tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52813386271724983712024-03-13T20:04:58.261-04:00El Milagro Studio: Little Miracles Of ArtAnne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.comBlogger760125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-78561225845003653822013-03-22T09:39:00.000-04:002013-03-22T12:05:23.424-04:00Finally~~Finally! The Frida Box Is Done!<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some</span> pieces of art go through long dry spells where it seems they will never be finished, and I must admit, this was one.</div>
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I began this box canvas before my CA diagnosis. At the time, dealing with little skellies was no big deal, but when you get hit in the face with your own mortality, things change.</div>
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Well, for a bit. As my friend<a href="http://yoborobo.blogspot.com/"> Pam</a> put it, "You lost your Skelly-Love for just a minute?"</div>
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Yep, but it's back full force.</div>
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I honestly had NO IDEA where I had planned to go with this piece after the LONG break. I just had the Frida figure, a background and a big mental BLANK on what to do.</div>
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So, as usual, I sat back and let it talk to me.</div>
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What was Frida. What would represent DOTD? What would be good as an imitation of her Blue House?</div>
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Layers and layers of texture and paint and stain go into these things, and honestly, I cannot describe the PROCESS, but I can post enough photos to give you an idea of how we got from a plastic Halloween skeleton to finished art, that, I must admit I am absolutely delighted!</div>
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So here is a photo essay of the making of this, at least the last part.</div>
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Enjoy!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I am glad I have a little ART to show off!</span></span></div>
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Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-66820664058107247332013-02-25T08:55:00.002-05:002013-02-25T08:55:59.623-05:00The Sun Shifts....<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is a small portion of the year when the sun begins it's southerly movement in the sky and I have moments when my living room is ablaze with pattern and light.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This house of mine, with color everywhere, and red especially, begins to GLOW. It is always a quick run for the camera, as the moments pass very quickly.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What was golden in one second moves to a clearer lemon-light then next. Not enough time to capture everything I'd like.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the few times a section of my hall not only gets light, but magnificent lighting that turns my little gallery into a dramatic abstract all it's own.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, how can you top shadows so intense? </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They have a life of their own.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And though I have photographed this before, I am always amazed at the subtle differences caused by light.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Shifting.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Morphing.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Magically appearing and then gone.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Everything becomes a canvas.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The sun paints.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pax....</span></i></span> </span></span></b>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-26214858560335720742013-02-15T08:03:00.000-05:002013-02-15T08:03:51.770-05:00Life On Hiatus.....<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wLpgw_ZGSwg/UR4v5QwJ-UI/AAAAAAAAExw/r7CdAQU9Rk0/s1600/sweethearts.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wLpgw_ZGSwg/UR4v5QwJ-UI/AAAAAAAAExw/r7CdAQU9Rk0/s640/sweethearts.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">Sweetheart roses from my very best Sweetheart, Gary, for Valentine's Day. Love you!</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.....again. Back in the chemo routine, which seems to consume most of my time, and what isn't spoken for with that is taken up with the necessities of everyday, PLUS, occasionally, some studio time. (which I sorely miss, btw)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Have to apologize for the long lapse in posts, and honestly, posting from here forward will be more erratic than my *normal* erratic~~yep, figure that one out, lol!</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Still in all, tho I did not want to have to sit in that chemo chair again, and knowing I would anyway, LIFE IS GOOD.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every day is a moment to find something beautiful to focus on and sometimes take notes for later creativity. It's not what you're going through; it's how you choose to manage it. I am bulldozing forward. I know of no other way to function.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So occasionally I will pop in and update~~cannot promise how often as I am quite jealous with my time and if I have something most enjoyable as a possibility, or fighting with my old nemesis Blogger.....ummmmm.....I think you know which activity will be chosen. ;-)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I do miss, as I've mentioned before, visiting blogs and commenting and heck, even posting here. But I have to make concessions.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's okay, and it's all good.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Blogging is fun; Life is vital.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I wish both for all my readers.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">When Winter breaks out</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">that special palette;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">the one with glimmer and shine,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Out I trek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">No thoughts to</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">health or self.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">There is magic to be</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">CAPTURED.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Quick!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It will be gone.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">One too many sunbeams,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">clouds parting for</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">extra seconds,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">the magic kingdom</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">disappears.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I hurry.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">To capture worlds trapped</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">within frozen droplets,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">To see the cross</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">between snow</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">and frost.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">(don't breathe~~all will melt~~this is not the real world)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And find a star</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">in leaf debris.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Autumn ashes made beautiful again</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">by this frozen</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">kiss. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Photos captured</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">as diamonds dance</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">in the frigid air.