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Decorate your own Christmas goblets this year. Paint a Christmas scene with gloss enamels, it'll be a hit with your friends. For a colorful and fun Christmas decoration and accessory this is your perfect project.
- DecoArt Products Required
- Americana Gloss Enamels
- DAG01 - White
- DAG71 - Glorious Gold
- DAG04 - Sand
- DAG31 - Baby Pink
- DAG36 - True Blue
- DAG67 - Black
- DAG166 - Deep Midnight Blue
- DAG78 - Flesh Tone
- DAG129 - True RedDAG163 - Honey Brown
- DAG201 - Primary Yellow
- DAG269 - Foliage Green
- 19-ounce balloon goblet
- #10/0 liner brush
- #3 and #6 round brushes
- 1/4" and 1/2" flat brushes
- Water container
- Palette or plastic plate
- Paper towels
- Alcohol
- Small round sponge pouncer
- Scruffy old brush
Note:Let dry between steps.
Preparation:Clean goblet with alcohol. Dry well with paper towel or soft cloth. Position and tape pattern inside goblet.
On back of goblet:
- Use liner brush and Black to paint silhouette of Santa and reindeer on back.
- Pounce on moon with Glorious Gold behind Santa.
- Use 1/2" flat brush, Deep Midnight Blue, and White to paint ocean on lower bottom backside of glass.
- Use 1/2" flat brush, True Blue, and White to paint arc above ocean, blending colors together. (Refer to photo.)
On front of goblet:
- Use #3 round brush and Flesh Tone to paint bodies of girls, shadow with Baby Pink.
- Use #3 round brush and True Red to paint swimsuits on two outer girls.
- Use #3 round brush and Foliage Green to paint swimsuit of center girl.
- Use #3 round brush and True Red for Santa hat on each girl.
- Use scruffy brush to stipple White fur and ball on Santa hats.
- Use small sponge pouncer with Sand, side-loaded with Honey Brown, to pounce sand underneath girls between water edges.
- Use 1/2" flat brush and Honey Brown to make sign. (Refer to photograph for placement.)
- Use 1/4" flat brush and Honey Brown to make sign post.
- Use scruffy brush and White to stipple snow on top of sign and sand.
- Use #6 round brush and True Red to make Santa's bag. (Refer to photo for placement.)
- Use tip of liner brush and White to dot on left girl's swimsuit.
- Use liner brush and Foliage Green to make stripes on right girl's swimsuit.
- Use liner brush and Glorious Gold to make tie on Santa's bag.
- Use #3 round brush, Primary Yellow, and Honey Brown to paint girls' hair and highlights.
- Use liner brush and Black to outline girls and hats and to letter sign.
- Use liner brush, True Red, and Foliage Green to make thin alternating lines on stem, leaving clear space in between. (See photo.)
- Use 1/2" flat brush and White to paint entire top of base.
- Use #3 round brush and True Red to paint curved triangles on base.
- Use liner brush and Foliage Green to outline True Red triangles.
- Use dry liner brush and White to float line on to look like shadow.
- Allow to air dry for 48 hours.
- Place in painted goblet in cool oven and set on 325 degrees. When oven reaches 325 degrees, set timer for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, turn off oven, crack open door, and allow piece to completely cool before removing.
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'Extinct' Frog Reappears in Israel
The Hula painted frog was declared extinct in 1996, the first time any amphibian had been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a conservation group.
The decision was guided by the best available scientific data at the time: Nobody had seen any sign of the creature since its sole known habitat, the Hula Valley wetlands in northern Israel, had been drained in 1955. Then, in October 2011, a routine patrol turned up an adult male of the species. Further searching uncovered another 10 Hula painted frogs.
It's a remarkable case of a species reappearing, said Rebecca Biton, a paleontologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-author of a study describing the reappearance of the frog published this week in the journal Nature Communications.
But the story doesn't end there. An equally amazing finding, Biton said, is that the Hula painted frog, contrary to its previous classification, is the only surviving member of a long-lost group of frogs, in the genus Latonia (genus is the taxonomic classification above species). Her team arrived at this conclusion in two ways. First, Biton's analysis of ancient frog bones showed they looked much more like Latonia then the other painted frogs of the Middle East, to which they were supposedly more closely related. Second, DNA analysis suggested the same.
"The Hula painted frog is not what we thought it was," Biton told LiveScience, a conclusion that may not have materialized if it weren't for the team's interdisciplinary work, she added. "It's nice when genetics and paleontology can work together and get the same result."
All the other frogs in the genus Latonia once ranged throughout much of Europe, but have been gone for about 1 million years, Biton told LiveScience.
There are perhaps 100 to 200 Hula painted frogs left holding on in the Hula Valley, and they remain a critically endangered species. Scientists know next to nothing about the frog's life history, however, Biton said. Researchers are currently working to find out more, and there are tentative plans to re-flood parts of the valley and pursue other projects to help prevent the frog from becoming (actually) extinct. LiveScience
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The Silo Saga by Hugh Howey
When I first found Wool, by Hugh Howey, I simply saw a huge book that stuck my curiosity. I love the look of big books and this one made my mouth water. When I purchased it at a discounted price, via Barnes & Noble Marketsellers, I knew it had to be mind. What I didn't know was it was book one of a tri-book series. Naturally, I had to possess them all, like Pokémon! lol I finally received them and added them to my TBR List.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
I'd developed a case of 'love at first sight' when I first saw this book cover. For some reason, maybe because vegetarianism is my ultimate goal, I don't know, I just knew I had to read it. Once I gazed over the summary, I thought, "Oh, this sounds like one of those weird, spooky movies, like The Host or 3 Extremes or something!" I just knew, I had to read it. Now, I'm not really sure how I feel.
The style of writing is very different... strange. The inner-sleeve of the book said Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life before she took on the vegetarian lifestyle, but I totally disagree., I know that Korean culture is very different, even from most Korean-American culture, but Mr. Cheong wasn't a very nice guy. He didn't think his wife was even pretty. He didn't like her hair, her body- nothing. They lived in a home where they rarely slept together- it had to have been a lonely existence for her. Other than finding her standing before an open refrigerator, I'm surprised he even noticed her change!
Before Reading:
I first want to say, if you have not read the Lux series, you need to. I kept hearing about the storres and seeing tons of Daemon memes and wondering, who the heck?! Then I kept seeing these big books saying "LUX" on them and wondering, "What is that?" because I'm attracted to large books. So I finally purchased the audiobooks and took listen and asked myself, "What the heck took me so long to jump on the bandwagon?!" I purchased the books and added them to my bookshelf. I had too- the story was excellent! I was obsessed with the storyline. Jennifer L. Armentrout really put her foot in it! (Except with Obsession).
So when Oblivion came out, I purchased both versions, as always. I'd previously read Obsession and wasn't very happy, so I was praying this story wasn't damaged in any way!
*Audio Read-a-Long Review
So when I found out this book released in November, I was surprised! I follow Jennifer L. Armentrout on Facebook and on Instagram and totally missed this one! I went immediately to B&N and got my copy ordered and began listening to the audio version until my book delivery was made.
I could have waited...
The story is about Serena, a friend of Meilssa- an unfortunate human who witnessed a Luxen attack. Now she's been marked for murder for what she may or may not know. So the DoD has assigned a protector of sorts. His name's Hunter and he's Arum!
Now Hunter is a loner. He's hostile, dangerous and not in the mood to babysit, but there's something about Serena he can't escape... the burning of his libido... and then I was bored! This story is NOTHING like the Lux series- and though I wasn't expecting to be like the first five books or even Oblivion, which is Daemon's POV, but I wasn't expecting a book full of sexual innuendo and a plethora of "F-bombs!"
Cyber-terrorism, monsters of The Realm and minds of people being inserted into a super-computer network needed to save a planet! This book is science fiction, fantasy and adventure action, all rolled up into one trilogy. Sadly, I didn't get the first two books so I am entering this adventure at the end, but it doesn't take from the great story that is Game Over by Andrew Klavan! I never like coming in at the end- I know there's a great deal I've missed on this story, like Rick's maturity throughout the storyline or friends lost along the way, but it's the one sent to me, so here goes...
What She Left Behind by Emily Kendy
I was gifted with the book, What She Left Behind, from author Emily Kendy. I love reading the works of burgeoning authors and Ms. Kendy is no different. This is a good book, but it's very odd too. Not because it was difficult to read or written poorly but because Rebecca, the main character was difficult!
