Beautiful music

Hi!
Just a quickie little blog today.  My back has been preventing me from spending much time typing on the computer.
:0(

I found this beautiful music clip that I thought you would all enjoy:

http://www.flixxy.com/trumpet-solo-melissa-venema.htm

I think she is amazing. I have never heard this piece of music, and it is just hauntingly beautiful.

Hope you enjoy!

'Lil Miss Muffet' collage paper painting

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One of my newest paper creations.

hugs,

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Little Miss Muffet, Tuffets and fun Spiders!

Hey y'all!

Little Miss Muffet detail of painting

by Scott Gustafson

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey.

Along came a spider,

Who sat down beside her,

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Poor little Miss Muffet!

Let's make some cute spiders,

so next time she won't be so frightened!

     

Spider Pretzels 

These arachnid treats are easy to make and they look positively lifelike
crawling across your child's snack plate.

For each:
2 round crackers (like Ritz)
2 teaspoons smooth peanut butter
8 small pretzel sticks
2 raisins

With the peanut butter, make a cracker sandwich.

Insert eight pretzel "legs" into the filling.

Place them 4 on one side, and 4 on the opposite side.

With a dab of peanut butter, set two raisin "eyes" on top, front.

Makes 1.

I do have a photo, but I can't figure out how to get it to the blog. Sorry.

Use your imagination, and I'm sure they will be cute!

So just what is a "tuffet"?

Well, it can be a little stool to sit on,

or it can be a patch of grass, like a tuft of grass.

In most of the pictures/illustrations/paintings that I have found,

Miss Muffet is sitting on a low stool.

A vintage Jessie Wilcox Smith postcard

Here is a great Spider Iris Folding pattern, courtesy of Chona:

If you can't quite remember how to do Iris Folding,

type into my search box "iris folding" and a nice tutorial should pop up,

along with several more patterns. These will be in different blogs.

1889 vintage illustration

There is a charming coloring page on Mary Engelbreit's web site:

http://www.maryengelbreit.com/

She has several super coloring pages!

I have a simple scherensnitte (papercutting) pattern for you next.

The pattern page has Little Miss Muffet on the top,

and Little Jack Horner on the bottom.

2 for 1!

vintage illustration, courtesy of http://www.mamalisa.com/

So what are curds and whey?

Sounds icky....

Whey is the watery part of milk that separates from the curds

when making cheese.

I kind of think of it as watery cottage cheese!

Miss Muffet embroidery pattern from TurkeyFeathers

Here is another fun 'Spider' to make!

Spider Pops

You will need:

black pipe cleaners (chenille stems)

Tootsie Pops (lollipops)

googly eyes

glue

1. Hold four pipe cleaners, center them at the base of the pop and

         wrap them around the stick once so there are 4 legs on each

         side of the round pop.

2. Bend the pipe cleaner ends of each leg to form eight feet. Just

         about 1/2" or so.

3. Glue on googly eyes to the bulb of the pop, in front.

4. Spiders can crawl around anywhere you want them to, on their 

          pipe cleaner legs!

Wouldn't these make cute Halloween party favors or hand-outs?

Note Miss Muffet's MUSHROOM tuffet!

courtesy of http://www.andrewfinnie.blogspot.com/

He creates interesting digital photography art.

I have had fun with Little Miss Muffet today.

This is the blog that I had done in July,

only to have blogspot eat it.

Grrr....

But I'm not mad today, so we had some tuffet-fun!

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A Few More of My Favorite Things

Allo!

"A Dr. Seavall's Success Story" 

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Well, I have a few stories to tell today!

First, why have I named one of my Collage Art Dolls after a mysterious 'Dr. Seavall'?

Answer: Dr. Seavall was my very good, perfectionist orthodontist. After I had been married a few years, my parents came into a small amount of $$. They gave both my sister and I the opportunity to get braces at that time - something they had always wanted to do for us, but never had the money.

With the $$ they gave me, and with the dental insurance program Michael had at work (Western Electric at the time) we were able to afford braces for me.

I am still grateful today.

'Jed Clampett' from Beverly Hillbillies

with a big smile

The dentist had told me that my teeth were so packed together, making it impossible to floss or clean properly, that I would lose most of my teeth by my 40's, or sooner.

