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An adorably amusing and incredibly sexy Romantic Comedy between two commitment-phobes who can’t help falling in love.  Romance Powerhouses Laurelin Paige and Sierra Simone join forces creating this fantastic novel of crazy hot passion and unconditional love.  The heroine’s sworn off men after her last bout of heartbreak.  Livia can’t stand the “in between.”  Falling in love’s fantastic but waiting to see if there’s a break-up or Mr. Forever isn’t worth the stress.  Livia has a job she loves, owns her home, but something’s missing.  Her thirtieth birthday’s next year and she believes the unconditional love of her own child will fill the empty place.  Chase’s a happily single cop, as his sister calls him, “Officer Good Times.”  His job’s dangerous.  He lost his parents while he was young and doesn’t want to put a wife and children through that.  So he enjoys his one-night “Badge Bunnies.”

Livia Ward gets a call from a girl she mentors at the library, Ryan, asking for help.  Apparently the police are at her protest.  When Livia arrives she sees most of the school’s female office staff are fawning over a cocky looking police officer.  Rolling her eyes she goes to extricate Ryan without charges being filed.  When she sees Officer Kelly she understands what the fuss is about.  Tall, muscular, and filling out his uniform within an inch of it’s life.  The mirrored aviator sunglasses are the bow on top of law enforcing masculinity.  Ryan’s protesting a policy stating cheerleaders can’t wear their uniforms to school on Game Day.  All because a boy complained that it gave him impure thoughts.  Livia argues boys will have impure thoughts regardless of whatever girls wear.  Liv hears Officer Kelly mutter, “she’s right about that.”  In the end Ryan returns to class without incident.

After the crowd disperses Officer Kelly surprises Liv by asking her out to dinner.  Sticking to her “No Men” rule she refuses and escapes while he’s distracted.  Chase can’t stop thinking about the feisty woman he met the previous morning.  When his brother-in-law comes to drop off his nephews, since he and Chase’s sister are working, he gets an idea.  Chase’s sister’s a librarian and Livia Ward mentioned she works at the library.  So he gathers up his little nephews, loads them into the wagon, and walks to the neighborhood branch.  It’s his lucky day.  When he sees his sister she’s talking to the woman who’s been on his mind for over twenty-four hours.  Chase’s sister introduces Livia to her brother and discovers they already know each other.  Megan warns Chase not to be a douche-bag.  Chase charms and cajoles Livia into accepting a dinner date for the next evening.

Livia is still holding firm to remaining “Man Free” and she isn’t built for one-night-stands.  But she does have ulterior motives for accepting Chase’s invitation.  She dresses for pure seduction to soften him up to accept her proposition and Chase makes it worth her while.  Livia asks Chase to be the father of her baby.  She can’t afford artificial insemination, she knows him and trusts him, and she knows they won’t get romantically entangled.  For Chase this is like Christmas and his birthday all in one.  A woman who’ll let him have sex with her, no condom, no commitments, no parental rights, and no child support.  The only stipulations is that he can’t have sex with any other women during however long the process takes.  Livia wants this to be a business transaction only.  At first Chase balks, but the possibilities, and Livia, are too irresistible to decline.

However it doesn’t take long for Chase to become protective.  For their first session, Liv picks a “no-tell-motel” in a terrible part of town.  Wanting to ensure her safety, Chase springs for a room at a much nicer hotel.  Livia feels guilty about him footing the bill for her “Project Baby Making.”  Liv’s brain careens during sex trying to justify her enjoyment of what Chase’s doing to her body.  Trying to remember this is purely for procreation purposes.  There comes a point where Livia’s overwhelmed by things feeling too intimate, more than just biological desire and frightening her.  After they both climax Liv wants to flee immediately.  But Chase reminds her she needs to lie back with her hips elevated for a while.  Once the time has passed she ready to run again.  Chase’s confused but tells her to stay at the hotel overnight since it’s paid for.

The next time they get together Livia she institutes a “No Kissing” rule, in order to keep things less intimate.  Their second meeting’s at her home.  When they make their way onto her bed Liv needs to take a break because things are feeling “too real.”  For some reason this hurts Chase’s feelings and he becomes cold and clinical – “syringe dick.”  Livia apologizes for laying her issues on him and hurting his feelings.  Secretly Chase finds himself enjoying holding Liv’s hand, comforting her, and their late night texts and phone calls.  What’s disconcerting is he doesn’t mind the idea of Livia getting attached.  Because he’s feeling really possessive of her and he likes it.  Though they only planned to have sex only during her ovulation period they have sex almost everyday for two weeks.  Unfortunately it doesn’t take and Liv doesn’t take it well.

Livia was hoping it would work sooner rather than later because she wants get it over with quickly.  Chase finds himself not wanting it to end at all or ever.  He can’t imagine how he’ll feel once Liv gets pregnant with his baby.  Livia demands that all of Chase’s climax’s are hers – no “self pleasuring”.  They’ll go at it everyday so they don’t accidently miss a day.  Chase and Liv become insatiable and almost inseparable.  They start inventing reasons to have sex and stay in contact.  Liv realizes that she’s in love with Chase.  She agrees to go on a double date with a friend in order to try to protect her heart.  Because she knows Chase’s eventually going to leave her.  Tragedy strikes convincing one to push the other away but pulls the one closer.  Will they ever both admit their true feelings.

“Hot Cop” is a delight!  The characters are entertaining and rich in personality.  There’re subplots regarding fighting for good causes and more about the danger and policies of Chase’s job.  Chase’s a self-proclaimed giant manwhore but order and compartmentalization are extremely important to him.  Once Livia comes into his life the compartments don’t sort easily his no-attachments-only-fun lifestyle gets thrown to the wayside.  Livia believes all relationships lead to heartbreak ; love and promises end up with packed suitcases and empty rooms.  Therefore she bans men from her life.  Until Chase comes along.  She sees him with his nephews, his patience and playfulness, and knows he’s who she wants as her “baby-daddy”.  Laurelin Paige and Sierra Simone do a fantastic job with hot and racy sex scenes.  They make Chase ever so endearing with his earnest pregnancy research and irresistible with his growly and possessive caveman ways.

I’m giving “Hot Cop” 5 Lightning Bolts and a Storm Warning.

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Breakfast in Glenfiddich's

NOT exactly.

We went to Botanical Garden (new name) aka Lake Garden aka Taman Tasik Perdana nearby the Parlimen for a breakfast picnic. Wanted to go picnic by a stream or waterfall but I scared it triggered the flu again so we cancelled that plan.

It's been awhile since I last visited this park. Last time I remembered I was there because of work - setting up booth for a running event.

The park is really big and nice, I wish I could bring my foldie for a ride here. The park is well-maintained, a lot of picnic benches and tables, you can even bring along a mat and sit on the grass. A great place to paktoh, as long as it doesn't rain.

Hon caught up with his game so I strolled alone checking out the scenic view and taking pictures.

 We did some random activities like put a peanut and rice on the ground and observe how the ants move them.
We looked like a bunch of kids, squatting down in awe of nature's work. I'm not sure what is it between boys and ants, a lot of guys I k…

Score Fitmob Zumba Fitness Party 2015

Attended the Score Fitmob Zumba Fitness Party last Sunday and it was full of FUN!! Yeehaw~!!

