tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69254469875946341262024-03-12T23:00:03.647+00:00Decide What You WantTaking that first step
again... and again...Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-10926530616809068402013-12-31T07:40:00.000+00:002013-12-31T07:40:04.920+00:00So long, farewell...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the time has come to say Goodbye to this blog home...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been living here since 30 July 2010, and it's been a lovely place to dwell :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now, all my 'stuff' is gathered over <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://anotherdeepday.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></a> </span>at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... so I do hope you'll come by and visit! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're always most welcome :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's to 2014 and all it may hold - new homes, new friends, new adventures...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">xoxoxoxoxox</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last post for 2013 - gulp!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sally's prompt is <b>Saying Goodbye</b>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, I'm not good at goodbyes, so I signed up </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for next year</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as soon as I got Sally's email *grin*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I hope to see some of us together again in the super-duper new Focus on Life 2014! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And those who are leaving, I shall miss you, and I hope I'll bump into you in Blogland from time to time :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blessing upon blessing xx</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-85790761928419991312013-12-25T07:48:00.001+00:002013-12-25T07:48:52.549+00:00Focus on Life - Week 51<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the penultimate week! It's too, too sad :-(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt is <b>Togetherness</b>, and I've decided to cheat *gasp* and share a photo from a couple of years ago on my Dad's 70th birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's my absolute favourite of him and the kids...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... no editing, no playing about, just a gorgeous photo of three beautifully precious people sharing a special moment in time together :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only 2 more weeks to go... *sob* </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What fun we've had! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, for a fact, my photo skills have come on leaps and bounds doing this every week! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much, Sally, you are truly the Hostest with the Mostest :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt is <b>A Pop of Red</b>, as Sally encourages us to 'focus on your surroundings and keep an eye out for pops of red'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I give you two shots - one outdoors, and one indoors...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A neighbour's berry-laden hedge - it won't be in a few weeks, the birds <i>adore </i>it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't edited the photo at all, just 'framed' it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And our beloved, all-black (except for a few white chest hairs!) Molly-cat wearing her red ID tag</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have no idea exactly how I created this b+w with a pop of red - I was just playing around in Picasa - but it's exactly the effect I wanted to achieve :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't wait to see what red pops you've captured this week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-14223034845422326622013-12-10T17:56:00.000+00:002013-12-10T17:56:48.617+00:00Focus on Life - Week 49<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh my, not many weeks left now... too, too sad :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm glad Sally's given us such a fun prompt this week <strong>Add a Little Sparkle!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, I'm not a sparkly girl - not really into glitter and sequins - much prefer <em>au naturale</em>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But this is the festive season, so tinsel and sparkle abound...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sure we'll see lots of Christmas tree photos this week - lights, tinsel, and a Hama bead snowman E made over 10 years feature in mine :) </span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-36015195304748978142013-11-30T07:40:00.001+00:002013-12-02T09:25:33.673+00:00Focus on Life - Week 48<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No surprises with the week's prompt <strong>Giving Thanks</strong>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I'm a Brit living in the UK, I am married to an American, and the 4th Thursday in November is marked on our calendar as clearly as any American family's :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I know Sally suggested a collage, but I'm afraid I'm too exhausted from a week of hospital appointments, so I just took this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always kept a gratitude journal (except for when I couldn't read/write after the stroke), and when I started using an A4 Filofax a few months ago to collate all my scribblings in one place, I <em>had</em> to make a section for Gratitude!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Every day I write 5 things for which I'm grateful - some days I struggle to write two, and others I could write 12 - such is life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But here's my bumper list for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanksgiving Day itself:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good night's sleep</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">N's amazing meal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">E's homemade brownies - YUM!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A warm, cosy home to share with others</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dinnertime conversation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Being mama to 2 amazing young people</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Meeting new people (N invited a friend & his partner to dinner - I hadn't met them before)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Catching up on the blog course</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Having internet connection for most of the day (it's been <em>very</em> erratic this week)</span></li>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-84118681941632569642013-11-22T21:30:00.000+00:002013-11-25T09:52:10.328+00:00Focus on Life - Week 47<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been back and forth about what to post for this week's prompt <strong>Centrepiece</strong> - 'the central, most important feature of your day, week, life!', as Sally put it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trouble is, the answer is different to each part of the prompt...