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I am in </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Fairy-Land.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And all will pass.....</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">.....too fast.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Blink.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It is gone.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">let the shards of</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">fall on my face.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">so long.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hey dear readers; tomorrow the Blog Mistress will be featured on Seth Apter's blog, <a href="http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/">The Altered Page</a>, in a continuing series he started back in June of 2011.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">(omgosh.....there are so MANY answers to that one....)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">These are always fun reads on different artist perspectives, and especially for me, because I haven't a CLUE how I answered the question presented about art! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, sometimes I grimace a bit before hand, trying very hard to remember what I said and hoping that I won't look at my response and think, "WHO said that and WHY???" and wonder if I should go hide my head in the sand a while.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">(you know me....always pithy!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">So hop on over tomorrow and enjoy some answers that are no doubt EXCEPTIONAL, and then check mine too....lol!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I'll be reading it as if it was the first time I saw it!</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks Seth, for keeping us thinking and always presenting a new challenge for everyone.</span></span></b><br />
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<b>I've been missing the sun and warmth of Spring. Winter, at this point on the calender, always seems endless, and so I did a short tour through some of last Summer's photos yesterday.</b></div>
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<b>I use Photoscape, a free download (and a darned GOOD one) to crop and brush up my photos. Generally it is just for color correction and very simple, old school things we did in the darkroom, in the printing process. A lot quicker with digital, but there is some of the adventure lost.</b></div>
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<b>Images that remind me of going through boxes of old photos. (I have more than I care to admit that look like these...)</b></div>
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<b>Indulge me for a few moments....let's remember when it was warm, bright, and full of flowers!</b></div>
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<b>Fields of iris, swaying in the warm breezes~~nodding their heads that all is well....and I agree.</b></div>
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<b>A shy Wisteria, enjoying the shade and a respite from the bumble bees that make a halo about the whole shrub. They are intoxicated with pollen and scent!</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Blackberry blossoms....they seem as far away as the photo. In the heat of Summer's start, they come forth and make a bridal veil across the rough uncut landscape. There is nothing more lovely than walking among them.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">So Garden-Heart of mine, wait patiently. Soon enough all this will glow again, and bees will be your companions. Flowers will nod cordially as you walk by and camera time will again be the order of the day.</span></b></div>
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<b>Somehow in that time around and in between holidays, my studio time gets reduced further than normal, which of late, has not been much to begin with.</b></div>
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<b>I grab a few minutes in the morning when my brain is still adjusting to being awake, then during the day when I'm running through here looking for something else. It is not an organized way to work, but it is pretty much what I have adjusted to. (I don't recommend it though, unless it's all the time you can grab....)</b></div>
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<b>For my birthday, my friend <a href="http://laughingdogarts.blogspot.com/">Jan</a> sent me a lovely hand made booklet, which she suggested I throw in my purse to use for notes......um, NO!</b></div>
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<b>Far too nice and I loved the paper. It was just the right size for doing sketches that did not require a lot of commitment, which seems to be the trick for getting back into studio-mode.</b></div>
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<b>I did not feel obligated to totally fill pages or produce something that would be considered a *finished piece*. I used pens given to me by my friend <a href="http://vagabondheart54.blogspot.com/">Vicki</a>, and that was great as our color choices are totally different, so I was actually playing with unfamiliar color families! (sharing with friends that work in different media/colors is a great way to stretch creatively. I've heard it before but this time actually put the advice to USE....)</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It is a type of fun I have not allowed myself in a while. Seems when I go to work, I think a piece of "ART" must be produced, not "little art" which is vital in it's own ways. (I also discovered how many of my own pens had dried up during my personal *dry spell in studio*.....yikes)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Playing....with a Pin Oak leaf that had blown into the garage. They are so full of color in late Summer, then go completely insanely RED in the Fall. Catching them at that moment of change is always fun.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The Winter leaves are much like polished leather. Pens and Prisma Colors in hand, I did the half & half. A tiny stamp, some permanent markers.....a little too much work but much enjoyment.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And all this confined to a tiny table that was actually CLEAN before I started.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Well, nothing stays that way for long here.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">This is the small area I allowed for the work. I have my back to the other enticing projects in various stages of completion/non-completion in the studio. I don't see them and get distracted.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Have spent time down in the wet studio too~~glorious!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Still not back to anything close to a routine, but it's coming.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Slowly.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And I can live with that.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">How about YOU? Has the New Year put you back to work, enjoying stolen moments of bliss?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope so! ;-)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">....2012 has flown.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, sprouted wings and flew at a speed I cannot fathom. I know, I know, you're just saying it's because I'm getting OLDER, but each year seems to have it's own sense of time and passing, and this truly was different.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I'm not one for resolutions at all; I find them trite and usually what sounds good in frigid January (especially after some bubbly) makes little sense once the new year is rolling around March.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I like to think I greet the beginning of each new year HOPEFUL. Yes, no vows, or words, or resolutions, but I truly find HOPE in my heart at the beginning of the next 365. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope for myself and family, for dear friends, for the planet as a whole.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope for a little more kindness, a little less vitriol.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope for a LOT more common sense and people getting along.