Peace, fall fashion and candy wrapper tutorial

Peace

The English word 'peace' is spoken in many countries.

Here are a few:

United States of America

United Kingdom

Ireland

Ukraine

Trinidad & Tobago

Sweden

Scotland

Romania

Portugal

Barbados

Canada

Hong Kong

Jersey

Malta

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I find this time of year to be very calming and contemplative.

Today is is cloudy skies, with a light breeze.

Our high temp is to be 54' (degrees F.)

I'm listening to 'Golden Autumn 2' solo piano recordings, 2001

by Fariborz Lachini

Lovely!

This is a picture I took of the aspens turning gold with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop.

This was taken from the 2007 season.

My thoughts turn to changing seasons, the colors of fall, and autumn activities.

a recycled bottlecap magnet using all recycled junk mail

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Here is a blog from one of my favorite bloggers -

turkeyfeathers

You can get to her blog from the addy to the right of my blog.

Here is one with beautiful pumpkins:

http://turkeyfeathers.typepad.com/turkey_feathers/2008/10/pumpkin-time.html

OH MY GOSH IS THE INTERNET SLOW TODAY!!!

I'm trying something new -

I write what I want to say in a Word doc,

and then I copy and paste to the blog. It speeds things up a little.

so slow...it's slower than toothpaste on a frigid morning

outside in the shack...

 

On to more important things….

Like….

Back to school fashions!!

I thought it would be fun to find some back to school fashions.

Of course, I have to include Liana's fantastic paper doll costumes:

Here is another doll that will fit these costumes too:

Isn't Liana just fabulous?

 

Oh! And here are some fashions for the guys:

 

Well, maybe only if you are in the Lollipop Gang!

These little fellows sure could use some fashion advice...

 

3 and 4 day old Masked Lovebird chicks

Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

photo cred: Wong Maye-E

This gal doesn't see the need to keep up with the latest fad.

Natural beauty is her theme:

orangutan at the Jakart Zoo

courtesy of Orangutan Outrage of Indonesia abuse

photo cred: Adek Berry

Fancy is as Fancy does…

- an old American saying

Okay, I'm giving up on doing a pretty blog. It takes too long to try and change the font, or the size or the color!

This is what I feel like when the internet/blog/whatever is so slow:

That's a raspberry with the tongue, and claws out to scratch somebody!!

Bengal Tiger Akasha dives for meat

Six Flags over California, 6/20/2012

photo cred: Justin Sullivan

Oh, and a big GRRRRRR.....

Okay, happier now that I've been open with my feelings...

:0)

Back to fashion!!!

Here is a great example of recycling Starburst (candy) wrappers into fashion:

You can find her tutorial here:

http://fluffyland.com/blog/index.php/starburst-wrapper-bracelet-tutorial/

Feeling more adventurous?

Here are some samples from www.recyclerunway.com

Keep in mind, this is ALL PAPER!

Youth Eco-Dress 2000

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Check it out! There's more!

Here's another called

Junk Mail Fan Dress, by Nancy Judd:

I'm thinking fall dances....proms....homecomings....

Isn't imagination a wonderful thing!

Here is an embroidery pattern to get started on.

You could put this on the corner of place mats,

and just do part of the pine cone and branch for napkins.

Wouldn't this look great on a sweatshirt?

Or a denim shirt?

Why not practice on the bottom of a pair of jeans?!

'Bluejay'
That's the only credit I have for this pattern. Is it perhaps from turkeyfeathers?
If you know, let me know so I can give proper credit.

Well, I have several things to get caught up on; I have been down almost a week with a severe flare-up of fibromyalgia.
Ick.
OUCH!
sigh.

I am now listening to:  'Adoration' solo piano album, c. 2007 by David Nevue.
Another great listen!

Let's close with this charming little vintage clip Dutch boy:

I'm sorry, I do not know the source of this, other than it is vintage,
which should make it public domain.
I think.
:0)

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Tuesday Meanderings

Sang Nian Fai Lok

Cantonese for 'Happy New Year',

(I'm pretty sure!)

Singapore Financial District 2011

photo by Joel Boh

It feels great to be back with my blog!

Had some rough, kinda' icky weeks, but today is a new day!

I'm still fighting a cold or something.

Ick.

BUT

that's the nice thing about the internet -

none of you can catch what I have!

Ain't technology wunnerful?

St. James Parish, Gramercy, Louisiana, USA

Mississippi River tradition

This is a favorite quote of mine:

'Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people,

and to remember what other people have done for you ...

To remember the weakness and loneliness

of people who are growing old ...

Are you willing to believe

that love is the strongest thing in the world ...

stronger than hate,

stronger than evil,

stronger than death...

Then you can keep Christmas!

But you can never keep it alone.'

- Henry van Dyke

a 1986 Greeting Card 'The Christmas Forest'

found on http://www.marlendy.wordpress.com/

I checked out Turkeyfeathers blog, and found a super freebie.

She is offering - for free - 12 embroidery patterns of 12 different nursery rhymes.

Go to her blog (listed on the right, under 'My Blogs') and look at the top right side. There is a button that says 'embroidery transfers', and then 'free'. Click on that, and up comes several choices!

The Nursery Rhymes are just one of those offered.

Be sure and check out her WONDERFUL State flowers embroidery patterns too!

Here is a sentiment that is good all year 'round,

done in papercutting (scherensnitte) style!

Following is the Christmas card base that I created this year.

It is made with all recycled paper junk mail,

and 2 punches (the circle, and the ivy trio leaf).

I then copied it and printed it out on white cardstock.

This was so it would fit on a card front!

After trimming, I mounted it onto either a medium red

(the same color of the circles),

 bright green or dark green card,

with strips of contrasting cardstock for accents.

I hope you like it!

by inkspired

Then on the inside I had clipped various words from junk mail,

such as 'The Messiah', or 'Merry Christmas', or 'Jesus',

or words that were similar. I had a limited amount of junk mail

that uses those kind of words !

(Thank goodness for flyers from The Family Christian Bookstore!!!)

Each envelope had two more word clips.

I used words like 'Good News', or things like that.

Now that I write about it,

I suppose I should have taken pix of the finished cards!

If I find any half done cards, I will take pix and post later.

I loved this photo that I found, by Olivia Harris:

Larry the Downing Street cat on Downtown Street

central London, Britain

There was an old publication named "wee wisdom" in the 1950's.

The cover art is super great vintage.

Here is one:

'Playtime in the snow'

from a vintage wee wisdom magazine

I have created some new Collage Art Dolls,

with Evening Style as a semi-theme.

'Chained Night Life' original Collage Art Doll

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(Lesson learned -

don't seal the Collage Art Doll in plastic before you photograph it!)

'Lipstick Dress' original Collage Art Doll

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Note that her accessories are from a 'scan your phone' symbol thingy.

I also really like the mis-matched eyes!

and of course....the lipstick dress!

'Night at the Opera' Collage Art Doll by inkspired

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I saw that standing candelabra in an ad,

and knew I had to do something special with it!

I'm trying to remember - I think her dress is from a Lipstick ad...

Next up is a hilarious you tube clip my son Peter shared with us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UqEhUm2B_8       

Who knew?    

See you soon!

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I thought today I would just share a few things that I liked!So charming and vintage! 

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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