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Mellow Yellow Monday #58 - A yellow cat?

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"We're called red cats, but our fur is kinda yellowish." Calle Cat likes to lie on the window ledge where it is warm and cosy. Happy Mellow Yellow Monday! Anna (and Calle Cat) First Commenter: Ann of Ann's Snap Edit Scrap

Thanks to February's top-droppers & Advertisers on my widget

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Forgive me for doing this the easy way, while I try to catch up on the time I missed when my modem was broken in January. First, I would like to thank everyone who took the time to write cheery comments when I could hardly write anything at all on this blog! Here I would like to thank all those who dropped EC-cards on my widget the last 31 days and especially those tirelessly loyal top ten droppers for the month of February. Please visit these interesting webpages: Dropper # of drops My gypsygoods 31 Ruth's Creations 30 Sparkle 30

PhotoHunt Theme # 202 "Daily"

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This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Daily". These photos show the result of the daily changes in temperature this time of year. The first photo is from about a week ago when temperatures remained well under zero degrees Celsius (under 32 degrees Farenheit). And here, we see what happens when the temperture rises above freezing for just one day. The thick layer of snow on the overhanging roof behind the garage fell and turned upside down revealing the imprinted pattern of the corrugated roof. Happy Weekend! Anna First Commenter: Alice Audrey PhotoHunt

AlphabeThursday -" F" as in "FINDING / FINDINGS"

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I t's Thursday and time for this week's edition of Mrs. Matlock's Alphbe-Thursday's letter "F". After deciding not to choose the f-words, "fiddle" or "friend" or "frozen" or "full" or even "fictitious"; words that would be interesting to explore, I have chosen a word with its specific meaning and usage within jewellery-making. My F-word is FINDING. The word "finding" is already and more commonly used to mean "1. [usually plural] information that is discovered as a result of research in something: The findings of the commission will be published today. 2.(law) a decision made by thr judge or jury in a court case (Please see Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English 1997, page 575). Within jewellery-making FINDINGS are all of the parts of a piece of jewellery, mostly metal parts, that hold it together, hold all of the decorative and colourful non-metal parts, such as glass beads,

Wordless Wednesday - Two White Necklaces

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Which necklace do you like best? The mother-of-pearl coin beads are exactly the same in both. It is the spacer-beads that make the difference. Happy Wordlessness! Anna First Commenter: Ann of Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap

Ruby Tuesday - More red plant-inspired jewellery ! (Part II)

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For last week's Ruby Tuesday I showed a red and green beaded necklace (click here to see it again) that I made to look a little bit like rose hips. This week I will continue to show some of my efforts to make plant-inspired jewellery. Here is a bracelet made with an antiqued brass chain with 10mm links with the same bright red beads from India that I used for last week's necklace. But instead of stringing the red beads and glass leaves in a row, the "rose hips" hang individually more like the way they do from branches of a rose bush. This time I am using olive green Czech pressed glass leaf beads to hang on the bracelet as charms. Making bracelets is a real challange, because like rings, they are constantly seen by the wearer herself. Maybe this is why I began making necklaces . But I am that glad I have finally started to make bracelets. It's fun! We can call this is a work in progress. Again, this is a piece that I have not yet listed in a shop. Should I mak

Yellow Mellow Monday #57-Yellow Earrings & A Yellow Garage

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So that we all have some spring fashion to look forward to, here are a pair of yellow candy earrings modelled by Elisabet. But for now, this is the sort of "mellow yellow" we will see for a few more weeks! Happy Mellow Yellow Monday! Anna To see other MYM-posts click on the yellow butterfly image: First commenter: black eyed susans kitchen

