Two Rewind Projects and The Top 1970s Movies! Can You Dig It!?

The Godfather

Are you ready for two great Rewind Projects?!  Great!  Before I get to the fantastic artwork, here are some quotes from the Academy Award winning movies from the 1970s.  See if you can guess which movies they are from.  You will see the movies listed at the end of today's post.  Good luck! 

If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"


All right, Popeye's here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!


A relationship I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.


There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.


The place is great...It's like a resort...I mean they got basketball, bowling...Princess Grace came to see us the other day.


We built a life together. We wake up and have breakfast and I take him to school and then I pick him up after school and we have dinner together and...I read him a bedtime story...I'm not always the perfect father...but I'm there. I'm there.
Luther said I could learn from you. I already know how to drink.



An entire world at war and I'm left out of it? God will not permit this to happen! I will be allowed to fulfill my destiny!


Yo, Adrian, it's me..

Today I am posting Rebecca's and Sally's projects!  Rebecca is a Bloggerette and a terrific artist!  Her work is simply stunning.  You can find her and her work on her blog, A Rabbit In The Garden.  Sally is from "Down Under."  She is also a fellow Bloggerette and a great artist.  Check out her work at Sally's Journey. 

Thanks Rebecca.  Here's looking at you:

This 6 x 4 card is for Rewind Week at the Bloggerette Sorority commemorating the 1970's. I was in my twenties in the seventies, and it was a tumultuous time. Forty years later, I have no fondness for the colors or fashion of that era! It was a time of Love and Peace (not really!), drugs, Afros, Disco, Flower Children, unrest, Nixon's resignation, gas shortage and much more. I'm not nostalgic about the 1970's!

The background of the card is a floral burlap. The peace symbol is red metal (although the red isn't showing very well). I attached it to a tag in seventy colors with a firecracker brad, because it was an explosive time! Of course, you can't think about that decade without including bellbottom pants, and these have psychedelic colors swirling on them. The card is finished off with metallic painted grungeboard letters and numbers and I used a Gold Leaf pen around the edges.

Rebecca Cook

http://bellesouth-rebecca.blogspot.com/

Thanks to you Sally.  Your project is great:

The Inspiration for my project was my top that I wore in the seventies and have never parted with. Not so much the style of it or the colour but the memories of that time in my life, I grew up in the seventies, became a teenager, learnt how to ride a bike, had a horse, got my first boyfriend, it was a mad time but I wouldnt change it for the world.  So this is my 1970's! 



My project consists of memorabilia from the seventies, my beautiful purple hoop earrings, a piece of my ballroom dancing dress and some of my medals, a flatsy doll (it is a reproduction ~sigh) but they were a big thing in the late seventies and I loved them also a Holly Hobbie Doll, I have quite a few.  Watching Lost in Space on TV in black and white I still remember fondly, my brothers and I used to rush home from school to get all our chores done to sit down and watch it.  And everyone had Dragstar Bikes and I spent many hours happily riding with my brothers and friends.  I was 15 or 16 when Saturday Night Fever came out and I was an avid ballroom dancer and it was all about the glitter, disco fever, the frilly costumes, big hair and the fashion, being a girly girl I loved to wear dresses and my mum did a great job making the pant suits with the puffy sleeves and big flowers and the gorgeous floaty dresses, I felt like a princess!!  I grew up in the Seventies and it was awesome!



My name is Sally-Anne Russell and my blogs are "Sally's Journey" and "SallyBarbie"they are personal blogs about my journey in life thus far.

http://sallybarbie.blogspot.com/
http://sallyrussell.blogspot.com/

Thanks ladies.  Your work is fabulous!  I'm so glad I've gotten to know you!  I hope you participate in the next Rewind, too!

Now, here are the movies.  Did you guess correctly?

Patton 1970

The French Connection 1971

The Godfather 1972

The Sting 1973

The Godfather II 1974

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975

Rocky 1976

Annie Hall 1977

The Deer Hunter 1978

Kramer Vs Kramer 1979

I'll match up the quotes to the movies in the next post!

Toodles for now!

Far Out! Where Did My Profile Go?

Hello Party People!  I hope you all enjoyed Wendy's Rewind Project and her wonderful artwork!  I know I did!  One unfortunate thing happened when I posted her project, however.  My computer freaked out and somehow I lost my profile/avatar and I wasn't able to get the other photos I wanted to post following Wendy's project out to you.  So, to go along with Wendy's music theme, here are the number one albums of 1970:

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II

The Beatles Abbey Road

Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Deja Vu

Paul McCartney (AKA Billy Martin) McCartney

The Beatles Let It Be

Woodstock Various Artists

Blood Sweat and Tears Blood Sweat and Tears 3

Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory

Santana Abraxas

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III

  That's it!  Come back tomorrow for more great Rewind Projects and photos!

Toodles for now!

Let's Get Down! (and then back up again) It's the 70s Baby!!

Welcome to the Funkadelic 1970s!