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'centrepiece' of my <strong>day</strong>, the foundation, is quiet time, prayer and Morning Pages - my day unravels if it doesn't start with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'centrepiece' of my <strong>life</strong> is my family - who, what would I be without them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But the 'centrepiece' of this past <strong>week</strong> has been my new blog <a href="http://anotherdeepday.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Another Deep Day</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past 3 weeks I've been doing this course with <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Susannah Conway</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and have been so inspired and motivated (getting up at 3.30am some mornings this week!), I've decided to pool all my favourite writing, photos, etc. in one place and wind down this, and my other, blogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I will keep posting the FoL posts here - just to keep them altogether. But if you do have a chance to visit the new blog, I would love to see you there - the kettle's always on :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">PS Last week's prompt asked us to Reflect, and one thing I didn't say - I have <em>so</em> enjoyed sharing this year with you, and I hope we won't all lose touch...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">One way would be to follow each other's blogs. I know I'm not great at it (I tend to get overwhelmed by emails, and I really don't want to join google+), but I think I will join/follow many of you before the end of the year :)</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-56341516227542775312013-11-20T03:50:00.002+00:002013-11-20T03:50:58.282+00:00WOYWW 233 - Winding down...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may know I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer size of the party, and you gave me some very thoughtful and helpful comments, so thank you for that!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've also been busy on this course with <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/"><span style="color: lime;">Susannah Conway</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been doing a lot of thinking about why I blog, and what kind of blog I want to create...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is why yesterday I created a <a href="http://anotherdeepday.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">brand new blog</span></a>, where I plan to pull together my favourite bits of writing and photography from my past few years in Blogland. I created my first blog in September 2006!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've only just started 'another deep day', and there's A LOT to be done, but it is up and ready to receive visitors :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All this means I'm thinking of winding down this blog... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I will keep posting each week up to the end of the year, but my main focus will be the new blog... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't know where it will go, and in what form, but I do know a new start is called for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope you will drop by my new blog home from time to time. It's been such fun meeting you all over at<span style="color: lime;"> </span><a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">Ms Julia's</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span> and I know I'll stop by occasionally, to say hello and catch up a bit :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the meantime, I wish you all a really wonderful WOYWW, and a fun-filled crafty week xxx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt was so much easier than last week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time of year, as the days get shorter and colder, is the perfect time to <strong>Reflect</strong>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Sunday is both the Full Moon and the local Celtic Service. It's always my favourite - the ancient church full of candles, songs and readings preparing for Advent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've added the words of my daily mantra to this photo - I burn <em>a lot</em> of candles at this time of year :) I can't remember where I first read/heard them, but they centre me each day, and they reflect my daily endeavours to still my racing mind and just BE.</span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-75130954854712555632013-11-08T20:18:00.000+00:002013-11-16T07:56:04.293+00:00Focus on Life - Week 45<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt caused some consternation: <strong>Industrial Photography</strong> - gulp!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grantham is a small market town, with almost no industry - especially where we live, so what to do??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thankfully, on my way into town, I pass a small food factory, hidden behind trees and shrubs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... and using all the zoom my wee camera can manage, I took this close up of the top of the factory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the contrast between the smooth curves of the pipes and the straight lines of the railings and the corrugated factory sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">PS Thank you for visiting last week! I'm so sorry I didn't return the compliment :( I've started a course of hydrotherapy, and it just wipes me out for days on end! Then, a poorly boy, a husband away, Dad visiting to help out... took away any spare energy and computer time. I will try and visit this week, but I can't promise - sorry!</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-14443299057313157162013-11-01T21:41:00.000+00:002013-11-08T10:57:02.494+00:00Focus on Life - Week 44<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ummm... The prompt this week was <strong>Saints, Souls, Sugar Skulls or</strong> <strong>Scares.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, Halloween isn't a big deal in our house - not since the kids have grown, anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But to me, this picture captures the spirit of November...