Strange creatures were lurking everywhere

This week at Take a Word the challenge theme is blackbird.  

Background: Altered Emporium; blackbirds: peroni68 and shoofly; girl (altered): Finecrafted Designs; girl's face: Isabelle Adjani in Possession; monster: Beth Rimmer; other elements: Crowabout Studios and Rebecca Macmeen.

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). 

The Portrait of a New Woman

The Three Muses challenge this week is BOOK COVER. My Brit pen pal Roseanne have found this book in the attic of her grandma's house. It seems that this Madeleine Ashcroft, besides writer and suffragist, was an important feminist of Victorian England. Definitely a woman ahead of her time.

Girl: Hidden Vintage; Heart: Finecrafted Designs; everything else: Studio Manu.

My underwear

The Three muses asked for UNDERWEAR and what's the fun in featuring Victoria's Secret babes? Better than that is depict a real beauty showing off her handmade Victorian underwear! 

Background (altered): Kim Klassen; Mask: Studio Manu; model: Sarah.