Lamb, Daffodil & Easter

Welcome!

All kaleidoscopes are by inkspired and KaleidoCam 

“I have seen the Lady April bringing

the daffodils,

Bringing the springing grass and the

soft warm April rain.”

-John Masefield

Posted on Pinterest from the Daily Mail

I found this adorable lamb and daffodil photo,

and knew what I had to post today.

Lambs

&

Daffodils

 Vintage greeting card

What could be more Springtime-y?

Vintage graphics posted by

Bumblebutton.blogspot.com

‘...Come and let us seek together

Springtime lore of daffodils,

Giving to the golden weather

Greeting on the sun-warm hills.’

-Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘Tahiti’ double Narcissus posted by Colorblends.com, Pinterest

What are some things that we see

and immediately think of -

Spring!

Easter!

 Vintage Easter graphics by Vintageholidays.tumblr.com

For me, that would be

Lambs

Daffodils

and Decorated Eggs.

Vintage graphics
Posted by amybarickman.com

But not necessarily in that order!

Vintage Easter card, happyholidays.ca

...and really, you have to throw in a few

Ducklings

Chicks

and Bunnies!

Painted rock, homahomi.14mag.co

Unknown artist

Enhanced with my photo apps,

By Unknown photographer and inkspired

My daffodils are blooming now! 

Vintage Easter card, gallery.ru

And Now It’s Spring
By Lhtheaker

“The grass is green across the hill,
But yellow blooms the daffodil.
It’s sunshine on a little stalk,
A friendly flower, I bet they talk...

Of little kids, too long inside
They burst outdoors to play and hide.
Tracking mud and bringing bugs.
Look, there’s footprints on the rug!...
....”

1929 magazine cover art by Jessie Wilcox Smith

Just the Right Shoe, Raine Willets

Isabel Florrie Saul, British artist, born 1895



Let’s find a fun Springtime craft!

If you crochet...these are quite pretty:

There are many free patterns on Pinterest,
Or some you pay for like those above.

These below are free, offered by
Your Crochet

Don’t crochet? That’s okay!

How about these lovely beaded daffodils?

By Lauren Harpster, vk.com

Still not your style?

How about paper flowers!

 Made from upcycled egg cartons!
AllFreeKidsCrafts, Pinterest

You can find a similar pattern at
eHow.com

3 D pop up daffodil card

By Red Ted Art

 Still not your thing?

Then get out your printer, and scissors!

joan walsh anglund Easter fun page

joan walsh anglund paper doll page

Isn’t she cute?
I have followed Ms. Anglund’s art since school years.

Tip:
Print the pages out. 
Trim roughly around the paper dolls.
Glue them to the opened up inside of a 
cereal cardboard box.
Then cut out!
This is especially great for base paper dolls.
Use regular printer paper for the outfits.

Here is one last daffodil for you -

A 1913 postcard, posted on Pinterest by Coco K

Have a dilly-dally
Daffodilly kind of day!

‘Til next time,
inkspired

Truth of the day:
Usually experienced before 10am or coffee.
Do not attempt to play with the dog.
Do not attempt to throw a toy in the house.
It frustrates and startles the dog,
the loud crashing noise of vases and trinkets
will only irritate your significant other,
and then you have a sharp mess to deal with.
(Suggest you wait on clean-up until
After 10am, and or coffee.)

A Blue, Blue Snow Day

Welcome!

Kaleidoscope by inkspired 

Are you stuck at home,

snow covering your driveway

and feeling oh so blue?

The Dog, checking out the snow level

Photo cred: K.Kloberdans

Too bored to even nap?

Don’t want to play with your toys?

Ignoring a new squeakie toy

Photo cred: K.Kloberdans

Snow, snow go away...

Don’t come back

Any other day...

Kaleidoscope by inkspired

Well, let’s just give in

and have a 

Blue, Blue Snow Day!

‘Fade-away girl’ by American painter Coles Phillips

You can always sit and enjoy a good book!

What else could you do?

How about drawing a few Zentangles

With a blue pen of course!

Original zentangle by inkspired

Or

Get out your beads.

Blue beads of course!

 Beaded chain purse, Art Deco era

Original design beaded bracelet by inkspired

No Beads?

How about playing with a fun app

From The App Store - 

 Using a photo app to play with color and textures

Using a photo app to mimic colored pencils

(Zeus, a rescue boy from the Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue)

Still bored?

Blah?

I bet a little humor could cheer you up!

Found on Pinterest

Found on Pinterest

 An original kaleidoscope by inkspired

If you have a paper cutting machine,

You can make cards.

Blue cards that don’t remind you of

Snow.

Cards by Cricut and inkspired 

No cutting machine?

How about stamps?

What! NO RUBBER STAMPS?

Wow, you really are unprepared for a snow day!

Okay, last suggestion - 

Jigsaw Puzzles

1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle by Cobble Hill

 1,000 piece puzzle, Hometown series by artist Heronim

‘Dragonboat Festival’

I hope you have enjoyed this fun blog.

Now you go do something fun!

...or take a nap like The Dog...

The Dog in nap position

Zzzzzzzz......

‘Til next time,

inkspired

Truth:

I do not, now or ever, want to see any tattoos

that should be covered up by clothing.

Really.

Little Bo Peep Nursery Rhymes with Mother Goose

BAAAAHHH!

(that's sheep talk for Good Morning!)

Little Bo Peep Barbie, 1996

Let' have fun with Little Bo Peep

and her numerous, naughty sheep!

vintage illustration

Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,

            And can’t tell where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they’ll come home

            And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,

            And dreamt she heard them bleating;

But when she awoke, she found it a joke,

            For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

            Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,

            For they’d left all their tails behind ‘em!

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

            Unto a meadow hard by –

There she espied their tails, side by side,

            All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,

            And over the hillocks she raced;

And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,

            That each tail should be properly placed.



I love this version of Little Bo Peep,

with all the verses!

It's a fun, rhyming ditty

on the life of a little shepherdess,

and a flock of rebellious, forgetful sheep!

 

by Scott Gustafson

Let's try out some scherensnitte with sheep:

from an out-of-print BackStreet Original

Scherensnitte Booklet

Cut this from a pretty blue paper, and then back it with linen white.

Cute!

Perfect for a nursery,

or a sheep farmer,

or shabby chic decorating

or....

another scherensnitte papercutting pattern

of Miss Peep, looking for her sheep....

handmade by gfelted on etsy.com

I always have to play

with my paper dolls -

These are paperdolls from Denmark.

I love her storybook costumes.

These are from a vintage McCall's magazine.

I can't quite read the date, but the note with it says 1925 - 1929.

unknown printing date, vintage song sheet

Of course, no day would be complete

without a little coloring:

Perhaps the little sheep weren't really naughty, they just wandered into a maze like this:

Actually, I think this is just a geometric sakura flower coloring page.

Did I get you to try it out as a maze?

:0)

vintage Little Golden Book of Rhymes & Fairy Tales

I will be out of town for a couple of days, so there won't be blogs for Wednesday

or

Thursday.

Why not have some fun, and browse through my past blogs?!

My husband reminds me I don't have to

write a book in every blog!

A fun little beaded safety pin

pin for you to make.

Look up directions on a previous blog.

You could also use this as a beading pattern -

Use large pony beads if you want.

Or use the little seed beads that I love so much!

You could make several in a row, and turn it into a beaded bracelet.

Next is an example of

Papel Picado

(or Mexican Papercutting):

Have a super-duper couple of days.

 

papel picado

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