2018. április 25., szerda

The flower hunt - a Dolly story

"Help me make the music of the night"

from A. L. Webbers The Phantom of the Opera, song: Music of the night

 Remember when Kiki said she'll tag along the first time we do something together? And her idea that we should go and visit the garden? We did it. But it was more like Kiki dragging us along than she coming along and retreating into the background. If it wouldn't be about me, I would think it funny. From an outsiders point of view it is a good idea. I'm not sure why this turned out like that but it wasn't exactly what she imagined. It wasn't bad just...  well, I best start at the beginning.
Victoria arranged the whole: She chose the day, she invited Vester, she suggested that we look for flowers outside. And so we found ourselves walking by her side, on our way to the garden on a fine spring morning. Like two obliging dogs taken for a walk on the line.
"Isn't it a perfect day?" Kiki exclaimed "And look, the first flowers this spring!" The weather was indeed perfect, not too much sun or clouds, very little wind and a pleasant temperature.
"There are other flowers around. And I've seen those daisies weeks ago through the window."
"Yes, between patches of snow, right?" she laughed and ran ahead. I coud hardly keep up with her.
"Look! There are leaves over here, there will be some tulips soon! Let's check for buds!"
But neither the tulips nor the narcissus a few steps away from the tulips had any buds.
And I have to add, Vester actually seemed to be bored.
Looking for springflowers wasn't what he would have chosen to do, I guess.
"Hm." was all Kiki could say.
"I remember up there, next to the shed there were some narcissus, too. Maybe we can find some there?" I offered.
"Oh, yes!"
She went ahead, wanting to leave the two of us alone but Vester obidiently followed her, more than ever like a dog on the line.
I felt a bit sorry for him but at the same time I really like spring flowers. And he had an unexhaustible source of patience. (I know that since he put up with my extremly untalented self and taught me to dance.)
"Look, a little sun!" I screamed when I spotted a small yellow flover. "It looks a little like the one in my hair."
Kiki came back to look at it.
"Another early flower! Meritre says there are hundreds of these along the street." she remarked. "But we are not going there and look for them!" she added as soon as she noticed my enthusiasm for those kind of flowers.
"They are really lovely."
"They sure are but we can't jaunter about the whole town. Look, these violets are just as lovely. And there are so many of them! Not here but over there."
I nodded. Sure, violets were pretty.
Plus they have a nice smell.
"And see, there is something yellow there. It is the first blossoming narcissus. Or daffodil. Or whatever they are called."
"Flowers."
We laughed.
"So beautiful!"
We completely forgot about Vester for a while, from that point it was more like a sister garden tour. We hd a lot of fun finding many different springflowers, here they are:

We call that one simply 'cluster of grapes', it looks a lot like one. Lots of violets and daisys too.

Some other additions by Meritre, she was kind enough to make a picture of the little suns she was talking about.
Lots of little suns... or stars

More 'clusters of grape'
A little further, behind the house we found a reddish tulip already blooming.
"It's even redder than your hair."
"Redder then Margarets, too?"
"Even redder than Mireben Meridas hair!"
"But not as red as Susanne Ariels hair."
"Maybe we should have brought them with us, too."
That made my sister remember that we actually did take someone with us. And that we haven't seen him for quite a while. We simply forgot about him. We ran back to the daffodils where we had last seen him but he wasn't there anymore.
Gone!
Looking around didn't give us a clue where he might be and calling him would have been.. let's say, not the wisest thing. The people around were not deaf, even if they couldn't see what's going on in the garden.
"If we could look around from above..." Kiki said thoughtfully.
"Of course! I'll climb a tree."
Victoria  decided to stay on the ground. She didn't want to rip her delicate cape.
"You go and look around, I'll wait right here." she encouraged me.
So I climbed the closest tree. I found a nice spot and sat down to look around.
It took less than a moment to find the lost  member of the little group. He had climbed the very same tree I did.
"So there you are we thought you're lost." I exclaimed.
"Just looked around a bit. Kept an eye on you two as well."
 I didn't need to turn around to see that from the tree he could watch what we were doing without us noticing it. And no wonder we didn't see him when we were looking for him on the ground.
"You were nowhere to be seen so we got worried."
"I'm sorry. Supposed you were hunting for more flowers. Thought to join you two on your way back."
"Oh, that's fine now. Come!" and I just hopped down from the tree. Perhaps I should add that the tree in question was a quite young cherry tree and we were not very high up. And I jump down from Meritres desk every single day. It is part of my adventurer skill set, so to say.:)
Kiki cast a disapproving look at me, she always thinks I'll break a limb or something. But she didn't say anything. For one thing, she's already told me a dozen times that I shouldn't do it, second, she didn't think scolding me in front of others the right thing.
Vester came down from the tree, too and landed just next to the flowers.
 "Let's just enjoy the sun for a bit."
We formed a triangle laying in the grass.Sunshine, bees, butterflies... I think I even dozed off.
 No more words were spoken untill it was time to go back in.