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last weekend we changed the clocks in the UK, so it gets dark earlier and earlier. The temperature is dropping, and certainly, I for one, get into hibernation mode...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Warmth and shelter are paramount, and knowing all are safely gathered in around the fire brings me peace...</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-70561435890567903552013-10-29T21:10:00.000+00:002013-10-29T21:10:25.408+00:00WOYWW 230 - All the pretty things...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I missed last week - full of cold and missing our girl - she spent half-term in Italy on a school art trip! And on my desk, you can see my beautiful gifts...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a beautiful watercolour from a street artist in Florence...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... and he drew a quick sketch on the wrapper, so I'm keeping it too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... and a stunning leather journal embossed with the Bridge of Sighs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had a really wonderful, if exhausting, time, and I shall treasure all these pretty things :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hoping to visit lots of desks over at Ms Julia's <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Stamping Ground</span></a> this week to catch up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">PS We were very lucky to miss the worst of the storms battering the UK on Monday - our thoughts and prayers go to those who suffered damage, injury and sadly, some fatalities...</span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-72674474876853387532013-10-25T19:51:00.000+01:002013-10-30T11:00:08.363+00:00Focus on Life - Week 43<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt was a real challenge - <strong>In the Shadows</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mainly because all week in the UK, it has been dull, grey, rainy... No real light source from which to find even one lonely shadow!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I feared I'd have to resort to an old photo somewhere...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then, thankfully, Thursday began relatively bright and breezy - phew!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... a patch of sunlight on the wall showing the window pane and a bush in shadow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personally, I hate these windows - especially on a modern, tacky, Mock-Tudor house - but we rent the house, so I'm stuck with them. I see them only as obscuring what little light there is at this time of year, but I admit, they do make cool shadows :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">PS Daughter has returned from Italy - early hours of Friday morning, again! - full of stories, photos and souvenirs! She had a really great, if exhausting, time :)</span></div>
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-56674636259811887622013-10-19T06:58:00.000+01:002013-10-24T07:51:49.417+01:00Focus on Life - Week 42<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another great prompt for this week: <strong>All in a Day</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Started really early at 2am (hence the fuzzy pic) - had to set the alarm to get our daughter to her school for 3am to catch a bus to Heathrow. She's on a school art trip for 6 days - first to Florence, then Venice *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then back to bed for a few hours... I still got up to see the dawn and have my breakfast at 7am - being diabetic, I need to eat at regular times as much as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Molly had to get in an the act, enjoying some early morning sun, sitting on my desk, till I shooed her off as </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">most of the day was taken up making my Full Moon journal spread... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wore the necklace you saw on my altar last week, and the bottom first 3 photos show its construction from random images at 11am to the finished spread at 3pm (I took lots of breaks, as I can't sit upright that long!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can read a more about the spread <a href="http://ableatheart.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fruit features as regular snacks throughout my day, and the hot chocolate and wee muffin were my naughty treat before I went to bed - early!</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-25256052257812556612013-10-16T05:14:00.000+01:002013-10-16T05:46:56.567+01:00WOYWW 228 - Joy mixed with sadness...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's my desk on Tuesday afternoon - the sun suddenly appeared just as I was getting the camera ready...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm making a card for Hayley, my hairdresser, who I see on Saturday for the last time :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's leaving to have a baby, which is such a wonderful reason to leave, but I shall miss her. She has been doing my hair for over 10 years, and while she isn't a friend, as such, you do build up a special relationship with the person who cuts and styles your hair every couple of months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm just hoping she can recommend someone else in the salon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And thank you for all your lovely comments last week. I'm so glad I shared my concerns. I now feel I can visit only as many desks as I can manage, without feeling guilty :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You are all such lovely people gathered over at the <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">Stamping Ground</span></a>!!</span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-47253555923515478552013-10-12T06:31:00.002+01:002013-10-15T17:08:15.285+01:00Focus on Life - Week 41<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah, what a prompt this week - <strong>Connections</strong>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I sense this whole year has been about connections, so where does one start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I've been doing the Journal Your Life course, which finished yesterday :( I've been connecting a lot with my journal (see post below), and thereby with my spirit, my soul, my identity...</span><br />
