Hi Everyone.
Happy Saturday night. We are SOOOOOO close to the 5,000 comments number! Don't forget, the comment that pushes over the counter to 5,000 is the person who wins the blog stamp set, glass glitter, and 2 lots of DSP blog candy!!!
Saturday night is the night when I reveal my Paper Players card. This week is our Clean and Simple week, and we have a sketch challenge for you.
This was an ideal sketch for me to bring out one of my favorite sets from the last catalog, and one that doesn't get quite enough ink. It also works so well with this sentiment. Anyone who enjoys a wonderful glass of wine, some fabulous artisian bread, a little golden Extra Virgin First Pressed Olive Oil, will understand how much such a simple feast can feel like a celebration.
Card recipe:
- Card stock: Whisper White, Bravo Burgundy
- Stamps: Studio Sketches. Sentiment: Something to Celebrate
- Inks: StazOn, Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Basic Grey, Summer Sun
Pop along to the Paper Players and check out the fabulous design team cards. The team has outdone themselves again this week to provide you with inspiration. Then, all you have to do is to create your new Clean and Simple card based on our sketch, link up your card to our challenge – and off you go! We hope you will play along with us.
On a personal note:
I can't believe we are soooooo close to the 5,000 comment numbers. Both Lou and I really enjoyed reading your comments about the things that you still do that make you feel young at heart. Which made me think of another blog question tonight.
What was your first favorite childhood book, childhood tv show and childhood food? Leave me a comment and let us all hear what book, tv show and food you first loved as a child.
I'll start you off:
First Favorite childhood book: Without a doubt Noddy and Big Ears. I remember as a child of less than 5 lying in bed reading a story of Noddy who had been told to go put the clothes on the horse. Now… most of you youngsters won't remember what a clothes horse is…but it's a contraption that folds up for storage, but opens up and you can hang your clothes up to dry.
Well, there I was lying in bed surreptiously reading my Noddy book. I came upon the illustrations where Noddy was running around the field with an armful of clothes.
Why was the silly thing running around a field? Well, he was trying to catch the horse that lived in the field. Why? Well, he was going to put the clothes on it to dry, now wasn't he? Well, seriously, that was the first time I remember laughing so hard that I lost the ability to breathe and there were tears streaming down my face.
First childhood food that I couldn't live without. Well, I hate to admit this… but strawberry jam on bread. Oh, yeah! Heaven….. A wonderful warm slice of bread, thickly slathered with rich, yummy butter and finished up with dollops and dollops and dollops of thicky, gooey, gummy, yummy, sweet, sticky, glorious…. strawberry jam!
First Favorite TV Show? mmmmm…. now that's a tough one….. mmmm…. I think… I have to say Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men. Yep… Loved it!!!!
Over to you…. can't wait to hear what you have to share with us.
Have a wonderful Sunday – and don't forget to join play along with the Paper Players.
As always – thank you for your visit and your comments. They do mean a great deal to me. Prayers and warm hugs for those of you who need a lift today.
Hugs
Jaydee
37 Responses
Favorite childhood food? Hotdogs from a little corner market – with nothing but cheese and mustard. Yum!
My favorite book was “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” [I still have it! : } ] , my favorite food was a peanut butter sandwich, and my favorite shows at 5 years old were Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room, and Captain 11.
I don’t remember a fav book, but I didn’t like to miss Batman and Robin or Capt Kangaroo. I know I’m telling my age there….LOL
So long ago I don’t remember a favorite book, we didn’t have a tv until I was around 5 or so and it was black and white, have to stop and ponder that one and ask my siblings, I do remember Howdy Dowdy and Clarabelle the clown, boy am I old!!! My Mom was an excellent cook, so everything was great, but I loved fried bologna. Great questions.
Mm, Jaydee, your card made me drool a bit. Nice wine? Crusty bread and a little delicious olive oil? I’m in! I can’t wait to see the sketch! I wish I were going to be home so I could play along…alas, we’ll be traveling this week. :o( I LOVE a CAS challenge.
