And an entry into Rinda's Alice in Wonderland challenge.
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Here's to you, Laurie! Happy {un}Birthday!
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And to you, Rinda! Thanks for the inspiration.
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When I was a little girl, I loved Mary Poppins. I was three years old when Disney released the movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke ~ that was in 1964. I don't remember actually seeing the movie back then, but I've seen it countless times during the course of my life.
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Last night Carrie and I attended the Broadway production of Mary Poppins at Gammage Theater near Arizona State University. Despite some stormy weather (and can you believe we didn't have our umbrellas?!?!), being pressed for time getting to the theater, then parking (several blocks away), and sitting down just minutes before the play began, it was a wonderful evening!
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Dare I say, practically perfect in every way?
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I love the magic of the story, the no-nonsense-practical-but-fun way Mary Poppins asserts herself, the underlying romance between Bert and her (you know it's there!), and the music! The songs are some of my favorites. Of course, for the production last night the songs were re-mixed somewhat, and there were a couple I'd never heard before, but there were snippets of "Spoon full of sugar" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" throughout the performance.You start by cutting a circle (I used felt for this, but you can use paper as well), then cut the circle in a spiral toward the center. This one is about 2" across, and I don't worry about it being a perfect circle...
Grab the end with a pair of tweezers and start wrapping it around...
Continue wrapping until you get to the end/center of the circle...
Slip it off the tweezers and add a good glob of glue.
Here's what the bottom will look like:
I free-hand cut some leaves from green felt and glued them to the bottom. Super easy. :o)
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I had so much fun experimenting with the two different styles. If you cut the spiral in a wavy line, you get uneven rose petals like this:
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Our oldest niece, Jessica is expecting a baby a boy and today I'm going to her baby shower. As part of her gift, I embellished a paper mache letter "B" to match her registry theme ~ airplanes.
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I've made several of these letters over the years. They are so simple to do and always a hit. I thought I'd include a quick little how-to:
I wanted to write a post about him today and as I looked through my pictures, it was difficult to find one of him without a guitar. He is an amazing musician (takes after his dad/my brother) and this instrument is always with him.
This young man has always held a special place in my heart. I love him to the sky! I'm emotional just typing this...
And then! I read my SIL's blog this morning and now I'm at a loss for words. She wrote a beautiful tribute to our Ryno-man -- a must read tribute from a mother to her son on his 18th birthday.♥