Comments and Digital Montages

A Festival of Light for a Challenge on Art Creations Friday

For Challenge #25 Keys on Three Muses

Soartful Man's Best Friend Challenge I chose to enhance the dogs rather that ornament them.

For Challenge #49 on Art Creations Friday

Done for a Challenge on Art on the Darkside

Soartful Seed Packet Challenge

Done for the 'Pairs' challenge on Three Muses challenge The Plaster-of-Paris figurines, showing a pair of boys on a chamber pots, date from the 1908 or earlier. They used to sit in my Aunt Gertie's washroom. Knowing that her health was failing she asked us each to pick a favourite item from her ornaments. Passing by the Royal Doulton's I chose "Billy Can and Can't. They are Billikens With their pointy little heads, grinning faces, slitty eyes, round bellies and hands tightly pressed against the sides of their naked bodies, billikens were a craze. From about 1908 to 1911, Americans gave them as good luck charms in the form of tiny statues, postcards, coins and banks. My Billikens were probably given out as Carnival prizes.