The story is about Rebecca; a young lady with freshman qualities who is booted from college in her senior year! She was to be a journalist but she became a party girl instead. She has no job, lies to her mother repeatedly, and came off as a nympholist! The sad part is, she comes off as being a lovely gal, talented in the field she so desires, but her life has no direction and so she broods and parties more. What really makes the story explode is Ezra- the rock 'n' roll magazine editor. She becomes obsessed... but I can't say much more because I'd end up giving SPOILERS! and you know how I feel about that.
I truly feel Kendy wanted me (and she was telling me the story!) to 'love to hate' Rebecca. She has potential but you can't truly appreciate her because she's so... Gah! Ms. Kendy did a great job in description, relaying emotion and even illustrated a perfect picture of a young lady who does not want to run her life! LOL This story reminded me so much of another book I read last year (I Take You, Eliza Kennedy) and that's a great compliment. I enjoyed What She Left Behind and would read more from Emily Kendy. On to another book!📚
Ratings: 👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*Game Over is next.
**eBook provided by author, Emily Kendy, for an honest review.
They Came Out After Dark
When I received this ebook, free from one of my daily newsmails, I was actually excited. The synopsis read like a true horror story, but as with many stories that carry an Asian theme, they are drawn out with extensive backstory and near suicidal personalities. I really doubt I'll move on to the other two books in this series.
The story is about a school group that traveled into the mountains of Japan to visit a study camp in British Heights- an out of place museum, theater and more. Its owned by Mr. Forbes, a s'diddi billionaire who cares for his precious antiquities more than the people paying to visit them. Students are suddenly trapped in a white-out snow storm, doubled over from an illness I shall not name, since I don't believe in SPOILERS and hunted by something that comes out of Edgar Allen Poe's, The Raven!
To be honest, the only reason I finished this book is because the author promised me a monster. The characters were a bit drab but strong enough in Jun and Akane to make me command my eyes show me to the ending... or new beginning. Other than that, I read about a bunch of foolish teenagers who (periodically) did the same thing to their British instructors as to me and my friends when I lived in Japan: They spoke ugly words in their native tongue while pretending to be kind and respectful. That part was true to life to me. Ugh...
The Hearts We Mend by Katheryn Springer
This was my first Kathryn Springer book and my first visit to Banister Falls, If you know me, you know I usually take my love and romance with a bit of zombification, alien intrusion or ghostly possession. Yet whenever there's a fireman involved, I tend to get a bit squishy. In this tale, Evie Bennett is a 25-year old widow and single mom. She's also the Women's Ministry Director, so she's used to telling women how they need to step out on faith and be bold about it. She's a woman in control and knows what to expect... until she meets Jack.
I'm going to tell you- it's hard to find a man like this! Jack Vale put everyone above himself and so Godly, I was nearing jealousy! The story is fun, loving, and emotion-provoking. Springer wrote the story so well, I was in the trenches of their relationship with them! This story is unbelievable and made me wonder if the first book is just as good?
The theme of being able to walk away from the past and move with confidence into God's planned future for us was felt and understood- a theme we all look to apply in our lives. I truly appreciated the gentleness and loved how realistic the characters were, even if some men are dreamy. I may be adding the first book to my library! For a romance, this book is IT! I don't think I've ever given a romance novel 5 specs before, but there's always the first time- Now!
On to the next book!📚
Ratings: 👓👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*They Came Out After Dark is next.
**Book provided free by Litfuse Publicity, for an honest review.
As you know, I am a zombie fan. Fan addict. Fanatic? Obsessed? These Z's aren't the norm. They sometimes eat you, sometimes just shred you to pieces. They're different, a hideous visage and able to open doors, run, and do major, body damage. Contamination, Books 0-3 by T. W. Piperbrook is about those zombies
The story is brought to us by our friendly, neighborhood government. They've created something that's so heinous and... well, crazy, that it could just possibly happen. This disease isn't like most zombie infestations. These guys are fast and can do some serious damage- quickly.
The entire box-set is good. It's different and the narrator, Troy Duran is pretty good. He's an excellent reader who doesn't bore you. He gives you voices that make the story worth while and keeps everything spiced just right, from the beginning with Frank in the jail cell to the last word in the series. You will find the 13 hours and about thirty minutes very much worth while. I managed to get this ebook set for a special price: $1.99, from Audible.com, so grab it while you can! It's very entertaining! Grab a few snacks, an iced, cold drink and some headphones. You're in for a ride!📚
Ratings: 👓👓👓👓 out of 5 specs
*The Hearts We Mend is next.
**Audiobook from my personal, Audible.com library.
I've read many books in my life. Some were award-winning and some were one hit wonders. Many are still on shelves while others have faded from print. I've always found some sort of appreciation in a book- even if the story was dull, bland or just silly. The reason I warped the cover of this book's review is because this book, The Library at Mount Char is warped.
Scott Hawkins, the author of books like Apache and Linus, is known for book of instruction; they feed your mind on How-To's. In my opinion, I think Mr. Hawkins should stick to the informational department. His dive into fiction was well written and heavily thought out, but some of the weirdest stuff I've EVER had the pleasure of reading! I was lost from the very first chapter!
The Synopsis:
A missing God.
A library with the secrets to the universe.
A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.
Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts.
After all, she was a normal American herself once.
That was a long time ago, of course. Before her parents died. Before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father.
Gabriel: Zero Point by Steve Amsted
*Audiobook Review
I love a good super soldier story- say that six times!
The summary:
Evan Gabriel wasn't always a feared and respected North American Federation Navy Commander. Before dangerous missions to the ice-bound planet of Poliahu, the deadly jungle world of Eden, and politically corrupt Mars, he was a simple recruit, fighting to make his mark in the elite Naval Special Forces...and was part of a top-secret military experiment that would change his life forever.
Zero Point tells the tale of a young man faced with difficult choices and dangerous trials. Fans of the series will see part of the mysterious past Evan Gabriel carries with him, while listeners new to the series get a preview of what is to come in a military man's haunted life. Zero Point is the true beginning of Evan Gabriel, and his story is just getting started.
First, I'd have chosen a better cover, but this is the cover of the audiobook and not the actual book series, that I hadn't known existed until I found this audiobook. Now the actual book- magnificent! So this story is the introduction to Evan and how he became the a Naval Special Forces Officer. His steely demeanor and unbelievable focus has made him number one, but at a cost...
I haven't read the series, but it's on my list to read, hopefully this year, since I'm focusing on knocking out as many book series reads as possible. I liked this listen- a lot!. The narrators voice seemed to fit and the story flowed nicely. There was only one or two spots that got a bit dry, but all in all, I think this may be a good read.
The SciFi tech came off as real and nothing happened that was so unbelievable that you found yourself exasperated when the mention of a weapon came up. It was all futuristic so it was easy to imagine in my mind's eye. It was pretty cool and exciting. Especially the character development- you know who Gabriel is, why he is the way he is and how he becomes "The Man!"
Check this out while I move on to the next book!📚
Ratings: 👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Library at Mount Char is next.
**Audiobook from my personal, Audible.com library.
Rain: A Zombie Novel by Shaun Harbinger
*Audiobook Review
This book was pretty good and funny- but only because the hero was a dork underdog. Alex, single and trapped in a dead-end job usually spends all of his free time at home, in front of his tv, playing on his game console. But when he gets with a friend and two girls, with hopes of hooking up with the pretty gal Lucy- he finds himself out of his element: Hiking! There's no joystick or head-mic for this trip.
He's out of breath, aching, complaining and behind the rest of his buddies when something blue with yellow eyes attacks him from the woods! Alex escapes and tries to convince his hiking friends they need to leave and that's when the story gets good!
Shaun Harbinger, the author of Rain: A Zombie Novel, gave me a bit to enjoy in this book. First, I loved when there was a phone call or radio broadcast- a tinny voice, with a little static floated into my ears with a British accent- always a positive! Plus, Alex was like, the average, under achiever guy. You wanted to see him living with his mother, he was such a loser sort, but he knew about zombies! He fussed a lot for a while, but he turned out to be cool because of his waste on video games. I liked it, plus Mike got put in his place- some friend he was!
Rain was entertaining but I wasn't crazy about the narrator, Brian Grey wasn't British, let alone Welsh. It would have been much better. Grey was also a bit too dramatic with his Capt. Kirk-like pauses that robbed from the seriousness of the situation. I didn't realize until I'd finished the audio that I also owned the ebook. Had I realized it, I probably would not have listened to Grey read it and may have liked it more Who knows? I also didn't know there was a series of the story! Yeah, I think I'll be getting the rest. On to the next book!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓/5 specs
*Gabriel: Zero Point is next.
**Book is from my own, personal, Audible library.
Hobnail by Crystal Arbogast
Rating: 👓👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*Rain: A Zombie Novel is next.
**eShort Story is from a free, online website called Disturbinghorror.com.
The Luptator Series, by Tyler Watkins
Here's an original series that you will enjoy checking out. There are three books in the series, but the third hasn't been released yet. So happy for author, Tyler Watkins. He's representing Good against Evil and the careful development of a same sex relationships. Peep the reviews below!
Broken Dolls by Tyrolin Putty
Tyrolin Puxty was so kind to deliver to me, all the way from Australia, a copy of this book! The story kept bringing to mind, the words of Alice from the Wonderland stories, "Curiouser and curiouser..."
This book was totally, unequivocally, masterfully written! The book deserves 10 specs- I am not kidding! It was so good! The story is about a small doll, named Ella. She has no memory of her past; all she wants to do is dance. She's cared for by a man, known as the professor and lives happily in the attic of his home.
It's not until a new doll is added to her peaceful, yet dusty environment that things go awry. Lisa, the goth doll is angry. She's emotional, condescending and violent and she knows a truth that can upset everything Ella's ever known.
This story is 161-pages of adventure! The ending brings a twist in such a manner that all you can do is rush through the final pages- a bit upset at a character, despondent towards another and terribly sad for one you'd never expected! I loved it so much- I'll share the story but I won't ever hand the book out for a loan. This book now holds a special place on my bookshelf, where it will always be bragged upon but never loaned. You have to read this book. It's for any aged reader and so imaginative!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Lupator Series is next.
**Book provided by author, Tyrolin Putty, for an honest review.
*Audiobook Review
During my adventure for a good listen, I came across this audiobook: The Jester, by Michael J. Sullivan, is a standalone short story. Can you imagine, a thief, candlemaker, a squeamish pig farmer and an ex-merc working together obtain a treasure? Especially when they all pretty much don't like one another and they keep finding themselves in trap after trap, after trap! The story begins with them falling!
This short is funny and so adventurous. I love trolls, giants, dwarves and such in a tale. This book give it all. It's only about 7,200 words long but you will find yourself caught up instantly. You will laugh, get irritated, mostly at the pig farmer, and looking for the story to continue once it's ended.
I am interested and now and must move on to see what happens next. If you're interested too, just click on his name above. It'll take you to the site where you'll find two different series and a host of free listening!
On to the next adventure! 📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓👓5 specs
*Broken Dolls is next.
**Audiobook provided free, by author.
I was gifted with an amazing short story by Jason Werbeloff. An audiobook from his up-coming anthology, Obsidian Worlds. Like I said, it's a short story; it is science fiction with a tad bit of horror as well. AND it's good! Very good!
The story is about a guy named Chris, an every day Joe Blow who receives a lot of spam. But in his case, a fortune! The things he finds in his spam folder seem to come true- like wishes! I won't say what he gets or how lucky he is, but everything comes with a cost and I don't give SPOILERS!
This is an audio-short in a series of short stories that you will definitely enjoy! Check out Jason Werbeloff; his link can be copied and pasted (below the photo) or you can click on his name in the first sentence of this review. Go on- click! lol
On to the next story!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Jester is next.
**Audiobook provided by the author, for an honest review.
Today is a short story by Steve Vernon. His story, In The Dark and The Deep is a tale on what is owed the sea.
According to Big Jimmy, the ocean contained a sort of creature, more like the Ferryman! This is a ghostly tale, written almost like silk across the pages. I found myself gliding along the open sea in the corvette, looking out for subs. But what brings you into the story is Jimmy.
The man, a heedful, insightful man brought life to the story and then... Then, there is the ghostly incident. I won't give away any of the story, because I detest SPOILERS, but I can tell you this- you will like this short.
Check it out- it's FREE the last I checked. Off to another great story!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Photons in the Cheese Are Lost (Obsidian Worlds) is next.
**Book is from my personal library..
"I can't help but think these kids are never going to be happy and find a place where they'll truly be free!"
Christina L. Rozelle, the author of the Treemakers Trilogy, is so talented- I can't help but feel engulfed within her stories. The Soultakers was no different. Every time they find something peaceful, it's quickly taken from them. I understand why Serna thought it probably better to have stayed at the factory. They're again, hopping from one hell to another in the second book.
The story finds Joy, Jax, and the rest of the gang in Zentao- paradise. Their escaping Alzanei didn't get them out of harms way though; Zentao holds a secret. So do the inhabitants. Some with painful scars, missing appendages and next to no children, Joy is worried about their future and what's to come. I won't say much more, because I'd then be giving the story, but I can say- these guys can't catch a break for nothing!
This book is just as exciting and full of horrors as its predecessor. The story is written just a carefully as The Treemakers and, come on- look at that cover. It's great and holds to the story. It's lovely and easy on the eyes. Check out this book - you won't be sorry, but you will feel sorry for the characters!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*In The Kark and The Deep is next.
**Book provided by the author, for an honest review.
My second read by Paula V. Hardin, The Unforeseen Rescue is the story of how man rescues girl, mysteriously falls for girl and girl is in even more trouble. He's entranced and can't help the passion he feels for her. She hungers for him too...
The story is about Baptiste,a guy who retired from the military to take care of his sister. Then they're both drawn into a world unlike anything they'd ever imagined and it all stems from Theodora and her need to be rescued after being sold to a madman.
I liked The Unforeseen Rescue, though it was a bit rushed. Page 1, Chapter 1 begins with a conversation, between Baptiste and Cyan, about the foolishness of visiting haunted houses to his loved one passing away, which morphs into brief argue on their dead parents and need to protect one another. I was like, 'Did I miss something?'
The entire story is like that; I didn't have time to develop a relationship with Baptiste or Cyan enough to share in their life's misery. Before I knew it, he was rescuing a woman with ethereal assistance. I loved the concept and storyline but the push stole the needed clashing of reality against paranormal. The story was good, but it needed more detail.
The Unforeseen Rescue was easy to read, but you have to pay attention or get lost. There were a few errors here and there, but it didn't distract from the story. If you enjoy adventure, voodoo magic, vampires and romance, this is a story to read! On to my next adventure!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓1/2 /5 specs
*The Soultakers is next.
**Book provided by the author, for an honest review.
Forever Lost by Paula Hardin
Forever Lost by Paula Hardin is the a paranormal romance short story. We find our first character, Elizabeth crying in a cemetery- evidently so hard she wakes the dead! Enter Benson, the local vampire. Having come from a time when men were gentlemen, he finds he can not leave her in distress.
And the romance begins from there. The story doesn't kill you with love though- I mean, Benson takes immediately to the human, but they do fall for one another. Even with Benson's evil mother cop-blocking! Oh the mother, Emily is a piece of this story that is unbelievably awesome! Characters like her don't come along very often.
For a short story, I enjoyed it and hope to find my second book by Paula just as entertaining! Also, I really love the cover. Benson's steely gaze and the plantation-like home he shares with Elizabeth is perfect and fits the brief description. I could easily see it, because of that lovely cover. Okay- on to the next Hardin read! 📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Unforeseen Rescue is next.
**Book provided by author, Paula V. Hardin, for an honest review.
Would you be willing to fight for your dreams?
Fifteen-year-old Archer Keaton has the ability to enter and explore his dreams. He is a Dreamtreader, one of three selected from each generation. Their mission: to protect the waking world from the Nightmare Lord who dwells beyond the Slumber Gate. But as Archer's dreams become more dangerous and threatening, so too does his waking life.
This is the conclusion to a three-book journey. I was given this book for a review by BookLook Bloggers, but I fear my review may not do it any justice. I haven't a clue as to the other book's actions. I don't really know Archer either. In a way, it was wrong to have this one without the entire story, but I read it.