Ahhhh, I LOVE these questions! Let’s see, my first favorite book was “One is 1” by Tasha Tudor. I loved the illustrations, recognized the numbers and could have sat and looked at the book all day. I was about three when I discovered it, and I adored the “old timey” looking children and the soft illustrations.
Favorite TV? I hesitate to even say it, but, it was “The Dukes of Hazard”. I couldn’t get enough of them. But, in my defense, neither could most of the kids I knew. :oP
Favorite food? My mom’s tuna casserole. It’s still a favorite comfort food. In fact, Mom says, whenever Jessie or I come home, she knows she’s going to have to make one. ;o)
I wish you all a wonderful Sunday. Hugs!
P.S. Hi Lou! :o)
I loved the book “Heidi” and read it over and over. Favorite food was always mangoes (I grew up in E. Africa), and the first TV station started there just as we left, so grew up without TV. But as a teenager, loved Mission Impossible!
Jaydee, your food descriptions (and coloring!) are great!
My favorite book was an old russian fairytale book from which our mother used to read to us the most amazing stories. I used to love eating a cake called a hedgehog cake which was basically a layered biscuit stack with scrumptious chocolate in every layer. I still drool over it thinking back now
First favorite TV show.. we didn’t really watch a lot of TV but probably Loony Tunes Comics with Tweety Bird and Sylvester, Road Runner.. lol you get the drift 🙂
another lovely CAS card…so nice!
young reader…Gus the friendly ghost” and “Harold and the purple crayon”
a little older…”The Ghost of Dibble Hollow”…I liked this book soooo much I went on Ebay as an adult, and purchased it for over $20 for a small kids paperback, as it is out of print.
about the same time (I think)…”Island of the Blue Dolphins” …then “Mrs. Mike”
One of the mandated readings in HS that I really, really enjoyed was “A Separate Peace”
TV…”Lost in Space”, I also watched “Dark shadows” with my older sister, and “all my children” which I was an avid watcher from it’s very first day, some time in the 60’s til I went off to college late in life Full time in 1998
I also loved “Davey and Goliath” (claymation in it’s early days put out by the Presbyterian church I think. I loved “Gumby”, Yogi bear, Auggie Doggie, snagglepusss, felix the cat…then there was a series of cartoons, they would show beetle bailey and a couple others but my favorite involved a mouse called “Ignatts” if anyone have any info on this cartoon, and it’s title I’d love to hear it.
Addams Family, Munsters, Brady Bunch, The little rascals (our gang)….it really upsets me that Bill Cosby bought all the rights to it, and it can not be purchased anymore as I think my kids would love it. The 3 stooges. I love Lucy
I think I covered things 🙂
Susan
Oh dear, you’re really asking a lot! :0)
Without a doubt, my favorite food was my Grandmother’s baked beans and/or homemade bread. I used to make a sandwich out of the beans and bread. (We lived with my Grandmother.) When I was little, reading was not encouraged in our home so I actually don’t remember reading anything or being read to. When I got older I loved the Little House on the Prairie series. And – would you believe – when I was little there was no tv. I was probably ten before I saw the neighbors first tv. I listened to the radio and my favorite show was The Shadow.
Hi Jaydee,
Your card made my mouth water! A nice rich red wine with crusty bread and Italian olive oil in a little bowl with some yummy fresh herbs, yummo!!!
My favourite book as a child was the Secret Seven and Famous Five series, still have those books!!
I grew up in Far Nth Queensland and the first time I saw television was when I was 17!(Yes showing my age now!) When I moved to Brisbane at age 19 I use to love watching Bandstand with Brian Henderson.
Wishing you and Lou a lovely weekend.
Jan xx
Beautiful card Jaydee and lovely coloring. That is a great stamp for the CAS design.
Questions answered…I don’t recall what favorite book I loved as a child. When I had my own kids, my grandma told me I loved “Goodnight Moon” and she bought that for mine.
Favorite food was a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich. I would eat it almost every day and sometimes grill it or add Fritos chips on top. Weird, huh! I still love pb&j and prefer strawberry jam or preserves over all the other flavors offered.
Favorite show was probably Looney Tunes cartoons on Saturday morning. I also loved the Speed Racer cartoon too.
