tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358891283521319832024-02-08T02:51:10.902+00:00Tallulah~Belle OriginalsTallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-5269523956294880062014-08-03T17:06:00.000+01:002014-08-03T17:06:45.888+01:00Busy, busy, busy !<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As usual things have been busy here :-) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On top of working I've been away quite a bit in my campervan. We often don't get much of a summer over here so I have to take advantage when I can :-) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is such a beautiful country and I can drive an hour away and be a forest, or up a mountain, or by the side of a lake. And it costs me little more then staying at home all weekend...so off I go :-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been to quite a few really amazing weekend art / music festivals and I also went to Glastonbury again this year. Couldn't get a campervan spot this year so had to camp in a small tent..... it rained most off the time so I spent most of it very wet but it was well worth it :-) Glastonbury still has a very hippy / arty vibe...I wish they'd show that on the TV rather than just the main stages. I could spend a week there and never see a big name band and still be happy. There are so many opportunities to learn a new art.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In between I've managed to keep up with my commissions so I'll leave you with some photos of a few plants I've made recently.</span></span><br />
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<br />Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-80464230499886090922014-05-06T19:32:00.000+01:002014-05-06T19:32:42.363+01:00May ? Already ?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I cannot believe how quickly this year is going. How is it May already.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe it is just cause I am getting older but time is really moving too fast for my liking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe it is just cause I've been busy. Whatever it is it needs to slow down :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am also now on Pinterest....yeah months behind everyone else as usual. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Great place if you have an hour or six to look at everything you could ever imagine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Come over and follow me if you are on there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyhooo, here are a few commissions I've been working on recently</span></span></div>
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<br />Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-10093582402417367332014-03-28T17:41:00.000+00:002014-03-28T17:41:11.517+00:00Miniatura<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">It's Spring Miniatura time !</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Luckily for me it is held in my home town Birmingham. I've moved to the neighbouring county now but it is still only a short train ride for me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I've only ever been once and I am guessing it was in the 80's. Although I wasn't making back then I still had an interest in minis :-) Back then it was a very small affair in a room at a local hotel so this huge event at the NEC will be very different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I am super excited to go...not because of anything I might buy, in fact I have no plans to buy much really but....I can't wait to meet many of my mini friends. Some of whom I've known for many, many years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">After years of chatting online we finally get to meet ....wooo !</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I am still being kept busy with custom orders but every now and then I get a gap which gives me the chance to make something from my own imagination....and here is the latest....Bonita. </span></span></div>
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Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-42826683235123244012014-01-15T11:58:00.000+00:002014-01-15T11:58:31.538+00:00Happy New Year....very belated !<br />
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So much for my plans of being back working on the 7th January ! The best laid plans and all that.</div>
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I spent New Year camping in a very wet Bedgellert, Wales. Barely stopped raining the entire time but it wasn't at all cold so didn't stop me enjoying being out in the fresh air. I love being outside and try to remember that there is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing !</div>
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Ive been so delayed due to having to do self employed taxes for the first time in the UK. I used to whizz though my USA ones so assumed it would be the same....hmmmm no. Once I got used to all the different terminology it was easy but I had to spend a load of time reading before I got there. Next year should be a doddle :-)</div>
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I have spent soooo much money on 'supplies' I had to leave the majority of the bits and pieces I'd collected over the years in America so was literally starting from scratch again. The cost soon mounts up when you have nothing. All my old stuff didn't go to waste though, my neighbors young daughter was a budding artist and I gave her everything. She still sends me photos of the art she is creating.</div>
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Professor Morpheus T. Seedbender learned an important lesson last night.....</div>
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Wanting to get back into serious mini making this was just what I needed as a challenge. I didn't tell anyone as I wasn't sure I could do it. </div>
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I never thought I stood a chance of winning anything. Aside from messing about with a couple of things this was the first house I'd made. Just making it was enough for me so I was over the moon when I heard I'd come in second place. I still haven't stopped smiling.</div>
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<span id="goog_1041342454"></span><span id="goog_1041342455"></span>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-43887364188605678002013-09-27T11:44:00.000+01:002013-09-27T11:44:13.447+01:002 years on....where to begin......<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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How do you follow the hardest blog post you ever had to
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Every time I thought about blogging again I just couldn’t do