To me, the book felt like a mixing of an original story and Narnia. There were Christian undertones and a bit of action, all of which I appreciated, but I didn't really feel what I should have for the story, due to coming in on the very ending. Imagine watching The Battle of the Five Armies (Lord of the Rings) and never viewing the previous five movies. Or reading the books even! You'd have a good show, but you'd never truly understand the journey or even the victory because you didn't know the story and the journeys involved. I couldn't become emotionally invested.
Please don't misunderstand, the War for the Waking World by Wayne Thomas Batson, was an adventure, but not one I'm even concerned with checking out (the previous books) because now I know the ending!
Onward... towards the next book!📚
Rating: 👓👓👓👓/5 specs
*The Realmsic Conquest: The Icon of Earth is next.
**Book provided by BookLookBloggers.com, for an honest review.
I can't begin to tell you how excited I was when I received this book around the time tv began broadcasting the movie trailer. I was like, "Oh, I've gotta read this- fast!" So happily, I dived right in around the 23rd of January! I finished Monday! Yes- I ran through it!
That will probably never happen again.
So happily, I waited for the movie- due on February 2nd, so I could do what all readers/reviewer do. I wanted to compare the movie to the book. First off, I actually had three comparisons to contend with. I'd read Pridese and Prejudice years and years ago. I compared it to PPZ. I loved how Seth Grahame-Smith, the author who performed the rewrite of the classic, changed things up. He managed to keep the fuss and bustle of the Bennett household as well as the vexing of Mr. Darcy towards Lizzy. BUT it was set up perfectly.
The long and dreary musings were still there, allowing the story to hold quite a bit to Jane Austen's storyline. I found myself vexed too, but the addition of the 'dreadfuls' and other scenes made the tale somewhat adventurous. I have to admit, I found myself sighing with the goings-on of the original book, spiced with in-between battles, then bothered by the airy ramblings of getting married and
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To me, intimacy has to do with learning and teaching one another. If you can achieve that closeness, it can be a wonderful thing. But you always have to keep in mind that people come and go.
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especially if that closeness involves a dagger/skin contact.
indeed... and if you have a heart that's needy it makes that process so much harder
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I believe in second chances. I hope you do as well. Never give up believing that past hurts can be healed and that new hope can be breathed into them. I wrote a blog about my issues around abandonment back in December. Those issues and feelings are very real. At the same time, though, I have had healing on many of those fronts. In that healing, I have come to realize that it's not truly time that heals all wounds, but sometimes the time that has passed allows us to have a new perspective of those wounds that allow them to heal more fully.
I have a relationship today with my mother that I had always desired when I was growing up. I loved her so very much and wanted to have a close relationship with her; one in which I could count her amongst my friends. Today, I can happily say I have that. She is the first person I want to call when good things happen in my life. When my world seems to be falling in around me, she is also my lifeline. It has taken us years to get to this point and there are still more wounds that need healing, and in their time they will get aired out and I will move on from them. I also keep in mind my mom's hurts and pains. Children learn what they live. Sometimes it is just that reason that the things we learned need to be unlearned and fought through and we need to get passed them. Healing for me and my mom also means that each of us needs to be at the right place to get through the next challenge. She has to be as ready to hear what I have to say as I have to be to say what it is on my heart. In the meantime, we pray through these things so that the words and our minds are ready for that time.
The Marine who was my first love has come back into my life twice. The first time I ended up hurt again. This time, I am freed. We have gently cared for each others hurts and heart. We have shared our thoughts and memories of the good times, the bad times and the times when we wondered what if. He is a friend who knows what it is like to have 3 children. He knows what it is like to struggle with a child who has ADHD and children who are willful. He knows the pain of betrayal and mistrust in a marriage and of losing your forever. He knows that when you have invested so many years in a marriage and in another person, you can't just walk away like it never happened. That history exists. That relationship is deeply woven into you and this is a wound that time licks the wounds over and over in hopes of healing them little by little. He is also a man that understands that God will make a way in the midst of all the hurts and brokenness, but it is in His timing. Soon, I hope to get to see my sweet Marine again so we can sit on the porch and laugh as we did so many years ago at his home in Louisiana. While he and I don't have a future together as a couple, our friendship has sustained us through a tough year for both of us.
I am still working on healing from the wounds bore through my marriage and our failure in it. While my ex cheated on me many times, he was not the only one to blame. I can say that I was the way I was in return because of how what happened made me feel, but I know that I had a choice in that, too. Many times I made the right choice and I sucked it up and took the high road and tried to be the wife I believed I was supposed to be. Yet, I see how I also fell short. What I have learned since is that there are things I would do differently. I do see God doing a good work in me now to prepare me for that next time. I have learned to let others do things for me. I love to have a door opened for me, someone to know what I like and get that for me or do that for me without having to be asked to do so, someone to hold me when I cry and know it's okay to lean into them because I don't have to hold it all inside. I have learned to run instead of run away. I have learned that treating a man with respect and not putting him down regardless of my believing he is deserving of it is important to him. I truly believe that if I build him up even when he's struggling to be his best will help him to achieve his best. If instead I choose to berate him and tear him down because he's not doing it in my time or my pace, that I do more damage and prolong his road to becoming all he is meant to be. In return, I want to be loved even when I am not at my best because it is through that love that I will find my best, too. I am sure that is the yin and yang piece. Men and women were made to compliment one another through the methods by which God made them to crave; a woman desires to be loved while a man desires to be respected. We all want what it is we need deep down inside ourselves.
My best guy pal from the Navy and I had a falling out back in 1994. Later that same year I married. He and I didn't talk until he came back in my life in 2008 before he deployed to Iraq for a year. It was his love for me that finally reminded me that I can be loved just as I am. We had a rocky road through the next couple of years, but things started to right themselves for good this year. He came to visit me this past weekend and it was so wonderful to have him here. He was great with my little ones and they mostly enjoyed him. My son was not into having him stay here with us even though I explained that he is my best friend, not my boyfriend, and that he won't hurt me or harm me. My son is super protective of me. As Russ said, he believes he's the man of my house regardless of my trying to make this an environment where he never has to be relied upon in such a way. I have to admit that I thought Russ would bail or find a reason to not be able to make it here or go home early. He made it and stayed until Sunday morning just like he said he would. He let me take him everywhere. Not only did he meet my two little ones, he met my mom and some of my friends as well. We hung out at the pool with some of the people from the development. We took a walk around my running path. I took him through my hometown, along the shoreway, into downtown, around our museum district and into Little Italy for pizza at Mama Santa's and then coffee at Presti's Bakery. I could not have asked for a better weekend with my best bud from my aircrew days.
Me and Russ out with my friend 06/18/11
Even though my mom was sizing him up as son-in-law material, I am pretty sure Russ and I will forever be just friends. Russ said to me this morning as he was getting me ready for him to leave, "I love you, but I miss my family." He was just coming back from 2 weeks of training midway between our two locations which is why he came to see me. He asked me if I knew how special I am to him. I do. He's been there for me through a whole lot of not so great times and some super amazing times. Our friendship survived through some things that many don't ever come out of. I am thankful for second chances at the relationships in life that really matter. Regardless of feelings we've had above and beyond friendship throughout our relationship, it seems that being friends is what suits our hearts best. As I explained to my mom, no matter who else has come into my life since I met SAM, he's still the one I can't let go of and I still don't know what may be with him if anything. Either I will release SAM in my heart at some point, or he really will come back to me--either for closure or forever. Only time will tell. I have been told that I am that girl that is unforgettable; the one that's hard to let go of...I hope that's the case for him, too!


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Sir Tom Courtenay calls her 'a wonderful discovery'. Matthew Macfadyen says she's 'no less than brilliant.' The trade magazine Screen International lists her as one to watch and Vogue tips her as this autumn's brightest star.
No wonder 24-year-old Claire Foy is smiling. She has landed the title role in BBC1's new primetime Dickensian costume drama Little Dorrit – yet a year ago she was a struggling drama student, a complete unknown.
'How jammy can one girl be?' she asks, her huge blue eyes widening in astonishment at her own good luck. One of the jobs she undertook to help support herself was working for a film catering company. She would serve up bacon sandwiches to hungry actors and ravenous technicians, and she says it was the most demanding week of her life.
But it was the closest she'd been to fulfilling her dream. 'I've always been an attention seeker,' she says. 'I used to put on shows at home, dressing up and roping my cousins in to help, but I always gave myself the best parts.'
