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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #64

This weeks PB Challenge# 64 is Christmas. Perfect since I'm working on Christmas cards.I used more Heidi Grace shimmer paper a new PB stamp and Flower Soft for the scarf.Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by-Tania

Monday, August 24, 2009

D&D Wedding Card

Just got back from a great weekend of celebrating our niece's wedding near 100 Mile House. She got married on her dad's Ranch everything was outdoors and lovely.It was a bit cold camping but had a great time visiting with family. I did scan the card before I left so here it is. Thanks for stopping by have a great week.-Tania

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Christmas Card #3

For my 3rd card of the season I thought I would have another try at a card that was not made with blue, I tend to do a lot of blue Christmas cards. I like the cheery colours on this one. I posted this a little early this week as I'm off to a wedding this weekend. Hope everyone has a good weekend, thanks for stopping by-Tania

Monday, August 17, 2009

Christmas Card #2

I love this Heidi grace Flocked Shimmer Paper So I kept the card really simple so it showed off the paper. Thought the PB mouse would look cute used here.Thanks for visiting have a great week -Tania

Friday, August 14, 2009

First Christmas Card of the Year

Well its that time of year again. Time to start work on the Christmas cards that will be kitted for retreats and crazy cropper events. This is the first of what will be many many more probably mostly Penny Black cards. Who could resist with all the new releases they've come up with for this year, certainly not me (Sorry I'm hopelessly addicted). This is also a magic card I swear the day I started work on it the weather started to cool off a nice change from our 37C weather of the last few weeks. Will help the many fires burning out of control in this area fizzel out.-Thanks for stopping by-Tania

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #61

Wow, I actually managed to fit in a challenge this morning! This is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge #61. They have an amazing sponser this week 123 Stitch is donating the prize, talk about great motivation. They have so many Penny Black stamps on their site that I've never been able to find before! I'm in love LOL. Make sure you check out their site.Thanks for stopping by-Tania

Monday, August 3, 2009

For You

A Little something new that I've had the paper for forever but didn't have the whole idea for until this morning. I can't believe that summer is half over already, I've had a great long weekend With my brother coming for a visit so we went to the beach yesterday, was so much cooler there. Might have to go again today!Thanks for visiting-Tania


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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Duval County should follow Pinellas's lead and then some

From the Orlando Sentinel, by By Rebecca Catalanello

Pinellas County school superintendent John Stewart unveiled a plan this week to slim down the ratio of administrators to employees.

If he gets his way, the district could drop from 121 top-level administrators to 61, bringing the district from being the second most top-heavy among eight large Florida districts to the sixth.

That may sound like a huge difference, but much of the plan depends on changing job classifications.

Stewart said all this is part of a larger effort to make sure the district is operating not only more cost-effectively, but more efficiently.

"We must be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars," Stewart said during a meeting with the Tampa Bay Times editorial board Wednesday. "And that doesn't always mean we're going to cut a lot of positions and save a lot of money. We're going to realign what we're doing and make things more productive."

Stewart began tackling a major reorganization at the top reaches of the school district in February following the release of an audit that found Pinellas schools are suffering under the weight of a bloated administration, poor communication and a culture of competition, confusion and conflict.

The Florida Association of District School Superintendents report said that Pinellas has 112 more total administrators than Polk, the district with the most similar student population, and had a higher ratio of administrators to employees than five of seven comparative districts.

Under Stewart's plan, which he shared Tuesday with the School Board, he predicts lowering the ratio of district administrators from 1.27 percent to .45 percent by eliminating five or six top-level positions and reclassifying at least another 48 jobs.

Those 48 positions — which include 22 curriculum supervisors areas such as math, language and science — go from being called "administrators" to being called "professional/technical/supervisory" employees.

And Ron Ciranna, assistant superintendent of Human Resources, said these employees will move to a different pay scale. And though their reclassifications could result in a few employees seeing pay reductions, Ciranna said that would be rare.

Another half-dozen positions are still "in limbo," Ciranna said. According to a document shared with School Board members Tuesday, those six positions have been pulled from the organizational chart, but leaders haven't yet determined what should happen to their jobs. These include the middle school director position held by Stephanie Joyner, which some board members said they would not support eliminating.

Also in question is a controversial change in the district's legal department which would make one of three attorneys directly answerable to the superintendent. Stewart emphasized the plan is still "a work in progress," but he expects to bring his final recommendations to the board for an April 24 vote.

Rebecca Catalanello can be reached at (727) 893-8707 or

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

So the new Miss Jamaica Universe is a bonified Rastafarian! (sorry couldn't find a decent link to the story)

Hey I ain't no rasta and wont pretend to be an expert but ummm are rastas allowed to parade on stage in swimwear? I'm just asking a question don't crucify me now.

No I'm not trying to keep a good woman down or saying that the Empress dem not smart or beautiful enough to win competition. Its just I just never thought of the Empress dem as beauty show contestants showing off their bodies like that, that's all. Rasta women always come off as the earthy type not the flamboyant beauty show type. I'm just kind of curious to the authentic rasta credentials of this yout. Yes she has dreads but same way ya doan have fe dread to be rasta isn't the opposite true?

Anyway like I say I just asking questions of the Idren dem.

Plus at least she ain't like Miss Jamaica World an get pregnant and have to give up the crown. Actually I kind of like that article I link above to the pregnant Miss Jamaica. The way they make it seem as if the girl do so wrong by getting pregnant. Is like they think beauty queen supposed to be a nun. Ya don't see nun in beauty pageant and ya don't see beauty queen in evening gown at convent. Yet dem play dem talking about "Unfortunately, Miss Lawrence has made an error of judgement and is now facing up to the consequences" and "her actions could potentially harm the tradition that is the Miss Jamaica World pageant and past and future winners. I know that she intends to do all within her powers to mitigate this potential harm"

It ain't like the girl is a terrorist or a murderer she just get pregnant. She ain't the first pretty girl nor the last one to do that. Next they will be telling me all beauty queens are pure and unspoilt. Chupse!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

There is this old lady who takes the same bus as me sometimes in the morning. She's old and she has some type of disability and she gets on near the end of the route, close to the station.

She always gets one of the seats up front, at least from what I've seen when I've been on the bus, because well I guess folks on my route are actually courteous about the whole courtesy seating business.

The thing is as I've sat near the back and watched, on every occasion when this lady gets on the bus she gets on with some sort of grouse. Its not like folk remain seated and refuse her a seat but as soon as she gets on she starts carrying on, sometimes with profanities about why she deserves a seat and why younger people shouldn't be sitting in the front of the bus. From my vantage point I find the whole thing rather annoying actually and its not even directed at me.

I could see if big hardback, can stand up, people were depriving her of a seat but she is so well known on this route now that all people have to do is see her at the bus stop and they'll start moving from her preferred seating. Yet she continues to make a nuisance of herself when she gets on the bus tongue lashing those who actually got up to make way for her all the way to the station.

Yes I'm sure she's contributed to the city and she's old and we need to be nice to her but shut the bleep up would ya. We know you need a seat, drawing additional attention to yourself and making folk in the front feel uncomfortable helps no one.

I hadn't seen her for quite a while until this morning and there she was back at it again.

To be continued.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Who's your daddy?

What is this gal want gi me jacket!

Boy I not even sure how to deal with this article. I never see nuttin so yet!

Anyway for those who wont check the link apparently a couple, he's white, she's Hispanic who recently gave birth to a daughter is suing the fertility clinic they used because the baby's skin is too dark. Apparently it seems the clinic messed up on the insemination and used sperm from someone of another ethnicity and race. In other words it sound like somebody screw up and they end up with a black chile!

But I want to know why dem complaining? They ain't see black children is all the rage now? They ain't notice that Madonna and Angelina Jolie going all the way to far off places like Africa just to have the privilege of adopting black children? They shouldn't be complaining they should be celebrating! "Hallelujah, praise de lord, boy we hit the jackpot! We get a black chile and we didn't have to go all the way to Africa for her."

In all seriousness though I understand their complaint cause they went in thinking they were going to get a child that was biologically a combination of both partners but ended up with one that was not. That's got to be a bit disturbing especially for daddy.

But still what does this suit really prove and I really don't dig the statement that said "the Andrewses complain that they have been forced to raise a child who is "not even the same race, nationality, color ... as they are." How ya mean forced to raise the child? Why at least I would figure the mother couldn't be so stupid to be involved in this stupid talk cause she ain't carry the child in her stomach for 9 months? It ain't fully her child regardless of color? The child nationality, color and race ain't partially hers? She acting like them inject a alien life form in she or something. Chupse!

And then there was this gem from the parents "While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake each and every time we look at her; it is simply impossible to ignore,'' Wha cudear they nuff to give the chile an inferiority complex.

Look I know wunnah trying to get lil money from the clinic but use some nicer wording in the legal documents nuh man.

And how the hell do you explain this to the child when she's older? Yea ummm we were forced to take care of you. You were a little black unwanted child and we sued the clinic cause you actually were a mistake. We were aiming for a nice little blond or brunette and ended up with you a lil nappy headed negro child.

Yea is only me seeing years of therapy in that child's future?

Personally I feel the mother get it on with a brother and now pretending that the chile is the husband's. Wouldn't be the first or last time something so happen. But she could have told the man that the chile strike back to some old, old grand or great grand parent that was mixed with black or something instead a blaming the fertility clinic.

And as for the father he getting on like he is the first man that get a chile that ain't look like him? He never hear bout mommy's baby father's maybe. Wha my chile doan look me an I can't sue nuhbody. Chupse! :-)

Anyway all I can say is poor chile.

p:s new Cricket World Cup blog for those interested. Glorious Uncertainties. Check it out.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Spring again

just like that Biz Markie song. Or at least it will be by tomorrow.

Yep Spring again. Time for all the crazies to emerge from their winter slumber. I always find that one of the funnier things about spring in Toronto. Its always like every crazy person was in hibernation and then suddenly they all wake up and come out. Oh well.

Hopefully it will at least feel like spring as well. So far for the past couple of weeks we've been having our ups and downs in temperatures, mostly downs. Tomorrow, the first day of spring it is/was supposed to be 14 degrees Celsius. So why is it that today was -8? Is temperature changes like that that have everybody on the streets sniffling and coughing.

Actually one thing I've noticed about Toronto weather especially of late is that the transitions between seasons are not at all very gradual. everything just occurs suddenly. One day its -8 the next its +14 the next its +25 in spring and in the fall one day its +10 the next day its -6. no wonder all sorts of flu and cold and bugs duz be stirring around this place.

Oh well!

Anyway today Cranky post about how she attracting nuff attention from the opposite sex (she has the kavorka so they say) and someone said maybe its because of spring. Well I am here to confess that I too have been attracting some attention. Yes is true! Don't look so shocked. I still may have it going on. Not sure what it is but it might be going on.

Anyhow I was walking to the subway this evening and there were these two shapely sistas in front of me on my way up the street. One of them looked back and saw me and then with a twinkle in her eye said something to the other one who promptly looked back at me and smiled. Ok so I don't know if she had a twinkle in her eye or not but I telling ya she say something to the other one and then the other one look back and smile at me. Yeaaah baby!

Woo hoo, I still have it, whatever it is, lol.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Its just a game

Or is it?

I kind of wondered about that today after reading that Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer died in Jamaica this morning. One can only speculate as to what really happened until official statements are made but you've got to wonder.

Pakistan one of the supposed stronger teams in world cricket go down on St. Patrick's day (Saturday) to the Irish in a shocker. Knocked out of the Super 8's barely a couple of days into the Cricket World Cup tournament. Oh man! Who, even if you were Irish, would have imagined that outcome?

The first thing that popped into my head yesterday whilst following the games online as Pakistan lost to Ireland and India another powerhouse team lost to lowly Bangladesh was wow cricket truly is a game of glorious uncertainties as its often billed. The second thing that popped into my head was I really feel sorry for those Pakistani and Indian players and coaches. I mean us folks in/from the Caribbean take our cricket seriously but no way near as fanatical as those from the sub-continent. I think the only thing that can compare to their zeal for cricket is the South American passion for futbol.

Yep, I was thinking, those players may be in some trouble at home. Heads will roll and knowing of some of the previous reactions by fans when those teams have lost games well I figured I wouldn't want to be any of those players or their families right about now. Indeed reading the news today where one player's home was attacked in India and there were protests in Pakistan calling for the arrest or death of the coach and captain I just wasn't really that surprised by the reactions. Yea those reactions are a bit over the top but similar have happened before.

Still I thought yea its all just a game isn't it? Its just some stupid fans really don't get that point and realize that its really not about life and death.

But in this case with coach Bob Woolmer it looks like it was about life and death. His death. I mean I can't say definitively that it was the stress of losing and seeing his team knocked out of the competition, or the thoughts of facing the music back in Pakistan that killed him but on first glance that would seem to be the case. One day he's a loses a game, the next he loses his life. Life... and death sure are funny ain't they. Puts a lot of stuff in perspective. When you lose a game you always have a chance to bounce back somehow although it may take some time. However when you lose you life? Well ain't no real bouncing back from that one I suppose.

Its all fun and games until someone gets hurt they say. Well someone did get hurt, hurt so much they died so have the fun and games stopped?

Woolmer was a coach so sports was his job and maybe we can chalk this up to job stress. Wouldn't be the first chap to die from that nor will he be the last. Still for all the money and prestige and endorsements and pride involved we still just think of sports as just sports. Its supposed to be intense but not that intense that you die. Its still supposed to be about fun. You give your all on the field and in your preparation to be on the field but its still just a game isn't it? We don't think too much about the folks who take it that much to heart. The folks who lose sleep and weight, and whose blood pressure rises or whose health suffers from sports do we.

I still say its all a game but damn if a game, its results and its repercussions don't put life in perspective.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

March Madness

What can I say this March is a great month for sports.

Not that March isn't usually a great month for sports but this March is made even better by the Cricket World Cup. Look! West Indies won yesterday over Pakistan so forgive me for being slightly happy for a moment. Tomorrow I can get back to cussing the islands for wasting money on this event and robbing patrons with outrageous prices at the concession stands but today........

Well today I'm trying to follow Australia vs Scotland and Kenya vs Canada. Yea not the stuff of sporting legends but every game counts towards the big picture. Thank God for the Internet which makes it possible for me to get ball by ball scores and even radio coverage and sometimes video feeds of the matches. I still remember back in the days, before the Internet, having to call home or use that Toronto Star phone service (Can't remember the name. Was it Star Phone?) which gave you match updates all at its own pace just to find out how my team was doing.

Anyway besides cricket the other great thing about every March is the NCAA March Madness tournament. To paraphrase Dick Vitale or in the immortal words of Austin Powers. Yeaaaaa baby!

You don't understand my love of March Madness do you? How often to you get to watch 32 basketball games in two days or any sporting event where in every game played each team is literally playing for their tournament life? Its win or get the bleep outta Dodge. Yea the NBA is cool especially a nice game 7 of a playoff series but March Madness that starts off with like 32 game 7's in 2 days. Now that's fantastic!

I usually take the first two days of March madness off. Why? Well its just an exceptional time of year and a great time to veg out. You don't understand my fanaticism do you? Why I'm still trying to plan how I'm going to get a decent lunch tomorrow and not miss any games from my couch.

I mean March Madness just sucks me in. This is the time of the year where I just tell people I'm ignoring them; family, friends, children it don't matter. Don't mess with my March Madness focus.

