Tag: Sunday song and rhyme

  • Halfway There

    Halfway There

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    The Sunday Song and Rhyme for November is based on this rhyme by A.A. Milne. A.A. Milne is best known for writing Winnie the Pooh, but he also wrote several books of rhyme.  This rhyme was first published in his When We Were Very Young collection in 1924.  It was then published in a double collection, along with…

  • 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…

  • April showers

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge was set by me this month and is based on the song Drip, drip drop little April shower from the film Bambi, originally made in 1942. The music was written by Frank Churchill and Lyrics by Larry Morey. April showers are intermittent, localized rain showers during the spring, often…

  • 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…

  • Happy New Year

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    A bit late to the party with my blog for the challenge that began on Sunday, it’s been a crazy few weeks and not much sign of any let up, so here goes. The rhyme chosen was the apt The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Wilcox was an American writer and poet, she started writing…

  • All things bright and beautiful

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    Normally for Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge I make a card to fit the song or rhyme, but when this one came up I had just made card that fitted perfectly. It fit so perfectly with the second verse. The words were written in 1848 by Cecil Frances Alexander and the familiar tune written in…

  • 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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    Jane Shaw
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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…