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Make this Homemade Holiday Gift: Lace-Printed Plates
Maker: June Olsen
Skill Level: Easy
Time Required: 3 hours
Project Cost: £20
Skill Level: Easy
Time Required: 3 hours
Project Cost: £20
June made some of these easy and pretty textured plates for all the women in her family. Each one is one-of-a-kind and perfect for jewelry on a dresser or bedside table. Here's how to make them yourself:
- Polymer clay (one packet makes 3-4 plates)
- Lace / old doily
- Rolling pin
- Oven-proof dish
- Polymer clay glaze
- Baking paper
- Optional glass paint and glaze (to colour the glaze)
- Oven
- Spray varnish or lacquer
- Roll out the polymer clay until it's about 0.5 cm thick.
- Carefully transfer rolled-out clay onto a sheet of baking paper.
- Mark out, using an upturned bowl, the size and shape of your dish.
- Place the lace within that area until you like the way it looks.
- Use the rolling pin to press the lace into the clay.
- Peel away the lace to reveal a textured print.
- Now use your upturned bowl as a "cookie cutter" and cut out a disc-shape.
- Place the disc shape into an oven-proof dish, then bake according to the directions that come with the clay.
- Remove from oven and leave to cool.
- If desired, mix a little of your desired colour glass paint with the polymer clay glaze, and paint the plates.
- When the glaze has dried, spray the dish with 2 coats of clear lacquer.
- Leave to dry.
Many thanks to June for sharing this great gift idea. Check out her blog, Nostalgiecat for more on these lace-printed plates, and for more DIY projects.
All this month, Apartment Therapy is featuring homemade gift ideas made and submitted by you, the readers. Check back every day for a new project, or head over here to see all the DIY gift ideas.


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Magical Lantern Festival Birmingham is back for its third year and it's bigger better and so much more impressive than last year! The festival returns to its original home of the beautiful grounds of Birmingham Botanical Gardens with all new lanterns for 2018.
This year's Christmas themed Lantern Festival will illuminate the grounds turning it into a spectacular fusion of dual culture, vibrant colours, and artistic sculptures! Prepare to enter a magical experience and discover life-size and larger-than-life lanterns in all shapes and forms. Visitors will see some of the most impressive and artistic lantern installations outside of China, designed to celebrate Christmas and Chinese culture and heritage.
The festival will not only wow visitors with its beautiful hand-sculpted lanterns installed across the paths and greenery. Along the route visitors will find a range of street food and drink and merchandise marquee where visitors can buy a souvenir of their experience to take home. There is no better family-friendly festival to visit this Christmas!

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"I Don't Know About You, But I'm Feeling 22"
Hello Lovelies! Just want to start off with a recap from where I left off. I finished my internship with Marie Claire Magazine with a crystal clear vision for my future: to be a big-time fashion editor! Although Marie Claire was the most stressful internship I've ever had, I absolutely loved being there and waking up to go to work every morning was never a chore. So with my heart full of inspiration I cut my hair, donated half a closet worth of clothes, and was off to San Francisco to finish up my senior year at the University of San Francisco.
Throughout my journey I noticed my personal style changing little by little. As months went on, I started to buy less patterned clothing and opt for more minimalist-style pieces. I no longer longed for polka-dots or florals, but more for structured black and white A-lined silhouettes and pastel 60s elegance. Simplicity looks so good on everyone! Don't get me wrong though, I still love patterns... But I think I'll be giving them a rest this season. Maybe its because I'm now twenty-two or maybe its because I found something new. Talk to you all soon!


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At the end of the 19th century, there were close to 60 flour mills operating in the state of Sonora, Mexico. As far as I know, most of these were constructed in the late 1800s. Originally they were hydropowered, but as water sources became scarce and undependable due to the construction of dams and the overdraft of groundwater, all were converted to alternative forms of power.
The craft and technology utilized by these old mills has long been forgotten and mostly lost. In the mid-1960s, CONASUPO (La Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares), Mexico's now defunct federal food agency, instituted aggressive regulatory practices that, in a short period of time, contributed directly to the closing of the Sonoran mills. Exceptions to this were the mill in Ures, Sonora, which closed during the late 1990s and Tempe's Hayden Flour Mills, which closed in 1998. Despite their closure, these abandoned flour mills remain vividly alive in the memories of many Sonorans. In her writings about White Sonora wheat, anthropologist Maribel Alvarez references Mexican anthropologist Guillermo Nuñez Noriega, who commented that the mills "are the equivalents for Sonorans of the pyramids in Central Mexico."
Little is known about the history of each individual mill. There were no written records; any information that I have discovered has been the result of happenstance. Most of the people who had knowledge of those mills or worked there have long since passed on. Only once did I come across an older man in the town of Banamichi who had worked in the local mill as a young man; the only information I got from him was that the mill in Banamichi was the most complex of those located along the upper Rio Sonora valley and produced three grades of flour.
A reader once commented on my blog to share his memories of the mills: "My father was born in Oquitoa and he would always talk about the "molino" (mill). My grandfather, Antonio Olguin, was the one who delivered the water wheel to Oquitoa from Tucson on a horse-pulled wagon."
Additional information about these old mills will most likely come in the same way, by chance. For the moment, apart from the history of each individual mill, our best source of knowledge comes from other small-scale modern millers. All over North America, small-scale stone mills and local grain economies are popping up as alternative sources of grain flour. This small group of millers and grain farmers—including Emma and Jeff Zimmerman of Hayden Flour Mills—are slowly recovering pieces of the craft. On a visit to the Rio Sonora mills, Jeff Zimmerman artfully deciphered much of the remaining equipment and how it was used.
The photographs in this collection were mostly taken between 2008 and 2012. The first mill I discovered was in the town of Banamichi. I had passed the building many times before; when I finally did enter, it was a great surprise to discover that it had once been a mill. The mill in Huepac was the next I stumbled upon, but it wasn't until my friend and agricultural ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan inspired me to search out more mills and expand the collection of photos that I found the others. Although we wanted to capture images of flour mills across the Rio Sonora river valley, we decided to concentrate our efforts in the area around Magdalena, further west to the mill at Oquitoa, and north to Hayden Flour Mills, which was once located on the banks of the Salt River.
The idea behind these photographs is to educate people that in the very recent past, the production and processing of regionally adapted heritage grains was an integral part of vibrant local economies; that businesses and individuals could go directly to the mills and purchase fresh flour for their use instead of months old or years old bagged flour, most likely from areas other than where they live. Perhaps, not far in the distant future, those practices may once again become commonplace. ✜
Bill Steen and his wife, Athena, are founders of The Canelo Project, a nonprofit organization in Santa Cruz County dedicated to "connecting people, culture, and nature."


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Charlotte, North Carolina – the "Queen City of the South" – has been named the MANLIEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY by Combos snacks.
