Powerful Steampunk Girls

This is my contribution toTake a Word which theme this week is STEAMPUNK.

Background (altered) and texture: Finecrafted Designs; flies: Mr. Wiskers.

Lunatics to the Moon!

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Susan Sontag

The Three Muses asked for BALLOONS and I decided to have some fun and send some dearest lunatics to their home, Luna.

“Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.” ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce

"You are going to be fine, you come from a strong line of lunatics." - ?

Background: my own photo; moon: Studio Manu; texture: Kim Klassen.

Art on the Wall

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The Three Muses asked for FRAMES and I decided to frame some street art just for fun, as despite their quality they are not made to be framed and almost always don't last very much.

I photographed the graffiti in São Paulo; Doll body: Crowabout Studio.

Broken Hearts

“When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. 

But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. 

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful.” 

Henri Nouwen

Take a Word asked for HEARTS and I got myself wondering about this universal pain, after all who has never had a broken heart? 

Angel on the top left corner: Pierre Cortes; sculpture on the bottom left corner: Steve Frog; sculpture on the bottom right corner: Angelo Bis; texture: Kim Klassen.

I am woman

Take a Word asked for I AM WOMAN. There was some kind of serendipity as I’ve just finished Unless, by Carol Shields, a study in awakening and the belated loss of innocence. Mainly the author reflects over the role that is reserved to women: "The world is split in two between those who are handed power at birth, at gestation, encoded with a seemingly random chromosome determinate that says yes for ever and ever, and those like Norah, like Danielle Westerman, like my mother, like my mother-in-law, like me, like all of us who fall into the uncoded female otherness in which the power to assert ourselves and claim our lives has been displaced by a compulsion to shut down our bodies and seal our mouths and be as nothing against the fireworks and streaking stars and blinding light of the Big Bang."

Background is mine; doll on the right uses elements by Rebecca Mcmeen; texture by Kim Klassen; words: lyrics of I Am Woman, by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton.

Louise Butterfly

“We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” 

― LeeAnn Taylor

This week the theme is BUTTERFLY in The Three Muses. I went for a dramatic butterfly impersonated by Louise  Brooks.

Background is my own, made of two of my photos and a lot of editing; floor: Tumblefish Studio; Louise Brooks photos: Dr. Macro (the one on forground was colored by me); texture: Kim Klassen.

Note: the "G" on her costume is for Griselle or Grisette, her characters in the movie Now We're in the Air (1927).

The Lady of the Lake

The Three Muses challenge this week is PHOTOGRAPH PLAY. I cropped, altered and layered two of my daughter's photos taken the first one in London and the second one in Amsterdam, both on September 2014.

Texture: Kim Klassen.

Happy 2015

This week Take a Word theme is NUMBERS. This time I went for the obvious 2015 as my genuine desire is that it brings a new time of peace and love not only for us but for our little blue planet. Dreaming is my specialty...

Airplane and number are free cliparts; font is billow.

Beauty in red and green

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Audrey Hepburn

The theme this week in Take a Word is RED AND GREEN. 
I invoked - again - lovely Audrey to help me to accomplish the task...

I'm sending you a big and warm bear hug and my wishes of a wonderful Christmas.

Mask: Studio Manu; texture: Kim Klassen; bokeh overlay: Shadowhouse Creations.

My kind of angel

Take a Word asked for ANGELS and here it is my own version of them: a lovely kid with butterfly wings.

I was searching for a meaningful quote on angels and stumbled with something better, quotes from children about angels:

"Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it." - Olive, age 9

"It's not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven, and then there's still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes." - Matthew, age 9

"Angels talk all the way while they're flying you up to heaven. The main subject is where you went wrong before you got dead." - Daniel, age 9

"My guardian angel helps me with math, but he's not much good for science." - Henry, age 8

"What I don't get about angels is why, when someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them." - Sarah, age 7

"Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his son, who's a very good carpenter." - Jared, age 8

"I hear funny angels all the time in my dreams. And I'm sticking with that no matter how many people tell me I'm crazy". - Molly, age 8

Butterfly wings: Createwings Designs; texture: Shadowhouse Creations; papers: Zeldona Mellowmint and fredthecow stock; quotes are here.