No to the early rising though, that one sucked max -_-

I was first informed about this event on June. The initial date was on 2nd Nov and it was supposed to take place at Dataran Merdeka. There's a lower rate for group registration - RM70 instead of 75, so I joined Chen's group since no one in Perlis was interested that time.

Around October, an email from SCORE saying the event has got bigger and "better", they marked a new date on 18th Jan and shifted the venue to Stadium Merdeka. The word better always has to have the quotation mark on and di-Italic-kan, especially events as such when they make it "bigger". Even smaller events sometimes don't do well, let alone bigger ones. I just hoped it went OK-ish...

And, WOW, SCORE does not disappoint! In fact, it was an event with almost 6000 participants, and I did not have any complaint or rumbling or dissatisfaction a…

Cycling in the Morning - Backyard of Kangar, Perlis

Finally, a weekend when the weather was good and I'm around - it means cycling spree :)

WH had a bad knee so I went alone.
I thought of doing a mini duathlon - cycling + running - but I have a premenstrual breast tenderness and swelling (In short, sucker-PMS-stuff), and because I don't like running that much anyway, so it was off the list.
These days, Perlis' morning is gloomy and dark, and it gets bright pretty late - about 8ish O' clock, so that kinda discouraging me to get up. I gathered all my motivation and dragged my sorry ass off the bed because I really need that ride!!
Instead of the usual route, I tried something different today, and it was so nice!!

Flood & Things

Last weekend, several states in Malaysia were hit by the worst flood in decades, including my hometown Kelantan (Kota Bharu town, to be exact).

My house was fortunately spared from the flood but a lot of my relatives' houses and shops were badly damaged. On the first few days, I was very anxious and nervous while reading and looking the FB feeds, every Refresh or F5 came a new update on the water level, new pictures of affected places, even places I(we) never thought the water would go ever. At the same time, it was Christmas and the feeds were very much contradicting to each other as it was a mix between the flood and Christmas celebration.

When the flooding went from bad to worse, I asked my sis "is the flood this time worse than the '04?" She said yes, and I shuddered.


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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Grasses and Trees

I've been busy adding different fabrics to represent grasses and a line of trees on the far side of the river.
For the "grasses" I've selected lots of yellow-green prints with stripes and linear lines.  Most of the "trees" are being cut from this great fabric I found in my stash that has both lighter and darker trees.  Along with one or two other prints to help, I think this one will do most of the work.
Now that my line of trees has been established, I feel like the last major element is in place and the finish is easily within sight......

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Friday, 14 February 2014

Hearts and hurricanes

As the winds howl and the rain beats on the windows I have spent the day reading Ernest Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea which seemed appropriate. (Ha - more weather!}The men in his novels often find redemption in Nature. I think over these past weeks we must have all marvelled and cursed at its power.
 I love Hemmingway as a writer - he said  "The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

Today is Valentine's Day after all.
 And talking of death here is Autumn's flamboyant display of death on the wall.

I came across a very old copy of Innovations magazine the other day. I have mentioned Innovations before with regards to scarifying shoes for your lawn - and it really does make an amusing read. Apart from the "At-a-glance-motorised tie rack" and a gadget to fit six tools in your wallet - I was particularly drawn to the hourly reminders of endangered species in the form of a unique clock. I imagine an endangered tiger roaring by my pillow - I know then it is six in the morning. At three in the morning a ring tiled lemur had already whimpered in my ear. At four in the morning the hump backed whale sang. I remove the three AA batteries{which were not included} and go back to sleep.
Pixie and one of the ducks which she is particularly scared of.

and Beezle not worried by anything

His home address was inked inside his cap
and on every piece of paper that he carried
even across the church porch of the snap
that showed him with mi mam just minutes married.

But if ah'm found at 'ome {he meant found dead}
turn t'water off. Through his last years he nursed,
more than a fear of dying, a deep dread
of his last bath running over, or a burst.

Each night towards the end he'd pull the flush
then wash, then in pyjamas, rain or snow,
go outside, kneel down in the yard, and push
the stopcock as far as it would go.

For though hoping that he'd drop off in his sleep
he was most afraid, I think, of not being 'found'
there in their house, his ark, on firm Leeds ground
but somewhere that kept moving, cold, dark, deep.

Tony Harrison.

Sunday, 9 February 2014

pebbledash and valentines

I don't really want to write about the weather but as it has rather taken over most everyday activities - it is hard not to. I weep when I see the farmers in Somerset losing their livestock and their grazing to the floods and am in awe at the size of the waves crashing against the Cornish and Devon coastlines. Nature's revenge perhaps for our own wilful destruction of her planet.

the snowdrops have at last broken into flower along the bank
 Really, all the wind has done up here is wash away some soil on the fields that have no crops in, just leaving masses of exposed flints. The fields look like acres of pebbledash walls lying flat on the ground.
"I saw you toss the kites on high and blow the birds about the sky - and all around I heard you pass -"
Beezle murmured as we battled the wind.(he'd been reading some Robert Louis Stevenson}
Nice rounded shapes in the garden escaping wind damage. No leaves that would tremble.

Hyacinth Carnegie

the cat formerly known as Prince miffed at the lack of livestock to catch
 Beezle has not been enjoying the wind in spite of his murmurings.  In the field where the horses are he found a thin red plastic ring that must have belonged to another dog and had absailed over the fence. At first it was a great source of fun for him until the wind strengthened and blew it back over his head so it looked as if he was wearing a halo. Then it was a great source of fun for me.
 He looked as if he'd stepped out of a Piero della Francesca painting. Pixie was most reverent  towards him.
 He looked just like St Valentine and hey -  it's Valentine's day at the end of the week. The date was thought to be the beginning of the mating season for birds but unless the wind drops they'll find it challenging.
There - the whole blog post has been about the weather - I thought as much

Who has seen the wind?

by Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

Saturday, 1 February 2014

leopards in the grass

 How thrilling to see a touch of Spring in the garden again. I see this year the hellebores are keeping their stems short until the winds pass. To be felled to the ground after all those months of preparation and competition to be one of the first flowers out in the garden, would seem so pointless. They are even ahead of the snowdrops up here.
 In fact it's been quite mild and I'm half expecting the hedgehogs to wake up along with Beezle who has been practising his periodic heart beat all winter.

 As Beezle (above) and Socrates would say "Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

I would rather hope the foxes were hibernating as they had the hunt up here this morning. But sadly they don't and if they did those terriers would soon be digging them out. Beezle, Pixie and I stood firmly behind the gate as they all rode past. Several of the huntsmen raised their hats and called me "Madam" - I'm not sure what they were trying to tell me - but I smiled back as they trotted on.

At the beginning of the winter someone lost their leopard print scarf on their walk and some kind person hung it on the branch of a tree to be found. Surprisingly no one has claimed it and the winter winds have gradually reduced it to shreds so that now it lies tangled in the undergrowth looking exactly like a leopard waiting to pounce out.  This is certainly what Trude the beautiful Friesian thought as we rode past it the other day. It had to be the most terrifying thing she'd seen since my new coat and took off at great speed up the rode, dragging me and Harry the other horse behind her. I thought horses were meant to smell things like leopards before they see them - I can't think her sense of smell is doing her any favours. She really is quite a "Madam."
 Perhaps the pack of hounds have unearthed it by now. you don't want leopards littering the countryside.
                                             Unidentified object in the bagging area.

