tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76465996548924460192024-02-07T10:44:09.311+01:00Anna's Adornmentsis all about jewellery-making by hand and anything else that either helps or hinders my creative process.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.comBlogger493125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-44764911877792949152012-01-21T23:27:00.002+01:002012-01-21T23:29:25.678+01:00Moving to a new address!Click <a href="http://annas-adornments.blogspot.com">here</a> to find my new address: http://annas-adornments.blogspot.com<br />Best wishes,<br />AnnaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-50504803156798108602012-01-21T14:24:00.023+01:002012-01-21T20:32:40.930+01:00A Cliff-Hanger Epilogue - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 90<p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p> <div class="status-msg-border"> <div class="status-msg-bg"> </div> </div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus, a weekly writng challenge in which participants write a text based on a given prompt using a limited number of words. This is week 90 and we are to write a an epilogue to a two-part story that we have already written using 150 words. We may use extra pictures if we wish.</span></span><br /></div><p face="trebuchet ms" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;">Before we read my text let us look at part I & II fom last week and the week before:</p><p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Part I:</strong></span></strong></span></p><p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Charles took the footpath up the hill</strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight,</strong></span></strong></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave <span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">you hanging off a cliff</span>, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">With pencil and note</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >book in hand,</span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> he heard a voice.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > T</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">urning around, he felt the ground sinking.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > 'No!' </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >he gasped. (Word count: 104)</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;">[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]</span></p><p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >Part </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >II:</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Crawling toward the voice, Charles came to firmer ground, but found no one there. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Thinking he saw a light, </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >he found the right path. It was then he heard the wall, where he just stood, crashing to the rocks. Safe at home, he wondered who or what had saved him. (Word count: 50)</span></span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;">[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]</span></p><p style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;">Here is my epilogue or part III:</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Charles thought: </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >The voice got me to crawl away in time, and the light helped me find a path down the mountain. But I saw no one. I was alone</span><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A volume of the encyclopedia lay open on his desk. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >I don't remember leaving this here.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Underlined in pencil were these words:<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Gnomes are invisible, are able to lift heavy objects, blow air, shine a light and even speak if a human is in danger. You were lucky I could help you, Charlie! Best wishes from Fredrika.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;">How is the possible?</span> thought Charles. <span style="font-style: italic;">This book was printed in 1904.</span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">He looked again at saw more underlined text:</p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;">'Gnomes can also alter text in printed books. Look tomorrow and this message will be gone.'<br /></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;">Charles made a note of the page and just as Fredrika had promised, the message was not to be found the next day.<br /></p><p style=" font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >[Text Copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]</span><br /></p> ------<p face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;">Word count: 147<br /></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;">------</p><p face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;">Best wishes,</p><p face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;">Anna</p><p face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a></span></strong></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">P.S.</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">That's alright Jenny. You can almost throw any assignment at us and most of us will be able to write a post out of it. We will love you always!</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">P.P.S.</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">Here is an epilogue to this epilogue. Talking about literary devices, I found this literary device in the 1950 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_%28film%29"><span style="font-style: italic;">Harvey</span></a>, starring James Stewart. There is a scene in which one of the characters looks up the word 'pooka' in a dictionary and reads a message inserted in the text from the Pooka himself. If a pooka can do this, why not a gnome?</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_%28film%29"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqw-NjxJePuel3_okD7JdprZ_Dp6d7NHvALN3rN4JD-u5J6kmMghQzmgeWWlPS7oPcGCZKm3fwVyNrhB4Pmk0rnIpeHXQXmll8E0ZLQ-JyURj6ha3BAHVtZQVLoK_QXnSetfa7126OFbH/s400/220px-Harvey_1950_poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700156480380543234" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_%28film%29"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKt1dhMqVL4tg1UXaXwFINJNHSqLpodvtH1Y-Eoh1MmTp5q87hUzGMbOY5itdCsNhQMpPZjK8O8gJVcGjyucuCWmXtKx6kdW8jF0hyGAMQAvHSFm7WQGcgvz6ZVLDddM7xCDyAoWklTCHN/s400/220px-Harvey_trailer_Stewart_Dow.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700157733754025666" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">------<br /></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">First Commenter:</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">xxxx</p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">To visit other SC week 90-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-centus-mea-culpa-and-another.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</p><p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-centus-mea-culpa-and-another.html#links" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">------<br /></p><h2 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="date-header"><span style="font-size:100%;">Saturday, January 21, 2012</span></h2> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" name="1968220779885332849"></a></span> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-centus-mea-culpa-and-another.html">Saturday Centus - a Mea Culpa AND another writing device</a></span> </h3> <p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to week ninety of Saturday Centus.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Please consider this picture as an official olive branch between us.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOzoCE0jXzLdNk8zv3xIMLamerHLeaaBcJkVpgz-o3ivRSzY-sWTkgvxZ6RqYXswX9NvuZC02q2MzEVa_t_my-GzyUYSkoqMtCCM1pyOQ8JkfXbMaakmt-9AGqp2PFzP4yQl9zVMHICU/s1600/olive+branch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699845324637877138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 273px; TEXT-ALIGN: left" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOzoCE0jXzLdNk8zv3xIMLamerHLeaaBcJkVpgz-o3ivRSzY-sWTkgvxZ6RqYXswX9NvuZC02q2MzEVa_t_my-GzyUYSkoqMtCCM1pyOQ8JkfXbMaakmt-9AGqp2PFzP4yQl9zVMHICU/s320/olive+branch.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;color:#666600;" >Mea culpa! Mea culpa!</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Since I simply cannot bring myself to use the phrase 'my bad' as an apology, all that remains is for me to say,"I'M SORRY!!!! I'M A JERK!!! AND A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!"</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Our nightmare of </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/little-leak-that-could.html">kitchen destruction </a><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >happened last Friday when I wrote the instructions for week 89. And, yes, that is my excuse. I did write you could use 100 words for part two, but then I reneged and made it 50.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;color:#666600;" >Mea culpa, mea culpa!<br /></span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >But I'm hoping this weeks challenge redeems me.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Please consider this both a formal apology AND a challenge for this week.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >How about an 'epilogue' to your cliff hanger?</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >You know...a new writing device for the week.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Epilogues are an inherent part of any story or poem and are essential to the structure of any written form. The epilogue is an important literary tool that acts as the afterword once the last chapter is over. The purpose of an epilogue is to add a little insight to some interesting developments that happen once the major plot is over.</em><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >So...</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS AN EPILOGUE OF BOTH PARTS OF YOUR CLIFFHANGER STORY</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >WORD COUNT - Since I cheated you on words last week, how about a few extra for this weeks prompt? Word count is not to exceed 150 words total.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >STYLE OF WRITING - Any</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED</span><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhul3tNl1zNdmdpDLrufZkCjL_Vgv2mMNF0FuYCdx6yjmcU6rirIllUAuOIFAYWzdIiIpOLcfVo4vTWL62r2dYWM-qNc51-7vr8LF_aE75QOqVcyjtlQFjcyYmMEhv8XNOz8cWdhcDinII/s1600/cliff+hanger.jpg"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694686270886060450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 253px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhul3tNl1zNdmdpDLrufZkCjL_Vgv2mMNF0FuYCdx6yjmcU6rirIllUAuOIFAYWzdIiIpOLcfVo4vTWL62r2dYWM-qNc51-7vr8LF_aE75QOqVcyjtlQFjcyYmMEhv8XNOz8cWdhcDinII/s320/cliff+hanger.jpg" border="0" /></strong></a><strong><br /></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Feel free to link up anytime between now and next Saturday!</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >If you still like me, that is.</span><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;"><strong style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:78%;color:#666600;">To quote one of our sweet Grandlittle's, I sorry.</span></strong><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-37766516199594767042012-01-18T12:06:00.002+01:002012-01-18T12:09:06.570+01:00Tina/parltradet has curated a new Etsy treasury: Just a touch of red for Valentine's Day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxODQ5NjcxMjA1&r=42810&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&"></script><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">xxx</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-61830788165237479892012-01-15T16:11:00.008+01:002012-01-16T11:19:35.678+01:00A Cliffhanger Part II - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 89<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXD4pT01Awpi4ZHX7zqLab-b5PuWgXo8-dyGDmz25hfuA-2MDIGgjgzDh7aiSty9tL78AceoV0qLjkaD58RAbmHpZhurZnLk-quIbqIV4CmpEWIlom5oYMiWHPJwM_uUoKY-5x7laO1pk/s1600/Pakten-barn-spannande1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGVDNElBQ3NcLUuyRVkhMxwe6jDmvk2AN6oCT9ZdhDJqD0yl4141YZ4b2Fg0x08guh64-3w5UAnpyHIyXZlkB8ImPy_3PVx5cq06m1smdbwaO75xoFvLssSP1m8H3rqITvc_CHUHnzHbP/s1600/cliff+hanger.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGVDNElBQ3NcLUuyRVkhMxwe6jDmvk2AN6oCT9ZdhDJqD0yl4141YZ4b2Fg0x08guh64-3w5UAnpyHIyXZlkB8ImPy_3PVx5cq06m1smdbwaO75xoFvLssSP1m8H3rqITvc_CHUHnzHbP/s400/cliff+hanger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695281302809214866" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to week eighty-nine of Saturday Centus.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">This is PART Two of last week's</strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> PROMPT, 'Hanging off a cliff!' </strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS A CONTINUATION OF YOUR STORY USING: Hanging off a cliff! </span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 50 words total.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >STYLE OF WRITING - Any </span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED</span><br /></strong><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br />Before we look at Part Two, let's re-read last week's text:<br />------<br /></span></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms"></strong></span></strong><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Charles took the footpath up the hill</strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight,</strong></span></strong></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave <span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">you hanging off a cliff</span>, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > <span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />With pencil and note<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >book in hand,</span></span> he heard a voice.<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > T</span>urning around, he felt the ground sinking.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" > 'No!' he gasped.</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><strong><strong face="trebuchet ms"></strong></strong></div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br />And now, the rest of the story:<br />------<br /></span></span></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"></strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Crawling toward the voice, Charles came to firmer ground, but found no one there. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Thinking he saw a light, </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >he found the right path. It was then he heard the wall, where he just stood, crashing to the rocks. Safe at home, he wondered who or what had saved him.</span></span></strong><br /></div><strong></strong></div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 50</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">P.S.<br />About part two:<br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I like happy endings. I am inspired by </span></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >a Danish children's TV Christmas series, <a href="http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagten"><span style="font-style: italic;">Pagten</span></a> (=<span style="font-style: italic;">The Pact</span>; The <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagten">Nowegian version</a> has more information, if you can read Norwegian.) by </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" href="http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Ils%C3%B8e" title="Maya Ilsøe">Maya Ilsøe</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span>about a family of gnomes who are invisible to most people except one special boy who can see and speak to them. It sounds corny, I know, but they did an excellent job. My idea is that Charles, who is alone on his walk, has been saved by gnomes.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://svt.se/2.168946/pakten"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 326px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IiuKyeWc4sBL4eZ9zV7VjJWFptBNT6stPl9y294WO2Kkg9ZP3sR4Lwl6M8JGe8pqELj0H3yoXYySlgU5U_aL0bpQgMKPxKhmVOJHpNg90WD7OgrKBhyvtuTNGBWMCP6Ngessnm1f5Qne/s400/pakten-barnkanalen-180.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698151117989591570" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://svt.se/2.168946/pakten"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZxLqgavdCL5oMHV54jansZa0oPan1OwMGIuagAtL-qi7HaKztT35XB88XSbH2RXgu5i2gptLy8XSW-ZqS4N5Z6gitzVYTeOlhfnRpVv7blijULtX0kaUCE_rQX8-vXcZpXIW0xghLgAc/s400/Pakten-barn-spannande1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698152320276718258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" href="http://svt.se/2.168946/pakten">Source: <span style="font-style: italic;">Pakten</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >-----</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > <br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></span><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03705021153044549156">Anita</a><br /></span></span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" dir="ltr" ><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03705021153044549156" rel="nofollow">anitamombanita</a></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzaHb9Xqi2w1h4V_uuy2T1LhwLL6pP5L4aBktBiS7LuTelfFFrnZOUJHAUtXGvUGB03Rk6v_bETNKndJfH45M3TYViAXLqQx6YP00ATI9_pfQLNQLjbvWcpxfwZ1pBYocvZwSve18L45Z/s1600/Anitamombanita+-+me-cuzco.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzaHb9Xqi2w1h4V_uuy2T1LhwLL6pP5L4aBktBiS7LuTelfFFrnZOUJHAUtXGvUGB03Rk6v_bETNKndJfH45M3TYViAXLqQx6YP00ATI9_pfQLNQLjbvWcpxfwZ1pBYocvZwSve18L45Z/s400/Anitamombanita+-+me-cuzco.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698170321591340210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >of<br /><a href="http://anitamombanita.blogspot.com/">Lovin' Life</a><br /><a href="http://anitamombanita.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus">Anita's Saturday Centus 89 - The Mountain Road Part II</a><br /></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other SC-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/narrative-ends-unresolved-to-draw.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />------<br />Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:<br /></span><br /></strong>Welcome to week eighty-nine of Saturday Centus.<br /><br />I am having a wicked time visiting blogs for some reason. Hopefully blogger will be more cooperative over the weekend.<br /><br />So...<br /><br />Last week we tried using the cliffhanger literary device...<br /><br />...and hopefully you literally left us hanging.<br /><br />There is no official prompt this week. Just a continuation of last weeks story.<br /><br />...and because I want to challenge you AGAIN...<br /><br />What about if we do the conclusion in fifty words.<br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />Five zero.<br /><br />I was going to do ten but I thought you'd all throw a revolt.<br /><br />So...<br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />------</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span></strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-2094838022821374522012-01-15T00:01:00.007+01:002012-01-16T21:09:10.558+01:00New Year's Resolution! Romantic Friday Writers' Challenge No. 29<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QbYFVIQ-nWwU7xJiFq8pvxbM0un1toCoQ7RfzWqDA_uwMaYu1__zFShvQjzJMkd_j4niDN3CfoZ3QrywxQkLU_kCKBMe-gKb6tV-nKG-heXHS2Ys4hiJqwOd2OWxk_G51L6zF7JQwSsv/s1600/Laura+IMG_1662.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GElfQOl5UKdYtSI9sMq4WLTppNoFuzVqcWIhVyl726lVZbs_6ROWnEc_kfwKzyed5jOSG-NY3-LUL_dO4HpXYS7hXwbDsGE4D-yrGAhWFGzuFcADcQiu8qlUOswdqSyBebtN6weXVeQy/s1600/New+Years%2527s+Resolution+RFW+-+whiterain2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GElfQOl5UKdYtSI9sMq4WLTppNoFuzVqcWIhVyl726lVZbs_6ROWnEc_kfwKzyed5jOSG-NY3-LUL_dO4HpXYS7hXwbDsGE4D-yrGAhWFGzuFcADcQiu8qlUOswdqSyBebtN6weXVeQy/s400/New+Years%2527s+Resolution+RFW+-+whiterain2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687536631779764754" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writers' fortnightly Writing Challenge, started and hosted by <a href="http://laussieswritingblog.blogspot.com/">Denise Covey, L'Aussie</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > where participants share their own 300-400-word text - story or poem - on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is '<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-style: italic;">New Year's Resolution</span>'.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My text is written directly for this REW-challenge.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is my text :</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-style: italic;"></span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;">New Year's Resolution</span><br /><br />Anita Karlsson found a moment to jot down her thoughts:<br /><br />Dear Diary,<br />Today is Friday the thirteenth of January 2012 and after several weeks of neglect I have finally found a space of time to put pen to paper and visit with you my friend since I was twelve. Imagine that! I have been writing to you for 37 years!<br /><br />I just recently had my forty-ninth birthday; next time I'll be fifty.<br /><br />I feel that this past year has been a crossroads for me. So much as happened. My cat met a feline-tabby-Casanova one very cold afternoon in February last year and gave birth to kittens in April. (I am still looking for homes for them.) </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >At about the same time, t</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >he divorce from Sverker became final. The most beautiful time of year - spring and summer - went to finding a new apartment, packing, moving and then unpacking. I'm not finished yet.<br /><br />Yes, dear diary, I know. I should write a <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">New Year's Resolution</span>. What would that be? 'I resolve to never marry a man like my former husband again'? It seems unlikely that I'll even find someone to remarry. But I wish I could. Someone who really likes me. Someone who might learn to love me too. Someone I like, of course.<br /><br />I could make a <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">New Year's Resolution</span> to stay cool and never to run after a man, even if I am infatuated in him. (I know. I scare the best ones off, like that cute guy Karl. He seemed interested at first and then cooled off.)<br /><br />(Why is love so fragile?)<br /><br />Now I know what I could promise! My <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">New Year's Resolution</span> is to take one day at a time. I read somewhere that 'how you spend your day, is how you fill your life*'.<br /><br />'Til next time, Dear Diary!<br />Your friend,<br />Anita<br /></span><br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">[Text copyright 2012 Christina Wigren]</span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 308; 'NCCO' - No Critque, Comments Only. </span> </div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID8vsUl22TfMDUi2VXUojfx5KjRo0bVstEXBisn-zRK2NCy2huOFGkrpRVc_BaKLobQMx_3mx4FUCopymUNQj2fsHJaLkCD-hj-YSddF9WjRzDRNc1xrFHDT9b0FE9t-vNqBvUB0dBNJz/s400/RFWcode.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662791348111633890" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s1600/critiquepoints_sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s400/critiquepoints_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684074749020015426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658604089777617138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >P.S.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This is a fictional text even if Anita Karlsson shares some of my experience. Before the internet and online blogging there was perhaps more writing in a diary or journal with a pen on paper. I have actually written (by hand) a diary since I was twelve years old. It is no literary gem, but it is a personal document that I am glad to have. Even if the texts in my diary tend to be boring, repetitive and not very deep, the act of writing every day has helped me write with ease, even if the quality of what I write needs proof-reading and editing. (I am such a bad speller!)<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">------</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />*This quote is from Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site '<a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/">Off My Tangent</a>'. I don't know if it is her own words or if she is quoting someone else.<br /><br />Oh no! I remembered incorrectly! This is what Jenny Matlock actually wrote (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12462124067637610359">here</a>):<br /></span></span> <blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Every morning when I get up I remind myself that "<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">how you live your days is how you live your life</span>." I try to live each day to the fullest. Always. Whether it is a sad day or a happy day or a day filled with memories and loss it is a day that will never come again. Carpe Diem.</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Sorry Jenny!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >P.P.S.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here are what the kittens looked like in April:</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFO1OBdWGytGkOhB2qWGWwMahhKiBtnn2L-PleI_JrRrka7MrXb3zbWjQ5qmTg7e9WlfS_xhz3Ry4BDheTcjaffDDMnuq2YWycdt3PUtpnI65ryusl_0YQZL4PI7pir33nJC207XS1bw4E/s1600/012-Pip.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFO1OBdWGytGkOhB2qWGWwMahhKiBtnn2L-PleI_JrRrka7MrXb3zbWjQ5qmTg7e9WlfS_xhz3Ry4BDheTcjaffDDMnuq2YWycdt3PUtpnI65ryusl_0YQZL4PI7pir33nJC207XS1bw4E/s400/012-Pip.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698183077744641730" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XevvLr8T-MAufxNuArUWefz8F7wL_G0qmlYOatSksW7RyZek8UStd-9ayUT77cXYWejmMtlrH3HgoUTmpVO2aE0-b7mwd1UNELyKknV88h3mX5wTXkiZ0GBNcYpTIaekMBnwrvTBLE9z/s1600/007-Cajsa%2527s+four+newborns.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03604785269958873474">Laura</a><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03604785269958873474"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QbYFVIQ-nWwU7xJiFq8pvxbM0un1toCoQ7RfzWqDA_uwMaYu1__zFShvQjzJMkd_j4niDN3CfoZ3QrywxQkLU_kCKBMe-gKb6tV-nKG-heXHS2Ys4hiJqwOd2OWxk_G51L6zF7JQwSsv/s400/Laura+IMG_1662.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698156796862733026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >of</span><br /><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://dailydodo.blogspot.com/"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The Daily Dodo</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dailydodo.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12886333496997952719">Ann Thompson</a><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgek_X14uTVue9qEDzjrCq9t8f3G2bI2TPlsKMk2J2X_KKjT0Ev3iERJ72HZw46KCodQl8_8TNUsciN9vo0mODRIHWsug_5xC344fjzY9baZjFX-HtCALOgSESpjcHOA5rcywo004IXo9pp/s400/Ann+Thompson+me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697564626642589602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />of<br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/">Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap</a><br /></span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-89683816021233849942012-01-12T12:22:00.009+01:002012-01-12T15:31:51.682+01:00H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows etc - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday - Round 4 - H<a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_THURS-2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUKP3zyS6-oaTVWnsdyAkHAjy_fXg0jSx5lEg0aey5lWnsKzSDvs0DjnPdkyP9hIaUSjCb-dP5r3d8e96MLc_xRa7OKQix6PCuEVHoet9mAkqoRX9OoAqhqBJPddJ84i7tTgl-k8_2BGcI/s1600/teacher.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUKP3zyS6-oaTVWnsdyAkHAjy_fXg0jSx5lEg0aey5lWnsKzSDvs0DjnPdkyP9hIaUSjCb-dP5r3d8e96MLc_xRa7OKQix6PCuEVHoet9mAkqoRX9OoAqhqBJPddJ84i7tTgl-k8_2BGcI/s400/teacher.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694821142678859570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've have missed A through F; started last week with G; and now we have come to the letter H!<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fcxdytZCiT2vquLnKhM11juARXWARzP2OhLrV-0HArBKLOGXj7-x5QON78LdryqBOMAeG4EkE2s9txRLIDZJOtXN9QiNVaUSWPIosUyyY2aX-YOtq97e6I3wrVWfq_XmxPQibYnl3snW/s1600/Letter+H.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fcxdytZCiT2vquLnKhM11juARXWARzP2OhLrV-0HArBKLOGXj7-x5QON78LdryqBOMAeG4EkE2s9txRLIDZJOtXN9QiNVaUSWPIosUyyY2aX-YOtq97e6I3wrVWfq_XmxPQibYnl3snW/s400/Letter+H.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696705488469734834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />This week's letter is H, and here is little ditty for the letter H:</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">H is for Heatpumps, Hedgerows and Health,</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Heather and Holly with a little gnome</span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Happiness and Heart plus Heaps of wealth ,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">H is for Hope; that makes a House a Home.