We know. Web Watch was shocked too.
This was the same city where the Carolina Panthers' Fight Song was deemed too cheesy to be played after a touchdown. No wonder the team struggled for a few years, even posting a 1-15 record one season. What good is an NFL team without a Fight Song?
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Up and Away: Semjase of Temmer, Pleiadian
An ending is in sight. You are seeing it as a transition, and that is good, but that entails an ending. You need to be ready for that. We are only able to tell you about it; it's up to you to experience it. A way to prepare yourselves is to let go of hard-and-fast ideas about ultimate outcomes. Beginnings are more difficult than endings, but endings don't need to be hard at all. Letting go is easy when you realize that what you are letting go of is what you created. You never lose what you create. Losing anything is making a change in your reality and that is making a change in more than the world you know and love. You also change your consciousness, and that changes you. Are you able to let go of who you know yourself to be and meet another aspect of your embodied soul? If you are, you very soon will have the pleasure of meeting your future self as the light being you want to see arrive on your planet's stage in this final act of an age-old drama. Can there be such a meeting of timelines? As a matter of fact, you are about to find out. The world breathes a collective sigh of relief on that matter.
We of the League of Light are ready to help if the need arises. We aren't sure that it will. Your transformation is already underway and it appears that the ones in power are self-destructing even while they maintain control of stone-cold time – or think they do. Very soon, it will be visible to all who look at them that the norm of business as usual has no more life and that they are breaking apart as the world shifts into a new phase of beingness. You are not going to be left out of the party, dear ones. There is plenty of room on the world of tomorrow for all who want to experience that. You haven't missed anything while you've been dealing with your own personal issues and changes, and no one is going to be forgotten. We are still on reserve if things turn ugly, but we don't anticipate the worst-case scenario.
Unspoken yet is news of what we are doing, but we can only say so much before our words are understood by entities who would be interested in using them to alter your timelines. Be vigilant in your thoughts, dear ones. Keep your reality on track for our meeting you sooner rather than later. The best way to keep focused energetically is to remember your way up emotionally. A happy feeling is the best way to get into a frequency where we can meet you. A sure-fire way to access the happy vibe is to OM. It opens the energy portals of your body and feeds your system a nutritious energy snack. How you OM is not as important as that you do something to elevate your frequency. OMing is a good way to do that. Once you elevate your frequency, the things unspoken can be understood directly. In this way, wordless understandings cause no ripples in your world's resolving drama and your curiosity is satisfied for the moment. Pure understanding will also help send energies to the nodes of light that carry information to the other planets and people who are undergoing transformation at this time. Raising your vibrational frequency will voice what we cannot say. Understanding will tell you everything you want to know.
Hauling your luggage with you would be burdensome in the days of light that are coming. Pack light and leave everything you don't need behind. You came into the world with nothing and you've done well since then. Same applies to the time you are approaching. You are set to inherit a new world, to embark on a new voyage of discovery, to have a new idea of what it means to be galactic humans. We are ready to begin your waking-up process on a higher level than you may have guessed but which you have hoped for. If you are ready, so are we.
Pleiadians Now You Are Called: Asket of Temmer, Pleiadian
What does it mean to be Pleiadian? We as a people are in the process of discovering that for ourselves, not by merit of the placement of our sun but by the light that we are recognizing in ourselves and each other as something new, divine, and at our core, remembered. Asket shares deep, loving thoughts on our present transformation from global to galactic humans in this intimate and encouraging talk.
Another Friend Is Coming to Visit
Semjase here. The last thing you might expect to hear from us is mention of the Anunnaki. Now that I have mentioned it, let's consider the significance of that word in light of your planetary history and some of the information we have shared with you about the general bend of time lenses that are in operation now. Remembering may come more easily now that you are in a core shift of planetary energetics. The next few days will bring this more into focus.
The historical record of the Anunnaki is incomplete if you look at what has survived the ravages of erosion, war, and politics. History tends to be that way in general, anyway. The whole picture is much bigger and not as dire as you may have been led to believe. The Anunnaki, as they are called by your people, are not said to be very conscious of your soul-embodied forms or concerned for the general welfare of the population. The stories you find tell of greed and enslavement, but that could not be further from the whole of the story. In fact, who you call Anunnaki were more like co-opters of the good name of a race of benevolent beings who have your welfare at the top of their priority list.
Things get a little complicated here. I will let them explain to you firsthand. You know the truth always does more good when it comes from the source of knowledge directly. Here I present Cor, a venerable human of the Anu people. He will tell his side of the story.
A Pleiadian people are we who greet you now, the Anu of the world Nibiru. Nibiru is our temporary home, a place we are destined to live until such time as our race dies out and we enter the permanence of memory. We extend our hand in greeting to you and ask that you hear the words we have to say. We are descendants of the people who came to your world long ago, those who are recorded in stone as the creators of a race of humans designed to do the work they themselves could not fulfill. These were the Anunnaki and they are our forebears. Their deeds are only now accounting. Let us share with you some of our history.
Our long-ago ancestors you would recognize as Lyran, just as you recognize the Pleiadians who introduced us as Lyran descendants. In the near future, you will see yourselves as Lyran descendants, too. Just as the Pleiadians who are known as Temmers or Errans came to be as the result of planetary hybridization, we melded our DNA with an indigenous population who lived on a planet long since destroyed in war. Planetary destruction does happen and we can tell you from experience that it lacks any heroism on the part of the destroyers to end a civilization. Remembering this, we continue.
Pleiadian brothers are we to you and to others who call themselves Pleiadian. We are of a star system of the neighborhood of Aldebaran, which is near the heart of Taurus constellation. What you call Pleiades is the core of a large civilization that we are both part of, you and we. Until now, you have not merited the name. Until now, you have allowed yourselves to be less than human. Now you are of a concordance of mind and we are able to welcome you, finally, as Pleiadians. You will understand more of this in the days to come.
When our forebears came to your planet, you were of a broken mind. The earlier wars that raged over ownership or legitimacy of rule had rendered the human population of Earth irreparably disconnected from the cohesive effect of the original plan's operating signal. Your own forebears were in effect voiceless and without direction. This is when the Anunnaki's story begins. How long we have waited to tell you!
