Splish Splashin' in the Rain

SPLASH!!!

c.1912 Rain Drops Novelette 

vintage song sheet graphics

Ain't no little drip drip here...
        it's all splash,
                      Splash,
                           SPLASH!!

vintage French paper doll with raincoat and umbrella

thanks to origamibears!

Yep, we have enough rain now,

thank you God.

c.1907 'Brother Noah Gave out Checks for Rain'

vintage song sheet graphics courtesy of Indiana Music Libraries

I sure am glad that Noah went through the earth-covering drench and floods instead of me.

Still, some days here it seems like God is going for another flood.....

vintage paper doll with rain gear

But God keeps His promises.

He has set the rainbow in the sky to remind us

that He will never flood the entire earth again....

c.1922 'After The Rain Song'

I think I'll go outside and look for one today!!

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Just to make sure He hasn't changed His mind!!!

c.1919 'After the Shower'

Which is, of course, pure silliness.

God doesn't change His mind!

paper doll with raincoat

courtesy of bonecasadepapel.blogspot.com

paper doll with coat/raincoat

courtesy of bonecasadepapel.blogspot.com

I know that other places around the globe have received scads more rain than we have here in the Rocky Mountains and foothills, in the form of

hurricanes and floods and tornadoes

and all sorts of weather-nasties that bring

 bucket-loads of water.

c.1908 'Any Old Port in a Storm'

However,

whenever things happen to yourself 

or your friend down the street

it seems so much more immediate, more real

doesn't it?

vintage paper dolls with pink raincoat

My heart goes out to the many many people

that have lost their homes, and loved ones.

c.1907  'I Miss You like the Roses Miss the Rain'

vintage Lace On doll with raincoat, hat and boots

I thought today would be a good day
for
RAINCOATS AND UMBRELLAS!!!

vintage paper doll with raincoat and umbrella

Don't forget to add tabs!

vintage French paper doll with raincoat, hat and umbrella

"The sun'll come out

tomorrow!..."

...song clip from musical 'Annie'

c.1913

'It Takes a Little Rain with the Sunshine to Make the World Go Round'

vintage paper doll with raincoat and galoshes

courtesy origamibears

Well, that concludes my rain-filled blog of today!


"The older one gets the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed;
it is a precious gift.
Comparable to a state of grace."

-Marie Curie

c.1920 "Rain"

If you are stuck inside I hope my 
plethora* of paper dolls 
and vintage song sheet covers 
have inspired you to have some fun....
in spite of the rainy day!

*wonderful word! it means: lots and lots!

paper doll set by John Axe - personal use only please!


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"Autumn's Fair Maid"

original Collage Paper Painting by inkspired

using all recycled junk mail

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A Mary Poppins kind of day

Hello!
We have had several days of rainy and grey all day long.
A good, soaking kind of rain.
Our grass in the front is loving it!

A rainy day is a good day to stay inside, and play...

I think it just might be a Mary Poppins kind of day!


We sat down as a family last week and watched "Mary Poppins".

I never get tired of that movie.

Makes me smile just thinking about it -

I mean, come on - talking parrot head umbrella?

a mirror image that sings better than you do?

Chim Chim Cheree Chim Cheroo -

they just don't have quality words like that in today's music....

Oh wait,

I think every generation has said that about their kid's music!!!

Dick Van Dyke

With all the new fangled machines we have now, like a gas burning furnace...
I think perhaps we have forgotten a very important lesson:

It's good luck when you shake hands
with a chimney sweep!

Better get out those yellow pages,

unless you happen to know a chimney sweep already!

The roof top dance sequence is really quite amazing!

Every time I see Mary Poppins powder her face with coal dust, I laugh!

When I was little, no matter how many times we had seen the movie, I always had to point out to the whole family -

 "Look! She's powdering her nose with black!!"

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you've imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Oh Bert, it's really quite simple..."

Bert, Mary, Jane and Michael by Barbie

"Don't live down to expectations.

Go out there and do something remarkable."

- Wendy Wasserstein

Time for a little penguin love...

Looking toward more sunny skies....

Have a super-cali-fragilistic kind of day!

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