A Very Fond Wibbly Farewell

Dear Friends,

We are sad to say that Wibbly Wobbly Woods will be under a deep and restful slumber for some time. We Wibblians have become quite overwhelmed with life and it's many wonders. And, though we have enjoyed sharing our lives (illustrations) with all of you, it is time, as many great stories go, to end this particular chapter.

When the woods awaken from it's quiet repose, and the spring flowers are seen amongst the thistle bushes and brambles, we hope to once again open our homes, hearts, and imaginations to all of you- the most Wibbliest of us all.

But please, keep a lookout for a flutter amongst frosted trunks, or the scurrying between evergreen branches- for you may see one of us.

Spring Morning
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Down to the stream where the king-cups grow--
Up on the hill where the pine-tress blow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

Where am I going? The clouds sail by,
Little one, baby one, over the sky.
Where am I going? The shadows pass,
Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
And you'd see me here in the fields and say:
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"

Where am I going? The high rooks call:
"It's awful fun to be born at all."
Where am I going? The ring-doves coo:
"We do have beautiful things to do."

If you were a bird, and lived on high,
You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,
You'd say to the wind when it took you away:
"That's where I wanted to go today!"

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the woods where the blue-bells grow--
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

Little Lady Good Nectar as Leaf

I didn't want to be no stink'n leaf at the school costume ball. I fought with my mama and grandma about it! Things didn't set right with me until my auntie V came over with her

magical box of paint and glitter. She put eye sparkles and lip nectar on me and then applied

sun jelly on my arms and legs. I was as shinny as fist full of copper pennies!!! Auntie talked my Mama and grandma into letting me wear my hair in an afro and of course you know, I was a

SENSATION!!!!!! Mrs. Gooblepotter told me that she had never seen a leaf so bright in all her life and Mrs. Goolepotter has lived a very long time! I knocked them dead when I sang," I'm a Little Leaf, Please Don't Step On Me" Yeah! he he he he! Ain't I a stinker???

A Berry-licious Moment

One of Scribbles most favorite activities is picking ripe juicy berries among the fall leaves, and cinnamon smelling breezes. These purple bopp berries are just the thing to make jam to share for everyone in the woods!

New Boots!

The thing that always got me excited every school year is getting new clothes, especially boots! I would put them on at home and admire them when it was still too hot to wear them, just waiting for that little nip in the air so I could wear them to school!
Rossobella

Walter's First Day

It is Walter's first day at his new one room school. He misses his old school and friends and wishes he was still on summer break. The Mouse is very excited to be sitting in the back row with the bigger students. The Bunny is daydreaming and thinking about lunch...hope Mom packed me a special treat.

New Wings for School

As a child I remember Mother Good Nectar. She was a real looker. I take after her.

She would always make me and my sister Purnetta the Strange, lovely wings

for fairy school each year. Now that I'm all grown up, I still like to

sport a new pair of wing this time of year!!! I also love the humans, Parda,

shoes and designer clothing. One must look spiffy for the school year.

Oh I 've put on a little weight since the high wire. To many nectar cakes

and honeyjoop, joop tea he he he!

Scribble's First Day

Hiya Wibblians-

I redid Scribbles. She is now a tiny little bug girl, instead of an old gnome person thingy. This is her first day of school, and she's getting dressed. It's taking a little longer because over the summer her feet got bigger than her shoes remembered. Oh well, she's a growing Do-Bug. Wish her luck today!

Wibbly Gazette #5 (Prompt)

Halloween Spooks
by Eleanor Dennis

Millions and billions and trillions of cats,
Cackling old witches in tall, funny hats,
Screech owls screeching from the fence post and tree-
It's Halloween time as plain as can be.
Dim spooky shadows go slithering by
As black bats and witches go riding the sky;
Get out your costume and join in the fun.
Don't let spooks scare you, and don't turn and run;
The scary old spooks are just Jerry and John
With Mom's old percales ripped up and pinned on.
So get out your costume and funny face too,
To keep folks from guessing that you are just you.

Hullo Fellow Wibblians-

Fall is almost upon us. And you know what that means? Wibbly Wobbly Wood will be hoppin' and a boppin' with all sorts of fun activities, from pumpkin pickin' to apple boppin.' And I'm sure more than a few of us will start out raking leaves, and end up jumping into them instead.

Here are the prompts for the next month:

Sept 21- Oct 4
What was your most favorite or not so favorite part about school starting up again in the fall? Using your Wibbly character, illustrate/create his or her hapinness or disgruntlement. Maybe illustrate some sort of classroom scene using your Wibbly character.

Oct 5- Oct 18
What are some of your favorite Fall childhood memories? Was it apple picking in a giant orchard, or picking out your favorite pumpkin in the endless rows of vines? Did you ever go for a hayride and accidentally get bumped off? Did you ever make candy or caramel apples, or popcorn balls? What do you think your Wibbly character would be doing for fall? Harvesting, decorating, madly sewing together a costume for the big Wibbly Woods Harvest Ball?

Oct 19-Oct 31
Wibbly Wobbly Woods is having it's annual, and first ever, mind you, Harvest Ball. Illustrate your character in a costume of his or her choice, and show a scene of what you plan to do at the ball. Are you going to be part of the band/orchestra? Are you in charge of bringing desserts, or are you going to be there helping to decorate? Or do you plan to make a muck of the apple cider and dance wildly all night long? How do you plan to help or participate with the Harvest Ball?

Looking most happily and forwardly to all your wonderful postings!
Lady Good Nectar & Scribbles

Back By Popular Demand...Walter and the Three Bears!!!

