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

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

dominoes@myinkspired.com

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

YELLOW!

sanibonani

(Zulu for hello, to multiple people)

translates to mean 'we see you',

and your response should be

"yebo", meaning 'yes'.

kirigami with stamped/colored flower by inkspired

So happy you stopped by!

Today is simply a

YELLOW DAY!!

I think yellow is so cheerful and happy.

Too bad I can't type in yellow,

but you would be grumpy with me at the end of the blog if I did.

Instead, I will share yellow in photos,

paintings, rubber stamped cards, drawings...you get the idea!

Now yellow comes in many different shades.

And some unexpected things are shades of yellow,

like mermaids.

Who knew?

pitchmom from etsy

and mermaid hair -

and rubber duckies

There's yellow shoes -

 http://www.poordogfarm.etsy/

original Collage Art Doll

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

and yellow curtains -

yellow skies and yellow pirates -

The blue fairy book,

painting by Frank Godwin, 1931

paper cutting, unknown artist

recycled bottlecap magnets, http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

We have yellow letters:

recycled bottlecaps

with hand colored Art Nouveau Alphabet letters

recycled bottlecap with junk mail paper scrap

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

There's yellow fruit, and of course yellow flowers

some perhaps not as well known:

 vintage fruit crate label

 yellow sea flowers

yellow tulip stamped with cut kirigami background by inkspired

'Fairy with Golden Flower', original Collage Art Doll by inkspired

Yellow fluttering things

stamped card with kirigami background, inkspired

vintage illustration from "The Turned Into's"

Yellow things that

peep,

skitter,

and woof:

 kirigami and stamped card by inkspired

hand painted and stamped domino magnet by inkspired

and some that even roar!!!

hand stamped tri-fold card, unknown artist

Did you know that some rocks are yellow?

 rockin' art by inkspired

 custom order school bus, http://www.billierocks.etsy.com/

yellow turtle http://www.europeforcharity.etsy.com/

I have loved yellow dresses ever since I can remember,

so here are some fun ones:

 vintage dress patterns

 free paperdoll courtesy of OrigamiBears

vintage beverage poster

I couldn't possibly forget Liana's beautiful paper doll costumes -

from Liana's Paper Boutique line, from earlier in her artistic career

Next up I have yellow moons,

and a yellow flag

All of these scenery type cards can be found on stampscapes web site

I adore their stamps, and own a few myself.

Well, okay, maybe more than just a few....

Joan of Arc, painting by Frank Godwin

Next we have yellow scherensnitte,

yellow kirigami

and yellow cut paper art -

 kirigami cake doilies, and kirigmai decorating stencil

 http://www.yorokobinokatachi.come/

 kirigami made into a card, inkspired

decorated blown eggs, with paper cuttings

Well, it's that time again,

where I must say good bye,

until tomorrow.

Perhaps we will follow a path,

a yellow path,

and in time we will meet

to say hello!

 http://www.laybacklarry.com/

 yellow road markings, Maui, Hawaii

 http://www.miriadna.com/

'summer home cabin', by Cindy Smith; stampscapes

It's time for me to go eat....

some yellow food!!!

inkspired

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

dominoes@myinkspired.com

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