it. The words just weren’t coming. I am struggling now so apologise in advance
for this jumble of thoughts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t
think on it anymore and just have to take the proverbial bull by the horns and jump
back in. </div>
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Until this morning I have not logged on to blogger, my email
or Facebook since I got back to England. I can see there are loads of messages
and did start to read some. I am sorry that I haven’t replied to anyone, I do very
much appreciate everyone who was thinking about me but it is just too upsetting
for me to go back and read them now. Grief is a strange thing and everyone
handles it differently. My personal coping mechanism is to tuck it all away
into a corner of my mind. Probably not very healthy but the only way I have been
able to deal with it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day, when I am
ready, I will revisit it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not to say I don’t think about Mick…I
think about him all the while…but only the happy memories and not the events of
that day 2 years ago. That part I still can’t deal with very well.</div>
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now. Looking back I have no idea how I coped but I guess your survival skills
just kick in. I was alone; things had to be done so I did them. </div>
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But I didn’t. I moved back ‘home’. I went back to work and was
working crazy hours doing 2 jobs. I didn’t want to go out. I hated the dismal weather.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I missed sitting in my sunny workshop
making miniatures. I was living in one room and had no way of even thinking
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But it got better. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I discovered a lot about myself. I found
out I could do it, I would survive and knew one day I would be back blogging
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I am now settled in a lovely village near Lichfield in
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Unfortunately I am no longer working, I lost my job 3 weeks
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The upside of this is that I now have the time to blog and
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I just wanted to get this post up to let you
where I was at. I will shortly post pictures of a pretty big project I just
completed. </div>
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I am doing well, I am back and I have found my new normal. </div>
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Jayne xxx</div>
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<![endif]-->Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-14245761741132975332011-09-20T03:30:00.000+01:002011-09-20T06:54:52.441+01:00Very sad news<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Hello</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Unfortunately this is not a pleasant blog post but it would seem that some people have heard already and, I thought it only fair that this came direct from me rather than 2nd hand rumors.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Sadly I need to tell you that my husband Mick died unexpectedly on Saturday September 11th.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >He was out riding his motorcycle and had a heart attack. He told a friend he didn't feel good and was on his way home. He had been working away in the San Francisco area with his new job for the previous 2 weeks so I hadn't seen him. He flew in late Friday night, was tired and went to bed quickly. I only saw him for less than half an hour on the morning he died. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >He felt fine. He only planned on being out a couple of hours and was then was coming back to do some dry walling. I was painting when the police man and coroner knocked on my door.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >In those few moments my life changed beyond belief.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Last week I was busy dealing with the funeral arrangements so am sorry this has taken me until now. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Because I am here on my own and have no friends in the new area, my dear friend Patti flew straight out to me from the east coast. I truly do not know what I'd have done without her. I love you Patti.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I plan on returning to England as soon as possible. I came here to live in America 8 years ago to be with Mick and for that reason only. I have no one here and it would hurt to much to stay.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I have loved living in America and Mick took me to see so many amazing things. Hopefully one day I will be able to get past the pain and come and visit again.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >But for now I have to get home. Mick's Mom is not in good health and has been unable to come here which has broke her heart. I have to get what I need to do here done as quickly as I can and take her Son home to her.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >As you all know we were in the middle of renovating our house so I have so much work to finish so I can put it up for sale. Most of our things were still in boxes as we didn't plan on unpacking until we finished the </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >house. Now Patti has gone home I have to go though everything we own and figure out how to sell it.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Mick was a wonderful man. He was kind, thoughtful, generous and extremely non judgmental. </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I am so lucky to have had him as my best friend for 30 years.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >The things I keep hearing over and over from his friends are how thoughtful he was, how intelligent and knowledgeable he was and what a sense of humor he had. Mick was so much fun to be around and will be missed by many, many people.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Mick loved his job working on life support ventilators. He would tell me how lucky he was to not only have a job where he was able to help so many people but how it combined his love of physics, biology, chemistry and medicine. And the more problems that were thrown at him the more he thrived.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >He once visited an 8 year old girl who, although on a ventilator, was mobile. She loved the band N- Sync but was sad that she couldn’t dance because the tubes on the ventilator weren’t long enough. Mick custom made new, longer tubing for her so she could get up of the bed and dance.