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope that we can pull ourselves up by our collective bootstraps and be~~no~~SURPASS what we really could be.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Hope for more hours in the day, more smiles, more lovely moments cradled in our hearts.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Just finishing with a round up of photos from the Blog Albums~~all in all, it was a very good year.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Enjoy.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">....this Christmas. I had tried to find time to do a pre-holiday post, and like everyone else, life got crazy with little things that needed finishing up, plus our area has been preparing for a blizzard, which may or may not hit today. We're right on the demarcation line, so I'm holding my breath, but the snow blower is ready as is the operator. (Moi)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It was a good, GOOD Christmas here. I could not have asked for better. I learned that hanging around half the day in Jammies and hand knit socks is QUITE GOOD, but sticking a bow to one's fuzzy head is QUITE BAD, as removal of said bow removed hair too. OWIE!!! (live and learn...lol!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Even the Miser Brothers decided on a few minutes of Peace On Earth to send out happy wishes! Hey, if they can, can't the rest of US??? The posts on Face Book of late have just been beyond my ken. Mean. Fear-mongering. Things are split in a season that we should all be coming together.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">We did our usual non-traditional meal of New Orleans influence and I can honestly say I am so stuffed from crawfish and shrimp, I don't care to see either for......oh, a day or two??? ;-D Things were definitely YUMMY as we rolled quietly into the evening.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Another learning experience:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">While these little guys smell like HEAVEN cooking, leaving the empty shells till the following morning is a <i><span style="color: red;">BAAAAAAAAAD IDEA</span></i>! Oh my. Yeah, I was having a Vieux Carre moment.....walking down Bourbon Street in the morning with the smell of, well, NOT GOOD wafting through the air.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And to cap off a lovely evening, as the sun dipped, with clouds rolling in, there was color for a brief moment.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Winter makes you run to catch those bits of amazing atmospheric change. Wait too long and it's all gone.....like a dream, wondering if you saw it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And so Christmas 2012 is wrapped up, today, Boxing Day, should prove interesting too. I await 2013 eagerly.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes the very best times you have are the ones you think may never be seen.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I know that well.</span></b></div>
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's hoping you and yours were given sweet moments to remember and that you'll have many more to come!</span></b><br />
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I was thinking about a post for the day and even though I am dabbling in three different art projects, I did not want to write about art. There was a little more on my mind, a little deeper set of thoughts that needed expressing.</div>
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I have been fortunate, BLESSED, in this past year and a half.</div>
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And I hear some of you say "HOW? You were diagnosed with cancer?"</div>
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Yep, that's right. And that Dx provided me with insight I never would have had otherwise.</div>
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I know during the month of November, many on Face Book posted daily what they were grateful for.</div>
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I? No, I chose not to do it because in morning prayers, I am grateful every day.</div>
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To be living well.</div>
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To have seen what I've seen and kept the iron backbone I've always suspected I had.</div>
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To be able to give back while in a state of need myself.</div>
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A lot of time for introspection has prompted one-off thoughts.</div>
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<li>How have I been so fortunate to meet so many GOOD PEOPLE?</li>
<li>How did the lower times pass so quick?</li>
<li>How sweet was it to pass my original November 8th *expiration date*!!!</li>
<li>How good it is to reconnect with people after a long time.</li>
<li>How much my husband loves me even though he still leaves gloves, hat and papers spread all over the kitchen table....*sigh*</li>
<li>How much sincere prayer and KINDNESS I received....staggering really.</li>
<li>How in the madness of a strictly political/commercial world there are those of us with values much, much higher.</li>
<li>How sweet it was to put up the ornaments and see another Christmas, with JOY!</li>
<li>How good it feels to know my quota of TENACITY has not diminished.</li>
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And then, there were other questions I will never have answers for,</div>
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things that are not as pleasant, or just make you go hmmmmm......</div>
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The spiritual garbage you have to push out of your life,</div>
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to make room for the great things trying to get in.</div>
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<li>When did we become such a divided Nation?</li>
<li>When did women become the *lesser* race?</li>
<li>Why do people feel that <u style="color: red;"><i>EXclusive</i></u> is so much better than <u style="color: red;"><i>INclusive</i></u>?</li>
<li>Why are there people who will repeated kick you when you're down, for the sheer sick fun of it and claim they are *in the right*....always......?</li>
<li>Where did generosity of heart and spirit go the OTHER part of the year, as in, not at Christmastime?</li>
<li>When will we evolve past being creatures of vitriol and habit, into beings of light and love?</li>
<li>How can anyone pretend to be spiritual, of any form, when they spend time using people and tossing them away like garbage?</li>
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These are not heavy thoughts; they are things that swirl through my journals as I consider life and how much sweeter it could be with a better understanding of humanity at large.</div>
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I am that plant above~~seated in harsh soil, ignored occasionally/accidentally, sometimes left to survive through droughts,</div>
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but BLOOMING, none the less.</div>
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No thing, no person, no intentional negativity</div>
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LIFE</div>
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LOVE</div>
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SPIRIT</div>
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<span style="color: red;">THANKFULNESS</span>.</div>
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And I hope that you, my dear readers, find this true too.</div>
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Be kind.</div>
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Be caring.</div>
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Be more than you think you can be.</div>
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Be all that you want to be.</div>
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Be happy.</div>
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Be content.</div>
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Know you are loved.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="color: red;"><b>Pax.</b></i></span></div>