Great questions Jaydee. It is fun to read the responses and to comment. Have a super day!
Your card is really classy –I can almost smell the bread!
My favorite books? Beverly Cleary books–Beezus and Ramona, etc Food? Christmas cut-out cookies!
TV show? Believe it or not, we did not have a tv when I was growing up. So we read a lot! But when I would go to friends’ houses, my favorite show was “The Little Rascals”! I also loved “I Love Lucy”.
What a nice card – simple yet strong; a little bit can sure go a long way, eh? Favorite childhood book would have to be the Betsy, Tacy & Tib series by Maude Lovelace; I read them until my eyes burned & to this day, have the whole set to read & read again. Favorite TV show is a no brainer for me – the Flash Gordon series, with Ming, the Merciless & Dr. Zarkov; Buster Crabbe, who played Flash sent me an autographed 8X10 photo of him, with short message. Talk about being in dreamland. Favorite food back then, popscicles! Cheap & they came in lots of “real” flavors.
Beautiful card, Jaydee! You’re absolutely right, there is nothing better than artisan olive oil. It’s only 9:45 am and now I want some crusty bread with cold pressed olive oil from Greece. LOL
Hmm – fave book, tv and food from childhood. My favorite food was pizza and ice cream. My favorite tv show is a bit more difficult since I didn’t watch tv much while I was growing up as I had my nose in a book all the time instead or was playing outside. As for favorite book – it’s hard to narrow it down to just one but I loved (and still do) “Anne of Green Gables” and “Anne of Avonlea” by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I’ve read the the entire series over and over again and it always brings the same joy as it did when I read it the first time as a 8 or 9 year old.
Beautiful CAS card…I knew it would be! As for the book…my favorite was Black Beauty. It made me cry then, and it makes me cry now. My favorite TV show was Lassie…Oh, how I wanted a collie for so many years. Yeah, so now I have smooched faced Boxers who are slick as seals. So much for pointy noses and long, beautiful fur. As for my favorite food…that is a tough one. I don’t remember any ONE favorite food. I LOVE it all! My parents owned a restaurant when I was little, so I experimented with lots of “grown-up” foods like fried shrimp and sirloin steaks. Now I am allergic to shrimp and steer away from steers.
Beautiful card! One I can CASE and color with those Copics that you got me addicted too! Thanks, my husband thanks you, and online shopping thanks you.
My favorite books when I was growing up were the Nancy Drew series. I loved the mystery and the fact that the problem solver was a girl. My teachers and family discouraged my reading of them. They were not “educational” enough. I learned through my own experience that whatever interests a child in reading is to be encouraged!
I loved the Perry Mason series on television.I still remember the opening music and the black and white. Boy that dates me! I must really like mysteries.
Off to read “The Rembrandt Affair”. Another mystery……..
Your card could be nicknamed “Sensory Overload” as you can almost smell and taste the food! Great job coloring! Speaking of tasting – mine favorite food would have to be peanut butter – and still is one of my favorites. Book, I loved the Saggy Baggy Elephant – ummm seem to have a theme going here! But, I can’t think of a tv show with elephants other than Circus Boy but that was a movie. I guess Capain Kangaroo would be one of my all time favorites. Thanks for a chance to go down memory lane today.
Hello Jaydee,
What an exciting contest you are having! Love the clean lines to your card! That sentiment and the image are perfect together!
Fav Childhood Book: “Where the Red Fern Grows”-funny enough, this was also my husband’s favourite story as a kid too. I just loved reading this book…man, I just sobbed at the end! LOL!
Fav Childhood Food: Hmm…I think my favourite was soft tacos. I loved them, my mom always made them for me on my birthday. SO yummy!
Fav Childhood Show: I was mesmerized by “Anne of Green Gables” mini series movies. I think I was in grade 5 when they came out and it was so special because my mom and dad let me stay up late to watch it the whole week it was on! Such a special memory. I had read all the books!
Off to make coffee! Enjoy your day my friend.
