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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
So, I started pushing a few buttons...
When I started this, I was new to blogging, and I went for a simple layout... now I want to experiment with it a bit.
I'm still not sure of this new layout, but the only way to know if I like it, is to keep it for a while. I think the look of a blog is kind of like its 'signature' and as such, I don't want to change it too much... but I can't make up my mind until I've lived with it a while.
So, any comments? What do you think of the bigger pictures?
... the quality won't be this good in my regular blog entries for a while, as I took the pictures for the next 3-4 updates well before I decided to change the size of them.
Is it really annoying that I can't get them 100% centred, or is that just me?
Is it annoying that my sidebar is now a... what... a bottom bar?? Maybe if someone wants to find something in particular they won't mind scrolling down... maybe I should put a note at the top of the page pointing out that there's all that stuff at the bottom. It might be easy to miss.
Is there any way that anyone knows of, to have the pictures this large and have a sidebar?
Let me know what you think... either here, or on the next couple of posts, if you want to see it 'in practice'. Hope to have a story post up tomorrow, although I'm still working on it, and its making me crazy!
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I do like the colors! You're right, that a blog's style comes to be a "signature" thing.ReplyDelete
Honestly? lol! The background is kind of distracting, like in a hypnotic kind of way, which doesn't really lend itself well to reading. And I like to read your blog, so I don't want to be distracted ;) But the new layout is good! You can swap out the background probably for another simpler one quite easily in the design tools.
Or if not, I could probably tell you how to do it in the code.
Hmmm, do you know much HTML? The sidebar is wrapping to the bottom because the blog column is too wide for the total allowed width. You should be able to tweak the numbers for whatever size you want. You can download a copy of your whole template, so that you have a backup if any of the changes you make don't work out. (Really though, if you're just tweaking numbers, I just usually copy/paste the current code into another page - you really can't mess up much if you're just touching the numbers.)
You can ignore this if you're actually a web programming expert and know more than I do, lol!
Everything is sized in pixels - like mine for example:
#content-wrapper is 800px
Then you want your #main-wrapper and #sidebar-wrapper numbers to add up to that - mine are 514 for main, and 230 for sidebar. (No, that doesn't exactly add up to 800, but there are padding numbers in there too - trial and error is fine here, you can just change the numbers back if you get it wrong.)
Your #header number should match the #content-wrapper.
If you want large pictures and a sidebar, then you'll have to make your main column at least as wide as your pictures, so I'd do about 650px or so, and then your sidebar another 250px. Then you'll want to make your content-wrapper and header image about 960px to compensate. (Give or take 10-20px in either direction.)
Maybe give that a try and see if it works out.
Anyway, lol! Yes, I do like bigger pictures. I've considered doing bigger pictures for my own blog too, but I've been going with 500px for so long now that I just might be stuck in my ways. I also post a lot of pictures in my updates, so any bigger than they are would really suck up my bandwidth.
I don't know though, all this has me jealous, so maybe I might push it to 550 ;) I do have a refresh coming up with my new chapter in a couple weeks.
Actually, after looking at the page source, it looks like whoever wrote the template for this design made those "sidebar" columns to stick at the bottom. You might have to change the template to get them to come up to the side.ReplyDelete
They don't actually bother me being at the bottom though, if you wanted to keep this template. When I'm reading a Sim-story, the content usually scrolls way down past a sidebar anyway, so wherever you have your extra links 'n stuff, you'd have to scroll for it anyway. No difference really.
Oh geeze, and if I might just spam your comments a little bit more... lol!ReplyDelete
Do you have placeable skies in that picture?!? That looks awesome! Which ones do you use? And how come I haven't noticed them before? lol!
I've been seriously thinking about finding/recoloring some skies to start using. Are they easy to place? Do they cause lag or anything?
Wow, Laura, you need to write a tutorial on blogspot. I didn't know those things at all but I'm clueless when it comes to HTML.ReplyDelete
Yeah, for real, Laura! When my sister and I were changing the template for my blog (okay...when she was changing the template for my blog), it took so long to figure out where it was going wrong. We could have used you! LOL.ReplyDelete
The bottom bar doesn't bother me as like Laura said, you have to scroll to get to that stuff anyway. Scroll up or down, what's the difference? ;)
Love the bigger pics! I believe mine are the same size as Laura's but my template allows me to go bigger, now that I think of it. Heh, maybe I should try it? LOL.
Laura, feel free to spam... lol...ReplyDelete
I wasn't sure about that background myself, but it was actually one of the LEAST busy on blogger that went with my color scheme - apparently its popular to make a blog look like grandma's wallpaper! :)
Investigated some more today and worked out how to put my own choice of picture instead of using one from blogger, and I think this plain texture is better, even if I can't get it to go all the way to the top for some reason.
The fact that I was only using pictures from blogger might be an indication of how much I know about HTML and customizing things like this... lol... thanks for the much-needed tutorial! I'm not sure if I will change it or not... I like the look of it at the side, but I like this template... will see if I can find a similar 2-column template to experiment with, and see which I prefer.
Not sure what the picture size is in px, its whatever blogger calls 'extra large'(showing my comp-illiteracy again!). Are you worried about bandwidth as in upload/download, or bandwidth as in photo storage?
I use this to make the sky: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=187229 - will add the link to my cc page, too. I have mixed feelings about it, though. You buy a small object in buy mode and place it somewhere outdoors on your lot. Then you click on the sky to change it to one of a dozen different styles. I really love this sunset one, and there are some nice daytime clouds too.
Downsides: Once the object is placed, you have to click on the sky, not the object, to move or delete it in buy mode... and, you know, it took me forever to grasp that concept! :) It's easy enough to delete, but to move, you have to 'grab' the sky and watch the ground to see where the object is going, and its a bit awkward.
Bigger downside: This only works when the lot view is set to extra large or whatever the highest setting is. If I move around with it on this setting too much, my game crashes - I only turn it up for pictures outdoors, then turn it down again. So the sky doesn't work for everyday gameplay. Also, the sky places itself between the extra-large distance and the large distance, if you can imagine what I mean - that is, you never get a real extra-large view because the sky obscures the most distant buildings/landmarks.
Having said all that, its reletively easy to use, and appears to work with any camera mod - I use it for outdoor pictures where a lot of sky is showing, but I delete it from the lot when I've finished. I think the only time I've used it in the blog so far, is the pictures of Cory and Willow at the cemetery (same sunset), but I ended up cropping most of the sky out of them anyway.
Apple, I second that, I lol'd when Laura wondered if I was a programming expert or something!
Carla, thanks for the feedback... so far, it looks like the big pictures are a win, and the sidebar/'bottom bar' is, meh, whatever... :)
Add... as if I didn't say enough already :) By camera mod, I meant, lighting mod.ReplyDelete
Oh good, the background you've got now is much better! :)ReplyDelete
LOL, I just know what I've picked up being married to a web programmer for almost eight years ;) That and I've been blogging just as long, and I learned everything I learned from tweaking and picking at pre-made templates and asking questions when I needed to. Really, it's not so hard, just dig in and see what you can change, and if you break it, put your backup copy back in.
Hardly qualified to write any tutorials though, lol!
Blogger also has some new template design tools - don't know if that's what you've been using. I used to use the old design tools to change colors whenever I refreshed my blog, and they were really easy to use. I'm not so sure about these new ones, but I'm due for a refresh soon, so I guess I'm about to find out!
