"Sea Monster Map" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"There Will Be Blood In The Water" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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When it rains, it pours
There will be blood in the water
Cold to the core

Live Like Legends - Ruelle

"Hic Sunt Connecticut Map 1891" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Maps."

This postcard is meant to be funny, and isn't meant to offend anyone living in the four sections of Connecticut. (I actually made this in 2019, but never found the "right time" to post it.)

CJ (over at CJ & Ink), sometimes jokingly says that she went to the land of Hic Sunt Draconis (Here There Be Dragons) and explained that, "To a Bostonian, anything beyond the outskirts of the city belongs in the dragon realm." So when I made a day trip to Bara-Hack - Pomfret, CT, I said I had gone to Hic Sunt Draconis. A short time after that, I decided to make a map that defined regions of Connecticut with similar "Hic Sunt" terms. I used Google translate to get the Latin expressions:

here there be people
hic sunt populus
(because of its proximity to New York City)

here there be ghosts
hic sunt manes
(because of Dudleytown - Cornwall, CT)

here there be dragons
hic sunt dracones
(because that's what I called it when I went to Bara-Hack - Pomfret, CT)

here there be sea monsters
hic sunt mare monstra
(because I needed something, and it's along the coast, where everyone knows sea monsters lurk ;-)

I created this using GIMP 2.10.14.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Evil Eye Curse" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.6.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Turquoise Lime / Golden Mermaid" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Turquoise and Lime."

I started this by "stamping" two different ephemera backgrounds on a white postcard. Next, I blotted on turquoise and lime green splotches of color. I "stamped" a fish ornament at the top. Then I placed part of a poem about mermaids on this. I used the golden mermaid for a focal point, and included turquoise colored dolphin/sea monsters.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.22.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Nautical Ship Anchor" - Postcard

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I made a nautical / ship anchor themed piece, using some of the same images as my Seahorse piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Journal Front Accordion Pocket

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I created a front accordion pocket for the weekly planner/journal that I'm using for my Book of Days.

The images are from an Internet search.

The master index for all of my entries is here.

Ship Lion, Sea Monster - Photograph

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I took these photographs of the decorative carvings on a ship in the pier in Cape Cod, Provincetown, MA this past week.