</span><br />------<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br />Anna<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />First Commenter:<br /><a href="http://www.storybeader.com/2009/01/welcome-to-stroll-through-storyland.html">Deb</a><br />of<br /><a href="http://www.storybeader.com/2012/01/alphabethursday-h-is-for-house.html">The storybeader's journal</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.storybeader.com/2012/01/alphabethursday-h-is-for-house.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil58tW_9T9XI93qSexyoTYpD3w9-Ut5_JefnL2H6cqb6kqcbJzuileCkohTwhzI8OZzjYbm2b4fnu7pOt7COTB37G3luG6GSIeiekOStKOsKFFxyo5wB0u_Y5BwZtRawyT-k2_LxdhMVho/s400/Story-beader+-+marcie+and+woodstock.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696752150841374850" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other posts about the letter H, please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/alphabe-thursday-letter-h.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_THURS-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:<br /><br />Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.<br /><br />I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!<br /><br />If you have any difficulties with your link, <em>please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me</em>. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.<br /><br />If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.<br /><br />The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!<br /><br />And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit <strong>at least</strong> 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.<br /></div><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-91841057441977822752012-01-08T10:21:00.003+01:002012-01-10T22:30:35.816+01:00A Cliff-Hanger Part I - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 88<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGVDNElBQ3NcLUuyRVkhMxwe6jDmvk2AN6oCT9ZdhDJqD0yl4141YZ4b2Fg0x08guh64-3w5UAnpyHIyXZlkB8ImPy_3PVx5cq06m1smdbwaO75xoFvLssSP1m8H3rqITvc_CHUHnzHbP/s1600/cliff+hanger.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGVDNElBQ3NcLUuyRVkhMxwe6jDmvk2AN6oCT9ZdhDJqD0yl4141YZ4b2Fg0x08guh64-3w5UAnpyHIyXZlkB8ImPy_3PVx5cq06m1smdbwaO75xoFvLssSP1m8H3rqITvc_CHUHnzHbP/s400/cliff+hanger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695281302809214866" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">T</strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">HE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: Hanging off a cliff! (Might as well be literal while we're attempting to use this literary device!)<br />WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 100 words plus the 4 words of the prompt. 104 words total.<br />STYLE OF WRITING - Any so long as you utilize a cliffhanger writing device to wrap your story up. Next week we'll do an additional 100 words for the rest of the story.<br />ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED</strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br />Here is my text:<br />------<br /></span></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Charles took the footpath up the hill</strong></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> overlooking the town and the bay. It was misty at twilight,</strong></span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > but he could still see the reflections of the city-lights in the sea. It started to rain when he reached the top, which was above a wall of seabirds' nests. They dug into the limestone making it hollow and it could crumple under your weight and leave <span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">you hanging off a cliff</span>, if you were lucky enough not to fall 400 meters down onto the rocks.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > <span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />With pencil and note<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >book in hand,</span></span> he heard a voice.<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > T</span>urning around, he felt the ground sinking.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > 'No!' he gasped.</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><strong><strong face="trebuchet ms"></strong></strong></div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><br /></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 104</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">P.S.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This text is fictional, but the landscape and bird life are inspired by my many nature-walks when I lived on Iceland for a time, many years ago. But that was a very wild, natural landscape, with no city-lights reflected in the waters of a bay. It was a beautiful but dangerous place. Sometimes tourists did fall off cliffs and die. </span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Another source of inspiration for this text is one of the first scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_%281940_film%29">Rebecca</a>, after </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Daphne du Maurier's</span></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > novel, with the same name,</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > where Maxin de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier) is standing a little too close to the edge of a cliff over-looking Monte Carlo. This is were he meets his second (and never named) wife, played by actress Joan Fontaine.</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><br />Judie McEwen<br /><br /></span></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlD10eH2pqiGKw6JcP5aWGa6h6xQ03WW5p6P2_7qJ8zmSeIMcjYqYafOleaEf8CD27udEn7989TrQvdF6-H2-2JGzVXUJ5grCNTjjUtDn2UScx4xo6tPVsQe4VL47m2ROk9b1ol2DdOfK/s1600/judie+in+cancun.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBlD10eH2pqiGKw6JcP5aWGa6h6xQ03WW5p6P2_7qJ8zmSeIMcjYqYafOleaEf8CD27udEn7989TrQvdF6-H2-2JGzVXUJ5grCNTjjUtDn2UScx4xo6tPVsQe4VL47m2ROk9b1ol2DdOfK/s400/judie+in+cancun.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696117437125437170" border="0" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />of<br /><br /><a href="http://rogueartistsspeak.blogspot.com/2012/01/midnight-phone-call.html">Rogue Artists</a><br /><br /></span></span></strong><a href="http://rogueartistsspeak.blogspot.com/2012/01/midnight-phone-call.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF4ck1vC57sfxONdfYEyMEVSUws9hmyI1nmM_VvRZgOvTfQgUfh4nTu4KKWqaALhNOR2W-7echZHMOHjqubS8cdcm0-QeatBr1BUAL4wnGLOVVlffRdNT3RTpuUmfeXOWngPj24mn2GTaj/s400/rogue%252520artists.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696118689490409570" border="0" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other SC-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/narrative-ends-unresolved-to-draw.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />------<br />Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:<br /></span><br /></strong><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Welcome to week eighty-eight of Saturday Centus. I am only one week behind in reading now! Go me!<br /><br />So...<br /><br />It's a new year and I'm feeling like we should stretch our brains just a tiny bit to rid ourselves of the last residues of fudge and sugar cookies.<br /><br />Let's try a two week Saturday Centus.<br /><br />Using a literary device.<br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />I said a literary device.<br /><br />It's good for you.<br /><br />Don't groan. Please.<br /><br />This week I thought we could try to use a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger is defined as: The narrative ends unresolved, to draw the audience back to a future episode for the resolution.<br /><br />Thus...<br /><br />The two part challenge.<br /><br />Next week we will conclude our cliffhanger centus.<br /><br />Cool, right?</div><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.</span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />------</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span></strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-65980091820112333582012-01-07T10:31:00.011+01:002012-01-10T07:38:57.162+01:00G is for Gardens, etc... Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday, Round 4 - G<a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_THURS-2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUKP3zyS6-oaTVWnsdyAkHAjy_fXg0jSx5lEg0aey5lWnsKzSDvs0DjnPdkyP9hIaUSjCb-dP5r3d8e96MLc_xRa7OKQix6PCuEVHoet9mAkqoRX9OoAqhqBJPddJ84i7tTgl-k8_2BGcI/s1600/teacher.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUKP3zyS6-oaTVWnsdyAkHAjy_fXg0jSx5lEg0aey5lWnsKzSDvs0DjnPdkyP9hIaUSjCb-dP5r3d8e96MLc_xRa7OKQix6PCuEVHoet9mAkqoRX9OoAqhqBJPddJ84i7tTgl-k8_2BGcI/s400/teacher.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694821142678859570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's weekly Challenge, Alphabe-Thursday, now in its fourth round! I've missed A through F; but this is not my first round with Mrs. Jenny.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIU9BAV0-ve3XPSs0oQ0kGYqty21d8hsqoVPhZoYqAtPUKAZD3MPNL-RXeK4nN3c4mkTr3oMI04dtcODIHxWYWNv6DY-7h1tTMLHdNTZcEO7WILyu9MHO9y-EUw0y5N2Z-ADgeECqmUxt/s1600/Letter+G.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIU9BAV0-ve3XPSs0oQ0kGYqty21d8hsqoVPhZoYqAtPUKAZD3MPNL-RXeK4nN3c4mkTr3oMI04dtcODIHxWYWNv6DY-7h1tTMLHdNTZcEO7WILyu9MHO9y-EUw0y5N2Z-ADgeECqmUxt/s400/Letter+G.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694821147400009458" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />This week's letter is G, and here is my offering:</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">G is for Gardens, Green and Growing,</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Great and Gracious, doing as it should,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Generous, Glad and always Glowing,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br face="trebuchet ms" style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">G is Grateful for all that is Good.</span><br />------<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br />Anna<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />First Commenter:<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03705021153044549156">Anita</a><br />of<br /><a href="http://anitamombanita.blogspot.com/2012/01/mountain-road.html">Anitmombanita</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://anitamombanita.blogspot.com/2012/01/mountain-road.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDq0KR9AbOjTxAkKlvBZnOYrPxSq2RIDGRVBeVjdxec0lwKmxcgwoKHOBkF_je4S7KzqMwiO1Rc3eN5lbFu2grjWUuzUMM7lyyKNuRSW24SlePFOoAFcX9DPq1yPHPGP2XLzlSi-_s7HR/s400/Anitamombanita+-+me-cuzco.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5695888430707289506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other posts about the letter G, please go to this<a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2012/01/alphabe-thursdays-letter-g.html#links"> site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_THURS-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:<br /><br />Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.<br /><br />I also want to let you know that each week I visit every blog. If it appears I haven't visited your blog by the following Thursday morning, please let me know! I have been super behind...I've had this ongoing strep issue for almost 10 days now but I promise I will be by!<br /><br />If you have any difficulties with your link, <em>please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me</em>. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.<br /><br />If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.<br /><br />The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!<br /><br />And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and visit <strong>at least</strong> 10 other students (perhaps the 5 students before and after your post). The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.<br /></div><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-53428194913889400602012-01-02T01:09:00.002+01:002012-01-02T12:53:10.329+01:00Resolution Schmezolution: Cissi & Cassy - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 87<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTn2HnUyNGmB6DTyVRpyx7RNF-5EQTtaV5qQKhyphenhyphen56zav1hKbMi5CQNaoN7JulRGn9b-skve_hI-Muxr_rtEmd4ectFbXPYmSNLflbwOy7IpUSR4oxeoWMmrw2S-TFeSR9cdDxNQI6iZY_J/s1600/resolutions-angusandphil.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTn2HnUyNGmB6DTyVRpyx7RNF-5EQTtaV5qQKhyphenhyphen56zav1hKbMi5CQNaoN7JulRGn9b-skve_hI-Muxr_rtEmd4ectFbXPYmSNLflbwOy7IpUSR4oxeoWMmrw2S-TFeSR9cdDxNQI6iZY_J/s400/resolutions-angusandphil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692953370754970946" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to week eighty-seven of Saturday Centus.</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;">THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Resolution! Schmezolution!</span><br />WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 100 words plus the 2 words of the prompt. 102 words total.<br />STYLE OF WRITING - Any<br />ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED</strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br />Here is my text:<br />------<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uU6_1885PdzhryYHPEkyICBansiOVUmY90SzJ05gAh8PNVaNGHpIF41wRp-OLuQ1B5lkpTpPKPqHcKYe41ILhovpsLJxLKmpA7AwoDwemP1AcwOLJsb-7OIzieoc_vqE9GSZ8dAz_Jw/s1600/Christmas+bacon+tree.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uU6_1885PdzhryYHPEkyICBansiOVUmY90SzJ05gAh8PNVaNGHpIF41wRp-OLuQ1B5lkpTpPKPqHcKYe41ILhovpsLJxLKmpA7AwoDwemP1AcwOLJsb-7OIzieoc_vqE9GSZ8dAz_Jw/s320/Christmas+bacon+tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686892223476069666" border="0" /></a><br /><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Cissi and Cassy lay next to Cissi's sausage-Christmas-tree.*<br /><br />'Cissi darling',</strong><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> purred Cassy,</strong><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">'have you made any New Year's resolutions?'<br /><br />'</strong><strong style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Resolution! Schmezolution!</span></strong><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">' meowed Cissi stretching her furry body to its full length',</strong><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </strong><strong face="trebuchet ms" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">We're cats! What cat makes NewYear's Resolutions?'<br /><br />'The two-leggeds do it all the time. And having a Christmas tree is not a very cat-like thing to do.'<br /><br />'You're right. Well, the tree goes out tomorrow and I resolve to only live like a cat. There! That's mine. What's yours, Cassy?.'<br /><br />'To never make any promises I can't keep!'<br /><br />'Oh,' yawned Cissi closing her eyes.