Comments on: Vintage Mother Goose Paint Book Pages

By: Allie

Allie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:37:34 +0000

Those are amazing and I agree, Humpty looks rather mean! The Mary Mary pic reminds me of a Mary Englebriet picture. Where in the world do you find these wonderful books???

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:16:56 +0000

I was checking my reader and it occured to me I hadn’t read anything from you for a while. Somehow your blog got deleted from my reader! The upside is I had several posts to catch up, and that was fun. Happy Thanksgiving!

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:45:20 +0000

HA! I just read Jan’s comment. I agree, Humpty Dumpty might-a had it coming! Peter, Peter could probably use a little Humpty treatment as well!

One of the tatting blogs talked about today being St. Catherine’s day – she was the patron saint of spinners and the lacemakers considered her theirs as well – SAD end, poor lady. Anyway, Jack be Nimble was mentioned also. Apparently the rhyme is part of a lace-makers’ custom for this day. The boys and girls would say the rhyme inserting the jumper’s name and each would take a turn trying to jump the candlestick (which they say was around 2.5 ft tall) without putting out the flame. The boys had a clear advantage here – no swishing skirts. If the flame went out they were said to have bad luck for the next twelve months. Apparently their work was VERY demanding so they played hard when they could.

Classed dismissed, there will be a quiz tomorrow.

By: jan

jan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:48:58 +0000

My goodness! The look on Humpty’s face! He looks like a bully. I think someone might have pushed him off the wall from behind!

I think the rest of them look like they could be dancing in a ‘Mother Goose Ballet’. Very graceful. Can’t wait to see the whole set!