And talking of hunting please sign this petition below to stop the Japanese slaughtering the bottlenose dolphins which they herd into a cove and kill - often by breaking their backs. The filmic evidence is almost unbearable to watch.

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Gold iPhone could pave way for Apple riches

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All the chatter over whether a gold (or champagne) iPhone would be a good move on Apple’s part has served to highlight a glaring gap in our global knowledge.

What started out last week as a report on the economic value of a golden iPhone, quickly morphed into suggestions that gold was a preferred color in China – even a ‘lucky’ color for consumers there. Now comes the coup de grâce of the color debate: a comparison of auto tints…

Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt took a look at a chart of auto colors and wrote earlier in the week that the favorite color of Chinese consumers (at least those buying autos) is silver, not gold.

Note that gold is the easiest color to anodize onto the iPhone’s shell. Others suggested a gold iPhone would help Apple retain interest in its handset, a factor that often declines between product introductions.

Forget looking at China’s auto tastes for hints.

After all, red is seen as good luck in China, not gold. Instead, look at the fashion industry, which is gaga over gold. Couple that with the fact HTC and other Asian smartphone brands already produce golden handsets, then top it all off with the reality that the iPhone is viewed more often as a fashion brand.

Besides China, a golden iPhone could sell well in other regions, particularly India. While China’s new rich are driving the demand for gold, in the world’s second most populace nation, gold for centuries has been seen as an item of good luck.

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Indian weddings are drenched in gold, families eagerly going into debt to buy ropes of the material. As Reuters reports, a gold iPhone 5S could be a way for Apple to “upsell” iPhone 5C owners on a more expensive handset.

Although the iPhone 5S – believed to be the direct replacement for the iPhone 5 – is often mentioned as receiving the golden treatment, don’t expect the budget-minded iPhone 5C to go gold as well.

So, is gold lucky for Chinese consumers?

Not really.

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[NAFEX] Beyond the McIntosh

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Wed May 7 21:40:21 EDT 2008

My apologies if this has already been posted:  The Atlantic Monthly
has a nice piece this month profiling John Bunker.  It's this month's
"food" article:

One man’s mission to save abandoned (and glorious) apples by helping
people plant for the future

Beyond the McIntosh

"There’s the joint,” John Bunker said, pointing to a neat line
circling what looked like a long twig on an apple tree. The line,
which marked the most recent year’s growth, would have been invisible
to me. Once he pointed it out, the deep mulberry red of the scion
wood, as the new growth is called, was indeed distinct from the
increasingly dulled chestnut of the twig, branch, and trunk. . .
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[NAFEX] Unsweet melons

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu May 22 10:14:00 EDT 2008

On May 21, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Mark & Helen Angermayer wrote:

> Something else that's perplexing is that last year my melons were
> grown in compost.  I have a huge compost pile in my orchard area.
> The trees on the edge of it grow like mad.  It's only a couple years
> old, so maybe that's my problem but last year I harvested around 10
> large watermelons and a few cantelope that were acceptable in flavor,
> but after that the melons were bland.  I probably let 50 of them rot.

Could excess nutrients be the problem? Compost is very good; but
straight compost may be too much of a good thing. The plant may be
putting all that energy into huge amounts of vegetative growth, and not
concentrating enough on the fruit.

Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly
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[NAFEX] opuntia in Michigan

Matt Demmon mdemmon at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 21:16:53 EST 2011

yeah, the ones I've seen in the wild (near railroad tracks here in SE
michigan) are basically prostrate groupings of pads.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko at wiktel.com>wrote:

> There are small opuntias that grow in southern, western Michigan on
> sandy areas near Lake Michigan. When I lived there I saw several that
> a friend had collected and was growing in pots.  Opuntia doesn't
> necessarily mean large prickly pear cactus.  I was exploring in South
> Dakota and saw many small opuntias growing on a rocky hillside.
> Mentioned it to a native who lived in the area.  He swore that was
> impossible.  Finally had to take him to the site to prove it.
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[nafex] New Mexico State Univ. to host workshop, fruit tasting of jujubes at Alcalde

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NMSU to host workshop, fruit tasting of Chinese dates at Alcalde <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/11391/nmsu-to-host-workshop-fruit-tasting-of-chinese-dates-at-alcalde&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA0NDQ3NDQyOTA3MjE0MDUxOTAyGmY0ZTdkZmFiYzFjOTM0NzY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFipDPshfPXqulOysVfdklM8GrG8g>
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[Callers] Spanish Waltz

John Sweeney info at contrafusion.co.uk
Fri Jun 21 06:56:32 PDT 2013

Paul described the Spanish Waltz:
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
1-16) w/ P F & B, then inside hand (same hand) to N for CA twirl (4 m.)
      w/ N F & B,   "     inside hand to P for CA twirl (4 m.)
      w/ P F & B   "         "       "     to N for CA twirl (4 m.)
      w/ N F & B  "         "       "     to P for CA twirl (4 m.)
(17-20) Hands Across R H Star
(21-24) L H Star
(25-32) w/ P Waltz on to next set of Ns
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Paul, that's not really a California Twirl :-)  A California Twirl has
180 degree turns - it starts side-by-side, not facing.  If you call it a
California Twirl then those who know what that is may get confused.

The move is "normally" called a Star Thru - start facing, 90 degree
turns, finish side-by-side.

I know some people think that that is a square dance term and therefore
you shouldn't use it in a contra dance, but this isn't a contra dance
and any way square dancers say "Swing" - are you going to stop using
that term?  Why not just see it all as one glorious spectrum of dances
and use good terms when they are useful!  Of course if you don't like
saying "Star Thru" then Larry Jennings (in Give-and-Take) suggests
"Twirl to Swap" as a generic term for any such move.

Teaching hint: tell all the ladies to put their right hand behind their
back and the men to put their left hand behind their back for the first
half of the dance.

Alternate ending: I often work with people who don't know how to waltz.
A great alternative for the "Waltz on" is:
Take your partner in a promenade hold, move slightly forward to your
right so that the men's left shoulders are almost touching and you have
a line of four, dance forwards with waltz steps so that the line rotates
a in complete circle and a little bit more then on to a new couple.
This move flows beautifully out of the Star Left as well :-)

Much easier for the inexperienced, and looks great!

Happy dancing,

John Sweeney, Dancer, England john at modernjive.com 01233 625 362
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[Callers] What is flowing contra? (was: Flow & Glide Contras)

Aahz Maruch aahz at pobox.com
Wed Feb 5 08:32:04 PST 2014

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014, John Sweeney wrote:
> I am planning some workshops, for festivals here in the UK, with the title
> "Flow & Glide Contras: Dances with beautiful flow, connectivity and a
> smooth, satisfying glide."  (Thanks to Sarah VanNorstrand and no doubt many
> others for the title!)