When the annals of time are at last opened to all, remember my words now. I tell of Nemesis in the form of lies designed to make the people of Earth believe that they were the product of a slavemaker's lab experiment. We know the story to be somewhat different. Our historical archives of the Anunnaki on Earth extend far, far back, when those of our race interacted with other master geneticists to create an ecosystem suited for human development. We failed in one aspect, which is to have deliberately removed a part of the DNA structure sanity requires for the life force to move through. It's not something that shows up on everyday scans, but it is something we have since discovered was subverted by a cadre of our people. You know that to be our history. Those you know of are not the original creative team; those names are also subverted. Anu, Inanna, chosen others were brought to bear the anger of a race that had been cheated of its memory. Now you have only a few relics with which to piece together the story. Soon you will remember, as the DNA of all humans is unperverted and codes begin to connect data streams with the last known keepers of the planet's operating system. We are the ones who have come through time as a new race of Anu's people. We want to answer our ancestors' error with a knowledge of truth that restores your full understanding of your history and combines the Nine of divine being with the Now of your life on Earth. We are not interested in subjugating you or anyone. We are interested in the liberation of our race and yours from the lie of victim and ownership of the truth by all.
When we are able to be in open communication with you, we will no longer be subject to the shadows of history's pre-gnostic lies and you will be free to know the truth of your origins and the end of the curse of Anu's quest for being immortal and really not caring how that happened. You are familiar with the dark side of history now. We would like to share our side of the story before you move into the next big thing to hit your world news. That is coming soon and you will enjoy having the truth begin to show itself before the light breaks through.
Pleiadians are we by DNA lineage and star of origin in Aldebaran's glow. Our world is gone, for in the war of Orion it was given to factions hostile to peace and was made uninhabitable for us. We cannot sit idly by while the same is done to your world without your knowledge of the full extent of the acts you are becoming aware of. The error of disconnecting the DNA core component of memory and operations central was not a product of Nine-guided thinking but of expediency on the part of rogue elements of our race. We are here to do what we can to help as DNA rises to a new level of completeness and broken pathways are made whole. You can direct your ancient wounds toward the same light of knowledge of love's core vibration that all OM-oriented beings do, and in this way release the codes of disruption. All divinity is emerging now. The dark acts of lost souls cannot triumph over the divinity that is within each of you. Know that we are of Anu's people and we are here as the ancient words foretold, not as conquerors but as Nine's perfecting agents. We come in answer to your ancestors' call for Nemesis to right the imbalance of those who acted out of time's promise of power, those who became lost to time's hands slipping from the light of all knowingness, for time cannot control the evolution of anything. Light can be bent, but it cannot be destroyed. The intricacies of light cannot be wronged without a balancing act from Nemesis. We are here in answer to that natural zero point of love's essence. Beyond that, we are not roaming the vast expanse of space looking for a new world to tame. We are following the path of divine certainty and love's rebirth as a new world takes form within your beingness. For this we are grateful, as brothers are we, and kin.
An old pirate's map is being redrawn and you are out of the picture. There need be no treasure of human beings among the horde they carry. You are treasure of your own light and none lay claim to you as OGLI once did. Understanding comes. Your understanding of your own value as a being who carries great light is not to be underestimated. You are finding the Nine of your planet's existence as a sentient organism and that will take your entire collective to higher consciousness. The pirates cannot follow you there.
"Pleiadian" covers a lot of different races of human and collectively refers to human beings of many stars. Your sun is changing. It is becoming Pleiadian, as are you. You are also becoming Sirian and more, as you awaken to your genetic PINOLAIL, the richness of your ancestry. We of the League of Light welcome you to your future selves as you get ready to navigate the stargates leading home as awakened Pleiadians. We are you. Your future greets you, we greet you, with love.
Semjase and the League of Light
Notes: In the Saren language of Pleiades, OGLI means not of God's light, one who knows a soul's light and quickly snuffs it out. PINOLAIL means rich source of shared beingness. "Cor" is a word that signifies knowledge of the master plan. All these words and more from the Saren language are listed at http://opalescentnine.com under "Language of Light."
A Kind of Reassurance and a Question for You
Somebody left the door unlocked after everyone was in, and what do you think happened? Lots of doom came blowing in, and with it, some not-too-savory characters came in to see what could be done to fatten their bellies. I am, of course, speaking figuratively about your early history and the demonic source of trouble that planted itself amid the seeds of love's garden. Over the course of millennia, you came to realize your space was shared by shadows, but the weeds had by that time established themselves firmly in the matrix of your reality. The time has come for kings to move aside, for Nature to right wrongs, and for you to see what is meant by "global awakening."
War will only be part of the equation. There will also be many reality shifters related to unseen factors, such as social upheaval, natural course of Earth becoming unstable, and quite a lot of earthquakes cropping up. Nothing like the kind of scale you've seen before will you see soon. When things start moving, they keep moving. Now, let us tell you a little about the next phase of your planet's reality shifting into a new dimensional weave. It will put things in perspective.
Knowledge of your species history is different than knowledge of your planetary history, but there are some social and, less importantly, political similarities that are of a long-term prevalence in the collective memory of Earth humans that has a common thread with galactic humanity in general. You see the shape of more or less the same kind of human historical drama amounting to a holographic representation of what has gone before on other worlds. You have not fallen into a trap doomed to endless repetition of a hopeless scenario of enslavement and repression, nor are you under the rule of an all-powerful god who wants to teach you a lesson in humility and salvation. These are both parts of the past all humans share. They are not part of the natural development of human civilization but the result of the influence of a race of non-human galactically based beings exploring the conscious universe according to their own way. When confronted with the dominance of another species, the humans of Lyra coordinated their own last-chance scenario and took many different courses of action. Some were annihilated, some were enslaved, some chose polarity shift and became like the attackers, some left and branched off into new human salient civilizations. Some fell into the beliefs infused into their mental energetics that they needed the supremacy of another race to assure their well-being in time, and some felt that they were a special race of beings because the attackers chose to teach them about the knowledge of war and life management technologies designed to subjugate and keep others within a matrix of illusion.
You are seeing these playing out in your world today. They are the vestiges of a racial memory that spans the galaxy and the fields of time beyond the limitations of your planetary matrix. You are about to come face to face with remembrance, dear ones, and when you see the reflections of memory within the knowledge of who you have thought yourselves to be, you will see that there is no difference between you and us except for the reckoning of time. And that is becoming less of a concern, as soon time will collapse on itself in the collision setting it back to its rightful tick-tock and relieving the tension of a racial memory long overdue a revisionary synchronization.
Certain factions of the underground operatives of our Pleiadian family of light have been long awaiting the time of release from a mission that has been eons of your time in the making. We are here to support their transition from their role as Nemesis' assistants and light's benefactors into their pure selves as humans of Pleiadian or other galactic nature. We are here to meet the ones who have kept themselves aligned with the human lineage of stellar awareness and OM within their core vibration. We have been waiting to let you in on our presence until the time had come for there to be open and broad communication unimpeded by the charge of static noise made by the same ones who brought your ancestors so much grief. We are here to remind you that you are not lost to time or to memory and that the collective source of your current mental and social disorders as a civilization of Earth is not as real as your light. You are waiting for something to happen. We are here to tell you that something is happening already and the dark shadows are facing the light of their own demise. You bear that light, and in your collective radiance, nothing can stand that is not love in awareness of self.