<br /></strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><br /></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 102</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />*P.S.<br />If you've missed the first post with Cissi and Cassy go read it <a href="http://annasadornments.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-christmas-tree-picture-prompt-mrs.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><a href="http://happierthanapiginmud.blogspot.com/">Happier Than A Pig in Mud<br /></a><br /></span></span></strong><a href="http://happierthanapiginmud.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwOFBcmfzG0hB-M4bsLno6x9QeIYsaT6KIsMnDlOaeQJ5NgnjYELcbbPPAm_CFvjt4NVkdPErdE5ZcVt9ml3mj1Zs-vOLV-KpyFos4pL7h1IHwVmGRqfF1Gu4n7_0S0JWl7j_rv63IPqxa/s400/Happier+than+a+pig+in+mud+-+words+2+002+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693000865247880450" border="0" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other SC-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-centus-resolution.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />------<br />Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:<br /></span><br /></strong><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Welcome to week eighty-seven of Saturday Centus. Happy New Year Centusians! Don't hate me cuz I'm so late visiting! Life has been extremely 'life-y' lately!<br /><br />Sending you warm wishes for a safe and festive New Years Eve and the start of beautiful 2012!</div><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.</span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />------</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span></strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-58406026209304122312011-12-29T15:47:00.004+01:002011-12-31T07:05:16.113+01:00'Ties That Bind' - 'The House Call' - Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No 28 - Friday 30th December 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBU9tKBhi88t1WS_gzyFxyNaZRN5lP_6JGaNfc8-oru0M6rx4JvL6Jksh0S2K6x8K1y9yOYdQ22F4MWgFzPsI-4iWmuUmZopuB6iifHLYH7-Ib2IiWWfE9f70MRWd5dUS3VwE3eC-jzMMv/s1600/Ties+that+bind+whiterain2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBU9tKBhi88t1WS_gzyFxyNaZRN5lP_6JGaNfc8-oru0M6rx4JvL6Jksh0S2K6x8K1y9yOYdQ22F4MWgFzPsI-4iWmuUmZopuB6iifHLYH7-Ib2IiWWfE9f70MRWd5dUS3VwE3eC-jzMMv/s400/Ties+that+bind+whiterain2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684078766265036738" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNjm8qB1q63_2MY0qwbe7tFfCaQ3wrd4dtR3MVDYrCIlDSUjJLvjq6V5OM1brm0q6A9iHwd-VdOYUtyu7CJu3R-fLpmdAPZwwIB_vs2IdHagWBaSCoz-Tz88jCxpK2eKL6dgIZUZraAzA/s1600/Sparkle+REW+whiterain2.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Bi-Weekly Challenge, started and hosted by <a href="http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/p/denise.html"></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span dir="ltr"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439" rel="nofollow">DeniseCovey_L'Aussie</a>, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >where participants share their own 300-400-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 30th December, Challenge No. 28, is '<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-style: italic;">Ties That Bind</span>'.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My text is written directly for this REW-challenge.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is my text :</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-style: italic;">The House-Call<br /><br /></span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >She was only fourteen in 1941</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >,<br />And had just taken one step away from childhood,<br />When she fell ill with high fever and red spots.<br /><br />It was late December,<br />And colder than ever remembered,<br />There was war everywhere else except here.<br /><br />A very bad strain of an infectious disease spread throughout the town.<br />Several children had already died.<br />Although an unoccupied country,<br />It was still not a good place to become ill.<br /><br />Water-pipes froze in apartment buildings,<br />So tenants had no drinking-water.<br />But their house was better built.<br /><br />There were no heaters in motor vehicles,<br />Not even in ambulances,<br />Should she be taken to hospital?<br />She was better off at home.<br /><br />In fever-dreams she heard the doctor say:<br />'She won't last the night'.<br />But she didn't care.<br />She was going to Heaven.<br /><br />Her temperature was almost 40 degrees Celsius.*<br />Outside, it was almost minus 40 degrees Celsius.**<br /><br />But she didn't care.<br />She had just taken one step away from childhood,<br />And now one step away from life.<br /><br />The young doctor thought of a new drug that might help her.<br />He took it upon himself to fetch Sulfa at the army compound.<br />That was where the lastest medicines were first tried out.<br />But what dose should he use? Would the same dose for a tall soldier?<br />Be too strong for a fourteen-year-old girl?<br /><br />The Sulfa worked.<br />The fever broke.<br />It seemed that she would survive.<br />But she went into a coma,<br />That lasted twenty-one days.<br /><br />With no way to feed her or give her drink,<br />She nearly starved to death.<br /><br />But after three weeks she woke up.<br />She looked like a prisoner of war,<br />Who just left a concentration camp.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The skirt she once wore fell off when she tried to stand;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >And then she fell, because she could neither walk nor stand.<br /><br />So much forgotten during three weeks' sleep.<br />She had forgotten what she had learned in school, too.<br />She had just taken one step from childhood,<br />But it seemed to be one step back into infancy.<br /><br />Mother, Father and Nurse, all took turns walking with her,<br />So much to relearn,<br />If she were to return to life,<br />And everything exhausted her.<br /><br />It was now she recalled what she heard the doctor say,<br />In her fever-dream,<br />Now she understood,<br />And cared,<br />And cried and cried;<br />She felt afraid,<br />And knew that she had almost died,<br />But was restored to life.<br /><br />------<br /><br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc:</a> 400; 'FCA' (Full Critique Acceptable)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Footnotes:<br /></span></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">*40 degrees Celsius = 104 degrees Fahrenheit<br />** minus 40 degrees Celsius = minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit</span><br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">[Text copyright 2011 Christina Wigren]</span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID8vsUl22TfMDUi2VXUojfx5KjRo0bVstEXBisn-zRK2NCy2huOFGkrpRVc_BaKLobQMx_3mx4FUCopymUNQj2fsHJaLkCD-hj-YSddF9WjRzDRNc1xrFHDT9b0FE9t-vNqBvUB0dBNJz/s400/RFWcode.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662791348111633890" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s1600/critiquepoints_sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s400/critiquepoints_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684074749020015426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658604089777617138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >P.S.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >This poem/story is based on fact. The girl in the story is someone whom I know very well and who is still alive today as I write this text.<br /><br />Sulfa was a new drug in 1941; it was later used to induce coma when needed; but they did not know that back then. This was before antibiotics (which would not have helped much because the Measles is a viral infection) and before the use of IV-bags/bottles to hydrate or medicate a patient.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Sorry about the lack of romance, folks! This is actually a real-life Cinderella-story. But this is only 'part one'; she meets her prince in 'part two'.<br />------<br />If I were to write a purely fictional story, I could make the young doctor fall in love with the girl whose life he saved. But that is not what actually happened. I feel it is my duty to keep this story as true to the original facts as possible.<br /><br />I am fascinated by the idea that one person's actions can help another person survive or let them die. In this case, I wish I knew more about the facts. I could kick myself for not asking the right questions at a time when I had access to a person who was there at the time. I am not sure that the doctor had this medicine with him when he visited the fever-ridden girl. Maybe he really did have to make a trip out in minus 40 degree weather in order to get the Sulfa. What possessed him to do that? Youthful curiosity? A sense of professional pride and duty? Or did the fact that his boss was a close friend of the girl's father make him try a little harder?<br /><br />There are so many questions that I may never find a definite answer to. Did he suffer afterward, as a result of this outing in the bitter cold? Or maybe he was dressed well enough. Was the fact that other young patients had died of the Measles a factor in his decision? Maybe he decided that he would do all that was possible so that there would be no more deaths?<br /><br />What I would like to do for this doctor, is to at least find out who he was. There is a hospital archive through which I may be able to identify him. I would like to honour the memory of the man who saved the life of this girl in 1941, seventy years ago.<br /></span><br /></div><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439">Denise Covey</a><br />of<br /></span></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" class="_inlinkzA" title="Go to http://laussieswritingblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/romanticfridaywriters-challenge-no-28.html " target="_blank" href="http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=4669872">L'Aussie Denise</a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKUfx-WpRyUEaAWmddpm3SVRSQI7V5iZBFGy2ZYBOujqF1mqILWcfSt4OUarDaAX6mFU_rFXFZS5ikUSpGJYTJebwHKzmQPaVdIAq3C9yuvhiWVhf_CB-21owC0sDiqTi6qZAmLqB0hEX/s1600/denise+nature+and+health.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDKUfx-WpRyUEaAWmddpm3SVRSQI7V5iZBFGy2ZYBOujqF1mqILWcfSt4OUarDaAX6mFU_rFXFZS5ikUSpGJYTJebwHKzmQPaVdIAq3C9yuvhiWVhf_CB-21owC0sDiqTi6qZAmLqB0hEX/s400/denise+nature+and+health.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5692162654832427058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To read other texts for Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No. 28, with the theme <span style="font-style: italic;">'</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-style: italic;">Ties That Bind</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">'</span>, please visit this <a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/">site</a><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"> </a>or click on the image below:</span></span><br /></div><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzePVBQd8NCuOF1sLDt2QJ6GIAKONSzjpLE9p2ps2HeAPudQUFwQeY0Yt_w_pQwZFv9_0uaWvPOWhzaWrXUGmNDVrPjcEAXpTHT2LOPuylBx1s38x-dRU-gjzRoFpz4VX40PzU_fk3K06t/s400/aromantic+image+blue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658605446870914674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-936472391015431572011-12-25T19:21:00.001+01:002011-12-25T22:17:54.551+01:00'I heard... 'Mrs.Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus week eighty-six<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmkVSR8pCTnD3kNXI5Hjs1n3B_AN75_SUEhFU7srAm1pgMoCQD2GBcyCCeO78M8Iykse5OA5FCbeNDRc7h8Si5p4TQe2JnKt5wxrh6poqthHYCrwGreCTYttGQbJh2usDV6y3hW_O70RG/s1600/rogue%252520artists.jpg"></a><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Welcome to week eighty-six of Saturday Centus.</span><br /><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><strong style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS: </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I heard an angel voice through the chaos and the noise...</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 200 words plus the 11 words of the prompt. 211 words total.</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">STYLE OF WRITING - Any</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ADDITIONAL PICTURES IF DESIRED</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">------</span><br />Here is my text:<br />------<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span></strong><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />'Whatever happened to the spirit of Christmas?' moaned Caroline sitting at the café after visits to ten different stores.<br /><br />'You can buy Dickens' <span style="font-style: italic;">A</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Christmas Carol</span> on DVD at this new store, ' said Roger flipping through a catalog.<br /><br />'That's not what I mean, Roger. I mean something that you cannot buy at the mall.'<br /><br />'Oh.'<br /><br />'Can't we just celebrate Christmas quietly?'<br /><br />'What about the children? Aren't we going to play Santa Claus?'<br /><br />'Yes, of course. But sometimes I wish there would be an electrical blackout just after the food is cooked, that would let us speak softly to one another. Shall we go?'<br /><br />'Just a moment. Take a look at this first', said Roger handing her a thin volume.'<br /><br /></strong><blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Life can be confusing and filled with the madness of crowds.<br />Take heed and see that you do not loose your way.<br />Let goodness and mercy, be your guide.<br />I too have been lost, but then <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">I heard an angel voice<br />through the chaos and the noise</span></strong><span> </span><strong face="trebuchet ms">and I knew it was the right</strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong face="trebuchet ms"> way.</strong></span></blockquote><strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><br />'Sounds good to me. Let's go there!' said Caroline smiling and took Roger by the hand.<br /><br /></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------<br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 199</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469">Judie</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiCOPobMkpxU6ksqaVlB0quoQWc1uzpW3rqxrNgCeO9NGwqghMJmBUGPvNuMAc7FPrmH2tTA-aa8fhm5nR33rJBAVPPmRexcxppxZ_8P0jbwt7jQZA_uw3KFMIWoxk11EtkAHmG6JfgclH/s400/judie+in+cancun.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690177580629340866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >of<br /><a href="http://rogueartistsspeak.blogspot.com/2011/12/rogues-car-trip.html">Rogue Artists</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://rogueartistsspeak.blogspot.com/2011/12/rogues-car-trip.