Violet Loves Lavender!

Valentine Calendar Inspired by Tasha Tudor!

At Corgyncombe's "Emily & Ethlyn's Potions & Perfumery", Violet loves working with lavender.
Violet has lovely violet eyes.
According to the "American Dictionary of The English Language" by Noah Webster, 1828, a potion is: a draught; usually, a liquid medicine; a dose.


Herbs and labels in Corgyncombe's "Emily & Ethlyn's Potions & Perfumery".


Dr. Cupid Corgi has gathered herbs to dry.
Based on Tasha Tudor's illustration, Dr. Cupid Corgi was sold by The Jenny Wren Press.

Tasha Tudor's Valentine Calendars and delightful dolls inspired Diane and Sarah to create their own Valentine Calendar to Count the Days Until Valentines Day.

Diane and Sarah's 4th Annual Doll Valentine Calendar "The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" can be found by clicking here:

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" Valentine Calendar features the dolls and their animal friends at Corgyncombe as they celebrate the joys and delights of Valentine's Day at this gorgeous wintery time of year!

The link takes you to our web site "Our Favorite Things" where there is a special page with our Calendar with 14 hearts covered with forget-me-nots until the appointed day. Sometime during each day the window should change to the photograph of the day.


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Tasha Tudor Valentine Calendars and Books

Valentine Loveliness

Sarah amongst the flowers.


Diane's lovely and fragrant pink rose.

During the Days of Valentines the Corgyncombe Library displays some of their Tasha Tudor Valentine delights. In the upper left is Tasha's "Be Mine" Valentine Calendar. It has 14 doors to open with quotes behind them. The book in the upper right is Tasha Tudor's "A Time to Keep". "A Time to Keep" and "Around the Year" (not pictured) are such beautifully illustrated books for those who like to partake in all the seasons' monthly celebrations! There is always something nice to look forward to in the upcoming season. They are two of Diane's favorite Tasha Tudor books and she highly recommends them. Below "A Time to Keep" is the "Dr. Cupid Corgi" Valentine card, "The Jenny Wren Book of Valentines", and the "Be Mine" Valentine card. In the lower right is "Dr. Cupid Corgi's Laboratory of Love" Valentine calendar with 14 doors to open. In the lower left are the wrappings from a gift that Tasha Tudor gave Diane and Sarah. Next is "All for Love" filled with poetry, songs, and Tasha Tudor's Valentine traditions. It was a gift from Diane's husband.

Tasha Tudor's work is always so cheerful and lovely, especially in February near Valentine's Day when it's cold and snowy outside. The "Be Mine" Valentine Calendar and "Dr. Cupid Corgi's Laboratory of Love" Valentine Calendar are such fun to open as Valentine's Day approaches! Sarah was the model for the little girl in Tasha Tudor's "Be Mine" Valentine Calendar and Valentine card.

The Mum looks adoringly at her sweet little daughter.

Tasha Tudor's Valentine Calendars and delightful dolls inspired Diane and Sarah to create their own Valentine Calendar to Count the Days Until Valentines Day.

Diane and Sarah's 4th Annual Doll Valentine Calendar "The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" can be found by clicking here:

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" Valentine Calendar features the dolls and their animal friends at Corgyncombe as they celebrate the joys and delights of Valentine's Day at this gorgeous wintery time of year!

The link takes you to our web site "Our Favorite Things" where there is a special page with our Calendar with 14 hearts covered with forget-me-nots until the appointed day. Sometime during each day the window should change to the photograph of the day.

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Corgyncombe School Inspired by Tasha Tudor

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

Auntie Nicey Ethlaurinda is the teacher at Corgyncombe School. On the blackboard she has written some rules that she expects all of her students to follow and she will tolerate nothing less. Auntie Nicey Ethlaurinda loves her students, that is why she expects the best behavior from them. The children love Auntie Nicey, too, as they know that she wants what's best for them!

Auntie Nicey Ethlaurinda was named Nicey due to her close resemblance to Tasha Tudor's doll Nicey Melinda. Tasha Tudor thought the name Ethlaurinda to be quite imaginative.

Everyone probably remembers the joy of presenting a special Valentine to a most admired teacher!


A sketch from Sarah's sketchbook of a teacher at her desk.


A Sunbonnet Baby at school from "Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land" written by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Bertha Corbett Melcher.

Tasha Tudor's Valentine Calendars and delightful dolls inspired Diane and Sarah to create their own Valentine Calendar to Count the Days Until Valentines Day.

Diane and Sarah's 4th Annual Doll Valentine Calendar "The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" can be found by clicking here:

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" Valentine Calendar features the dolls and their animal friends at Corgyncombe as they celebrate the joys and delights of Valentine's Day at this gorgeous wintery time of year!

