Category: Outlawz Challenge

  • Our Last Summer

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    The challenge for Aug 4th is my choice of song and I chose Our Last Summer by Abba. The song was released in 1980 and featured on the Super Trouper Album and was inspired by a summer romance Björn Ulvaeus had in Paris. I can still recallOur last summerI still see it allWalks along the…

  • Dolphins

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    Yet again I nearly missed this one, I thought I had another week to make it. I had been looking at ideas all week, but not started to make! So this one was made in a bit of a hurry. The poem is Summer’s Splendor by the Sea by Patricia L. Cisco Summer’s splendor by…

  • Dog Days

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    This poem for the latest Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme is called Dog Days by Amy Lowell. A ladder sticking up at the open window,The top of an old ladder;And all of Summer is there. Great waves and tufts of wistaria surge across the window,And a thin, belated blossomJerks up and down in the sunlight;Purple…

  • Sunset Tuesday

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    In my haste to get things made, I forgot to do the blog for this one, also caught out by July arriving much sooner than I expected it! I think after each month we need to add a month, that might just about give me chance to catch up! The image we were given to…

  • My Country

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    The latest Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on poem My Country by Dorothea Makellar (1885-1968) Dorothea was an Australian poet and this poem was written about Australia when she was 19 and in London. She was born in 1885 and travelled widely in Europe, so would have been away from home for long…

  • Where are the fairies?

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for June 9th is based on the rhyme Where are the Fairies, Written in the early 20th century by Cicely Mary Barker, who was unable to attend school due to epilepsy. She wrote the rhymes and did the illustrations. Fairies were popular at this time, due to Queen Mary…

  • Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.

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    The Tuesday Colour challenge for June is based on this image The image reminded me of these beach huts at Scarborough in North Yorkshire Straight away I knew I had some stitching thread with those colours combined. I have a stitched pattern I have used before and considered using, it has a palm tree and…

  • Music Maker

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for May 26th is based on a rhyme called Music Makers, from his book A Children’s Treasury of Milligan. Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was well know for his crazy comedy and nonsense rhymes. Ironically he also suffered from severe depression. For this rhyme I decided I would focus on one…

  • Winner Takes It All

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    The song I have chosen for Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge for 12 to 25th May is Winner Takes It All by Abba. The song was released in 1980. I don’t wanna talkAbout things we’ve gone throughThough it’s hurting meNow it’s history I’ve played all my cardsAnd that’s what you’ve done tooNothing more to sayNo…

  • Seeing stripes

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    The challenge for Outlawz May Tuesday Colour is black and white and one other colour and add stripes. Well what says black and white with stripes more than a zebra? Maybe not very imaginative? I created my card with the zebra pattern from Stitching Cards Wild Animal pack, I have had the patterns for a…