Oh yeah, braces were sounding pretty darn good!

So there I was in my late 20's, with braces. None of those modern ones that are clear and hard to tell you have them. Nope. I got the heavy metal kind! For 3 years Dr. Seavall was a constant in my life. I do appreciate all the tweaking and all- he is a perfectionist you know! The last few months I carried Peter to all my appointments in a carry-cradle. Before that, trying to fit my pregnant person into chairs that mostly catered to children and teens; and trying to fit the tools tray over me - well, it was interesting to say the least!

So, I have dedicated a big smile Collage Art Doll to Dr. Seavall.

Thanks Dr. Seavall.

'The Andy Griffith Show'

A smile that Dr. Seavall would be proud of!



Okay, another story to tell -

Saturday I had a terrible headache all day long.

No way was I looking at a computer screen for any length of time, so no blog.

I always get irritated when I can't do my blog.

I love sharing my favorite things, learning with you about all sorts of creative things and just having fun.

Sigh.

Tigers - a favorite thing!

So here comes Sunday.

I worked quite hard and long to have a very nice blog, since I had missed the day before - a fun Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme blog.

Right before I publish, I always do a 'save now' so the blog gets all the last details that I have put in.

The 'save now' button has been frozen by a cryogenic Martian space ray. That's as good an explanation as any other one. Bottom line, my blog has been 'saved' only through the first 3 items.

WHAT????!!!

Yep, it won't save. It won't do anything. Well, it frustrated me to no end, but that doesn't count as doing anything.

Okay, I have had this happen before. I know what to do! I copy the whole blog, and put it safely into a Word Document.
Hah! I'll out-smart this ol' blog program!

Bob Newhart, looking smug, just like me!

I do some computer clicking, etc., get into a new post format, and copy and paste the whole thing from Word to the blog!

Oh yeah, I'm jiggy-with it...

It won't copy and past any of the graphics, pictures,

illustrations, etc. Only the words.

ONLY THE WORDS

Well, I am so shall we say 'upset' by this point, that I just had to go and watch a John Wayne movie.

No blog Sunday.

Who can be mad when John Wayne is saving the day, right?

My original intent for today's blog was to 'catch up' on a few things, and share some of my favorites. Guess I had to vent first!

And no, that isn't 'venti', like in a decaf, no foam, hazelnut latte'!

Which also happens to be my favorite coffee drink...

Let us get on with the fun!

Back in my May 1st blog -

"A few of my favorite things"

I had said I would give you the rest of the paper doll clothes from 'Liddle Kiddles'. Three pages worth to be exact.

So, a couple of months later, here they are!

For the 'Liddle Kiddle' dolls that these clothes fit, go back to my

May 1st blog to get the dolls.

This is not a complete set. I had 'Liddle Kiddles' when I was growing up, and I know there are more clothes out there, plus some more of the 'Liddle Kiddle' dolls. Perhaps one of you have them!

Please share!

Here are some other 'Liddle Kiddle' clothes, but they are not sized to fit. You will have to do a bit of tweaking.

from a 'Liddle Kiddle' Camelot set of paper dolls

Now, what else do I need to catch up on?

How about the rest of the 1985

'Friends Around the World' published by Current?

I have shared the base dolls, and a couple of costumes.

Let's just do the whole shebang now!

I just love this set! I love the detail put into the costumes, and all the extras each 'country' has with it. Enjoy!

Here are a few of my favorite 'famous' people:

Judy Garland

Sophie Loren

Vincent Price

and I also love the Muppet version: Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice!

Don Knotts in 'The Andy Griffith Show'

actually, Don Knotts in anything!

Lucille Ball

Carol Burnett

Sandra Bullock

and a favorite of mine since I first saw her in

Saturday Night Live, back in the 70's -

and here is Goldie Hawn in "Overboard" (one of my favorite movies) with one of the funniest impressions of a spoiled rich girl -

Well of course I could go on and on with favorite 'stars', but I really should finish breakfast, do some housework,  do laundry,

etc.

And who knows?

Maybe tomorrow we will have a nice blog about

Little Miss Muffet!

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