Awww, those are some pretty big downsides on the sky thing. Only in extra-large? Eeek, I don't know if that'll work for me, I can rarely turn my view to extra-large. Not if I want any detail in my pictures anyway.
But you know I'm gonna give it a try anyway, lol! I'm quite obviously all about trial and error ;)

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Posted by: empror001 on: June 16, 2009
The website is running smoothly with few bugs here and there, which wont take much time to be resolved. We have a good backing form our "techies".
The site will accommodate new features as and when the community following starts to grow. Till then the blog will be providing you all the news!
The database is updated everyday with new additions in restaurants, followers, pictures, videos etc etc.. you can find it all here.
I guess AS and AB are working towards simplifying communication between you and us! So, lets keep our fingers crossed.
Your suggestions and feed-backs are always welcome.
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From a "Jesus Person" to a Real Person
2/18/2013 | Share this article: View CommentsBy DustyLady ~
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."- Jerry Gillies.
I've been a lifetime seeker. Its been a long road with a lot of detours, but I feel like I have finally found my so-called "spiritual" path.
I did not grow up in a religious home. I was told that we were Lutheran, but my parents were big partiers and drinkers and we never went to church. Although, my dad took me to church once as a child and it felt weird and kind of phony to me. When I was a kid, the only reading material in our home was my dad's old psychology books from college, and an encyclopedia. I had a voracious appetite for answers. Around the age of 13, I started frequenting the library and read everything from sci fi to non fiction books on anything and everything. I was very much a 'female nerd' and still am to this day.
My dad had grown up very religious, and it was there in his background but hadn't really come to the forefront like it did when he retired. As a teenager I used to try to have discussions with him about religion, but when he insisted that he believed in hell, that would frustrate me because it just never made any sense to me, and I'd ultimately walk away in a huff from the discussion.
As a teen, I became enraptured with "eastern religions" and loved books such as "Be Here Now" by Baba Ram Das and books by Alan Watts. Also, "Autobiography of a Yogi" was one of my favorites and I took a home study course from the Self Realization Fellowship. Once, I went to an Alan Watts lecture in Los Angeles and the girlfriend I had taken with me walked out on the lecture because he was putting down people who believed in a god up in the sky. I thought she was closed minded.
The eastern religions kept me fascinated as a teen, but they were all pretty vague and contradictory, and of course I didn't have a guru to teach me anything specific. So I still felt like I was seeking. If the Dalai Lama had been around back then, I would have really liked him. At one point, I got initiated into Transcendental Meditation and I practiced that for quite awhile, but life and the problems of becoming an independent adult slowly took over.
At the age of 17, I met my husband-to-be and everything began to change. He was very handsome and we met on the beach and he was older than me. He started witnessing to me about Jesus. He took me to a big church that was in a circus tent, Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. We would go there in jeans and barefoot with our marked up and highlighted bibles and everyone seemed so blissful when they sang and prayed, so I prayed for salvation with the rest of them. I got baptised at beautiful Corona Del Mar beach and we used to have these great, crowded gatherings there.
We were "Jesus People" and we were pretty fanatical. I remember witnessing with a group, on a corner to strangers in Belmont Shore and the men would act like they were interested in what I was saying in the hopes that they could pick up on me. I still can't believe that I actually got up the nerve to witness because I've always been pretty shy. Our pastor, Chuck Smith, was a really charismatic, loveable bear of a man. His personality was just too hard to resist. You just had to love him to death. I guess he is the main reason why Calvary Chapel branched out and satellite churches can now be found in most any U.S. town.
I learned how to speak in tongues and other "gifts of the spirit" and was also drawn into a more pentacostal church called Shekinah in my own city of Long Beach. Brant Baker was a faith healer, and people would go up to the front at the end of every service and when he touched you, you would fall down on the floor. They had "catchers" who were there specifically to catch you when you fell.
I introduced my best girlfriend, Gale, to the church, and she eventually became Brant's secretary. She told me that she had to answer letters to sad people who wrote in that they really hadn't been healed like they thought. She said it was very hard to have to think of what to say to them. She later went to work for Trinity Broadcasting company, a Christian television network and married a christian guy, and never worked again. As far as I know, she is still very religious. Brant Baker of Shekinah went on to die from AIDS at a young age, as apparently he was gay. Humanity still finds a way to creep in.
At the age of 19, I married the guy who 'introduced' me to Jesus and by that time, he was working as the janitor at Calvary Chapel in their brand new sanctuary. We had been engaged for about a year, and in order to get married at Calvary Chapel, you had to get counseling together. I don't remember much about the counseling sessions except that the Assistant Pastor was angry at me all the time. He thought I wore clothes that were too revealing and he was very upset about that. I always had dressed like a hippie and wore halter tops. Never did we talk about the problem of my husband's two kids or especially the fact that he couldn't have any more children – something that later became a problem for me in the marriage. To this day, I still wonder why those important subjects were not broached in favor of lecturing to me about my clothing.
We lived in Santa Ana for a few months, and then my husband was saying we had to move to Riverside, because he had become best friends with Greg Laurie, and my husband was hoping to get the new job as Assistant Pastor. Greg's new church at that time was Calvary Chapel of Riverside, but its now a mega church called Harvest. We lived in the same house as Greg and his new bride, Cathe, which was owned by the church.
The men cut the house in half and we lived on the top floor, while Greg and Cathe Laurie lived below us. I could always hear them arguing and especially Greg was upset that Cathe would be in front of a window without enough clothes on. Cathe got pregnant right away and I remember how sad that made me feel, because I couldn't have children with my husband.
While we lived there, a very well known christian man who spoke against cults named Walter Martin of the Christian Research Institute visited Greg, and it was very exciting to know that he was downstairs from us. I did not socialize much at all with Greg and Cathe because I was so very painfully shy. My husband did body work on Greg Laurie's car and he was always following Greg around like a puppy dog.
Finally, Greg told him that he had to hire someone else as Assistant Pastor because the church couldn't afford my husband's salary as we were paying child support for my husband's two kids. My husband was very disappointed, and we moved away, and slowly stopped going to church at all and stopped being so religious. My husband started drinking a lot and he couldn't have more children, so after ten years of marriage and a major move to Lake Tahoe, my biological clock was ticking and I got a job and divorced him.
Fast forward to the age of 40 and I'm a single mom in Reno with an 8 year old daughter and I decide to go back to college. At the same time, I also took a course to become a Hospice volunteer. I'd say it was a combination of both those things, plus a small mid-life crisis, that led to my re-evaluation of where I stood spiritually. Hospice taught me about Tibetan Buddhism and my English lit classes taught me about Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. I got the internet too, with which I was able to pick up metaphysical and New Age subjects that I could study to my heart's content.
I felt like I was moving forward spiritually, but desperately needed to resolve something from my "Jesus people" days. It was a scripture, and pastor Chuck Smith's teaching about it. Mark 3:29 - But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin. It was a specific sermon that was causing me so much cognitive dissonance. So I found out which sermon it was, and ordered the cassette tape of the sermon. I listened to it and listened to it. I knew that I would be regarded as a "blacksliden" christian by anyone in the church. A backsliden christian was a person who had stopped reading the bible and praying, and was living "in the world." Chuck Smith taught in this sermon that we can lose our salvation by backsliding. I wished that there was a therapist I could go to, as I felt really stuck and unresolved by this issue.
It turns out that the issue of "blaspheming the holy spirit" has all kinds of interpretations to it, and the one I happened to get from my pastor was a very unusual one. Chuck taught that there was no way we could know if we had backsliden enough to lose our salvation, that only god knew. This seemed very unfair to me and it angered me. It certainly didn't sound like a very fair god, that we would never know if we had lost our salvation or not. I don't recall what I finally did to resolve my cognitive dissonance over this, but I probably talked to my friends about it and just got over it with time.
In the ensuing years, I renewed my old interest in metaphysical and New Age subjects but was not very serious about them. I was still a seeker and wasn't sure if I believed in god or not. I guess you could say I was a "New Ager" in that I believed in the type of god that Deepak Chopra believes in (an impersonal spirit). All very vague and foggy. I had long ago lost all faith in prayer and in a personal god who cares about us. I discovered books by the Dalai Lama and really liked them.
My mother became a born again Christian, and passed away from cancer. My Dad and my two younger brothers were also into the Calvary Chapel fundamentalist religion. My Dad became known in our family for preaching to me and others while he was actively drinking as an alcoholic. I really hated that, as by that time, I had strongly rejected the idea of a personal god. I had really realized that "nothing fails like prayer."
After 30 years in the Tahoe/Reno area, I moved over to Grass Valley, Ca. It was pretty cool to me that the Tibetan monks hung out there in January of every year and I still had a love for Tibetan Buddhism, which is the most intellectual of the Buddhist religions. (They are of the same group as the Dalai Lama). Tibetan Buddhism's main precept is compassion.
I later found out there was a yoga cult nearby in Nevada City called Ananda and felt fortunate that I never became involved in that situation. Apparently their yogi, Kriyananda, was sued by a former female disciple for being sexually involved with her and with other female disciples, and he was expelled from the Self Realization Fellowship.
I started attending a Unitarian church once in awhile and continued reading New Age material. My daughter was grown and had driven all the way from Reno to San Francisco to see the Dalai Lama in person once. I had a website called Fundamental Dysfunctions in which I had chronicled every christian friend whom I had lost in my life, merely due to the fact that I was no longer a believer. I placed the website link at Ex-Christian.net and got tons of hits, until my website disappeared when Geocities went out of business.
It was at this spot on my path that I stumbled upon the subject of evolution. I watched a documentary on Netflix and didn't recall learning all that info about evolution in school. I was still hungry for knowledge and for answers, and at last it seemed like there were some concrete answers for me, answers in the natural world. Answers that were not vague and fuzzy and "woo woo," but answers that I could really sink my teeth into because they had been proven by science and for which there was actual evidence. Understanding evolution was the catalyst for changing my mind. It all made so much sense, for once in my life!
At last, all my doubting and questioning of authority had paid off.
I was getting into what You Tube has to offer, and I watched debates with Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss and Dan Barker, among others. I read many of their books. I was finally getting intellectual satisfaction on a very deep level, something I had not experienced before.
The fuzzy "New Age" scales started dropping from my eyes. I looked upon my past delving into christianity and eastern spirituality with new understanding and a new perspective. When I suddenly felt shocked that I had actually once believed in what Deepak Chopra teaches, I knew that my perspective had changed radically, in a deeply satisfying way.
In the meantime, my father is quickly approaching the age of 80, and like his father before him, has become more and more set in his religious ways. Preaching when he is drunk is no longer funny or a joke, it is very sad. My dad is very much into biblical prophecy (Hal Lindsey). I cannot argue with him anymore. He is too far gone into substance abuse and delusions, very sadly. He says I am demon possessed and am going to hell. I don't talk to him much anymore as he lives 400 miles away, but when I do, he always asks, "Who am I talking to?" (He means that he isn't talking to his daughter, but a demon). He has supposedly done exorcisms on me over the phone (I know, it's very depressing). I can't hope any more that he wakes up, as watching television evangelists is his daily life and he is old and suffering from alcohol dementia. He had a degree in psychology and philosophy once, which he has completely turned against and thrown away in favor of religion. He won't let me visit him. I love him very much, but I will not be able to visit my dad before he dies. People have told me that I should lie to him and say that I came back to Jesus, but he is still smart underneath it all and he wouldn't believe that for a second.
This brings me up to the present day. I continue to watch the debates and read the books and I rejoice in the wonders of science and our universe. (I love the site, topdocumentaryfilms.com). I am very happy and at peace within myself on a deep level – something I never felt before even during the depths of prayer or in meditation. I don't have that gnawing feeling in my gut any more, like I am constantly searching for something, and I am very content with the fact that no one person or church or sect knows the truth. Learning is my great passion in life, at the age of 57.
Like Richard Dawkins, I consider myself an agnostic-atheist because no one can disprove a god, but like Lawrence Krauss, I think it's beautiful that a god is not needed for the universe to exist. I know for sure that there is no personal god. To many people, that is a hopeless thought, but not to me. I enjoy the personal responsibility that comes with knowing that the universe doesn't care what we do. It is mind blowing to think that billions of people choose to believe in a "bronze age peasant" who existed before we even knew that the planets revolve around the sun and that the earth is not flat. I think that religion is the scourge of mankind and hope dearly that some day we shall pull ourselves out of the new dark ages.
I have found my path, and it is more exciting and wondrous and energizing every day!
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It is simply just that. An auction hosted on a fan page with multiple vendors. :) It is an opportunity to allow bow makers and crafters from all over to list during this time. Your products will be listed on the hosts page and available for all subscribers to view and place bids. Auctions are great for making a little cash but they are also a great way to land NEW fans for your pages and be seen.
What do you do to be in an multi-vendor auction (MVA)?
First, join the groups that host often you are interested in. Pay attention for sign up dates. Some auctions fill up fast.
Does it cost money to participate in multi-vendor auctions (MVA)?
Most... YES! The hosts work very hard to advertise, organize, load, share and tag highest bidders and winners. But... the fee is very small for the exposure you receive in my opinion.
Now... Where to go to sign up for auctions?
I Like Big Bows hosts large multi-vendor auctions weekly. Anyone is welcome to participate. We do have a cap on how many participants are allowed in each auction. PLEASE NOTE: These auctions are usually BIG (meaning there will be a wide variety of listings) due to the demand in participation. If you are not comfortable selling with a large group of competitors then this may not be the auction for you. There are so many on Facebook. However, more participants = more of their subscribers popping in due to sharing on their pages! This could result in more views and fans for YOU :)
To join the I Like Big Bows vendors only group CLICK HERE.
More questions about I Like Big Bows auctions?
Contact Christina with Fab Creative Creations (<click).
Some other great ones to check out. . .
Please note: the auction groups are for vendors ONLY! If you are not a vendor but would like to check out their pages to see their auctions I will list them below.
Click each name to be directed to the vendor ONLY groups to join!
Sweet Stitches and Little Britches (SSLB)
Simply Crafty Auctions
Sugar Creek Auctions
The Geeky Chicks
Blooming Bows
Now, there are a ton of auctions of Facebook. Ask around! This is only hitting a few.
Here are the fan pages for the groups mentioned above:
Click each name to be directed to the fan pages to follow!
Click each name to be directed to the fan pages to follow!
What happens after you sign up for an auction?
Pay attention to each hosts requirements. Different auctions allow different amount of items, format for your listings and time/dates due. Be sure to read and agree to their rules. Take note of items they may not allow.
Once you have that information, the sooner you get your album in the better. You will create your album on YOUR business page. The first photo should be your business profile graphic, followed by the pictures of your items to be auctioned. Remember the photo sells the product... CLICK HERE to see some information of taking quality pictures. Be sure to add descriptions to each photo with the auction information. For I Like Big Bows they ask it is in this format...
Seller name:
BRIEF description (one line, please)
Starting bid: (SB)
Shipping amount:
Special instructions (leave pp info/Ready to ship/Shipping time etc.)
Due to allergy concerns please include in your descriptions if there is smoking or pets in your home.
Remember less is more with descriptions. Here is an example. . .
5" OTT mermaid bow
Shipping: $3 (combine shipping)
Please leave clip preference and pay pal email with bid. Ready to ship.
Pet and Smoke free home.
Once your album is ready and follows all of the hosts guidelines, copy the link of the album on your page and post it in the designated location in the hosts group. Some ask they are posted in events set up, others will have a thread going they prefer.
Now, its time to wait until Auction Day! :)
How to decide what to put as a Starting Bid (SB)?
Now this is hard to answer, mainly because it really varies. Be sure your retail price is correct before you start deciding this. Your retail price varies on experience, detail, size etc.
Once you are comfortable with that, a good base line is your SB will be a rounded number of 40% less than your retail.
So... Retail - 40% = roundabout SB to look at. This does differ with certain bows and auction styles. Its your items, so start the bidding at what YOU are comfortable with.
You will see items start at $1 at times.This is a great strategy that can either work awesome at getting traffic to your item or really hurt at close. Its a risk but sometimes worth taking.
Some auctions allow you to list a Buy It Now (BIN) price to your items. Some people LOVE these. If you do, I highly suggest adding a cut off point. For example. . .
BIN: $16 (not valid after first bid) or (not valid after bidding reaches $12)
What's your job once an auction has opened?
Advertise!!!! Share your items, tell people where to go to find them. Yes, its awesome you are already being exposed to a whole new audience but you never know if your current audience might want to bid as well. So SHARE SHARE SHARE. A good rule of thumb is to share at least once per day.
Remember sharing is caring! Be sure to not just go through liking and commenting on your items but share the love and comment and like others. Exposure for everyone just helps you even more.
Unless otherwise stated, you will not be tagging highest bidders and/or winners. Admins normally take care of all of that.
Also, When commenting or answering questions, on your items, it is best to try to do so from your business profile. It gives them another opportunity to click something to get to your page. :)
What happens once the auction closes?
Invoice quickly! Once paid, ship ASAP! Now get ready for your next auction.
Hope this help! Any questions be sure to comment below or come visit us in the I Like Big Bows chat group!
Until next time,
Megan with Little Miss Bowtique
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Asthma is a condition where the patient experiences difficulty to breathe, and it is the primary symptom. It starts with cough, inability to breathe, and tightness in chest.
Persons afflicted with asthma suffer from difficult breathing and exhalation would be more difficult than inhalation. During a flare up they may even find it difficult to speak.
Children and grown up alike are prone to asthmatic attacks. It is not a contagious disease, you won't contract asthma by talking to a asthmatic patient.
People with asthma urinate a lot and the urine might look salty. They may not be able to sleep at night. During flare-ups, the patient's face would become pale, the body chill and the pulse racing.
Some may experience the attacks in the mornings, while the majority suffer at night.
Though it is not contagious, heredity and environmental pollution are the main causative factors. If it runs in your family, the probability of you getting it is very high.
Siddha Remedies for Asthma
Adathodai kudineer and adathodai manappagu are excellent remedies for asthma. Regular intake two times a day for a month can bring about a drastic reduction in the symptoms.
Thippili chooranam is yet another time tested remedy for asthma.
Arisi thippili
Siru nerunjil
Kandankathiri seeds
30 gm of each of these are taken and powdered to a coarse consistency and stored in a bottle.
Take a pinch of this powder with honey thrice a day after food.
Dietary restrictions: Avoid cold items like banana, ash gourd, radish, lemon, tomato, cabbage, cauliflower etc during the intake of medicine.
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[The author's veracity. His design in publishing this work. His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. An objection answered. The method of planting colonies. His native country commended. The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified. The difficulty of conquering them. The author takes his last leave of the reader; proposes his manner of living for the future; gives good advice, and concludes.]
Thus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth. I could, perhaps, like others, have astonished thee with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact, in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform, and not to amuse thee.
It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful animals both at sea and land. Whereas a traveller's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good, example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader. I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused. Therefore, since my acquaintance were pleased to think my poor endeavours might not be unacceptable to my country, I imposed on myself, as a maxim never to be swerved from, that I would strictly adhere to truth; neither indeed can I be ever under the least temptation to vary from it, while I retain in my mind the lectures and example of my noble master and the other illustrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had so long the honour to be an humble hearer.
- Nec si miserum Fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam, mendacemque improba finget.
I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal. I know likewise, that writers of travels, like dictionary-makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who come last, and therefore lie uppermost. And it is highly probable, that such travellers, who shall hereafter visit the countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting my errors (if there be any), and adding many new discoveries of their own, justle me out of vogue, and stand in my place, making the world forget that ever I was an author. This indeed would be too great a mortification, if I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed. For who can read of the virtues I have mentioned in the glorious Houyhnhnms, without being ashamed of his own vices, when he considers himself as the reasoning, governing animal of his country? I shall say nothing of those remote nations where Yahoos preside; among which the least corrupted are the Brobdingnagians; whose wise maxims in morality and government it would be our happiness to observe. But I forbear descanting further, and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks and application.
I am not a little pleased that this work of mine can possibly meet with no censurers: for what objections can be made against a writer, who relates only plain facts, that happened in such distant countries, where we have not the least interest, with respect either to trade or negotiations? I have carefully avoided every fault with which common writers of travels are often too justly charged. Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or ill-will against any man, or number of men, whatsoever. I write for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind; over whom I may, without breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority, from the advantages I received by conversing so long among the most accomplished Houyhnhnms. I write without any view to profit or praise. I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly give the least offence, even to those who are most ready to take it. So that I hope I may with justice pronounce myself an author perfectly blameless; against whom the tribes of Answerers, Considerers, Observers, Reflectors, Detectors, Remarkers, will never be able to find matter for exercising their talents.
I confess, it was whispered to me, "that I was bound in duty, as a subject of England, to have given in a memorial to a secretary of state at my first coming over; because, whatever lands are discovered by a subject belong to the crown." But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brobdingnagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads. The Houyhnhnms indeed appear not to be so well prepared for war, a science to which they are perfect strangers, and especially against missive weapons. However, supposing myself to be a minister of state, I could never give my advice for invading them. Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors' faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus. But, instead of proposals for conquering that magnanimous nation, I rather wish they were in a capacity, or disposition, to send a sufficient number of their inhabitants for civilizing Europe, by teaching us the first principles of honour, justice, truth, temperance, public spirit, fortitude, chastity, friendship, benevolence, and fidelity. The names of all which virtues are still retained among us in most languages, and are to be met with in modern, as well as ancient authors; which I am able to assert from my own small reading.
But I had another reason, which made me less forward to enlarge his majesty's dominions by my discoveries. To say the truth, I had conceived a few scruples with relation to the distributive justice of princes upon those occasions. For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting colonies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
But as those countries which I have described do not appear to have any desire of being conquered and enslaved, murdered or driven out by colonies, nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco, I did humbly conceive, they were by no means proper objects of our zeal, our valour, or our interest. However, if those whom it more concerns think fit to be of another opinion, I am ready to depose, when I shall be lawfully called, that no European did ever visit those countries before me. I mean, if the inhabitants ought to be believed, unless a dispute may arise concerning the two Yahoos, said to have been seen many years ago upon a mountain in Houyhnhnmland.
