AUNT TATTIE

So, Autumn is not quite in the air yet, though I always find myself longing for it at this time of year.

I thought that now would be a good time to start filling our community gardens with 

Garden Folk to guard the coming harvest.

I arranged a workshop at our garden site and we had the most wonderful and creative morn!

Take a peek here for the day! 

Project: GREEN

I've fallen in love with Tattie Bogles, the Scots name for scarecrow!

So many wonderful children's books have made their way to me, all the stories with

 such heart and soul!

Here's the tattie bogle I created.  Her name is Aunt Tattie and I think she's beautiful!

I had such an inspired time bringing her to life that I long to create more and more and more!

They look so magical from a distance!

If you are of a mind to create (or already have created) a tattie bogle for your garden,

won't you please post a link here so we might all come to see!

Enjoy!  

~Mimi

Mommets and More!

Well, here we go!

Introducing:  TATTIE MAN!

I scoured the thrift store for weeks searching for the perfect Tattie Man to accompany me on my folk journey!  He needed to be just the right amount of old!  And this guy is!  I am so looking forward to our adventures over the next four months and coming back to share with you!

I'm pretty sure I'm going to discover that Tattie Bogles are MAGICAL!

Enjoy!

“Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects
of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a
faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now
to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half
fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was
folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was
comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The Tattie Bogle Extravaganza!

THE TATTIE BOGLE EXTRAVAGANZA!

I am nothing if not obsessive compulsive.

So, when I choose a theme for my storytelling life I go all out.

History, research, creative energy all go into the making of my themed presentations.

This year I have decided upon the theme:  Scarecrows.

Or, Tattie Bogles as I have come to think of them, always deferring to a Scots take on a

 project when possible.

I never thought much of scarecrows before but now that I have started my research I am AMAZED!

Such rich folklore....folk art...stories.

I must confess that I have cried a few tears reading every story as the scarecrows come to have human characteristics and I began to think of their life and purpose.

My first adventure will be at the community garden that I have co-coordinated in the community-

Project: GREEN

(find us on Facebook at Project: GREEN Clay, NY

I have scheduled a Garden Folk workshop so that each family make have their own, special Folk for their plot.  I can't wait to see a community garden full of Folk standing guard over our plantings and having (I really do believe!) moonlight adventures!

From there I plan to extend the theme for my gypsy storytelling this Autumn both in the community and for a special folklore project in our old, local cemetery:  MORGAN CEMETERY

(find the story on my Morgan Cemetery blog here at blogspot-my apologies for being a

 link-challenged blogger)

I look forward to meeting the Folk Yet To Be and the Tattie Bogle adventure!

I hope you'll join me!

Quite some years ago I became enamored of Corn Dollies and made quite a number of them from garden leavings.  I share them here with you today.  They are quite fragile now....but still greatly loved.  I like to think of them as wee Tattie Bogles.....not yet big enough for the fields........

Have YOU made a wee one from your garden scraps?

Please, won't you share?

Enjoy!  And thank you for your creative time.

*hugs*   ~Fox