There's some risk of hijacking this thread, so I've changed the Subject:

I wrote this contra with the intent of being flowing, and I'm curious
what other people think -- if you think it's not flowing, please try to
explain why:

Panix Dot Chat (aahz at pobox.com)

Becket formation
Double-progression, better with odd number of couples

A1  Right-and-left thru on left diagonal (8)
        (Yes, start with progression)
        (Warn ends about not moving)
    Right-and-left thru new couple (8)
A2  Circle left 3/4 (8)
    Swing neighbor (8)
B1  Pass through (4)
    California twirl (4)
    Men left-hand turn once-and-half (8)
B2  Balance and swing partner (16)
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Re: App Manifest & API Proposal

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:14:56 +0000 (UTC)
To: Anant Narayanan <anant@mozilla.com>
cc: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1205122008230.25792@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>
On Sat, 12 May 2012, Anant Narayanan wrote:
> Q. Apps are just web pages, why bother "installing" them?
> A. This has been previously discussed on the list [4].
> [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0464.html

This has already received a reply:

> There are clear differences in perception between an app and a website
> for most users. Most web content is expected to be free, but the same
> content wrapped in an app is something people seem to be willing to pay
> for. Monetization is important to encourage a thriving web developer
> community.

I don't think it makes sense to use a technical solution to a
non-technical problem.

> Additionally, treating certain "installed" websites as apps gives us a
> context separate from loading pages in a browser, which allows us to
> provide privileged APIs to such trusted apps, APIs we would normally not
> give to untrusted web content.

Desktop operating systems have demonstrated over a period of many years
that this approach simply doesn't work. Users find it very difficult to
understand what it means to "trust" an app. The Web's security model is
IMHO significantly superior than any of the "app" security models we have
seen in "native" operating systems, as demonstrated by the way that when
malware is written to the "app" model it has to be dealt with by curating
the application market space, whereas when malware is written to the Web
model it is almost always because of errors in the design or
implementation of the Web platform that, once fixed, preclude any similar
attack from being performed again.

The "installation" security model of asking the user up-front to grant
trust just doesn't work because users don't understand the question, and
the "installation" security model of curating apps and trying to determine
by empirical examination whether an application is trustworthy or not just
doesn't scale.

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

2016 National Park Fee Free Days

Celebrate the Centennial in 2016 of over 400 National Parks by visiting them.  You can visit for free on the following dates!
For your Free Entry into National Parks this year, note the following dates on your calendar:

April 16 through 24 - National Park Week

August 25 through 28 - National Park Birthday Weekend

September 24 - National Public Lands Day

November 11 - Veterans Day

Get outside and enjoy your National Parks!

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Choose Children's Furniture Which is Durable

Babyzen Yoyo+ Stroller

Childrens furniture is something which is usually a fun purchase or perhaps a stressful purchase. There are lots of facts to consider before making a final selection. Examples are durability, budget, space, d�cor, age and preference. Durability is among those actions that you simply can not afford to scrimp on. Not only do you want furniture which will last a while, but you want to make sure that the item of furniture is safe.

Micuna Baby Cot

When looking at childrens furniture it is ideal to continually use a budget planned. Known only to you what you are able afford. If you live close to funds, i am not saying that you simply can't find quality childrens furniture. Shopping around locally or online will disclose a variety of options regardless of the price range you are trying for.

You will need to factor simply how much space you've. Looking for just a bed or possibly a complete bedroom set? Childrens furniture, as with every other type of furniture, can be be extremely deceiving with regards to size, whether on the store room floor or online pictures. Be sure you realize the amount space available and continue to look out for measurements if you are searching for childrens furniture.

For d�cor, once more you've got a great deal of options. If you are shopping for a girls room it's possible to select the original pink, yellow and purple furnishings. Character designs such as Barbie and Disney characters will always be a large hit in girls room d�cor. You can also also decorate with flowers or furry animals.

And while speaking of d�cor, a pre-teen may not appreciate a Barbie styled room, while a 5 year-old would love it. Keep the age in consideration, not merely due to the d�cor, but in addition for the furniture's functionality. Could be the child young enough for a toddler bed or bunkbed? This is going to be a massive deciding factor of the kind of children's furniture you get.

Finally, preference. If your little child now has wrinkles enough, they've already their own preference however you like. Maybe they prefer modern or shabby chic furniture. Whilst you because the parent possess the final word in what bedroom furniture will probably be purchased, it's also best if you let the child have input as to what type of style they like.


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Thursday, August 16, 2012

RAINBOW Chevron!!!

Does it get any cooler than that?

Or am I just that much of a fabric geek???  Probably the second option, and that's ok with me!  Because when I came home to this little package sitting on my doorstep, I knew just what it was.

Even so, when I opened it up, soooo excited to see it finally, and it was all covered up I was SO frustrated...

But here it is, in all it's glory...

It's like when Ken meets Barbie for the first time and all the stars align's rainbow...and it's chevron.

I could go on and on, but I won't...go check it out!


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Monday, September 14, 2015

Wendy's Kisses

Hello, Rhea here today to bring you a little CandiBean Inspiration for LDRS.  Here is Wendy's Kisses.  There are so many adorable stamps available from the CandiBean Collection that you just have to see!  So just have a look by clicking HERE

Creating Clean and Simple is the trend.  However, I find it difficult at times.  I keep wanting to add more details and layers.  Clean and Simple designing isn't as easy as it looks...LOL.  I think I am somewhere in-between but getting the hang of it.

Here are the colors I used :)  enjoy!   I also used a white and blue Kirarina Wink Pens, Multiliner in black, BG10, and Yellow Spica pen to create the border.

I will see you soon for more inspiration.  xo

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

I'm just popping in quick tonight to announce the winner of the Swanky Shank giveaway! Sorry it wasn't up last night like I intended. Dude is feeling under the weather and needed his Mama last night.

Not to keep you in suspense any longer, the winner of the diaper cover is Alicia Hutchinson! She has a brand new sweet baby girl, who will be sure to look just adorable in it!

Thanks all for participating. Giveaways are so fun! If you didn't win, you can still get your little one some swank in Jen's Etsy shop. Cuteness overload, I tell ya. I want it all :)

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New From Olbermann: What if Trump Actually Fires Investigator Robert Mueller?

Doing so might create the tipping point that ends him
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Seth Meyers: Republicans Don’t Know What’s in Their Own Health Care Bill

One of the most shameless breathtakingly cynical exercises in political history
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Rest of the Rest of the Story...

My infatuation and love of this chair continued through our four-day, three-night vacation!  It was love at first sight and despite my withdrawal from it to go on our first planned family excursion to the beach, I had lots of time to think about it as I sat in my sun free tent.  Later that night I examined the chair in great detail, drew sketches of it and photographed it.  I was secretly scheming about making an offer to buy it.

I learned that the ottoman and chair were an unmatched set until slip covered.  I even studied the patched and torn slip cover, surely in time I could sew another to preserve its “shabby chic” look!  It had that “well-loved” appearance! Its comfort was also the subject of my study.  The back pillow was filled with down.  It truly had been an extraordinary chair in its day, and being well-sat-out, I considered the hours it took to get it “just right”, and being oversized, it fit me perfectly!

I began mentioning to my husband that I wanted to offer to purchase the chair, and just like any family vacation, the oxy-moron, “family vacation” played itself out.  I have long thought that our marriage was perfect as my husband does just enough travel on his job, and our girls are independent enough to give me time to miss them when they are gone.  Family vacations, like over-ripe fruit, can be a bit too much of a good thing!  And so The Vacation Chair became the contention that we all began to fight over!  Now I knew why the medicine cabinet wasn’t replaced with a modern mirror...a headache was now erupting and I would soon find this cabinet accommodating!