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ~22 nucleotide single-stranded RNAs that regulate the stability of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) via selective binding to specific sites at the 3'-UTR. This triggers repression in translation and mRNA degradation. It has been estimated that ~60% of all mRNAs are under the control of miRNAs. Among the known hundreds of miRNAs, some are considered master regulators controlling either a single or multiple cellular pathways. Some miRNAs are known to affect development and cell differentiation, while others are implicated in immunity and autoimmune diseases. A very interesting example is miR-146a, which has been reported to be downregulated in systemic lupus erythematosus and upregulated in rheumatoid arthritis. This miRNA plays a dominant role in the regulation of the innate immune responses. The overexpression or underexpression of miRNAs can influence specific targets and pathways, leading to autoimmune disease phenotypes, and this is also supported by some in vivo studies. Targeting miRNAs could represent a valid future therapeutic option for autoimmune diseases. This discussion will focus on the current understanding in the function of miR-146a in endotoxin tolerance and cross-tolerance, and how it may contribute to modulate the overproduction of known pathogenic cytokines.
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- n. : A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.
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- n. someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature.
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I'm not what you would call a bodybuilder, mind you, or a regular Planet Fitness member, either.
we recently started watching Big BRother 10, but thats only because Jessie the bodybuilder is my daughters boyfriends best friend..
I was pleased it didn't say "bodybuilder" in the description.
"bodybuilder" figure while actually trying NOT to.
Leaving Austria early in the 1960s, he traveled to California almost on a whim, with the dream of making it big in America as a bodybuilder.
A conference paper talking about the 19th century Physical Culture movement in Britain and Superhuman figures in prose fiction, including some of the bodybuilder types - and how they were discredited.
Buj Al Arab praises the determination of Farah Malhass, the Arab Wolrd's first female bodybuilder, and is pleasantly surprised seeing her gracing the cover of Gulf News.
Global Voices in English » Put it On: Global Online Contest for Filmmakers
Chris Evans stars as the title character and his toned, muscular physique would be the envy of any bodybuilder.
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Officials said among those arrested are 13 pharmacists and eight assistants, nine veterinarians, a rancher, one bodybuilder and one cyclist.
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Using it, for example, I was able to estimate from fossil arm bones that even an average Neanderthal woman would probably have been able to armwrestle a modern bodybuilder like Arnold Schwarzenegger to the table.
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All over this post are some panels from the upcoming Nola comic.
Before we get started, which Back Ground do you like better here: A or B?
Okay. The whole series is about two sisters: Dana & Nola, and a dozen other Trout-a-verse characters, will be nick-named 'Venus-De- Mommy'... just as an umbrella term. Because both sisters have such ambivalence towards their mother.
Nola and Dana are pretty common names to Google. This's always the trouble with bands who have ordinary names like Yes, The Police, or Postal Service. When you google them, odds are you'll have to hunt to find the band version of them, right?
Thus... Venus De-Mommy. A wonderfully totally stupid goofy-assed name.
This was born out of me divided myself into two sisters.
Outwardly, Nola seems more defiant and rebellious against her mother,
and Dana seems more regressive and accommodating to Mom.
But as the series unfold, they actually reveal very different underbellies from those facades. As a little girl, Nola was a child prodigy, and was assaulted by an over-active mind.
Her brain creates these imaginary mind-maps, with key words bookmarking pivotal or dramatic events in her life.
I went a little crazy on this one... but Nola's mind goes a little nuts too. Again were back to 'zero-girl-esk shapes' again, aren't we?
dunno what it is with me and those little suckers.
... it's weird how things are created. Nola is really a hinge or Gateway character to Mr. Gone. I edited Nola out of the Maxx series once i decided to cancel Maxx and start a new series of stories instead.
Nola and Gone are really the two 'failed magicians' in two different universes. Gone's in the Maxx-a-verse, or Nola, the Trout-a-verse.
Gone is a self-described as a 'failed Master of the Mystic arts', thus a Dr. Strange wannabe. He's almost a parody of Dr. Strange in a way. A Satire of all those dark ominous characters. Mr. Spock, Marvel's The Vision, Adam Warlock, all those dark brooding Jim Starlin-esk Characters from the 70s.
That's Mr. Gone.
Nola however, is like Gone's dark little sis. Kinda like Neil's Morpheus is towards Death. Sorta. Only, as usual, my characters are all neurotic and messed up.
Nola doesn't know mystic arts, but instead she becomes to be a 'Slacker Sorceress'. Her story is less about etherial magic powers, and more about her screwed up personal life and dysfunctional relationship with her mom. Real life crap is the focus.
I tried to show this in 'Origin of Mr. Gone' Maxx issue, where we get a glimpse of his real life, to counter balance all the surreal stuff.
The few magical powers Nola *does* have, ( as her mother never fails to remind her) she blows off. . . or never cultivates . . and this just reflected in her coasting through everything else in life too.
Damages. Flawed. But there's something ELSE her causal tough girl act.
Totally aside from Nola, notice how i can't seem to make up my mind how to draw Dana? Would you believe the panel above is right next to a cartoony picture of Dana, she doesn't even look like the same girl, does she?
Had to make fun of it by adding the stupid little blurp next to both Dana heads. Might be cool if it pisses someone off, " if he sometimes can draw normal, why does he gotta screw it up with those cartoony faces too????" lol
Sorry for the detour there.
Anyhooooo, you don't have to read Maxx in order to like, or understand, Nola, or visa versa. They really have only a thin strand connecting them. And that's only because they were connected in MY mind, many years ago.
Before I Cut The Cord and freed Nola into her own Non-Maxx like universe.
Here's one last clue. Way back in Maxx 26, Gone hears a mysterious voice trying to speak to him from another dimension:
You've probably read this before in Maxx.. but what i edited out was this secret:
It was Nola who spoke the mystery phrase that caused him to black out, several times too.
Sshhh. don't tell a soul.
it's even a secret to Artie.
Ps: Still talking to Oni about how to release all these chapters of Nola. Should be finished sometime late next year. Should we release it as single issues? Or maybe just one big-ass graphic novel? Thoughts?
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Remember Cecil? It was the lion hunted by an American dentist in 2015 in Zimbabwe, and its death caused a major scandal worldwide. A great number of conservationist and animal rights organizations protested. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe also jumped on board: he energetically condemned Walter Palmer (the hunter), and demanded that he be extradited to Zimbabwe to face charges.
At the time, a lot of commentators pointed out that Mugabe was in no position to preach about anything. In fact, so the argument went, Mugabe was capitalizing on the scandal in order to drive attention away from the numerous human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. Instead of worrying about lions, it was claimed, he should be concerned about Zimbabweans.
Make no mistake: Mugabe is a brutal dictator. But, it is a very fallacious argument to claim that, just because a despot cares about animals, then we shouldn't care about animals. Hitler loved his dog and he was a vegetarian. Should we, then, hate dogs and condemn vegetarianism? The answer seems obvious.
However, it would also be fallacious to claim that, inasmuch as Mugabe condemned the killing of a lion last year, he is now a hypocrite for proposing to allow the hunting of elephants in Zimbabwe. Perhaps elephants and lions are different, and we should not apply the same ethical standards. Lions are endangered, elephants are not.
