Easter Bonnets & Finery; lots of paperdolls

Greetings!

Paul Harvey's '....rest of the story...' won't be completed until tomorrow,

so I thought today we could have some pretty activities

to get ready for Easter Sunday.

Hollywood starlet, Eleanor Boardman, vintage magazine cover

Let's have some Easter Finery Fun!

This is Ellie:

This is a Disney Store display window, from DisneyLand:

We were at DisneyLand for their 50th anniversary
and an early celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary.
It was the end of October,
and the Park was FULL with these darling little girls
all dressed up in their favorite princess outfits.
I had so much fun seeing them all!

Here is Lady Guenevere from Camelot, preparing to go to prayers:

Don't  you think she needs more outfits?
You can find this paper doll and so many more at Dover Publications.
See side bar for info.

I expect you have all made at least some colored Easter eggs.

Here is a cute way to dress them up even more!

Egg Chick How-To1. Start with a dyed Easter egg.

2. To make the beak, fold a 1/2-inch square of crepe paper in half. Then cut out a triangle, with the wide end on the fold; unfold and glue to the top of a dyed egg with craft glue.

(I don't see why cardstock wouldn't work just as well.)

3. Cut 2 wing spaces from crepe paper (be creative!), and glue each to the egg next to the beak.

4. You're finished! (I see in the photo that they have added tiny little eyes. Just use a permanent marker with a very fine point.

 Put your eggs in the finished Easter bucket on a bed of Easter grass

 and add candies, if desired.

Check out the cute plastic bucket decorations too!

I think we should all wear Easter Bonnets/Hats for Easter Sunday.

It is a lost pleasure to most of today's women.

Fortunately little girls still wear fancy dress up hats,

but still,

I want to!

Perhaps I shall.

Hollywood starlet Marion Davies, publicity still

although, sometimes you really don't need a hat to make an entrance:

Delphine Barbie, with loads of Spring glamor!

crocheted baby cap with ruffled trim

From 40 free crochet patterns:

28. Frilly Baby Hat Edging

Size: To fit any size Baby Hat

Materials: Size 3 Crochet Thread – Small amounts White (W), Baby Hat, Awl (available at any hardware store), Cork Board, Fabric Marking Pen, and Yarn Needle.  Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 Thread was used in model.

Crochet Hook: Size E-4 (3.5 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.

Preparing the Hat: Working 3/8” (10mm) from the edge and using the marking pen to indicate holes, place marks ¼” (6mm) apart along brim edge of Hat, adjusting spaces if necessary to achieve the correct number of holes.

Using Cork Board under Hat to protect the work surface, perforate the fabric with an awl an even number of times.

Rnd 1: With Wrong Side of Hat facing, join W with sc in any hole, (ch 2, sc in next hole) around; join with hdc to 1^st sc.

Rnd 2: Ch 4, sc in sp made by joining hdc, (ch 3, sc in same sp) twice, * ch 3, sc in next sp, (ch 3, sc in same sp) twice; rep from * around, ch 3; join with sl st to beg ch-4.  Finish off and weave in ends.

This little spring crocus flower fairy has found the perfect hat:

“First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus.”

~Lilja Rogers

c.1901

 Here is another of Liana's wonderful costumes, with a great hat!

 I have included one version of the paper doll that goes with it. Liana also has a 'white' version. Check out my previous blogs, or go to her website. See side bar.

until tomorrow, and

"....the rest of the story...."

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Day 8 St Patrick's Day countdown, budget home decor craft, quotes n paperdolls

Hi!
Today is Day 8 in our 10-day countdown to St. Patrick's Day!

"May you have warm words on a cold evening,

a full moon on a dark night,

and a road downhill

all the way to your door."

sheet music cover courtesy of Museum of Indiana Published Music.

Refer to my favorite web sites on the right for address!

Here is an antique paper doll of an Irish miss, courtesy of origami bears:



http://www.origamibears.com/PaperDolls1/paperdolls1.html

I adore her site! It is a paper doll paradise, which she offers free of charge. She changes themes about 4 times a year, with all different paper dolls each time.

Wow.

I'm smiling.......

Irish history

Paragon Publishing, 2002

"Saint Patrick is most famous throughout the world for reputedly having driven all the snakes out of Ireland. There are several different legends and tales of this event.....

...The earliest Irish historical document not written in ogham is St. Patrick's own 'Confession', written in untutored Latin. So not only is St. Patrick's 'Confession' the only contemporary narrative telling of the arrival of Christianity to Ireland, it also marks the beginning of documented history...."

A Budget Home Decorating Project:

After making a project with many snips of ribbons and lace left over, I just couldn't throw the snips away - they were so pretty! So, I came up with this budget recycling project -

Wash and dry cleaned StarBucks cappucino drink bottles - the kind you buy at the grocery store. Save lids.

tip: Hard to get the sticky residue off? Try Goo-B-Gone, if you can find it. Check at your local hardware store, or craft store. You can also use acetone (which I only have because my husband is a guy). Fingernail polish remover might work, if it has enough acetone in its' base. Sometimes a little cooking oil will remove sticky residue. Last resort? Try scraping it with a fingernail, and then scrubbing with a dish scrubber & liquid soap. I use Basic H, from Shaklee.

You now have a bottle that very closely resembles those sold in craft stores for scrapbooking and rubberstamping; filled with things like buttons, silk flowers, trims, etc.

They are not cheap...........but yours will be!!!!

Fill your bottles. You can spray paint the lid to match your decor, or decoupage a flower clipping on to the lid.

Be creative! Use up those dibs and dabs that are always left over after projects.

Wouldn't these look great with a big silk daisy hot glued onto each lid?

I have one recycled bottle filled with white buttons. I have another filled with all those lovely ribbon and lace snippets. I also have ones filled with color groups of decorative string, yarn and embroidery thread. Coordinate these with the color of your room! They look so pretty sitting on a shelf together.

Other ideas for 'filling':

small wooden spools with or without thread

decorative buttons

silk flower parts - the green stuff!

bobbins for your sewing machine

foreign coins

layered colored sands

bottlecaps

fish tank colored pebbles

flattened marbles

dried flower pods

......the list could go on and on!

Let me know what you have filled your recycled bottles with!
dominoes@myinkspired.com

Here is a treasury I have put together with wonderful recycle artists:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4ca215aa0d0c6d91e02cef9a/word-of-the-day-recycle?index=23

A kirigami card I have made, layering 2 different designs.

"Eat oranges
Hear the larks
Wait on the sun."
- John Muir

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