tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36689139038594226672024-02-20T19:46:50.513-08:00So Many Books, So Little TimeEvery Good and Perfect Gift Comes from Above - - James 1:17
God blesses me every single day. He allows joy to find me at every turn. It is my job to see it.Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-44978650918426794972015-07-15T16:20:00.002-07:002015-07-15T16:29:01.314-07:00Just a few of my toys....<div style="text-align: center;">
I am just a little kid at heart and love old toys, dolls and the like. Here are some of my toys. </div>
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<br />Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-25154779914297429502015-07-15T15:40:00.001-07:002015-07-15T16:27:54.521-07:00My antique fair finds. <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once a month I like to visit our local antique fair. This month I found two vintage Fisher Price toys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like to collect vintage toys and am partial to the older wooden Fisher Price toys. I found the <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;">Jumbo Rolo Elephant </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(755) for 30.00 and the chair ride from the Amusement Park (932). The yellow chair is broken, but still good for 2.00. It is a part of a hard to find Little People set. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This season as an empty nester has been very insightful. My children are adults, and my focus is much more on myself; I have "discovered" some things about myself. The pervious post is about my learning differences. Finding out that there is a reason my brain works the way it does. That I am not dumb or inferior.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Most of my life I have equated being an introvert with being shy. Shy people are not as pleasing to our society. They are looked down upon. Just one more thing I felt inferior about, one more thing that made me different. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I am not shy, I am outgoing and friendly. But, I have always wondered about my need to be alone. Why is it that I can't be in a large group or crowd for long. While I complain about not having lots of close friends, I don't want to be with friends much of the time. I like/need to be alone. At a very early age my kids saw something in their mom. They recognized when I had reach maximum capacity, they used to say "You're full, aren't you, Mom". Meaning they could see me getting "spacey" at events or even after interacting with them all day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Find out what an introvert really is helps me "see" who I am. This is a definition I found.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">......Definition: Contrary to what most people think, an introvert is not simply a person who is shy. In fact, being shy has little to do with being an introvert! Shyness has an element of apprehension, nervousness and anxiety, and while an introvert may also be shy, introversion itself is not shyness. Basically, an introvert is a person who is energized by being alone and whose energy is drained by being around other people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Introverts are more concerned with the inner world of the mind. They enjoy thinking, exploring their thoughts and feelings. They often avoid social situations because being around people drains their energy. This is true even if they have good social skills. After being with people for any length of time, such as at a party, they need time alone to "recharge."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Being introspective, though, does not mean that an introvert never has conversations. However, those conversations are generally about ideas and concepts, not about what they consider the trivial matters of social small talk." http://giftedkids.about.com/od/glossary/g/introvert.htm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">It is very hard for me to speak openly about the
struggles I have endured because of my learning difficulties. I have shared these </span><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">struggles</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;"> personally with friends and family. Posted about it on my blog is a HUGE step for me. While I have very few blog followers, it still feels like I am putting it out there for the entire world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">For most of my life I have thought of myself
as stupid. I knew I was very smart about
some things, but there was a place, a very large place where I was stupid. I learned to compensate, I learned ways to
get around my struggles, to hide them from my peers. But there was and still is an underlining
fear of being “caught”. Of showing the
world how dumb I truly am…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am 59 and I still count on my
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am unable to do mental math. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t know my multiplication tables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For years I had a cheat sheet in my
checkbook, because I could not remember how to spell the numbers needed to
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">I avoid having to figure out tips at restaurants, because I am
terrified of not doing the math correctly. I can't </span><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">divide</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;"> the check so everyone knows what they owe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I never wanted to go bowling with friends for fear of having to keep
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;">I don’t play board games because almost all
of them have some math aspect, counting money, keeping track of cards,
etc. I also find </span><span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">concentrating on a board game for a length of time to be difficult. Don't even get me started on games of strategy.......</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.6pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I can’t “work” a ruler if it
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">While I don’t have an official diagnosis, I now know I
have dyscalculia. While talking with a girlfriend about the struggles her son
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I took a short test on a website. I realized for the first time in my life that
I wasn’t some inferior person. I was just struggling with something that
is so little known and so misunderstood that even the special education
departments in school weren’t aware. Ask
the average person on the street what dyslexia is and most of them will have at
least a general idea and acknowledge it as being a legitimate disorder. Ask
that same person about dyscalculia, and they will usually not have a clue what
you are talking about. When you try to explain, often they will just wave it
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But this is so much more than that. In high
school I took remedial math, struggled to pass it after two tries. In community college, I again took remedial
math. I knew I could never gain a degree higher then an A.A., as I would not be able to do the math needed. So I have two A.A. degrees, but no B.A. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I can’t really explain what it’s like to someone that
doesn’t have it, but imagine that every single time something having to do with
numbers comes up in your life, you freeze like a deer in headlights. Your brain
goes blank, you sweat, it is paralyzing, it is humiliating, and it feels so
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and I will always be different because of it.