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Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-73636646563814236682012-12-03T14:01:00.000-05:002012-12-03T14:01:01.275-05:00A Lovely Yarn....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">At this house, that title can mean two things; I like the double entendre.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">This time, it is literally referring to YARN, and the things that have kept these hands busy.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">First of all, I started trying to knit up yarn I had, as I posted last Spring, for hats for Oncology.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Welllll..........that's a great idea, but I am left with MORE YARN. Yarn that I'm not sure where it is going. It's enough to keep but not enough for another hat.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, some have stripes from like-yarn, but a lot were one shot wonders, so here I am with colorful leftovers. (at least there's no calories....)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I love grouping the hats and seeing the different textures in an abstract way~~beautiful. Fun how a basic pattern can look so different depending on the yarn, changing the knits and purls....it's a fun way to spend time.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I still have not made it down to Oncology due to being a bit under the weather (literally FROM this crazy weather!) but am sure they'll be well received when they get there. They're all lined up, ready to GO!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">While I was digging through the *trunk-o-yarn* I came upon some very expensive hand dye I bought almost two years ago.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Grinch</span> colors.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I knit like a madwoman to get these done before the Holidays! Two pair at once on the circular needles....O--M--G!!! NEVER AGAIN. NEVER! EVER!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">So DH and I both have *<span style="color: lime;">Grinchy</span>-<span style="color: red;">Claus</span>* socks now. The photo is of mine.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I opted for the Latvian Band, and the heels of his are green.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">So we could tell them apart.....other than he has his on all the time and I've left mine nice and neat on the sock forms. (yes, yes, way too anal...*sigh*)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The Evil Yarn People keep sending me e-mails of specials and sales and when I'm being a <i style="color: red;">good girl</i> --not often-- I delete those without even looking. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">But then there are the ones from WEBS....and ooooooohhhhhhh........I just have to take a little tiny look......</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I think I need therapy.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I think I need 4 extra hands to knit more, and learn to knit <i style="color: red;">faster</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">I think I need someone from "Hoarders" to come evaluate my stash........</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(not really! seriously....NOT REALLY......) </span></span></b><br />
Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-8849248857314026192012-11-29T08:31:00.002-05:002012-11-29T08:31:47.381-05:00Following Yesterday's Post...♪ ♫ Sun Sets On Another Era ♪ ♫<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Lately when I have been online with the blog, I've had the Jazz Player turned down as I stream <a href="http://www.wwoz.org/">WWOZ</a> and listen to the going ons of New Orleans and a bunch of varied and excellent Jazz.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">However, there was a stream interruption yesterday and I discovered while on my blog that there was NO MUSIC. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">NONE.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">NADA.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Being the curious fool I am (and believe me, the second part of that is an excellent description!) I decided to check the Mixpod page, as I figured that maybe something had been reconfigured and I would need to put new code into the blog to get it up and running again. Overall, I had loved Mixpod for music as they had broad choices and I could actually FIND jazz there.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Instead, I get a blank page with this message:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"The time has come to shut down MixPod.com. We'll have some information
on exporting your playlist information soon. In the mean time, check out
the app below."</b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The app being for an i-pod, which I do not own. And of course, everything is for PURCHASE.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Today I sit and wonder, okay, how much more of our blogs are going to be stripped in the interest of greed, greed, greed? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Other than DH, I don't think people realized how much work I put into building that list, and here's the kicker~~I have no copy of what was loaded on here, and have little faith that Mixpod will actually <i style="color: red;">get</i> the info to the people that had accounts.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The era of fun, creative blogging is sinking into the twilight.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The options, the delight of building content piece by piece, the excitement of trying a new widget.....gone.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">My frustration level~~WAY UP.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">My disgust level~~over the top.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes I think I need to close the blog and just keep it as a private whine-a-thon, as I know this <span style="color: red;">CANNOT</span> be entertaining for anyone else to read!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">BUT~~if you do have a site for free music that is reliable, that can have a player imbedded, please let me know.</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't function well without my music! (most of you are thinking, she doesn't function too well at ALL, music or not! lol!)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sending LOVE instead of<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">♪ ♫ ♪</span>....... </span></span></b>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-50989518608390074842012-11-28T08:21:00.002-05:002012-11-28T08:21:26.012-05:00Bit Of A Blog-Fog....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been suspecting since the new Blogger Dashboard appeared that there was something hinkey a-foot.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, HINKEY.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blogs I followed that had very high volume traffic kept showing up in the dashboard, and yet the blogs I regularly READ were nowhere to be found, except occasionally popping into the feed for a minute.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was beginning to feel like I was having a bad Face Book flashback.....ACK!</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, on a whim yesterday, I went into the list that I follow and deleted A LOT. And most of them were the blogs with Uber-Followers. Blogger was, as usual, acting less than cooperative, so IF in this process, I have accidentally stopped following a blog of one of my faithful readers, let me know. The deleting process was jumping all over, like a hopping flea, and I'm really not sure what went.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This morning when I looked at my dashboard, guess what?</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The blogs I<i> <span style="color: red;">used to find</span></i><span style="color: red;"> </span>there every day before the *new and improved Blogger* (HA! choke! snarf!) had returned, and suddenly I was having places to visit.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Really, I did not think everyone had fallen off the face of the planet like I do occasionally.....