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  • My Country

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • Music Maker

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • Bunny hops

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    Jane Shaw
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    The latest Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on the poem All the world’s alive again by Jennifer Gunner It is a pretty spring poem and I chose to focus on two of the lines; A rabbit hops it gentle step and White blossoms are in bloom. Using a Sweet Dixie rabbit die with…

  • The Swing

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Song and Rhyme challenge for 17th March, is based on the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thingEver a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall,Till I…

  • Another Snowman

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge for January 21st is based on the poem The Snowman by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long timeTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,The spruces rough in the…

  • Angels

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge for December 24th to January 6th was based on the rhyme Beneath the Wings of Angels by Clay Harrison, I cut a layered Angel image with my Cricut, quite time consuming with so many layers, but looks very effective. The image is from Design Bundles. The backing is…

  • Looking like Halloween

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    Jane Shaw
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    For the current Outlawz Challenge the poem chosen is The Hag by Robert Herrick; The Hag is astride, This night for to ride; The Devill and shee together: Through thick, and through thin, Now out, and then in, Though ne’r so foule be the weather. A Thorn or a Burr She takes for a Spurre: With a lash of…

  • Summer’s End

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    Jane Shaw
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    This challenge is sponsored by Starstampz so needed to use one of their images.  I actually chose the image before I knew what the rhyme was! The rhyme chosen is; The familiar rhythm of the cricket’s chirpsCreate the soundtrack for each day,Echoing Summer’s endAnd that Autumn’s on her way. The stifling heat of the summer sunIs now…

  • Challenge 5th Feb

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    Jane Shaw
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    The rhyme for this Outlawz challenge is Wordsworth’s I wandered Lonely as a Cloud; I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle…