Imaginative decorating........

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Oh my gracious!  I want to jump into that illustration, above.  -happy sigh-  And follow those Faeries to the 'Pixie Dust Tree'.  Oh I do.  I do.  I do.

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I love all such....  Fey, Pixie dust, Faerie dust, sparkles, fireflies, lace curtains, lace table cloths, sheer white curtains, blowing in a breeze, magical, imaginative, more sparkles, garden paths, deep woods (without mosquitoes), etc., etc., etc.

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 But ordinary reading of my blog, one might not know it.  MY home decorating, doesn't have aspects, of many of those things. Unlike the lovely blogs, I am showing you pictures from...     

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 And I don't think, that many of my Dear Readers share such likes.  :-)   Yes?  No?  Maybe?  Please tell me...
  

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We each have our own tastes.  It's interesting to see how our tastes, match up (or not) with our Dear Readers, though.  

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 Not that I am creative enough, to do much "Magical Decorating" in my own life.  Nope, I'm not.  I love it, in the blogs of others though...  -sigh-  Like in the lovely and magical blogs, from which I borrowed these pic.  With click-able links back to the blogs, of course!  

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So how come I don't try to incorporate more, into my own home?  How come?????  ~~~  Well for one thing, one has to consider the tastes of others, living in our homes.  I'd love more, more, more Faerie Lights...  But 'Uncle A.'s' eyesight, makes them difficult, for him to live with...

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So I have one string of Faerie Lights, on the mantle.  I'd have more of them, hanging here and there.  But they would bother his eyes. 
    

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 So, do I need a separate blog?  Where I could *drool* over such?  :-)  A blog for all-things-Fey-and-shimmering-and-softly-white-and-twinkleing...?  And with the separate blog, go out to find other bloggers, who love such...?

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Oh sigh...  Separate blogs can get so difficult though...  -pout-

I have one now...  My "Auntie's Reads 2013" blog.  But I simply post reviews on it.  No comments allowed, so I don't have to deal with checking comments for SPAM, etc., all the time.  ~~~  But that (no comments) feels cut off, from Dear Readers...  -sigh-  -pout-
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What to do?  Go for more lace myself?  Even without more Faerie Lights?
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Your ideas??????????

Please?

And thank you...

Happy, happy.......

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I had the link to the source, of these sweet photos, from the Net.  Lost it.  Sorry........  I really like to link to the source of pics I use, which are not mine.
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Hope you are having a lovely weekend, around your neck of the woods.  The sun shines here, and the temps are warming up.  Well, "50's" is warming, to us.  :-)

So far, I have not heard that I have to bring a dessert to Easter Dinner, tomorrow.  Wheeeee....  -grin-  Let's see......   If I could turn off the phone.....   Then I would never hear a phone call, *insisting* that they have, have, have to have a home-made Apple Pie, tomorrow.    There must be some way, to completely turn off a land line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  -chuckle-
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This might be the first time I have EVER posted a GLITTERY pic on my blog!  Personally, I usually hate-them-with-a-passion.  lol.  Sooooooooooo distracting!   To me anyway.  But this one has a very cute message.  And it's not tooooooooooooooo awfully brightly glittery.  So, I posted it.

We have a few errands to run today.  Otherwise, a quiet day.  No running around, trying to get ready for anything.  (Unless I get that ^&*(*^$$^*(^^% Pie summons!)  -grin-

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*Warning*! Deep thinking, enclosed. :-)

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See those "sort-of-X's-of-light", mid photo?  They were not out in the snow.  Since I took this photo, through window glass, and "into" the sun, I guess those (sort-of-X's-of-light) are an effect of sun, on the window glass.  Cool effect!  :-) 

And it happened three times.  So naturally, I had to post all 3 pics!  "Surprise Photo Op" kind-of...  Never, never, never pass up such!!!!!!!!  :-)

I am not scientific.  Don't have any bend-that-way.  So thank you to "Ellen In Oregon," for explaining, why candles seem to *eat smoke.*  :-)

I have another *wonder.*  And don't know how to prove it, scientifically. 

But......................................

On Earth... 

Every living thing, is made-up-of-and-from other things, which have been living....   In other words, no cow eats some plastic, along with her feed, and incorporates that plastic, into her calf, growing within her.............    Nor do any other animals, do so........   Nor do human mothers incorporate random pieces of plastic, into their gestating fetus.............

Living things, are made up, from other living things, which have died.

Sooooooooooooooooo...  If one holds that each human, has a unique 'soul' or 'life force' or whatever one wants to call it.....  Then it can truly be said, that no other human being, was ever exactly like each of us are, as to our unique 'soul' or 'life force'....   

BUT  THE  BODY!!! 

Every ding-dang body, is made up of previously living stuff.  Bodies are made up of constantly reused stuff-of-earth.  So NO  BODY  can be believed to be totally UNIQUE.  Our body (and bodies of other living things) are made up of the Earth stuff, which was here in the beginning....  And is used, over and over and over again....  Earth stuff, being used to birth living things, which live and die and decompose back into the Earth, and are then used, by coming generations. 

The Original Form of Recycling!!!!!!  

YES????????

Gabe was telling us about ducks, which he learned from a book.  Complete with arm movements, to show how ducks flap their wings, when they fly.  I asked him for another demonstration, and I got this.  ,-)

This Header pic will soon be gone, because Valentine's Day will come and go.  And I LIKE it.  So I'm "keeping" it, by posting it.  :-)  It was one example, of the effect which I try for, a lot.  And don't usually accomplish it.  Up-close-is-clear...  Distance-is-fuzzy...  Particularly wonderful, for capturing *fuzzy* faerie lights...  :-)

We are not the same person this year as last;
nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we,
changing, 
continue to love a changed person."
~Anon

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I think that quote above,  
is one of the most brilliant sets of words,  
ever thought of, or written...

