Color me RED!

Avast Matey...

Pirate Language for 'What's Up?'

TODAY IS 'TALK LIKE A PIRATE' DAY

Remember to answer your phone today with a hearty

"Arrgghh, what be your business?"

or

"Avast, matey!"

or

"Ahoy there!"

:0)

vintage Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes decal

Today I celebrate all things red!

Perhaps it started with my choice of mug for my morning cafe'-

black and white line drawings of Winnie the Pooh characters,

with the inside of the mug a bright true red!

Perhaps it was the water cup that I picked for today -

a black commuter cup with the red symbol of Lucent Technologies.

Perhaps I am inspired by the red 'Batman' phone that Michael keeps on the desk, covered with a glass dome, just like Commissioner Gordon has.

bat phone, http://www.oldphones.com/

Who knows what quirk in my brain went red today?

so, am I seeing red?

mushrooom felt pincushion,

http://www.wonderfulday.etsy.com/

"Seeing red" is American slang for 'being really mad or angry'.

many red butterflies, vintage clip royalty free from Dover Books

You can't think of red things, without thinking of the red rose -

c.1908

or Dorothy's Red Ruby Slippers -

necklace for sale at http://www.artyscapes.etsy.com/

a vintage cigar ad

and of course, I have to add at least one red costume from Liana's blog -

I have posted the 2 base paper dolls that fit this costume numerous times in previous blogs - search for 'Liana's"

Here are a couple more red vintage song sheet covers:

c.1895

a red cardinal for you -

http://www.gipolar.blogspot.com/

One red milk maid page from a vintage Alphabet Book -

Is my face red yet?

(American slang for 'I am embarrased')

("Boy, my face sure is red!")

Think I'll end today with a Happy red Mary Poppins poster!

:0)

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a Happy Birthday Party for Peter

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PETER

If I could make you a fancy cake,

it would be a chocolate pirate ship.

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We might even have to learn a pirate song,

just for your birthday!

c.1902

 

pirate show at WDW, Florida

You would get a super, fantastic Happy Birthday

hand stamped card, perhaps like these:

'Ship at rest' by tyra smith

 rubberstampave

 rubberstampave

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'Quiet Calm', Stampscapes 2008

I would make for you and your friends cool beaded patches to wear:

or perhaps mount this onto a leather wrist band?

Then I would have recycled bottlecap art

to give everyone,

some as pins, some as magnets:

for sale in my shop:

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We will laugh,

and snort root beer up our noses

while eating Double Deckeroni Pizza

from Old Chicago.

Maybe Dad will tell us about the

BIG MOUTHED FROG again!

And if I could, we would go to DisneyLand

and ride the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' 5 times in a row!

and spend lots of $$ in the Pirate gift shop!

At the end of the day,

we might have to eat more chocolate cake:

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and go off to dream of ghost ships....

Glynda Taylor, 'ghost ship' 2003

and treasure....

Frank Godwin illustrator, 1925



and the treasures that we have

that cannot be measured

or counted by gold...

I love you, Peter.

Happy Birthday.

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Everybody's thinkin' it..I'm just sayin' it ..PIRATES!

Arrrrgggghhhh....

I had fun checking out pirates on Google!

I found many photos of a Buccuneer's Ball

that is apparently held annually.

These people are having serious pirate fun.

Let's get out our pirate colors, and do some coloring!

 courtesy Dover Publications

an English Pirate, 1650

My friend Kathy York has a wonderful rubber stamp company

http://www.rubberstampave.com/

She fell in love with Pirates when the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, I think. She has the best selection of Pirate rubber stamps I have seen anywhere.

Here are some cards from the RubberStampAve gallery site:

 card by Joe Nathan

All of these are made from Kathy's Pirate stamp line.

If you order from her, please let her know that

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sent you!!!

thanks

Here is a 5 - Pirate maze for you:

and here is a simple find-a-word puzzle

for someone perhaps a bit younger:

c.1922

c.1909

One of my favorite movies is

CutThroat Island 

Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella star.

Great actors!

http://www.amazon.com/Cutthroat-Island-Geena-Davis/dp/B000NQRR1G/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1307578191&sr=1-1

painting of a scene from Cut Throat Island

Let's not forget Captain Blood,

with Errol Flynn & Olivia De Haviland-

And of course, the tongue-in-cheek movie,

Ice Pirates

Ready to learn how to draw some 'pirate-ish' things?

I think these Dover How-to Draw books

are very clever.

They are a great way

to introduce a child to drawing.

and of course my absolute favorite pirate -

Peter, WaltDisneyWorld 2009

and yes....

 He purchased his hat the first day...

and wore it everyday!

He got lots of comments and smiles!

With that, I will close for today.

Who knows what I'll blog about tomorrow!!

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