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >If you asked him why he loved his job so much he would say it was ‘because he was able to let little girls dance again.’</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >I loved him so very, very much and am absolutely devastated so please understand that I may not answer emails for a while.</span><span style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 204);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Please. please, please tell your family you love them each time you are saying goodbye.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBq-iUX41bWnM7sLJolwKtrkUczvE2R4nUbkrGgFiD6WeGQUMeFCuOSuJsY5CARlwgNPMNBm_2El8OgNNYePVluBuxIGMNhxpulRpakzYjqZC-XcOFUJWJq_C7QWwd0ZPV8toUFyQNHpyP/s1600/mick+border.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBq-iUX41bWnM7sLJolwKtrkUczvE2R4nUbkrGgFiD6WeGQUMeFCuOSuJsY5CARlwgNPMNBm_2El8OgNNYePVluBuxIGMNhxpulRpakzYjqZC-XcOFUJWJq_C7QWwd0ZPV8toUFyQNHpyP/s400/mick+border.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654265198674901986" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Mick Woodward<br />March 5th 1960 - September 10th 2011<br /><br /></span><br /></div>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-18076284582323382582011-09-07T19:16:00.000+01:002011-09-07T19:16:41.075+01:00Indian room finished !<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifd0DhTq39vWtXBawCNFgGUdZ5dCK5Rkj7jCsgj1zIU0ekQk4Sl8ygRM_GO7tq_aY5klG6BzUYG7hm2Uey8-HI4D9paP1e3qE4-nwqbOrrc-a1P4o1QKTnJAT8f5Ak4GZ_t_Tw3NukaAxU/s1600/blog+spare+room+img_0001.JPG"><br /></a><br />
<span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;">More or less :-)</span> <br /><br /><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;">As we had friends coming over from Australia I had to have one last mad push to get at least this one room finished.</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;" /><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;">There were 2 lots of fabric...on patterned and one striped. I started with the stripes. It soon became clear that the stripes were not in the slightest bit straight. But I carried on and had to cut the fabric wonky to make a bedskirt and curtains with straight stripes. Problem solved...or so I thought !</span><br style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;" /><br style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;" /><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;">Then it was onto the patterned fabric. Goodness me...had I started with this I'd have given up a lot earlier and wouldn't have wasted time with the striped fabric.</span><br style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;" /><br style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;" /><span style="color: #6666cc; font-family: verdana;">This patterned fabric just sucked...BIG time. It is woven but was woven so loosely I only had to look at it and it fell apart.</span></span></div>
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I didn't particularly want to make it all myself but couldn't find anything ready made so bought this fabric. The seller is no longer online but claimed it was fabric left from making Oscar De La Renta bedding which retails at a crazy price. Oscar from Sesame Street perhaps cause if this is the quality of designer bedding I am glad I have more sense than money than to buy this junk.</div>
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All I could find that was remotely suitable was a purple and gold set which peacock feather details. Quite amused me as I'd started off with peacock feather embroidered curtains and changed my mind. </div>
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But, with nothing else about I had to get this set. I wasn't crazy on the purple and was worried it would clash horribly with the amber walls but wouldn't you know the gold in the set matched the walls just perfectly. More of a dull bronze gold than a shiny gold.</div>
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And once I'd made the bed up ...well, I was rather pleased with it. The blues in this bedding go well with the splashes of blue I'd already added to the room and I'd got peacock feathers from my original plan. Plus I'd bought a candle for the sconce that just happened to be peacock colors and have a little peacock charm on it.</div>
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The side lamps were white and silver to start...couldn't find anything more Indian looking but with some jiggery pokery I made them the perfect color.</div>
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This vase was handmade in Bangladesh...the inscription reads....</div>
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<i>I am Dipali Rani Paul. My father is the late Sachindra Chandra Paul.
From my childhood I was inspired by seeing my father’s devotion to his
work with terracotta. I am dedicated to keeping up my father’s
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I love being able to support small artists. <i></i></div>
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Add in some dried flowers and some peacock feathers and we are good to go.<i></i></div>
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The hanging ornaments were a fit from <a href="http://sansdollhousediaries.blogspot.com/">Susan</a>...thanks sweetie...</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I couldn't say much on the last post as we were still talking about it but Mick just started another job. Moving from a very secure career with a big corporation to a brand new company with a brand new product was a huge risk which is why it took us a while to decide. Hopefully we made the right choice.</span></span></div>