Little Dorrit – which attracted an audience of more than six million, following close on the success of Bleak House and Cranford, when it launched last weekend – is packed with two dozen established acting names, but it is young Claire Foy – the 'angel' of this gritty love story – who has had to be on call each day for every scene.
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PARTING GLANCES: Diary of Maybe Days to Come
By Charles Alexander
Originally printed 11/24/2016 (Issue 2447 - Between The Lines News)
July 4, 2020: Dear Diary, another same-sex couple has been "relocated." My neighbors two doors down. The boys who did a wonderful job of gentrifying that old house on Wells Street.
Didn't really get to know them, but they always waved. Said hello. Just gone! Last week, two others. Tom and Martin. Belonged to my block club. Gadabouts, but great gardeners. Just disappeared. Very strange.
Within days their condoplex -- furniture, everything! -- was "appropriated" by Theocratic America Party members. Last night there was a parking lot burning of their books and antique CD collection. Rare albums of Garland, Streisand, Frank Sinatra (whoever he was).
Come to think of it, as much as I didn't like them -- too secretive, if you ask me -- Margo and her longtime partner Ella, in their mid-70s, also seem to have vanished. A nosy neighbor at Cafe & Pot whispered to me that they were taken away in a black van about 3 a.m. Screaming.
I mind my own business. Or at least I try to, dear diary. But something's going on, not only in this small town, but our capitol as well. Anyone with half a brain could see it coming. 2020: All same-sex marriages voided, constitutionally made illegal. 2021: Gays and lesbians must declare themselves homosexuals and register for one-year of mandatory, church/state sponsored reparative therapy.
If caught afterward in the slightest compromising behavior -- say holding hands -- LGBT people are subject to further RT for as long as it takes, and -- a money maker for the state! -- at their own expense.
2021: All homosexuals must get listed with 3-D photo, fingerprints, sex contacts on the America First Homosexual Watch List.
2022: Homosexuals are barred from teaching, practicing law, medicine, acting on stage or hologram touch-and-feel videos, wide-screen movies. New Hollywood's in a panic!
And! "All known, avowed, militant 'homos' (Theocratic America derogatory term for non-curable sexual deviants) must wear a rainbow armband, and observe a weekly 6:30 p.m. body WiFi monitoring curfew."
July 15, 2023: Dear Diary, today I learn at a TA-sponsored church picnic that recalcitrant homos are being relocated to Canyon Center West. My friend Martha (sworn to hush-hush to these cursive writing written diary pages) has several suspect acquaintances. She received a smuggled-out postcard: "Having a trying time. Overcrowded. Bad ass place. Health concerns. Miss family. Prayers. D. L. 'Bro' Jones."
2024 Easter Sunday: Theocratic America Party President spoke on Total Fox All Channels America about the concessions we have to make during TA's 10 Year Plan. Asked for a "unity of vision," a need to "be vigilant for any behavior or opinion, covert or otherwise, that's unpatriotic, anti-state, going against political and/or America's theocratic good. It's the duty of every thinking citizen to report any abomination of loyalty."
Oct. 31, Halloween: Picked up the Banner of Victory, unfortunately our only news source. This item caught my eye: "Washington, D.C. has become the first zone to be 'homo free.' This thorough 'cleansing' is the result of thousands of undercover reports, well-coordinated psychological efforts, low-visibility, rapid roundup strategies.
"RT accounts for much of this outcome -- so much so that, as approved therapy for brain rewiring, it will be used -- along with mind altering religious techniques -- for other anti-America First asocial tendencies.
"Those 'homos' not responding to RT are relocated to fasting and penance camps in an off-limits Grand Canyon concentration area. 'Rest assured,' the President stresses, 'no government tax monies are used to support these aberrant lifestyle incarcerations. Many may perish. Sadly, that's their choice. God and country come first! Homos come last. If at all.'"email@example.com. Originally published in 2014.
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Where Teaching and Learning Matter
Here is a framework to help students and staff write reflectively. This framework leads writers step by step through the reflective process.
DIEP := Describe -> Interpret -> Evaluate -> Plan
Virtually verbatim from:
D-I-E-P: A framework for writing a reflective document. (2009). In Turning ideas into action: A toolkit to help implement and execute your 'knowledge gym' learning. The Knowledge Gym. Retrieved from http://www.theknowledgegym.com/kgym/index.cfm
See also
Larkin, I., & Beatson, A. (2010). Developing reflective practitioners online: the business of blogs in work integrated learning. Presented at the International conference on work-integrated learning, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic
Other postings about reflection in my blog, http://pogus.tumblr.com/search/reflect
Example of a student's on-line reflective journal as a blog
Barnes, D. (2009, October 30). Introduction to Marketing for Fashion Blog. Marketing for Fashion. Reflective journal. Retrieved March 22, 2010, from http://danni-ibl.tumblr.com/
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Let me explain
Killing people, particularly innocent, is BAD! Not killing people is good. Why hasn't this administration figured this out?
Of course, none of us want Cuba to be a socialist state. However, killing innocent people seems to defeat the intention of having a just cause. Yet, our government wants to reward these people for their heinous crimes.
Why can't people follow the example of Gandhi and/or Martin Luther King Jr of peaceful resistance? It has worked!
Posted by Esquire Estévez P.I. at 5:44 PM
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- BobG said...
"Why can't people follow the example of Gandhi and/or Martin Luther King Jr of peaceful resistance? It has worked!"
It only works against ethical, civilized governments. Can you imagine how well peaceful resistance would have worked against the Soviets or the Third Reich? We saw how well it worked at Tiannamen Square in China.
- August 22, 2007 at 4:34 PM
- Esquire Estévez P.I. said...
Actually, The socialist regime in Cuba treats it's citizens in a lot more civilized manner than our government during Jim Crow.
- August 22, 2007 at 4:44 PM
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Just my style.
Simple concept yet so effective. The music, sound effects, and graphics tie in wonderfully together, with the monochrome colouring (somewhat reminiscent of Mirror's Edge), constantly changing levels, the actual challenging aspect to it, and the soul objective of getting the furthest distance in an attempt to escape, is enough to capture anyone's short attention span. I really like how you've made sure to include environment within such a small game, the glass, the birds, the passing ship, even the smoke in the background.
I'm a traceur so this particular game appealed to me, I reckon you could totally pimp up a similar version of this into a fantastic parkour platformer.
Another excellent creation AdamAtomic!
City Platformer
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Good concept, reminds me very much of the game N-Ball. Hey, your graphics are alright, they just lack that luster that comes with experience.
I reckon the spikes are incurring too much damage at once. I found it hard to jump over without nicking the edge and losing a third of health. One alternative is to make the ball bounce back up (and flash or go red) as soon as it hits the spike, then take away an exact amount, rather than have it decrease continuously. Incremental injury is more ideal for something that damages at a rate, like a liquid.
Also, you might want to make the ball roll. Yes, it's a circle so how do you do that- don't rotate a radial gradient, because that won't make any sense (since shadows don't roll with the ball), instead you can animate the white reflection to create the illusion (look up a tutorial). Also adding a small amount of blur, or ground particles, will aid the illusion.
Also you can make the physics a little more obvious, bounce the ball more, relative to the height it falls from. Don't forget music and sounds!
Goodd stuff NewAssasination11.
Why thanks S1tHSL4y3r For the nice and helpful review im just a begginer so it might take long but thats how games are made so thanks.
My Patform Game Tutorial
Rated 1 / 5 stars
"Not bad! I think I like it!"
However, 'think' is an over statement. I really should have blammed this. It's a good tutorial, but please, just put the effort in to make it look better. You've put in enough to make a tutorial, spend some time on the presentation at least. And also, watch over all your spelling and grammar. Especially in your title. It's terrible and looks unprofessional. Wouldn't be too much to ask to include a demo of some sort at the end too.
Explaining the actionscript is what people need. To exclude that is to make people ignorant of what they're creating, resulting in more poorly designed games that nobody needs, apart from people who want their blam points up. What I'm saying is that tutorials are most helpful when they explain what they teach. Don't just spoonfeed.
I suggest simply break up that massive wad of actionscript you provide, into sections and what each section does, ie moves the character, makes it jump, collisions etc., just like you would separate each part of your code with comment labels. Maybe combine it with a related graphic of the character doing it.