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmkVSR8pCTnD3kNXI5Hjs1n3B_AN75_SUEhFU7srAm1pgMoCQD2GBcyCCeO78M8Iykse5OA5FCbeNDRc7h8Si5p4TQe2JnKt5wxrh6poqthHYCrwGreCTYttGQbJh2usDV6y3hW_O70RG/s400/rogue%252520artists.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690177584042730610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other SC-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2011/12/welcome-to-week-eighty-six-of-saturday.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />------<br />Here are Mrs. Jenny Matlock's instructions:<br /></span><br /></strong><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Welcome to week eighty-six of Saturday Centus. Please accept my warmest wishes for a lovely holiday. I know that sounds really cheesy, but I totally mean it. I love the little community of support and encouragement that we've built together here.<br /></div><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.</span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />------</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-72021328469513867152011-12-18T12:56:00.005+01:002011-12-25T19:28:11.989+01:00Happy Birthday Erik! Ten years old December 18th, 2011<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This announcement is in the local newspaper, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Norrköpings Tidningar</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > on 23th of December:</span><br style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayFLkU8VUcpCZq3l8T4Zgo1-vOp6F7f9dw03yaCSBeCzsO5xNxNRpSmcSYJXCSNXh5bPb0jHC1C6YVlkj81jH06Fm6w-ceATb5w4iD5xF7pSFZmvFQaAYq57ljl1LYId3_a0f7hl8SdzZ/s1600/Erik+181663191ImgnoBGnoBordernoDelimit.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayFLkU8VUcpCZq3l8T4Zgo1-vOp6F7f9dw03yaCSBeCzsO5xNxNRpSmcSYJXCSNXh5bPb0jHC1C6YVlkj81jH06Fm6w-ceATb5w4iD5xF7pSFZmvFQaAYq57ljl1LYId3_a0f7hl8SdzZ/s400/Erik+181663191ImgnoBGnoBordernoDelimit.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689664768412459458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Erik turned ten years old on 18th December 2011!</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Happy Birthday Erik!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Draped around Erik's shoulders is Erik's favourite cat, Kalle (whom Erik calls a boy cat, but who is actually a girl cat named Mathilda).<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Ann Thompson<br />of<br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/">Ann's Snap, Edit, Scrap</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisG0uJnoVVKi0kW1TacrEIPwzDOKwzXVjs962aw4Vs_LSVHiLucBq9kgUyT6p_dObPozbtbfHlYvJ78FuI9o6XCvt9bywCxSF7xsA-kxwWRW-k-TgMZ6KRVOLxf_xpfYHWKnjUehFXQfVU/s400/Ann+Thompson+-+me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689759598622425458" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></span><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-69803955661943244532011-12-17T09:42:00.001+01:002011-12-24T19:14:37.151+01:00Cissi's Christmas tree - Picture Prompt - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus - Week No. 85<p align="left"><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a></p><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Welcome to week eighty-five of Saturday Centus.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">THE PROMPT THIS WEEK IS A PICTURE PROMPT!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uU6_1885PdzhryYHPEkyICBansiOVUmY90SzJ05gAh8PNVaNGHpIF41wRp-OLuQ1B5lkpTpPKPqHcKYe41ILhovpsLJxLKmpA7AwoDwemP1AcwOLJsb-7OIzieoc_vqE9GSZ8dAz_Jw/s1600/Christmas+bacon+tree.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uU6_1885PdzhryYHPEkyICBansiOVUmY90SzJ05gAh8PNVaNGHpIF41wRp-OLuQ1B5lkpTpPKPqHcKYe41ILhovpsLJxLKmpA7AwoDwemP1AcwOLJsb-7OIzieoc_vqE9GSZ8dAz_Jw/s320/Christmas+bacon+tree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686892223476069666" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WORD COUNT - Not to exceed 50 words. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">STYLE OF WRITING - Any</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">NO ADDITIONAL PICTURES<br />------<br />Here is my text:<br />------<br />'Very pretty, Cissi, but are they edible?'<br /><br />'Of course!' replied Cissi, 'And how have <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> decorated <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> tree?'<br /><br />'With those little gold-coloured smoked<span style="font-style: italic;"> Böckling</span>. So yummy!' meowed Cassy, 'When are you planning to eat these decorations?'<br /><br />'On Christmas Eve', purred Cissi</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, licking her whiskers</span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.<br />------<br />Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 50</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,<br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWFCPnXhhWDt6DxLRlzkh_LBlTK38DhjEK8IsZfkQs0a4jF_osxJkCYobZrrxcQayUOOs8Mh8I3brGxF-CzGxLa937b_pVGCTOSsjifkopPpGHTGr-I7tcUhHqj2cuBC_mP-3aokIeeeHA/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684919444763274930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Ann Thompson<br />of<br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/">Ann's Snap, Edit, Scrap</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisG0uJnoVVKi0kW1TacrEIPwzDOKwzXVjs962aw4Vs_LSVHiLucBq9kgUyT6p_dObPozbtbfHlYvJ78FuI9o6XCvt9bywCxSF7xsA-kxwWRW-k-TgMZ6KRVOLxf_xpfYHWKnjUehFXQfVU/s400/Ann+Thompson+-+me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689759598622425458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To visit other SC-posts please go to this <a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-centus-oh-christmas-tree.html#links">site</a> or click on the image below:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus" target="_blank"><img alt="Jenny Matlock" src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l148/kha02a/jennysidebar_button_SAT-2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />------<br />Here are Mrs. Matlock's instructions:<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The regular restrictions apply: PG, no splitting of the prompt, play nicely and visit the other entries, any style or genre of writing you prefer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Please display my link button or just a hyper-link back to Saturday Centus. Be careful to link your SC URL to the Linky and not just link to your main blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">E-mail me directly with ???'s or ask your question in a comment and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.</span></strong><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />------</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-14224544942454810922011-12-16T01:10:00.004+01:002011-12-23T09:46:14.091+01:00Sparkle! Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No.27 on Friday 16th December 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNjm8qB1q63_2MY0qwbe7tFfCaQ3wrd4dtR3MVDYrCIlDSUjJLvjq6V5OM1brm0q6A9iHwd-VdOYUtyu7CJu3R-fLpmdAPZwwIB_vs2IdHagWBaSCoz-Tz88jCxpK2eKL6dgIZUZraAzA/s1600/Sparkle+REW+whiterain2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNjm8qB1q63_2MY0qwbe7tFfCaQ3wrd4dtR3MVDYrCIlDSUjJLvjq6V5OM1brm0q6A9iHwd-VdOYUtyu7CJu3R-fLpmdAPZwwIB_vs2IdHagWBaSCoz-Tz88jCxpK2eKL6dgIZUZraAzA/s400/Sparkle+REW+whiterain2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684069327704574898" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5iKCnJwoD1fhIrnAS-2s9QNx5G6SU0t-TLZsWcIaYM1uuFBiQ7aqMtmOjk3HirhJ1KLnuM4Ikz3s972IWfhOvtkSZf2vX8p5HZZU3dLjoKYkdFKpxrbWkFM64EM6aBKijCr0KlAh9v-5/s1600/132+-+Lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingor.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio5iKCnJwoD1fhIrnAS-2s9QNx5G6SU0t-TLZsWcIaYM1uuFBiQ7aqMtmOjk3HirhJ1KLnuM4Ikz3s972IWfhOvtkSZf2vX8p5HZZU3dLjoKYkdFKpxrbWkFM64EM6aBKijCr0KlAh9v-5/s400/132+-+Lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686814641322682402" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Welcome to the Romantic Friday Writing Challenge, started and hosted by <a href="http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/p/denise.html">L'Aussie Denise</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > where participants share their own 300-400-word text on a given theme. This week's theme for Friday, 16th December, Challenge No. 27, is '<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-style: italic;">Sparkle</span>'.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My text is written directly for this REW-challenge.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is my text :</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-------</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-style: italic;">Sparkle<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >'Let's bow before we begin. Hold your violin under your right arm, and let the bow hang from your index finger. One - two - three.' Mrs Nichols and her pupil, Sara, bowed to each other.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sonja Nichols and my son, Erik</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > bow to each other before their lesson:<br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXuusW473Yu21a1TxVjyFFou8F557RXnrF0SBIfw2yCFdDq0favYFmTGa2mufAKeeqSlbgyMjssXo-KK7_a_LVj9rhz4e7F9WS-pCikoOPAG8KpwoAzbvcZh0rFpplyLqhnbk40a8_dmZ/s1600/119-+L%25C3%25A5t+oss+buga+innan+vi+b%25C3%25B6rjar+lektionen.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXuusW473Yu21a1TxVjyFFou8F557RXnrF0SBIfw2yCFdDq0favYFmTGa2mufAKeeqSlbgyMjssXo-KK7_a_LVj9rhz4e7F9WS-pCikoOPAG8KpwoAzbvcZh0rFpplyLqhnbk40a8_dmZ/s400/119-+L%25C3%25A5t+oss+buga+innan+vi+b%25C3%25B6rjar+lektionen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686831256626360530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRibgSrgza84UmGIM-EOv5fMAwy8t0AsGHzYfiq12YP5wNyvQLdATQxREEGHVT0P9eQWEiLvcOh87_yiE5aPtVe90ob_k25a_Lvs6K0CYM-zlAk3c_CZB65U_hEjcWWdCjJn8pQMAefpnJ/s1600/127-Bugning-+Sonja+Nichols+och+Erik+H.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRibgSrgza84UmGIM-EOv5fMAwy8t0AsGHzYfiq12YP5wNyvQLdATQxREEGHVT0P9eQWEiLvcOh87_yiE5aPtVe90ob_k25a_Lvs6K0CYM-zlAk3c_CZB65U_hEjcWWdCjJn8pQMAefpnJ/s400/127-Bugning-+Sonja+Nichols+och+Erik+H.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686814650613339346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Then the teacher took out a large toy dice and gave it to the pale blond seven-year-old: 'One, three or five, I choose; two, four or six, you choose'. Sara threw the dice and it turned up three. 'Let's play Twinkle. Shall I play the violin or the piano?'</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sonja Nichols is looking at how my son, Erik</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >, is holding his violin and bow.</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAPDZ3fGEU4qzblUURQu45rxlKsbWEVDvNPeYtTF7O_EBMbIOAQ7MJYCa2ra7K8x2sZ_LBggR0cRXaCJo6i7aElg-xog6mFPk6wpBzSe2YMKOUhkzBNF00npFMw-wTMG1j8iV_Zg4zplA/s1600/125-Sonja+Nichols+hj%25C3%25A4lper+Erik+H.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAPDZ3fGEU4qzblUURQu45rxlKsbWEVDvNPeYtTF7O_EBMbIOAQ7MJYCa2ra7K8x2sZ_LBggR0cRXaCJo6i7aElg-xog6mFPk6wpBzSe2YMKOUhkzBNF00npFMw-wTMG1j8iV_Zg4zplA/s400/125-Sonja+Nichols+hj%25C3%25A4lper+Erik+H.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686814666764532178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren</span></span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >'The violin, please,' replied Sara, holding her violin up on her left shoulder, ready to play.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >'If you think about the words to the song, you will know when to play the long notes:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >"Twinkle, twinkle, little star", long bow there.'</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sonja Nichols and my son, Erik</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family:trebuchet ms;" > are playing a melod<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">y</span> together.</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu0MIRIA7WUr4GexoI_lqRQ7sZtJGlDiIHmYylUD7j8V-rRAu6QuwvKZBz_xkG8UJXZ9dZmf_8bdiIILCiNW9cUyttx20-Nsc8l818hqo8YpTdyhkhBzAGcToiO2ozFgIXJJlsSYI8InK/s1600/126-Spelning+-+Sonja+Nichols+och+Erik+H.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu0MIRIA7WUr4GexoI_lqRQ7sZtJGlDiIHmYylUD7j8V-rRAu6QuwvKZBz_xkG8UJXZ9dZmf_8bdiIILCiNW9cUyttx20-Nsc8l818hqo8YpTdyhkhBzAGcToiO2ozFgIXJJlsSYI8InK/s400/126-Spelning+-+Sonja+Nichols+och+Erik+H.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686814660823468226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sara thought about words like <span style="font-style: italic;">twinkle</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">sparkle</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">glitter</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">shiny</span>; about the Christmas lights suspended from the trees by the library; they looked like giant snowflakes. Yes, they really sparkled against the the black evening sky!</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My daughter, Elisabet, by the library where the giant snowflakes hang from </span><span style="font-style: italic;">trees.</span></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fkQ_o2UnyJtccxIe91y-GUpEote0LkU6fdUTrOjg7JJ2vtk8ZACNzfHwLH0hry-BIkFO8tSvPXAwPCNXv8Ycq4xuyf5enV3FUDAPortPxOXiSYiPcVmjNVKXW0jDflifmJ119O6xSJmQ/s1600/131-Elisabet+och+de+lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingorna.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 380px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fkQ_o2UnyJtccxIe91y-GUpEote0LkU6fdUTrOjg7JJ2vtk8ZACNzfHwLH0hry-BIkFO8tSvPXAwPCNXv8Ycq4xuyf5enV3FUDAPortPxOXiSYiPcVmjNVKXW0jDflifmJ119O6xSJmQ/s400/131-Elisabet+och+de+lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingorna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686814647903693746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren</span></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">How I wonder what you are</span>, Sara sang silently to herself as she successfully switched strings from D to A and back to D again and got her fingers to land in the right places. <span style="font-style: italic;">Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky</span>. The idea of twinkling, sparkling stars made her think of pretty jewellery; the rhinestones in the tiara that come with the Cinderella-costume dress that she had seen in the toy store.<br /><br />'That was fine, Sara. Now let's repeat the first part: "Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star..."', explained Mrs Nichols.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It worked!</span> Sara thought, <span style="font-style: italic;">I can play it!<br /><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcs99rq1G4n0Nuj4dlSsMiBq5cmAwqgRrBDD-rUv6V5a4b_ywGgAFcy2lgUz7ut67uMz_sdZJRq_6aYWxHQPD4jT5gccmILSCQjsZllFnRuqzX0UqvCC1AM4OD_0b_LZ6FBGBT2JR7R-fI/s1600/130-+lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingor+vid+biblioteket.