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<br />Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-70473812965509848442011-07-15T17:13:00.000+01:002011-07-15T17:58:31.792+01:00Home & Garden Updates<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">Just so you don't all think Ive been sitting on my backside watching TV and eating <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">bon</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">bons</span> I thought I'd post some update pics of what I've been doing :-)</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We'll start with the garden.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;">All of the flagstone is laid in the back garden. We still have the side garden to do but, as that is barely seen let alone used, that will be done once we'll used all the rock for the more decorative stuff.</span></span><br /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbOAeDIWfYYn7Jahn6Y3DF_CEAn5ImvEH5E0Wam37_tYXR9Ud-dKwaFEg3IW-mAyWuzMxT36Fo5G2D4gdtqw0jLYy3rvIQ6BO6s7ljo8P8Orv05mm5sY4iNmpfI-QLBGCyRhTNWIJ9ZCK/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-36-08+-+0003.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbOAeDIWfYYn7Jahn6Y3DF_CEAn5ImvEH5E0Wam37_tYXR9Ud-dKwaFEg3IW-mAyWuzMxT36Fo5G2D4gdtqw0jLYy3rvIQ6BO6s7ljo8P8Orv05mm5sY4iNmpfI-QLBGCyRhTNWIJ9ZCK/s400/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-36-08+-+0003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613113320720626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is actually a little further along than this. All the gaps have been filled and I've planted some elfin thyme. That is as pretty as it sounds. It is going to be pretty pricey to fill all of the gaps with thyme so I decided to just plant 2 flats to start with to make sure it will grow in my garden. I'd be really annoyed if I planted the whole lot and it died on me.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX1ywqRB262wEjFSb39_kLsvr9BZwQ_TQ7UiagjpYlYkMedJp4SbPd6zPwGVUKwcSuNJRz4drMf1ysZnEW7wLFUvUu-hdcOasQiCoLww2868vvpIhOUpq74lM48KnxKIkMrT7d9pv2yOS/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-18+14-25-11+-++164.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX1ywqRB262wEjFSb39_kLsvr9BZwQ_TQ7UiagjpYlYkMedJp4SbPd6zPwGVUKwcSuNJRz4drMf1ysZnEW7wLFUvUu-hdcOasQiCoLww2868vvpIhOUpq74lM48KnxKIkMrT7d9pv2yOS/s400/Resize+of+2011-06-18+14-25-11+-++164.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613108223086274" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We plan on putting in a pond and making a waterfall with flagstone. However, there is a slim possibility we might not be staying in this house as long as we planned so until I know one way or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">t'other</span> we're going to hold fire on that one.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MU4k7cExSFAcV4aO8ZFTfXVPlHDArn3sFAA5R7wWhSWn8uO-swFXD6NXD-CqE8xSXbdprW_rONrbA6YZmKAgyQ7T04gndhtxIP5dSz3GuFMU03oq7y9DnZ_YrmY0Xxi1hRBp0fz-cfaH/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-35-06+-+0001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MU4k7cExSFAcV4aO8ZFTfXVPlHDArn3sFAA5R7wWhSWn8uO-swFXD6NXD-CqE8xSXbdprW_rONrbA6YZmKAgyQ7T04gndhtxIP5dSz3GuFMU03oq7y9DnZ_YrmY0Xxi1hRBp0fz-cfaH/s400/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-35-06+-+0001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613110959495618" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX1ywqRB262wEjFSb39_kLsvr9BZwQ_TQ7UiagjpYlYkMedJp4SbPd6zPwGVUKwcSuNJRz4drMf1ysZnEW7wLFUvUu-hdcOasQiCoLww2868vvpIhOUpq74lM48KnxKIkMrT7d9pv2yOS/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-18+14-25-11+-++164.JPG"><br /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">When we moved into this house there was a hole in the wall between the room that will be the library and our living room. You can see how close it is to the front doors in this photo.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjqcxgTv8E1Pl8MHn6gDu_FXIkClU1EsA74RVyueYdKnCp8JbbjwscN7p9Tl7Bj0ImN6gaxsw8Acub57euLgQTfl6b9rQDCJL2twrjJGXDlfcnMapmwYQjMIZDpWedotQR4IL5aKi3htG/s1600/Resize+of+Pre+Move+in+0009+++-++2009-09-26+12-40-15+.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjqcxgTv8E1Pl8MHn6gDu_FXIkClU1EsA74RVyueYdKnCp8JbbjwscN7p9Tl7Bj0ImN6gaxsw8Acub57euLgQTfl6b9rQDCJL2twrjJGXDlfcnMapmwYQjMIZDpWedotQR4IL5aKi3htG/s400/Resize+of+Pre+Move+in+0009+++-++2009-09-26+12-40-15+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613321093585906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">I never liked it at all but one day <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Aydn</span> said that it reminded him of a doctors or hotel reception check in desk. He was right and that was it...now I<span style="font-style: italic;"> really</span> hated it <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">lol</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRzORRTveX5xjTA-vAP77sO1Pwoe2pNfJacO7CA5zYx9iibVR7wOcQezcAOrTSb8ydAI16gMGtVWOd80vF49Ya5CcGeCTsoj5lDSCpHu5UwLdJ3LuYAyYlJJrHfWth57MEYqGaUAMLCon/s1600/Resize+of+001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRzORRTveX5xjTA-vAP77sO1Pwoe2pNfJacO7CA5zYx9iibVR7wOcQezcAOrTSb8ydAI16gMGtVWOd80vF49Ya5CcGeCTsoj5lDSCpHu5UwLdJ3LuYAyYlJJrHfWth57MEYqGaUAMLCon/s400/Resize+of+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613102630897330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">Mick, on the other hand, didn't care one way or another and it has taken me almost 2 years to convince him it had to go :-)</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDjqcxgTv8E1Pl8MHn6gDu_FXIkClU1EsA74RVyueYdKnCp8JbbjwscN7p9Tl7Bj0ImN6gaxsw8Acub57euLgQTfl6b9rQDCJL2twrjJGXDlfcnMapmwYQjMIZDpWedotQR4IL5aKi3htG/s1600/Resize+of+Pre+Move+in+0009+++-++2009-09-26+12-40-15+.jpg"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvCLKmPsEiyfEWkRbNGEBezzTQOACBch66YDYfxkC0ypPK1YQm-iKxJrn_1PL0a6wvio8x2JSYZ007WkSX8D_D8frvJGJVGFFkne4NJxNh8SqATGgYD_WeDOkZuuV8qEPb7CefDSLdaNv/s1600/Resize+of+2011-07-12+08-45-18++-+IMG_0391.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvCLKmPsEiyfEWkRbNGEBezzTQOACBch66YDYfxkC0ypPK1YQm-iKxJrn_1PL0a6wvio8x2JSYZ007WkSX8D_D8frvJGJVGFFkne4NJxNh8SqATGgYD_WeDOkZuuV8qEPb7CefDSLdaNv/s400/Resize+of+2011-07-12+08-45-18++-+IMG_0391.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613115466116754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;">And go it has :-) I now have to plaster over the entire thing and make it invisible <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">lol</span>. I've started but that will take a while as I am learning as I go along. You can see I've also started painting this room. The wall on the right looks darker but only because that has only had one coat of paint around the edges. Took me a long time to decide on colors and I love how the color has turned out.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxl4EXj7nmYF8YbFdWhClw_ZdQ46d04n3O7tDAf1zHkg9YImq1UCRk30eJTpuhiuLtFxkDfhEMVmosnuXpxT6Cge2er8zey9te0ZXSbpyDYRHV2Q7oF1bSi-zPMihyYpqTVy0j21OayF_/s1600/Resize+of+2011-07-12+10-40-29++-+IMG_0001.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxl4EXj7nmYF8YbFdWhClw_ZdQ46d04n3O7tDAf1zHkg9YImq1UCRk30eJTpuhiuLtFxkDfhEMVmosnuXpxT6Cge2er8zey9te0ZXSbpyDYRHV2Q7oF1bSi-zPMihyYpqTVy0j21OayF_/s400/Resize+of+2011-07-12+10-40-29++-+IMG_0001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613302330896146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Then in between all of this I started the guest bedroom. My Indian room :-) I hadn't planned to have taken this on just yet with all the other things I am doing but friends from Australia are coming to visit mid August and need somewhere to sleep. So I had to add this into the mix. I don't mind as this will be my favorite room :-)<br /><br />The colors in the guest room are the same as the library. As a lot of our house is open plan, I will have a very simple palette of no more than 3 or 4 colors throughout the house. This is part of the reason it took me so long to decide on colors....they have to be suitable for all rooms in the house.