Lialia, you really need to spend more time with this if you want something good that will actually help people learn how to make platform games, and contribute to the entire flash community.
- Coins stay on the screen after your last frame jumps back to the title.
Cursor Maze test
Rated 3 / 5 stars
Alright anti-cheat system.. but not good enough ;D Try right clicking for the menu to come up, then right click over Finish. Now that I found it where's my free pr0n?
Yeah, add some funky music to it, some nice transitions, and lots of levels, it may just do well. Nice design. Nothing incredibly new though to be honest. Cool font.
The Scale of the Universe
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Most informative.
Definitely not what I expected at first, but as soon as I realised that instead of playing a mindless game, there was actually something to learn here, I liked it. It's a different take to flash, an educational and informant interactive, which you don't normally find here.
I found some very interesting facts in there that I hadn't known before. And the way you've presented it is quite inventive. I suppose there are a few negatives, such as the information appearing to be a bit cluttered at times, or too close to the edge that you can't read as clearly. Some of the graphics could definitely be refined, perhaps to render the actual images with a bit more resemblance (I mean, come on, that's an oak tree? :P) But all in all, the information was very interesting, and well researched.
This could easily lead to a new revolution of educational games, however I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon :P. Would be great if it did though. Nice work Fotoshop!
M-Bot The Game
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
A very fast paced, action packed scroll shooter! Amazing graphics, the 3D gives it an extremely nice finishing touch. I guess the downside there is lag for some people.
Great use of combo-upgrade concept, I like the freeze cutscene when you level up to the next weapon. One thing I didn't like was as soon as you got damaged, your upgrade is gone.
I like how you've separated the game into obstacle and enemy phases. The speed can tend to make discerning various screen components a bit difficult at times. Also maybe the medals and scores screen could have been more elaborate (accumulated stats, highest combo, plus more medals :D). I will repeat however, the artwork and graphics are truly stunning.
Altogether a brilliant creation, MindChamber!
I agree about the score breakdown. thanks again
Achievement Unlocked
Rated 5 / 5 stars
spent another 377 seconds wasting my time with something so damn good. I didn't think it would be true when it started, a game littered with so many pointless achievements to the point the entire game was pointless, but I was proven wrong, and thoroughly enjoyed myself ridiculously. I love elephants.
Gretel and Hansel
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Well made.
Nice design, lovely artwork and animation. Good twist to story! Very enjoyable, and a great game for everyone, especially children, with the many stimulating puzzles and adventurous storyline. 10/10
Crush the Castle: PP
Rated 5 / 5 stars
A most satisfying demonstration of the brute terror the invention of the trebuchet cast on poorly designed castles. Took a while but I eventually accumulated my devastating annihilation of one shot golds :D A great concept and a fun addicting game!
*gloats over medals incessantly*


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Orgasms are like seashells. To quote the unnamed author of SeashellWorld.com, who will be no doubt confused and perhaps dismayed at being referenced in this post, "A shell formation can produce new structural elements (folds or tubercles), and as growth continues these irregularities can produce what is known as an ornament or sculpture on the upper surface of the shell." Likewise, what happens between your ears and legs often spirals up to the surface, shaping the external in unpredictable ways.
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There's additionally no scarcity of nice articles that provide you with very detailed directions as to executing knowledgeable key phrase analysis, rating excessive for 1000's of focused search phrases and vastly bettering your visitors from Google.
However right here's an attention-grabbing statement: every of those guides gives you a considerably totally different set of directions.
Not that any of them is advising you incorrect, it's simply there's no common strategy to executing key phrase analysis.
It's going to differ primarily based on:
- Your web site (authority, variety of pages, high quality of content material, and so on);
- Your targets and targets (branding, publicity, visitors, leads, gross sales);
- Your finances, assets and deadlines;
- Your trade and aggressive panorama.
That is why you would possibly discover it laborious to narrate to a random step-by-step information that you simply encounter.
So I'm going to take a special route and provide you with a key phrase analysis framework that may be simply adjusted to no matter your targets and assets are.
And I assure that the techniques and strategies described beneath will vastly enhance your visitors from Google.
At the very least we've grown search visitors to this very weblog by 2.4x in a single 12 months by doing it:
Seed key phrases are the inspiration of your key phrase analysis. They outline your area of interest and enable you determine your opponents.
If you have already got a product or enterprise that you simply wish to promote on-line, developing with seed key phrases is as simple as describing that product with your personal phrases or brainstorming how different individuals would possibly seek for it.
For instance, let's say you're launching an internet retailer with GoPro equipment. The Google searches (key phrases) that you'd first consider are:
- GoPro equipment;
- devices for GoPro;
- GoPro add-ons.
That's a no brainer, proper?
However what in case you're trying to begin an internet online affiliate marketing web site, and you don't have any thought which area of interest to choose or which merchandise to advertise?
The problem of "choosing a distinct segment" deserves a giant and detailed information of its personal. However usually, there are two methods to strategy this:
1. "Monetisation first" strategy
Begin from exploring obtainable monetisation strategies. Decide a product or a proposal that you simply like. After which consider search queries that individuals is perhaps utilizing to search out it in Google.
For instance, Amazon has a particularly well-liked associates program. So all that you must do is browse their web site till you uncover a product (or a class of merchandise) that you simply're prepared to advertise.
An alternative choice is to scout affiliate market websites like ClickBank or CJ, that join product homeowners with associates.
And eventually, simply evaluation the services and products that you simply're utilizing your self and see in case you can develop into an affiliate.
2. "Area of interest down" strategy
You can begin with a brilliant broad key phrase and area of interest down till you see an attention-grabbing alternative.
For instance, I'm going to choose "music" as my tremendous broad area of interest. Ahrefs' Key phrases Explorer instrument offers me virtually 5 million key phrase concepts for that seed key phrase:
With a view to "area of interest down," I must give attention to longer and extra particular key phrases which have the phrase "music" in them. So I'll use the "Phrases" filter to slender down that vast listing of key phrase concepts to these with precisely four phrases.
And right here's what I used to be capable of finding:
- "music making software program free" – Being an ex-DJ, I do know there's a ton of software program for making music. So I may begin a evaluation web site and canopy all the newest releases and updates.
- "recreation of thrones music" – Individuals wish to obtain music they hear in motion pictures, TV collection, TV exhibits, and so on. And on condition that new TV content material is launched commonly, this might be a enjoyable area of interest.
- "presents for music lovers" – I'm positive numerous well-known music bands and main music labels have a ton of merchandise for his or her followers to purchase. To not point out musical instrument manufacturers like Gibson, Fender, and so on. They should have some reasonably priced reward choices too.
- "music video games for youths" – Being a father of an Eight-month-old child, I might completely play some enjoyable music video games with him.
These area of interest concepts are clearly removed from excellent, however hey, I spent not more than 5 minutes to search out them. Make investments somewhat bit extra time and you may inevitably encounter one thing superior.
So you have got your seed key phrases discovered. However that's solely the tip of the key phrase analysis iceberg.
The subsequent step is to generate a mammoth listing of related key phrase concepts, whereas additionally getting a superb understanding of what individuals in your area of interest are looking for in Google.
There are not less than 4 good methods to do it.
1. See what key phrases you already rank for
If you happen to personal an internet site that's been round for some time, you must already be rating in Google for a number of hundred key phrases. Understanding what they're is an ideal strategy to kick-start your key phrase analysis.
A superb supply of this info is a report referred to as "Search Analytics" in Google Search Console:
Search Console exhibits your common place for every of the key phrases you rank for and what number of impressions and clicks this brings you. Nonetheless, they don't present the month-to-month search quantity and also you're restricted to 1000 key phrases solely.
If you happen to want extra information, you possibly can strive "Natural Key phrases" report in Ahrefs' Web site Explorer instrument:
Each Google Search Console and Ahrefs' Web site Explorer have fairly a number of superior options to play with, so I went forward and recorded a fast video of tips on how to use them:
2. See what key phrases your opponents are rating for
The probabilities are, your opponents have already carried out all of the tedious key phrase analysis give you the results you want. So you possibly can analysis the key phrases that they rank for and cherry-pick one of the best ones.
If you happen to don't know who your opponents are, simply put your seed key phrases into Google and see who ranks on the entrance web page.
Let's do this with a seed key phrase that I found earlier, "presents for music lovers." I see an attention-grabbing web site rating on the entrance web page, uncommongoods.com.