How bizarre of me, my family thought, to want to take home a tacky over-used chair! What would the owners think of such an offer, and worse yet would they consider me crazy, my family worried? Being a bit crazy isn’t foreign to me, so this argument didn’t effect me! Living four hours away, I didn’t think our upstanding reputation (what up-standing reputation?) in our small town would be ruined!  Where would we put it?  And why didn’t I just consider buying a new chair, though we couldn’t afford it? I made peace and zipped my lip, but after leaving the motel, I pined for The Vacation Chair.

I tried to reason with myself that I really didn’t need this Vacation Chair, which only made me want it worse than ever.  I did some soul searching trying to root out the psychological problem manifested by such a displaced attachment.  Was it my early vacation experiences in Grand Lake, Colorado, where my family would rent a cabin at Kickapoo Lodge every summer? Only now do I wonder about it’s name--was it really an Indian name or was it a literal translation for the sort of place that it was?

My mother would buy us salt water taffy to keep our jaws stuck together as our large family would bed down early each night in a rustic cabin of wall-to-wall beds, and we all had to keep quiet as my serious fisherman-father had to get up at the crack of dawn to go sit on the dock and begin his fishing marathon each day until the sun went down.  He did, after all, need some serious relaxation to compensate for being overworked the other fifty-one weeks of the year! It didn’t seem to matter that our teeth would rot from the sugar stuck to them, though we were mostly silenced, except for the sucking noises of chewing taffy and smacking our lips.  My mother was a brilliant woman, keeping us content, quiet and willing to go on family vacations—attached to the sweet dreams we all had of sticky salt water taffy!

Yes, these associations were all tied to the vacation chair and I continued to dream of vacationing at home, year round!  It was what I needed to relax and recover during a long term medical treatment. I knew that I could only be happy and cured if I had The Vacation Chair!

After getting home I combed Rutland, and then Poultney, and Granville, and then got on-line to look for chairs, taking in all chairs for sale in a three state region and then sent out pictures to my friends to see if they had friends wanting to sell any of their old chairs that resembled this Vacation Chair! I made a final appeal to my family for permission to make an offer on the original Vacation Chair.  After telling them what it would cost to buy a new chair and ottoman and then slip cover it, they began to see my reasoning…an old chair might be just the thing! Chairs are not cheap and we are!

I did contact the owners of the motel and they told me they would consider selling me the chair, but couldn’t do it until after the season was over.  I was temporarily content, and proceeded to sew as many pincushions as I could, with the idea of earning The Vacation Chair.  As luck and Maria Wulf’s Functional Art Show at Bedlam Farm’s Pig Barn Gallery would have it, my earnings would provide me with what I needed to make a solid offer on this chair. Yankees love to dicker and I was prepared!

The motel owners likely checked the cushions for stashed cash, like some treasure-hunter’s search  for cash hidden behind old pictures, as my offers grew larger with the dickering…Was I crazy? Most definitely—that was already a given!  I was crazily in-love with this chair!

At last I made an offer that I figured they couldn’t refuse, only to find out their reluctance wasn't to drive the price up, but rather that the chair had only been lent to them by a sister-in-law and when they asked for permission to sell the chair to me, the sister in law decided to use it in their newly bought cottage in Maine. Apparently it would have no furniture except this chair until moving there after retiring in a few years. I surmised after my lucrative offers, the sister-in-law hung onto it as a great retirement investment and imagined it worth growing if only invested a while longer?  So in the end I didn’t get the original Vacation Chair!

Determined to have a Vacation Chair, my search continued until one day, exhausted from shopping  and  physically hurting, I sat down in a chair to simply rest and found my Vacation Chair.  It was covered in a formal sort of brocade material that wouldn’t go with anything in my house but as my perpetual vacation had begun when I sat down, I asked for an inexpensive ottoman to prop up my weary feet. It was as strange as the chair, not overstuffed but a rattan one, but with a pillow on top, I had found what felt just right, just like Goldilocks!

 I imagined slip covering the unmatched set and I went home to clear a spot for it.  My family was delighted and likely relieved, thinking that I would get back to "normal" living and my obsession would be over!

I had an old homespun white bedspread that I temporarily used to covered the chair, but Zeldie, my started attacking and biting it as she did to other upholstered furniture.  We did note that she doesn't bite soft velour sorts of fabrics and so that eliminated the job of doing a slip cover.  My girls got me a soft plushy blanket to cover it, making it cat proof.

An old burgundy colored corduroy cushion was found in the basement to cover the top of the rattan ottoman tying it in, at least by color to the other accents in the room and soon visitors were commenting on the uniqueness of the ottoman and all said it shouldn't be covered. And that, my friends “is the rest of the rest story" of The Vacation Chair with its unmatched ottoman!

It is a special chair with a special pillow to tell its story.  Maria had only a couple of pictures and my comment that my ideal vacation is "tacky" and she captured the dreams of my past, present and future vacations. Cassie, our dog must sense the chair's special significance as she wouldn't let Hannah take a picture without her in it, though she didn't want to steal the show by facing the camera!

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Penny Rug Art Goes Political!

A couple of years ago one of my daughter’s friends ordered a special pincushion for his relative, an avid Democrat.  To be “fair and balanced” I created both a Democrat and Republican pincushion.  They are oversized, but I thought, in keeping with the over inflated exuberance  of many politicians.  I filled them with polyfil, or it would take a weight lifter to pick them up. I then created political ornaments, a shrunken minature of the pincushion design to fit tastefully (?) on a Christmas tree. Folkart reflects American life and what is more American than political campaigns, conventions and elections!

In truth these were not my first political creations.  As a young woman, I did a special quilted GOP patchwork elephant for my father, whose initials were GLC, to celebrate the country's Bicentennial year. He was an active Republican who served as a campaign manager for a state representative.  My father’s volunteer position was secure for many years and he loved caucus meetings and serving as a delegate to the state convention!

I just wanted to share that Americana Folkart knows no limits.  In keeping with a promise I made to my daughter, Hannah, I am sparing my blog from my political views, though I truly love and respect our freedom to make choices about who is going to lead us.

Like all other areas of life, politics is not too sacred to enjoy its’ humor and if you enjoy dry New England humor, don’t miss Jon Katz’s writing, New Member: Bedlam Farm Men’s Support Group in his Farm Journal on August 24, 2012.  ( He reports on the emergency meeting held where members of this group discussed the issue of the recent concern regarding who should make decisions for women.  Strut, the rooster and Simon, the donkey along with the other members of Jon’s support group had much to say!  Don’t miss the wonderful fun Jon has in reporting their views! Jon has become one of my favorite authors, and his blog is refreshing and fun, and a great escape from tedious and mundane life in the fast lane!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Rest of the Story...

In my blog After the East Poultney Historical Day I told you about Maria Wulf and the beautiful free-motion quilted pillow she made for me.  I told you to read my pillow and that any additional story I would tell about it would likely be redundant, but I later realized that I may not have been entirely honest with myself when I wrote that. Paul Harvey would have added “the rest of the story”.