Indeed, the governments of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, have recently advanced a proposal to legalize elephant-hunting. Their argument is quite simple: there are plenty of elephants in those countries (27,000 in South Africa, 82,000 in Zimbabwe and 20,000 in Namibia). Regulated hunting poses no risk whatsoever to elephant populations in those nations. And, given the increasing demand for ivory in countries such as China, this would be a good opportunity for those three countries to make much-needed profits.
Is it a good idea? Ethicists of a libertarian bent have long thought so. Their argument is as follows: if hunting is legalized as a business, species will be protected. Capitalists will see in hunting a great profit opportunity, and they will make sure the species never go extinct (by providing breeding and conservation programs), precisely because it is the source of their profit.
As with many libertarian ideas, this one seems to have a powerful logic. But, also as usual in libertarianism, it places too much hope on economic rationality. Capitalists will not always act as libertarians expect them to. And, if history is any guide, it is quite obvious that most species have gone extinct precisely because of overhunting.
Nevertheless, with 82.000, the elephant population is quite strong in Zimbabwe, and at least in the short term, endangering the species is not a concern. So, is it ethically acceptable to legalize hunting in that country? Not so fast. There may be some other objections.
Why should we consider animals as creatures with lesser rights? If The Hunger Games causes horror in us, shouldn't elephant-hunting be as terrifying? Ethicist Peter Singer has long denounced speciesism, the idea that individuals of other species do not have some rights (including the right to live). Not long ago, it was believed that people with dark skin color didn't have the right to be free, and could thus be enslaved. We now condemn that as racism. Shouldn't we, then, also condemn speciesism? In Singer's view, speciesism is as immoral as racism.
But, Singer is also a utilitarian philosopher. Under utilitarianism, if an act generates a balance of good consequences, then it should be ethically acceptable. Thus, if a greater number of human and animal lives could be saved by killing a lesser number of elephants, then Singer would be forced to admit that, yes, killing the elephants is the right thing to do.
Is that the case in Zimbabwe? It is very doubtful. While it is true that elephants and humans may compete for resources (especially water) in remote areas of Namibia and Zimbabwe, there may be plenty of relatively simple technological alternatives to satisfy both humans and elephants' needs. With good distribution systems, there is plenty of water for all.
What about profits from the ivory trade? Wouldn't that help in feeding hungry children in those countries? Again, it's not likely. Zimbabwe is a notoriously corrupt country, and in all likelihood, the spoils of the ivory trade will go to the Swiss bank accounts of Mugabe and his cronies.
Furthermore, there is a major concern raised by Botswana, a neighboring country with a more fragile elephant population. If hunting were to be allowed in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, there is an increased risk that hunters will eventually cross the border into Botswana, and they will endanger its elephant population.
In short: legalizing elephant hunting in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa is not a good idea. Fortunately, most other nations agree, and they are toughening the grip on elephant hunting.


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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Well that was a tad premature.
So, some neighbors asked me about being part of the local children's hospital fundraiser; this fundraiser is Christmas themed, and is held in November.
Yep. I'm talking Christmas. Christmas in July. And it ain't July yet.
Anywho, I've got all kinds of Christmas decor ideas rolling around in the ole noggin. AND I get to make some Christmas crapts for it, too. (will they take my crapts?)
And then I remembered this moment when the babe was 6 weeks old at that very hospital, and how it was the worst days (and nights) of my freakin' life, and she wasn't even really sick like the other poor kids in there.
(please excuse me while I go have another panic attack just looking at this picture)
And I's all, "count me in, muchachas."
And then I signed up for the Christmas in July gift exchange.
And my mother said, "Why in the world would you do that? Sounds like barf."*
(*not a direct quote.)
It seemed like a good, clean fun idea! I've got all these ideas rolling around in the ole brain for the holiday; why not? *
(*note: should've listened to my mom)
So I started planning and making. Mostly just planning. 's hard to get stuff done only when the kids are sleeping.
See, I made this a couple years ago:
Still like it.
(note to self: make new one with all family members)
I see this
in a ginormous print. Big, chunky frame.
This too.
Or this. You know, if you're a fan.
Otherwise you just might not get it.
I see lots of old-looking signs. . .
(this 'uns in saved "to cut" stencil format only)
Or these ones I already did make.
See, I thought it'd be great to do some signs like these in my kitchen:
but Christmas style. And in English.
Like so. These are going to my exchangee. (If she hates them, do you think I can have them back?)
Or something like this. Well, imagine these without a ginormous pair of dice next door. Envision strings of cranberries, candles, and stockings hanging down, if you will.
Sigh. So many ideas, so little time.
I don't know-- my fireplace just might need this hanging above it.
But there's just so many options.
17 comments:
- Carisa Knox said...
I want to be on your Christmas list! Seriuosly, you should sell these signs. I would absolutely buy a couple for my house and for my best friend, maybe my mom and my mother in law..... I have to think about her. (Every gift I have given her that isn't a gift card ends up in storage and I give her some pretty rocking gift, so she may not be worthy!) BUT, I definitely want some if the signs and tags for my house!!! Anyway, great ideas!!! You go girl!
PS... Is it crazsy to think and feel that I know you so well?
- June 15, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- Leca said...
The last one is my favorite. Anything with "nuts" makes me giggle. The family sign is awesome. I would totally buy it... but then I'd have to re-name my kids and that would be really awkward.
- June 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- gina3 said...
I love the first big red/white you did. That's awesome. Seeing that picture of your little one, I can only imagine. Our son was almost 5 weeks premature but luckily was just fine. I understand why you got involved. As for the earlier partial post, it's just amazing what little kids can do these days with technology. I'll email you what my son did. You'll love it!
- June 15, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- Dede said...
I don't know if I'll EVER get enough of your blog! I like the last one a bunch too haha!
- June 15, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Lori @ In Pursuit of Martha Points said...
Ok, if you're going to do a Christmas Story, you have to have "It's a Major Award" on it somewhere!
And those are awesome!
- June 15, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- WhettenWild said...
Those turned out cute. That last one is cracking me up.
- June 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- Layne Bushell said...
Hey you...Primay Children's take everything for their boutique. It's Perfect! And they'll sell fast fast fast fast fast!
And, i'm a loser...i didn't know that little Miss McK was in PCMC? Sorry. Not a good friend was I. I had a sick kiddo at birth too...we'll have to share stories sometime.
- June 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Cathy M~(checkitoff) said...
Love that first photo of your sweet baby & glad she is doing so well! Then you bring me to laughing!! You are just a great blogger! love your signs & your sense of humor!!
- June 16, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- Halls Huddle said...
I had to catch up on the Tremayne happenings today since we've been gone so dang long. I've missed you. Let's have a park day soon and catch up face to face. Thanks for all the giggles this morning as I read through your MAH-VE-LOUS posts!! P.S. I'm voting you don't go on holiday from your computer for too long, but totally understand about the "need to spend more time with my kids" guilt trip we all go on.
- June 16, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- Pressed Petals said...
those look wonderful! i never knew your baby was sick. glad she's okay now. have a great day!
- June 16, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Emily said...
I like the signs. They are way cute. I love the Christmas Story one. That would be way cute to make!
- June 16, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- dena4kids said...
LOL! I love all of them! I love the christmas story ones!heehee..I love Christmas!
- June 16, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- Joanna Taylor said...
Um, FABULOUS! Plus I *got* it. Too funny.
PLUS, I desire that first one "A Child is Born."
