A Playful Perspective

 Whichever way

 You look at it

It's the weekend.

Time to bring some colour and fun into your lives

Enjoy! 

Give Me Three #25

Shmankevich A. There are Carp in the World*

 Illustrations B. Zhutovski.
M, Children's World, 1963

A. Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking 1968

Illustrations by A.Tokmakov

Aleksin A. Sunny Picture*.
Illustrations V. Galdyaeva.
M Little, 1967

Yipee!

It's Friday, we made it to the end of the week.

I thought we'd celebrate with three colourful vintage children's books

via

Da-zdra-per-m

* Google Translation

Da Studio

If you are in need of inspiration, a pick me up, a short break or a reason to smile

Sit down for ten minutes and watch some of these short animations from
Da Studio.

You don't need to understand Russian to enjoy this work - the images speak for themselves.

Set up in 2008,  Da Studio is an animation project involving, artists, animators, psychologists and teachers, all dedicated to helping children in difficult situations. Animation is used as art therapy, bringing  together and benefiting children undergoing long-term treatment in hospitals or in hospices, mentally or physically handicapped children and orphans. As you can see from the site (switch on a translation tool), the children are included in the creative process, coming up with scenarios, drawing characters, animating and recording sound. 

A joy to see. It made my day, anyway.

Miles Smiles

Yes, he's a Smiler our little Miles

Most of the time

Happy 6th Birthday Milesy

Je t'aime mon petit bonhomme! 

Inspiration: Trula Kids

 

 She has a way of capturing those special moments

A knack for making everything such fun

A gift for creating with a needle and thread

And quite frankly, anyone who has issues with Barbie is most definitely a friend of mine!

Trula Kids

 Extraordinary everyday life in Barcelona

A new love.

all images courtesy of Trula

First Steps

Dominique - 16 Months Old, August 1969

(click to enlarge)

I love this black and white photo of my husband, curly-haired and carefree, running off in the garden.

It's my image of the day, and the start of a new photo feature called "First Steps". Next week, I'll be digging out a few of my own photos and then I will be inviting some of you, my blogging pals, to share a picture or two on Kickcan & Conkers.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Inspiration: The Puppet Show

 

 Les Quatre Cents Coups - François Truffaut (59)

More beautiful images here

Soviet Kids

Just a few of the photos I liked in this set of photos
Looking back at USSR
English Russia

Our Children

It's Earth Day today, time to reflect and act for our planet and it's people.

I'd like to take this opportunity to show you a few photos from sister's recent trip to Uganda, where she was working as a volunteer in an orphanage.