Nobody should have to feel inferior because they have a mind that works
differently. I am not lazy, and I am not
making excuses. My disorder is legitimate and painful. But just knowing what I have is healing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Difficulty stating which of two numbers is
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Inability to comprehend financial planning or
budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of
the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Difficulty with multiplication-tables, and
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Difficulty with conceptualizing time and
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Difficulty navigating or mentally
"turning" the map to face the current direction rather than the
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Having particular difficulty mentally
estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is
10 or 20 feet (3 or 6 meters) away).</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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noise, smell, light and the inability to tune out, filtering unwanted
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-16473290329604441842015-06-12T19:09:00.001-07:002015-06-12T19:23:15.290-07:00The Murray Girls on the road......<br />
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My mom, sister and I had a wonderful trip to Washington. We did some antique-ing, some sightseeing, and some family visiting. We went to Farm Chicks Antique Show, tons of fun and treasures. We even won tickets to be a part of the visiting Antiques Road Show.</div>
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I love these little crepe paper party favors, i found at a Spokane antique store. I can't believe how carefully they must have been cared for to keep them in pristine condition. .45 was the original price. </div>
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We saw this at rest stop ~smile~ They really had 6 doggies, one being too tiny to jump up on the dashboard.</div>
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Bloomsday - a running sculpture in honor of the annual Spokane Bloomsday Run</div>
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Childhood Express - a 27 ft wagon with a handle as a slide</div>
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We took small items to have appraised. I brought two small boxes, both were determined to be small souvenirs of someone's European travels. Not very valuable, but I still like them.</div>
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My mom was pleasantly surprised by the appraisal of a vintage ring she wears.</div>
Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-33637511459976974632015-05-15T23:24:00.001-07:002015-06-12T19:23:41.569-07:00Flashback Friday - Scholastic Book Orders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was in grade school in the 60's. School was always a struggle due to some learning differences (I'm learning to rename and reclaim the term "learning disabilities").</div>
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A HUGE saving grace for me was reading/libraries. Books were a safe place for me. So Scholastic Book Orders still stands as a wonderful memory. The excitement over the little newspaper like flyers still fills my mind. </div>
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I found this example of a Scholastic order form online. It was found as a bookmark inside a paperback book. Oh the memories..... </div>
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This is a scan of one of the Scholastic book order books I have collected over the years. Of course, my copies went the way of garage sales during the past years. But sometime I see a book at the thrift store and the memory floods back....."Oh, I had that book". </div>
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-56323666298507348632015-05-01T22:31:00.000-07:002015-05-01T22:37:37.642-07:00I am typing this with one finger, on my left hand (I'm right handed)..........when I signed up for the Bead Hop, I didn't know I had rotator cuff surgery in my future. <br />
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I had surgery two days ago and still have a nerve block pump attached. The first days were really tough, as far as pain goes. Today was a bit better. I have a long road of recovery and therapy ahead. <br />
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I just signed up to be a part of the Bead Peeps Swap 2015. 300 artists from all over the world participate. </div>
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We all create with our new beads and then post on our blogs on May 2, 2015. </div>
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I have been back at the local community college for 4 years. Earned an AA in Art. </div>
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I was very honored to have an art piece accepted into the juried student show this last Fall. It was to be shown at the very well known Crocker Art Museum in my home town. Just being in the show was amazing, as there were about 200 entries and only 36 chosen. </div>
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I am so pleased and appreciative. </div>
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It is in honor of the written word, that is slowly disappearing to new technology. As a child, I have very fond memories of reading our World Book Encyclopedia It transported me to distant lands and taught me so much. I used the end pages of an old World Book Encyclopedia as the center focal piece.</div>