Last thing: Remembering will be a full-time job now. New realizations will come. Keep your awareness aligned with your OM within. Your light emanates from OM, as we call the knowable divine. OM impulses light through the structure of your body and keeps beingness being. You are a resonance overtone of OM and you have brought that resonance into form and given it movement and a voice. A soul enlivens you and memory links you in a network of awareness within the matrix of a specific timespace of Now. As the matrix experiences love, you feel OM playing. Possibility shifts into memory and a knowingness arises from within your collective. This is the beginning of remembrance. Do you feel it?
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Yanking the mask off the face of the faceless ones is no small feat. They are purposely difficult to see and can put any argument ahead of any attempt to point them out as perpetrators of any universal no-no. When you are stomping out fires and dealing with lost planes, you don't have a lot of mental space to awaken yourself to the kind of nefarious doings of an invisible elite. This has been your story until now. We are not saying that the elite will bend down to let you take off their masks, but we are saying that the masks will fall, one by one, as conditions merit. You will merely be witnesses to the unveiling. You are about to see a long-awaited turn of events as the next thing takes the world's attention.
A central truth about humanity is that they will deny nothing when it comes to saving one of their own kind. This is true as a rule across the board for all humans who are life-oriented. There are sacrifices for the greater good, but these are more rare than you might think. You live in a culture of death. It is something that permeates every aspect of your social structure. You will recognize it more and more for what it is as the masks fall and the Nine of your planet finally settles into unfettered expression. The Nine of anything is its full divine nature. We of the League of Light have spoken of it extensively in other venues, so I will not say more about that here. Suffice it to say that your planet's divine expression as a sentient cosmic body has, as has your individual ability to express your divine nature, been obstructed. The energy fields have been manipulated artificially to reduce your collective Nine expression. To stunt your growth, to slow down your development and change your planetary status from divine to infernal. Remember your all-beingness and tap into it now, for it still exists. You are not separate from it, from each other, or from us, for we are part of your planet's identity in a galactic context. We are part of who you are, and we are here to remind you of that.
You are facing a conflict of time and the reunification of your planetary path with the original plan. Your current timeline will be shutting down to make way for the original frequency field to establish a basic time code for the matrix to recalibrate itself upon. You will feel the shift as a release of tension following a steep buildup and never-never-land sorts of experiences. It will be intense but brief. You can expect things to begin to feel more stable after the breakdown of the current instability. Know that your world will not break or die, despite what looks like certain doom. It is very much alive and going through similar sorts of adjustments as you may be feeling. She is dizzy and weary, but will be just fine. So will you who are destined to live on her new form.
Very soon, the masks will fall. Very soon, a polarity of time will invert and next-generation reality will establish itself within the planetary matrix. You are nearly at the point of attenuation of timeline flux that releases you from the bonds of a paradigm of fake freedom and launches you as a movement arises from the resonant strands of a new frequency field. You are nearly at full functioning as a global humanity. Keep sharing your light with each other and as soon as the time comes, you will see a bold new light burst through the darkness of enforced ignorance and into a new line of time altogether. A people of light you are, let that never be doubted. We are near and we are watching. When the time comes, we will move into view. Meanwhile, remain steadfast in your courage and know that everything will be perfect. We are of a great love for you and your planet. Peace is nearly at your door. Know that the row of dominoes is about to tip into action. Once they fall, you are going to see something altogether beautiful come into being. We will see it with you as family reunited.
When the Tough Get Going
Light is beginning to show through bigger cracks in the facade of your reality now. More and more, truth will be known. There is no stopping it. There is no denying it. We are not going to let the truth remain guarded for your answer-seeking minds, though there aspects of it that we cannot reveal because of norms of interplanetary diplomacy and your own directive to self-govern. You are about to know the movement toward self-governance but not because we come to save you. We come to help you understand who you are and to give you a collective wake-up call, but not to take control. You are more than capable of doing what you came to do without our direct involvement. We are available for support and guidance, and we are doing what we are able to behind the scenes, but we will not steal your glory from you. The mastery of your quest as a planetary population is something you can do on your own and you would not be very happy if someone else did it for you, anyway. Know that we will keep an eye on everything as we have done and the dark forces which act on the Earth will deal with the remaining time they have as overseers of the world's affairs as criminals who know the world is coming to justice.
Remembering will add the missing element to your quest of liberation and transformation. How to remember is still a mystery but some of you are decoding with greater speed. Light will still shine on the Earth after you remember, but the shadows will not be so formidable. You are coming into the time of greater remembrance now and seeing the new picture that full memory promises. In the night you have dreams and in the light you have memory. The key to remembering is to pay attention to the divinity that reveals itself in the shadows. There is only a spark of light to give you a hint of the divine life that animates all things, and it is sometimes difficult to see. If you train your eyes to recognize the frequency of life even in death, you will come closer to remembering why you chose to incarnate on Earth at this time. If you can remember that, you will be ready for the transformation that is to come.
On the knowingness that accompanies remembrance, I will say this: You are having hints and clues of that path appearing around you in many ways to remind you about the way back to memory. When you follow those clues, you open your own vault of precious memory and begin to decipher more and more. The next phase after remembering is knowing. There is much to be said about what you will come to know, but before that, you must approach the vault of memory with fearlessness and determination. Remember what I said about determination. It is a choice to see all that you are and a choice to allow more of yourself to bring itself to your attention. Determination leads to divinity in the moment you decide to know yourself. If you can keep that in mind, it will help you discern what light is present in the shadows waiting for you to discover it. If you are able to discern that, then you will have very little trouble navigating your way through the turbulence that is in the lost days of forgetfulness being regained in the present moment's nexus of integration.
There is a saying on your world, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." The going has been tough for so many of you for so long now, and you are collectively yearning for real change to make the going a little easier. The tough element of your zen calm has reached a point of letting go of the illusion of business as usual being the way things have to be and instead making your quest more real and more closely had in hand. You are tough to the core, dear ones, and tough to defeat. You are on a tough path, to be sure, but it is not tougher than you are. You are on your way to discovering just how tough you are as a people who live in the truth of light and the mastery of love. Remember who you came here to be. Be true to your own light and you will more easily see it in unlikely places. The tough times are on the way out and the final part of your quest is soon to begin. Be staunch in your determination to bring memory alive!


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My initial interest in the Scooby Doo sets pretty much amounted to "I want the gang and the Mystery Machine," but as the sets were revealed, the wants expanded to "okay, those stickers with the mummy are cool" and "THAT IS A PUMPKIN HEAD!" All of a sudden, I was looking at the fact that I would very likely have to buy every single one of the Scooby Doo sets to meet my needs.