Our first crafter of the week is Wendy, From Bliss Angels  as well as Blissfull ATC Swap!  Wendy is an accomplished artist and I am thrilled that she participated in this first Sew Loquacious event!  I am also grateful for her friendship and introducing me to another artform...ATC.  Thanks Wendy!

When I saw Angela's post about rewind week  I thought "oh heck I hated the 70s".  I was seven in 1970 and in 1979 I was 16 years old.... I remember some parts of the 70s as wonderful but others were terrible.

I am a person who remembers events in the clothes I wore, some people it is smells or songs but me it is clothes and wow did I remember some terrible clothes in the 70s.

Pippa Dee party were all the rage and I remember my mum buying a outfit from them; it had blue and white flowers in a valor fabric and had shiny pants to wear with it.... what I didn't like was that you could wear it to sleep in.... I remember going to school and some boy asking me if I had forgotten to get dress... that was the last time I wore it... I hid it under my bed and there it stayed until I out grew it.

I also remember the 1st pair of heels, well tree stumps would be a better description. They were platforms with a wedge heel . They were solid wood, so very  heavy and very tall. The first time I wore them out was to walk down the village. I  twisted my ankle and had the limp home. Of course I had to listen my mum's "I told you so." so I bet your wondering what were the good parts of the 70s? well I was young, the music to the most part was pretty good Michele Jackson, Donny Osmond  and David  Cassidy  to name a few BUT I was in love with the BAY CITY ROLLERS... I was going to marry Woody.

So in light of my love of 70's clothes my rewind project is this .... A depiction of 70's clothes at they best. The writing at the back of my figure in the words to my next favorite song Jimmy Osmonds "long haired lover from liverpool" Hugs Wendy at http://blissangels.blogspot.com/

Thanks again Wendy! 

Stay tuned for more Project Posts and pictures!


Angela

Can You Dig It? Can You Feel Da Funk? Yeah....

Happy Sunday to all!  I hope everyone has had a terrific weekend.  I also hope you are all ready for Rewind Week 1970s to begin!  I will posting Rewind Projects all week!  Please stop by beginning tomorrow!  You are in for some groovy treats Man.  Like, yeah...

Again I want to thank all the wonderful crafters who have participated in this first event!  It has truely been fantastic meeting all these lovely, talented artists.  I really hope you all participate in the next Rewind Week, which will most likely be the 1940s!  Stay tuned for dates!

Oh, one last thing, Bloggerette "Sister," Karen is having a super giveaway.  You can click here or the giveaway button on my left sidebar to go over to Some Days Are Diamonds and enter.

Please, please, please, please, okay, come back tomorrow for the posts and more photos.  It's going to be far out, Man!

Toodles for now,

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues...The Tooth Fairy Paid Out...Groovy

No, I don't have the blues! Just singing...

Thanks for the emails and comments regarding the Tooth Fairy's current rate.  The little lady gave up $1.00 and the Diva Daughter was super happy with this.  I actually think she was more pleased that the TF took the card she had made and left under her pillow, along with her tooth! 

I am happy it is Friday..'cause I love Fridays, but it also means I only have one more full day of vacation before going back to work!  Boo hiss!  What will I do my last day?  Hmmm....oh, work on REWIND WEEK 1970s!  Actually, I am finished with my Rewind project and can't wait to post pictures of it.  I also can't wait to post the pictures of all who participated!  This has been a really fun project and I am so happy that I got a chance to meet some new blogger friends through it.  I've also gotten exposed to other art mediums that I may not have even looked at before visiting the different blogs that are a part of the Bloggerette Sorority!

One of these artists I have been exposed to is Cindy Atkins. I invite you to slip over to a link party at I Owe It All To Him.  Cindy's question for today is:

What is your favorite song?

This is an easy peasy one for me to answer.  And it totally relates to Rewind Week 1970s!  Can you guess what it is by the last verse?

I met a girl who sang the blues

And I asked her for some happy news

But she just smiled and turned away

I went down to the sacred store

Where I'd heard the music years before

But the man there said the music wouldn't play

And in the streets the children screamed

The lover cried, and the poets dreamed

But not a word was spoken

The church bells all were broken

The three men I admire most

The Father, Son and Holy Ghost

They caught the last train for the coast

The day the music died.

American Pie 1971

Don McClean's American Pie.  That girl who sang the blues, is one of my favorites....Janis Joplin (1943- 1970).

Janis Joplin

In the words of Janis, "Don't compromise yourself.  You are all you've got."

 

With that, I will leave you with some more images from the 1970s.  They are taken from television (my babysitter in the 70s), movies, politics, art, and war.  I hope you all come back during Rewind Week and have a look at what these beautiful, creative, ladies have made to share with us all.  So, get your lava lamps warming and turn up your Saturday Night Fever 8 track!  Remember, if it is too loud...you are too old!   

