Ally Bally Ally Bally Bee Candy – Fairytales, Folklore & Fables – Tell me a Story

Hi Friends,   

Happy Sunday! I hope you remembered to turn the clocks back last night if you are in the UK (or Europe?) because it is time to Fall Back and get an extra hour in bed.  That aspect of it is nice but I really don’t like that it will now be dark at 5pm.  It’s not necessary and it confused the cats no end because they know what time it really is despite what the clock now says. Most of my post was written last night, but I was too tired to finish it off and schedule it, but I will have to be quick today as I am not feeling 100% and think I might put my feet up for a while.  Hopefully though the post will still be understandable without all the explanations I had planned.  If  you have any questions thought, just post them in the comments. Just one more page left for this month…

Today’s Art . . .

Today’s art is another page using my Day 30 prompt:  Candy

This page is dedicated to this Scottish Folk Song that I was recently reminded of in one of the DCI Logan books I read this month.  One of the minor characters in the book was called Ally Bally, and that was a blast from the past, as that is the start of a little lullaby my mum used to sing to me, and naturally the character in the book, started singing it too.  The first verse goes like this:

Ally Bally ally bally bee
Sittin’ on yer mammy’s knee
Greetin’ for a wee bawbee
Tae buy some Coulter’s candy

The full lyrics of this Scottish folk song can be found here.  For the non-Scottish people – “greetin” means crying, and a “bawbee” was another name for a sixpence in the old money before decimalisation.  Coulter’s candy was a real product and this song was apparently written as an advertising jingle in the days before that was really a thing.  This aniseed flavoured candy was sold on the East coast in the 1890s but several times people have tried to bring it back and use the name.

I bought a couple of bags of treat-size chocolate bars and sweets to hand out at Halloween, so I thought I would use the bags that contained the treats as the basis of my page.  It’s amazing how many of these chocolate bars have orange wrappers, not for Halloween but as standard.  I guess it helps them stand out.

There’s still time to join in the challenge this month!

EDIT:  told you I wasn’t feeling well, nearly forgot to add my TREACLE TOFFEE I made last night!

Boiling till it reached the right temperature and then…

Smashing it up with a hammer into bite-size pieces!  Like the Treacle scones I made the other day, this is another traditional treat at this time of the year.  It’s all about the treacle for sure!

Let me know what you think in the comments.   As always, thanks for reading!

Ingredients
my handmade journal, watercolour paper, candy wrappers, letter stickers, Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, stencil, Distress Ink, Nuvo drops, Stickles, neocolours,

Challenges

Country View Challenges – Halloween or Harvest
Art Journal Journey – Fairytales, Folklore & Fables

Daily Prompts

Here are the prompts I will be using and you can probably tell that a lot of them are related to fairytales, but you don’t have to use them that way or you don’t have to use them at all.  I will be attempting all 31 days but I may not make it and that’s OK too.  The prompts are there if you feel stuck or in need of extra inspiration.   I just respond well to a daily prompt and I will also be sharing my pages on Instagram.  If you share your work on Instagram there is a hashtag.  Please note, that to enter the Art Journal Journey challenge using the Mr Linky tool, you will have to link from a blogsince it is a blog challenge.

Or you can ignore the daily prompts completely and focus on the overarching theme for the month.  The daily prompts are there if you want to make more pages but need some extra prompting.