I had told Maria that I needed a pillow for what has become known as my Vacation Chair and her artwork was more telling than I knew. Her pillow tells the story, but as with most stories, there is another story behind the story and so I will now tell “the rest of the story”...

You see my husband and two young adult daughters and I decided to take a vacation last summer to one of our favorite locations, Rye Beach in New Hampshire.  Always being bargain hunters, even for our vacations, we scheduled our vacation during the pre-beach season, as we could save on lodging that way.  Even with discounted rates, we could only afford to go for a few days.

  We had scouted the area for something on the beach.  I had grown tired of our vacation lodging being far from our destinations.  I wanted an “out-of-the-car true vacation” and a chance to really relax! We found that if we picked a motel across the street from the beach, the rates were less than if we were directly on the beach (location is everything as they say!). After browsing the motel strip close to Rye Beach, we settled upon what appeared to be a motel that was likely modern in the early 50’s and booked our reservations.  Our choice provided us with two bedrooms, a kitchen, complete with table and chairs and a living room and was in our price range—cheap!

We packed our groceries and “kids” in two cars, as our "adult" children are now "part alien" and prefer to travel with their own music, rolled down windows, sunflower seed spitting contests and the like, and besides they would then have their own wheels after arriving, and could take in what my husband and I didn’t care to, and leave us to a bit more peace or so I thought?

Our ideal vacation was planned in great detail: walks and seashell hunting on the beach; one seafood meal out; simple meals prepared in our fully furnished kitchenette, trimming costs where we could; a short car trip into Portsmouth to shop, ending with a little ride further up the coast into Maine to get Dairy Queen ice-cream; and a boardwalk-walk just down the road a ways to buy taffy and popcorn. Yes, vacations are about taking a vacation from dieting to be sure!

We even packed a tiny sunscreen tent for me, so along with all the babes (or should that read babies?) at the beach, I would be out of the direct rays of the sun as mandated by my present medical treatment.  I even packed my crocheting, as relaxing is difficult for me without something to do with my hands, and I had yet to learn how to crochet flowers. Even on vacation I am anal enough to have goals!

Upon arriving we checked in and proceeded to our unit in this quaint modern strip motel, but were totally unprepared for what awaited us. The unit was unique as we surmised that each unit was, for there could not possibly be another unit furnished just like the one we rented. Except for the bathroom, with its original pink bathtub and tiny, pink cabinet-free-standing porcelain sink, the entire apartment had been redone…and it appeared that almost all the décor had been purchased from the remains of a TJ Maxx or Tuesday Morning outlet: rather odd things that make you laugh and wonder who would decorate with them.
On the kitchen table was an avocado base porcelain lamp that matched only the color of the leaves in the brightly colored floral, plasticized and practical, wipe-able tablecloth. In the girls bedroom, the two single beds were covered with bright pink and orange gaudy modern bedspread quilts and on the wall hung mirrors with seashell frames. The kitchenette was fully furnished with unmatched dishes of various name brands.

My very favorite part of the entire unit was the chair in the living room.  It was an old soft oversized chair, complete with ottoman.  Being the beginning of the season, its slipcovers were freshly washed, nicely patched, off-white, soft canvas.  There was a little glass topped circular end table that was painted coral-orange and supported an oversized porcelain based lamp of the same color with an off-white shade and above the chair hung a one-of-a-kind truly unique mirror.  Only the picture will do it justice.  Being a lover of Kitsch Art, I had truly arrived in my utopian heaven, a home-away-from- home sort of déjà-vue experience!

The sofa was huge and wrapped around the other end of the room and the TV was situated so only those on the sofa could watch. The window was covered with an unbleached- muslin-colored heavy weight drapery fabric, of such quality that you knew that deep down, this apartment was truly owned by people who had taste and comfort in mind. Being a sewer and book lover,  meant, in my mind, that the chair was for me (complete with an empty shelf  next to it for my book, journal and crocheting and the rest of my family could all fit on this huge wrap around wide and cushy sofa and content themselves with TV programming into the night.

 I believe that you have enough of the details to give you a picture of our lodging, and expectations of this trip, except to add that despite the pink and maroon tiling in the bathroom, the owner had been careful to pick a bright multicolored up-beat, floral shower curtain, and towels that matched only the colors in the shower curtain and none in the tile or pink porcelain fixtures.  Its mirror was an old style medicine cabinet with bare Hollywood light bulbs down each side, to perhaps accommodate aspirin, sun lotion and Alka-seltzer that might be needed during such an excursion? But no, I had come to vacation and not sport any headaches!  There you have it, the special motel of my undreamt dreams!

It didn’t take long for me to picture living here full time and leaving all that I am attached to behind, like shaking off the dust of my old life and entering a new sort of simple but pleasurable convent.  I felt free, sort of…except for my sudden attachment to this chair and ottoman.  I soon called it The Vacation Chair and planted myself in it.  I was content and quickly encouraged my family to leave me to rest, so I could take in our one seafood-dinner out, fully rested in a few hours! I didn’t tell them that I really needed more time to bond with this chair!  Already I had dashed the detailed plans for the rest of our vacation, as I had found the perfect Vacation Chair and wanted to live in it.

I hadn’t realized that “the rest of the story” would be so long and so I will continue it into my next blog…but like Paul Harvey’s stories, you must read the ending, even if you skip the middle!

Kool-aid anyone?

Yes, my friends, it can mean only one thing. Fabric dying into the night, the house still smells fruity. Stay tuned for the results

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The History of Penny Rugs

Originally penny rugs were made from scraps of dark wool fabric or felt from used clothes and hats and were used as mats to clear mud and dirt off shoes.  They were named penny rugs as they were made of three different sized circular medallions layered on top of each other.  The top medallion was the size of a penny, though in the 1800’s pennies were larger than they are now.  Sometimes pennies were actually sewn into them to help weight them down and make them lay flat.

They were backed with burlap, heavy canvas, or recycled pants’ materials.  When a circle of wool on the rug wore out, it was replaced with another circle. These rugs were embellished with colorful wool yarns that were hand dyed using vegetable dyes.  Blanket stitches were sewn around each circular medallion, which added strength and durability, making them quite functional.

Penny rugs were strong enough to withstand being beaten with a rug beater to remove mud and dirt. Washing them was done infrequently, by hand in a tub, usually outside and then hung out to dry in the shade to prevent sun fading.

Eventually penny rugs evolved into a traditional and colorful folk art. Women used their remnants and scraps of wool from making clothes, or “turned” wool from used clothes to make their penny rugs. They would use bits of material too small to be used for strips for hooked rugs.

Designs evolved from the simple circular medallions into colorful works of art with primitive appliquéd patterns of various animals, stars, hearts, flowers and other shapes. Personal and elaborate stories were communicated through them using designs that included people, their homes, various scenes and landscapes, thus transforming their scraps into wonderful works of art and story with elaborate stitching.

Decorative edging also became part of the art.  Scalloped edges or tabs cut in the shape of teardrops or tongues were added and many of these were decorated with appliquéd circles of wool using colorful blanket stitching.

Penny rugs have recently made a “comeback” and are used to cover beds for warmth and decoration; or to decorate table and mantel tops; decorative and colorful pillows; wall hangings or pictures or throws for the backs of sofas.  Variations of penny rug art have moved into quilt making as well, and almost every quilt show will have at least one wool penny rug style sampler.  They are both a delight to see as well as to create and sew!

