Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

  Who's feeling lucky this week? Perhaps it's time for a game of bingo. Bingo is the current theme for Tag Tuesday, nominated by design team member, Michele. I made a couple of tags. One explores the theme of  taking chances and luck - with a background of an instant lottery ticket, an image of a vintage bingo card and a miniature playing card  with a few scattered stickers and a "sticky" tape transferred quote. The others is simple a pen and watercolour drawing of a bingo player all ready to win!  I also found out some interesting information about Bingo, as I was curious about  the word itself  Bingo is the American version of a game that originated as an Italian Lottery called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia” that was all the rage dating back as far as the mid-1500s. When the game reached North America in 1929 it was known as “beano” but later renamed bingo after a caller yelled out "BINGO" instead of beano .  90-ball bingo (also known as...

It's Tag Tuesday 's theme of 'Floral' that promoted these drawings . I'm travelling with limited supplies so here are my ink and watercolour sketches . Last year I did a series of these kinds of drawings on some recycled book pages but for these ones, I used some 'reject' Eco- dyed khadi paper for the tag bases. 

 Here is another "Paris" tag for Tag Tuesday - a little sketch with  pen and watercolours.... nowhere in particular, but hopefully  it is reminds you of a Parisian cafe...  Remember to check out all the links to fantastic tags from the   Tag Tuesday site

Not a celebrity for an Australian summer Christmas, but Frosty the Snowman - watercolour, and ink - Wilma Simmons F is for Frosty the Snowman... and Frosty is certainly a popular character in that popular December song, Frosty the Snowman where there is likely to be a 'white' Christmas. In this cheery song, Frosty is magically brought to life when children dress him in a hat... and so, Frosty enjoys dancing and prancing around, until he meets with a problem with the police, and leaves only to promise a return. Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose There must have been magic in that old silk hat they found For when they placed it on his head, He began to dance around ... He led them down the streets of town, right to the traffic cop And only paused a moment when he heard him holler 'Stop' For Frosty the Snowman, had to hurry on his way; But he waved them goodbye, sayin' "Don't cry, I'll be back a...

"She didn't claim to see the fairies or hear their music, but she did find the fairy rings of dark grass, sprinkled with toadstool left by their dancing feet. "  Having completed a small watercolour and ink sketch this week led me to thinking about  "fairies in the garden". I remembered a story of an amazing hoax  by two young girls in 1917.  Have you heard of the Cottingley Fairies? Much has been written about the five photographs produced by two cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in Yorkshire, England. I would love to show  here all  five photos but there is some controversy about the copyright of the photos and I would not like to be in any sort of dispute about the use of them. However, they are reproduced on these sites - click on the word link to see the photos  : 1. Wikipedia   2. Museum of Hoaxes 3. The Telegraph - Five Famous Hoaxes   Elsie and Frances took  photos with a quarter plate camera in their garden ...