Hugs,
Lesley
My favorite early childhood book was Goldilocks and the Three BEars because it had the flocked, fizzy stuff on the bears. I still have it and the fuzz is worn off from touching it so much as a child! My favorite TV show is a toss up between Mr. Ed ( in black & white) and I Love Jeannie. My favorite childhood food (which I always asked for on my birthdays) was pork roast with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes… yummmmy!
I love reading your blog and seeing all your creativity and reading about your gardens and wildlife.
Oh Jaydee, I LOVE this very CAS card! Gorgeous image too. Just classic and wonderful.
First Book……well, maybe not the first one I read but I did love Brear Rabbit books!
Food…….Probably Manwich! LOL! I used to love that mess – and now don’t even want to look at it! NASTY!
TV……oh my….anything western! I was always trying to figure out how to change myself into a boy!! LOVE Roy Rogers, etc…..
LOL!
Lynn
Hello Jaydee, catching up here since it’s been awhile since I made comments to your blog. I visited often, just don’t have time to comment. Apologize for that.
I really like your clean and simple sketch. Yes, it’s clean and simple but VERY EFFECTIVE. The bravo burgundy color really brings out the wine in the glass and the sentiment. Makes me want to “celebrate” it too.
Childhood favorites…hmm, don’t recall having much of them…came to U.S. when I was a child and saw everything for the first time so it’s hard to say. I can only recall what it was like to have the opportunity to taste or see something for the first time. The first taste of apple was so juicy and sweet, the first TV shows like Wild Wild West, Wonder Woman, Million Dollar Man… I can certainly say I don’t have a favorite book because I have to learn English and reading is just not something I could do at that time. Just having to learn a new language is a task of its own.
I have been so out of stamping mojo because of a very busy schedule with work, family, kids and activities. I did see your Operation Write Home blog entry and I would be happy support this cause. Hope to get as much done as I can this time.
Lovely card Jaydee–your coloring is divine! I myself am a Sauvignon Blanc girl but I can smell the deep rich undertones of your Merlot…or is it a Cab? Lovely questions too…I’m not sure I remember my very first favorite book but I loved reading and have fond memories of the window seat at my childhood public library. I think Nancy Drew was an early favorite. My food tastes as a young child were not varied…at all…but one thing I loved was meatballs! Not spaghetti and meatballs…just the meatball! Weird, eh? And TV, would have to be Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, Mister Rogers and later…The Brady Bunch! No doubt what era I grew up in! 🙂 Thanks for the memories!
My favorite book was the Big Little book of Dagwood & Blondie. My Aunt/grandmother read it to me every night till its cover fell off and the pages started to come apart.
Favorite food and still is Strawberry Shortcake. We lived on a farm and had milk sitting in the cool room to separate the cream from the milk. I would go in and scope off some cream, mix in a little sugar, get the fresh picked strawberries, and put the little sponge cake in a bowl and eat.
I was too active to get fat then.
We didn’t have TV when I was little. It came about when I was in high school which was in the early 60’s. Reading was my TV time and still is.
Jeopardy is now my favorite. Then the TV goes off and the reading begins.
Interesting questions.
Marge
Beautiful card and I too don’t use it enough.
Favorite book – Nancy Drew series
Favorite food – my mother’s fried chicken
Favorite TV Show – Hopalong Cassidy (I was a tomboy!
Love this card and am so hungry now or is it thirsty, now! lol I loved The Bobbsey Twins series and as a younger child watched Howdy Doody (hope spelled it right) and for favorite food, chocolate chip cookies. Mom made them with oatmeal. I do too!
Your card is so pretty and devine . . . My sister-in-law would love it!
Thanks for sharing and hope you are having a great day!
I’m going to date myself now–I loved Nancy Drew and read them every summer when I was out of school. Loved Howdy Doody also and Romper Room. My favorite food (and still is) was my Mom’s home fries. The next favorite was peanut butter cookies. Oh my gosh, wish I was a kid again-LOL
Excellent card… One of my favorite sets
Such wonderful things to think about! It’s fun reading the responses and realizing instantly that some of us are decades apart in age, but much alike in spirit.
Fav. book–We had a set of red leather-like covered books that I think we got with our Encyclopedia Britannica. Mom used to read each night to me from one of them, complete with appropriate ‘voices’. Once I could read, I, too, loved Nancy Drew.
