In today’s rhyme, “Miss One, Two, and Three I was briefly confused by what a tea caddy was getting it mixed up with a tea cart when it turned out to be something completely different. Since woman gathering around an actual tea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ll be completely honest that today’s rhyme, The Village of Erith, made no sense at all. I have the sneaking suspicion it started out as a riddle. To make matters worse, in my confusion I got loom the verb mixed up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme “There Was a Man So Wise” was fun to do. While just as silly as the last one at least there was something for me to work with. Really the only thing I needed to check out was if brambles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, Little Jenny Flinders, was pretty straightforward, other than the problem of going period or not (when a poem involves child abuse, it’s safer to go period) From there it was quickly looking up what children wore in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, A Robin Redbreast in a Cage, was really easy to visualize, though I ended up overthinking it anyway. First I went on line looking for a visual reference for a European Robin, first because these are English nursery rhymes,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well technically Northwest Folklife starts Friday… but since it’s a work day and all I rarely get there before three. Since there aren’t quite as many performers I spend most of my time casing the joint and going over the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of these sketches I’ve been trying to do period, not that I know much about 17th century England, but for ones like today’s rhyme, I Had Two Pigeons Bright and Gay, I just couldn’t. I’m perfectly aware that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well my second day of folklife went very well and I was very productive with at least two of these definitely working as grist for the mill of portfolio material. For today at the moment it’s raining. I have been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe it was because a slow start today but I couldn’t figure out what the context of today’s rhyme, A Little Man From Derby, could possibly be. Fortunately I had plenty of options in our present context and went with snooty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t sleep well the night before and had someplace I had to be later in the afternoon so I don’t think I was ever in my zone enough to do quite as many sketches Sunday as Saturday but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
