National Scrabble Day! which celebrates this fabulous board game and the birthday of it’s inventor Alfred Mosher Butts…it’s amazing what you can find out on Google!
It was originally called Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words and later became known as Scrabble. A family-friendly board game sold in over 120 countries, in at least 29 languages and found in approximatley a third of American homes. So iconic that it was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2004!
So what does National Scrabble Day have to do with this canvas by Maggie? and frame by Jim and Lisa Krause? Note the words or in this case word on the bottom of the frame? Well they use Scrabble letter blocks to write out the words. Lisa tells me that they scour yard sales and resale shops to find the bags of blocks that they use for these wonderful frames.
Back to the canvas, this was the original from The TNNA Winter Market and they do realize that the painters had an error on the spelling of one of the words. I am sure by now that it has been fixed.
Okay it’s time for me to get to work! I see that AlleyCat is already at the desk ready to sit on my papers.
and until next time…keep on stitching
I love Scrabble! As with most board games, we change up the rules. We count the double and triple score spaces each time they’re incorporated into someone’s word. I just wish people in my family would play Scrabble with me….I win too often. OK, so I win all the time… That’s a nice canvas, BTW.
My step-father was not a good looser!
when I was a little girl, my dear aunt and uncle had season tickets for the Giants when they were still at Candlestick, I learned about baseball from them on the third base line- when they didn’t go they listened on radio; to this day I love to hear a game!
that’s great!
I play a lot of Scrabble online at a site called isc.ro. Fun!
I’ll have to check that out!