Lots of snow & many thanks to EC-advertisers while my modem did not work

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This is the view from my kitchen window. It was -17 degrees Celcius at 10 am. Today I would like to catch up on some unfinished business: For different reasons, I have not been able to keep up with the good habit that Clara Drummund of Coming Back To Life has taught me, that is, to thank my EC-advertisers once a week and give them an extra link. The last time I have such a post was in January 3rd. After that, I started having big problems with my computer and finally my modem broke, which made it very really hard to get on line for several weeks. I finally did get my modem repaired (or rather replaced) and have been trying to post as often as I can. (I had to abandon my plans to do the NaBloPoMo-challenge for February.) I woulod like to thank those I can, even if there is a five-day gap when I could not get online and not go to the library and use a computer there. Nothing to do but carry on! Visit these blogging friends who had their card on my widget: Monday, January 4th - Yum

PhotoHunt theme # 201 "Cuddly"

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This week's PhotoHunt theme # 201 is "Cuddly". My question to you folks is, in this menagery of books and cuddly-toys, where is the kitty? Last I woke up last Sunday morning to find Sara nessled in among the children's various toys and books that found their way into the old crib, that Sara has adopted as one of her napping places. (Sorry about the focus; it was a quick, handheld shot.) Happy Weekend! Anna PhotoHunt

Should children be allowed to have their ears pierced?

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I received an interesting comment from Jenny Matlock yesterday on my Alphabe-Thursday "E, as in Earrings"-post yesterday. In response to my photo with piles of earrings with ear wires, Jenny Matlock writes: "Beautiful earrings. My granddaughters are drooling over some "dangly" earrings but they are so young. Do you make anything suitable for an eight year old?" Yes I do. I make earrings with screwback-findings for children and young people as well as adults like myself who do not have pierced ears. I do not approve of piercing the ears of children. I don't even like young teens having pierced ears. But if I don't approve of piercing the ears of children, why do I make and sell posts and earwires? I do this because there is a market for them, because so many woman want them. If an adult woman already has pierced ears and would like to buy earwires, I would be a fool to not accommadate her. I sell sterling silver ear wires and think about good hy

Alphabe-Thursday-"E" as in "Earrings"

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For today's meme, Jenny Matlock's "Alphabe-Thursday" the letter is "E" as in "EARRINGS". Here is a sampling of my own handmade earrings, most of them are not yet listed in my shops. (Double-click and get a closer view! Let me know if anything strikes your fancy!) Happy Alphabe-Thursday! Anna

Ruby Tuesday: Plant-inspired red jewellery: rose hips, Part I

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For this week's Ruby Tuesday I will continue to show diferent pieces of my jewellery, this time in red! It may be the wrong time of year for red, as it is no longer Valentine's Day, and Christmas is far behind us. And rose hips are not ready for picking until late summer or early fall. But I really like these red fruits and have been trying to make pieces of jewellery that look something like rose hips. So for Ruby Tuesday I would like to explo re some of the possibilities for rose hip-inspir ed jewellery. This red neckla ce was first listed in my Etsy s hop, "parltradet" until I decided to only sell stretch-jewellery there and moved it over to my newer Etsy shop, "Anna's Adornments". It is supposed to look like rose hips. But does it? What do they really look like? This is jewellery and not botany, so poetic license permits a less than perfect true-to-nature interpretation. But for the sake of comparison here is a photo from last summer showing a garde

Blue on Monday

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Today is Monday and in keeping with "Blue Monday Meme" this post will have lots of blue in it! As I said yesterday, from now on, there will be new jewellery on every post, including posts with memes. Here is a photo of a place you may have seen before if you are aquainted with Anna's blog. It was a Blue Monday-post and the photo was taken earlier in the fall of 2009. It's our neighbor's blue garden furniture. And now, here is the same scene, taken just a few days ago in February 2010! And here are the chairs again, from an other angle. They certainly are buried in snow! But we are not finished yet. Here are some cool blue and white necklaces that might be nice to wear in spring and summer : The first three are stretch necklaces with glass beads, Czech pressed glass and Chinese cat's eye glass beads, millifiori (a thousand flowers) glass beads of unknown origin, and some Chinese porcelain beads with good luck symbols on them . I am also using clear seedbeads