</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, that little problem is solved for the moment.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also discovered Picassa, where all our blog images go, had changed radically since I was last there, and I was *trying* to learn my way around, mainly for deleting things. Heaven forbid Google make it E-A-S-Y. Oh no, that's asking too much. The only improvement is you can delete a whole folder/file at once now, so if you have blog-clean-up to do, it quickens the process.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, I'm off to another day of computer work, laundry and MAAAAAYBE, if I'm really good, I'll get to squeeze in some art.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listening to <a href="http://www.wwoz.org/">WWOZ</a> to chill out with some amazing jazz.......what a way to ease into the day!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love the quiet morning time, being able to slip into the day slowly.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A beautiful sunrise inspires me and fills me with awe.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We live on an amazing planet, and I am glad</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can view it all with an Artist's Eye.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mornings are filled with rich black coffee and good reading.</span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sometimes the material is deep, sometimes not.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thomas Merton is a favorite, especially when I want to think.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The above book is wonderful~~when strict Catholic Monk</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">meets the Asian religions, and finds we all</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">come from the same cloth.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What a wonderful thought! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">is enough.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And in the studio, my heart is like a child.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With camera in hand, I find the still lifes of Mother Nature.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'd like to welcome a new follower, a dear friend from FaceBook,<i style="color: red;"> Todd-Michael St.Pierre</i>. T-M is a fantastic author of both children's books and my personal downfall, Louisiana COOKBOOKS!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Please visit his web page<a href="http://www.louisianaboy.com/"> HERE</a> and take a look around. You <i style="color: red;">need</i> a cookbook. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">REALLY!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It was the <i>ONLY one </i>I had shown fabric and trim to my minister BEFORE starting; he was dealing with health issues and I wanted him to have a glance at something to look forward to.</span></b></div>
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Little did I know....</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For a year, the pieces laid on the table and languished~~I often wondered if I would ever feel good enough to work and finish it. It was frustrating, somewhat heart breaking.....seeing what used to take normal amounts of time just wait and wait and wait.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At one point, I put it away. It was a reminder of what I was going through physically and I honestly did not know if it would ever be finished to grace a Church Service at my most favorite time of year.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, you are blessed with a gift you know is more than human intervention, more than doing your part as a patient to heal~~you know that you are meant to finish work. The Universe has things left for you to do.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so, it is done.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Impossible, POSSIBLE.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am thankful beyond words.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am HAPPY.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I hope my minister will be too!!! ;-)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In closing, I have to admit this was some of the most difficult fabric and trim I have ever worked with, and the bullion fringe, being very long, had to be treated with kid gloves. One kink or bend, and it's there for EVER.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But I could not envision anything different, for the time of year in the depths of Darkness, we seek Light.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is, in some ways, the Story of the Christmas Star, the lights in the night sky, the offerings of gold.......the tribute to the King.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Everywhere I look </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">there is a visual feast.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Autumn is lusty, lush.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sky-blues that are intense beyond</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The music of seed pods wafting</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in hearty breezes.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hear her call.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>At my feet are small vignettes;</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Peeking from a tight shawl of grasses,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">sweet and quiet.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One last party before </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>after the first *Trick* of the day </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">being computer malware.... </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, it's just another NORMAL day here at</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">No odd clothing; my normal dress.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">COLORFUL, to say the least!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">And glow in the dark too~~plus</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">glittery skulls.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Anne~Land favorites!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I was in my powder room getting dressed</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">when I was visited by THIS frightful fellow!<br />Spent the whole year trying to</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">and he walks right in my bathroom!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>(no scythe though, so I'm sure it's my DH!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Love you Big Guy!)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>And as night falls, I wish you all the magic of childhood eves past, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>for this</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hallowe'en~~the night when </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>souls come out to play.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Smile, shiver, glow with warmth~~</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">just make it HAPPY!</span></b></span></div>
Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-47948004027290108332012-10-26T08:07:00.001-04:002012-10-26T08:07:50.879-04:00My Man~~HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(this is from a previous post~~I am running short on time, but cannot forget to honor the <span style="color: red;">LOVE</span> of my LIFE! And one year from today, he gets to retire! Love you Sweetie.....here's to many more.....<span style="color: red;">♥</span>)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I thought about a poem, but my brain would not co-operate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So here he is doing what he does best.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Driving the hot car!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Expounding his humorous view of a certain organization....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday Sweetie~~~<span style="color: red;">♥♥♥♥♥</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the morning, I hear it's whisper.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kiss the trees.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The morning sun rises</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Autumn is gently approaching.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The promise of cool,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of color,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of chilly nights and </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Crisp days.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brighten the days before</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It is a sweet smell,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This, the passing of another year.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mingled aromas of leaves,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Earth and harvest.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sweet upon the palate.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Delight upon the eyes.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Welcome to the colors of fire,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That dance wildly</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For too short a time. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before the whites and grays</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Of the earth's long</span></span></b></div>
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Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-14121437960751247622012-09-20T09:55:00.000-04:002012-09-20T09:55:36.487-04:00Blogger Can Bite My........(rant follows)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> .....ummmm, you can figure the rest out.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Well, here we are with the *new and improved* Blogger dashboard, which, for all intents and purposes, is the same as the OTHER one they had tried to push down~~~AWFUL!</span></b></div>
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let me get my rant out and then you can shake your head and never return to my blog and I totally understand.</span></b><br />
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First, I have bad vision and obviously the wonder-boys at Blogger think I have Clark Kent's Superman vision; I cannot SEE A THING on my layout to be able to make changes. SQUAT. </span></b></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Second, I absolutely DETEST, LOATH, want to SCRAPE OFF THE SCREEN that blasted *google +* up in the nav bar. It sticks out like a whore in church. (or me at church in my normal odd and colorful clothing of various styles.....)</span></b></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Third, the instructional video really is not *instructional*, but they sure tell you how to make money with Google Ads!<i style="color: red;"> AS IF</i>. As if, not in this lifetime or the next. Ever.</span></b></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fourth, this isn't me just being the cantankerous old fart I usually am; trying to learn all this garbage that they have so eloquently HIDDEN, with chemo brain, is more than my poor gray matter is capable of at the moment. My thinking is rationed for important things like, "Did I leave the stove on?" or "Gee, that sounds like the water in the bath tub going full bore~~was I in there? Did I turn it ON? Did I turn it OFF???" (you get the picture.....)</span></b></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fifth, I am not a geek. I used to LOVE Blogger for it's non-geek enabled features. It was SIMPLE. You could easily SEE IT. It did not look like WORDPRESS. It was a warm and cozy friend that let you blog quickly and easily......not some great Hydra where you're trying to wrestle all the snake heads at once and pray you don't delete your formatting in the process! Seriously, I feel like I am in a Ray Harryhausen flick.....Jason and the Argonauts.</span></b></li>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm stopping at five because I figure I have lost everyone at this point. </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the thing; I do not consider this a lazy whine. I truly <i>can't see</i>. That's why there is a dark BG on the blog, so I can see it. I am sure I am not the only person with these problems, and somehow, to lock out a whole segment of bloggers to satisfy some ninny who is a wanna-be Wordpress geek really irks me.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have, many times, threatened to quit blogging before but now I wonder how much I can continue, due to changes beyond my control.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Okay...*whew*.....not one of my better rants, but I FEEL better and can go try and get on with the day.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which has a LOT of CONTRAST, and I can SEE.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pax....</span></span></i></span></span></b>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-6088010992431015142012-08-28T09:03:00.000-04:002012-08-28T09:03:21.901-04:00In Absentia....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been away a while, but life moves forward. Beautiful sunrises grace the morning skies during coffee on the porch....</span></span></b><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">....Pink-gold sunlight reflects in the abundant magnolia leaves, turning the tree into something magical and luminous.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After an overwhelming drought and spate of heat, rain brought forth a second round of blossoms on the wisteria, sweeter and pinker than those that braved the chill of Spring....</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cfh_WVk59bE/UDy664OR0wI/AAAAAAAAEho/zvo5qitB-sg/s1600/bloomwhereplanted.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cfh_WVk59bE/UDy664OR0wI/AAAAAAAAEho/zvo5qitB-sg/s640/bloomwhereplanted.JPG" width="558" /> </a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">....Bloom where you are planted takes on a whole new meaning....yes, I will....</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7y5ezd6OWh4/UDy7GlKZb_I/AAAAAAAAEiA/Hbg1fJns1Co/s1600/phlox.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7y5ezd6OWh4/UDy7GlKZb_I/AAAAAAAAEiA/Hbg1fJns1Co/s640/phlox.JPG" width="486" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">....Phlox, unable to be killed by anything short of nuclear winter, reappears with vigor and soft scent....</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHDgcL31B3k/UDy63X8LbHI/AAAAAAAAEhg/_bjtlnc1dNQ/s1600/besusans.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHDgcL31B3k/UDy63X8LbHI/AAAAAAAAEhg/_bjtlnc1dNQ/s640/besusans.JPG" width="480" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">....Happy faces turned to the sun. These have prospered and everywhere I look there are bouquets of delicious, happy yellow!</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KedoQ2RsE1k/UDy68ljWc_I/AAAAAAAAEhw/NIKYZkd_p2Y/s1600/goodnightsun.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KedoQ2RsE1k/UDy68ljWc_I/AAAAAAAAEhw/NIKYZkd_p2Y/s640/goodnightsun.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">....Say goodnight Mr. Sol, after a beautiful day....</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Greetings all~~tho I have not been to visit blogs, I am still out here in blogland, taking life easy and healing.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This post-op round of chemo has mostly left me quite fatigued and I have given in to good books and pajama days. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It seems my social calender is filled with running up and down the road to the Oncology Center; there are days I wonder if they do one more blood draw on me that I might shrivel up and blow away! (hahaha~~I have too much ballast in the nether regions for that! *wink*)</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I grow impatient for this course to be over and done, get back to life in the studio, and having more energy.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Still, the quite time has been good and helped me make some hard decisions about my path after this is finished.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Time to think; time to weigh. Time to clear out the old and open space for the new.