Little Bo Peep Nursery Rhymes with Mother Goose

BAAAAHHH!

(that's sheep talk for Good Morning!)

Little Bo Peep Barbie, 1996

Let' have fun with Little Bo Peep

and her numerous, naughty sheep!

vintage illustration

Little Bo-Peep

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,

            And can’t tell where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they’ll come home

            And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,

            And dreamt she heard them bleating;

But when she awoke, she found it a joke,

            For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,

            Determined for to find them;

She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,

            For they’d left all their tails behind ‘em!

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray

            Unto a meadow hard by –

There she espied their tails, side by side,

            All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,

            And over the hillocks she raced;

And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,

            That each tail should be properly placed.



I love this version of Little Bo Peep,

with all the verses!

It's a fun, rhyming ditty

on the life of a little shepherdess,

and a flock of rebellious, forgetful sheep!

 

by Scott Gustafson

Let's try out some scherensnitte with sheep:

from an out-of-print BackStreet Original

Scherensnitte Booklet

Cut this from a pretty blue paper, and then back it with linen white.

Cute!

Perfect for a nursery,

or a sheep farmer,

or shabby chic decorating

or....

another scherensnitte papercutting pattern

of Miss Peep, looking for her sheep....

handmade by gfelted on etsy.com

I always have to play

with my paper dolls -

These are paperdolls from Denmark.

I love her storybook costumes.

These are from a vintage McCall's magazine.

I can't quite read the date, but the note with it says 1925 - 1929.

unknown printing date, vintage song sheet

Of course, no day would be complete

without a little coloring:

Perhaps the little sheep weren't really naughty, they just wandered into a maze like this:

Actually, I think this is just a geometric sakura flower coloring page.

Did I get you to try it out as a maze?

:0)

vintage Little Golden Book of Rhymes & Fairy Tales

I will be out of town for a couple of days, so there won't be blogs for Wednesday

or

Thursday.

Why not have some fun, and browse through my past blogs?!

My husband reminds me I don't have to

write a book in every blog!

A fun little beaded safety pin

pin for you to make.

Look up directions on a previous blog.

You could also use this as a beading pattern -

Use large pony beads if you want.

Or use the little seed beads that I love so much!

You could make several in a row, and turn it into a beaded bracelet.

Next is an example of

Papel Picado

(or Mexican Papercutting):

Have a super-duper couple of days.

 

papel picado

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Robins Nesting

Good day to you!



I was working on a jigsaw puzzle this morning in my dining room, and was hearing this scritch scratch noise.

scritch, scratch.

scritch, scratch.

I looked out the window, but saw nothing. I opened the door and saw nothing. I opened the glass screen door, and...

There were a pair of robins trying to build a nest on the door handle of our front glass door!

They had just started, so I didn't feel guilty about picking off the strands of grass and wet leaves; letting them flutter to the ground.



scritch, scratch.
uh oh.
I opened the front door, and as my Great Dane is always interested whenever a door opens, he came to stand and look outside through the glass door. I figured this would discourage any more thought of nest building on our door handle.



It has. But oh....I would have enjoyed watching the robins build their nest so!

"My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather."

- Terry Guillemets

circa 1907

yes, that's a robin.

“I realized that If I had to choose,

I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
- Charles Lindbergh

Here is a nice maze for the kids:

another robin's nest



"The structure of a play

is always the story of how

the birds came home to roost." - Arthur Miller

This cute (and free) little robin and nest cross stitch design is from

www.koolerdesign.com

You could also use this as a beading design :0)

Here is a basket of eggs that you can use any color to decorate them:

"Use those talents you have. You will make it.

You will give joy to the world.

Take this tip from nature:

The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang

except those who sang best."
- Bernard Meltzer

Searching the internet, I came across this wonderful budget decorating idea:

I am sorry, I didn't write down who wrote the blog.

If you know, please tell me so I can give due credit.

She found an abandoned robin's nest on the ground, well after nesting season was over. After picking it up, she placed it on top of some vertical blinds she has in her family room. She said it has been there for several years now!

I also like how she has hung a hummingbird decoration close to it.

available at hollyandivychristmasshop.com for $18.50. She is 9" tall. 



"I think people who don't believe in God are crazy.

How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds

singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?" - Little Richard

by Chinese artist, Mr. Ou Yang

On that (bird) note, I will close for today.

sending you many drops of laughter,

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