From the time the brackets are announced I'm on it. Scouring the Internet for info, entering as many free pools as I can find (the days of putting money on this thing are long gone with my College days), chatting with anyone who may have actually watched more of the season unfold than the annual Duke, UNC game and thereby is ahead of me in terms of actual knowledge of what to except from the selected teams.

Trying to answer questions like whats the record of the top ranked teams? Who are the Cinderella teams? How many number 5s will be beaten by number 12s this year? Should I choose Number 9s over Number 8s? Which lower seeded player has the most NBA ready player? Where are those cursed Duke blue bas...... ummmm I mean devils ranked? Who or where exactly are Gongaza, Creighton, Holy Cross, Xavier, Old Dominion and George Washington?

And yes it is imperative that I watch as much of the games as possible. Its intense, its dramatic, its heartbreaking, its exhilarating, its big man crying over sports whether they win or lose, its 40 minutes of pure action down to the last second.

Plus how else can I, a few months hence, objectively sit and cuss NBA teams and GM's on draft day as they overlook proven College stars for long shots and European nobodies. How else would I have known that Dwayne Wade should have gone higher in the draft or that the Raptors should have held onto Kareem Rush instead of trading him for Chris Jefferies a few years back. With any luck I'll see the NBA stars of the future and make my predictions on not just the hyped ones like Kevin Durant and Greg Oden but some more obscure small forward or super quick point guard leading a mid major with grit and determination through the first round.

It gets no better than this folks.

Now to get back to my biggest dilemma. How do I follow cricket scores when the computer is upstairs but the TV and couch are downstairs.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Life as a shorty

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so ruff
Wu Tang - C.R.E.A.M

And just when I thought it couldn't get worse than the teenagers giving the little kids weed now comes a story of a woman who decided to give new meaning to the term crack baby by giving cocaine to her 20 month old.

The words hell and hand basket come immediately to mind. Sigh!

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Mmmmm ....... Food

Well World Cup cricket is starting Sunday in the Caribbean. Well actually it has started already but so far just warm up matches are being played.

Last year almost a year in advance I blogged about this event and questioned whether we, the people of the Caribbean, would actually see the highly touted economic returns from this event. That question remains I guess, we'll see in a few months or so.

Back then when I wrote that blog though, I was just thinking about the financial issues but now as things get going I'm starting to realize just how much more there is to this thing than I ever really thought about.

I mean yes the Caribbean isn't made up of first world countries but lawd ave mercy how far were we or did we go to accommodate our guests?

I mean I'm not saying don't accommodate people but at certain points you have to say no that cant fly and make the guests accept your policy too. Instead it just looks like we say to them in advance do whatever you want, we will accept whatever laws you see as fit without question after all don't mind us, is just we live here but you can act as if this is your own place.

What am I talking about? Well I wont even get into the silly story about bajan policemen getting searched at the cricket stadium in Barbados by cricket security people cause that one just too embarrassing to me. I had to hang muh head in shame when I read that.

No what I'm talking about is I see alot of us, as Caribbean people, giving up parts of our culture to host these games. The way we usually watch cricket was deemed not appropriate by the authorities and changes were/are being made.

Cant have all those horns and conch shells making noise in tourist ears. Cant say this, cant say that it might be offensive.

Then there is this whole issue with food. A fella cant even bring a drink of water into a stadium , cause they treating you like the airlines these days, searching you like immigration and nothing cant bring in ya hand or handbags. I guess they are worried about terrorists but still things seem mighty heavy handed.

Plus it seems like with these new security restrictions also applying to the immediate areas around the ground you cant even find a place outside the stadium to buy food or a drink so your only option is the concession stand.

How could we allow this? Ok I mean I understand to some extent the you cant bring in your own food point as the event coordinators want to sell you their expensive stuff from their concession stands and they will point out well you cant bring food into an NBA game or a NFL game or the like. True, good point but cricket could be seen as an exception here cause a cricket match isn't some three hour basketball game its a whole damn day. You go to cricket like you go to work. You get there at 9 or 10 in the morning and don't leave til after 5. Cricket is an outing. You need three squares at cricket, why ya think the players duz have water break, lunch break and tea break? Its not just for fun, its that its a long game and just like the players need their nutrition I think the spectators need theirs too.

Plus lets look at this culturally. Anybody at all who knows traditional West Indian cricket knows that cricket is an outing, a picnic, a lime even and people go into a cricket ground with a picnic basket, or a cooler with a whole heap of food for not only them but in most cases to share with others. Anyone who has heard Paul Keens Douglas' Tanti Merle at the Oval and been to a cricket match knows that his humorous tale contains only slight exaggerations on the girth of the picnic baskets and coolers that people used to bring to cricket back in the days.

Look even a small bony man like myself would walk with two or three hamcutters, a litre a Pine Hill juice, some fish cakes and some other drinks and that is just for me alone. Plus ya done know that if the spirit hit me that food didn't seeing lunch time at all. It might not even mek it past water break.

Ok I'm just joking but the point is Cricket in the Caribbean has always been more than a game Going to an international match is a social event alot more so than say going to a basketball or hockey game in North America. Why? Because you are at cricket the whole day, plus the islands are small and chances are you will definitely see somebody auntie or cousin that you know or somebody that used to work with you 10 years ago and you will get to chat and converse with them at the game. Its hard to make friends at something that you're just going to for for two intense hours like basketball but a cricket match you have ebbs and flows in the on field action so you might sit down next to a complete stranger in the morning and start chatting during a lull in play and by tea you are buying them drinks or borrowing their transistor radio to find out exactly how the commentators say the man was lbw when you see clearly he play bat and pad.

Also at cricket sometimes the play in the stands duz be more exciting than the play on the field too.

Cricket is a social event, a chance to make friends, to cuss, weep, jeer, praise, even chat up the odd woman or two. It is also a chance to eat and drink and eat and drink you must cause you're there for an entire day, you really don't have a choice unless you're fasting.

So no you cant just expect a fella to sit down in a stand for 6+ hours and suck on air or alternatively pay really exorbitant prices every couple of hours to get something to eat. Man that will get very expensive and annoying (as the patrons line up) for the patrons real quick.

Now look I'm not saying let a guy bring in enough food to feed the 5000 but did the planners think about the absolute and draconian measures they were instituting regarding the entry of food and drink and how it affects the fans. Surely some allowance could have been made for even say two bottles of water or a couple of fish cakes to be brought in. Cuhdear!

To me it just feel like we Caribbean people, or whoever it was at the table representing we when they were negotiating the event parameters, just sit down and nod their head to every proposal that was given by the International cricketing bodies without expressing any sort of issues they might have with the parameters.

Ya know what I'm saying?

But then again who am I to complain, ya cant live in the old times. I guess this is the price of progress.

Monday, March 05, 2007

All we do is Spark Mad Izm

marijuana pon di corna
it keep mi calma it mek mi smarta

Marijuana - Richie Spice

I was trying to make time today to blog about last Thursday's storm and my trek through nature's exfoliant aka freezing rain and snow flakes that duz lash ya in the face like dry rice grains. I tell ya my short walk home in that storm was like a free facial. Plus you should see all the tree branches and such that came down from the high winds. The day after all the trees around my place were covered in ice. It was quite a sight.

But yes I was going to blog about that ...until I saw this. Two Texas teenagers are under arrest for giving marijuana to a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old boy. Imagine that!

I mean I know some fellas that start smoking early and I know some children who have tasted alcohol at very young ages but giving a 2 year old weed? Now that is pretty bad. I mean actually lighting a blunt and giving it to a 2 year old child? Man that's just wrong. Come on now there's got to be a minimum age on puff, puff, pass.

What got me too is that the children's mother was in the next room sleeping and she "didn't realize" this was going on.

