Umbrella spell against evil eye

This week at the Muses the theme is UMBRELLA. My muse has been somewhat unbridled in recent days...

Thanks to Betty Rimmer, Mr. Whiskers, Holliewood and Rucola Designs.

Feliz Natal * Merry Christmas * Feliz Navidad * Joyeux Noël * Buon Natale * Frohe Weihnachten

This is my contribution to Take a Word which theme this week is  GREEN AND RED.

I wish you all a Happy Christmas.

Background by Crowabout Studio; girl: vintage photo colored and dressed by me; texture: Kim Klassen.

Ginger and Inky

Take a Word asked for Orange & Black and I went for Halloween as I wanted to do something with the witch's photo I had in my stash for years.

Witch: Etchika Choureau, french actress, in Doctor Macro - cut and colored by me; textures: Beth Rimmer; pumpkins: daftopia.

Missing you

Take a Word asked for Windows and my muse asked for a lonely cat missing his old friend...

Background: my photo; texture: Kim Klassen.

Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad

The Three Muses asked us to take inspiration from SONG LYRICS or a favorite POEM and create something special.  I don't know how I ended up with Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad, a song by Bono and The Edge written as a tribute for Frank Sinatra. It was also recorded by Nancy Sinatra, his daughter. I tried not be that obvious, and replace the Jack Daniels by two sweet cats. ^=^

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad

You think I'm no good, well I know I've been bad.

Took you to a place, now you can't get back.

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

Walked together down a dead-end street

We were mixing the bitter with the sweet.

Don't try to figure out what we might have had.

Just two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

I'm just a singer, some say a sinner

Rolling the dice, not always a winner.

You say I've been lucky, well hell, I made my own

Not part of the crowd not feeling alone.

Under pressure but not bent out of shape

Surrounded, we always found an escape.

Drove me to drink but hey, that's not all bad.

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

Guess I've been greedy all of my life

Greedy with my children, my lovers and my wife.

Greedy for the good things as well as the bad.

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

Maybe it's just talk, saloon singing

The chairs are all stacked, the swingers stopped swinging.

You say I hurt you, you put the finger on yourself

Then, after you did it, you came crying for my help.

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

I'm not complaining baby, I'm glad.

You call it compromise, well what's that?

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad.

Frank Sinatra: Dr. Macro (colored by me); background: Mr. Whiskers; owl: Studio Manu; some elements and overlay: Pareeerica.

The main star

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.

 Madonna 

The task in Three Muses is  to feature stripes in any way, shape or form.

Elements by Holliewood Studio and Altered Emporium; texture by Kim Klassen.

Books, wine and a cat

This week Take a Word theme is GREEN.

Background was made by combining a green cloth photo with images by Buzzillo Stock and Enchanted Stock; girl: Beth Rimmer; type machine and book stack: Studio Manu; texture: Kim Klassen.

Mighty Tiger & Sad Parrot

Hi, guys! I'm back! After a very tough period in job and a well-deserved vacation with DH I'm back! I guess... :)

This is  my contribution to a new and improved Three Muses Challenge which theme this week is GRUNGE/PRINT BACKGROUND. I wish to the brand new TTM all the best. These three ladies have awakened my muse who had been sleeping for 30 years! :)))

I don't know if I succeeded but I tried to add some grunginess to two photos I took recently in Jungle Island a kinda zoo in Miami. It was sad to see those magnificent animals locked in cages, although they were obviously well treated.

Other than my photos, textures by Buzzilo Stock and Mighty Backgrounds.

Blue Zetti

Hello, dear friends! The challenge this week is ZETTI in The Three Muses and this is my contribution. Thanks for passing by and for your kind comments.

Some elements and background by Beth Rimmer and Tumblefish Studio.

Fly blackbird

Hi! Take a Word asked for Blackbird. we don't have crows or ravens around here. But we have some black birds, none of them though evokes the dark shadows and stuff like that... 

About my picture, don't ask... Blame my muse!

Background: Createwings Designs; texture: Kim Klassen; raven on the floor: peroni68 (deviantArt); Crow head: warchild13; I couldn't find out who is the author of the dog and cat sketches (altered).

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. 

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Hello! The theme is ZETTI in Take a Word and this my attempt. I wish it was more whimsical, but my muse had her own plans...

Thanks to pareeerica for the background and the texture. The graffiti is a photo of mine.

Olá! O tema é ZETTI no Take a Word e esta é minha tentativa. Gostaria que tivesse ficado mais divertido, mas minha musa tinha outros planos...

Goth fairy & CO

Hi there! In Take a Word the theme word for this week is TATTERED. I was not in the vintage mood, so I went for gothic with some tattered clothes, wings and textures. The fairy is an assemblage of several parts I googled. The spooky doll is available here. Thanks for passing by and for your kind comments.

Doll hand made by Jodi Cain; Background by Digital Blasphemy; textures by Cloaks and Tigers (deviantArt); wings by Tracie76Stock (dA).

Olá! Em Take a Word a palavra-tema para esta semana é algo como "esfarrapado". Eu não estava no clima vintage, então fui para o gótico com roupas, asas e texturas "esfarrapadas". A fada é uma combinação de várias partes extraídas do Google images. A boneca está disponível aqui. Obrigado por passar por aqui e por seus comentários gentis.

The cat and the moon

Hi pals! This is my interpretation for this week theme in Take a Word: MOON.

THE CAT AND THE MOON

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

HE cat went here and there

And the moon spun round like a top,

And the nearest kin of the moon,

The creeping cat, looked up.

Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,

For, wander and wail as he would,

The pure cold light in the sky

Troubled his animal blood.

Minnaloushe runs in the grass

Lifting his delicate feet.

Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?

When two close kindred meet,

What better than call a dance?

Maybe the moon may learn,

Tired of that courtly fashion,

A new dance turn.

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass

From moonlit place to place,

The sacred moon overhead

Has taken a new phase.

Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils

Will pass from change to change,

And that from round to crescent,

From crescent to round they range?

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass

Alone, important and wise,

And lifts to the changing moon

His changing eyes.

The cat and the spider are photos of mine. Moon and starry night were googled.

Indoor cat out of bounds

Definitely an indoor cat...

Hi, folks! This week the challenge in The Three Muses is OUT OF BOUNDS. That reminded me of Fifi my neighbor's kitten that absolutely hates when her owner decides that she needs to be in touch with nature. Fifi is determined to no longer tolerate this out-of-bounds behavior.


Frame/Texture by Pareeerica (dA).

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.