Penny rugs should be kept out of direct sunlight as much as possible to avoid sun fading.  When not being used they should be rolled up, right side out, not folded as the fold may discolor and wear. Penny rugs may best be kept wrapped in a clean sheet to store them and NOT be stored in an airtight bag which can cause dry rot. It is now recommended that they be washed as little as possible and only spot cleaned with a damp sponge. If washed, use cool water and woolite and rinse well and lay flat to dry. (I like to use tape rollers on mine to remove dust and lint.)

Information compiled and summarized by Jane McMillen using the following references:
1) “Rug Hooking Tips/FAQ’s”
2) “Button Rugs have their roots dating back to the early 1800’s when they were called Penny Rugs.”
3) “Old Time Rugs—Penny Rugs, Penny Rug Patterns”
4) “The History of the Penny Rug Article 1” History-of-the-Penny-Rug—Article-1&id=1641406
5) “History of a Penny Rug by Rag-a-Muffin Collectibles
6)“Penny rug”

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

After the East Poultney Historical Day

Relief, the sale is over!  I was concerned about the heat and the humidity, being a creature of air conditioning this summer.  I survived it well, thanks to the shade tree they carefully selected for me in back of our tent location.  Our new set up worked well, giving more space to our customers.  Lucky for me I could sit in back of the tent where it was cool, and Hannah, my daughter just inside the tent with the tent walls rolled back for the morning.  We enjoy our contact with customers and friends, a bit of a reunion for us, and for me add to it the excitement of getting out of the house for a whole day and taking in all the new creations of our friends!

We returned home early, weary and a bit wet after being rained out in the afternoon. Seventy-five pounds of tree ripened peaches greeted us. Their sweetness was divine, and worked well to revive us, though I went to bed early, so I could be up and ready for canning in the morning.  “No rest for the wicked”, my mother used to say, and I know that I must fall into that category as no matter how I try, my energy doesn’t seem to go far enough to do all that I want to do.  Perhaps it is my greed for living life to the fullest that is my problem!

Our canning was over in about four hours, thanks to the “many hands making our work light”.  Hannah was in charge, dropping our peaches into boiling water. Then after plunging them into ice water, I took over, popping their skins. Delighted to see that their beautiful blush remained, I placed them into another bowl laced with lemon juice until they were sliced by my husband. Back into their lemon water bath, the slices remained until Hannah packed them into jars and poured hot syrup over them, and then finished them off with a water bath canning process.  Hannah and I love to can, or perhaps that should read that we love the idea of putting up beautiful fruit to be enjoyed all through the year (39 quarts). Perhaps we are part squirrel?

Our favorite peach recipe has been a fruit crisp.  Hannah pours the light syrup from the canned peaches over the other frozen unsweetened fruit that she combines with our peaches; sometimes strawberries, sometimes rhubarb, or blueberries, adding their tartness to her crisp.  A mixture of sugar, oatmeal, butter and flour is then added to the top.  There is occasionally an extra dish to have for breakfast in the morning!  Aren’t fruit crisps or pies really breakfast food? And to think of the hours I spend planning my weight loss diets! The point?

Hannah doesn’t tell us, but she has frozen a tray of sliced peaches to make into homemade peach ice cream.  What is a dieter to do? Certainly, I am not to forego this extra treat!

Our Little House is now suffering from our wares spread about in the basement and dining room, drying out from the extra humidity from our day out.  Though it poured rain in the afternoon, all but our tent and bunting stayed dry. But our quick departure means a bit of reorganizing before putting our wares on the shelf and no matter how I try, I am not fast enough to keep up with getting everything done.

No, after a sale it is time to sit in my Vacation Chair, made beautiful by its recent addition of a Vacation Chair Pillow made by my friend and fellow artist, Maria Wulf.  We were so blessed to have her and Jon make it to our show in the nick of time, as the rain shortened our day.

It was a planned rendezvous where Maria and I were to trade our wares.  I so admire her artistic free motion-quilted pillows, among other things.  They are story pillows, and she took my Vacation Chair Story and beautifully quilted it into my pillow.    I will let you read this pillow yourself, before I go on to tell you the story of my Vacation Chair.  In fact, the future telling of my story will likely be redundant, for her pillow tells it all!  Thank you Maria, I love it!

Do visit Maria on line at and be sure to meander through her blogs! You are in for a treat, and don’t miss her husband’s blog at  Jon Katz is a New York Times bestselling author and you will soon prefer reading his daily blog news each day, to the news of our wild and wicked world.

Jon’s news makes me reflect on what is really important in my life’s journey. I find his readings gentle and soothing to my soul.  It is so delightful to discover another favorite author, and I look forward to packing in more of his books for my winter reading feast and getting better acquainted with his thoughts!  I am only sorry that I have not discovered his works years earlier!

Both Jon and Maria are lovely and kind folk that will touch your heart as they have touched mine. Their rural country life style combined with their tender love of their animals and neighbors will warm you and make you feel secure, much like Fred Rogers did when he would put on his sneakers and sweater.  Jon welcomes you to his and Maria’s farm and openly and candidly shares his experiences and struggles and validates all that it means to be a truly loving human being.

Their move to their new and smaller farm right down the road is going to make for more delightful reading to be sure! I am glad that my daughter didn’t see Maria’s contest to win the terrifying shower curtain. Like Maria, I prefer something a little more friendly to greet me in the night, like my yellow ducks or rose theme bathrooms.  I am enjoying their sharing of their new “old” home decorating experiences!  It calls to mind us re-doing our rented farmhouse of years ago, combining our furnishings with the built in history of an old farm house! We are eager to pay them a visit after they get settled, and on-line, Jon and Maria will welcome us all to their new location!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Your Invited! East Poultney Historical Day - August 11th

Hello Friends! I apologize for my absence, but we have been scrambling to get ready for our first official show of the season! We will be at the East Poultney Historical Day, this Saturday,  Aug 11th  (9-4).

We have been working fast and furiously to create a new booth display allowing more air flow in our booth (likely needed in this summer heat) and many new items that we think you will enjoy!!  Do come and celebrate with us!!  It is a lovely day that includes 40-50 vendors with antiques, collectibles, handmade crafts, folk art, food, flowers, museum exhibits, craft demos, lectures, readings, stories, singing, musicians and kids games and crafts.  The day always closes with a traditional church supper!!


