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“If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.”

Julie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:30:24 +0000

There’s been a meme going around the blogs this week about favorite children’s books. It’s virtually impossible to pick favorites because there are SO many. Instead I thought I’d share some of the ones I cared enough to keep with me through various and sundry moves about the country. “The House at Pooh Corner” has been with me since I was a toddler. I learned to write on a few of it’s pages and when I was little Mom made me Eeyore, Kanga and little Roo and I had a store bought Winnie the Pooh. I was SO excited when I found the sewing pattern for these. Some ex or another convinced me to toss the stuffed animals but now I can make my own replacements.

I also had a couple of these albums with this news guy reading the stories. I listened to them over and over and over. I thought they were lost but several years ago I mentioned them at a family get together and discovered my brother had them. He mailed them to me to my utter delight. Back in Louisiana there was a fancy gift shop that had quite a few Charpente pieces in the classic Pooh design. I have these bookends and a picture frame. I used to have a kids lamp as well but at some point the boys broke it in a tussle.

All the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories were beloved favorites. Mom used to make cream puffs for me just like Raggedy Ann. I was heartbroken when I found out she’d tossed my old Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls. I wasn’t much of a doll kid but I sure loved them. The Earthsea trilogy was also a fast favorite.

X marks the spot!

Julie — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:08:00 +0000

Well, okay, not an X but a bookmark. This post over on Whipup inspired me to do some bookmarks of my own. I think this is a perfect way to use up fabric scraps and all those lone single buttons that are sitting around with nothing better to do. I used a paper bookmark as a template and cut two pieces of fabric for each one with one piece of interfacing slightly smaller. I sewed the three together, right sides of the fabric facing out, and then pinked around the edges. I stuck a piece of ribbon in a few and attatched it after on a third, sewing buttons on all of them. The button acts as a stop to keep the bookmark from slipping down into the pages of the book. Gabby wants you to know she approves. A bookmark is currently her favorite toy and she will follow me upstairs at bedtime for a few minutes of play before I'm allowed to read by book. Speaking of books, I kept forgetting to update my reading lists in the sidebar so I took them down. You can find my reading list over on Goodreads now.

Now we are six

Julie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:19:00 +0000

Earlier this week I was rummaging about the house searching for a sheet of exercises given to me by a physical therapist many years ago. I never did find them but I did unearth some other fun things. This is my first copy of Winnie the Pooh. When siblings started arriving I apparently felt it necessary to establish my claim on it and as you can see my letter J started out backwards. I also cherished this album and would listen to it over and over ad nauseam. I thought I'd lost the album for many years but at some point mentioned this to either Mom or my brother Carleton. Carleton had ended up with it and very kindly sent it back when he learned I missed it.

There might be a few other Pooh items about the house. Classic Pooh is my favorite and I bought these bookends when the boys were little for the nursery. There used to be a lamp as well but at some point they were having a tussle and it was broken (at least one of them was a teen at this point). I always regretted not buying a production cel when they were available and affordable so I have this sericel now. The two smaller mugs on the outside egdes were brought to me from England. I love the honey pot illustrations on the inside.