Calligraphy Poem

A work of art!

This is the "Love Your Pets" Poem that Mommy worked on in the Beginners Calligraphy class.

Mommy didn't learn capital letters yet, she learns them tomorrow, she just eyeballed how it was written on a chart and did her best.

She got to use a rubber stamp in class.  She picked the one with the bunny on it.  Most others chose stamps with flowers on it.  They used special markers to color on the stamp.  Mommy liked the white markers the best.  I think they said "American Crafts" as the name of the marker.  These markers stay wet on stamps.

Mommy said she had so much fun in class with the stamps.  You can use shades of colors to color in your stamp, like you can use brighter green and darker greens in the grass.  Then you mist the air with a water spray bottle and quickly wave your stamp thru the misty wet air to rehydrate the ink, then you stamp your page.   

 

You can also breathe hot air at your stamp to rehydrate the ink too instead of using a squirt bottle, butt Mommy was going all squirt bottle crazy in class squirting water in the air and having fun.   (LOL)

Mommy had a print out of our blog post that she brought to class, so she remembered the words of the poem.

Mommy went stamp crazy too -- do you see she even stamped the bunny right on our blog post print out.

 

No wonder we "Yap, yap, yap" like the poem says -- we got a bunny rabbit stamped right on our blog post!

 

 

 

Hope everyone has a fun-filled day.

 

Lassie and Benji

Love Your Pets poem?

I want to thank everyone for offering suggestions on poems. We thought over all the suggestions, they were all so good.

Mommy even spent 87 hours on Google to try to find the perfect poem for Calligraphy class.  

Below is the "poem" we were thinking of doing.

The 1st verse we found on the internet.  The 2nd verse was inspired by us, Lassie and Benji.   What do you think? 

Lassie

Benji

Love Your Pets

(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Love, love, love your pets,
Love them every day.
Give them food and water, too,
Then let them run and play.

Yap, yap, yap all day,
Yap all day and night.
My doggies like to yap and yap,
It's music sung so bright.

Dedicated to Lassie and Benji the Shelties

Adapted from a song on www.canteach.ca

 

 

Do you know a dog poem?

Our Mommy is taking a beginner's Calligraphy class.    It is for 6 weeks, one night a week, offered by our Local Library.  Mommy is really enjoying it.

Mommy has HOMEWORK for next week! 

Mommy got all stressed out because they have to bring in a POEM next week, and Mommy doesn't know a poem to bring in.  

The teacher said don't stress out, just pick a topic you like and bring in a small poem about it.  They are going to practice writing that poem in Calligraphy.  She also explained about a rubber stamp shaped like a flower, and how they are going to somehow put ink on the stamp and practice stamping.

Mommy told the teacher she has a dog blog and would like to bring in a poem about dogs. Mommy said once she gets the hang of using a stamp in class, maybe she will look to buy a rubber stamp in the shape of a pawprint.

Anyway, if anyone happens to know a nice short poem about dogs or pets, that would be helpful for Mommy. 

This is a page in Mommy's practice book.  She got to try out different Calligraphy pens, so she wrote the word "blog" with different pens.   (And yes, that's me, Lassie, laying on the end table between the sofas.)

Lassie and Benji