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And the guest room needs curtains. You might recall me buying all this fabric over a year ago. Time to dig it out and get sewing. A task made extremely hard by the fact this fabric is twisted. The stripes are not straight so it took me forever to cut the fabric just so the stripes laid straight. I am not a seamstress at all but figured curtains were just a square right so how hard could it be....famous last words.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;">This is me trying to battle 19 yards of heavy upholstery weight fabric ugh. It is cut out now and I spent the best part of yesterday hand sewing the 4 hems. That was hard...2 layers of this fabric plus heavy lining. My fingers are very sore now...and after I'd done I found I had a thimble <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">lol</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxfbrvftRY7eD7OrEyXGnxY-jLUPjoWk4RtnedstE_eQb8XPzJYsQ9rg62KjIRbQFmgaWvr6LPS6OiLwvx18MqXUaPJvjsWBn_FdhTkjQHWRAbM3GqxdNvJuV21wkuLTGrcMia-ZhPkA8/s1600/Resize+of+fabric+day+1+IMG_0356.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 335px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxfbrvftRY7eD7OrEyXGnxY-jLUPjoWk4RtnedstE_eQb8XPzJYsQ9rg62KjIRbQFmgaWvr6LPS6OiLwvx18MqXUaPJvjsWBn_FdhTkjQHWRAbM3GqxdNvJuV21wkuLTGrcMia-ZhPkA8/s400/Resize+of+fabric+day+1+IMG_0356.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613313597212594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">You can see in this photo that I'd started cutting in the red color for this room. That was before I knew I had to do the guest room so that is on hold for now <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">lol</span>.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWHSBN8-B1UALxHaWrwmDTQ-kTu4u9HUj31GkqvmBNv1l1ST2Y-G3rlQLueGWVB2fM8QJ6fCbflWTD8MyalZG9PXmQpUPwbb6GoJLPEuvrbovS5DUDcrLX8uPkfaLDpcQOhnYWuUcCVYh/s1600/day+1+IMG_0364.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWHSBN8-B1UALxHaWrwmDTQ-kTu4u9HUj31GkqvmBNv1l1ST2Y-G3rlQLueGWVB2fM8QJ6fCbflWTD8MyalZG9PXmQpUPwbb6GoJLPEuvrbovS5DUDcrLX8uPkfaLDpcQOhnYWuUcCVYh/s400/day+1+IMG_0364.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629615304967070802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">And now I need an opinion. I have this wonderful Indian screen that I no longer have a place for. I planned on using it as a headboard. I am not sure if it is too high or not. My friend loves it. And Mick hates it. What do you think...does it work or look silly.....<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">yay</span> or nay.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvth-gANSSrKlQeStLMwOc9B9Tmx2cm2zhKLD_8F4iGBaljazZuGe2o3-_wUoRdg-PgSRHfohr4DqqWhURQlwJzMBjU1CFBSI7oFolYrVDOWyt-3U0-AIfY5SG7oqH9Icqz2P_1DPB71C/s1600/Resize+of+resize+IMG_0349.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvth-gANSSrKlQeStLMwOc9B9Tmx2cm2zhKLD_8F4iGBaljazZuGe2o3-_wUoRdg-PgSRHfohr4DqqWhURQlwJzMBjU1CFBSI7oFolYrVDOWyt-3U0-AIfY5SG7oqH9Icqz2P_1DPB71C/s400/Resize+of+resize+IMG_0349.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629613326511691170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbOAeDIWfYYn7Jahn6Y3DF_CEAn5ImvEH5E0Wam37_tYXR9Ud-dKwaFEg3IW-mAyWuzMxT36Fo5G2D4gdtqw0jLYy3rvIQ6BO6s7ljo8P8Orv05mm5sY4iNmpfI-QLBGCyRhTNWIJ9ZCK/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-36-08+-+0003.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204); font-family: verdana;">So as you can see I've been a tad on the busy side of late :-) I have one mini I have to finish then that is it for a while while I carry on with the house.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MU4k7cExSFAcV4aO8ZFTfXVPlHDArn3sFAA5R7wWhSWn8uO-swFXD6NXD-CqE8xSXbdprW_rONrbA6YZmKAgyQ7T04gndhtxIP5dSz3GuFMU03oq7y9DnZ_YrmY0Xxi1hRBp0fz-cfaH/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-28+16-35-06+-+0001.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX1ywqRB262wEjFSb39_kLsvr9BZwQ_TQ7UiagjpYlYkMedJp4SbPd6zPwGVUKwcSuNJRz4drMf1ysZnEW7wLFUvUu-hdcOasQiCoLww2868vvpIhOUpq74lM48KnxKIkMrT7d9pv2yOS/s1600/Resize+of+2011-06-18+14-25-11+-++164.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRzORRTveX5xjTA-vAP77sO1Pwoe2pNfJacO7CA5zYx9iibVR7wOcQezcAOrTSb8ydAI16gMGtVWOd80vF49Ya5CcGeCTsoj5lDSCpHu5UwLdJ3LuYAyYlJJrHfWth57MEYqGaUAMLCon/s1600/Resize+of+001.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvCLKmPsEiyfEWkRbNGEBezzTQOACBch66YDYfxkC0ypPK1YQm-iKxJrn_1PL0a6wvio8x2JSYZ007WkSX8D_D8frvJGJVGFFkne4NJxNh8SqATGgYD_WeDOkZuuV8qEPb7CefDSLdaNv/s1600/Resize+of+2011-07-12+08-45-18++-+IMG_0391.JPG"><br /></a>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-14494660327294692762011-07-06T18:26:00.000+01:002011-07-06T18:29:38.607+01:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">I interrupt this blog for a proud Mama moment :-)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">As some of you know, my Son Aydn is in college studying fine art.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Aydn is way, way, <i>way</i> more artistic than I can ever hope to be. I like to think can appreciate art but I am not arty enough to understand the depths at which some artists work. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Aydn set up a <a href="http://aydnloffmanart.blogspot.com/">blog</a> as a way to electronically journal his work. When I read it I am struck by how little of it I understand. And even worse, how grown up and smart he seems. I am not one of those Moms who babies their child and I understand that he is growing up, but even so it sometimes takes me by surprise to know these words come from my boy. At times he is so philosophical. Guess it is time for the tables to be turned and for me to start learning from him.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Aydn has just completed this years work and received his results today. I am so proud to say he got 6 distinctions and 2 merits and an overall grade of distinction.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">And on top of this he received the Student of the Year award.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">And if that wasn't enough, he has just finished exhibiting some of his work at </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/event/red-tape">Walsall Art Gallery</a>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">While I was there he went for the interview with them and had his work assessed. He was over the moon to be chosen as an exhibitor.