Before Walter moved to the Woods he had a part time job training elephants at the circus and his friends the three bears had an amazing high air balancing act! Goldilocks came to see the show. It was a big hit with the crowd. I drew this on a very long narrow piece of illustration board and it turns out it was too big to fit on the scanner so I had to scan it in two pieces....just pretend it is in one piece. ( I know a man who ran away from home when he was a teenager and joined the circus. He was a clown and drove the elephant truck. He said it was scary how the truck swayed back and forth from the weight of the elephants...they must have been dancing back there or something....I can just see elephants square dancing ;o) And as Walter is quite the lady's man (uh I mean dog), I thought you would all like to know that Walter is just as cute from the back as he is from the front (Walter is rolling his eyes as I write this and is demanding I remove that picture from the Internet!) I don't have photoshop or illustrator so my friend Doug put these back together for me :o)
And now you get to see the illustration the way it was meant to be seen.

Lady Good Nectar has the Bear Family over for Costume Tea Party

Oh Dear, I invited the bears over for Tea this afternoon.

When I opened the cottage door the poor dears ran away!

I thought I'd told them that it was a costume Tea and that

I would be dressed as a Mime. Mrs. Bear let me have it for

scaring poor baby bear to death. He doesn't take kindly to

clowns and Mine, but he sure ate his weight in tea and crumpets.

He he he!

Sir Dante's Surprise

What a fright I just had! I was just waking up from an afternoon nap - thought I'd run out for a sip of water. Of course, I've never had any visitors, so I didn't bother to pull my trousers on...I was just going to be a minute. Well, I stepped out onto my branch, and heard a giggle behind me. Mercy! Imagine my scare when I saw three bears sitting in my side yard enjoying a picnic lunch! I sprang out of there in such a hurry - I really didn't know if I was on the menu! And of course then I had to hide in the forest canopy until the coast was clear...out in broad daylight, and in my BIRTHDAY suit! This is so embarassing! I should have come here first to read the news about a new family of bears in the woods. Now I'm afraid I'll be too embarassed to meet them again!

Three Bears

I know, Scribbles isn't in the picture. When I drew him in, it didn't make sense, so I just erased him out. This image could be the Three Bears settling into their new home the night before their open house, lol. Happy September everyone!
~Scribbles

Wibbly Gazette #4 (Prompt)

If you go out in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go out in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.

For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because. . .

The woods have some new inhabitants, Papa, Mama and Baby bear. Instead of Goldilocks, come up with an illustration including your Wibbly character and an encounter with the three bears. Maybe you've bumped into them in the woods as you were on your Wibbly Wobbly Way. Maybe you've noticed their house and decided to drop by for a neighborly visit? Maybe, just maybe, you got a little bit curious and decided to try out the bears's house, and when you woke, you found them staring down at you. What happens next? It's up to you!

Happy Postings!
Lady Nectar & Scribbles

Turn Off the Water!

Uh-oh! somebody left Scribbles' water hose running! It's obviously been awhile since anyone's checked in here, so I figured I better hop into this clown's boat and check this out!

Sir Dante

Ringmaster

I've been so nervous to start the show! I'm used to being up high, and I'm wishing I had learned to be a trapeze artist! I don't like being in the limelight. I'm very happy here in the dark. But, the show must go on! I'm the one who fit this suit, so I'm the one who gets to be the ringmaster. I'm so glad this is only a one - ring circus. I sure hope I don't mess it up! Break a leg everyone! (Preferably someone else's!) ... Sir Dante

Scribbles to the Rescue

And so with the help of Scribble's new clown friends, they raced in their trusty fire engine wagon to help Lady Nectar with her corset!

Wheeeee!!!!!

Lady Good Nectar at the Circus

Wibbins, You know I was pretty happy just sitting around idle
in my little cottage, drinking endless cups of
magical bush tea, and crunching on fiddlesticks
but then I got to thinking. If I don't try
some new thing I'll become old and moldy.
My very good friend Mr. Hadley came by and
invited to me join the circus for the day. I thought
that I perhaps would become a clown or something like that.
He had something more daring in mind.
Now trust me, it was all fun and games
putting on the makeup and being poured into
the cute little pink number, but as I started to climb
my blood pressure did too. That foolish man wanted
to use me in his high wire act! HELP!!!!!
hee he he hee
Lady Good Nectar
P.S. Please bring a corset remover as this thing is killing me!

Wibbly Gazette #3 (Prompt)

Hullo Fellow Wibblians-

I hope that you are all enjoying many fun and exciting summer activities, such as swimming, bbq'ing, camping in our fair woods!

This month we're all going to the circus. Create what you (your Wibbly character) did at the circus. Did you get into mischief with the lions, did a clown pick on you? Did you take part in a death defying act as well? Did the ringmaster let you wear his jacket? Please include your Wibbly character in your creation. Double-page spreads are most welcome!

Can't wait to see your most wonderful creations!
Lady Good Nectar & Scribbles

Mirror Mirror on the Wall. .

Now everyday, week in week out,
The spoiled stupid Queen would shout. . .
Then suddenly, one awful day,
She heard the Magic Mirror say,
"From now on, Queen, you're Number Two.
Snow-White is prettier than you!"

I'm sorry everyone, I've been so busy lately,
I've barely had time to eat. Promise to put
a lot more effort into the next post!

Scribbles

Mirror, Mirror

I've always been intrigued by the small, trading card sized story books. My kids had the 3 Billy Goats Gruff and 3 Bears in miniature, and those books went everywhere with us. As I drew this illustration, I was thinking of those toddler days. I wish I could find a magic mirror to relive those precious moments through again!

And Sir Dante' says this is one of his favorite storybooks! At 2.5"x3.5", it fits him perfectly!