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcs99rq1G4n0Nuj4dlSsMiBq5cmAwqgRrBDD-rUv6V5a4b_ywGgAFcy2lgUz7ut67uMz_sdZJRq_6aYWxHQPD4jT5gccmILSCQjsZllFnRuqzX0UqvCC1AM4OD_0b_LZ6FBGBT2JR7R-fI/s400/130-+lysande+sn%25C3%25B6flingor+vid+biblioteket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686836262363018002" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My daughter, Elisabet, is looking quite the opposite of 'Sparkle' in this photo. She did not want me to take any photographs of her during her last violin lesson, today, Friday, December 16th, so her older brother, Erik, is illustrating this story about the young violinist, Sara<span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span></span><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > But Elisabet looks the part, if she only could play the violin as well!</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qvIivAflmbXFACH9W5BJSX35bUYpk6Az6uXeJlMEyddFeph5YFIMAFE56fiQFZj92YdYZlSADfVwXGS_HComFAAGzskGBpkZyUQv6_hnyMflS8Q9E3QjXX7Tx_ePg-cQtyLUKVnsARZ0/s1600/065-Elisabet+ledsen.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qvIivAflmbXFACH9W5BJSX35bUYpk6Az6uXeJlMEyddFeph5YFIMAFE56fiQFZj92YdYZlSADfVwXGS_HComFAAGzskGBpkZyUQv6_hnyMflS8Q9E3QjXX7Tx_ePg-cQtyLUKVnsARZ0/s400/065-Elisabet+ledsen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686829936354686034" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >When Sara slept that night she dreamed that she was Cinderella. But instead of loosing a glass slipper at a ball, her shoulder-support fell off her violin when she was to play for the Prince. She ran away from just before midnight, and the subsequent search was for a girl with a violin without a shoulder-support! When the Prince found her, she could finish her concert. And then the Prince and Sara were married, and lived happily ever after.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sara awoke refreshed </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >from her dream</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > and was ready for the coming challenge that very evening: the end-of-term recital, at which Sara would play 'Twinkle, twinkle Little Star'.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><span style=" font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Sonja Nichols, violin and viola teacher, Suzuki-method.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxWK3GVLYtPhGKSZVRH5E10HRww0DxbCf_FusG3GMGi8C9Un3tpxP8_GvPseL-W0N-4rzVl7awA72QtJ_ukGs2X3Rmb65e0T0GnO_yXrVsnGp4fn18fHNLEzLJet6B8xlmBSJPRBusWjj/s1600/121-Sonja+Nichols+visar+hur+man+h%25C3%25A5ller+i+fiolen.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxWK3GVLYtPhGKSZVRH5E10HRww0DxbCf_FusG3GMGi8C9Un3tpxP8_GvPseL-W0N-4rzVl7awA72QtJ_ukGs2X3Rmb65e0T0GnO_yXrVsnGp4fn18fHNLEzLJet6B8xlmBSJPRBusWjj/s400/121-Sonja+Nichols+visar+hur+man+h%25C3%25A5ller+i+fiolen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686831252800606594" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Photograph Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Mrs Nichol was very please with her pupil. Sara sparkled with delight and bowed before applauding parents and pupils. She had played well.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" ></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">[Text and Photo Copyright 2011 Christina Wigren]</span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Word count according to <a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a>: 400; NCCO; No Critique, Comments Only. </span> </div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID8vsUl22TfMDUi2VXUojfx5KjRo0bVstEXBisn-zRK2NCy2huOFGkrpRVc_BaKLobQMx_3mx4FUCopymUNQj2fsHJaLkCD-hj-YSddF9WjRzDRNc1xrFHDT9b0FE9t-vNqBvUB0dBNJz/s400/RFWcode.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662791348111633890" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s1600/critiquepoints_sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Z5hlHLvvkoRLcTUnyU1naC3Zn_2GLvdgNmYUUmT5q1lU0uKHxRFEERJVxvIqyv__ii8R7UGd5PEhkV4SMmDoi6NQAEWX8qV6UCv3CZP3e1YGPkBf9e5CiBBDJxFVd7KnbYwizwAOYOMU/s400/critiquepoints_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684074749020015426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658604089777617138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >P.S.<br />This is a piece of fiction based upon real life.<br /><br />I know that many of you will say that there is not enough romance in this text; but what kind of romance can a seven-year-old have? Fairy tales have a bit of romance in them; and 'sparkle' is what you make it to be.<br /><br />What this text does show is the endless patience that my children's music teacher, Mrs Sonja Nichols, has. It is a romantic (=wishful-thinking) text in that the little girl plays so well and so willingly. In reality, I am constantly looking for ways to get my children to practice and to get them to their lessons on time. I am not above bribing. But if I wrote all that into this text, it would no longer be a romantic text.<br /><br />Mrs Nichols, who is really their violin-teacher, told me about the alternative Cinderella-tale, that I have used in the fictitious child's, Sara's dream. </span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >All About Suzuki:</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The Suzuki-method could also be called "The Mother-Tongue-Method" because its founder, </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://internationalsuzuki.org/shinichisuzuki.htm">Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)</a>, </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >was inspired by the way all children learn their first language. Listening to music and repetition are also very important. Another keystone is playful, loving encouragement and respect for the child and teacher, rather than demands or punishment. When Elisabet said that she did not want me to take pictures of her during her lesson, both Sonja and I were in agreement that I should put the camera away, which I did.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To learn more in English about the Suzuki-method of teaching music to very young children, please go to this <a href="http://internationalsuzuki.org/method.htm">site</a> for the <a href="http://internationalsuzuki.org/method.htm">International Suzuki Association</a>, to find a Suzuki teacher in your region please go to this <a href="http://internationalsuzuki.org/regional_associations.htm">page</a>; and go to this <a href="http://suzukiassociation.org/">site</a><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span></span></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >for the American Suzuki Association. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method">Here</a> is Wikipedia's page about the Suzuki-teaching-method. To learn about the Suzuki-club in Norrköping and the rest of Sweden, please go to this <a href="http://norrkopingsuzuki.se/links.html">site</a><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span> To read about the Suzuki-method in Swedish, please go </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;" href="http://norrkopingsuzuki.se/metod.html">here</a><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To read a short biography in English of the founder of the Suzuki-method, <a href="http://internationalsuzuki.org/shinichisuzuki.htm">Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998)</a>, please click on his name<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >.</span> His life is interesting enough to read about even if you don't have children who want to learn how to play a musical instrument!</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span> </span></span></span><br /></div><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03330793338813508704">Heaven</a><br />of<br /><a href="http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-star.html#links">Sweet Lust: Christmas star</a><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-star.html#links"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-8Cb4VcckfWE8Na2ak53rLp9Cce6UM5S8tqkZIWCf34uBq-VkhGFgDtwMcNHRQ4v2qCgWkUYRrrMD1hW1j8KnjsY8gqaMzx6MXbV3FZtX2uRI6oYfze2T0M_Lb2vjeZgs2CWbTy-I9V6/s400/Heaven+tumblr_lwa99jkVKq1r80uubo1_500.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687091221840134258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-star.html#links">Photo Copyright: Heaven, Sweet Lust: Christmas star</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-star.html#links"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsQolkVSOTvIAeaSo_FAtx5n2b4jUeI2Tv3AdcffSSn5AY2mJIr9YK4HHfAFaNPCmmn_6aYnkl8ByM8llPMnw009552OBr8ecKvEJY2kde28qGpCTZb4JmBhR43gSVAZRDPLVazvZTWXPg/s400/Heaven+tumblr_lnse5rpbsJ1qzu2tmo1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687090281684571954" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Photo%20Copyright:%20Heaven,%20Sweet%20Lust:%20Christmas%20star"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;"></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;">Photo Copyright: Heaven</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To read other texts for Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No. 27, with the theme <span style="font-style: italic;">'</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-style: italic;">Sparkle</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">'</span>, please visit this <a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/">site</a><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"> </a>or click on the image below:</span></span><br /></div><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzePVBQd8NCuOF1sLDt2QJ6GIAKONSzjpLE9p2ps2HeAPudQUFwQeY0Yt_w_pQwZFv9_0uaWvPOWhzaWrXUGmNDVrPjcEAXpTHT2LOPuylBx1s38x-dRU-gjzRoFpz4VX40PzU_fk3K06t/s400/aromantic+image+blue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658605446870914674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-25631936141933929062011-12-03T23:40:00.015+01:002011-12-09T11:07:54.587+01:00Tina/parltradet is featured in two Etsy treasuries<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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font-weight: bold;" class="hgray" href="http://etsy.com/treasury/NTI0NjY5NnwxMzgyNDk2MzU1?utm_source=CraftCult&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api" title="View Treasury List" target="_blank">Have Yourself an Eclectic Little Christmas</a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > by Debbie Preston of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeeLifeShine">SeeLifeShine</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/66408194/bracelet-teal-turquoise-stretch-6-78"></a><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NTI0NjY5NnwxMzgyNDk2MzU1&r=39336&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />Here is a <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87760332/rose-photos-set-of-3-flower-prints-gift">photo</a> from Debbie's shop, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeeLifeShine">SeeLifeShine</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/87760332/rose-photos-set-of-3-flower-prints-gift"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGonW_7-Cx4xHqfpERXG-iLjvI74hThIhAe9wq_zaQ6_2uVE8e-hIxi6Vau0IGdaSGOrYBlpvsPOEEKuSd8DZqn1yqWZlgjkoZ197lNVcPYJqETwZfd4u6zIBrlcahIAYxxVBD4AqVqbR/s400/Arctida+il_170x135.221084153.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682053434853088562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lin </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">of </span><br /><a href="http://duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Duck and Wheel with String</span></a><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4XkX-yGnPGmHC_WNH2gHRn0tCSHsesMDn-o70wMe9UdCoNdEe9mCFhWJcg7KNUbIwblXF_GeWOmRK2UkNpjmmi5J_CSkrVPE8yMajx_V3eXjkGDWkw1D1Xl0_CFOCQRSsQ1LvgcDQDiXH/s400/Violet-Lin.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684037065251240834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And this is Hobbes,<br />co-founder of <a href="http://redcatso.blogspot.com/">The Red Cat Society</a><br /><br /></span></span></span><a href="http://redcatso.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJX1xdgK6rbs83UkdqRbBgfaA9AAlF-VMTY4yNBXlN1uJwqqNYgvh4qh8N6F3noHWCJag8TOPJZ4Hje5CEGc52dioDnSpI-F7v-jGQzxub0zru94eUDYBI1tuYPsRPgbQYzSw77TNBSpTP/s400/DSC_0197-Lins+Hobbes.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684037062581084290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >where all red cats can meet and blog!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://redcatso.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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This week's theme for Friday, 2nd December, Challenge No. 26, is the image of the snowy, wintery, vaguely Christmas-like, cottage-in-the-forest-landscape '<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Blue Christmas</span>' at the head of this post.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >My text is written directly for this REW-challenge.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here are L'Aussie Denise' instructions:</span> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">From now on I'll be running RFWer alone. It's a huge task, yet lots of fun. However, looking at the long-term, I feel weekly posts are too much for me to sustain if I want to achieve other writing goals. I want RFWer to continue, so this is what I've come up with:<br /></div><ul style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;"><li>For a trial period, at least until the end of this year, Romantic Friday Writers will become a monthly, rather than weekly blogfest. There may be special themes from time to time as well.</li><li>There will usually be guest posts on Wednesday each week during November, so check in. I'm asking guests to give us tips on writing flash fiction and romance. </li><li>Because we only have to write one story or poem monthly, the word limit can be upped to make it 400-600 words temporarily. You can of course submit 200 words if you so choose!</li><li>The challenges will be broadened - to include response to a photo, an image, or you might be given phrases to begin your story with. There may or may not always be a theme. </li></ul><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">OUR FIRST MONTHLY CHALLENGE:</i><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwTzY-_Il1iOb5VE1MQYOj8awUEITkXEdGMg3HuWHhJaanYTtoEMzDK8TDt_A19tBAlvRkXeodGWFrdWu78JHMo7ExL82_8Tu4UBor2CQSCsZlMuOcurpSIDZDaox9gH-aT_VJ8RjlxZSd/s400/blue_christmas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669798200920880738" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here's our first challenge - responding to an image. Christmas is big at our house, but I know not everyone celebrates, or celebrates this holiday in different ways. So rather than making a Christmas blogfest, I'm giving you the opportunity to respond to this image in whatever way you wish - it reeks of a ghostly romantic tale to me, or we could have a 'lost in the woods' poem or story, or it could be a Christmas story (obviously not an Aussie Christmas!) Over to you! Stun us with your masterpiece. You have a whole month to write your piece, and you have extra words to play with. Don't forget we are </span><u style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">Romantic</u><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Friday Writers.