Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

 Coinciding with Valentine's Day, Tag Tuesday's current theme is "Love/Hearts" .  My tag is inspired by the song:  … What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No not just for some, but for everyone … This tag features a postage stamp issued in 1995 by Australia Post to mark Valentine's Day. The rest of the tag involved some fussy cutting from old magazine pages and a few little "doll buttons". So simple but I hope it conveys the message.

At Tag Tuesday this last fortnight , Michele    chose the theme "Baby Love" with the idea of Mother's Day on the calendar.  Thank you Michele, great idea!  I drew and collaged this tag on Mother's Day last Sunday. It is such a simple idea - I sketched and coloured the two faces, looking wistfully out of a window, or at least that is the impression I was aiming for. The pot plants are cutouts from a magazine, and I re-coloured them with pencils. Their dresses are also paper cutouts from the same magazine. I may have stretched the "baby" into "toddler" but hope this interpretation fills the brief. I made a tag quite a few years ago for Tag Tuesday and some of the TT regulars will recognise it, but thought it was worth pulling it our of the box again... yes it's me as a baby.

Day 14 of the 29 Faces Art Challenge - Happy Valentine's Day. Even if you don't celebrate this event or like the commercial hype which often surrounds the day, "go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the people you meet" (Mother Teresa) #29faces Days 1-13 

What a surprise to me, who loves eating Christmas fruit cake, that in a survey about what people did with fruit cake that only 28% said they ate it!  The other results in a survey conducted in "The New York Times"  reported that a research firm polled 1,000 people indicated that:  38% said they gave it away  28% said they ate it  13% used it as a doorstop  9% scattered it for birds  and 8% said they couldn't remember.....   A fairly negative result for the fruitcake in the popularity stakes.  I must emphasise that this survey was completed in USA and some years ago in the late 1990's.  Even in the USA, the fruitcake's popularity differs in the Southern states where about 40% admitted to loving fruitcake. So like all statistics, how well do the figures reflect the reality  and how many factors  need to be considered ? However many surveys on fruitcake we look at - it appears that I was wrong in thinking everyone li...