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Monday review of new pieces of jewellery

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Should I list these new pieces? (I'm linking up with Mellow Yellow Monday #90 , Smiling Sally's Blue Monday and The Work of the Poet's Ruby Tuesday .) These are stretch bracelets in the ususal fall colours, yellow-orange-red. You can were several on your wrist or... Or just one together with a watch or alone. This first patteren has a lot of different coloured glass beads in it. But I am also working on simpler patterns with one predominate colour, such as this yellow stretch bracelet: Another innovation is that I am stringing two sizes of glass seed beads (size 6 & size 8) to get a more varied texture in even one-coloured designs such as this entirely cobalt blue stretch bracelet: The most important fall colour this year is purple. Here are some stretch bracelets in colours that range between red and blue : And as with the yellow - orange - red bracelets, you can wear several or just the one: You have seen my latest 'skinny' stretch bracelets that I have ...

Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus-Week 23-'If I had a hammer...'

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Saturday, October 9, 2010 Saturday Centus - If I had a hammer... Later on October 17th: I've written two extra 'hammer-texts'. Please see them here. Welcome to week twenty-three of Saturday Centus. I'M SO, SO, SO SORRY! One of you sent me three or four wonderful prompts that I did not save to my E-mail SC folder. I searched all my files preparing this post and can't find them. Would you mind re-sending them to me? I promise to be more responsible this time. AND Can I just say...I love SC! It is distracting and fun and funny and uplifting and thoughtful and wonderful. It remains my favorite 'read' of the week and I appreciate each and every one of you who takes time to link. STOP! If you didn't read the end SC's from last week, please take a moment to do so. Just work backwards until you find out where you left off. I feel really bad that the people at the end don't get read. Thanks! Now on to regular SC b...

C is for Cactus - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday-Round 2 - C

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Photo Copyright Christina Wigren Today is Friday and high time to link to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday, Round 2, before the link is closed!!! This week we are looking at words that start with the letter C. My C-word is Cactus . As you can see in the very first picture, I am going to show you lots and lots of small and some larger cactus-plants, in an outside park. How is this possible? Photo Copyright Christina Wigren Where are we? Could it be true that my ship came in and we have taken a trip to some southern location? Spain? Arizona perhaps? No, dear friends, we have not even left our home town, Norrkoping. These cacti are planted temporarily in an outside park in Norrkoping, Sweden. (These shots were taken August 7th. When I post these photos, it is October 8th, and all of the cactus plants here have been moved inside to a special green house for the winter.) Photo Copyright Christina Wigren Here are Erik and Elisabet to prove it. We are not on a trip to some fa...

French Marshal Founded Dynasty in Sweden - French Obsession

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Photo Copyright Wikipedia This handsome Frenchman, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , (1763-1844) one of Napolean's marshals, was elected on the 21 August 1810 as heir presumptive of the Swedish throne. Photo Copyright Wikipedia He became Karl XIV Johan of Sweden and even Karl III Johan of Norway until Norway left the union with Sweden in 1905. Photo Copyright Wikipedia There is a statue of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in the park that is named after him, Photo Copyright Christina Wigren Carl Johan Park, in my hometown, Norrkoping. Photo Copyright Christina Wigren Carl XIV Johan (Charles XIV John) is the great, great, great, great-grandfather of the present king, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden . Who looks like this today: Photo Copyright Wikipedia And like this in 1950. Photo Copyright Wikipedia And here together with Queen Silvia. Photo Copyright Wikipedia Look at the family tree here . Photo Copyright Christina Wigren According to Wikipedia: Bernadotte, born in the town of Pau , in the provin...