</span> <span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >How about posting the challenge on your blog? All the more fun to read.</span> <span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >I'll be looking forward to reading your December stories.</span> <span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Let's get writing people!</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-----</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >That was Denise' instructions. </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Now, here</span> is my text :</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >-------</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >No, wait. 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Winter is usually very cold and dark, so I think Christmas is a time for working against the elements: Lighting lights at the darkest time of the year; giving presents, cooking, cleaning house and inviting friends, when you'd rather go hibernate. It is also a religious holiday, as it should be. You go to church early, early Christmas morning. Christmas presents are opened on Christmas Eve.</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" > </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" >Christmas is a wonderful mix of the pagan and the Christian, of darkness and light, of dispair and hope.</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After lighting the first candle for the first of Advent, the real 'kick-off' for Christmas is partly the banquet for the Noble Prize held on December 10th, in Stockholm's beautiful Town Hall. (The ceremony, banquet and dance are shown on tv each year. 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mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">Jenny looked at the picture of a snow-covered house in a wintry forest with yellow light glowing from every window. <span style="font-style: italic;">This looks inviting. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Should I buy these?</i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">'Can I help you?' said a man who looked like a young James Stewart, as George Bailey in </span><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">It's A Wonderful Life</i>. Jenny, who was lonely after a divorce, absorbed every syllable. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">'I'm still thinking,' Jenny said laughing to herself, as she found herself using tha exact same words that the character Mary Hatch used in the film. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">Jimmy Stewart continued unpacking packages and stacking books on a shelf. He had white cotton gloves on, so she could not see a wedding ring. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">Why buy Christmas cards at all?</span></i><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:SV" lang="EN-US"> She used to send lots of cards every year, but postage costs so much and writing takes time.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">'Are you new here?' Jenny asked as she put the box of cards on the counter and opened her purse to retrieve her wallet, 'I usually stop here once a week. Haven’t seen you before.' </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">‘I'm just extra for the Christmas rush. The name's Jakob!' he said and smiled as he pulled off his right glove and shook her hand. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">'Nice to meet you. I'm Jenny!' He kept his glove on his left hand so she still could not see his if he had a wedding ring. Jenny paid for the cards, took the bag and left. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">'Happy Christmas!' said Jakob, putting his white glove back on. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">Jenny walked toward the bridge. It was getting dark and beginning to snow. <i>Silly me</i>, <i>I should go back and return these. I can't afford them. I won't have time to write them and I don't have the money for postage to send them. </i></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SVfont-family:";" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Jenny walked across the bridge over the river and stopped to look at the trickle of water running through the frozen masses of ice. She thought about Clarence, the angel from the film. </span><i style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Wouldn't it be nice to have a guardian angel?</i> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">Suddenly she saw a tall, lanky Jimmy Stewart/Jakob walking across the bridge toward her. He looked directly at her and smiled. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: SV" lang="EN-US">'Hi Jenny! You haven't gotten very far! Let's have some coffee over there,' he said pointing to the café across the bridge.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">They found an empty table near a window overlooking the river, and sat in silence a moment until finally Jakob spoke: 'What would you like to do the rest of your life?'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'To be happy,' said Jenny.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'That was a tall order!'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'Is it? Isn't that basically what most people want, Jakob?'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'Maybe. But most people fetter away their lives doing things that they really don't want to do.' He took out his wallet, opened it and counted out the price of the Christmas cards. 'Here. I'll take them back to the store if you give me the receipt.'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Being a penny-pincher, she saved all of her receipts, and could return both the cards and the receipt to Jakob.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'Who are you, Jakob? Are you a mind-reader?'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'No, nothing like that. Here, let me treat you to more coffee and another piece of cake.'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">'Thanks Jakob, you're an angel.'</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">'Yep, that's exactly what I am', he said as he rose to fetch more coffee and cake.</span></span><b><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">------</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" ><b><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Wordcount according to </span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.wordcalc.com/index.php">WordCalc</a></span><b><span style=" Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:78%;" >: 555 (MPA - Minor Points Acceptable)</span><br /></span></b></p><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">[Text copyright 2011 Chrstina Wigren]</span></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhID8vsUl22TfMDUi2VXUojfx5KjRo0bVstEXBisn-zRK2NCy2huOFGkrpRVc_BaKLobQMx_3mx4FUCopymUNQj2fsHJaLkCD-hj-YSddF9WjRzDRNc1xrFHDT9b0FE9t-vNqBvUB0dBNJz/s400/RFWcode.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662791348111633890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Take a look at these critiquing pointers from Madeleine:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcX9hM3_p30JqbLmgX8-s_IeZVKNl3KdpOpAv3mB76Ukkbxg1A4HSo-XoI2SQWY8RC_UBWGSxYdvMnyptsj01FnEhuJ5xylQMdoNt3JzmT5RRVTu-N_PI2w8k_SUHEBdFStE72qLshbWp/s1600/critiquepoints_sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcX9hM3_p30JqbLmgX8-s_IeZVKNl3KdpOpAv3mB76Ukkbxg1A4HSo-XoI2SQWY8RC_UBWGSxYdvMnyptsj01FnEhuJ5xylQMdoNt3JzmT5RRVTu-N_PI2w8k_SUHEBdFStE72qLshbWp/s400/critiquepoints_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681977267653305490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >------</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5GE2sE3ZOG233e3eYMXBK8AJGaw-b1OkA8jux2iqsBqYUhvwRxnwYPAg03bjGMDICckho2TcGDVlFfi4YW9iuOmvp8eyrnU-OIE9lcSXzkXABdTVr0NG_Nloi3axbc7a0TVjQ3pNOLs2/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658604089777617138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;" >P.S.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >This story is inspired by Frank Capra's beautiful film from 1946, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life"><span style="font-style: italic;">It's A Wonderful Life</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span>. I wish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolyn_Grimes">Karolyn Grimes</a>, who played the part of Zuzu, all the very best! Please visit her <a href="http://www.zuzu.net/">official site here</a>. Here's Karolyn Grimes with Donna Reed and James Stewart:<br /><br /></span></span></span><a href="http://www.zuzu.net/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8AU8-kHXewLsez_Dm2I_oVrTpy6Wi-1hq6fnx6E36Tmpb4FKSw0z8Tt6zNIlXSfJWYSXU_23eww3qTDG9S3S54-HjN3_EE8j-kWWKeKUll3T_a2Vb92j00e-V7EIuttR9EXurpsQ6Zg1k/s400/250px-It%2527s_A_Wonderful_Life.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681949971111339890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 49px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQfto_KPLd5Tm_y1OgjkLKFGohryhCCO9wYUfXueKTd_ujIgRnNlwgZtgQdSkaeWYVeRLieTPmCEVoL6qLCSYyBtk961wWoGcmJhgK2DL18ms5AHkFr-urpDAbpIR28aZGFipEYFBXtAp/s400/rosebar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663268130323953906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:<br /><br /><a href="http://donnahole.blogspot.com/2011/12/romantic-friday-writers.html">Donna Hole</a><br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://donnahole.blogspot.com/2011/12/romantic-friday-writers.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oV5-CatjOaxbSvmzQErwIQU8S_6gQZbyOlu75Hg8UnpZL3w512b-HS0ICTNXBJMIaM3B6Hd467_aGUzJaxhQt-vpHAu2eJO3W4vkl1We3iVEF-IgwjIoYmWgex5oJxFCbe-rYW_aIM-2/s400/Donna+Hole+--Picture0087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682019500771108866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >To read other texts for Romantic Friday Writers Challenge No. 26, for December 2nd 2011, using the image<span></span> at the heading as a prompt, please visit this <a href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/">site</a> or click on the image below:</span></span><br /></div><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://romanticfridaywriters.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzePVBQd8NCuOF1sLDt2QJ6GIAKONSzjpLE9p2ps2HeAPudQUFwQeY0Yt_w_pQwZFv9_0uaWvPOWhzaWrXUGmNDVrPjcEAXpTHT2LOPuylBx1s38x-dRU-gjzRoFpz4VX40PzU_fk3K06t/s400/aromantic+image+blue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658605446870914674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This story about Jenny and Jacob has received an honourable mention from Denise L'Aussie of Romantic Friday Writers:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-QdwtYwt-7LyU9sPKMttYVJ0WIlfqV7O_3fZeqKqVTXwQ7mfhaqvPLjJclYTdo1EVvtD_PDE0n4_OPC5wza46pcXy5VA6efUIYQpyrIRpeqM96AUhL_amIg9Wd7c463Ag_yJqZ7VhGCo/s1600/RFW+encouragement.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT-QdwtYwt-7LyU9sPKMttYVJ0WIlfqV7O_3fZeqKqVTXwQ7mfhaqvPLjJclYTdo1EVvtD_PDE0n4_OPC5wza46pcXy5VA6efUIYQpyrIRpeqM96AUhL_amIg9Wd7c463Ag_yJqZ7VhGCo/s400/RFW+encouragement.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684090815141756818" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Denise has also given me a special Australian award called 'Fair Dinkum':</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1giVB0oNu_3xcPenHdboJZPzokG_3HBDnMAwj2_x3C0dDPpfvS_zwanW8AcXloAQVygT8GOaly9MWIP51sKvidVG8eSNJSFs3t3UN5vHaRFpy7E1OgMDPvejgk6w4nTk2m16qOTnqUmfv/s1600/aussie+award+hotel.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1giVB0oNu_3xcPenHdboJZPzokG_3HBDnMAwj2_x3C0dDPpfvS_zwanW8AcXloAQVygT8GOaly9MWIP51sKvidVG8eSNJSFs3t3UN5vHaRFpy7E1OgMDPvejgk6w4nTk2m16qOTnqUmfv/s400/aussie+award+hotel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684095267294456946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Isn't is pretty? She called me a 'fair dinkum Swede'!</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-36180773012859258942011-12-02T21:45:00.002+01:002011-12-02T21:50:04.478+01:00Tina/parltradet has curated a new Etsy treasury: ' White Winter Wishes'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSQGgCQUZJLSKS8fEus2Jxh_JebEGxdN0Uk6lUTNjQohwsvSKek9sWtH7iX1P4l2sRrXbsy_YxOuAw-Gd5gs5KF6vq-uOBGx1ID7D6l0ikpS_6Zqy2l1iP3QtSS6i_foy_BYTKA90HCEo/s1600/Violet-Lin.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxMzY3MzYxMzgy&r=39253&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >XXX</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-44245266855271685472011-11-30T11:59:00.004+01:002011-12-02T16:58:36.752+01:00Anna has curated a new Etsy Treasury: 'Dreaming of Spring'<script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=Nzc4MzM3M3wxMjUxMjAxNTAz&r=39085&t=s&m=0&u=7783373&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17563154621614376842"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17563154621614376842">Tina</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17563154621614376842"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAPZkFoelEDIahikbVchZ4LJeUy5STAFkhqO5tywfUst1yO6B3rhcOOd7PvYOIdymAmm0dUT1Juy8n-5KtbassPS6usicXahl4rFxIxQlRDiHB3hvPdvQqtub0hFio0U5hHS__ypAUgIp/s320/Tina+POST.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681558396994136050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >of<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.gossipavenueblog.com/">Gossip Avenue</a><br /><a href="http://www.thenewsroomblog.com/">The News Room</a><br /><a href="http://www.travelshackblog.com/">Travel Shack</a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.mummy-diaries.com/">Mummy Diaries</a><br />Game Freak Z<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQheu-S0Mmto-h2vSHL9XHWyWuF6yYY1SaMnJBXnNoGLq4j267_W7ASnQgvjid02zquXp1pJ0kJ5ITgmrcmb5P3vUGvbvxgISZy1OSx6CUF3NRSYjuuW_2-g5RoC6ZsW-3aiom9ZVI-FvJ/s1600/Tina+POST+%2528ett%2529.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 60px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQheu-S0Mmto-h2vSHL9XHWyWuF6yYY1SaMnJBXnNoGLq4j267_W7ASnQgvjid02zquXp1pJ0kJ5ITgmrcmb5P3vUGvbvxgISZy1OSx6CUF3NRSYjuuW_2-g5RoC6ZsW-3aiom9ZVI-FvJ/s320/Tina+POST+%2528ett%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681560899382550754" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-91561404353158735422011-11-28T15:48:00.008+01:002011-11-28T16:24:27.616+01:00Tina/parltradet is featured in a new Etsy treasury: 'Get Them While You Can'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaS6AmW0QVCk2dXLhjz4k2TCUWq4FpmW86P5Wa9yufpFBTLlLqdiqEDq9fM7WSGl8iEmzOXtHmFRc25QEbCBjuXCWV3HXMEyCecXQf1pcMPGopLz5JCNzXa1J41hVSfmCGxskR4Hk9rwlP/s1600/SeeLife+Shine+il_75x75.227753761.