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Last weekend, I made an altar -<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on top of the DVD cupboard I sit opposite on the sofa!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'cloth' is a small wall-hanging a dear friend made last year as a birthday gift. It shows a haiku she wrote for me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the front left is a coaster my daughter made in DT last year showing the deathly hallows (she's Harry Potter mad!)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">Behind that is my Mary Magdalene statue, I found on ebay from France. I'm fascinated by MM having read this amazing <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Meaning-Mary-Magdalene-Christianity/dp/1590304950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381156646&sr=8-1&keywords=meaning+of+mary+magdalene"><span style="color: orange;">book</span></a>, and believe she has been misrepresented/misunderstood by 2000 years of male-dominated Christianity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">Next to Mary are two artworks bought from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/smallofferingsshop?ref=ss_profile"><span style="color: orange;">Birdie Fincham</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The monoprint (The Blessing of Water), I think perfectly shows one part of my soul; and hanging on the frame is a sweet altar ornament showing an angel surrounded by dried rosebuds. I've had it years - it was hanging on our bedpost :)</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">The painting (The Pilgrims) shows another part of my soul - I am a Taurean, and that white bull head scares me, but she is a part of me, as much as the calm, praying pilgrim next to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The wee green box housed earrings on my dressing table, but now it contains my prayer beads, made several years ago by <a href="http://lapadre.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Deborah Globus</span></a>. They sit nicely in my gammy, right hand when I pray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then there's a heart stone with an earth symbol engraved on it (Taurus is an earth sign), </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and two necklaces - on the left is my Full Moon necklace...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">... and on the right is my sanctuary pendant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the front and centre is a handmade Mary pocket stone - she's very tactile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And finally, a coconut offering bowl bought from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ValkyrieHeart?ref=l2-shopheader-name"><span style="color: orange;">Lauren</span></a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">To me, it's the perfect representation of my word for 2013 <strong>Be a Vessel,</strong> and i<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nside I've placed a wee murano glass heart, which I've had for years and truly cannot remember how I acquired it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sorry, this is so photo-laden, but I think you can tell why these items are on my altar...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a deep connection to every piece on it, and to the people who gave them to me, or who made them for me to purchase, and I treasure them all!</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-51115468483280513752013-10-08T18:39:00.001+01:002013-10-09T03:13:02.560+01:00WOYWW 227 - Who needs a desk...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... when you've found the perfect journal??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet my new best friend, and my new wonderful pen :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you know, I've been doing Susannah Conway's <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/e-courses/journal-your-life/"><span style="color: red;">Journal Your Life</span></a> course (which finishes this week :( ) And just last week, I found THE perfect writing journal and the perfect pen; and I've returned to my long-lost practice of<span style="color: red;"> Morning Pages </span><span style="color: black;">(lost since the stroke, that is!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the first time since the stroke 6 years ago, I am <em>really</em> writing - joined-up, cursive, not laborious printing! I used to write as fast as I thought, so I'm not up to that speed yet, but with the combination of this pen, which just glides across this paper, I have returned to the magical place of being lost as I write each day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As you can just see, I have different sections, so no more flitting around several notebooks! I have my Morning Pages, my To Do lists, my Gratitude pages (where I record at least 5 things I'm grateful for each day), my ever-growing list of favourite Quotes, a section for random Scribbles, and finally, an Inspiration section, where I gather images and pictures from magazines and catalogues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I still play in my Creative Dream Journal, which sits on my desk, but this is the perfect place to gather all my daily scribbles and written thoughts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So there is no desk to see today :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I must mention here that through my journalling, I've realized I find the <strong>huge</strong> gathering of desks over at the </span><a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Stamping Ground</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> increasingly overwhelming...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So I've decided to visit as many desks each week as I feel able, and as always try and respond to all who kindly visit me, but please forgive me if I don't always manage it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Admitting this sense of overwhelm has been difficult for me, but I know I need to. I so enjoy WOYWW, and don't want to leave the party, so I'm trying to find a strategy that is do-able...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-2452163424627225662013-10-04T20:54:00.000+01:002013-10-07T18:10:38.966+01:00 Focus on Life - Week 40<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week 40 feels like something of a landmark - hooray for us for having made it this far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt was fun (of course!): 'This week focus on the positive and<strong> Give Us a Smile</strong>!' says <a href="http://thestudiosublime.com/"><span style="color: orange;">Sally</span></a>, so I give you two photos...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of this week's exercises in the <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/e-courses/journal-your-life/"><span style="color: orange;">Journal Your Life</span></a> I'm dong was writing down what makes us happy - do feel free to enlarge and read. How many of these make you smile?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for you to see my grin, here I am with my friend Tina taken last year by Andrea at a girlie lunch...