Hello lovely friends and welcome back to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day! This is the third day of my fourteen days of vintage Valentines; here is my vintage card that I have created. I have used this beautiful photo and papers from Digital Curio over on Etsy.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Day Three ~ Valentine greetings!
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Day Two~ Vintage Valentine Tarot cards
'There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart'
~ Jane Austin
Hello lovely friends and welcome back to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day! This is the second day of my fourteen days of vintage Valentines; here are some vintage Valentine Tarot cards that I have created. I have used these wonderful images and papers. The striped paper is from the pure love atc sheet from Gecko Galz and the gingham and music sheet papers are from my own stash.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Day one ~ special delivery!
Hello and welcome to my blog!
Hello lovely friends and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day! I wanted to create some very special creations to celebrate Valentines month; so I have designed this blog! Here you will find lots of vintage creations for the next Fourteen days up until February 14th.
I really appreciate you stopping by and please have fun visiting here to see all of my designs and to collect your freebie Valentine images every day!
The story of Cupid and Psyche:
In 1694 Luca Giordano was appointed painter to Charles II of Spain. The set of paintings on copper illustrates the story of Cupid and Psyche from the Golden Ass by the 2nd century writer Apuleius, which was well known at the Spanish court. The series may be unfinished as the twelve surviving paintings tell only half the story. This is rare for Giordano, whose facility with a brush was legendary-he was called 'Luca fa presto' (Luca the fast worker) The story Psyche is so beautiful that the jealous goddess Venus commands her son Cupid to make her fall in love with an unworthy man. However, Cupid falls in love with Psyche himself. Concerned about Psyche's lack f suitors, her parents consult the oracle of Apollo. They are told that Psyche's future husband is a monster and that she must be abandoned on top of a mountain. The west wind, Zephyrus saves her and carries her to Cupid's palace. Cupid visits Psyche only at night and forbids her to make any attempt to see him. Psyche is curious abut her lover's appearance and is fearful after her two jealous sisters convince her that Cupid is a serpentine monster. Urged on by them she conceals a lamp and knife in her bedchamber. When Cupid is asleep, Psyche illuminates his beautiful figure with the lamp, but a drop of hot oil accidently wakes him. Angrily he flies off with Psyche clinging desperately to his ankle. Psyche tries to drown herself but Pan tells her to win back Cupid's love. Venus sets Psyche a series of increasingly difficult tasks. Although Psyche fails the final task, the gods make her immortal and she is reunited with Cupid.
Day Three ~ Valentine greetings!
Hello lovely friends and welcome back to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day! This is the third day of my fourteen days of vinta...
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Hello lovely friends and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day! I wanted to create some very special creations to celebrat...
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor H...
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'There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart' ~ Jane Austin Hello lovely friends and welcome back to my blog! I hope you are ha...