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Emelie… and can we get “Bobby” Carlyle to tag along for free in that mix? 😆 I really enjoyed David Anders taking a stab at his accent.
[adrotate group="5"]Been wondering this all day, but what did a woman as strong and power driven ever see in Henry? He’s a weak man, slave to his wife and later his daughter.
So, I came up witha theory. The ledgend of Rumpel is that he helps the miller’s daugther to spin straw into gold, else the King will cut of her head. Her father promised she could, and the King said: do it or I’ll kill you.
She does, with help of Rumpel, in exchange for her first born. Because she can, the man that threatened to kill her, now marries her. (Yeah great, gimme a bloke like that 😕 )
Now which King do we know with a love for gold? Midas!
So what if Cora was put before the same dilemma: Love or Money. She spun gold forthe king so the king married her. Midas… But she fell for Henry. And then she got pregnant.
Let’s go over the top here and consider for a moment she got twins: Regina and Abigail. Both from diffrent fathers. Technically that is possible…especially in fairy tales.
As she gives birth Rumpel comes and claims his prize: Regina. He drops the little bomb that she is not the King’s anyway, but number two is *insert manical Rumpel laughter*
Midas banishes Cora & Henry, but keeps daughter number two: Abigail
Cora furious over having lost everything, gets back her daughter from Rumpel, nearly destroying him.Hmm extra theory: A spinning factory is also called a mill. I have heard theories about Regina being his daughter, but what if Cora was? Rumpel is not completely heartless, and has a weak spot for children. What if he found Cora as a girl and adopted her? SHE could be the little matchstick girl or something. He takes her in and trains her up, until she decides to woo a king. Rumpel can spin, and she figures it’s the wheel that does it, so steals it. She can’t do it and Rumpel catches up and makes her a deal: If you leave me,you get me a replacement: Your firstborn.
It could make sense…I tried the drop spindle and it is HARD to keep it spinning, stretch the wool and not let the yarn break, all at the same time. Takes a lot of practice, doing three things at once. Though I did find a good tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXid5cT0y8 Must try again.
Good on Robert Carlyle, restoring the spinning craft week by week 😀@Josephine wrote:
I’d love to start spinning. My mom used to want a spinning wheel, but there was never any room in the house for one. I’ve been thinking about getting a drop spindle and learning that first. I’m not going to go so far as getting my own sheep. I draw the line there. Watching Rumple spin is a bonus to my knitting love. 😉 Plus, I love all the jaunty caps that Mary Margaret and Emma wore last season.
A spindle is a lot harder to use than a wheel, but you can DIY one quite easily even from a piece of cardboard and a pencil. The important bit is that you get combed wool (or comb wool yourself), because all the fibers need to be in the same direction. I only tried spinning once and it is mesmorizing, I tell you. I must admit that I keep watching Rumpel spin, and I think sometimes he is faking it with prespun thread, whilst in desperate souls he was definately spinning, on a spinning wheel WITH foot paddle I think, where the big wheel he uses most is without. Youtube has some great tutorials.
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I do paper tole/decoupage (three dimensional pictures). Love the Antoine Peck prints as they are so pretty when done. Birds are always lovely but so much detailed required when doing the feathering. Tiny scissors and so many little cuts. 😮
Do you mean Anton Pieck? There is a Dutch theme park called the Efteling (full of fairy tales) that has quite a few attractions build to his drawings, like the fairy tale forest and land of Laaf. Fairy tales and Anton Pieck, I think you’d love it.
Yes, the Evil Queen 😆I love knitting, (must make http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/once-upon-a-time—once-there-was-a-baby-blanket as well as the hats. I love knitting hats, they make great weekend projects ) but also tailor making clothes. The clothes in FTL make me drool especially the Evil queen’s coats are magnificent in that respect… and so is her Storybrooke wardrobe, she is just so stylish.
I don’t quilt but I did do some Omiyage, which is basically fabric art, and makes lovely quiltlike pouches
I also make hats. Did you know hatters really use to go mad in the past? The toxins in the glues and starches were so bad, that it was a Mad Hatters disease. Luckily, those toxins are now banned.
Basically I love anything that you can make, so if it can be done yourself I’ll give it a go
I also love writing, and growing organic vegtables and fruit.I don’t know if anyone of you have seen the BBCseries Merlin, but for those of you who have, you should see the inbetween quest the two main actors Colin Morgan & Bradley James did, where they go a search for the real Merlin and Arthur ledgends. Anyone who has seen the series, knows it is not true to the tales that are out there. But they soon find out that the ledgends themselves are written and changed over centuries before finally being written down. They were adapted to the times they were written in, and they were embelish. Messages changed to suit the teller. And so we don’t have to feel guilty if we do that now. if anything we enrich the story, make it better and suited to the time we live in.
If this is true for Arthurian tales, it certainly is for fairy tales, that have many incarnations. Just put Beauty & the Beast next to Hans the Hedgehog, they are similar tale, yet seen as two different tales. Cinderella has so many german versions that it can make you head spin. The importance of a fairy tale is that it has morals,and a lesson to learn us. And so far I think the writers have done fine with that.