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good food shared with good friends definitely makes me smile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello October! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've added a new badge to my right sidebar. Susannah Conway interviewed Jamie Ridler last week as part of the Journal Your Life course, and Jamie's Full Moon Dreamboards really struck a chord. I've never made a dreamboard before (I'm not crazy about the whole manifestation philosophy...), but I always have been very aware of the moon and her phases...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, I've made a start</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a New Moon this Friday/Saturday, and this first page is about that... I intend for the Full Moon spreads to be double-page :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, that's what's on my desk, how about yours? </span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-36397372803943173062013-09-27T22:00:00.000+01:002013-10-01T16:01:57.706+01:00Focus on Life - Week 39<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt <strong>Your Best Shot</strong> was easy in theory, but so hard in practice... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So this is the best I could do this week - taken from our bedroom window. I just adore the contrast between the neighbour's trees, and I know it's a brief joy - this time next week, the deciduous trees will be almost bare. *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But these, I think, are some of my best photos - taken about 7 years ago of a smiley girl and a thoughtful boy :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wander through these links and enjoy others' best shots...</span><br />
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Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-60840321759895153162013-09-25T00:30:00.000+01:002013-09-25T06:39:03.593+01:00WOYWW 225 - Short & sweet...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Making a cover to house the print-outs of Susannah Conway's Journal Your Life course, which you can see top right of the photo strewn on the desk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">... to a fine, young man, of whom we are very proud :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY, SAM!!</span></div>
Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-72942302603358858032013-09-21T05:52:00.000+01:002013-09-22T09:29:50.607+01:00Focus on Life - Week 38<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt from <a href="http://thestudiosublime.com/"><span style="color: lime;">Sally </span></a>is much more my speed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I live my life in <strong>Quiet Moments</strong>, when the kids are at school and Nick's at work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">watching the leaves blow from the trees... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thinking of this talented young man </span><br />
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<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-12784765341474121362013-09-18T05:04:00.000+01:002013-09-18T05:04:56.378+01:00WOYWW 224 - Altering postcards...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... yesterday afternoon, for the Inspiration Avenue<a href="http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/join-2013-altered-postcard-swap.html"> <span style="color: lime;">Postcard Swap</span></a> (there's a button on my right sidebar).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sadly, I didn't think to take a pic earlier as I was working on my three postcards simultaneously. By the time I thought about it, I'd already sealed up two in their envies, but you can see this one on the desk...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the back...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been asked to alter the backs too, but as this is a vintage card from my stash dated January 1953, I just added a couple of stickers, so as not to obscure the writing and date stamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometime, in the next few weeks, I should be receiving three altered postcards from overseas, so I'll show them when they arrive :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the meantime, I'm having a jolly jaunt over at Julia's <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">Stamping Ground</span></a> to see what's occurring* on others' desks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Till next week xx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Sorry, been watching <em>Gavin & Stacey</em> re-runs :)</span><br />
<br />Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236906641354002595noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925446987594634126.post-51931615021612720922013-09-14T06:06:00.000+01:002013-09-17T07:26:39.468+01:00Focus on Life - Week 37<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's prompt <strong>In Motion</strong> had me in a real quandary...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With our very basic, 10-year-old, digital camera, every shot of something in motion was either a poor-quality, blurry mess, or it appeared perfectly still *sigh*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On a scoot into town midweek, I took this at the crossing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... the lorry was blazing past, but it's hardly an inspiring image!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, last night, dear Molly-cat sat on my lap and preceded to clean herself thoroughly - that wee tongue was definitely in motion!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truly, it isn't the bomb site it looks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is serious journal creating for my Journal Your Life course with <a href="http://www.susannahconway.com/"><span style="color: orange;">Susannah Conway</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm using a Simple Stories binder by <a href="mailto:Sn@p">Sn@p</a> I bought last year - now I know why :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far, I've made the cover, the dividers and put it all together - no actual journaling yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even dug out my Tim Holtz stamps I won many, many moons ago, signed by the lovely man himself :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so glad this desk party is in Blogland - I'm full of cold at the moment (along with hubbie and son - daughter and cat are ok so far...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But I can visit and not share my germs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I'm hopping over to St Julia's <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: orange;">Stamping Ground</span></a>...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">See you all there xx</span><br />
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