ANZAC Day Red Poppies Mani - Lest We Forget

Today is a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps). A day to remember the sacrifice of all soldiers from the two countries who have died in the First World World, and to acknowledge the contribution and suffering of all those who have served.

As Kiwi (New Zealander) living in Australia, I feel Anzac Day is a national holiday I can affiliate with. Back in New Zealand, we would wear a cloth red poppy pin as a mark of remembrance. The poppies is a symbol of sacrifice - the blood lost - in war. "The connection between red poppies and fallen service personnel has its origins in the Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century; red or Flanders poppies were the first flowers to bloom over the graves of soldiers in northern France and Belgium".

From Brian Armstrong's Facebook

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row.

John McCrae (Canadian medical officer) 

Mani details: 

I tried to capture the gloomy-Saving-Private-Rayan feel by using:

Background: L'Oreal Color Riche Metropolitan and sponged Ozotic multichromes 730 and 505 on top

Poppies: butter London Pillar Box Red and Union Jack Black

Now, on the light side, time to have some Anzac biscuits! xx Ann