Scribble Picnic - Grandfather Clock

Our Scribble Picnic theme this week is GRANDFATHER CLOCK and whenever I see or hear about a grandfather clock I'm reminded of the song we learned in grade school - "My Grandfather's Clock". How it "stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died".  My clock has stopped short also. I imagine it belonged to an old sea captain who couldn't bear to part with it after he retired and it didn't work anymore.  So he converted it into a cabinet to store some of his seafaring memories.  One can only wonder at what might be in that little chest.

I haven't done much in this toned tan sketch book, and I apologize that it doesn't photograph well, but I had it in my mind that I wanted to do this with white to make it look ghostlike, as if it were fading away.  Since I hadn't used it in so long I nearly drove myself crazy Monday morning trying to remember where I had put it. I had extended my weekend with a little bit of a mental health day and how ironic to be feeling so mentally challenged about it.  When I gave up and moved on to another project up in the stamp cave** I was sitting at the computer up there and just happened to look down into a tote next to the table and, yes, you guessed it, there was the sketchbook.  At that point though, I had used up so much time looking that I needed to put this on the backburner while I finished some cards and tags that my daughter-in-law asked me to make.  I'll be posting those soon.

The Grandfather Clock Song

by Henry Clay Work

"My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf

So it stood ninety years on the floor

It was taller by half than the old man himself

But it weighed not a pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn on the day that he was born

It was always his treasure and pride

But it stopped, short, never to go again

When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering

Tic toc tic toc

His life's seconds numbering

Tic toc tic toc

It stopped, short, never to go again

When the old man died.

(There are more verses if you Google it.)

Thanks to this Scribble Picnic challenge, or rather the challenge I gave myself looking for this particular sketch book, I found some other interesting things I had tucked away which I'm looking forward to "playing with" soon.  

I'll be off now to visit the other Picnickers to see their Grandfather clocks.  You can join me by clicking here.  And just in case you want to join in next week, the theme is RABBIT. 

**I've kind of gotten used to using the phrase "stamp cave" even though it is less cavelike since all the improvements.  Maybe once I get it all organized I will think up a proper name......... if that ever happens!

Edited:  Thanks Michael for the enhanced photo.  Much better I think!