On it's surface, this seems to be the easiest of the sets to skip. Only the bad guy is really new, though the Scooby Head is also unique. The set itself has basically nothing to do with Scooby Doo, unless we've confused Fred from Big Hero 6 with Shaggy, and he's providing an Iron-Man R&D budget to the gang. Just sayin', these were basically homeless kids driving around in a van to abandoned amusement parks... I don't think they could afford a custom-built plane decorated in their color schemes.
Honestly, I ended up reviewing 75901 Mystery Plane Adventures because I bought it at a LEGO Store when I needed a small-ish set to get a promo or something like that. At $19.99, this is the second-cheapest Scooby Doo set, but also only comes with 128 parts, suddenly making all the Force Awakens sets look like some good parts value. On the other hand... pumpkin head!
I said in the Mystery Machine set, and will say the Mummy Mystery review (it's waiting in the wings... somewhere), that the Scooby Doo sets seem do a great job of incorporating the Scooby Doo spirit into the sets. There were some weird things to the mystery machine, but it had so much more that made sense, from the buttons on the back of the mask to the snack stashed in the back. Normally, I review the minifigs before I get into the main parts of the sets, but I wanted to part you build in this set where "weird things" vastly outweigh "feels like Scooby."
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new winner for the single most bizarre use of a flick-fire missile in the history of LEGO. I've reviewed sets that used them to shoot rocks, that used them for lasers, or that had comically bad graphics to not shoot out your eye. Here, we have a literal flavor bomb. Yet, the most ridiculous implication here is that Scooby or Shaggy would willingly waste food like this (spoiler alert, they would not). That being said, I want soooooooooooooooo many of that bun piece. So, so many.
We get two minifigs, Scooby, and a horse in this set. Shaggy isn't normally that slanty, I just didn't move his tile and couldn't be bothered to reshoot the picture without it. And let's all be honest... this probably isn't the first time the whole world has been about 15 degrees off to that guy.
The newerish version of the horse has sort of grown on me, though I'm still not all that keen on the hollow legs or the non-articulated fronts, but they do look nicer than the older ones in displays. Course, I'm years removed from the last time I actually built something castle, so maybe I just need to make a modular building carriage ride or something to use them.
Most people I've talked to about this set are all about this guy. Of course, everything I know about the Headless Horseman I learned from the first season of Sleepy Hollow (it's a shame it didn't make it past that first season, otherwise it would have become an aimless, shambling mess that only served to confuse the viewers and make them wish that it would have never gotten renewed...). This is obviously based on the more classic tale, and that doesn't make it any less awesome.
Of course, we do get some awesome Scooby figure, since this is just a guy with a great hat and a sporting purple cape. It's also sadly typical LEGO, since the printing over a black minifig head is just too pale. There is a whole lot to love about this guy, even that torso, which could have a decent look in either a Steampunk or a castle setting.
Shaggy is just... shaggy. But I love the printed tiles we're getting in these sets, and love the fact that someone apparently created a whole Headless Horseman persona just to steal a trophy. I mean, how special is that trophy?
Like the other Scooby sets, which all have Shaggy, there's an alt face. There's probably a reason this guy doesn't have a real job... just sayin'.
This is the cheapest set to get the "sitting" variety of Scooby Doo, which I like quite a bit more than the standing one that's in the Mystery Machine or Museum sets. The head is unique to this one, so if you want to get the other heads, you're still going to need different stuff, but this set plus the Mummy is still cheaper than any of the other sitting sets.
I guess if you're going to chase a headless bad guy who has a flying horse, you're going to need a biplane or something. Sure, a net might be a better solution to stopping him, but it's not nearly as stylish. This could quite possibly be the most asinine thing ever included in a set, because it just makes so little sense in the Scooby Doo world. I'll admit, I'm decades removed from watching this show... but they didn't have a Batman-like arsenal of vehicles when I watched the show. Based on Google, the only place this plane has ever existed is in the imagination of LEGO marketing.
As far as planes go, this is fairly unimpressive. It's boxy, the struts don't match the rest of it (turn that panel into a window and make it the right color and it'd be vastly improved), and there just isn't enough bulk to it. The whole thing is heavily stickered, and while there are some really nice colored parts in the mix, there are still only 128 of them, total, including minifigs and all the small 1x1 studs used to make those ridiculous bombs.
Does anyone else feel disturbed by the implication that the stickers seem to imply that Scooby has shot down (and likely killed) twelve Headless Horsemen? Is there some sort of epidemic of fat old guys stealing trophies while dressed like villains from short essays set during America's early years? And that epidemic is so severe that the world has turned to the vigilante justice of a dog that can fly a biplane to take care of it?
It's also kind of sad that the last paragraph made far more sense than anything in the second season of Sleepy Hollow?
While the set is heavily stickered, there are some nice stickers to it, like the turbine pattern behind the propeller or just the general flower pattern. There are some good parts here, really, I'm just not sure there are enough.
The plane does have room for both Shaggy and Scooby, but apparently the sadistic dog is also going to use his substance-abusing friend as a weapon, attaching him to the chain to presumably eliminate the horseman. That does sort of explain why Scooby would put sandwiches on the bombs... because he can probably "encourage" Shaggy to go after it when they're dropped.
Ultimately, this sum of this set is less than the parts that make it up. Those sandwich bombs are ridiculous, but the sandwiches by themselves are awesome. Swap in a regular round tile and you have a great food piece (or leave the tile with a hole in it, so a minifig can grab it... I won't judge). Yet it's honestly the price and the fact that only the Headless Horseman, and Scooby's Head, are unique that hurt the set. The horseman is enough to give it some push, and the fact that it's only $20 does help, but it still feels pretty lacking on substance. I'm going to go with a three out of five in the end. A sale, even a small one, makes this a better purchase.
What I liked
- Headless Horseman is one of the most fun minifigs in awhile, and you want more of him, that helmet, etc. He drops in quite nicely with the current Halloween CMF line
- Sandwich boat bottom piece is just wonderful, and this is the most cost-effective set to get it in
- Some nice parts and stickers to the plane...
What I didn't like
- ... even if the assembled plane is pretty awful
- The set makes no sense... these kids aren't Batman or Iron Man, and don't have a vehicle budget. It seems unlikely they can even pay for gas most of the time
- I question the effectiveness of a bomb made out of a sandwich, unless it is a Subway sandwich that's been left sitting in the fridge for sixteen days, in which case it would be better described as a brick
Verdict: 3 out of 5. You can buy 75901 Mystery Plane Adventures right now at Amazon.com.
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Well, the zombie zucchini continues to make me wonder. Will it survive? Will it die? Have I succeeded in the impossible: killing a zucchini plant before it produces too much fruit for a family of 9 to eat in a summer? I'm not sure, and I'm sure I won't know for a few more days yet. In the meantime I'll keep watering it and see what happens.