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Of books, and wanting to go read... :-)

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I had a list of "books-read-in-January", on my Side Bar.  Then that was getting cumbersome.  So I made a link (on my Side Bar) to a blog, where I will list all the books I read in 2013.  It just below the sweet water color of the little girl, on the dragon...  It called  BOOKS READ IN 2013 ...  You see Click Here  ...  A click-able link, which takes you to "Auntie's Reads 2013" ...
 my book blog.

I love to see what others are reading.  So here is a way, for others to see, what I'm reading.

Naturally, if a book is listed, I enjoyed it.  Because I simply don't waste time, reading books, which never "get me."  Nor will I be doing reviews of books.  I don't feel comfortable, trying to review a book.   But if someone wants to look into a book, they can do a Search on the title.  In places like 'Good Reads' or 'Amazon' or 'Barnes and Noble'...

As you can see, I can't come up with any photo ideas, for this blog entry.   In fact, I just want to put this in the queue to Publish tomorrow/Thurs. morning...  And go read, with the rest of my afternoon cup of decaf.   :-)

  
So I guess that's what I will do!

I leave you with some lovely words, of others.  :-)

OOOOOPS!  I Published this blog entry.  Instead of putting it in queue, to Publish tomorrow morning.  -chuckle-  Guess it's REALLY time for me to get off the computer.  :-)))))))

"Winter is the time for comfort,

for good food and warmth,

for the touch of a friendly hand

and for a talk beside the fire: 

it is the time for home."

~Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Katherine Mansfield once wrote;

"My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself.  I am fast shut up like a little lake in the embrace of some big mountains.  If you were to climb up the mountains, you would see me down below, deep and shining----and quite fathomless, my dear.  You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.  ...  Oh, ...  what it is to love like this!"

It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My reading of "Women Who Run With The Wolves" is already paying off.  On Sat. I brought out my paper, brushes and water colors, and began........

Just a beginning...  And I didn't seem to be able to get a photo of what I did, with enough WHITE-ness showing in the photo.  But today/Sun. I'll try a different way of photographing it.

The BEGINNING, was/is so important.  I have been wanting to try Water Coloring, for a long time.  Too long a time.  Saturday's happening, was a break-through.    -happy sigh-

I am still reading the book.  It is long and it is deep, but it is being worth it.  To have given my inner Wild Woman enough Strength, to call me to get out my paper, brushes, colors..........  And to begin and finish one simple little piece.  

It may be just one...  But it feels like *a million*...  :-)

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Trying to capture morning sunlight....   As "sparkles" on snow and "light shadows" on inside wall...

You *have* to tell me, that you see that 3 "sparkles" to the left side of the photo!!!  ,-)))

*Shadows* of Light, on brick wall beside fireplace...

"The night was clear and frosty,

all ebony of shadow 

and silver of snowy slope;

big stars were shining over the silent fields."

~Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Sparkle" left...  "Sparkle" right...  :-)

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THANK YOU for the comment/replies to my question of yesterday...   I enjoy every 'take.' view and reply!  But me-thinks I need to do a post some day, on what the term "Crone" means to me. 

It's not an easy term to figure out, without some "digging."  But you know me!  I love to "DIG"!!!

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Winter 'blues'. Bahhhh-humbug!!! :-)

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Still trying to photograph sun-sparkling-on-snow.
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Look closely!!!  Do you see some sparkles????????????????????  :-)

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I'm feeling like perhaps we shouldn't just succumb to the Winter Blahhhhhs...  After all, Winter is here.  It will run its course.  The Wheel Of The Year will not turn any faster, because we are tired of this Season or that Season.  So...  Why not look for the jolly parts of Winter????  :-)  Just look at that quote.

"The light is what guides you home;

the warmth is what keeps you there."

~Ellie Rodriguez

Isn't that lovely?  And inspiring?  And if we can't come up with our own inspiration,  "The Cottage Journal Email" comes up with some lovely suggestions.
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 How does "Lemon Chicken Soup With Spinach" sound???

OH OH!  As I said, I got these pics/ideas from my "Cottage Journal Newsletter," in email.  But I can't seem to link to it/them, here.   -pout-   Sorrrry....
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Or "Beef and Wild Mushroom Stew"....?

Meals like those, can help us more-like cold Jan. weather.  So can curling up in a comfy chair, with a cup of something hot, and perhaps a nice, plump novel.   While around you, your home looks cozy and warm and welcoming.  A fire in the fireplace...  (Or a dvd fireplace, on the tv)   Guess the trick is.......  Thinking how delightful it feels, to be snug inside, when the temps are low, low, low outside.
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If one was lucky enough, to have a trunk full of quilts, they could be put around on furniture...  Making things look warm and cozy.  ~~~~~~~~~   And don't forget!!!  Remember to be grateful, that we have a roof over our heads, and food to keep us satisfied and warm...
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"It sifts from Leaden Sieves --
It powders all the Wood.
It fills with Alabaster Wool
The wrinkles of the Road."
~Emily Dickinson

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From a review:
"In this fourth Royal Spyness mystery, penniless Lady Georgiana Rannoch desperately seeks escape from both London and her dreadful relatives. Rescue comes from the queen, who asks Georgie to attend a royal wedding in Transylvania. Georgie is the thirty-fourth person in line for the English throne, but she’s also an old schoolmate of the bride, Princess Maria Theresa of Romania. Georgie hires a young, inexperienced Cockney woman to be her maid; meets....."

Great fun!!!  I highly recommend these books.  And come on, a royal wedding in Transylvania!  Who could resist such deliciousness?!?   ,-)
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