Penny Sanford Designs

Testing a New Microphone; Enunciation Exercises

1. Get back into the habit of blogging. ~ check
2. Catch up with shipping. ~ in progress


3. Get back into the habit of podcasting (link below).  ~check
4. Work on lazy lips and lazy tongue. ~check

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These enunciation exercises were fun.  I had only heard a few of them!  You give them a try!

A - Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.

B - Big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood.

C - Can I cook a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot?

D - Don't doubt the doorbell, but differ with the doorknob.

E - Eight gray geese in a green field grazing.

F - Fine white vinegar with veal.

The free thugs set three thugs free.

G - Grab the groundhog from the glazed grass.

Grey geese in a green field grazing.

H - High roller, low roller, lower roller.

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

I - Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping.

I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch

J - Jingle jungle jangle joker.

K - Knit kilts for nasty cold nights.

L - Little lucky luke likes lakes, lucky little luke likes licking lakes

M - Monkeys make monopoly monotonous.

N - The Next nest will not necessarily be next to nothing.

O - Octopi occupy a porcupine's mind.

Only royal oily royal oil boils

P - Peter Prangle, the prickly pear picker, picked three perfectly prickly pears.

A proper copper coffee pot.

Q - Queen Catherine wakes the cat, and the cat quietly cries.

R - Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers!

Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

S - Some shun sunshine. Do you shun sunshine?

Six stick shifts stuck shut.

T - Three thick thistle sticks.

The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

U - Unique New York, Unique New York, Unique New York.

V - Venti, Grande, Tall - Very Grand Words for Large, Medium, Small.

W - Will's wetsuit is round and wet and rough and wide and ready to go on a watery ride.

Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

X - Xylophones exist or so existentialists insist.

Y - Yoda met a Yeti on the Plains of Serengeti.

Z - Zoologists illogically love to read astrology.

 

 

 

PennyCast: The Eyes of this House

PennyCast for Nov. 6, 2011: 

The Eyes of this House.

(Click on the link below ("Eyes_Master") and then when the page with the podcast player appears,  click the play button to listen to the podcast.)

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This is a short audio podcast of how a simple DIY task has sparked some insightful symbolism to life.  I expanded the blog post of a few days ago on this topic.

Here is the picture of the actual window on the second floor from which two panes dropped to the ground WITHOUT breaking!



The windows on the second floor are perfect Westie Height!



Lillibeth, above, died September 5th of this year.  We miss her SOOOO much!


Jenny keeps a frequent watch out this window for any invading critters.  Even at night, the Westies can smell visiting wildlife around the yard.

PennyCast 2: Molly and the Turkey.

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A Lilibeth/Belle Memorial Podcast

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"Dancing with the Daffodils"

A happy, beautiful Easter to everyone! This has been such a spectacular year for the spring daffodils at Hamer Hills Farm! They are just begging for an Easter Egg hunt among the vivid blooms!

We shot just a sampling of the many different varieties here on the farm to share with you. It is just 1.5 minutes with narration.

Do you recognize the poem that Penny is narrating? It is William Wordsworth's most famous work, "Daffodils" or "The Daffodils", also known as "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", written in 1804 and first published in 1807.

Wordsworth then came back in 1815 and edited the poem, and that is the version you will hear in this clip.

The inspiration for this classic romantic poem is widely presumed to be a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy near their house in the Lake District in England.

Dorothy later wrote about this inspirational walk among the daffodils:

"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road.

"I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing.

"This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. We rested again and again. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea."

– Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal , Thursday, 15 April 1802

"A Timeline in Quilting", Sunburst Quilt

Here is the final excerpt from Penny's presentation "A Timeline in Quiting", which she gave to the Cleveland Mississippi DAR in November 2009. Of special note, the "Sunburst Quilt" was hand made by Penny's Great Grandmother Beatrice Welch Dunn in the 1930's.

The Sunburst Quilt is also featured in the coffee table book entitled "Mississippi Quilts" by Mary Elizabeth Johnson.

If you or your organization would be interesting in having Penny present a program, you may contact her by email, leave a comment on this blog or her Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/pennysfikes

"A Timeline in Quilting", Baltimore Album Style

Here is another short video excerpt from Penny's presentation of "A Tiimeline in Quilting" which she gave to the Cleveland, MS. DAR chapter in November 2009.

If you or your organization would be interested in having Penny give one of her quilting programs, you may contact her by email or her Facebook Page.

http://www.facebook.com/pennysfikes

Pennycast: "The Oldest Quilt in Mississippi"

This footage was shot on November 14, 2009 as part of Penny's program "A Timeline of Quilting", to which we traveled to Cleveland, MS. and the local DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) there. This is the first of a few short excerpts of which I will be editing to post here so that you may enjoy.

If you would like more information about Penny's presentations, all you have to do is email her or me and we will be glad to supply you with what you need. Hope you enjoy.

Charles Hamer carving a fork.

Charles Hamer, age 83 of Kilmichael, Mississippi, carving a wooden, primitive fork made from trees blown down by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.

Pennycast or Penny's Party Line?

I finally managed to get Penny's first podcast uploaded. Simply click on the play button to listen.  Let us know what you think and thanks so much for your patience!
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