Let's now plug that web site in Ahrefs' Web site Explorer and browse the key phrases that it ranks for:
Generally even a single competitor can provide you with sufficient key phrase concepts to maintain your search engine optimization staff busy for months. However in case you're hungry for extra, you possibly can go to "Competing domains" report to search out extra websites like your competitor.
And we have simply closed the "aggressive analysis loop":
- Put your seed key phrase into Google and see who ranks on high;
- Plug their web site into Ahrefs to see their finest key phrases;
- Discover extra related web sites through the "Competing domains" report;
- Return to both step 1 or 2.
The trick to virtually limitless key phrase concepts is to repeat this course of time and again.
And don't neglect tapping into associated industries. You would possibly uncover numerous nice key phrases that don't essentially relate to no matter you're providing however can nonetheless convey very focused guests to your web site.
Trace: Give the "Prime Pages" report a spin in Ahrefs Web site Explorer (lined within the video beneath).
Trace: Give the "Content material Hole" instrument a spin to shortly uncover what these key phrases are (lined within the video beneath).
The method of simply researching web sites of your opponents deserves an in depth information of its personal (like this one). However I attempted to function a few of the coolest methods within the following video:
three. Use key phrase analysis instruments
Good competitor analysis is usually sufficient to fill your spreadsheet with a ton of related key phrase concepts.
However in case you're one of many leaders in your area of interest, that technique just isn't fairly possible for you. You need to be on the lookout for some distinctive key phrases that none of your opponents are focusing on but.
And one of the simplest ways to do it's by utilizing a good key phrase analysis instrument. Fortunately, there's no scarcity of them in the marketplace:
- http://soovle.com/
- https://ubersuggest.io/
- http://answerthepublic.com/
- & fairly a number of extra
Whatever the instrument you select, there's no most well-liked workflow for locating nice key phrase concepts. Simply enter your seed key phrases and play with the stories and filters till you encounter one thing cool.
Most instruments will pull their key phrase strategies from the next sources:
- scraping key phrase concepts straight from Google Key phrase Planner;
- scraping Google auto-suggest;
- scraping "comparable searches" in Google.
These strategies are nice, however they will hardly ever provide you with greater than a pair hundred strategies. For instance, UberSuggest exhibits solely 316 key phrase concepts for "content material advertising and marketing."
There are additionally superior key phrase analysis instruments (Ahrefs, Moz, SEMrush) that function a key phrase database of their very own and subsequently gives you vastly extra key phrase concepts.
For instance, Ahrefs Key phrases Explorer exhibits 5,570 key phrase concepts for "content material advertising and marketing."
You may simply go bananas attempting to sift by means of a key phrase listing of that dimension, so we've got some nice filtering choices in place:
- Key phrase issue;
- Search quantity;
- Clicks;
- Clicks per search;
- Value per click on;
- Return price;
- Variety of phrases in a key phrase;
- Embody/Exclude phrases.
If you wish to be taught extra about producing key phrase concepts through Ahrefs' Key phrases Explorer, take a look at my full evaluation of this instrument.
four. Research your area of interest properly
The aforementioned key phrase analysis methods are extraordinarily efficient and supply an virtually limitless quantity of key phrase concepts. However on the similar time, they sort of preserve you "within the field."
Generally, simply by learning your area of interest properly (and including a pinch of widespread sense), you possibly can uncover some nice key phrases that nobody in your area of interest is focusing on but.
Right here's tips on how to kickstart "out of the field" considering:
- Get within the sneakers of your potential prospects: who they're and what bothers them;
- Discuss along with your present prospects, get to know them higher, examine the language they use;
- Be an energetic participant in all of your area of interest communities and social networks.
For instance, in case you're promoting waterproof headphones, listed here are a few of the "out of the field" key phrases you would possibly strive focusing on:
- tips on how to survive a tough swim apply;
- tips on how to make swim apply go by quicker;
- what do you concentrate on when swimming;
- finest swimming fashion for lengthy distance;
- cut back water resistance swimming.
Individuals looking for this stuff aren't essentially trying to purchase waterproof headphones, however they need to be pretty simple to promote to.
We lately wrote a reasonably detailed article about this key phrase analysis technique: four Methods to Discover Untapped Key phrase Concepts With Nice Visitors Potential.
And I actually loved the recommendation provided by Dan Petrovic right here: Superior New Tail Key phrase Analysis.
Whereas executing the aforementioned methods, you will end up sifting by means of 1000's of key phrase concepts and attempting to resolve which ones should be shortlisted.
And that will help you separate the wheat from the chaff, there's a bunch of cool key phrase metrics to think about.
1. Search quantity
This metric exhibits you the general search demand of a given key phrase, i.e., what number of occasions individuals all over the world (or in a selected nation) put this key phrase into Google.
Many of the key phrase analysis instruments pull their Search quantity numbers from Google AdWords, which was lengthy thought to be a trusted supply of this information.
However not anymore. For the previous few years, Google has been persistently taking information away from SEOs:
- Google Key phrase Planner's Soiled Secrets and techniques
- Sweating the Particulars – Rethinking Google Key phrase Device Quantity
However this time, we had been in a position to get away with a cool workaround – clickstream information.
By modeling numbers from GKP in opposition to clickstream information, we're in a position to provide you with far more correct search volumes and un-group key phrases which have comparable that means.
One other factor to at all times remember is the dynamic nature of Search quantity.
For instance, a key phrase like "christmas presents" will naturally spike round Christmas time whereas having virtually zero search quantity throughout the remainder of the 12 months.
To test the search quantity development of a key phrase you should use a free instrument referred to as Google Traits:
And in case you're utilizing Ahrefs' Key phrases Explorer instrument, we've got an analogous graph constructed into it:
So the search quantity is principally an annual common. And in case you're doubtful in regards to the "seasonality" of a key phrase, be sure that to test the developments.
However there's one downside with search quantity. It doesn't at all times precisely predict the search visitors.
2. Clicks
Let's take a key phrase, "donald trump age," that has a search quantity of 246,000 searches per 30 days (in response to Google Key phrase Planner).
That massive search demand implies that you must get an enormous quantity of visitors in case you rank on the high of Google for that key phrase. However let's see what the search outcomes appear to be:
A justifiable share of Google's actual property is taken by an prompt reply to that search question: 70 years.
So does it even make sense to click on something at this level?
These "unusual" search outcomes are generally known as "SERP options" and there are fairly a number of several types of them:
- information playing cards;
- featured snippets;
- high tales;
- native packs;
- buying outcomes;
- picture packs, and so on.
A few of them will vastly enhance search visitors to your web site, however others will steal it away from you.
On the above screenshot from Ahrefs' Key phrases Explorer, you possibly can see that 86% of searches for "donald trump age" don't lead to any clicks on the search outcomes. All as a result of searchers are introduced with an prompt reply through a Information card.
The Clicks metric is completely invaluable in removing the search queries with enormous search demand however depressing visitors. And we're proud to be the one instrument in the marketplace to have this metric.
We're additionally in a position to present you ways most of the clicks get "stolen" by search advertisements:
On the above screenshot, you possibly can see justifiable share of clicks for "wi-fi headphones" go to look advertisements, whereas clicks for "finest wi-fi headphones" are virtually solely natural.
If you wish to be taught extra in regards to the superior key phrase metrics that we've got in Ahrefs, take a look at this text: Key phrases Explorer 2.zero by Ahrefs: Setting new requirements for key phrase analysis.
three. Visitors potential
Search quantity and Clicks are nice metrics to grasp the recognition and visitors of a single key phrase. However that key phrase might have a ton of synonyms and associated searches, all of which could be focused with a single web page in your web site.
Let me clarify what I imply with an instance. The key phrase "I'm sorry flowers" doesn't look very promising when it comes to search demand or visitors:
The #1 rating end result normally will get not more than 30% of all clicks. This implies you possibly can hope for round 60 visits per 30 days in case you rank #1 for the key phrase "I'm sorry flowers."
And that may be a little bit of a discouraging projection, proper?
However let's take a look at how a lot search visitors the #1 rating web page for "I'm sorry flowers" key phrase really will get:
On the above screenshot, you possibly can see that it's attracting virtually 300 guests from Google per 30 days. That's as a result of it ranks for 48 totally different key phrases, and never simply "I'm sorry flowers" key phrase alone.
