Mary Lou got a new hat

The eccentric Mrs. Mary Lou Daniels loves that her new hat matches the wallpaper in her living room.

This week at Take a Word the theme is HATS.

I cutout and colored Mary Lou. Thanks to Jamie Miller, Miss Snoopy25 and Parée.

The sea and the mermaid

The Three Muses theme for this week is SEA WORLD.

The mermaid is Ann Blyth in the movie Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948). I cutout, colored and applied filters to the image. Thanks to Beth Rimmer and Createwing Designs.

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Ariel's new castle

The Three Muses asked for castles and I decided to play a little bit with Disney's World. Why not a Glass Castle to Ariel?

Main Photo by Annie Leibowitz with Julianne Moore and Michael Phelps; castle: Cinderella's castle in Disney World; fish in the foreground: AbsurdWorldPreferred; there are also a background and a texture from my stash.

Are they aliens too?

The Three Muses challenged us to show that there is PLENTY MORE IN THE SEA! 

According to these crazy devotes of Ancient Aliens everything that is clever, ingenious or complex from our pre-history to nowadays was made/created/commanded by aliens or at least  by some hybrids half-alien half-human. In this sense, probably mermaids, mermen and other magical creatures are also aliens, why not?

Background and overlay are free wallpapers; UFO is a hybrid of images I've already had; merman came from a screenshot of the movie Empires of The Deep (which failed even before its release).

True Happiness

Hello! Take a Word asked for TRUE HAPPINESS. The day of the wedding, the birth of the first child or the long awaited trip to Paris are exhilarating moments of immense joy. However, for me, true happiness is being at peace with myself and have serenity. Happiness is something that is within us and can not depend on others. With this collage I tried to transmit this feeling of peace and serenity. I hope I have succeeded.

This collage was also inspired by artist Catrin Welz-Stein which is the current challenge in the group Digitalmania on Flickr.

Lilian Gish (colored and altered) is a cortesy of Doctor Macro; Texture by Kim Klassen, Butterflies from Dover; the sea and the sky are my own photos.