What could that really mean? That she is accustomed to the two guys smoking up around her kids or that she knew that they gave drugs to the youngsters and didn't care.

Talking about one she was sleeping off a toothache. Toothache mi eye! She was probably high too.

And though the story doesn't say how old she is I saw her on TV and she looks very young probably a teenager herself or just barely out of her teens. The children raising children. Then she has the audacity to look at the cameras and say she don't think the children should be in foster care they should be home with her.

Home with she so they can get high again? Chupse! She want two hard slaps or locking up. What kind of mother lets this kind of stuff happen. Pure lawlessness!


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Oriel Hat

I recently picked up my needles again for the first time in more than a year. I've tried to knit before, but found it so stressful it was counterproductive. Not for me the calming effect it has on most knitters. The hypnotic smooth repetition of rows, the colours, textures and stitches combining as if by magic to form an unfolding work of art before one's eyes. Strange as it may sound to those who knit for pleasure, I associate knitting with deadlines for books and magazines. It was even worse when I did production and two collections a year for both myself and other large design houses. Deadlines were ever-looming, forcing me to push myself to the limit to create my signature knits, featuring both technical interest and classic, timeless style. In the past I've tied myself in knots over the years making sure the patterns were as near to perfect as could be, sometimes bringing on excruciating bouts of sciatica.

So.. all this stopped couple of years ago when I was diagnosed with myeloma. Everything was thrown into flux as I fought for my life. By the time I came out of hospital four months later,  I was as weak as a kitten. However, one of the things that sustained me through it all, was the mountain of good wishes and gifts I received from other knitters. I would receive such heartening messages daily, and these contributed so much to keeping my spirits up and making me determined to recover.

Many of you were already good friends from our knitters' tours, some of you I'd never met except on Facebook, and there were others whom I'd had no contact with, who had enjoyed my designs in books and magazines. Every kind message I received played its part in galvanising my resolve.  It was like being wrapped in a cuddly, warm comfort blanket. In fact one super kind knitter in the States made me a patchwork quilt, with a lovely dedication sewn into it - you know who you are and I can't ever thank you enough! I was so overwhelmed, I burst into tears when I saw it, and it's been on my bed ever since.
I immediately fell in love with this one

Two years on I happened to be browsing the Fall 2017 collections. I've always loved Missoni and their amazing 70s inspired knits caught my eye immediately. Their geometric, zigzags and innovative combinations of vertical and horizontal stripes reminded me of the smock dresses I'd made in the late seventies, they were the ones that kickstarted my career as a sweater designer. Seeing the gorgeous Missoni designs made me itch to get my hands on a pair of needles again, despite the pain and stress I still feared.  I had a definite design for a hat in my head and was determined to give it a go. Also a hat was just about the size of project I thought I might be able to handle.
This reminded me of the smock dresses
 I made in the seventies
So I gingerly grabbed a few balls of colourful yarn from my stash, then started to dig deep into my design reserves. After they'd been dormant for so long, I was unsure as to whether I'd still be able to find a way of interpreting the inspiration. I knew I wanted to create something that would be wearable, beautiful and knitable. What I didn't want was to spend all my time working things out beforehand as I used to do, so I just picked up my needles and took the plunge.
These two tops show how different the basic pattern can look, depending on the spacing of the horizontal stripes...

...and this cropped top and longline vest are SO reminiscent of my stripey dresses  (below, with yours truly modelling in the late 70s)
Photographed by Philip in Finsbury Park
Once the knitting started, I was immediately transported into my own knitting universe, where nothing matters other than the pursuit of the perfect piece of fabric. P finds this state of mind totally alarming, as I seem to him to be completely incommunicado, and he knows well the damage that can incur.

However, on this occasion the project was a small one, so I found it utterly charming and rewarding as it unfolded in front of my eyes. I was totally absorbed and in tune with the Missoni aesthetic and in no time it was ready to sew up. I quickly found my Clover pompom maker and tada... finished!

I was so pleased with it I put a photo on Facebook and lots of you lovely knitters left some amazing comments. It then occurred to me that if I could still write a pattern - as I took no notes whilst knitting it - I could then make it a free pattern. This gift would be my small thank-you to all the knitters who took the time to send thoughts, messages, cards, gifts, hugs and love my way when I most needed it.

So here it is... the Oriel Hat, named as several people said it looked like a stained glass window. If it brings to you a fraction of the pleasure your kindnesses have brought to me, I'll be well chuffed.
Enjoy! xo
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  1. Hi Jean, wonderful to hear that you've got your designing mojo back and thank you so much for the lovely pattern. I love Missoni too and am always drawn to their colourful designs. Susie xxx

  2. Dear Jean,
    Sometime ago I picked up your book of shawlettes and have knitted several, for friends (I live in a part of India that never gets cold, so I only have to knit for others!). I love knitting with circular needles and my favourite is the mantilla, which is a 12 stitch pattern, if you remember. I thought it might be useful to share with other knitters that I cut little bits from a plastic straw and slip them onto the needles at 12 stitch intervals and that way I know exactly where I may have made a mistake, since it is a complicated pattern. Of course, it is important that the beginning of the round is marked using a bit of straw of a different colour from the other 12-stitch segment markers. Thank you for your lovely patterns.
    Vidya (Ramachandran(

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Tuesday, 30 April 2013

So, the bricklayer who gave us the £2000 quote seems to live on a different planet to the rest of us, as there was in fact NO scaffold costs in his quote, he just thinks bricklayers earn that much money. And to be fair, he was on holiday in Turkey when I emailed him, so maybe they do!

I have no interest whatsoever in lining someone elses pockets to do something I'm quite capable of doing myself, so back to plan A - build the garage walls myself. With Emma's mortar spreading skills :-)

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What'd You Go And Do That For?

They (the unknown authorities) say that change is inevitable. We either choose to resist that change, or we allow the flow of Life to show us the new thing.

I am staring directly into the eyes of the new thing.

I am not sure what I see, but I know one thing. I have begun to expand my writing to include topics that were not my original intent, and I find that I have allowed my main focus for this blog to move off center.

I have lost focus.

When I began to explore my feelings about exclusion and the act of separation (the verb), I found writing was an outlet that served two purposes. I could voice my opinion of course, which is something I do well. I could also take the opportunity to reflect on the words that came from within me and allow them to be for me.

It has been good therapy.

It is good to reflect and take stock of what we are accomplishing for good as we walk the earth. In my contemplation I have decided that I will begin again with There Is No Them. I will continue to rant and rave here as Jeff Baker (the ego) Talks. God knows I have a need to talk.

At the same time, I am so very conscious of the fact that I live in a world that is hurting, with some on the brink of despair. The situation we find ourselves faced with today resulted specifically because of the egos of the greedy individuals who would rule the world. I still see it in myself. How I pray it were not so.

For those of you who, like me, ultimately see this world as a place of beauty and promise, I will soon provide a link to a blog that is more in tune with what I know I am to speak about. There is no way I can ever look out from these tiring eyes again and see otherness. It is so clear that we are meant to be connected in an intricate and divine fashion.

That we are divided by racial, religious, social, or even geographical lines is the great lie cast upon us, by us.

In our ignorance, we have hurt our brothers and sisters in some name or for some cause. Through anger and revenge we have given the taking of another person's life a certain legitimacy... no matter the reason. It all must end soon.

We must forgive. It is our only hope. See you soon.

Peace -- jb

  1. I really love your empathy, Jeff. I wish more were like that...

    I'm going through something transformational right now myself, spiritually. It's certainly different. And it feels incredibly good.

    Hang in there. You're a good man.

  2. Thanks man.

    I really appreciate your comment. I also appreciate you posts. I love the way you so easliy create dialogue. You have a way of drawing people out. It's cool.

