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  • Don’t ask!!

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    It’s time again for the Sunday song and rhyme challenge at Outlawz. The poem this month is called the Zebra Question by Shel Silverstein an American writer and cartoonist, born in USA in 1930. The poem was published in a book called Light in the Attic, published in 1981. At first I was not sure…

  • Spring awakening

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    The rhyme for the Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is I couldn’t find any information about the author or the verse. For my card I chose an easel card from Craft with Sarah which I think I got as a free download at some point. My inspiration was the line “Flowers that were gone…

  • Beware of the Cat

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    The rhyme for March is called The Little Folk, by Shirley Barber a British author and illustrator. Her works were written after she emigrated to Australia in 1965. Shirley started out as an artist designing wallpaper. Most of her written work is about animals or fairies. Anyone who knows me will know how much I…

  • Love is in the air

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    Wow how fast did January go? Mind you I think it’s partly because my daughter and husband both have birthdays the first week in February, so I go straight from Christmas into getting sorted for their birthdays and this year it is a big one for my daughter, 18!! It feels like the last 18…

  • Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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    Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them (Winnie the pooh) I am last minute as always with this one, partly because I had almost finished one design and the realised it didn’t work for the rhyme! So a quick panic and then search for an image on Cricut design space, then I…

  • Admire the scenery.

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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge this time is From a railway carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;And charging along like troops in a battle,All through the meadows the horses and cattle:All of the sights of the hill and the plainFly as thick as…

  • Autumn Garden

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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge for 13th October, is based on the poem My October garden by Christina Rosseti. Rosseti was and English poet born in 1830. She suffered a life time of physical and mental health issues. I took my inspiration from broad faced asters and the nightingale. Using a stitch pattern…

  • Sweetie Pie

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    The 15th September Outlawz, Sunday Song and rhyme challenge is based on the poem Summer’s End by Nancy Hughes We do not celebrate Labor day in the UK. In USA it is celebrated on 1st Monday of September and is a public holiday. In the UK we have Harvest Festival, mainly celebrated in schools and…

  • Red Wheelbarrow

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    Jane Shaw
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    This challenge is based on the poem, The Red Wheelbarrow by William Williams (1883 –1963). He was a doctor as well as a poet. The poem was published in 1923. so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens Although the poem has very few lines, each line builds up an image.…

  • 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…