April Fools, Fishes, and Bunnies

Hello, Fools!

I thought I would go into the origin of the celebration of April Fool's Day, so I checked Wikipedia and I immediately found this line:

Precursors of April Fool's Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria ... 

Now you will find a TON of information on Wiki about how the tradition of celebrating April Fool's Day started and how it is practiced in various parts of the world, but I think the best information of all is in that opening line. In fact, I wish that we celebrated The Festival of Hilaria instead of April Fool's Day!! Wouldn't that be hilaria?! I think so. (And I didn't even make that up!!)

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Another tibbit of information given is that in some places it started out being called April Fish Day. In places where that is celebrated, a rascallion makes a paper fish and then successfully attaches it to the back of someone who then becomes the "fool." Sort of nicer than attaching a "kick me" sign to someone's back. Not that I would know anything about doing something that naughty.

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For my card on this foolish day, I chose to make a bunny rather than a fish. I was inspired by the current Lucky Dip challenge at Less Is More, where the theme is "Round and Round." Thank you, ladies, for another fun challenge!

And here's my card:

I used my circle punches to create the round bunny body out of a store-bought note card covered in pretty springtime words. I used my heart punch to make the ears and feet, rounding half of the heart to make it more bunny ear- and foot-appropopo. The round bunny tail is made from a cotton ball pulled from the top of a medicine bottle. The bunny grass is hand drawn with markers and pencils and a silvery green glitter pen was used to write "Happy Spring" in the lawn.

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More paper snippets used in today's card, so I'm off to Pixie's Snippets Playground to share my bunny with the gang there.

As a special nod to April Fool's Day, the newest brief at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is "Lots of Rules." Just kidding! It's "Anything Goes!"

And the current challenge at Simply Create Too is "Easter or Use Bunnies!"

To join in the fun and find out all the details regarding rules, sponsors, and prizes, just click on the links!

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In between spring showers on Sunday, the Dukester kept me company as I deadheaded my Azalea bushes. As you can tell from my attire, it must have been all of 67 degrees, which is pretty much freezing cold in California.

You might notice that I have cut off a portion of my backside. The ability to crop photos is up near the top of my Gratitude List. I'm hoping you aren't very good at porportionizing, although, of course, you are, aren't you, being a card artist and all. Well, I'll just ignore that.

I had a few years of blissfully living in a land I like to call Delirium in between having a young son on the premises and now having young grandsons. Children, with their brutal honesty, have a way of bringing you crashing back to a land called Reality.

Why just recently, Henry was playing in the family room, I was in the kitchen, and Papa and Adam were off doing something. I asked Henry if he would like the Legos which are kept in a plastic box under Adam's bed just inside the door to their room. "Sure," he said. I dried my hands and went to their room, bending over in the doorway to retrieve the box.

I hadn't realized that Henry had gotten up and followed me.

Henry hadn't realized that I was going to abruptly stop in the doorway and suddenly bend over, so he had to come to a screeching halt just inches from my bottom.

Stunned, he blurted, "WHOA! You have a BIG butt!"

I thought about explaining how having a big butt is my genetic body type and that it does't bother me because I can't see it. Or telling him that grandma is all on-trend in this age of Kardashian big butts, but he's too young to know about stuff like that, thank goodness.

And anyways, I'm pretty sure he was just teasing me, you know? I mean, I think he knew he wasn't going to be here today for April Fool's Day, so he fooled me early, right?

{Cough.}

Now where are those walking shoes I bought in the 1900s?

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Enjoy your day of hilaria! Enjoy crafting your fishes or your bunnies and slapping them unknowingly onto the backs of innocent people and then yelling, "April Fool" and running away!

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