Love Is All Around

Hello!

I am in love with this pair - Mo Manning's digital images "Oskar" and "Mummu" - they have my heart. 

In June, I posted a card http://www.whimcees.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-06-15T10:35:00-04:00&max-results=10&start=30&by-date=false using these two digital images for the first time and I wrote how they reminded me of a favorite uncle and aunt - my father's brother Hank and his wife Sally. My father and his family came to America from Denmark when he was a child. He was the youngest so here the longest and as an adult he had very little Danish accent left to his speech (although he said that he still thought in Dane) but most all of the rest of his siblings, especially the older ones, had the old country accent and way of speaking. These two remind me so much of the old country and Hank and Sally.

My aunt, uncle and my father have all passed but these two images bring back many memories of them all - one was the dancing. All of us cousins learned to dance with our parents - on the weekends at the local Moose Club where our fathers served as president. We learned the waltz, the polka, the shotishe, the two-step, the hootchy kootchy - yes that is a dance! :<) All of the classic ballroom dances and then some! Our parents were all beautiful dancers and we started young - standing on their feet while they did the steps across the dance floor.

Everything on the two images is paper pieced with the exception of the skin and hair. I used two patterned papers and even the small hearts on her skirt and the barrett in her hair are pieced. I am entering this card in the current challenge on Mo Manning's Challenge Blog at http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/ where the theme is "Love is All Around" - and Oskar & Mummu and/or Hank & Sally share an abundance! When they dance together they are in a magic world of their own. 

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today! Wishing you love all around you - and dancing!

Barbara Diane