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In everything there is good if you look for it~~my life seems to have an abundance of GOOD.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Good friends, good husband, good food, good EVERYTHING.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just having to learn patience.....which has never been my forte!</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So till next time I pop in; hoping you have sunflower days and twinkling star nights and of course, love in great quantities.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>Pax....</i></span> </span></span></b></div>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-42095066358579429392012-07-28T08:00:00.000-04:002012-07-28T08:00:01.346-04:00A Quick Hello.......<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">....from the hinterlands. Thought I'd better check and see if Blogger still worked, if my blog was still functioning, yadda yadda.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yep, that's ME after a dip in some really, REALLY red hair dye. (which I might add, is NOT permanent at all and annoying me now....)</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yes, you're right, I look like "Heat Mizer's" mother. If you don't know who that is, google him.....check images. You'll see the likeness! HA!</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh well, I've always been known for my temper so it's appropriate.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've not been at the computer due to the fact after surgery, I could not SIT at my desk chair, and can only do it in very short bursts now. A quick peck on the keys and back to the couch.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have started my *after-surgery-chemo* so the Heat Mizer Do will probably be gone in 3-4 weeks, which is okay too. I welcome bald....</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life is moving slowly......it's a blur occasionally, mainly trying to keep appointments straight, etc.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've missed everyone on the blogs, but for the moment, I'm just doing my best to take care of myself as I should (and DH of course) and go with the flow. My patience is diminishing, which I suppose means I am feeling a bit better.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks so much for the comments, e-mails, cards and well wishes.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Y'all keep me going~~~FOR REAL!</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until I have something amusing to post, or art, or a different hair color.....I send love.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Would you like a little Monday WHINE with that cheese??? I was pretty sure I heard you say *yes*....... ;-D</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And off we go!</span></b><br />
<ul><li><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First off, it is hotter than HADES here. And I do not do well in heat. Ever since I got my brains scrambled once sitting in the sun, <i style="color: red;">ad infinitum, ad nauseaum,</i> at an airshow, I literally have NOT been able to take the extreme heat. </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yes, 90+ degrees, plus humidity, is EXTREME to me. I am sick of inside, and too much of a wuss for OUTSIDE. Thank heavens the grass is dead. (insert evil laugh here)</span></span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have three days this week of <span style="color: red;">*normal*</span>. After Wednesday, life goes into <span style="color: red;">*medical-mayhem*</span> again, and I am crabby. Yes, I'm tough, but I'm also tired of all my social calls involving a <span style="color: red;">*procedure*</span>. I'd rather have a few that involve coffee or wine and good conversation, but I seem to be getting the guys in white coats. (no hand-warmers, though, hahaha!)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Does the phrase <span style="color: red;">*bowel cleanse*</span> mean anything to you? (do <i>not</i> be in the area Thursday....you've been warned.....don't call, don't acknowledge I exist, because I am not sure what kind of response you'll get....just SAYIN'!!!)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Friday, providing the gods of medicine see fit to smile on me, I will be doing the heavy duty work of<span style="color: red;"> THE-NEXT-STEP</span> in this cancer journey. I can't wait. I want it DONE.</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why is it they book you for afternoon surgery and then tell you that you can't have anything except liquids the WHOOOOLE day before??? (oh yes, the bowel cleanse......grrrrrr....)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why is it I have no fear of having my guts split open, but worry myself silly about my Budgies while I will be gone? Eh---maybe you shouldn't answer that one. Let's leave it at rhetorical.....'kay? </span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why is it when you KNOW you won't be able to be in your studio that the mind suddenly KICKS into gear and swamps you with ideas? I mean, come on! Can't we do this when I actually HAVE studio time??? (obviously not....)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why is it when I'm not going to be around I find a couple of cool new blogs and want to read them from stem to stern? Or sign up for swaps, or...or...or...??? You get my drift? The timing issue again. Pfffft!</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How can I be so lucky to have friends that actually show up to read this drivel AND comment too??? Seriously, I think y'all are just taking pity on me. (okay, at this point, pity is fine. I welcome it! LOL!)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How can I ever say <span style="color: red;">*thank you*</span> enough to everyone who has contributed to keeping me sane as I walk this odd and circuitous path? I think there is no answer to that one other than you all hold a special and dear place in my heart. (far away from the bowel cleansing)</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How will I function until I can get back here and <i style="color: red;">blog again</i>??? </span></b></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, that sort of sums the craziness up here at Chateau Lockard.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am not sure when I will post again, but until I do, seriously, I will miss all the mirth and madness that we find in our cyber-world. </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blog friends are blessings.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I am blessed.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And Friday, if you have a moment, please send kind thoughts my direction.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am held aloft by love and prayer.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until I see everyone on the flipside, I remain,</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Your blogmistress & loving friend,</span></i> </span></b></span></span>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-42149566397511541712012-06-11T08:07:00.001-04:002012-06-17T17:20:24.079-04:00Life In Slow Motion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTtLvljKo2g/T9Xb5ovWhhI/AAAAAAAAEgY/9wFRPzolVYo/s1600/onepetal.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sTtLvljKo2g/T9Xb5ovWhhI/AAAAAAAAEgY/9wFRPzolVYo/s1600/onepetal.JPG" /></a></div><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The start of Summer always brings with it a lethargy for work; my time is gravitating to the porch, the John Deere and a walk around to the flowers struggling to bloom through this drought.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am, as well, in a creative drought. Things have gone dormant for the moment. I am in slow motion in the studio, if moving at all.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wait for some spark to ignite ideas, but the most I manage is the putting together of pages in an old book, to make an art journal. Repetitive work, and mindless, it is good for times like these.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This Summer is more complex, and I wait for real life issues to get resolved. I am still ill with the remnants of a cold that seems to want to last forever and have phone calls to make today, possibly with the result of more waiting.