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There is quite a few hidden gems......a little window into a book, another book having a doorknob. The top surface is an old window and has library card catalog cards collaged all over. I drilled holes in all the books and threaded them on a threaded rod. The large book that serves as the base is a heavy piece of wood, a cardboard cover and the leather spine is made from a thrifted leather jacket.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I had the opportunity to experience glass blowing this last Saturday. My son gave me a gift of a glass blowing class. The teacher has over 20 years of experience. He did about 60 percent and left about 40 percent for me. Which seems about right since I didn't know anything about glass blowing. </span></div>
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It was a hot day and the kilns were so hot. I am glad this is not my full time job, </div>
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-22748993983792580502014-05-31T11:45:00.000-07:002014-05-31T12:36:12.073-07:00Tiny Books.........<div style="text-align: center;">
While I love all books, tiny books make my heart smile. I just recently put up this shelf area to display some of my collection. I find these mini books at thrift stores and flea markets. I usually don't buy them from antique stores as the price are too high for my thrifty soul. I look for books about the size of my palm or smaller. </div>
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I love this little postal scale. Just 2.00 at a local flea market</div>
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The set of Shakespeare books were found at a flea market. When I asked how much they were the seller said "Oh those are old, they are expensive" I asked how expensive. The answer? 5.00 for all 5 books. Yes, please, I'll take them.</div>
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These are not really mini books, but I love them. A desk set of address labels, photos corners and the like, only 4.00 at the flea market. Most of the boxes are full. Also the tiny children's card game sets, 1.00 each at the flea market.</div>
Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-65284736562140974052014-05-23T13:49:00.001-07:002014-05-24T08:40:38.629-07:00Akro Agate Tea SetsI have always loved the little Depression Era tea sets called Akro Agate. I found two sets at the thrift store for 20.00 each.<br />
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Not dirt cheap thrift store prices, but good enough when I have always wanted a set. I bought one for myself and my adult son bought the other for me for Mother's day. I set them up on one of the shelves in my Hoosier. Added a few books and vintage Scottie dogs I had on hand. Super cute.....<br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-12515957491327253522014-05-09T21:09:00.000-07:002014-05-09T21:09:23.604-07:00This is the third year I have been able to be a part of a very amazing Internet happening - the 8th Annual Bead Soup Blog Party. Folks from all over the world get paired up and exchange beads. Each sends a focal (sort of the centerpiece), a special clasp, and beads, beads, beads. We all design and create with our "Soup" Then posting our work on a specific day and time, we all start blog hopping to see the A.MAZ.ING creations. <br />
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This is all the made possible by the Herculean efforts of <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/">Lori Anderson</a>. She spends hours and hours putting it all together for our benefit. I want to send her the BIGGEST of THANKS!!<br />
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Here is the "Soup" I received from my partner, Theresa Buchle <a href="http://www.bead-mused.blogspot.com/">http://www.bead-mused.blogspot.com/</a> Be sure to drop in on her blog and see what she is up too.<br />
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She generously sent me two "soups" - One is built around rose quartz and the other around an ammonite and some jaspers and agates. She also included a little pair of earrings she made just for me. Those are made of niobium, copper, mookite, and glass.<br />
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And here is what I made with my delightful "soup".........I had an old worn vintage compact in my stash, and thought the little dragonfly Theresa sent would be perfect as my focal. Drilled some holes in the compact, attached the dragonfly, used some vintage pearls from my stash, mixed with the "soup" green stone beads to round it all out. I even created a little surprise inside the compact. I plan on storing little slips of paper with encouraging quotes inside the compact. Only I'll know what they say........until I decide to share ~~~smile~~~<br />
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I thought I'd link my two other "Bead Soups"<br />
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<a href="http://bookbug-somanybookssolittletime.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-necklace.html">2013 - Wisdom necklace</a><br />
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<a href="http://bookbug-somanybookssolittletime.blogspot.com/2012/07/this-necklace-was-made-using-vintage.html">2012 - Project # 1</a><br />
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<a href="http://bookbug-somanybookssolittletime.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-thought-clasp-looked-like-shells-so-i.html">2012 - Project # 2</a><br />
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Click here <a href="http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com//2014/04/welcome-to-8th-bead-soup-blog-party.html">to find all of the 2014 Bead Soup participants......</a><br />