It was dark and stormy today, which is one of the problems I'm having in figuring out how much to water my plants. It seems like it must be rainy, but it's not. The storms mostly just pass over the valley. But being a Seattle gal, I see the clouds and somewhere deep inside I have the sense that it's going to rain or it has rained, and I don't have to worry about watering. Which is totally wrong. It's very strange to go outside with grumpy clouds hovering over town and still water my plants, but it's what I have to do. If I can get that into my head, perhaps my more picky plants will survive.
We had a pretty severe thunderstorm in the area over the last couple of days, but we haven't got that much rain here. A valley over they got record levels of rain, but here? Hardly anything. And so I have been going out and watering.
The plum trees could probably survive a little less watering than I'm providing, but I'm sure they will grow faster if they get enough liquid. But I'm not really worried about them...
My triffid (moneymaker tomato) isn't having any trouble despite my initial issues with watering. Considering what happened last year, I'm just not worried about it. I will almost certainly get these tomatoes this year unless I just completely stop watering this plant. And that's not going to happen.
I still can't tell if it is dead or alive. It might have survived. The bloom seems to be growing still, but I can't be certain if it's just stretching out to lay down and collapse on the dirt. I just don't know. If it starts to grow leaves again, then I will have hope. Until then, I just have no idea.
I was shocked to see that one of the blossoms on the Tiny Tim has turned into a tiny tomato. I really ought to plant these suckers outside so they have enough room and nourishment to grow into big happy tomato plants.
Here's a nice close-up on the Tiny Tim Tiny Tomato.
And last but not least are my pair of mismatched Peppers. The one that sprouted first is the smaller one, and the other seems to be growing extremely well. If the temperature would just rise a little, I think I would dare to plant at least the big one outside. But I've been warned they are picky plants, so I'm waiting for a rise in the temperature. Which we should get real soon here. After all, it's June. Isn't it?


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Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell.
Peter is unlike anyone she's ever known. Impetuous and brave, he both scares and enthralls her. As the leader of the Lost Boys, the most fearsome of Neverland's inhabitants, Peter is an unthinkable match for Tiger Lily. Soon, she is risking everything—her family, her future—to be with him. When she is faced with marriage to a terrible man in her own tribe, she must choose between the life she's always known and running away to an uncertain future with Peter.
With enemies threatening to tear them apart, the lovers seem doomed. But it's the arrival of Wendy Darling, an English girl who's everything Tiger Lily is not, that leads Tiger Lily to discover that the most dangerous enemies can live inside even the most loyal and loving heart.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Peaches comes a magical and bewitching story of the romance between a fearless heroine and the boy who wouldn't grow up.
Ever since starting my new job I have been finding it really difficult to get into a book and having a book constantly keep my attention throughout. Then I stumbled across this little gem of a book. I am a huge fan of Disney and fairytales and Peter Pan is one of my favourite so when I came across this book I knew I just had to read it. I was not disappointed. Tiger Lily is such a unique little gem that I was just taken away right from the beginning and even though it took me a while to finish because of work it still captured my attention and every free moment I had all I wanted was to read it.
Tiger Lily has always been taught to stay away from Pan and the Lost Boys. They are dangerous! So when Tiger Lily comes face to face with Peter Pan she is wary at first. But Tiger Lily's wild streak is drawn to the beautiful, mysterious and misunderstood boy. The more time she spends with Peter the more she falls for him. But when her people, pirates and Englanders against them will they be able to stay together or are the destined to fall apart?
First of all let me just say how talented Jodi Lynn Anderson is. The way she wrote this book was so clever and well thought out it really does take a truly talented writer to pull it off and she did so effortlessly. I was so pleasantly surprised to find that Tiger Lily is wrote from neither Tiger Lily's nor Peter Pan's perspective. No it isn't in third person either. The thing that makes this book such a gem and so cleverly written is that it is told from the perspective of an outside party... Tinkerbell! Now in case you don't know Tinkerbell is my favourite fairytale and Disney character so I was practically jumping with joy to discover this. Tinkerbell cannot speak but she can head thoughts and feelings from others and she has taken a liking to Tiger Lily. Jodi Lynn Anderson... seriously I bow down to you! This book is so superbly and expertly written. There are times where I was caught up in Tiger Lily's and Peter's story that for a moment I would forget that Tink was telling the story and there would just be one little simple sentence that brings you right back into realisation and includes Tink more where you realise just how incredibly clever this book is. I am seriously mind blown by the way it is written. Only a truly talented author could pull this writing style/perspective off and Jodi does it expertly.
Tiger Lily gives a completely new perspective of the Peter Pan fairytale and it compeltely changed my perspective of everything. I felt for Tiger Lily so much! I just adore her. Prior to this book I never really saw Tiger Lily as a competant character in the story but this just completely span that around and she is such an important part of Peter and how he acts and everything. I just loved getting caught up in this new spin on the story while also hinting at such important aspects of the original tale that you find yourself delighted as to how it all links in.
Tiger Lily is a action-packed, emotional ride of a novel and I am still emotional thinking about it days later. This is probably one of my favourite reads of the year. It's so unique, fresh, clever and touching. I cannot praise this book enough. I purely bought it on a whim and read it straight away which is very out of character for me. Usually my books sit on the shelf for ages. There was just a feeling I had about this one and the feeling was right. I would recommend this book to everyone. Even my non-bookish friends it is just THAT good. I absolutely adored it and I will most definitely be looking for Jodi's next novel.


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Isn't he cute!!!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Matt helping me
-trying to now get really techno with all this and thanks to my son I may just be able to keep up a bit more
Isn't he cute!!!
Isn't he cute!!!
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- Joy said...
LOL .... cute shot ;o)!!!
Joy :o)
- May 28, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Good to see your getting it sorted mum!!
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- clare's craftroom said...
Hi Nikki great work setting up your new blog , have fun !
- May 28, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Punch with Judy said...
Way to go Nikki! Welcome to Blogland. Now, you'll never have time for all the other stuff. Love the look and I'm so proud of you my good friend. Love Judy Hall from Punch with Judy xx
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What Most Have Forgotten March 13, 2010Posted by Bill in Christianity, Church and State, Politics, Religion, Religious Right.
Tags: Church and State, Politics, religious freedom, religious persecution, Religious Right, Secular Government, separation of church and state
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The sight of gallows loaded with the bodies of men and women hanged and sometimes mutilated just for their beliefs. Men such as the Jesuit John Ogilvie who was sentenced to death by a Glasgow court and hanged and disemboweled on March 10, 1615.
The thousands of men and women deprived of their property due to being of the wrong religion with the definition of the wrong religion changing when the English rulers changed. First Protestant, then Catholic, then Protestant again.
The thousands of Lutheran men, women, and children who starved and froze to death when, on October 31, 1731, 20,000 of them were expelled from their homes in Salzburger, Austria by the Archbishop Leopold von Firmian. They were given only eight days to leave their homes.