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sad I was unable was able to go to see his work in the gallery but I have no doubt that this won't be the last time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">When I was 19 I was dawdling along with no idea where I was going in my life and certainly hadn't achieved anything as cool as exhibiting in a major art gallery. </span></span></div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The theme of the exhibit was about unfolding angst, hidden layers of excessive regulation, rigid conformity and mass persuasion.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aydns piece was titled <em>"Our guardian, our frame" </em>and this is how he describes it.</div><i><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#674ea7;" ></span></i><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><i><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#674ea7;" > </span></i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#674ea7;" >My work portrays new direction and hope; often it’s hard to find an escape or somewhere to hide. I aim to point out the fine line between opportunities staring us in the face yet commonly appearing transparent. </span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vtX_vIGhuWGSiJmpNGZ-i9mTjxrhbJ7zfT-igrnMeMafSyQY6ami-lv4nTKprMQcUQUn-FqbgnH0PgSoxgL5Bd1vwC0EgSuzWluOIC4odOMmK4wx2ntGnnO2LH3czV4Jo39DkprqUIvT/s1600/aydn+art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vtX_vIGhuWGSiJmpNGZ-i9mTjxrhbJ7zfT-igrnMeMafSyQY6ami-lv4nTKprMQcUQUn-FqbgnH0PgSoxgL5Bd1vwC0EgSuzWluOIC4odOMmK4wx2ntGnnO2LH3czV4Jo39DkprqUIvT/s320/aydn+art.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:#674ea7;" >If you are curious, you can read more about the concept and ideas behind this on his <a href="http://aydnloffmanart.blogspot.com/2011/06/fine-art-essay.html">blog</a></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Well done Aydn.....</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">I am so proud of the man yo</span></span><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">u've become </span></span><span style="color:#674ea7;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">and I love you loads xxx </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrklI_da9inOZgrTZnE8KwZWNOCVg_GSePJOUusq90kJAFJrl0JmZXzrprleglOwE3GOLifNo2VY_V_WDfGFweiQYZsQv0ycCOToaJbyK4ZwIAW5LapoPhUUMEl88hZ4FMJQ79Mtoj2rXQ/s1600/aydn%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrklI_da9inOZgrTZnE8KwZWNOCVg_GSePJOUusq90kJAFJrl0JmZXzrprleglOwE3GOLifNo2VY_V_WDfGFweiQYZsQv0ycCOToaJbyK4ZwIAW5LapoPhUUMEl88hZ4FMJQ79Mtoj2rXQ/s1600/aydn%255D.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-79178369716177528872011-06-14T23:00:00.000+01:002011-06-14T23:00:31.832+01:00Busy in the garden of life<div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">You may remember we bought a house about 18 months ago. At the time I was super busy with my miniatures and didn't have time to do much of the work that was needed. </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The beginning of this year I decided I had to concentrate on one thing or another as trying to do both just wasn't working out.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I have been making some minis but have kept it to commissions only and where people were in no rush. As it turns out I am making a lot of minis that will be presents for next Christmas so I can't even show any photos lest I ruin the surprise for the recipient...many of whom are blog readers.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, rather than vanish completely I thought I'd share my current project...the garden. This isn't something that will be finished quickly but it has come a long way already in the last week or so.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">That was it...I now knew what I wanted. All I had to do was find the right stone. After many, many trips to stone merchants I found it. This was actually really fun. I love rock and could happily spend a day in one of these places just admiring the rock. And it seemed so reasonable...I started looking at some that was about 70c a lb. Until I realized I needed 16,000 lb of it lol.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So the garden was cleared...boy was it a mess but it got sorted. This is what we started with.....</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And this is how we were looking after the jungle was cleared.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And look what amazing treasures were buried amongst this lot....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Yup those are grapes and limes....lots of limes actually lol. And teeny rosebushes pushing up from the ground. And gorgeous circles or roses.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This plant I believe is a Lady Banks rose. It has white flowers and no thorns. Amazingly all of this plant comes from one small trunk ! I cut it right back and attached to to the fence...hopefully form here on I can train it better to cover the fence.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Then the rock came....all 5 pallets of it lol. And we got started on laying it. This isn't that easy. Aside from it being physically hard, and it was 88 degrees out, it is like a huge jigsaw with 5 pallets of pieces. I'd put one down then find a better one. Then decide to remove another and replace it. This is as far as 3 of us ...2 of them professionals...got on Saturday.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I have the help of a wonderful gardener but I am not the kind of person who will stand by and just supervise because I am paying them. Nope not me...makes me feel far too guilty and I have to help.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Then I have to think about plants....that is the hard part lol. I will be trying to recreate an English style cottage garden in California...hmmm.</span> </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, if that wasn't enough to do I started tackling the room that will become a library yesterday and removed all the chair rail ....now to learn how to plaster lol.</span></div><br />
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</div>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-62379201513545143352011-04-27T18:36:00.000+01:002011-04-27T18:36:54.899+01:00I'm back...kinda<br><br />
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I am back and have been so for just over a week. I have just had a lot of personal things to deal with since I got back, hence no time to get on here :-(<br />
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And I am off to Vegas this weekend to meet up with one of my English friends who is coming over here. Then we are flying up to Minneapolis for a while to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra again...yes they were that good lol<br />