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<br />Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com135tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-84036208940934584412014-05-08T14:21:00.001-07:002014-05-31T12:38:14.484-07:00Thrift Store (Find) Thursday......turns out my .99 old picture purchase is a colored engraving signed by Victor Valery.<br />
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A French artist, this piece is of Reims Cathedral in ruins after WWI. This "find" was in the bin of stuff waiting to be put on the shelves (Goodwill style) It had a bunch of stuff on top of it and I could barely see the corner of it. Something about the fading color caught my attention and I dug it out. So glad I did.<br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-64839557443362646952014-04-24T12:27:00.002-07:002014-04-24T12:27:54.703-07:00<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I found an interesting pieced history at the thrift store. A WWII Catholic metal cover (bulletproof) prayer book, cover reads '"<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">May The Lord Be With You". </i><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Internet research shows it </span>was intended to be kept over the soldiers hearts and could 'deflect' bullets from piercing the heart. Neat piece of history. Bears a stamped owner's name.....M. Woodbridge, 1949</span><br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-59473640630307793332014-04-19T20:24:00.004-07:002014-04-19T20:32:10.129-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">A new "old" treasure. The Rational Method in Reading. A Manual of Instruction for Teachers.......1894 original copyright date, this book is a 1907 edition.</span><br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-55108641735012851412014-03-28T19:38:00.000-07:002014-03-28T19:44:23.410-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
My newest thrift store find......Kitchen Gardens, illustrated by Tasha Tudor. I have been looking for it for a while. Some color plates and many black and white illustrations. I have been looking for it awhile. Glad to have found it.</div>
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-39127497464413150792014-03-15T13:21:00.000-07:002014-03-15T13:22:12.454-07:00Found last week at a local antique fair - - the street sign of the street my family lived on while I was in 3rd and 4th grade. The dealer said she bought it at a garage sale at the house on the corner of Stanley and California. My house was next door to the garage sale house.<br />
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I just had to have it. It makes me smile.....<br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-30612268233733610642014-03-05T22:20:00.002-08:002014-03-05T22:22:13.115-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">My newest thrift store book treasure.....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Titled - "Better Say" a book of helpful suggestions for the correct use of English words and phrases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">It is a small, pamphlet like book, just 34 pages. I guess in 1909, there were but a few wo</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 18px;">rds that needed corrections </span></span><br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-28300226288974212112014-03-05T22:06:00.000-08:002014-03-05T22:21:59.738-08:00<span style="font-family: inherit;">My latest art endeavor.....a college class in watercolor. Just a beginner, but, I love learning new things and I like watercolor</span>. <br />
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Bookbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13821267084665679829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668913903859422667.post-68024168116826009032014-02-03T19:32:00.002-08:002014-03-05T22:25:06.317-08:00This is an altar I made in honor and memory of the printed word.......it is titled Disappearing Ink {Requiem for the Printed Word}<br />
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A requiem is defined as a mass for a deceased person. While the printed word, i.e.: books are not completely dead, the printed word is dying a slow death. <br />
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As a child I spent hours reading the encyclopedia, The Book of Knowledge. It was a dear friend. I get nostalgic even seeing the end pages. (I used them as the center focus of the altar) So much time spent learning about the world in the pages of National Geographic. Books were a window into other worlds, they opened doors……<br />
So many memories of getting lost in a good book that became a friend.<br />
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Those days are gone; the online world has and will continue to change our world concerning the printed word.<br />
Rest in Peace, oh much loved book-friends. You will be missed.....<br />
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I used gesso and cheese cloth to cover an old bottle. I formed the cheese cloth in rough folds and also made a small frame like spot on the front. After it dried, I painted it with various acrylic paints. Using both a wash (very water down paint) and also dry brush (very little paint on the brushes) Used matte medium to collage the image of a young woman. I use Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments to give it all a luster and shine.
Used Glossy Accents (glue) to attach some glass beads and a small piece of vintage jewelry. I decorated the cork with some more vintage jewelry. Attached some dangles and a ribbon.
I am pleased with it, and look forward to another altered bottle.
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