    Transformation is good. Change is proof that something good exists... even if it's down the road :)~

    You're a good man as well. Be Peace.

    Thanks for dropping by

  3. Love your bravery and sense of new adventure to push through new areas Jeff! Such a wonderful plate of new discoveries awaiting with this type of passion. You will find more of your true self and your true nature on this path-just keep posting and sharing!

    One Love

  4. Oh my dear beautiful friend your voice and heart are so clear and they settle as great peace in my soul. I am soooooooo grateful for who you are and how you see and experience Life, how you CHOOSE to experience Life.

    There is no 'other' for me either. I look upon the world and see only many branches of one family tree. We lose so much when we judge another. We not only hurt them, but we repress and rob ourselves of the utmost riches.

    Every time I experience your profound compassion and open heart my world is made more real and whole. You are truly living Love. You are a sage in your time.

    What I love about your expressions here is that they come from your heart not your head. Actually I do not feel your ego here at all. It's some of the purest writing I've ever experienced.

    Thank you my dear friend.

  5. Hey Plex... thanks so much for dropping by. Life is indeed a wonderful adventure. It compells me forward with great wonder for the simplicity that we so easily complicate with otherness.

    My friend you are the brave one and a source of great inspration. I loved your video. Simply and pregnant with Truth.

    Blessings and Peace.

  6. Dear Robin,

    Where do you find the time to write such comments? You are so thoughtful and encouraging.

    I sigh as I think of the days when I felt I would delete my blog and do something else...

    There is so much hurt in this world that I find it hard NOT to write about my feelings.

    Ego drives that need. I want to help in a better way than just putting out electronic impulses of my opinion.

    All is Well. I have let go of that need and will wait for the words to come forth as they did in the beginning of this adventure. This journey inward to find me/we/us/I.

    Thanks again for touching my heart through your kind and gentle spirit. It is medicine for my tired mind. Namaste'.

  7. Kia ora Jeff,
    It reads to me as if you are really finding your focus. Your words resonate with me and I look forward to tuning in.

  8. Nice to meet you Robb. I love your occupation :)

    Yes, for me at this point, now, I must have clarity. At least as much as is my privilege to have. It is a good thing to have a clear path, both spiritually and emotionally. I choose that.

    Thanks for your comment.

    Please drop in again.

Have any thoughts on this post? I'd really love to hear from you. Be Peace, Make Peace -- jb


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Valentines Day Rose flavoured cupcake recipe

You would be right in assuming that I am dreaming of red roses this Valentines day, to the extent that my Valentine’s themed cupcakes taste and look like the romantic flowers themselves. Flavoured with rose water and emblazoned with uncurling red petals these cupcakes are perfect for Valentines day, especially as a gift or used to decorate the dining table. The cupcake and buttercream recipes come from ‘Cupcakes’ by the Primrose Bakery.

Rose water cupcakes

110g unsalted butter (room temperature)
225g golden caster sugar
2 large eggs
150g self-raising flour, sifted
125g plain flour, sifted
½ teaspoon rosewater (or to taste)
120ml semi-skimmed milk (room temperature)

1. Preheat oven to 160C (fan) or 180C (regular). Line a 12 hole muffin tray with cases

2. Cream the butter and sugar until the mixture is pale. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing for a few minutes after each one.

3. Combine the flours in a separate bowl.

4. In a separate jug mix the rosewater and the milk, testing the strength as you go.
5. Add a third of the flour to the creamed mixture and beat. Pour in one third of the milk and beat again. Repeat until all ingredients are combined
6. Spoon the mixture into the cases, to about 2/3rds full and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown
7. Leave to cool for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a cooling rack.

Rose buttercream

115g unsalted butter (room temperature)
4 tablespoons semi-skimmed milk (room temperature)
1 tsp vanilla extract
500g icing sugar, sifted
½ tsp rosewater
pink food colouring

1. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, milk, vanilla extract and half the icing sugar until smooth.
2. Gradually add the remainder of the icing sugar and beat again until the buttercream is smooth and creamy.
3. Add the rosewater at the end and beat thoroughly. If you want pink icing, add a tiny drop of pink food colouring.
4. Fill a piping bag with the icing and using a 2D nozzle, create an icing rose effect by starting in the centre and squeezing the icing around the cupcake.
Fondant icing roses

This is certainly a time consuming way to decorate cakes, but I think the end result is worth the extra effort. For these Valentines cakes, I rather ambitiously made large roses, with several uncurling petals but to speed things up you can always make them much smaller and less intricate. To make an icing rose roll out some red fondant icing and cut out several small circles, I used the end of a piping nozzle as a cutter which worked a treat. Roll up one of the circles to create the centre rose bud and put to one side. Next, roll out one of the sides of each of the circles, so that it is slightly thinner and elongated, this will form the tips of the petals. Carefully fold each petal around the rose bud, overlapping as you go until you’ve reached the desired size. Towards the end, I end to space my petals out a bit more so the rose seems larger. Finally, slice off any surplus icing from underneath the rose and ensemble onto the cake with the help of edible glue if need be.
They are delicious and extremely pretty, and a perfectly sweet way to say ‘I love you’

What lovely things have you baked this Valentines?

  1. February 15, 2015 / 1:23 pm

    Oh my gosh, those fondant icing roses look so professional, I would have no chance of making mine look so pretty. I'm still going to save the recipe to give them a good go though.

    Beka. xo

  2. February 19, 2015 / 11:06 am

    Found your blog recently and I’d like to say that I’m in love with it!
    Interesting posts and beautiful photos!
    I’ll be happy to see you in my blog!)

    Diana Cloudlet

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Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Tomorrow sees the opening of the second Pick Me Up at Somerset House. Been grafting hard all week with the rest of the Concrete Hermit lot to put together a ruddy good show. Have a peek at the new & improved websites for all the different things Concrete Hermit has to offer; Nibwax for art books and small press zines, Hermit Editions for prints and The Hermit Store for clothing (see the new T-shirt range I helped design!) and artist designed products. I also have print up on display (see above) A four colour silk-screen print, edition of 50, available exclusively at Pick Me Up. I'll be in very good company on those walls, with some smashing prints from Nigel Peake, Jiro Bevis and French to name but a few. Come down and have a look. I shall just be concentrating on maintaining my composure at the PV tomorrow evening.


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Monday, 31 October 2011

How to be conceited

So for this piece I've created a character with a big head (which I think am going to make even bigger) as they are very big headed about themselves, they are also surrounded by different types if mirrors because they love to look at themselves, at the minute the character looks a bit of a 'mummies boy' so need to harden him up a bit and change the knitted cardie to vest maybe or polo shirt?

Small Victories.. Continued

Going with the character in glasses now, need to develop the illustrations on the tie more, better to have them in a list 1. 2. 3. than placed randomly, might be easier to follow... Need to make the ticks stand out more, maybe have the ticks slightly out of the tie

Monday, 24 October 2011

New Spam

Made the colours stand out more and the text closer to the central illustration

Does it look better with a boarder? Maybe try a blue colour later, but don't want it to look too cold?

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Edited Spam advert

I put my poster on photoshop to bring the text and the central illustration closer together, however not happy with the line I've got on the top of the page where the colour of the paper changes where I've cropped it and layed it up

Can anyone help and tell me how you can blend the background colours together?

Friday, 21 October 2011

Ideas for 'why small victories matter'

For a starting point on the new brief I highlighted a line which says 'the challenge, on a personal level, is remembering to notice the smaller things you've achieved. Keeping a 'done list' as well as a 'to do list'

This sparked ideas of a business man with a done list, however I think just a business writing a a 'done list' would not be visually interesting, so I thought it would be more interesting if a illustrated what the man have done that day with illustrations on his tie...... A 'Done tie'....

