Inspiration

Monday, February 22, 2010

European Street Team Challenge


Wow! Thank you Nicole, from UltimateOrganicSoap, for choosing my fish as the winner of last week's challenge! Actually, it was Nicole's son who apparently liked this underwater creature!
So, this week it's my turn to choose a theme and collect all the outstanding entries, present them here...and then to choose a winner, which is the hard part, because the EST is full of talented and hardworking artists!
The theme this week is close to me, for I love these creatures. They are familiar and yet mysterious. The theme is birds in literature, legend, mythology, religion or film. The subject is vast, but I know everyone has a favorite bird from a story. What about the dove who told Noah that the flood was over? Or the four and twenty blackbirds from the nursery rhyme? My favorite is the Raven from Poe's poem. Don't forget Aesop's fables, the albatross from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Quetzacoatl from Aztec mythology. Tell us of birds from African, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Mexican cultures. Show us a bird from your culture.

12 comments:

  1. difficult difficult.. but I'll see what I can think of in a sleeve form ;) haha

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  2. Beautiful theme, congrats on winning! I've got the Finnish mythology in my mind, hopefully will have some time to work on it.

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  3. Wonderful theme, Laura! Let me put on my thinking cap!

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  4. Congrats on winning the challenge! Absolutely wonderful theme! I'm sad that I'm too busy in the next week so I can't participate... :(

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  5. Congrats Laura! Wooow what a great theme.

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  6. congrats on winning !!
    I will not promise I can participate, but who knows?

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  7. This will stretch us all to be creative, which is a good thing! Good luck, all!

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  8. Congrats! And such a wonderful new theme! I'll do my best... :)

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  9. I love the new theme - never ending inspiration!

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  10. Congrats for winner! Theme is fantastic and really challenge!

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  11. congrats !!!
    awesome and wonderful idea. I LOVE it :)

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