The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Gala and a give-a-way

Thanks for joining us today. We will start with another sweet and continuing story of Carol and Elizabeth and their many adventures.... ( not a single witch was harmed during the filming of this story)

One bright sunny day, "Carol of the East" and "Elizabeth of the West" were having a very cozy chat in the meadow. They were sipping on their "Emerald-itas" and sponge cakes. YUM!


When suddenly they heard a small cry of despair and a little girl came running into the meadow asking for help. She said her name was Dorothy and she had lost her inspiration for ART. She could not seem to paint, draw, or sew a single thing that truly made her happy. She had heard on one of her many art blogs, that the Wonderful Wizard of Oz would be able to give her the creativity she so desired. She asked our help in finding the elusive Wizard.


We took Dorothy in hand and we all started down the yellow brick road to find Emerald City, the Wizard and hopefully Dorothy's lost creativity.

Soon we spotted Emerald City and there he was!



This Wizard was a real "Cutey." Oh, my, our hearts began to beat just a little faster.

He gave us an audience and Dorothy asked for his help. He told her that everything she needed was "inside" her. If she would just close her eyes, click her heels together, and feel the creativity flow through her fingers. Ideas would form, colors would blend, and glitter would cover everything.

Dorothy was now ready to go home and make art. "Carol of the East" had crocheted a beautiful blue magic carpet. We took Dorothy home on it. It felt just like a roller coaster so we all raised our hands and flew though the sky.
The END

Here is the VCR tape I have had since the 80s - Love this movie!!

And now for our give-a-way.

Carol has hand sewn a lovely tag full of embroidery and beading.

If you make a comment today and through Sunday night at midnight central time, we will draw on Monday. Please be sure we can access your e-mail address. If you are the winner, we will e-mail you on Monday to ask for your snail mail address.

Thank you for stopping by and thanks to Twyla and Lindsey for hosting this party.

Carol and Elizabeth

Ice Cream Social

Carol and Elizabeth were having a perfectly lovely ice cream party with a couple of friends, when Elizabeth remarked that she had heard of a wondrous place where a Giant Ice Cream Sunday resided. So off they went to look for it. Never let it be said that they would be satisfied with a little ice cream when they could have a lot.

Here they are - having found the magical enormous ice cream.

"Wait, Elizabeth, what are you doing?"

"Hurry on up, Carol, this is yummy"

And so, our story ends, as Carol and Elizabeth enjoy endless spoonfuls of strawberry surprise, thinking not of the spoonfuls of Mylanta that may come later this evening.

If we cannot eat all the ice cream we want, how about paper ice cream cones. Then we can have as much as we want. These cones were stamped 3 times each. The bottom cone part was colored with watercolor pencils and the ice cream was stamped on patterned paper and glued to the original cone.

This is Elizabeth's grandson, Blakie, who is 20 months. I babysat him this past Saturday and we played in his backyard. Papa came over with homemade ice cream ( leftover from the 4th) and you can see that Blakie is very fond of ice cream. Oh, yeah!

"More, please"
It was nice that the hose and his little pool were handy for clean-up.

This is Carol's grandson enjoying an ice cream at Snookies in Des Moines. Looks yummy!

Hard to beat freckles and ice cream on a summer's day.

I think he would like to have one as big as the one in the corner.


This is the ice cream bowl and spoon that I gave my husband in 1986. From then on, everytime he had ice cream, he used this bowl and spoon.


Carol and Elizabeth

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