Summer

or lack of it here in England! lol

this is for ThemeThursday

The Bad Daughter

When I saw one of Lisa's Altered Art new sheets I just HAD to use this image and phrase! I was always the 'rebel', the 'naughty' child, the black sheep of the family. So this really tickled me!

I'm entering it for Opus Gluei theme Girl Things

Postmark Paris

I've made these 2 atc's for the3muses challenge blog... using Lisa's Altered Art images.

TFL

Mandy ♥

SPA Vintage Men

wow! 2 weeks of non-posting. Not intentional... I had made several pieces for challenges etc, however, somehow they didn't make it onto the scanner or my blog!

Here's this week's postcard for SPA

Here's the postcard I made for last week's theme of "ME"
TFL and thanks for all your condolences for Harvey

Mandy ♥

My little cat Harvey. RIP

Yesterday, poor little Harvey yesterday got knocked down by a car and her whole body was broken. It was so pitiful, sadly she died whilst I was waiting to take her to the emergency vet. She was such a lovely little cat. She was only 2 years old.

She was called Harvey after Harvey 2-face in Batman basically because she had half a ginger face and half a black face.

She took care of both of the dogs and Austin our other cat. Myrtle (our youngest dog) was her little baby and she took care of her. One of the last things Harvey did was bring Myrtle home after she had run down the street.

It's been such an emotional couple of days.

RIP Harvey ♥♥♥

Sail the Seven Seas

this week's theme on SPA is BOATS.

I've been feeling very unmotivated just lately, everything seems too much bother and I'm disappointed I don't allow myself time to be more creative than I am being at the moment. I finally managed to get my postcard done... here it is!

TFL

Mandy ♥

Happy Hour!

Cheers everyone! This week on SPA, the wonderfully talented Victoria is our guest host. I've had some fun today with Amber, she is joining in also.

Here are my two entries...

More Tin in my Gonic Please

Amber's happy hour is spent with rainbows, fairies and mermaids.

TFL

Mandy ♥

Zetti

Here's a canvas I've made with some zetti images I put together. This week on Take A Word the theme is Zetti so I'm entering it, if a little late!

Food for Thought Stork

This week Kristin is our host on SPA... she's chosen STORK as the theme. I was going to go vintage baby-carrier but my wonderful daughter, creator of all things Octopode drew me a wonderful little stork boy... so I've quoted the Aesop's fable "The fox and the stork"

The background was made by Linda LiveArt ~ one of her creations that she shared with me! Stamping, colouring and gluing by me.

You've come a long way Baby!

Here's my baby girl Little A ~ she's now finished school except for exams.... what's a mother to do besides embarrass her girl on her blog!

Amber's first day at Landau Forte College

...5 years later

My beautiful baby girl all grown up!

Mandy xx

A very Strange Thing...

yes I'm talking about DADA ... This week on SPA Marion has challenged us all to make some anti-art, surreal collage DADA-ist type of art. Here's my attempt!

Mandy x

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Here's my entry and sample for this weeks Sunday Postcard Art.

I've used images from The Octopode Factory.