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We had a wonderful time, visited lots of places and met up with some bloggy friends which was perfect. I have loads of photos to show you all, including some awesome old buildings for all you house builders :-) I just haven't had time to sort though my 1000's of photos as yet :-)<br />
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I was going to add just a couple of piccies but Blogger wants to lay them all sideways on here, even though they aren't they way to start with ugh. If I rotate them then it changes all the size and aspect ratio. See some things never change and blogger is as temperamental as ever lol<br />
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So..I'll just have to leave it as this for now but I'll be back as soon as I can :-)<br />
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<br>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-25493556517499083612011-03-16T16:04:00.000+00:002011-03-16T16:25:07.539+00:00WooooooHoooooo<div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Hi everyone...remember me :-) </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Although I was planning a short break I have also had awful computer problems of late so had little choice. I am still not fully sorted but better than I was.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also what is with Blogger lately ? I</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">n my dashboard I used to be able to view all the blogs I follow and could literally scroll down and go back through weeks worth of posts making it fairly easy to catch up. </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For some time now my dashboard has only been showing the last 20 blog updates.....and seeing as how I follow 300 different blogs I miss loads :-( </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've not been home at all since I left 7 years ago and I can't tell you how excited I am.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are sooo many people and places I want to see that 3 weeks will go past in a whirl I am sure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We will be meeting some friends in London to start and then going to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra again. I was looking forward to this already but now I am even more excited as <a href="http://wendiesminiworld.blogspot.com/">Wendie</a> will be there and we'll be staying in the same hotel....how much fun will that be :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the food...oh how I've missed the food. I am not a food person at all...I used to eat perhaps once a day and ate because I had to , not because I wanted to. Yet the thought of going back home and getting to eat all the food I missed had me drooling. Walkers crisps, buttered teacakes, scones and clotted cream, real fish and chips, pukka pie, mushy peas, real chocolate..then with these thoughts came the realization that I'd end up putting on 40lbs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not good seeing as I have already put on almost 40lbs in the 7 years I've been here. So I decided to go on a diet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, yes, I know I should be losing weight for health reasons, to look better etc etc but the motivation just wasn't there...until I wanted to stuff my face with yummy English food while I could.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I started dieting on January 13th and so far have lost 26lbs...another woooo hooo. I still have 11lbs to get to the weight I was when I moved here but I've gone from a size 12 jeans down to a size 8 which is unbelievable. I am surprised the store staff didn't come into the changing room when I first tried on a size 8 cause I was squealing so much lol. For the Brits, that isn't as impressive as it sounds though...sizes here are different so now I am a UK 10 but still down from a 14 :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And it has been the easiest dieting I've ever done. Had to learn to eat more than once a day and eat more than I ever have but I managed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A huge part of it being easy has been the energy I've gained. I am sure some of that is from not having to lug all that flab about , and some of it is because I am so excited but I am literally bouncing off the walls with energy and find it hard to sit still. Good thing really with all I have to do :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I couldn't have done it without my friend Patti. We may be on different coasts but doing this diet with her has helped so much. We hold each other accountable and it has proved much better than any dieting group :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meeting some fellow blogger friends is going to be so much fun. I also come from the same area as <a href="http://piskies-and-poppets.blogspot.com/">Debie </a>so will be meeting up with her as well....gosh I so can't wait :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And... if this wasn't enough excitement for one person, ,for the first time since he started studying fine art at college I will get to go with my Son Aydn to an art gallery. He is much more knowledgeable about art than I am so this will be a fun learning experience for me . </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is doing extremely well at college and while I am there he will be having his work assessed by Walsall Art Gallery with a view to exhibiting there which is really exciting. He has exhibited there before when he was working on his homeless project. This was very successful and when the Director of The Big Issue heard abut it he came along to take a look and loved it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I always expected that he'd become an engineer like every other man in our family so I am very pleased he took after me :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, a week today I'll be off so I best get cracking. We have a house sitter so I have to clean and get the guest room ready as well as pack.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Toodle Pip...see you soon xxxx</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">p.s...we'll likely be whizzing all over the country so if anyone else is interested in meeting up just shoot me an email :-)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've actually been meaning to post sooner but have been manic sorting out Christmas shopping and the like. I used to love it when I lived back home but here, not only do I have to find the right gifts, I have to make sure they are small enough and light enough so that shipping doesn't cost a fortune. Then the delight of packing them all up and standing in line at the Post office.