Here are my first drawings for the project

So on the tie, the things that the man has done so far are.... walking the dog, feeding the cat, washing the pots, hanging washing out, do the ironing, taking the bins out

Then to relate it more to the business side of it, there are pens, pencils, laptops, books etc

I think I prefer the tie that's moving rather than the one that isn't?

So next step is to fit it in a 100 mm x 105 mm square

Was thinking if its difficult to see the illustration on the tie then have it all over his suit instead, meaning that the illustrations will be bigger, be able to see them more clearer?

Monday, 10 October 2011

Second Year Work

I know I'm posting backwards here but I thought while I can't sleep I'll post some of my second year work

This is a piece that was called 'even odd numbers have countless fun' the concept behind this was that all of the illustrations are relating to an odd number (three legged dog, love triangle, three blind mice etc..)

This was the piece that got me into the print room and I never really left since!!! Done in lino

These are screen prints of a project that I did called 'pet problems'- the prints went really well and I was very happy with the end result, below are the just the illustations

And here are the illustration with their titles, the lettering is done with letter stamps and purple ink

This is my undermilkwood project, the first screen print that I ever did!!!

After many MANY hours in the print room and many mistakes made this was produced

I now understand how ambitious this was with my first screen print, however I think it's a good lesson to learn from your mistakes and with this project a lot was made!!!!

Finals for Cocktail Partyy!!!!!

After hours and hours in the print room my pieces are finally done!!!! Whooop!!!!
Here are just  two of the finished pieces on different coloured paper (I've got more to post soon)

Am leaning more towards the dark brown one?

This is half of my screen print on grey paper, my initial idea was to photoshop my other characters onto the final print, but when I slept on it, I decided to screen print them all as I didn't want my print to be too busy.
I wanted my final to have limited colour and believe this was achieved

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Summer Project

These are scans of my summer project,

Can you tell who has influenced me on these pieces...


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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A Time For Remembrance...

Wherever you may be on November 11th at 11am, take a moment to pause and reflect upon the men and women, past and present ,that have helped to preserve our way of life as well as freedoms of allies throughout the world.

A Salute to Heroes...
"If you are able, save them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

July 31 - Big Game Hunting - Bet you Palmer would like

Arnold Schartzenegger wants the killing of big cats stopped. Id' like to see married men keep their marriage vows. Arnold has a much better chance of his wish. I wish a "hero" like him wouldn't have cheated on his wife. This story about the poaching will die down quickly. There's so much poaching going on in the United States but very little is done. I'd like to see Betty White and Bob Barker stand up against poachers in the United States. On another thought swan killing is illegal in one state but legal in another. By the way, you can kill lions in Zimbabwe if you do it legally. If Palmer had killed the lion legally, you wouldn't have heard this story. Don't get me wrong, poaching is poaching and it should be illegal. Also, I don't approve of big game hunting. Most people would like to have a chance to live one day over to do it the right way. I wonder if Palmer would have not killed the lion or if he would have also killed an elephant on that day.

On a side note, I'd like to see Zimbabwe make female genital mutilation illegal.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

SEC Is Not Protecting Us: Madoff

The current attack on the SEC is very startling. Independent fraud investigator, Harry Markopolos had blown the whistle on Madoff in 2000 and the SEC ignored him entirely. He stated that the SEC was afraid of Madoff and that "The SEC is also captive to the industry it regulates and it is afraid of bringing big cases against the largest most powerful firms". How can we have faith in Wall Street when the people who are supposed to protect us are afraid to do their job? Barack Obama has nominated Mary L. Schapiro as chairman of the SEC and his pick for cleaning up the Madoff mess. The problem: she's not the right person for this job. At a time when faith needs to be restored in our financial institutions, Mary Schapiro does little to instill it. Ms. Schaprio presided over the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority—a nongovernmental regulatory agency dominated by industry participants that epitomizes the "self-regulatory" approach., FINRA had conducted its own inspections of Madoff's operations and failed to raise the red flag. This does not sound like the person I want in charge of our SEC.

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Selling Your House Faster

The purchase, selling and the other transactions that surround the deal of a house is known to be one of the most taxing events of an individual’s life. You have to concern yourself with transferring your things to the new house, ensure that the family is well and comfortable as well as show all the interested parties the house. The selling of a real estate property is a process that usually takes months to finalize and can have a great effect on your state of mind and unnecessarily elevate your stress. A reason for this is the misassumptions most people have about the sale of real estate. People do not realize that to effectively and quickly seal a deal, it involves the need to put more effort into it. Selling a house is not as simple a task as listing the house on a newspaper and sitting back on the sofa waiting for calls. You can start with taking much better pictures of your house for the advertisements. Instead of posting a picture of an ill-kempt garden on to the picture, put the effort into recruiting the services of a Melbourne landscape designers to help you decide which approach to the garden and the gardening maintenance is best for your garden. Buyers need to have a good first impression if you want them to call you up. The real estate market is currently over saturated and a buyer has plenty of options laid out in front of him so you have to ensure that the impression he or she gets is favorable.

If necessary, upgrade the interior and exterior aspects of your house too. For the exterior of the house, some ways you can upgrade the appeal is to paint the walls to cover up any cracks and imperfections. A small clean up that has an extensive effect on the house is to clean the windows present in the house. While it might not seem much, clean and sparkling windows help give a pleasing and well maintained look to the house.

On the interior, make it a point to repair items like a leaking plumbing system, broken furniture and similar items. Take the time to subject your house to a deep clean and remove items that are unnecessarily taking space. These include age old cabinets and ornaments that you hardly glance at. If you have kids, you might have to also paint the inside of your house to cover up any scuffs and damages to the wall. By making well thought decisions, you are more likely to sell your house much faster than usual.

3 Tips To Design Your Office In A Better Way

An office or a work place is one of the most important places that a lot of people spend a majority of their time at, which is why your work place is often called your second home. Due to us spending a lot of time where we work it is important to create the most suitable environment for ourselves. If we are made to work in a place we find uncomfortable, unclean or unsafe then our production levels are going to be exceedingly low which means we would probably not be so good at our job. If you own an office or a business, try to make sure your employees are made to work in a suitable environment and do what you can to make it better and easier for them as that will make sure they work harder in return. Consider these tips when you are designing your work place!

Calming colors

When you hiring residential painters to color your office, make sure that the chosen color palette fits the office place the most. It is said that colors like blue help the mind to focus better and concentrate better on what we do compared to colors like red or yellow. All of these facts come in to play when it comes to the happiness and productivity rates of all your employees. So thinking carefully about all of this is only going to make sure that you get a good result in the end.

Private space

When you are doing the interior designing in the office, you have to remember to give your employees their personal space. Even if you want to make your employees bond and work together, private space is still extremely essential in an office! You can get people to create a small space for your employees and get a trustworthy painters to paint it out as each employee wishes or as you wish, then they would have a space to call their own inside the office. However, bonding and getting along with other employees is also important so make sure there is a different space of work for that as well.

The Light

You will end up with the best results from your employees if they work in a lighted up, sunny room compared to a shut and closed in, dark room. This is why designers have to be careful when designing office spaces. You can have transparent walls and windows to let the sun rays in which provides a source of natural light. It is sure to make your employees happy.

Why Should You Hire The Right Vacation Resort?

Of course, no matter, either you are going for a family trip or business trip, but you have to plan the place where you are going to spend your trip. It is needless to mention that, accommodation is something that you cannot ignore. Since, accommodation is not just for experiencing the relaxation, but it is also for keeping your things safe, enjoying some quality time with your family or business friends and more. Just imagine without booking any accommodations, can you enjoy these things. Can you take all your bearings along with you all through your trip during site seeing, meeting and exploring the beauty of the destination that you have visited? I know your answer would be definitely no. At the same time, if you hire the accommodation, then you can do all these things with all ease. There are different types of holiday resorts to choose from. Between that, you can choose the one that suits your requirements and budget. If you could afford something more for your accommodation, you can hire the luxury holiday resort. Yes, spending some time with your family in the luxury accommodation is something that has no comparison. So, you can reckon hiring the luxury accommodation.