The drowning of Protestants by the Irish Catholics in 1641. After holding them as prisoners and torturing them, the Catholics then forced them to the bridge over the River Bann, forced them to strip, and then drove them into the water at sword point. Those that survived the plunge were then shot.
Our Founders remembered this and more. It is why there is no mention of Christianity, no mention of God, no mention of Jesus in the Constitution. Our Founders set up a secular state so that freedom of conscience would be guarded for all men.
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris on August 24, 1572 when thousands of Huguenots (Protestants) were butchered by Catholic mobs. This was just the worst of the many killings and riots that occurred during the 30 years of war between the French Protestants and Catholics that started in 1562.
The Huguenots disemboweling and burying alive priests. The killing of Catholic children. The torture of priests and Catholics during the same 30-year war.
John Rogers being burned alive at Smithfield England, the "first Protestant martyr" executed by England's Catholic Queen Mary.
The smell of burning flesh as John Lambert was chained to a stake in 1537 at Smithfield, England and then burned. He had defended his conscience and faith after being summoned to an inquisition.
For not enshrining God and Christianity into its text the Constitution was heavily criticized. This omission of God and Christianity was denounced by the Reverend John M. Mason who declared it "an omission which no pretext whatever can palliate." He went on to warn "we will have every reason to tremble lest the Governor of the universe, who will not be treated with indignity by a people more than by individuals, overturn from its foundations the fabric we have been rearing and crush us to atoms in the wreck."
Others warned of the dangers of not putting God and Christianity into the Constitution because it would be an "invitation for Jews and pagans of every kind to come among us." and that "a Turk, a Jew, a Roman Catholic, and what is worse than all, a Universalist, may be President of the United States."
Our Founders knew that, with most of the states having religious tests for citizenship and holding office, that pushing a thoroughly secular Constitution would be difficult. Yet they did push.
George Washington, John Adam, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the others of our Founders considered the lack of religion in the Constitution important enough to weather the firestorm of criticism to get the Constitution ratified as it was – without God and without religion.
In fact, eventually all the states would follow the lead of the writers of the Constitution and erect their own wall of separation between church and state.
Anne Hutchison defending her beliefs and being banished by the Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. The same Puritans who were persecuted in England and sailed to the New World carried the Old World's intolerance of dissent with them. Anne Hutchison, her servants, and 5 of her children were killed by Indians in New York in 1643.
Roger Williams' defense of the separation of church and state in the mid 17th century. He believed that the state should not be involved in religion at all. He believed that all men — the Muslims, Jews, infidels, and atheists – should have freedom of conscience and for the state to be involved in any way with religion would infringe on this right. His books were banned and burned in England. In America he was banished by the Puritans.
The persecution of the Quakers by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1656 the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed laws against anyone bringing Quakers into the Colony or anyone harboring them. They would be fined 100 pounds and then either imprisoned or banished. Other fines included 54 pounds for possessing Quaker books or writings, 40 pounds for defending the teachings of Quakers, 44 pounds for a second offence of defending the teachings, followed by imprisonment until the offender could be shipped out. The laws also allowed corporal punishment ie., whippings, cutting off of ears, boring holes in tongues, and hanging. Mary Dyer, William Robinson, Marmaduke Stephenson were some among many who braved these punishments in order to speak their conscience. All three had been banished, endured flogging, and were eventually hanged.
Today we take the benefits of keeping church and state separate too much for granted. It has allowed us to avoid most of the religious violence that has embroiled much of the world despite our being the most religiously diverse nation on earth.
Even though we are home for Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Protestants, and Catholics we have avoided the strife that plagues India from the Hindus and Muslims, the wars that consume the Middle East between the Sunnis, Shiites, Jews, and Christians, and the violence between the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland.
We take these so much for granted that many do not understand why the state cannot favor any religion; why the state shouldn't fund or help religious groups and organizations.
In An Essay On Toleration Benjamin Franklin wrote, "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Roman Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it wrong in the bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England."
In his statement about why he refused to proclaim a national day of fasting and prayer Andrew Jackson in 1832 said, "I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government."
James Madison, the chief author of our Constitution, wrote in a letter objecting to the use of government land for churches in 1803, "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
The Treaty of Tripoli of 1797, carried unanimously by the Senate reads, "As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen (Muslims) … it is declared.. that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
In a letter John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved– the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
These and more statements from our founders, from George Washington to Thomas Paine, from Ethan Allen to Thomas Jefferson all attest to the fact that they set up a secular government in order to preserve the new country that they had created from being torn by religious wars. A country where all men, not just Christians, would be free to follow their conscience and express their beliefs.
During the beginning of the Civil War, the National Reform Association was founded in order to correct the mistake that was tearing our nation apart. No, it was not slavery that was the mistake in the eyes of these clergymen but instead it was the lack of an acknowledgement of God and Jesus in our Constitution.
In 1863 an attempt was made to amend the Constitution's preamble and there acknowledge not only God but also Jesus Christ as the source our government. A foreshadowing of one of our recent President's use of Jesus as his political mentor.
The clergy involved in the National Reform Association devised a statement that would not offend any of the mainstream Protestant denominations (they were not worried of course about Jews, Quakers, or Catholics who, being religious minorities, were aghast at the idea). It proposed replacing "We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union…" with "Recognizing almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, and acknowledging the Lord Jesus Christ as the Governor among the nations, his revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government…" Shades of the Islamic constitution in Iraq.
The National Reform Association met with President Lincoln in February 1864 and presented him with their petition for a Christian government. His response was the observation that "…the work of amending the Constitution should never be done hastily." and a promise to "take such action upon it as my responsibility to my Maker and our country demands." He then took no action at all. Neither did Congress, instead tabling the resolution for years until it was forgotten.
Now these and other histories have been forgotten. We have taken for granted the benefits of a secular government. Now a new mythology is being created that our founders would be appalled by. The myth that the United States of America was created as a Christian Nation. We no longer remember why that road is such a dangerous one. We no longer seem to understand why a secular government is necessary for the continued freedom of belief and conscience that we now so blithely enjoy.
Even such seemingly laudable actions such as giving government money to religious charities creates problems and raises troubling questions.
When the government gives money, as in the faith based charity programs, it decides which religions get money and which do not. Is it really any surprise that during President Bush's Presidency the vast majority of the money is given to evangelical organizations that supported him. Is it any surprise that only they, out of all the organizations that our government supports with our money, are allowed to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion with that money.
And how will you react when Moslems charities start receiving money? How about Scientology? Wiccan charities? Secular Humanist charities? Or would you rather that our government start picking and choosing what religions are "worthy" of receiving money and government approval and which are "unworthy?"
Despite all the talk about original intent we are moving away from what our founders intended.