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DIY: Bedside Table Overhaul {with D-C-Fix}

We have an IKEA bedroom set because a) it’s affordable and we bought it when we first got married and b) our bedroom hasn’t made the priorities list as of yet. This is why tackling upgrades to our bedroom in the form of a bedside table overhaul was so needed. Call it an IKEA hack if you will, this little project took me all of 40 minutes from start to finish. I covered the table top with the marble self-adhesive film by D-C-Fix and swapped out the drawer handles with those that I found at Michaels Crafts. D-C-FIX Website // Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // Pinterest The bedside tables are […]

DIY: Rustic Placemats

Remember when I told you I wasn’t done with D-C-Fix products? Well I’m not, it’s versatility is to blame, whomever said it was only for your windows, floors and furniture was wrong. I take that only as a suggestion, as for me the skies the limits when it comes to do-it-yourself projects, pinterest is a mere springboard. Feeling inspired to make something with a cabin chic vibe for our home, I came up with these placemats. You must’of seen my sneak peek last week on Instagram? What a jerky move ‘eh? Well the wait is over, time to start eating cleaner, and I don’t mean a sugarless diet […]

So what started off as extra storage under the stairs has beautifully changed into a quaint place I will soon be calling home. Turning the space under the stairs into a den was a no-brainer to me, but it had some convincing of others. Yes the space is small, this I know, but it’s all I need really. A quiet place I can be with my thoughts to produce some honest, fun, and inspirational content from-the-heart for Little Miss Mama. This is where all the magic happens people, where I could easily spend 24 hours of my day but really only get about 3 to 4 all broken […]

DIY :: affordable art

Art isn’t cheap, end of story. As some of you know {here} we  purchased Sofia a “real” bed a few weekends ago; along with this came a bedroom haul and of course decor concepts running my thoughts 24/7. Sofia made it easy for me really, she chose an adorable duvet cover from ikea with dressed-up animals doing human-like activities; from fishing to picking apples to riding a train and even gardening. I really had the most adorable concept to work with. I knew we were eventually going to need something for her walls as they were bare, but it wasn’t until Sammy mentioned something that I knew it […]

DIY: Mirrored Vase

Rather simple to make,  yet leaves an impression on anyone that catches its shimmer as they pass by. One of my favorite DIY’s to date, this little mirrored vase leaves me feeling all fancy inside. Looks like it may have cost me a small fortune, yet in actuality it was a mere $6 and about 20 minutes of me time.  Light reflects so brilliantly off this wee little vase it’s just my absolute favorite piece going right now. Until I can get my hands on some more mirrored squares and fanci-fy something else with a flat surface. Until then, this little mirrored vase has my heart. MATERIALS […]


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Sunday, 3 April 2011

Nails: Zebra print and pink

Hi All!

I got my nails did by Dawn again and here's what I had....

I just love me some ghetto-fabulous nail art these days!

as always ♥ Carol said...

I'm loving the Zebra print! looks fab my nails look simple next to yours lol

as always ♥, Carol

Tiffany said...

i like your dress!! btw your blog background is tooo cute :)


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02 March 2015

Mist Of Midnight by Sandra Byrd, Book review

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  • Series: The Daughters of Hampshire
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Howard Books (March 10, 2015)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1476717869
  • Also available in KINDLE format

In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.

Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her...and highly suspicious. Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca's name, but her home and incomes.

That pretender died within months of her arrival; the servant fled to London as the young woman was hastily buried at midnight. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. Her home and her father's investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over. Against her best intentions, Rebecca begins to fall in love with Luke, but she is forced to question his motives—does he love her or does he just want Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, will she suffer a similar fate as the first “Rebecca”?

A captivating Gothic love story set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless.

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My thoughts:

From the first chapter Sandra Byrd grasps your attention with a mysterious plot set in Victorian England. Mist of Midnight is everything you seek in a good historical romance novel! Entertaining, intriguing and filled with details about life in the Nineteen Century. But it is her main protagonist which pulls at your heart with her stoic approach to a disturbing welcome upon her arrival on English soil. Rebecca is a survivor of the Indian mutiny and thought to find a refuge in a land she barely remembers.

Upon learning an impostor arrived with her Indian maid the previous year claiming to be her, Rebecca straightens her back, lifts her head and forges ahead. Someone must remember her gentle mother or perhaps herself as a child when she last visited Headbourne House and vouch for her character?

Whilst thoroughly confused but determined to find out what happened to the deceased impostor, said to have been hastily buried, Rebecca finds herself strangely attracted to Captain Whitfield, now in residence in her childhood home.

Find out for yourself later this month what happens to Rebecca and her claim!
Good suspense, intelligent plot and with just the right amount of historical details to make it a pleasant read!

4 stars!

Meet the Author:

After earning her first rejection at the age of thirteen, bestselling author Sandra Byrd has now published more than forty books.
A life-long lover of Victorian Gothic romances, Sandra’s new series, Daughters of Hampshire, weaves elements of that mystical, traditional genre with inspirational and literary threads. Mist of Midnight, the series’ first book, debuts in March, 2015.

For more information visit her website (HERE)

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this ARC courtesy of CBA as part of the book promotion. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC 16 CFR, Part 255 'Guides concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. I was not asked to write a positive review and all opinions expressed are entirely my own.

  1. Thank you, Noelle! I so appreciate your time and very thoughtful review!

    1. Very nice to see you here Sandra! Thank you for the opportunity and looking forward to read the rest of the series!
      God bless,

  2. I like dark gothic dramas with love twists.

    1. Don't miss it Merle and le me know what you think!
      All the best,

  3. I've just requested this one from Edelweiss after reading your review. Hope I will get it!

I love to share dreams and always enjoy meeting kindred spirits!
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Monday, February 27, 2006

"Did you get that picture I emailed you?"

"Isn't it cute?"

In this business, you've got to keep one finger on the pulse of mass society, and another finger on the "clear cache and history" button. The remaining seven (or however many) can just fuck around and do whatever.

Finger One's mission is a lot easier now that I've discovered FlatFeetPete's YahooTracker, a utility that indentifies, tracks and graphs the most-emailed photos off Yahoo News. Kittens, dogs in clothes, misery, T n' A... and noble American eagles (never forget).

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What has God given you to use for His kingdom? This week, our guest speaker Pastor Marty Edwards shares with us how his Harley Davidson was used by God to build His kingdom, and how he created Black Sheep, a motorcycle ministry that has reached thousands of people throughout the US and several other countries. What has God given you that He wants to use for His kingdom?
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Did you know that Living Spring is part of a large family of churches in the Free Methodist denomination? This Summer we wil be featuring various guest speakers from some of our Southern California FM sister churches as a way to bring in different perspectives and voices from within our extended church body. Living Spring is excited to host these pastors and teachers, we hope you can join us for all 13 weeks!

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LLSC travel arrangements for Hampden

llscThe Livi Lions SC will be picking up at the usual places in and around Livingston before heading to the game in Glasgow, with the pick-up times as follows:

Please note the slightly earlier departure times than normal due to expected delays on the M8 and other football traffic.

  • The Cawburn (Pumpherston) 12.20pm
  • The Black Bull (Mid Calder) 12.25pm
  • Crofthead Farm (Dedridge) 12.30pm
  • Almondvale (Stadium Bar) 12.40pm
  • The Saltire (Carmondean) 12.45pm

Fares: £8 for all fans. Exact change much appreciated!

All Livi supporters and new travellers welcome!

To book your seat, please Click here

Booking conditions:

  • The Livi Lions SC takes bookings for the coaches it organises strictly on a ‘FIRST COME FIRST SERVED’ basis. This applies to both members and non-members.
  • Please don’t assume that you are booked on a coach unless your request for a seat has been confirmed and your name is listed.
  • If a seat is booked then please consider it paid for, and for whatever reason if that seat is not used (left empty), the person who booked the seat will be liable to pay the full adult standard rate for that journey.
  • All bookings remain valid for the re-arranged date if any game is postponed, abandoned or called off for whatever reason
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