Showing posts with label winnie the pooh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winnie the pooh. Show all posts

Monday, September 19, 2011

Color me RED!

Avast Matey...

Pirate Language for 'What's Up?'


TODAY IS 'TALK LIKE A PIRATE' DAY

Remember to answer your phone today with a hearty

"Arrgghh, what be your business?"
or
"Avast, matey!"
or
"Ahoy there!"

:0)

vintage Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes decal

Today I celebrate all things red!
Perhaps it started with my choice of mug for my morning cafe'-
black and white line drawings of Winnie the Pooh characters,
with the inside of the mug a bright true red!


Perhaps it was the water cup that I picked for today -
a black commuter cup with the red symbol of Lucent Technologies.


Perhaps I am inspired by the red 'Batman' phone that Michael keeps on the desk, covered with a glass dome, just like Commissioner Gordon has.


Who knows what quirk in my brain went red today?


so, am I seeing red?

mushrooom felt pincushion,

"Seeing red" is American slang for 'being really mad or angry'.


many red butterflies, vintage clip royalty free from Dover Books

You can't think of red things, without thinking of the red rose -

c.1908

or Dorothy's Red Ruby Slippers -

necklace for sale at http://www.artyscapes.etsy.com/


a vintage cigar ad

and of course, I have to add at least one red costume from Liana's blog -
I have posted the 2 base paper dolls that fit this costume numerous times in previous blogs - search for 'Liana's"

Here are a couple more red vintage song sheet covers:


c.1895

a red cardinal for you -


One red milk maid page from a vintage Alphabet Book -

Is my face red yet?

(American slang for 'I am embarrased')

("Boy, my face sure is red!")

Think I'll end today with a Happy red Mary Poppins poster!


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

September National Honey Month

Assalamou Alykoum

Islamic Greeting
means peace be upon you


September is National Honey Month
Hooray for the humble bee!!


illustration of Roman beekeepers


So, does anyone know why this design of honey dipper works? It really does reduce the drips and strings of honey - but why?



Here is a Swedish one-page paperdoll:



A Big Congrats to Miss Angola.

Her response to the question in Miss Universe 2011 was perfect.

"If you could change one thing about your body, what would it be?"

"I would change nothing. I have inner beauty, and that's what counts."

I've paraphrased, so google Miss Universe 2011 and you can read more in depth.

Oh yes, and she won the title Miss Universe 2011!!



"If you want to gather honey,

don't kick over the beehive."

- Dale Carnegie


"Nothing but Money
is sweeter than honey."

- Benjamin Franklin



a favorite cereal!


"No bees, no honey;
no work, no money."

- Proverb quote



Here is another bear paper doll.
I love the illustrations with this one.


1960's vintage honey pot for sale at


"When you shoot an arrow of truth,
dip its point in honey."

- Arab Proverb



"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

- Marcus Aurelius




vintage illustration

"We're all busy little bees, full of stings,
making honey day and night,
aren't we honey?"

- Bette Davis





another one of my favorite ways to eat honey!

"The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy."

- Emily Dickinson



c.1906

I have enjoyed finding honey/bee quotes for today.


vintage salt and pepper shakers, www.cybersenora.etsy.com

This next bee molds are just so perfect!
They are meant for cookies, I believe,
but you can also use soap, clay and other materials.


You should go hug your honey today!

and please, please, please
leave the bees alone, and they will leave you alone.
Bees are an important part of our eco-system.
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p.s. it would make a little cute bear pretty happy too
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

A blustery spring day with a free paperdoll

Hello!
Last night and today we have wind!  Makes me think of Winnie the Pooh and his friends on a blustery day!


"In a heavy oppressive atmosphere,
when the spirits sink too low,
the best cordial is to read over
all the letters of one's friends."
- William Shenstone


c. 1917


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us
as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus, ancient philosopher

"All that matters is what we do for each other."
- Lewis Carroll

Here is a paper doll with her dolly friend:



And for a final note of wisdom:
"Eat oranges-
Hear the larks-
Wait on the sun."
- John Muir
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