The link takes you to our web site "Our Favorite Things" where there is a special page with our Calendar with 14 hearts covered with forget-me-nots until the appointed day. Sometime during each day the window should change to the photograph of the day.


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A Valentine Calendar Inspired by Tasha Tudor

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

Amelia's lovely sister Emma Lydia.

It has been almost a year since Emma Lydia was rescued from a ship wreck on a remote island. It has been a very happy year for her, being reunited with her darling daughters Rosalie, Elizabeth, Violet, and Cynthie. How grateful she is for the way that Auntie Nicey Ethlaurinda and her sisters at Corgyncombe have raised her daughters in an upstanding manner, whilst she was gone awaiting rescue!

Tasha Tudor's Valentine Calendars and delightful dolls inspired Diane and Sarah to create their own Valentine Calendar to Count the Days Until Valentines Day.

Diane and Sarah's 4th Annual Doll Valentine Calendar "The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" can be found by clicking here:

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" Valentine Calendar features the dolls and their animal friends at Corgyncombe as they celebrate the joys and delights of Valentine's Day at this gorgeous wintery time of year!

The link takes you to our web site "Our Favorite Things" where there is a special page with our Calendar with 14 hearts covered with forget-me-nots until the appointed day. Sometime during each day the window should change to the photograph of the day.


Corgyncombe Snowflake

Just about every morn there is a fresh, new layer of clean, white, fluffy, sparkly snow. Diane took several shovels full of soft fluffy snow and threw them into the air just to see them coming down, sparkling in the sun.

Yesterday the snowflakes that came down were so big and beautiful that Diane spent quite awhile photographing them. 'Tis truly awesome once you have photographed a small area, to look up at the vast expanse of snow covered hills and fields and know that each snowflake is different and unique.

A Corgyncombe Icicle caught in mid-drip...


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Elizabeth's Language Lesson!

At The Corgyncombe School Chalkboard

Elizabeth pauses from photographing of the 4th Annual "The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things" Valentine Calendar for a little language lesson at Corgyncombe School.

It has come to The Corgyncombe Courant's attention that another blogger is claiming that a certain part of "The Magic Flute" is sung in French. The music was composed by Mozart. Below is the said performance, Papagena ~ Papageno from YouTube.

Pause our music playlist at the bottom of the page before playing the video. Click on the triangle to play the video.

The video has French subtitles. The other blogger claimed that there were not only French subtitles but that it was sung in French as well!

Elizabeth says "Sung in French? Not so!"

This is clearly sung in German. If one were learning by hearing one would be learning it in German not French!

A little Math lesson.
A few days ago, January 27th, was the 254th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In December 2010 it will be 219 years since his death in 1791.

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Update:

It would appear that Elizabeth's Language Lesson made a difference!

The words have been changed in the other bloggers post.

Before, the other blogger claimed her child, that she says she is teaching French, recognized the singing as being French, and at that time made no indication that her child recognized the French subtitles. She has now changed her tune on this one! She now claims that her little child recognized the French subtitles that flitted by on the screen! (Hmm, the feathered singers are quite a distraction with their dramatic costumes, singing in German, and birdie like behavior!)

She is no longer claiming the singing is recognizably French.

And all this whilst she is trying to sell a book!

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Below is a video from YouTube that shows the music and the words in German for "Die Zauberflöte" Papagena ~ Papageno.

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Frizzy's Got New Boots!!!

Inspired by Tasha Tudor

On Her Journey to The Lake...
Frizzy's Boots "Are Made for Walkin'"!

Her new boots are curled toe Laplander boots made by Corgyncombe's Tillie Tinkham the mouse.

Our adventurer Frizzy has seen to it that Ethlyn Corgi sports a proper bushy tail like the Reindeer herding dogs from Lapland.

There will be more to come of Frizzy's Journey to Find The Lake, as she braves the Corgyncombe Arctic Winter!

Corgyncombe Arctic Waxing Gibbous Moon.


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Old Fashioned Painting on Tin

Making the Home More Cheerful!

Diane has always loved old fashioned painting on tin. During her lunch hours whilst working at the museum Diane would spend her time sketching patterns from the old pieces of tin that the museum had on display behind glass. The painting on tin made everyday items used around the home more cheerful in the days of old.

In the photographs above and below, old fashioned painting on tin done by Diane, mostly using the one stroke method.
The painting is not stenciled.


A tea canister painted by Diane, a little dented in after falling off the mantel.


Trimming the ends off of hand dipped beeswax candles.


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