5 brooches #39 Roald Dahl-inspired special

Greetings to you, fair traveller!

I hope all is well with you!

I am sorry I have been quite absent this week. It's been really exhausting being back at school and I have had a lot of tasks to do. I will hopefully catch up with your posts soon.

This week at school, we had a Roald Dahl-themed week. As you will surely know, it is the centenary of his birth.  He is such an important author to so many people.

I adored this books as a child, particularly The Enormous Crocodile, Matilda, the Witches and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I read and reread them a myriad times.

When I was planning Singing assemblies for the first few weeks, I wanted to sing some songs based on Roald Dahl lyrics. However, it was quite hard to find short songs.  There are, of course, two musicals, but I wanted to sing Roald Dahl's actual words.

Thus, I set myself the task of writing my own songs to two of his songs- one from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and one from the Enormous Crocodile. The Crocodile one was well-received by children and teachers alike which I was pleased about.

I had a successful lesson today with Year 4 teaching literacy in which I set them a task based on identifying character traits of The Twits and then writing a paragraph denouncing the couple!

Anyway, here's the backdrop to this week's brooch choices.

On Monday, I went with a subtle reference to the Roald Dahl books.  Which character might advocate the sentiment of this Fable and Black brooch?

I'll put the answers at the bottom to allow you to guess.

 On Tuesday I wore this animal brooch.  Which book might this refer to?

 On Wednesday, brooch and dress matched. But which book is today's outfit referencing?

 Thursday's brooch was one I made specially for this week out of Shrink Plastic.
You should be able to recognise the character but I'll allow you to guess anyway!

Friday (today's) brooch is also one I made especially for this week.  Who is the character and from which book?

Any favourites here?

How would you have interpreted Roald Dahl week in brooch form? I'd be intrigued to know!

xxx

Answers are below...

1. Matilda

2. Esio Trot

3. Fantastic Mr Fox

4. Matilda again.

5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka)

May the force be with you!

Our friends organised a trip to go and see James Bond together on opening night in October which we did and really enjoyed so we booked to go and see 'The Force Awakens' on Saturday 19th December.  I've been really looking forward to it!

Having not done TARDIS Tuesday for a little while, I was keen for a little themed-dressing to attend it!

It originally began with this R2D2 novelty handbag I have. I bought this in 1996 in Miss Selfridge sale for £1! We'd been to watch Return of the Jedi earlier that year and I had to have it!  I've kept him ever since and he's made an appearance over the years! Almost had him 20 years!

I decided to try and white his colours with my outfit so it was a subtle cosplay.  Just the red hat and belt as that was the least (couldn't find my grey beret!) 

 The white dress which formed the basis of my Dalek dress.  Appropriate eh- from one robot to another.Ahem, droid!

 White trainers and my TARDIS blue cardie.

 And of course, I had to make a brooch!    Was rather pleased with my little R2D2 pin to finish off the look!

The film was excellent.  I couldn't believe I was finally going to see how the story continues!  I thought it was excellent and I didn't know they are making another 2 films so that is exciting!  Be prepared for some big shocks though! Star wars had a big influence on my life from those ewoks from Return of the Jedi- I LOVED the ewoks cartoons that I watched as a 7 year old and I wrote my own stories- I filled about 2 exercise books full of my own Ewok spin offs. And my sister tells me that I had a huge crush on Luke Skywalker aged 4-6!!!