- June 16, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Ahhaha Mandi you ALWAYS crack me up. Is it weird that I don't know you at all but I really want to be your friend? I feel like I'm in the 3rd grade again hahahaha.
ANYWAY, I love all the signs - especially that last one - but I agree with Carisa Knox: you should sell them!! Those Ginger Bread/Egg Nog/Fudge signs? Way too cute. I would buy one of each, right now.
P.S. I just watched "The Santa Claus" last weekend and have no excuse for Christmas in June. So don't feel bad about the early start. :)
- June 16, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- Teri said...
These are all awesome, Mandi! Wish I could come to that craft sale - especially the "food" signs! Love that! What medium do you use to create your stencils? Is it vinyl?
- June 21, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Kady L. said...
I didn't hate them! I LOVED them!! Didn't you get my thank you email?! I did wonder why you never wrote back... thank you!!
- July 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- linda @ CraftaholicsAnonymous said...
Love all your signs! Your giftee HAD to love her new signs! (if not, she can send them my way lol) Thanks for showing off what you made! I had fun checking it out :) The next gift exchange will be in november, I hope you'll participate again!
happy crafting,
- August 2, 2010 at 11:06 AM


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Warning: I talk about specific foods and my personal eating habits here. If this will be triggering to you, please skip this one!
I had a little food incident a while back. I had a setback. Basically, after eating a meal which consisted of a bowl of brussels sprouts roasted with olive oil and spices, I felt more satiated than usual, which resulted in over-googling calorie contents of brussels sprouts. I began googling how brussels sprouts make you feel fuller than anything else. Because I had eaten what I thought was a virtuous dinner of brussels sprouts but somehow found myself feeling bloated and over-full, as if I had eaten three slices of pizza.
I still have trouble with that "full" feeling. And I couldn't stand it, and I wanted science to tell me why I was feeling the way I was rather than give in to the little voice in my head that was whispering "Jessie, don't you miss throwing up?".
Well, I didn't throw up. I haven't made myself throw up for a very long time. But I still hear that voice sometimes.
This exercise ultimately proved fruitful, though: not because I found scientific evidence that proved that brussels sprouts are some crazy food that tricks your body into feeling full, but because I found this article, which I thought had a lot of wisdom to impart. My favorite part?
"You have to stop eating the same things every day.
You have to be brave and try meats, veggies, fruits, fats, and even spices with different nutritional and chemical makeups.
I know that giving up the safety of consistent foods or meals or timings can be overwhelming, if not downright scary as hell. But I guarantee that by compulsively eating (and eating and eating), you're already in one kind of hell. What if it turns out the devil you know is worse than the devil you don't?"
It was in reading this that I had to admit something to myself: I still really only eat "safe" foods.
What the heck is a safe food, you ask? Well, for me, it's a food (or a food combination, or a particular way of eating a food) that doesn't trigger my eating disorder. While on the one hand it's good to stick with foods that won't cause you mental distress, it also kind of makes you no fun. It doesn't leave room for a lot of spontaneity, or variation in your diet. It makes going out to eat, or having someone else cook for you, etc, a very stressful thing.
My safe foods are sneaky.
You might think that "safe" foods for someone in ED recovery would be things like lettuce, watermelon, and kale--low calorie foods. But for me, some of my safe foods are sneaky, because they are high calorie and give the impression that I am totally fine with foods of all sorts. For instance, I have no fear of peanut butter or cheese (common fear foods). But I am very specific about the amounts and the way in which I eat them, which kind of negates the whole point of variety in your diet.
That is to say, I have a healthy variety of foods that I will eat, but I can be OCD about how I combine them. For instance, you'll never see me eating a peanut butter sandwich on the same day I eat pizza. You'll never see me eat oatmeal on the same day I eat macaroni and cheese. As for bagels? Sure, I'll eat one, but I have difficulty deciding what else is safe after that for the day.
It's like living in a food purgatory: foods can transform from safe to unsafe at a moment's notice. It's a scary place to be while in recovery.
With that in mind, I would try another experiment: working on fear foods, and on food variety. I would try to include more fear foods as "normal" options, and would eat something different at least one time a day. I wasn't going to worry too much about the timing of my meals (another issue) because it was already a lot, but maybe that can be the next thing I play with.
Here, to keep it from being boring, I'm just going to focus on three days of the experiment (I did it for 10) and then round up my feelings at the end.
Day 1: Carb-o-loading
Breakfast 6:30 am:
- Sweet biscuit (sort of like a scone) with raisins.
Thoughts: I was scared of this biscuit. I broke it in half and that looked like a manageable size. I ate it and still wanted more. I was driving and just grabbed it and ate it to spite my eating disorder, vowing not to cut calories the rest of the day to "make up".
Lunch 12:09pm:
- A pear; 1/4 avocado; 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- diet coke
Thoughts: I usually have an apple around this time, but I felt like I had to mix it up and a pear felt OK to me. I felt hungrier than just a pear and some peanut butter so I added the avocado, and it wasn't too scary.
- 12 ounce beer
Happy hour with a friend. I was hungry by this time so I feel like I drank it quickly. I didn't feel intoxicated (a little "happy" around the edges) but I was too scared to share an appetizer too.
- dinner roll
- small block of cheddar cheese
- 1/4 avocado
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup peas
Usually, my dinners are composed of fewer "elements". It felt like there was a lot going on, on my plate. I felt very full after this and felt like I needed to count calories twice.
Day 2: Cake and other scary things
- 1 egg with vegetables and cheese
- 4 baked plantain slices
Thoughts: I've never eaten a combo like this for breakfast, so I was proud of myself. It felt good.
- fairly large slice of cake (1/8 a standard layer cake) and milk
Thoughts: I often have cake for lunch on Friday, and the rule is that the slice can be however larger or small I want (it's like my thing). It was indeed friday, so this was not a variation from my habit, but I think it's kind of a fear food busting habit on its own, so I stuck with it.
- pomegranate arils
- slice of cheese
- glass of wine
Thoughts: It's not unusual for me to have a glass of wine, but to have it the DAY AFTER I had another alcoholic beverage, and to pair it with a snack, was odd (I don't like combining food and drinks, yes, even though wine is supposed to pair with food). It felt like something so normal to do though, so I was proud of myself.
- 1/2 hamburger, 1 cup brussels sprouts, piece cheese, 3 radishes, 1 thick slice homemade bread with butter
Thoughts: This was a very unusual meal for me. I felt full after my dinner because usually I would only have a small slice of bread or forgo the cheese or had fewer elements to the meal. I felt like I had been fairly indulgent. But I forced myself to NOT count calories. I was proud of myself!
Day 3: Still trying
- Slice of bread with 1 tablespoon peanut butter
Thoughts: this is a standard breakfast for me. I kind of felt like I needed to stick with something safe because I felt like I had taken a lot of risks, food wise, the day before.
- 1 medium pear
- 3-4 pineapple chunks
- handful of pomegranate arils
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
Thoughts: Once again, usually around this time I would have an apple and peanut butter. I substituted the pear to have something different at least. I was hungrier than that though, so I added the pineapple and pomegranate, which helped.
- 2 pretzel nuggets
Thoughts: I know it's small, but I never snack, so this felt like a real victory.
- other half of the hamburger from yesterday
- piece of cheese
- 3/4 cup brussels sprouts
- 2 radishes
- 1/6 avocado
- 5 pretzel nuggets
Thoughts: I basically had the same dinner as last night. It was less scary this time, but the portion was overall smaller. I ate dinner really early (like 5:30) because that is when I wanted it. Part of me felt awful for that though.