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >My <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/66408194/bracelet-teal-turquoise-stretch-6-78">teal and turquoise-coloured bracelet</a> is featured in an Etsy treasury 'Get Them While You Can' by Debbie Preston of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeeLifeShine">SeeLifeShine</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/66408194/bracelet-teal-turquoise-stretch-6-78"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC90RlLxRyqI_NNBTsxFsIsM98-EtD2DdzMDqjotFLhIhlmaths7O-c4Y6UYKw-CsqYFnuF5ZSasv3kU8gGy_Psgenrw06NA3HFXNL3ixVSmu2NQ811inWODdVtRVKLHXzgtV0u_PxeUzx/s320/turkos+armband+il_570xN.210216820.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680064849388446290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NTI0NjY5NnwxMjU0ODgzOTgx&r=38902&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is a <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/70184183/cyber-monday-rain-photo-home-decor-where">photo</a> from Debbie's shop, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeeLifeShine">SeeLifeShine</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/70184183/cyber-monday-rain-photo-home-decor-where"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63_7Uq2LekT1Qg54CBQYikyLl4Ai3Dos6tgg-J1G2ziVkaPDJ-7AWeUgn8MZ3vUY9awNixZfoswEkyzwCzV30IbbGgF3kx8nj2MaNUhNzsk3Vb88FMN4LvKIPf5ZdHoQdSRqCvMwG81px/s400/Debbie+Preston+il_570xN.227753761.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680065943270677698" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">xxx</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-65181472269078905552011-11-26T16:59:00.005+01:002011-11-26T17:40:20.027+01:00Tina/parltradet has curated a new Etsy treasury and is featured in two Etsy treasuries<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLIu8POhP4OhClgp4hl97UhcdjMgOKwOh0RYWf43NzA9ul84ketFlyTbyQOPgzc2wdbDcYK_1S84mn_zLytC6iEYTZQTeGamErPSkBQVBQISq2aLAY49WcHWBQnqErZ-oNxcbVJJKcv5n/s1600/Jeanette+Walker+il_570xN.283729143.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxMjQwNTQzNTIy&r=38806&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here are some items from Mary of hoganfe's shop:<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC23sN7VZqwLA1_UOLQEErO5BJmlJn5hUYv2Zl7p5ec6DCYG117Gb3M2Ucp3t3NbBPnGbQUFj2TmdBofzLD3tD-C2J34_c71tkHFoDiIag1KL7iIsHYuO7xv9DA1Pz9tjv6ASYJOSZ2KoS/s1600/Mary+il_570xN.286988743.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC23sN7VZqwLA1_UOLQEErO5BJmlJn5hUYv2Zl7p5ec6DCYG117Gb3M2Ucp3t3NbBPnGbQUFj2TmdBofzLD3tD-C2J34_c71tkHFoDiIag1KL7iIsHYuO7xv9DA1Pz9tjv6ASYJOSZ2KoS/s320/Mary+il_570xN.286988743.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679344156317527170" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >And here are my teal earrings that are featured i<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >n </span></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" id="tagline" class="ltgray" ><a class="hltgray" href="http://etsy.com/shop/hoganfe?utm_source=CraftCult&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api" target="_blank">hoganfe</a>'s</span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > treasu</span>ry, 'Gifts For All Under 100 dollars' :</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWZoQZ4xvJ5-hGWSlkjWrwmrCp7GMZ0_x0bS7Gcb0NzCdvkrrNmA35KeLXdnO9BNdOgL9ALLdppg7HcxJr85Ww_YharBtrIS5lIxlYkG3D1XnrIMn9fgb5prWDVhS0wnrpiUfhJaQqXfzC/s1600/Petrolf%25C3%25A4rgade+%25C3%25B6rh%25C3%25A4ngen+il_570xN.210165003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWZoQZ4xvJ5-hGWSlkjWrwmrCp7GMZ0_x0bS7Gcb0NzCdvkrrNmA35KeLXdnO9BNdOgL9ALLdppg7HcxJr85Ww_YharBtrIS5lIxlYkG3D1XnrIMn9fgb5prWDVhS0wnrpiUfhJaQqXfzC/s320/Petrolf%25C3%25A4rgade+%25C3%25B6rh%25C3%25A4ngen+il_570xN.210165003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679336853734204546" border="0" /></a><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NTI2NDI0OXwxMjMyNDc3MTY1&r=38807&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is a bag from Jeanette Walker's shop, </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" id="tagline" class="ltgray" ><a class="hltgray" href="http://etsy.com/shop/tootlesboutique?utm_source=CraftCult&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api" target="_blank">tootlesboutique</a> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >:<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLIu8POhP4OhClgp4hl97UhcdjMgOKwOh0RYWf43NzA9ul84ketFlyTbyQOPgzc2wdbDcYK_1S84mn_zLytC6iEYTZQTeGamErPSkBQVBQISq2aLAY49WcHWBQnqErZ-oNxcbVJJKcv5n/s1600/Jeanette+Walker+il_570xN.283729143.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLIu8POhP4OhClgp4hl97UhcdjMgOKwOh0RYWf43NzA9ul84ketFlyTbyQOPgzc2wdbDcYK_1S84mn_zLytC6iEYTZQTeGamErPSkBQVBQISq2aLAY49WcHWBQnqErZ-oNxcbVJJKcv5n/s320/Jeanette+Walker+il_570xN.283729143.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679344162681431506" border="0" /></a><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><br />And here is my blue necklace, which is featured in Jeanette Walker </span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" id="tagline" class="ltgray" ></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >treasury, 'Not a girly girl':</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFGbI-0sUY1fca583M-Yer1JVEMF2zCPhBudPPPQCVI0XNUcuxNmCjYonpQ-fjpU48OEPOREoXeJY8CsDkbzjugOhn8ULVLitL66sHuRe5mX_XuLjQJ_nZGlJB9NO65BoMhjpYcueJ1eC/s1600/Finland+halsband+il_570xN.133427791.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFGbI-0sUY1fca583M-Yer1JVEMF2zCPhBudPPPQCVI0XNUcuxNmCjYonpQ-fjpU48OEPOREoXeJY8CsDkbzjugOhn8ULVLitL66sHuRe5mX_XuLjQJ_nZGlJB9NO65BoMhjpYcueJ1eC/s320/Finland+halsband+il_570xN.133427791.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679336853585175234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNTAwMnwxMjMxNjYyODI3&r=38810&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >XXX<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-46301261985322085422011-11-23T21:54:00.009+01:002011-11-24T18:59:55.273+01:00Tina/parltradet is featured in two new Etsy treasuries curated by PeachCreation and Knme<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >My <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64207848/nine-rainbow-coloured-glass-beaded">rainbow bracelets</a> are in good company in this delightful treasury by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/anke4444findels">Anke Pietsch</a></span>:<br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64207848/nine-rainbow-coloured-glass-beaded"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjFWCVeVYkt13t8XAritVEpHlqilJg4vkzL6UqFydQ5BO2kE8mAMY-Y9ntf5sOocZS3QcYQ6Vc_8pLjX9t5GGk-w0gzT3G_NvvZ4qjxmIFS3lSw0U7olKnkQFk5zLx9QqMPoBwVxmDwGjM/s320/nio+armband+il_570xN.202099152.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678509688633428210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjAyOTA0MnwxMjAxMzEzNTU3&r=38625&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is a <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/85391221/red-mermaid-baby-doll-waldorf-55-inches">little mermaid doll</a> and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/85360056/set-of-pottery-christmas-ornaments-star">Christmas tree ornaments</a> from Anke's shop, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/PeachCreation">PeachCreation</a>:</span><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/85391221/red-mermaid-baby-doll-waldorf-55-inches"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvvy6HPyWrc7NDt1LY5khMcz5J1a8CQ4ztNqagGKV85TUxCfldYawo4wTfWc2sz2UZn1hGt_pjFqHCAKmbuK9yr_rqHMIetODB_q4yuionsL_P8oLDiMUESFXLq4NskmV2ifGW6N7sZM4c/s320/mermaid+doll+il_570xN.283739748.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678507760330133746" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/85360056/set-of-pottery-christmas-ornaments-star"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdVLgZi7e0jLB8lgBiqxmGEj6r7uhdwTmUcc39XkprrroBnHzFH8Sj_NJZ3RYVoEYI1Sdtsz7l1WBAFDYJCOpMgxXHtliPlypyY03ICW_8BP4gBj2eSvtTmsFRUHBEgxGt5HM-HWhbNwr/s320/PeachCreation+il_170x135.283501563.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678518651890678178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here is my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22588022/necklace-gredelin-purple-stretch-16-12">purple choker Gredelin</a> which Kara Nina of Knme has been kind enough to include in her latest treasury:</span><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/22588022/necklace-gredelin-purple-stretch-16-12"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7ffUvBaZX9ErBqpvNSgozzkYn1Dq3Y199z8uZNIxuCRbN6Y8s2plGobYr7LxJHs1UN-2RQeh-813j12mxX4q-C-zA9looLqooGUDPm3YJnpguxO0aKhwWYUJ_x5hnujSBFfUhTiDYASn/s320/Gredelin+il_570xN.212788567.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678510339917329442" border="0" /></a><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NTIzNzI0MnwxMjE2ODAxMTgy&r=38662&t=s&m=1&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Here are a couple of knitted scarves from Kara Nina's shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Knme">Knme</a>:</span><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61503914/cream-caffe-latte-ballet-scarf"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShhyi1rsJKjhbnd6hNX-h42HPnwBLV74Lx_2XDej_9tJ5M1yeHT_mE9W5Zpj-mVgCrenclKINrZoxYH1N_XMvc_ws2amVyv-wtpsetM3woBEWQW3XzsQCW7WKHtqHF4wqSxLP-veD3yD7/s320/Knme+il_570xN.191813444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678507761608486386" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/59062973/for-artists-exposed-deep-dark-brown"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-XOsq58NdkjgkJwRJjdaBXmuwJoQRm_xhQnk1_o7nNiJXmWZ6PM0PZ-BwnWxhy1CpmoXnSqCgUlCZypY2gYEzAEKLUvWqsQjHeR1DttwxjUatGiLo8aE32k3whEkN2ZnNQrgwqJz6Iqx/s320/Knme+knitted+scarf+il_170x135.183629951.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678507772518892658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12886333496997952719">Ann Thompson</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12886333496997952719"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsI2pZf8OMpQ7nvImvMN0Ksll_pYLunM2soIAn6hP-Cn_Fbjfgj9fNBqmPPEfKSrn-GtQRlSHYZA34zLKIHUHg7ePzKb6DRZJcz8_edL05EOJRRO5phUgNaBunymp0iO7K3LZL_R0G8nv/s320/me+%2528Ann+Thompson%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678622571762135506" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />of<br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/">Ann's Snap, Edit & Scrap</a><br /><a href="http://duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com/"></a></span><br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1OqQ2Oe5hfKfelE_q9hfOo1wVkSVq9OezGISFCCL2vOsgQ2UUGsHytA0qvERACIngnw56soE3gEJ4kiCZQTg58lEjwFtzmn3SH1pzv_VSPNCVMnjeTsb1vjXSh_N-fKC_v3EUYklaODo/s320/124928-Ann%2527s+Snap%252C+Edit+%2526+Scrap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678622577315947522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">And here is Ann's wonderful dog, Duke:</span></span><br /><a href="http://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkpaX1Y90nBcyIviHoABJ6J81xiczrJQ54TRC5hWb9nkWzIEVU2x1Dd_ar-SMJn1_DVIZyKWjjYbRwsqjHSS2wmGdXLfyWjJlN_tYINN3f3DG9ycOwMVqp5fjqwtEJq0nc2cWXLjgOps-/s320/5-Duke+by+pool.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678622578248944706" border="0" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-19264618624883693212011-11-22T23:44:00.002+01:002011-11-23T00:58:19.459+01:00Tina/parltradet has curated two new Etsy treasuries: 'Winter White and Midnight Blue', and 'Red!'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSQGgCQUZJLSKS8fEus2Jxh_JebEGxdN0Uk6lUTNjQohwsvSKek9sWtH7iX1P4l2sRrXbsy_YxOuAw-Gd5gs5KF6vq-uOBGx1ID7D6l0ikpS_6Zqy2l1iP3QtSS6i_foy_BYTKA90HCEo/s1600/Violet-Lin.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxMTk4MDA5NzMw&r=38519&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&"></script><br /><script src='http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxMTk4ODI4NTQy&r=38528&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&'></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >XXX<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7646599654892446019.post-50577380176255324042011-11-21T10:56:00.005+01:002011-11-24T10:13:49.882+01:00Tina/parltradet has curated a new Etsy treasury: Two Pairs of Paws<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSQGgCQUZJLSKS8fEus2Jxh_JebEGxdN0Uk6lUTNjQohwsvSKek9sWtH7iX1P4l2sRrXbsy_YxOuAw-Gd5gs5KF6vq-uOBGx1ID7D6l0ikpS_6Zqy2l1iP3QtSS6i_foy_BYTKA90HCEo/s1600/Violet-Lin.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s1600/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxj8amARg8YDP-RUYYal7peIF4pCmBeSEkEo5Re354Pgh0zMuATXZT1-eQbIbjj5TtUJE3kEhh5M6BuwMTNUD4xdi1XmDpVmcm5MAyHJi8Dtn4xoLoCa-qKCIDWwwskZ8FeiqxD-GIC15u/s400/iusa_75x75.6057222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144114822547266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><script src="http://www.craftcult.com/js/trwi.js?s=1&l=NjMyNDYxOXwxMTc4NjE2MDk2&r=38377&t=s&m=0&u=6324619&"></script><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Best wishes,</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Anna</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s1600/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizv7egfP7ti2yyUDYLrGARP1vzj7TNiBrSAZK7WO71uIsXTFFUWjL6xNLVP7_OO54c03nfvavlYoy0epUY5RMNGYXdoCuX9cYzMBEKdR9wrEV9iwkmnWJZXWb22zgPlYQdIH0JPy9JohC1/s400/DSC_0422+-125X125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668144119323042338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >First Commenter:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Lin of<br /><a href="http://duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com/">Duck and Wheel with String<br /></a><br /></span><a href="http://duckandwheelwithstring.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSQGgCQUZJLSKS8fEus2Jxh_JebEGxdN0Uk6lUTNjQohwsvSKek9sWtH7iX1P4l2sRrXbsy_YxOuAw-Gd5gs5KF6vq-uOBGx1ID7D6l0ikpS_6Zqy2l1iP3QtSS6i_foy_BYTKA90HCEo/s400/Violet-Lin.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677743073763810162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >And here is Hobbes whom you can meet at</span><br /><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a href="http://redcatso.blogspot.com/">The Red Cat Society</a> blog</span><br /><br /><a href="http://redcatso.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwd793ZSvYhgGsPe2Ng2lVJUuFlt2dmCbnL_W4rcR7yApyaxxjAr_KA7-bRcSem9P8hTimwtA_u-YkVSyV40GAjRdJYu2pylFlRlw76aqLvqo0TKJarAvLStkPECvauVUWb6TNt5RCKBkE/s400/Hobbes+DSC_0197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677743070392050370" border="0" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=c640365c-cca7-46cf-a9aa-29dd11c392bf&type=website&popup=true&style=rotate"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com2