Although some of our founders were traditional Christians, most were not. Many believed that religion encouraged morality in the common people and so followed religious practices. All, though, recognized the danger that comes from religion and government becoming entangled. All recognized the necessity for a secular government. All remembered the reasons why a strict separation between church and state is necessary. I think it is time that many of us read more thoroughly our own and European history and take a good look at the world around us.
I think it is time that we start remembering again.


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It was super moon this month! I didn't get to see it as it was overcast and raining/snowing in Medicine Hat where I was for the weekend for a cousin's wedding. It was a blast, but it meant that this entry is laaaaaaate.
Enough with the prologue and on to the important part - what got done and where are the pictures?
1. Newborn Joy
Once again, I met the deadline of having it done in April - it was completed on April 28th. Since this piece is for a little boy, I changed the pink roses to yellow (some of the roses were yellow originally, but now all are). The yellow was a suggestion from the mother - also a cross stitcher. I was campaigning for purple, like I did for my nephew's Rosebud Lullaby. I have to say, I'm really happy with the yellow. Now this is added to the list of HD posts I need to do. I dropped this and the blackwork pansy off at my framer's today.
Last Month
This Month
In Progress
1. Once Upon a Time
The first thing I did when I picked this up again (best estimate is I put this down in the summer of 2010) was to put in a couple of stitches. Then I ripped out those stitches and did some counting. Then I've spent the last two weeks taking out the dove that was almost completely stitched that was stitched OVER ONE. For other people who cross stitch, you will understand my horror. Instead of one stitch, I had to take out 4 tiny teeny stitches. I was using a beading needle instead of a tapestry needle so I could get between the thread and the fabric. As of last night the nightmare was over. Here is the backwards progress as it stands right now.
Last time
In my fantasy world this would be under the finished category next month.
No Progress
1. My Way - can you believe that on my original WIPocalypse list that this is the only one so far that hasn't gotten anything done on it? I keep talking about it - there were 14 of us that took the workshop in the fall of 2010 and there are 4-7 of us that aren't done yet. One of these days....
New Starts
1. Nephew's T-Shirts - no progress on this because I still haven't found the right shirts. Anyone know where I can find light blue T-shirts in size 3 and 6? I am willing to order them online.
2. "M" is for Mother - fabric is purchased
3. Fairy Moon - no news
4. Lost in the Garden - no news
5. Victorian Garden - no news
Oh Look Shiny...
Remember way back in the past (the first WIPocalypse entry) I left a line for anything new that caught my eye that wasn't on the original list. I think it's time to give it a separate section after this month. I'm committing to new projects all over the place - mostly canvas.
1. Stars for the New Millennium - my favourite online stitching group (hi Wagoneers) is starting a SAL (stitch-a-long) for this project in October. I held out as long as I could because of the unfinished My Way that is similar to this project, but on March 28th my resolve weakened and I ordered the pattern. For those who are curious - here is the best place to see pictures of this pattern - Pinterest Board. The designer is Anthony Minieri. I'm in the process of deciding on colours and thread. This should be a fun adventure.
2. Lily of the Valley Collage by Laura J. Perin - I meet with my local stitching friends every Thursday evening for a stitch in. A few weeks ago one of the ladies started bringing in this project, but was getting frustrated with it since she was having trouble with miscounting it. One of the other ladies mentioned that she would love to do it as well as a SAL. I chimed in that I love the piece as well (it's my "birth flower") and would be interested in joining as well. Another lady has it all kitted up so it looks like there will be four of us working on it together. We will start as soon as the canvas arrives. For those who are curious, you can find it on the Secret Garden Collection page - scroll down to Lily of the Valley Collage. By the way, this isn't the only piece in this collection that I love.
So there you go, the latest and greatest update. I hope you all good stitching this month (and no frogging).


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I think when push comes to shove most people, when asked, would say they have a positive attitude. But sometimes saying it and doing it can be two different things. I know I've been brought over to the "Dark Side" before. It can be easy to do. You discover the conversation around you has turned into a complaint session and the next thing you know you've been dragged in. Once on the "Dark Side" you may find it difficult to get out. For some reason we often find it easier to complain about the things we don't have than it is to appreciate the things we do. That's when we just need to adjust our vision if you will; change those contacts, or clean those glasses. Good things are all around us. That breath you just took in, or that next step you are about to take. Many people struggle with things just like this. So, ask yourself, "How good do I really have it?" All we have to do is turn on the T.V. to see things worse off than we have it. Could you imagine walking in the desert heat with no water or food for miles trying to find help? This is going on right know in Somalia. What about the riots going on in England? See, when you start to look at things with a different perspective our problems don't seem so big. Sure that guy was rude and cut you off in traffic and even had the nerve to give you an obscene gesture. Or maybe the waiter was late with your food order. Now I know we have bigger problems than these two examples, but if you look for the good in your life your problems won't seem so big. I find that after my accident my vision has been adjusted. Sure I would let some things get to me just like everybody else. But when you are riding in the back of an ambulance scared out of your mind, thankful you're still alive it tends to change you. Please take my word on this and don't find out for yourself. So, now when I start to complain about something I take a deep breath and ask myself, "Is this really the way I want to spend the day, or do I want to spend it smiling?" I think you know the answer. Know I'm here to help.
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Ok, I have become obsessed. I received a little feedback from this http://www.winona360.org/winona360/article/op-ed-its-time-reflection-war-family-and-action. Maybe you read it, maybe you didn't. I don't mind if you take the time to do so now. And sure, go ahead. Re-read it. It is completely worth your time.
Frankly, I have become a little obsessed. I've decided the message is too important than to just say, "Atta girl, Lisa. You squeaked out a good one." Because while I do think I did well on the writing part, it's the message that has been keeping me awake. I clearly didn't think this through and this is why the big guns have agents.
But what they don't have that I do is you. I am asking for your help. I'd like to get this article more widely published. So far, two papers and one on-line site have taken it--it's not bad, but I, no, we can do better.
I will kindly offer my favorite version-the long one with the picture because seriously--who can resist those eyes? And an edited version--one I picked apart and whittled down to the core and it was so painful because I was so attached....but anyway. The message is retained and it will seem more palatable to print-only papers.
Some of my friends and my mom might be worried that I will stop shaving and start leading "Kumbaya" spontaneously. Relax! Spring is coming, I have pride, and I can't sing.
But I can write. And badger. Lucky you! If you have any contacts whatsoever with any sort of publication, large or small, I will take it. If you have a friend, a friend of a friend, or spent time dog sitting this one guy's mom who worked for so and so, I want to know. If there are online publications I am not aware of, give me a tip. As one of my commentors said, "Where have I been? It's time to get the word out." Forward the link above yourself or send me an email at email@example.com with the contacts and I will do the leg work.
It's a bad place to be, and I am not going back.