September National Honey Month

Assalamou Alykoum

Islamic Greeting

means peace be upon you

September is National Honey Month

Hooray for the humble bee!!

illustration of Roman beekeepers

So, does anyone know why this design of honey dipper works? It really does reduce the drips and strings of honey - but why?

Here is a Swedish one-page paperdoll:

A Big Congrats to Miss Angola.

Her response to the question in Miss Universe 2011 was perfect.

"If you could change one thing about your body, what would it be?"

"I would change nothing. I have inner beauty, and that's what counts."

I've paraphrased, so google Miss Universe 2011 and you can read more in depth.

Oh yes, and she won the title Miss Universe 2011!!

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"If you want to gather honey,

don't kick over the beehive."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing but Money

is sweeter than honey."

- Benjamin Franklin

www.smilesophie.etsy.com

a favorite cereal!

"No bees, no honey;

no work, no money."

- Proverb quote

found at http://thinkexist.com

Here is another bear paper doll.

I love the illustrations with this one.

1960's vintage honey pot for sale at

www.WillowCreekSparrow.etsy.com

"When you shoot an arrow of truth,

dip its point in honey."

- Arab Proverb

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

- Marcus Aurelius

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vintage illustration

"We're all busy little bees, full of stings,

making honey day and night,

aren't we honey?"

- Bette Davis

found at www.honeything.com

www.TheIslandBunnysAttic.etsy.com

www.PhylsFinds.etsy.com

another one of my favorite ways to eat honey!

"The pedigree of honey

Does not concern the bee;

A clover, any time, to him

Is aristocracy."

- Emily Dickinson

found at www.benefits-of-honey.com/bee-quotes.html

c.1906

I have enjoyed finding honey/bee quotes for today.

www.domeafavor.com

vintage salt and pepper shakers, www.cybersenora.etsy.com

This next bee molds are just so perfect!

They are meant for cookies, I believe,

but you can also use soap, clay and other materials.

www.TartMoldsByK.etsy.com

You should go hug your honey today!

and please, please, please

leave the bees alone, and they will leave you alone.

Bees are an important part of our eco-system.

:0)

p.s. it would make a little cute bear pretty happy too

inkspired

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dominoes@myinkspired.com

Last Minute August Holidays

Bueno!

(Spanish for hello)

Just in the nick of time...

we have some last days of August holidays to celebrate!

In no partial order, let's start with

Peach Month - August 1 - 31

"I don't like people,

But I like individuals."

- Edward Abbey

 

"Love beauty;

it is the shadow of God on the universe."

- Gabriela Mistral

recycled/upcycled bottlecap magnets

with a hand tweaked and

hand colored Art Nouveau Alphabet

by inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

Second, we have

National Catfish Month

August 1 - 31

a blue catfish

I must admit, fishing has never been my thing.

Looking for photos to go with the Catfish Month, I was really grossed out!

Catfish are mean-ugly!

So, I have chosen illustrations for Catfish Month:

www.supercoloring.com

http://www.tonyabond.etsy.com/

 

 

http://www.sophytuttle.etsy.com/

I mean, really, people eat these things?

Next and finally we have

National Toasted Marshmallow Day!

August 30

Now here's a day I can celebrate!

Toasted marshmallows and camping go hand in hand.
I like to think my Dad was the camping expert of his time.

He trained many men and women to be great camping experts world wide.

Go DT!

I have spent many evenings growing up around a campfire,

roasting marshmallows.

I could generally do without the chocolate or graham crackers,

but those yummy, crisp and gooey marshmallows...

http://www.us.monin.com/

Just sounds yummy, doesn't it?

Here is a must-have for all those chilly evenings around the fire:

toasted marshmallow charms by

http://www.chibibeebee.deviantart.com/

So, on the way home from picking up the kids from school,

or going home from work,

or on the way back from your workout,

pick up some marshmallows!

okay,

you can get the Hershey's chocolate bars and box o' graham crackers too!

and maybe a peach or two...

http://www.pennypantry.com/

See you tomorrow!

inkspired

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http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

A Mermaid Monday

aloha

[Hawaiian for hello]

a fun series of digitally altering famous people into other things,

like a merman - Jim Carrey

Today is a mermaid kind of day.

I'm hoping to see the mermaids in the new Pirates of the Caribbean soon.

I like unusual mermaids,

and pretty mermaids.

You can leave me out when it comes to

'let's make an almost pornographic image/photo/painting,

pop it into a mermaid costume and call it a mermaid' arena.

I don't particularly like ugly mermaids either.

You know, the scary ones with weird gill things going on

and talons instead of fingers.....

So

let's have a "nice" mermaid day today!

One of my mermaid Barbies. I try to collect them whenever I can.

very sorry, unknown artist

Do you know who painted this? Let me know:

dominoes@myinkspired.com

"Mermaid Sighting"

Anne Hathaway

No decent mermaid day would be complete

without a lovely Liana's mermaid costume:

These are from her Paper Boutique line of paper dolls.

These next costumes fit her newer dolls, facing to the left.

Why not get out just a few beads, and make up this quickie mermaid pattern?

'Mermaid Mini'

Get out a few more beads,

take some more time, and make this 'down under' mermaid:

"I'm tired of all this nonsense

 about beauty being only skin deep.

That's deep enough.

What do you want -

an adorable pancreas?"

- Jean Kerr

a Laurel Birch mermaid fabric, made into pincushion,

www.RoundRobinFabrics.etsy.com

a Heritage stencil

These mermaids are all hand painted!

www.GlassGemsbyChristine.etsy.com

These next mermaids are just a few of the

Collage Art Doll Mermaids that I have made.

I use all recycled junk mail to create and hand cut

my costumes, tails, purses, hair, etc.

I have so much fun making these, it hardly seems like working!

"Blue, blue mermaid"

by inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

"Shopping for Lunch" mermaid

Collage Art Doll by inkspired

"Mermaid Pearls" original Collage Art Doll by inkspired 

 "Blue Hair With Pearls"

Collage Art Doll Mermaid by inkspired

"Lagoon Pearls" Collage Art Doll original

"Seriousness is the only refuge

of the shallow."

- Oscar Wilde

Mermaid Lagoon Limited Edition pin, Disney, from 'Peter Pan'

Mermaid pin by Kati Savage

Mermaid in Art Deco style

vintage cover of Life magazine

photo by Rene Maltete

original painting by joojoo, etsy

'Mermaid in the Sea' pincushion by http://www.pattidolls.etsy.com/

Mermaid musings...

enough for a little while!

Is there a subject you would like me to cover?

Let me know

dominoes@myinkspired.com

"Everything you can imagine

is real."

- Pablo Picasso

sending calming breezes and mermaid good wishes your way,

inkspired

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dominoes@myinkspired.com

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/