Everlasting love

This week at Take a Word the theme is MONOCHROME or varying shades of one color. My contribution is a photo (with extreme makeover) taken by my mother, at her own request, because from her point of view nothing is more beautiful than a mom breastfeeding her child (or her daughter breastfeeding her first granddaughter):).

Happy day

This week at Take a Word the challenge theme is BALLOONS. I've chosen an old photo of my brother and me to begin with. I cut out the photo and sent the two of us to a beautiful beach, got some huge balloons and the smile was guaranteed.

Background is a photo of mine; texture: Elné.

Lilian and Vera

Take a Word asked for MOTHER AND CHILD and I decided to pay a tribute to these beautiful mother and child: Lilian and Vera Trotter. They died on the night of March 3, 1943, in the Bethnal Green Tube tragedy. I've read about it a few years ago and this photograph made it even more poignant.

Background: Astrid Maclean; texture: Elné; butterflies: Dover.

Family album

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Take a Word asked for Family Album. I don't have really old photos then I created a imaginary family from daguerreotypes, taken circa 1850, beginning with Emily Dickinson, then Pastor Rollin Heber Neal (both colored by me). 

Grandpa's band

Only recently, when my uncle sent this photography to my father by e-mail, I found out that  my Grandpa was also a musician or at least played in a band. As the challenge this week in The Three Muses is Vintage Family I decided to pay him a tribute.

Background and elements (altered) by Studio Manu.

Kindertotenlieder

In this weather, in this gale, in this windy storm,

they rest as if in their mother's house:

frightened by no storm,

sheltered by the Hand of God.

Take a Word asked for CHILDHOOD and my twisted mind made ​​me wonder that losing a child is the most unbearable pain. It seems that in some way these children remain as kids forever, trapped in an eternal childhood. Then I was taken to Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) composed by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert. The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in reaction to the illness and death of two of his children. Mahler selected five of Rückert's poems. It's very beautiful. You can listen to it here.

Background is a photo of mine; texture by Shadowhouse Creations; kids by Hidden Vintage.

Color Me Happy

Hi! The Three Muses have challenged us to take an old black and white photo and place it in or surrounded with color. My parents have recently completed 50 years of marriage and I decided to modernize the old photo album page where their wedding photo rests.

Bits and pieces by Createwing Designs, Caffeine (dA), Angie Young and Pati Araujo.

Father daughter time

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve,

 too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

It seems unfair that we at some point have to say goodbye to our parents, but time passes and this time comes eventually. I'm very grateful to have my father around and to be able to spend some time with him almost daily. He's a kind and fun guy and a loving grandfather. 

This is my contribution to Take a Word which theme this week is TIME.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw 

Learning to Fly

Aquele que quer aprender a voar algum dia, 

deve primeiro aprender a ficar de pé, caminhar, correr, escalar e dançar.

Hi! This is my contribution to Quotography which theme this week is WALKING. The three brats are my nephews  playing in my parents house. Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Texture by Princess of Shadows (deviantArt).

Olá! Está é minha contribuição para Quotography cujo tema esta semana é ANDAR. As três pestinhas são meus sobrinhos brincando na casa de meus pais. Citação de Nietzche.

Obrigada

A circus girl

Sherry is hosting the challenge this week at Collage Obssession which is Alter egos. I couldn't resist and placed myself as a Circus Girl, as you can see on the detail bellow.

On top right a Graphics Fairy freebie; everything else but the girl are my photos of a cafeteria decór; circus girl were googled. Original bellow:

Children just wanna have fun

Have fun... Why not?

Hi, guys! This is my contribution to Take a Word theme of the week: CHILDHOOD. That's me in my imaginary place.

Background was googled. All the elements are cutouts from cloths sold in Peach Pear Plum.

Family album

Four times Dad

Top left: my aunt, mom's twin brother and mom; bellow: my aunt's marriage, my grandparents, my greatgrandmother, mom and me; on the right is a very poor shot but it means a lot because it has my grandmother's handwriting, it says: Selma at 16 - Franca (the city) - Dora at 14.

Me and my brothers

This week the theme in Take a Word is ALBUM. Coincidently I've been working on a album for my mother made of old photos and slides that I've scanned and restored. It was for Mother's day on May, but until now I couldn't finish it. Well, these are 3 of its pages.

Travel to Cuba

Hello! This week the challenge in Three Muses is MAPS and I decided to take advantage of my recent travel to Cuba to acomplish it. So, here it is a glimpse of this fascinating country (please enlarge to see the details).

I googled all the old maps; the photos are all mine and so it is the texture.

If you are curious, bellow are the details. The two gentlemen are hubby and daddy :)

Selma's Nest

In Selma's basket there is room for all her eggs.

Hi! This is my contribution to this challenge in The Three Muses: EGGS. Those are my brothers and me.

Background by Demerf (deviantArt); Texture by moonlight4angel.

Memories of a Marriage

This week's theme in Take A Word is MEMORIES. I decided to stick to living people this time and did a tribute to my parents. They have been married for 47 years and has never been a piece of cake... Nevertheless, they are still together. So let's celebrate.

Background: Mariella Corugati; amaryllis: Redoute's (Dover);

Green

Hello! The theme is GREEN at Take a Word to mark St. Patrick's Day. As I'm not familiarized to the date, I did something personal and added a Leprechaun hanging from a shamrock vine :) .

On the left is my mother, when she was 16 or so, in a B&W photo that was painted afterwards (something common those days), on the right is me, probably when I was 17, in a very poor shot. Coincidently, they are alike in some ways, so I put them together.

Backgrounds: Buzillo Stock (deviantArt) and Beth Rimmer; leprechaun and shamrocks: Google Images.

Julieta

This week challenge at Three Muses is ANCESTOR. Let me introduce my grandmother, Julieta. She was an extraordinary woman who married when was 13 and created 15 children with many difficulties. She died many years ago but I still miss her.

Esta é minha avó: Julieta. Ela era uma mulher extraordinária que casou-se aos 13 anos e criou 15 filhos com muitas dificuldades. Ela morreu há muitos anos, mas ainda sinto sua falta.

Background/Texture: HP Design and Princess of Shadows (deviantArt). Frame: Tigers Stock (deviantArt); Swirls: sorry.

Zetti in Pink

Penelope has never overcame pink fase even if she try zetti...

This is my attempt to Take a Word challenge: Zetti (please, enlarge it).

Beautiful face and odd hair are my daughter's (Fernanda). Other elements I found googling and modified.

Letter to Granny

This is my contribution to this week Soartful (angels) and Take a Word (mail) challenges.

I've made it simple, as it was my grandmother. It's adressed in the brazilian way, it means that sender's name and adress go at the back of the envelope;

Angels at the background was given by Jeannete; other two angels are dover's samples. Envelope was used in Brazil in the past for international mail; stamp and postmark are brazilian postal service special edition for 2010 Christmas.