Tips to choose the comfortable vacation resort

  • You have to reckon some important factors when it comes to choosing the luxury stay in the Grampians. Since, you should not choose the holiday resort just like that in a random fashion.
  • First of all, make sure the resort that you are about to choose is completely safe. Since, safety is something that matters a lot. You cannot put your safety at risk. So, it is your duty to ensure everything about the resort and ensure its safety.
  • Next is that, you have to check, the customer services of the resort. This is really important. Since, the resort that you choose should offer exceptional customer service and cater you what you actually needed.
  • Most importantly, you have to check the features of the accommodation that you are going to hire. The accommodation should get hold of all the basic features like comfortable rooms, soothifying facilities, 247 water, security, and telephone and Wi-Fi connections.
  • The resort that you are about to choose should get hold of different rooms to let you choose the one from it. Since, the size of the room will depend on the number of persons going to occupy the room.
    These are the factors that you have to reckon for getting luxury accommodation Grampians. If you do, you will get what you want.

Importance Of Receiving Higher Education Through Over Seas

There are so many sources available for the students who are planning to conduct higher education abroad. There are countries that are famous for giving out particular foreign recognized degrees. Therefore in order to receive a quality education students nowadays tend to go abroad. And there are so many facilities available for foreign students in those countries as they provide accommodation, foreign accommodations for students who are coming from other countries, information and technology and so on. When leaving your own country in order to fulfill a valuable purpose is important but for some it is a hard task as they will have to grow in a different environment from that day, meet new people and also they won’t be having their immediate family and friends. Therefore it is clearly a new experience for them as they have to then be independent and justify their lives to live alone for some time. However there are so many important life gains that one will be receiving by living one state to another for a purpose.

Prior leaving one has to organize all the removals such a their important books, clothes, other documents into one box or separate boxes labeling what those have inside so then it is easier for them to find them out when they get to the new destination. Sometimes parents pack and give food that can keep for some time to ease their children’s lives when it comes to cooking. This clearly shows that when a student is sent abroad for higher education they are trained to live alone, be independent and conduct their own work by planning by themselves. This is important for them just as the higher education they receive from that particular university. Read this article to find out the best services of removal.

When shifting, some of the removals like furniture if necessary can be sent through carriers or by shipping to that country. This is mainly happening with the students who are going to live in their own place. Many hostels do not allow so many personal belongings as those are provided for them anyways but for the ones who are going to live in their own house will have the need of such products. When living alone, a student cannot completely reply from their parents so they go for part time working as well in order to collect their pocket money for daily expenses and class fees.This too is a good experience for their lives and clearly it shows living an independent life brings them many important life experiences.

How A Broker Can Get Your Rental Home Promoted?

Those people, who invest in homes or apartments and wish to put it on lease often find that it is harder than what it is expected to be. You might find that others have an easier time putting their home on lease than when it comes to you. This is especially a common experience for home owners who are looking to put their home on lease for the first time. Fortunately, one can look at brokerage platforms that can expedite the process.

Rental specialists

Nowadays there are different brokerage firms who handle property management. Not only can you enlist your property for sale with a brokerage service but also put it for lease through them. If you are uncertain about the kind of lease terms you should charge, there are rental appraisal experts you can reach out to. That can help you know the kind of rental you can charge as per an objective market and property estimation done and not on what a broker has to say. Many rental management firms also offer such expert services that help you understand the range of rent you can expect from your property.

Promotional help

Once you have a broker service or property management firm working to get renters for your place, you can rest assured that they will take up necessary steps to promote your property. Most property firms have real estate portals where they list the properties of their clients for prospective renters. In order to promote a property effectively most firms will capture images of their client’s property and put it up on their portal. That helps prospective renters get a look of the place through the images and know whether they wish to explore the place further. Also, a property management firm usually has a network of prospective buyers and renters through references, online queries, phone based queries that come in and so forth. Hence, they are also positioned better to advertise your place through word of mouth.

Seeing results

Though there is a lead time taken up when you enlist the services of a broker to manage your property or advertise it for rental, you can expect to see queries coming in after several weeks or a month. Most property management services will keep their clients abreast of the queries that come in and allow the customers to decide on which lease request they wish to take up. Most experienced brokers will be able to get two or more offers for a place so that they can get a higher lease for their clients.

Handle Your Child’s Birthday Like A Pro

If you are wondering how to make your child’s birthday a wonderful and special one without having too many things to do, make use of an online print service. As most of the arrangements are on paper, including birthday décor, if you have stationery and print related requirements sorted, you can easily look into the other arrangements and make a wonderful birthday event happen with a small budget.

Birthday prints

Just like with wedding invites Australia, it is best to get started with a birthday print requirement by thinking up a theme. Once you have a theme in mind you can then choose a template for the birthday invite, to thank you cards, décor prints and other options you might have. In order to get the most out of a birthday print service, look around for online service providers who have a wide range of services to offer. Many printer portals not only offer options for customizing birthday invites but also have customized gift options to take up. You could find décor options as well where posters can be designed as per your chosen theme and message. Other décor options include customized balloons, standees, table decor and other ideas.

All at one place

When you have the option of choosing a birthday theme and getting a package deal that includes invites, return gifts, decor items and other delightful items all ready to be customized and shipped, it is indeed a nominal price to pay for getting every such aspect taken care of by an online service provider. With most of your décor, return gifts and invite prints taken care of, you can then turn to look into the food and entertainment options at the birthday party. The same goes for prints required of any other event such engagement party invites. Read this article to find out more reviews on choosing the best invitation for your party.

Budgeted themed parties

As prints are nominally charged, but can help create the look and feel of a great birthday party, getting customized décor, the invites and gifts, even for a home birthday event will help make any birthday party special, even a budgeted one at home. At the same time you will not be spending as much and saving time as well as most of your party requirements can be ordered online and taken care of within a few minutes of browsing through a website. Before starting off, look around at the different online services that provide similar customized items for birthdays to ensure that you order from one that suits your preferences and your budget for the party as well.


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Family Time

Since we didn't take any vacations this past year, Jon and I decided to use our days to stay in our hometown for a full week after Christmas.  Jon only had to work Monday and Tuesday of last week and I was off on Thursday, so that's when we headed into "The Big NB."  We are staying here until Sunday, so that's a full 10 days of family time.

Monday we went to visit one of my MIL's friends so Adeline could visit with her horses.

She was a little afraid at first, but warmed up pretty soon.

That night Jon and I went on a date to see a movie and my parents kept Adeline.  It was nice to spend an evening with my hubby with free babysitting.  :)

Tuesday, Jon and his dad went camping and I went to get a massage.  My parents hung out with Adeline while I was getting pampered.

She got to visit with her Tater Tot (my mom's sister) & her MiMi (but no pics) some too.

She fed the donkey and he bit her hand!  It didn't break the skin though so I think she'll survive.

That night it rained and rained and rained.  My mom cooked some yummy vegetable stew and we stayed home and played.

Today I went to lunch with one of my BFFs while Adeline stayed with her Tiny & Big T.

