it's me again...the pretty cousin....i promised i'd keep this here blog jumping so what better way to do it than a cow actually takin a leap over the moon? i am still fightin with that damn ribbon collection of mo's so i thought whenever mo and i haven't had time to write much, i'd blog up some o mo's projects. this one is a toy box she painted for mini featuring our all time favorite nursery rhymes. she's been workin on her nursery rhyme doo dads for about a year now and we all have been beggin her to include this original mo art in the collection...i thought maybe if i outted it here on the blog she might be forced to do so.
mo and i have always loved nursery ryhmes...see...we never read much when we were little cause queenie always had her nose poked in a book so we felt if we needed to know anything, she'd be able to tell us. that way we could spend all our time doin art and chasing the boys and learning the important things in life by actually experiencin em. the combination of experiencin and askin queenie worked out pretty well cause mo and i both ended up in all the classes for the smartie pants and you know, mo ended up on that t.v. show for whiz kids when she was only like 7 or 8.
anyway, queenie had all the nursery ryhmes memorized early on and would recite em to us over and over. then mo and i would pretend to be in all of em for days at a time. we let queenie be lil boy blue since she would refuse to move except to adjust her crown or turn a page in whatever book she was readin. we caused a few problems along the way...like when we decided to see what actually happened to humpty by dropping mama nita's eggs from her roof and then were unable to put them back together or when we convinced our cousin larry to pretend to jump over the moon and he broke his arm. we got confused on some minor details too...like, it wasn't until mo painted the toybox for mini that i realized the dish wasn't STEALIN THE SPOON...altho...i am not so sure that my way isn't what the guy who wrote it really intended.
so...back to that ribbon for me. i hope mini's toybox is a bit o inspiration for you. i'm hopin mo will turn this old art of hers into doo dads and include directions for using em for creating heirlooms to pass on down to your grandkids...and that your ancestors will be fighting over for long after you and me and mo are gone!
