.   I've just realized I missed the "things" part... Anyway, I hope you like it. 

Thanks to Beth Rimmer, Crowabout Studio, Tumble Fish Studios, Finecrafted Designs, MC Designs, ML Stock and Indigo Flames.

Artificial World

Hi, friends. This sort of gothic image is my contribution to Take a Word which theme this week is BLACKBIRD.

Thanks to Enchanted Stock (dA), Beth Rimmer, Finecrafted Designs.

Fortune Teller

I went to the fortune teller

To have my fortune read

I didn't know what to tell her

I had a dizzy feeling in my head

Said she'd take a look at my palm

Said "Sonny you feel kind of warm"

She looked into her crystal ball

And said "I see lo--ove".

I said it could not be so,

Not with all the girls I know.

She said when the next one arrives

Take a look into her eyes.

I left there in a hurry

Looking forward to my big surprise

The next thing I discovered

The fortune teller told me lies.

So I ran back to that woman

Mad as I could be

Said I didn't see nobody

Why'd she made a fool out of me?

At last something shook me

As if it came down from above

While looking at the fortune teller

I fell in lo--ove.

Now I'm a happy fella

I'm married to the fortune teller

We're as happy as we can be

- And what's more I get my fortune told for free (spoken).

This song was written by Allen Toussaint under the pseudonym Naomi Neville and first recorded by Benny Spellman in 1962. Several others recorded it, but the most famous version is the one by The Who (on their famous Live at Leeds). My favorite is the one performed by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in 2007. 

This is my contribution to The Three Muses challenge: word art. I left you quoting Benjamim Franklin: “He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.”

Thanks to Crowabout, Tumble Fish and Beth Rimmer.

Le neuf de cœur

Hi! This week the theme is NUMBERS in Take a Word and my muse asked me to do this. Besides, as numbers are not my specialty, I decided to bring the hearts, which are quite the opposite and has more to do with me.... Hope you like it.


Textures: Princess of Shadows and Kim Klassen; Hearts: Lina Cavalieri; Coleen Moore; Alice Faye; Maureen O’Sullivan; Cleo de Merode; Josephine Baker; another two provided by Sum of all Crafts and Graphics Fairy.

The Three Muses on the beach

The three muses were exhausted in their arduous work of inspiring us poor mortals. So they decided to take a break on a beach in the Caribbean. Smart girls!


This is my contribution to this week challenge in T3M: vintage bathing beauty. 


The background is a photo of mine (Varadero, Cuba); girls were colored by me; texture by Kim Klassen; others elements by Beth Rimmer and Angie Young.