tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57953691859890593962024-03-04T23:26:17.541-08:00Jane Dyer IllustratorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05654548574215330187noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795369185989059396.post-84454354288247163602015-09-24T10:18:00.000-07:002015-09-24T10:18:00.678-07:00Little BlossomI made a new toy lamb and stuffed with Blossom's wool. When it was finished, my granddaughter told me I should have a birthday hat for it, just like the one I had made for Blossom's first birthday. I found the pink polka dot fabric I had used, put it on my copy machine, reduced it and printed it. Then I cut it out of that paper and made a tiny birthday hat. I also cut out a very small number 1 out of felt, along with some decorations for the top and bottom of the hat.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05654548574215330187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795369185989059396.post-2751810458437767692015-09-23T10:17:00.000-07:002015-09-23T10:17:04.224-07:00Blossom Has a Very Good Summer and Makes New FriendsBlossom has enjoyed the summer with her mother, Lucky, and two new lamb friends. Everyone has been very kind to her and she loves being one of the flock! She has given me more wool for my projects, as you will see in days to come.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05654548574215330187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795369185989059396.post-10168497102089305632015-03-30T15:00:00.002-07:002015-03-30T15:00:49.928-07:00Jane and her Little Lambs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been sewing these little lambs and using Blossom's wool for stuffing. </div>
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Maybe March will go out like a lamb!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05654548574215330187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795369185989059396.post-10363625403941097442015-03-30T14:42:00.000-07:002015-03-30T14:45:23.699-07:00The Story of Blossom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the story of Blossom, our little lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all started because I have always wanted
to have some sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three years ago we
“borrowed” four sheep from a farmer who lives near our summer home in the
foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a wonderful time caring for them and
watching them graze peacefully in our meadow. One of the sheep was a ewe named
Lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it was time to give the
sheep back for the winter, my granddaughter Clementine was especially sad to
see Lucky go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once back at their farm, it was decided that they would
breed Lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a very cold night in
February of 2014, Lucky gave birth to twin lambs, a boy and a girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy was doing very well, but the little
girl was smaller and having a harder time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then we got a call that the little boy lamb had died, we think from
hypothermia (being too cold).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next
day they said the little girl lamb was unable to stand and very ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The farmer said it was up to God and nature,
but I thought Jane Dyer might be able to help too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We brought the little lamb back to our house in the city and
I brought her up to my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>third floor studio
in a box lined with some wool from her mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had to tube feed her and give her shots every 4 hours, according to
instructions from the vet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was too
weak to even take a bottle, and could not stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her legs did not seem to work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gradually she began to get a little better, so I brought her
box down to the living room of our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We tried bringing her back to her mother, but Lucky was not being very
good about letting her nurse, but we couldn’t blame her, the little lamb still
could not stand, although she was beginning to try.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We brought her back to our home again and began to bottle-feed
her every four hours, setting our alarm at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She started to stand on one leg, then two,
and finally after a few weeks, she could use her third leg just enough to drag
the other back leg around as she tried to walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We put a diaper on her and let her walk around the living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When her last leg was finally stronger, I
took her outside for a walk on the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People were calling me “Mary”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As she continued to gain strength, we took her to my
daughter’s house outside of Boston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There she lived with my three grandchildren and their two bunnies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night she would sleep with one of the
children’s toys, a big stuffed sheepdog named “Fluffy”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the little lamb continued to grow and gain
strength, my grandchildren named her “Blossom”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blossom would run around outside with the children and come
running in with them and leap onto the sofa, ready for story time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Fridays, the children always get to watch
a movie, and Blossom was right there with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She often fell asleep curled up next to them, and sometimes they would
fall asleep together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when it was
time for the children to go up to their beds, Blossom would cuddle up with Fluffy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blossom loved playing with the bunnies, Timothy and Willie,
so when Spring arrived and it was time to bring sheep back to our farm, my
daughter packed up Blossom, the bunnies, and Fluffy the stuffed dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We retrieved Lucky and two other lambs and
reunited Lucky and Blossom, and introduced them to the other lambs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turned out, the two lambs were very
mean to Blossom (we called them the evil twins) and they wouldn’t let her eat
or sleep with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night we would
put Blossom on the other side of our little sheep barn with Timothy, Willie,
and of course, Fluffy, where they would all sleep peacefully together.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One day we brought Fluffy, the stuffed sheepdog out into the
field with Blossom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The evil twin lambs
were scared of Fluffy, so I thought that they must think Blossom to be very
brave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then they went up to Fluffy
as Blossom stood next to her in the meadow, sniffed the toy dog, and realizing
it was not a danger, butted Blossom away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then the twin sheep lay down next to Fluffy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was hard to see everyone being mean to Blossom, so we fed
her in the other part of the barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually, Blossom wanted to try to fight her way over to the feeding
trough and fend for herself, and she wanted to sleep on that side of the barn,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was hard to let her go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was becoming a real sheep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meyer Department Store in Melbourne, Australia chooses a different theme each year for their Christmas windows. In 2014, they chose a book that I illustrated, SANTA CLAUS AND THE THREE BEARS, by Maria Modugno. This is part 1 of four videos that can be found on you tube. It was so much fun to see my illustrations come to life.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05654548574215330187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795369185989059396.post-79858927426844282352015-02-10T16:00:00.000-08:002015-02-10T16:19:54.154-08:00New Book<span style="color: #666666;">Today is the pub date for my new book with Sally Lloyd-Jones. This is from The Horn Book Review:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt;"><i>by Sally Lloyd-Jones; illus. by Jane Dyer</i> <i></i><i>Schwartz & Wade/Random 2/15 978-0-375-85884-0 </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 11pt;">In a picture book that feels at once nostalgic and fresh, Lloyd-Jones and Dyer channel the best of contemporary mood pieces (see, for example, Scanlon and Frazee’s <i>All the World</i>, rev. 9/09) and the everyday-life books of yesteryear (such as Krauss and Sendak’s <i>A Hole Is to Dig</i>, rev. 10/52). A familiar home-away-home structure follows a little girl from the “house that’s [her] home” to school and back again, as she engages with her family, pets, and the world all around her (in a refreshing twist, it concludes with the child awakening to a new day instead of drifting off to sleep). Throughout, a soothing, rhythmic text embraces childlike phrasing with lines such as “A bike is Your Bike / That rides you around” and hits just-right notes to capture the happiest parts of childhood’s emotional landscape: “A friend is Your Friend / Who stays by your side / And chooses you first / And saves you a place.” There are no tears or hardships in sight, and Dyer’s soft gouache and pencil illustrations perfectly match the text’s depiction of childhood idyll. The graceful hand lettering adds much to the book’s pleasing design, and its clear readability will be a boon to adults who will doubtlessly engage in repeated readings with children in their own homes. megan dowd lambert</span></span></div>
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