Fav. TV show–I liked one called Maggie Muggins (I think). All I remember now is a young girl skipping down a sidewalk. Howdy Doody was fun too. All the kids at school loved the Roy Rogers show and we played it at recess. (I got to be the dog!) I delighted in telling them that I was related to Roy Rogers, but skipped telling them that my father’s cousin’s name was spelled RoDgers.
Fav. Food–1. Fried cheese. Yup. Mom would thinly slice cheddar cheese, put it in a frying pan and heat it until it was bubbly, then cool it slightly and serve it on toast. I still love it, but have never found anyone else who does this with cheese.
2. Glorified rice–take cooked white rice, stir in sweetened whipped cream (we lived on a farm and had our own cream) and berries in season. Our favourite was strawberries. The whole family (and the hired man) loved it!
Oops I didn’t tell you the favors of mine . . .
Books….of course Dr. Suess. I had the library of them! lol
Foods….mashed potatoes and I loved cornbread and pinto beans! My Granny always said, if you don’t eat cornbread and beans you are NOT her grandkid! 🙂
TV…not much TV around our house, but I loved watching the Price is Right and Jetson’s and of course Tim & Jerry : )
What a lovely card, I knew it was yours the instant I saw it!
And fun memories—I just got back from visiting my dad with my brother and since we are 8 years apart, sometimes my memories are a bit different than his, so it was fun to reminisce. Let’s see:
TV show—Romper Room & Wonderful World of Disney;
Book—my mom read lots to me, but Winnie the Pooh was probably the one I liked the most
Food—what wasn’t my favorite???!!! LOL! Ice cream, probably….or junket. Anyone remember that?!
Thanks, Jaydee!
Such beautiful colouring on your CAS card, Jaydee.
Fantastic questions!
Favourite book – I still remember the first of many times that I read the Hiedi series.
Favourite food – Cucumber sandwiches. For the first three years of my school life I had a cucumber sandwich for lunch EVERY DAY at school. Weird, I know!! LOL
Favourite TV show – Happy Days.
My favorite kind of sketch. My cards are most often CAS so this is my kind of sketch. Thanks so much!
Another beautiful card. I like CAS and your colouring.
Apparently as an infant I would be quiet if my mom read Winnie the Pooh (the originals) to me so I guess that is my first favourite book. By six I was already an enthusiastic reader and I remember finding a Babar book in the library which was in written script rather than type. After some puzzling it all fell into place and I could read it all by myself. I was beyond excited!
My dad’s thin pancakes that we ate with lemon and sugar would be the food favourite. Should make some one day soonish.
Didn’t have TV until I was in my last year of high school so nothing there.
What a perfect and elegant CAS card, Jaydee! Lovely coloring and sentiment too.
I’ll share my favorites from childhood, here goes!
TV show: Captain Kangaroo
Book: I was a huge fan of Janet Lennon of the Lennon sisters, so I read her books and some Nancy Drew too. I also had a Little Golden Book on the sermon of the mount which I still have in my attic!
Food: My Mom said I loved PBJ and a big glass of milk for my daily lunch.
Jaydee, I have never inked this set up! Not because I dont love it but because I have never been inspired to use it…until today! This is gorgeous and CAS perfection! Thank you for the fun sketch this week, too.
Oh my goodness, after reading your post, I was immediately filled with fun childhood memories. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to simpler days?
-Favorite Book: The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.
-Favorite Food: any kind of potato dish, granola and my grandmother’s beet soup (Borscht). Oh, how I miss that soup…
-Favorite TV Show: Sesame Street, Captain Kangaroo and Saturday morning cartoons, back when they were cool! Haha! I remember what a treat it was on Saturday mornings to have my breakfast IN the living room. 🙂
Your card would be lovely for “new to the neighborhood”, welcome card.
I enjoyed Fried Cornmeal Mush,as for reading,I didn’t like to read. Later and now it is a rear moment I get too, read. I read Nancy Drew and now Grace Livingston Hill. The first TV shoe I can think of was Sally Starr, a cowgirl from the Philadelphia area.
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