I have so thoroughly enjoyed watching Adeline interact with her grandparents.  It does my heart good to see how much she's loved.  It seems like she has absorbed so much this week, too.  I want to document some of the cute new things I've noticed her doing this week.
  • She has learned how to howl like a coyote & snort like a pig
  • The other day as they were looking at the tree, my MIL said, "So pretty" and Adeline looked at her & pointed to herself.  I guess she's associated "pretty" with herself.  :)
  • My mom plays a game with her where she wraps her up in a soft blanket and holds her like a little baby and rocks back & forth saying, "Oh my sweet baby." Last night Adeline had the blanket and I was sitting on the floor and she came and got in my lap & said, "baby"
  • She has learned to sign "please" without me demonstrating it first
  • She has consistently been giving her dolls kisses when asked
  • She said "shoes" the other day
I'm sure there are more.  Every day this week I've noticed something new she's picked up.  We are all having a great time, but I am looking forward to getting home and not living out of a suitcase and sleeping in my own bed.  We have been going back and forth between each of our parents' every 2 nights.  I'm ready to unpack and stay settled for a while.  :)

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Downtown Thamaga, across the street from the house
of Kelli Haynes, the "Botswana  9" volunteer with whom
we spent a week.

The landscape around Thamaga is dotted with great
rocks and piles of rocks, some of the piles are hundreds
of feet high, and they seem to have been balancing
for eons.

October 29.  Two weeks since we last wrote and it seems like so much has happened. We spent five days in Thamaga, a one-hour  bus ride from Kanye, to “shadow” PCV Kelli Haynes, who has been in Botswana for fifteen months, so that we could experience service witha volunteer working with people and organizations in her community.
Kelli’s house is on the grounds of the Botswelelo Pottery Collective, which was our first stop of the day. It began as a mission project in the 1970’s and is now a fully self-sufficient business, very impressive. Most of what they potters do is make tableware, using some traditional designs and color.  They also do some larger work, as shown in the picture.
Carol and Kelli meet with the director of the
Pottery Cooperative
Their bread and butter is patterned dinnerware,
but the potters also do special work, like these pots

Kelli works with a junior secondary school (grades 8, 9 and 10), about 30 minutes walk from her house.  There are nearly 650 students who, in addition to classes, have a tea break in the morning and receive a hot lunch in the early afternoon - cooked in big pots over hot fires.  Students are highly disciplined.
John and Kelli outside the office of the Junior Secondary
School where Kelli helps develop youth leadership skills

We assisted Kelli in the Guidance/Counseling class - often dispelling myths about the United States, based on the students’ understanding gleaned through television.  We also met twice with her after-school “PACT” Club - a leadership training class.  The students were shy, at first and after warming up to us became very articulate as English speakers (their second language) Needless to say, we didn’t get far with Setswana, which actually is not spoken in the secondary schools here.

We also engaged in a rehearsal for a couple of students for a presentation at an all-school assembly.  It became an impromptu speech class as the students gained enthusiasm for the project. The two students who did speak to the entire student body did a very good job.
Students, all 650 of them, stand for a morning
assembly.  Their self-discipline during these
assemblies is impressive.

One of Kelli's leadership training students speaks to
her classmates about good study habits
These two students made outstanding presentations
to the students in Kelli's school

Every day, the kitchen staff cooks lunch for 650 students
heating these pots over open wood fires.

Also during shadow week we met Alpha, a young Batswana who has founded The Jubilante Recovery Centre on a wing and a prayer, with no financial resources, yet enormous energy and passion.  He speaks on the radio, and gets calls from people all over the country.  We had the good fortune of joining Alpha at the Botswana Police Criminal Investigation Unit in Gaborone for an interview on the correlation between substance abuse and crime. Alpha’s efforts are being supported by others including PCV Kelli as he is applying for a grant to fund his project to open the first in-patient clinic in Botswana. The connection between drug/alcohol abuse and the HIV/AIDS epidemic here was repeated often during our week of interviews at clinics, schools and community organizations.
Alpha is a young man with a vision - and who just got
a paying job working with public schools, which will enable him
to bring his dream of an alcohol and drug rehabilitation
center closer to reality

Training continues and is actually more challenging now for patience and hanging in since that we have had some field experience.  Our group of 35 trainees remains strong and committed.

Last Saturday we attended the Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary Celebration in Gaborone at the American Embassy.  It was incredibly inspirational, including speeches by several local dignataries.  Our favorite moment was when the Country Director quoted Archbisop Desmond Tutu who once said  “Peace Corps Volunteers are people who work their butts off for no pay.”  Hmmm.

Kids love games everywhere in the world, and
this neighbors of Kelli's are no exception
This week we received our site assignment at Goodhope Senior Secondary School in the Life Skills Program and met the Head of Guidance and Counseling.  Goodhope is about an hour south of Kanye, and the largest senior secondary (11th-12th grades) in the country.  It is a boarding school, with 2400 students, 60% of whom have been orphaned by AIDS.  We will have a house on the campus where most or all of the teachers live as well.  So after our swearing-in on November 9, the next day we will go to Goodhope, with hopes that the name bodes well for our upcoming experience there!

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Doug said...

It looks wonderfully warm. It's snowing here in Brooklyn. SNOWING! In October.

Good luck with your assignment. Sounds like a great fit. You mention disabusing the kids of the myths perpetrated by U.S. television. A life time job - and that's just the news.


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Monday, August 23, 2010

On the subject of Muffins and Coco. (Alice Post)

A large number of filled boxes suddenly came down on top of me, as I tried to grab for a scarf that I had stupidly put way up on the top shelf, in the far back of the shelf. I laughed when the boxes hit the floor, missing me entirely and watched happily as the pretty, vintage, Dior, pink, scarf felt effortlessly into my small hands. Well that worked out to my advantage. I thought happily. Then, sighed in exasperation as I looked down at the pile of boxes and items on the floor. Most were vintage and extremely expensive. They could sell for a good deal of money on ebay if I ever so choose.

At the moment, however, the boxes were left unattended. I wasn’t in the mood to clean up my mess, and with one small forlorn look at my now sleeping bunny, I bounced down the stairs, smelling blue berry muffins and waffles the whole way. Did Esme get up early? I wondered, making my way into the kitchen.

“Good morning Alice!”Jazz said at my side before I even glided into the kitchen. I laughed, as he gently snuggled me into him and gave me a kiss.

“Good morning.”I said cheerfully.

“Did you sleep well?”

“Yes, very well. I’m so happy to be home.”I said smiling, as Jasper lead me into the kitchen. The beautiful aroma of Blue Berry Muffins and Waffles getting ever so much stronger. My stomach made an ungraceful growl. “That smells good.”

“Carlisle and I cooked breakfast.” Jasper explained pulling out a chair for me. Esme was already at the table with a fork in hand and a cup of coffee in the other.

“Good morning Dear. There’s plenty for everyone.” She said smiling, while Carlisle handed me a muffin and a plate of waffles.”

Emmett and Rose came down now too. I knew it wouldn’t be long until Emmett woke up to the smell of food. It was like food ruled him… Next to Rosalie of course that is.

“Yum! Muffins!” Em said and leaped into a chair but not before receiving a side long glare from Esme. He shrugged the glare off and reached for the plate of muffins and the butter.

“Carlisle and Jazz cooked those.” I said.

“Really? I didn’t know you guys could cook.” Em said.

“Are they good?” Carlisle asked with such a hopeful expression that even if they had not been good, I was certain Emmett would tell him they were.

“They’re awesome Pops!”

“Did you think I was lying when I said they were good?” Esme asked looking hurt.

“No of course not! I was just….” Caught, Carlisle seemed to cower slightly, receiving a chuckle from Rose and a sympatric look from Emett. I smiled sweetly at my own husband. Then, suddenly, remembered Coco.

“I nearly forgot!”I said laying my nearly finished muffin down on my plate. Crumbs slowly falling from the sweet tasting thing as I did. “Poor Coco is terrified of Jasper and it takes me forever to get him to calm down. It would be cruel to keep him here. I was thinking of giving the bunny to Olivia.”I said. I really didn’t want to give up my first pet. But I wasn’t going to engage myself in animal cruelty. “Do you think she’d like a bunny?” I asked looking at Carlsile. He was the only one at the table whom seemed to know Olivia the most.

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