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you bought anything from me in 2010 you should by now have received a gift from me. Just a small token of my thanks for your business. Without you I wouldn't be here blogging. If, for any reason, you've not received it please email me.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Being so far </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">from home and my family and friends, </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christmas over here is a quiet and often sad affair. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I managed to get a gorgeous wreath and garland on sale....$15 for both instead of about $200...impressive huh.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Other than this there has been nothing fun happening here. A couple of dentist appointments and I am back at the dentist tomorrow ugh. Oh well, at least I'll get a good nap out of that :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sorry I've not had chance to keep up with every ones blogs. One of my resolutions for next year is to manage my time better ... we'll see how that goes lol</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Tallulah Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14490186975270835647noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-235889128352131983.post-36657790204454978662010-12-04T20:09:00.000+00:002010-12-04T20:16:20.680+00:00Tis the season to be....SPOOKY !<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div id="item-thumbs" style="color: rgb(103, 78, 167); font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: rgb(103, 78, 167);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" > Even witches celebrate Christmas...their trees are just a little different </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(103, 78, 167);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" >and a lot more spooky :-)<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Not being American, Thanksgiving isn't quite the same for us. Not that we don't love a turkey dinner but we are really small eaters and even the smallest turkey breast would feed us for years lol. And neither of us are into American football so that is another tradition we shan't be partaking in.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Well as excited as I was to go and see The Nightmare before Christmas in 4D it won't be happening this year. Luckily they do it ever year at Halloween time so perhaps next year we can make a full weekend of it and do the whole shebang with the Pumpkin Kings dinner as well.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">My computer monitor has been acting up the past few weeks and has been flickering at me. Then it started flashing and then it started going on and off making it impossible to use. Mick took it apart and ordered the capacitors to fix it but when he came to do so the back light had blown out as well. Likely my fault for carrying on using it when there was a problem :-(</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, we had to to buy a new one. All you can get now are the wide screens. I don't like them but figured I'd get used to it. I set it so the fonts were readable but then it wouldn't run my camera software of photoshop. To do that it had to be on the highest resolution which meant the font size was too mall for me to read. And on top of that my photos all looked squat. I tried ever combination of settings but no way could I work with squat photos lol.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Luckily Mick found me a second hand, old fashioned square monitor so I am good to go now.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On top of this I had to visit the dentist. I have a totally irrational and crazy dental phobia. I can give blood, have shots, do surgery etc but when it comes to the dentist I am a quivering wreck....literally. </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I found a dentist that deals in patients with 'high anxiety' and went to see her. I have to say they were fantastic. I've had dentists refuse to treat me as my blood pressure goes so high. Dentists who claim to deal with the likes of me leave me sitting in the chair, surrounded by the sights and smells of a dental office, for ages. Dentists who get totally embarrassed when I am sitting there in tears. </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, to find someone who really understood and wanted to help me is a great step forward.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Unfortunately I have bone loss in my jaw so they are unsure whether anything can be done. My teeth don't look bad but they are not secure in my jaw. Apparently it is a genetic thing and no amount of brushing or flossing will help. They are going to try putting some drugs into my gums and see if it can be built back up and doing some gum surgery before making the decision whether to take them all out or not :-(</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So tomorrow I will be dragged to the dentist by Mick and given a wonderful drug that will render me useless. I will then sleep the entire day away and have zero recollection of the whole day when I wake up. </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As I have no collection of ever being hurt by a dentist, my new dentist also thinks I need to see a hypnotist to find out why I am like this so I will be seeing a therapist shortly and see where we can go from there.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So with having to buy a new monitor, a dentist bill of about $750 so far (after insurance) and the fact that I will likely still be whacked out on Saturday there will be no going to Hollywood this weekend.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I am not too upset though as next week we are off to San Francisco. A very dear friend of mine is flying there from the east coast to attend a wedding. She will have a day free so we are driving up there to meet her. I met her in a miniature group a long time ago and although we've never met we have become very close friends so I am very exited about it.</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I've been finishing off some minis and have some rather spooky ones to show you but I am going to save those for <a href="http://katthehatladyhalloweenhouse.blogspot.com/">Kats Halloween party</a>. I really want to join in so will schedule a post in case I am not up to it :-) </div><div style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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