Note by Kiki: It didn't turn out the way I wanted. I should have checked what outdoor activities he likes but the thing is he's never been outside in the garden before. (Unlike Dolly, who even camped out there with Barbara) I wonder what they said to each other up on the tree. It doesn't look like anything significant was said but still. I wish I could help these two. With so many machmakers this should be easy but it just doesn't work out they way it was planned.







2018. április 22., vasárnap

Treasures from my package

"We would ring in the season"

From Disney's Olafs Frozen Adventure

About a week ago I got a package form a good friend with lots and lots of treasures in it!
She got me some of it when she was at a Disney Park!
Let's see the treaures. When I opened the box, the first thing I saw was a Disney bag.With lots of cute things inside.

First thing that came out is a cute little kitty.
As you see it can be fatened to clothes and similar places. :)
There was a Belle pin.
This pin shows redesigned Belle wearing her ballgown while reading a book.
She looks great together with the other pin I have, Tinker Bell.
Tink and Belle. Tinkerbelle. Tinker Bell. With this new Belle, I've doubled my pin collection. Sounds cool. Now I own two pins. :)
A pendant with Elsa in one of her signature poses, holding up her hand making a snowflake.
My friend has one as well, I think that's really cool we both have it! :D

A pressed penny with Elsa and Anna.
I think those are very cute and they serve kind of taking home the memories from the park. :)
A very pretty snowflake, just the right size for my LE Elsa, Elinor.
It looks great in her hair, but I couldn't make it stay there so she's holding it now.
A Coco blindbag.
There was this cute dog in it - I think his name is Dante in the movie. (I haven't seen Coco yet.)
He is made of three parts and he is really easy to put together and he stays like that, too.

There were also two sets of Barbie clothes for my dolls. :)
This blue dress, modelled by Dolly, reminded both my friend and me of Elsas ice dress.
It looks really great on her! But other dolls will try it on, too, and you decide, on which girl it looks best.
Same ges for the blouse and the pink trousers.
Hannah Rapunzel is the first to try them on.
Aurora is second, also modelling the bag that came with the outfits.
Just the thing for Ariel to put her  gadgets and gizmos and whozits and whatzits and thingamabobs in it. This set is so pretty that I want to attempt making something similar. My girls doesn't have much to wear except their box outfits.

The last one is mine, and only mine - it's a card with a message for me in it. But I'll show you the cover, it's so beautiful!
Thank you, you are such a great friend :)


2018. április 19., csütörtök

Sharing the magic of music - Lullaby from Marie Antoinette

Todays song I share is from the musical Marie Antoinette by Lévay & Kunze.
This is the song Victoria Elsa sung to calam her sister Dorothea Anna. It's a lovely song and I think it's very calming. You can listen to the german version here:
This Lullaby is sung mainly by Marie Antoinette herself, she sings it to her son who fell and hurt his knee in the hun version and later the whole family joins in. I haven't seen the german version on stage so I only know that Marie Antoinette and Margrid Arnaud share this song.
The hungarian translation was of course done by a professional songwriter and translator, his name is Müller Péter Sziámi. He did all the songtranslation for the musical.

Altató

Könny, könny,
ne szégyelld, ha jön.
Majd elszáll a bánat,
a fény nyugalmat áraszt,
felemel, megölel.

Könny, könny,
úgy csillog, mint fönt
száz csillag az égen.
A fény áttör az éjen,
felemel, megölel.

Könny, könny,
ha rémült szív
hallod egy csillag ha hív
a mindenségnek útja vár
a szíved is hazatalál.

My translation of the hungarian version:
Lullaby

Tears, tears
don't be ashamed if they come.
Sorrow will fly away
light spreads calmness
it lifts you, it holds you

Tears, tears
they sparkle like
a hundres stars up on the sky
Light braeks through the night
 it lifts you, it holds you

Tears, tears
if the heart is filled with fear
you hear a star calling you
 the road of the universe waits for you
and your heart will find home, too


The german version and my translation of the this version, the one you can listen to on youtube:

German                                                                      English

Still, still                                                                    Quiet, quiet
und hör in die Nacht,                                                and listen to the night
dein Engel weint Tränen,                                          your angel cries tears
wie du fühlt er ein Sehnen                                        he feels, just like you, this longing
und er spürt deinen Schmerz.                                    and he feels your pain

Still, still                                                                    Quiet, quiet
im Dunkel der Nacht                                                 Int he darknass of the night
hört jemand dein Klagen,                                          someone hears you crying
er kennt all' deine Fragen,                                         he knows all your questions
denn er sieht dir ins Herz.                                         because he sees into your heart

Still, still                                                                    Quiet, quiet
      hör in dich hinein,                                                           listen to the voice within you
still, still, du bist nicht ganz allein,                            Quiet, quiet, you are not all alone
   dein Engel weiß, wie weh es tut                            your angel knows how much it hurts
und doch sagt er alles wird gut,                                and yet he says everything will be alright,
alles wird gut!                                                           Everything will be fine!