Day 4: Back to the comfort zone
- Bread with peanut butter
Thoughts: Even though I felt better about my dinner last night, I still felt scared after trying so many new things. This was a safe food that I needed at the time.
- apple
- 1/2 veggie sausage
- cheese
Thoughts: Once again, this is a "safe" meal for me. I was annoyed that I hadn't challenged myself but I really felt like I wanted it. I didn't argue too much.
- one carrot
Thoughts: once again, proud of myself for snacking! Even if it was small.
- 1/2 slice bread
- cabbage salad
- rest of veggie sausage
- cheese
- mushrooms
Thoughts: Once again, while the foods were little different, this was a very "safe" meal for me. Overall I was a little disappointed in my unwillingness to branch out today.
OK, so I will spare you eating more of my daily diet and just tell you how things went.
Overall observations
Throughout the course of this 10 day experiment, I observed several things. Here are some of them:
I went very much in cycles. Basically, I would try a few new things, then get braver and try a few more. Then, inevitably, I'd have a "crash"--like on Day 4, listed above, where I basically went right back to my old ways of eating only safe foods. After a day of safe foods, however, I felt OK about trying new things again.
Lunch was challenging for me. Usually, my go-to lunch is either a cookie or small treat and an apple. Most days, I enjoy something sweet at mid-day; I'd say 5 out of 7 days a week. I really crave something sweet every day. On the rare day when I don't, I eat a spoonful of peanut butter and an apple. I tried a number of different things for lunch instead this week. I ate less sweets overall through this project, but it wasn't about avoiding sugar, it was about getting out of the rut of always eating it at mid-day instead of a meal.
I don't think I eat enough, in general. In looking over the tally of what I had eaten on each day, it sounds more like two meals' worth than three. Some people have apples and peanut butter as snacks; for me, I insist that it's a meal for some reason.
I eat very much by the clock, and even if I am starving, if it's not an acceptable time to eat, I won't. This results in me feeling foggy and unproductive because I am not eating when my body is asking for it. The fear of breaking routine is very strong; I am proud of myself for trying out snacking, even if my attempts were very small.
So, what did this do for me?
So...was it a worthwhile experiment?
Overall, yes. But it also made me see that I still have a lot of work to do in terms of recovery and mixing up my diet.
For instance, I said above that I observed myself going through cycles: trying new things, then getting scared, and reigning it back in to a smaller sort of comfort zone. I think that is not such a terrible thing, especially if the cycle of trying new things expands each time, and the need for going back to the comfort of safe foods becomes less and less. Time will tell in that regard, though!
It also made me realize that the actual variety of "safe" and "fear" foods isn't the only issue here. It's not just that I am eating the same things; it's that I have the same behaviors toward food. Like, I have to eat at certain times, with things in a certain array on my plate. Maybe as I advance in this challenging of fear foods, I will be better able to allow for flexibility in these regions, challenging my fear food behaviors.
I think it's good to challenge yourself like this every now and again, if only so that you don't become to stuck in a rut and complacent in your ways. Challenging yourself is a way to stay on track with recovery and not just settle for "recovered enough".
What food behaviors would you like to challenge?


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May 13, 2013
31 Day Nail Challenge | 22 Inspired By Fabric
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The recent strike by SMRT's Chinese bus drivers has started a debate about wage levels and working conditions for foreign contract workers in Singapore. Yet a couple of questions remain untouched by the debate:
1. Should salaries vary based on a workers country of origin? Yes, absolutely, as long as the wage premium / discount is based on solid reasons.
2. Do Malaysian workers deserve a wage 'premium' relative to their Chinese counterparts? Yes, absolutely. Malaysia is Singapore's neighbor and Malaysians integrate better than most into the Republic's workforce.
|Singapore's foreign labor pool encompasses the entire spectrum of jobs - from the low end street cleaner to the highly paid senior executive
Labor activists and human rights purists adhering to the principle of 'equal pay for equal work' might disagree. Certainly the principle applies to people working in their home country. However, when labor moves across national jurisdictions then different factors come into play. Amongst others, these factors include language, education levels and cultural norms. Collectively, these factors affect an individual's ability to live and work within a foreign society.
Let's call that concept integration.
During the last few years, Singapore has witnessed disruptive repercussions of varying degrees from foreign workers who are not easily fitting into local society. Yes, these foreign workers drive buses, clean streets or man stalls satisfactorily, in line with their employment contracts and job requirements. However, they also bring with them local customs and practices. Many of these behaviors: riding bicycles on pavements, spitting, not speaking English and sometimes indulging in (petty and serious) crimes to list a few, have created discontent within Singaporeans.
Moreover, as the numbers of a particular nationality grows to 'critical mass' levels, particularly within a specific occupation or organization, its citizens feel more emboldened to challenge the status quo in a manner detrimental to Singapore's interests. That striking Chinese bus drivers' have forced a political review of established labor management practices demonstrates the strength (and dangers) of such concentrations.
So, how does all this relate to paying Malaysian bus drivers more than their Chinese counterparts? The answer lies in Singapore's recent history.
Malaysians have more in common with Singaporeans than the traumatic events of 1965 may suggest. Despite the obvious religious differences between certain segments of the two populations, being geographically contiguous and a part of the same 'civilization' for centuries has welded the two peoples into sharing many important cultural and social traits. Consider the continuing deep economic linkages between Singapore and Malaysia.
The commercial relationship is no accident. It is a byproduct of the cultural ease of carrying on business in either society as well as the geographical reality of being neighbors.
The two nations are not alien to each other. There is a natural cultural and social fit between the two nations. A large number of Malaysians already live and work in Singapore. They have done so for many years, and without the social disruptions associated with people of other nationalities. Likewise, droves of Singaporeans regularly visit, own properties, businesses and even retire in Malaysia.
It is this relatively seamless social integration of Malaysian workers into Singaporean society which justifies their wage premium. Maintaining social stability through a cohesive work force is worth that little bit extra.
As a sovereign country, Singapore's human resource policies must cater to the Republic's unique characteristics. Political pressures from regional economic giants – an unintended consequence of hiring large numbers of people from one nation – can be minimized by pursuing a more balanced foreign labor policy. To this end, Singaporean businesses might benefit from additional government incentives to employ Malaysian citizens over other nationalities. Implementing policies to encourage a more balanced pool of foreign workers must be a strategic priority for public officials.
Imran is a business and management consultant. Through his work at Deodar Advisors and the Deodar Diagnostic, Imran improves profits of businesses operating in Singapore and the region. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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What's in the box?
Well anything you like that fits I would normally say!
But how super cute are these Pizza boxes Stampin' Up! has for gift giving?
|The boxes are easy to personalise or decorate to a theme with a little DSP and or a stamp. In Australia you can purchase a pack of 8 boxes for Price: $10.00 plus postage
|Mini boxes just the right size for holding a sweet treat or 3" x 3" (7.6 x 7.6 cm) note cards.
* Folded box size: 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 1" (8.9 x 8.9 x 2.5 cm)
* Food safe
FYI - the box holds a D Block perfectly - this one was engraved for a special team member and wrapped in tissue.
I used scraps of cardstock to stamp the badge and then punch it out and the small scallop circle is from the Circle Framelits set.
Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, earn discounts, great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If so click here to join my team - more information here.
Click the picture to see what's carrying over from the Holiday Catalogue in Australia?


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