Saturday Night Fever 1977

TV History

Brady Bunch 1969-1974

Oil Crisis 1973

The Patridge Family 1970-1974

The fall of Saigon April 30, 1975

Danish Ad

Carter and Brezhnev 1979

The Electric Company 1971-1977

Farrah's famous poster (Farrah Fawcett 1947-2009)

The Muppet Show 1976-1981

Iran Hostage Crisis (Held Nov. 4, 1979 to Jan. 20, 1981)

I hope these images jog some memories for some of you.  For those too young to remember any of these things, take the opportunity to ask your mom or dad or grandparents about their memories of this decade.  I bet they will enjoy talking about their memories and feel great that you asked them.

Toodles for now!

The Tooth Fairy, Pudding, and a Pizza...oh my!

Victorian Tooth Fairy

Salutations!  That's my way of saying, "hello." 

This greeting is a tribute to my diva daughter, Charlotte.  She lost her first tooth today.  She had been wiggling that tooth for nearly two weeks.  Today was the day.  A corndog was the answer.  I now have one question:  what is the going rate for teeth?  I mean, how much does the Tooth Fairy leave nowadays?  Has she adjusted the amount to account for inflation?  Was she bailed out in the stimulus bill?  Answers please!

Isn't she cute!

As most know, I was on vacation last week in beautifully hot Branson, Missouri.  Well, I am still on vacation...only I'm at home.  I am technically still on vacation until next week, so I have been keeping myself in holiday mode by reading magazines and my cell phone and Adobe Photo Elements handbooks, EATING bad foods, spraying Hawaiian Tropics Glade throughout my house, and staying up way too late.  I've also done some baking.  For those not in the know, I used to bake a lot.  I even decorated and sold cakes.  Unfortunately, I haven't done much baking in the last few years.  But today, I started to make up for lost time.  I first accomplished a miracle with regard to rice pudding!  Backstory:  I used to live in England, the land of rice pudding, tweed, and not straight roads.  I have been attempting to re-create the rice pudding I used to eat there for the last several years.  I am sure the only ingredients in this pudding my family made was rice, milk (I think one pint; yes, there was a milk man that brought milk in glass pints), sugar, cinammon, and butter.  These are combined and BAKED, not cooked stovetop in a double broiler!  I've tried and tried, but no success...until today.  I found a recipe at All Recipes UK/IRELAND that comes super close to the real deal.  I had to convert the amounts and oven temperature at another website, but it turned out yummy!  The only real difference is that I am sure no eggs were used in the real deal, but one was called for in the All Recipes instructions.  Oh, and for the record, castor sugar is not sugar sugar...but sugar sugar (aw honey honey..you are my dancing queen...) works.  No need to get super technical right?  Rice length, on the other hand, is important.  Short grain is used for puddings...NOT long grain!

Yummo!

Unfortunately, my husband doesn't like rice pudding (fortunate for me!).  So, I also made another dessert:  a fruit pizza!  Remember when these seemed to be a rage?  Everyone brought one for the office party, school event, etc.  Did I miss something?  Why do them seem like they are extinct?  Anyway, I think mine turned out beautiful!   It also tasted sinfully good.

Two words:  Cream Cheese

At this rate, I may not be able to fit into my work clothes at the end of my vacation!  Maybe I'll have to add shopping to my staycation itinerary!

Reminder:  Rewind Week 1970s starts Monday!!!!

Toodles for now!

A Wonderful Gift!

Hello Crafters!  After being away on vacation for a week, you can imagine how much mail had accumulated in my post box!  The box was stuffed full with mostly bills and junk mail, but then I came across a little green package with a return address in Georgia.  It was from my July ATC Swap partner, Wendy!  I opened it to find this lovely gift.  Wendy made this gift for me in order to thank me for hosting Rewind Week 1970s!  Thank you, Wendy!  I love it!  As a sidenote, my August Blissfull ATC Swap partner is Anna.  Her blog is called Frosted Petunias!  Isn't that a great name! 

Speaking  of Rewind Week, it begins in one week!  I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to post all the projects!  I've received several participants' projects and have gotten a sneak peak at them.  They are all terrific!  Reminder to those participants who have yet to send in their projects:  I will need them by Sunday..at the latest.  This project has been super fun and I am already thrilled to think ahead to the next Rewind Weeks!  I'd love to go way back next...maybe the 1940s!  I'm thinking I will take a poll to decide what decade to do next.  What do you think?

I forgot to mention in my last post that Cortney, from Living and Loving in California, is also a Rewind Week 1970s participant.  I can't wait to see what she did for the project!  Again, she is hosting a giveaway for a beautiful necklace and earring set.  Check it out if you need some bling!

I'll leave you with a photo of my first ATC I sent to Wendy in case you missed it on her blog.  Again, the theme was "Sisters."  You can see all the participants' July cards at Blissfull ATC Swap.  They are all terrific and unique.  The theme this month is "Orange."  Just between you and me...I have no idea what I am going to do!  Any ideas?

Toodles for now!