“Old Lady” Nesting Dolls
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while — I have been extremely busy. Anyway, I wanted to post the final version of my nesting doll project. Continue reading for the whole thing. The concept behind the dolls is that the song can be sung as they’re opened one by one.
I know an old lady…
Who swallowed a fly.
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
I know an old lady who swallowed a bird,
How absurd to swallow a bird!
I know an old lady who swallowed a cat,
Imagine that, to swallow a cat!
I know an old lady who swallowed a dog,
My, what a hog, to swallow a dog!
I know an old lady who swallowed a goat,
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
I know an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I wonder how she swallowed a cow?!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a horse…
…she’s dead, of course!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Thanks: I liked seeing that. And, while I know you are busy, I like to see updates on here:)
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
i’ve so always wanted to paint russian dolls. this is just awesome. bird=greatness. love it, love the site
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Fantastic, it’s been a while since you posted on here, glad to see you’re back. Will we ever see Zentastic get updated again or is this your primary blog now?
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Those are so amazingly adorable!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Fantastic idea, beautiful dolls!
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Looks like they turned out great.
Until the next update, have a good one.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Aww, the goat one is so cute!
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
The goat is my favorite. :))
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I love these. I’m glad you found some time to post the finished product!
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
John - This is just my (and Caitlin’s) art and homesteading blog. When I have access to Zentastic again (argh, that had better be soon!), I’ll do my day-to-day blogging there.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
That is so awesome. I was always very creeped out by that song; so much so that I can’t even get behind the concept of turducken.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
YAY! These are so cool!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
This is so weird: as the the animals get larger, the puppets get smaller. To me this inversion compliments the “size vs swalloing”-problem of the song.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Golfwidow:
I can’t get behind the concept of turducken either!
There’s not much I concider as grotesque as cooking one dead carcass inside of another.
I have however, always wondered how you’d possibly carve such a travesty.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
this is really awesome, I always thought it was karma for eating all those poor animals. At first I thought the horse was a platypus
February 8th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I love this so much.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
i used to read that story all the time when i was little ! i love it.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I’ve seen one of these russian dolls this morning and it reminded me that i had one as a child and now i see yours, i guess it means that i should look for my old one! (btw thank you for putting me on modblog, i feel honoured! that mess was paradise btw, it was a costume makers workspace so all clothes!)
Have a great week!
Anna (iam:Lil Miss Strange)