We've been advocating the significance of long-tail visitors for fairly some time (right here, right here, & right here), however it doesn't harm to emphasize it once more.
Individuals search for a similar issues in all kinds of weird methods. So a single web page in your web site has a possible to rank for lots of (if not 1000's) of associated key phrases.
Listed here are the key phrases that the "I'm sorry flowers" web page ranks for, in response to Ahrefs:
So it is time to cease evaluating key phrases simply by their Search quantity (or Clicks) alone. That you must take a look at the top-ranking outcomes and see how a lot search visitors they get in complete.
four. Key phrase Issue
Unquestionably, the absolute best strategy to gauge the rating issue of a key phrase is to manually analyze the search outcomes and use your search engine optimization expertise (and intestine feeling).
I've lined that entire course of, begin to end, in a separate article: How To Gauge Key phrase Issue And Discover The Best Key phrases To Rank For.
However that's one thing that you would be able to't do at scale for 1000's of key phrases directly. That's why the key phrase issue metric is so helpful.
Every key phrase analysis instrument has their very own strategies of calculating rating issue rating. The one we've got at Ahrefs relies on the backlink profiles of the highest10 rating pages for a given key phrase. The extra high quality backlinks they've, the tougher it could be so that you can outrank them.
To this point, there has solely been a single examine that compares the accuracy of key phrase issue scores from totally different instruments, and Ahrefs got here out the winner on this take a look at:
Some key phrases could also be tremendous simple to rank for, however the guests that they carry to your web site won't ever develop into prospects. So it doesn't make sense to waste your effort there.
However, some insanely aggressive key phrases could be one of the best factor that would occur to your online business in case you rank for them. So that they're properly well worth the funding (and wait).
5. Value Per Click on
This metric is generally essential for advertisers moderately than SEOs. Nonetheless, many search engine optimization professionals deal with CPC as a sign of key phrases' industrial intent (which really makes numerous sense).
One essential factor to find out about Value Per Click on is that it's far more unstable than Search quantity. Whereas search demand for a key phrase fluctuates on a month-to-month foundation, its CPC can change just about any minute.
Due to this fact, the CPC values that you simply see in third-party key phrase analysis instruments are nothing however a snapshot of a sure timeframe. If you wish to get the precise information, you need to use AdWords.
So you have got generated a ton of promising key phrase concepts and used the aforementioned metrics to determine the easiest ones.
Now it is time to convey some construction to your listing.
1. Group by "mum or dad subject"
The times of focusing on one key phrase with one web page are lengthy gone. Now search engine optimization professionals are going through a model new battle:
Ought to I goal a bunch of related subjects with one web page or create a separate web page for every set of key phrases?
We all know that one web page can rank for lots of (if not 1000's) of related key phrases. However how a lot is an excessive amount of? And the way have you learnt which key phrases suit your subject and which don't?
The way in which we strategy it right here at Ahrefs is by wanting on the key phrases that the top-ranking pages for our goal key phrase already rank for.
For instance, the principle key phrase of this very article is (clearly) "key phrase analysis." And I wish to know what different related key phrases I may rank for together with it.
So I take the #1 rating web page for "key phrase analysis," put it into Ahrefs' Web site Explorer and sift by means of the key phrases that it ranks for:
And instantly, I see two first rate key phrases:
- key phrase evaluation – 1,400
- key phrase search – 6,200
Which means I don't must create separate pages to focus on every of those key phrases (although possibly they really deserve it), however attempt to rank for them with this single put up.
How do I optimize my web page to ensure that I rank for these further key phrases?
I don't.
That #1 rating web page doesn't have even a single point out of those key phrases, and it nonetheless ranks for them. So in the event that they didn't hassle, why ought to I?
A few of them advocate utilizing specialised subject modeling instruments (like LSI Graph) for producing semantically associated key phrases.
We haven't purposefully examined this methodology and I've no information for or in opposition to it. That's the reason I like to recommend you strive it your self and see in case you'll get any measurable outcomes with it.
In order that's the very first step in bringing some stucture to your random listing of key phrases. That you must discover which key phrases are semantically and contextually associated and group them beneath a "mum or dad subject" to focus on with a single web page.
Right here at Ahrefs, we outline "mum or dad subject" as the best quantity key phrase web page ranks for.
2. Group by intent
So you have got grouped semantically associated key phrases by "mum or dad subject" and mapped them to totally different pages of your web site. The subsequent step is to group these "pages" by the so-called "searchers' intent."
Behind each search question that individuals put into Google, there's a sure (and oftentimes very particular) expectation. Your purpose is to decipher that expectation upfront, so you can construct a web page that will completely match it.
This might be fairly difficult at occasions. Let's take a key phrase, "roses," for instance. What's the searchers' intent behind it? Probably it is one among these two:
- See some footage of roses.
- Study extra about this flower.
One of the best ways of deciphering intent behind the search question is to google it and see what comes up first. Google is getting higher and higher in figuring out the intent behind every search question, so the search outcomes normally discuss for themselves.
The SERP above serves each these intents with a picture strip, adopted by a Wikipedia hyperlink.
However then you definately get Weapons'N'Roses Twitter profile and a music by The Chainsmokers. What are they doing within the search outcomes for the key phrase "roses"?
Nicely, it seems to be like Google has recognized that it is what individuals on the lookout for the key phrase "roses" wish to see.
As soon as you work the intent behind your key phrases, you would possibly wish to map it to the stage of the gross sales cycle that it represents:
- Unaware;
- Downside conscious;
- Answer conscious;
- Product conscious;
- Absolutely conscious.
The bullet factors above are simply one of many some ways totally different entrepreneurs map out the so-called "Consumers' Journey." Right here's another take a look at it:
Whether or not you wish to map your key phrases to any of the prevailing fashions or provide you with your very personal one is solely as much as you. For instance, Everett Sizemore from GoInflow.com suggests mapping key phrases/subjects to person personas. Try his free template right here.
My suggestion could be to stay with no matter makes probably the most sense for you.
three. Group by enterprise worth
This grouping is definitely carefully associated to grouping by intent. However this time, that you must work out which intent drives one of the best ROI for your online business.
If you happen to're primarily on the lookout for visitors and model consciousness, you would possibly give attention to key phrases that may convey tons of tourists however will not essentially convert into leads or gross sales.
That's what HubsSpot does with content material on their weblog. Check out their top-performing articles through Ahrefs:
There are tons of individuals on the lookout for "tips on how to make a gif," and HubSpot is producing virtually 100ok guests from that single article alone.
However how laborious wouldn't it be to transform somebody trying to create a gif into shopping for a moderately complicated advertising and marketing software program just like the one which HubSpot sells?
Very laborious.
If in case you have limitless advertising and marketing budgets, you possibly can hearth all cannons directly. However most companies can't afford this luxurious, in order that they should assume properly about which key phrases will drive their enterprise and which of them will solely drive their vainness metrics.
More often than not, entrepreneurs will give attention to key phrases with industrial intent, as these are those that drive gross sales and develop your online business. If you happen to don't know tips on how to determine these key phrases, here is a reasonably cool information.
Prioritisation just isn't actually the "closing step" in your key phrase analysis course of, however moderately one thing you do naturally as you progress by means of the aforementioned steps.
When you're producing key phrase concepts, analyzing their metrics, and grouping them, you need to be noting the next issues:
- What's the estimated visitors potential of this key phrase (group)?
- How robust is the competitors? What wouldn't it take to rank for it?
- What number of assets must be invested in constructing a aggressive web page and selling it properly?
- What's the ROI of that visitors? Does it solely convey model consciousness or really convert into leads and gross sales?
You may go so far as including devoted columns in your key phrase analysis spreadsheet to present scores to every key phrase thought. Then, primarily based on these scores, it must be pretty simple to choose the "low hanging fruit" with one of the best ROI.
All the time keep in mind, it's not the "best to rank for" key phrases that you need to be on the lookout for. It's those with one of the best ROI.
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I attempted my finest to distill every little thing I find out about key phrase analysis right into a single, pretty transient (solely 4300 phrases) information. And my major purpose with it was to put out a course of that might be universally relevant to any web site or trade.
There's clearly extra to key phrase analysis than that. So I might like to go the mic to you guys & women and have you ever share a few of your favourite ideas and methods that you simply didn't see me point out on this information.
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