Love the addition of paper flowers to the top. Just fabulous.Day of the Dead Bookmarks – How To:As with all our corner bookmarks, it is really useful to watch the video to see how to make the basic corner bookmark. We have then adapted it to shape it into these fabulous skulls!
The sugar skull is probably the most famous ofDía de los Muertossymbols. Sugarcalaveras(skulls) andcalacas(skeletons) date back to the 18th Century, brought to the ‘New World’ by Italian Catholic immigrants from Palermo. While the sugar plant isn’t native to Mexico, there was a lot of ...
Born in 1852, José Guadalupe Posada createdcalaveras, the festive bony figures associated with the Day of the Dead. Hiscalaverasdrawings were also political cartoons that communicated his ideas to the Mexican people who couldn’t read. Pair this picture book biography with theDay of the Deadfor ...
“The landlord upon whose premises a murder is committed, is nowadays a made man. The place becomes a show—the neighbourhood as the scene of a fair, The barn in which Maria Martin was murdered by Corder, was sold in toothpicks: the hedge through which the body of Mr. Weare was dragge...
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3. Hang on Sloopy by The McCoys I love the opening bars of this song, the happy hitting keys in the intro offset by that deep, groovy voice, it makes you want to dance like a hippy chick in a beatnik’s loungeroom. I was pretty captivated by that 60s pop sound this year, that ...
Ask anyone in town, and they’ll be able to point you in the right direction. You’re looking for a shop with a glass window showcasing the head of an ichthyosaur. Open the door and you’ll find a trove of Jurassic wonders. Skulls, shells, skeletons, all offered at a reasonable pric...