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I feel like the Turks Cap Lily, one petal open and trying to get back to full bloom.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Patience has never been my strong point and complete rest and downtime are foreign to me, but I have become somewhat friendly with them. (through necessity only....)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wait.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life is slowed to an endless stream of days, all pretty much the same and tiring. This was, of course, NOT what I had planned.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But in the course of my life, I have learned that what *I* plan and the Divine Plan frequently are quite different.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Slow times are a time to gather strength, even when I haven't enough sense to do it myself.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wait.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And like that little lily blossom, I know at some point I will be full and glowing again.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the meantime, I may be blog scarce, and I beg your indulgence.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sometimes the quiet thrust upon us is exactly what we need.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even when we think it isn't.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pax....</span></i></span> </span></span></b>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5281338627172498371.post-87234457596414729802012-06-04T10:16:00.000-04:002012-06-04T10:16:00.191-04:00Paper, Markers, Glue......<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.....A bit of creativity during down-time. My friend <a href="http://laughingdogarts.blogspot.com/">Jan</a> got me started on these paper buttons, which originally were from an instructional post by Kelli Nina Perkins. Check her post <a href="http://ephemeralalchemy.blogspot.com/2012/03/paper-button-tutorial.html">HERE</a> for all the details.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First off, it doesn't take much to entertain me or make me happy. Old book pages, glue sticks, anything to make a mess and I'm just a lucky-ducky.</span></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jrtNtHKpIWw/T8y7B-599oI/AAAAAAAAEfk/k6WElpXBSCs/s1600/pb1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="467" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jrtNtHKpIWw/T8y7B-599oI/AAAAAAAAEfk/k6WElpXBSCs/s640/pb1.JPG" width="640" /> </a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The above photo shows beautiful fluid, glass-like buttons sent to me from Jan, and then my lazy take on things; paper punches, papers and the final glued and stacked paper I punched the shapes from on the right. (check the tutorial for this to make more sense...)</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wanted my outside layers to be chinese-character paper and some mathematical equations. So my inner package was three sheets (ha! three sheets in the wind more likely!) of heavy textbook paper, and then the choice sheets on each side. The punches *just* cut through all that.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jWD-yWWVIjE/T8y7EFsLk_I/AAAAAAAAEfs/ZwsF78BRAeI/s1600/pb2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="499" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jWD-yWWVIjE/T8y7EFsLk_I/AAAAAAAAEfs/ZwsF78BRAeI/s640/pb2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So you can see how lovely Jan's free-cut buttons are...and the detail and luster. She also used UTEE where I used a store brand of heavy embossing powder and there is definitely a difference. UTEE is better. (<span style="color: red;">♥</span>LUV<span style="color: red;">♥</span> these Jan!)</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52_uaiN30tI/T8y7JGf2fhI/AAAAAAAAEf0/VN1PvIoyc2U/s1600/pb3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-52_uaiN30tI/T8y7JGf2fhI/AAAAAAAAEf0/VN1PvIoyc2U/s640/pb3.JPG" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The tutorial said, I think, to use a skewer to put holes in, but I used this tiny punch that is normally used for marking my card stock glove patterns~~where to join points and seams.....well, everything around here gets more than a single job!</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_Xj0iipEYk/T8y7N2UVmNI/AAAAAAAAEf8/wQLgBZd2POg/s1600/pb4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="520" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_Xj0iipEYk/T8y7N2UVmNI/AAAAAAAAEf8/wQLgBZd2POg/s640/pb4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And here is the yield from a piece of glued papers 3 1/2" x 6" : a total of thirty 3/4" buttons and fourteen 1/2" buttons....all nice and, well, THE SAME.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm thinking my anal retentive side is showing through....</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Moving on, when it came to <span style="color: magenta;">C</span><span style="color: cyan;">O</span><span style="color: red;">L</span><span style="color: yellow;">O</span><span style="color: purple;">R</span><span style="color: lime;">I</span><span style="color: orange;">N</span><span style="color: magenta;">G</span>, that got thrown to the wind!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9WHkITP8GBA/T8y7RhFWo3I/AAAAAAAAEgE/k0r4moTElL8/s1600/pb5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9WHkITP8GBA/T8y7RhFWo3I/AAAAAAAAEgE/k0r4moTElL8/s640/pb5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I got out my Sharpies, Zigs and PrismaColor markers and cut loose! What fun! (and yes, both sides and the edges are colored) I did discover the front and back papers accepted marker differently, and while I used the same colors on both sides, they did not LOOK the same.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Older papers tend to absorb in an unpredictable fashion, and it was fun watching what happened.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">BTW, this was a SLOW PROCESS, as I was doing a few at a time and the fumes were getting to me. I also went about with multi-colored fingers for a while....</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next was the embossing, of which there are NO PHOTOS because that was a mess and really, trying to hold the button on a bamboo skewer, the embossing gun AND the camera wasn't going to happen. I might also add, <i style="color: red;">do not do this after having wine with dinner.</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Embossing guns and wine are not a good mix......just warning. ;-)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The final product, for your comments:</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VXd7Oj7CGfU/T8y7WyR2HaI/AAAAAAAAEgM/iUe_7J1bM7o/s1600/pb6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VXd7Oj7CGfU/T8y7WyR2HaI/AAAAAAAAEgM/iUe_7J1bM7o/s640/pb6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Clear embossing powder, then while hot, edged with either gold, copper or silver, or a combination there of. Nice and shiny, fairly sturdy, happy Anne!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And while I very much LIKE mine, I still like Jan's better! I think everyone would have a different product, an individual outcome, and that's what is so nice about them.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I really recommend giving these a try when you just need something fun and to clear the mental palette before a big project. They all look so different when complete~~even the less-that-lovely ones become lovely with the rest. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But I have ideas for the <i>next bunch</i> I try.....things like, a flower shaped punch, coloring the paper package FIRST, crackle finish, etc etc etc.....</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It takes so little to get the gray matter going.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gosh I'm glad I love the small things!</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pax....</span></i></span> </span></span></b></div>Anne Huskey-Lockardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01642632328404951486noreply@blogger.com33