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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:23:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>vintage</category><category>ribbon roses</category><category>shopping</category><category>screen printing</category><category>Yudu</category><category>soft sculpture</category><category>Wallwords</category><category>gifts</category><category>bird's nests</category><category>arts and crafts</category><category>tea staining</category><category>vignettes</category><category>white chocolate food gifts</category><category>nests and birds</category><category>old music</category><category>church set design</category><category>contest</category><category>paint</category><category>Country Living Magazine</category><category>ephemera</category><category>Vintage Barn</category><category>Wee Be Bunnies</category><category>Farm Chicks show</category><category>children</category><category>baby shower</category><category>dressers</category><category>stencils</category><category>parties</category><category>graphics</category><category>souveniers</category><category>popcorn</category><category>website</category><category>crafts</category><category>wreaths</category><category>jewelry</category><category>Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure</category><category>paper dolls</category><category>friendship</category><category>Valentine's Day</category><category>Jim Custer Enterprises</category><category>welcome home</category><category>words</category><category>giveaway</category><category>Susan Branch</category><category>rabbits</category><category>altered art</category><category>invitations</category><category>Remnants of the Past</category><category>collections</category><category>cloche</category><category>mixed media</category><category>bathrooms</category><category>new years resolutions</category><title>up in the attic</title><description>a place to go for inspiration and to dream.....</description><link>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>146</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/KxNA" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/kxna" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>blogspot/KxNA</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-2870626894914698537</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-28T16:26:15.297-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mixed media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Remnants of the Past</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">altered art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">words</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Farm Chicks show</category><title>coming soon to a show near you...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My daughter once gave me a little bottle that she had received at a &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Women's Retreat years ago. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QFJZOdhLmd8/T5xv3PhmKaI/AAAAAAAACgE/bmsppr65CN0/s1600/BOTTLE+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QFJZOdhLmd8/T5xv3PhmKaI/AAAAAAAACgE/bmsppr65CN0/s400/BOTTLE+6.JPG" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;For a long time I have been wanting to design something using the same idea....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So I finally sat down and did just that:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f31aCyv3hU4/T5x6sc2ovYI/AAAAAAAACgg/WQp2uNx403g/s1600/bottle+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f31aCyv3hU4/T5x6sc2ovYI/AAAAAAAACgg/WQp2uNx403g/s640/bottle+3.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;What do you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MXMwhfYp1hc/T5x7UETWh_I/AAAAAAAACgo/EDTDHrkKTSE/s1600/bottle+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="388" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MXMwhfYp1hc/T5x7UETWh_I/AAAAAAAACgo/EDTDHrkKTSE/s640/bottle+1.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It hangs on an extra long chain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u5hVKicWtxM/T5xsW39qXTI/AAAAAAAACfw/g8jjsdJaqdQ/s1600/BOTTLE+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u5hVKicWtxM/T5xsW39qXTI/AAAAAAAACfw/g8jjsdJaqdQ/s320/BOTTLE+4.jpg" width="166" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(That's a sweet miniature cuckoo clock....get it?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I have a couple of other quotes to choose from...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MVAM4f4yLJ4/T5x6mpB5zsI/AAAAAAAACgY/2spqa6pNB40/s1600/bottle+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MVAM4f4yLJ4/T5x6mpB5zsI/AAAAAAAACgY/2spqa6pNB40/s400/bottle+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;...but you will have to come to either &lt;a href="http://thefarmchicks.com/show.html" target="_blank"&gt;Farm Chicks&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://remnantsofthepast.com/about.html" target="_blank"&gt;Remnants of the Past&lt;/a&gt; in a few weeks to see what they are...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Until then...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-2870626894914698537?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/Vg96gAwxkZg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/Vg96gAwxkZg/coming-soon-to-show-near-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QFJZOdhLmd8/T5xv3PhmKaI/AAAAAAAACgE/bmsppr65CN0/s72-c/BOTTLE+6.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/04/coming-soon-to-show-near-you.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-2685577402624139114</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-21T13:23:35.249-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Remnants of the Past</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Farm Chicks show</category><title>Being in two places at the same time.</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I know it has (again) been ages since I posted, but I want you to know I'm still alive and well and&amp;nbsp;spending as much time&amp;nbsp;as I can in the attic...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I'm gearing up for two shows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Both the same weekend - June 2,3.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;One in Spokane, Wa. and one in San Luis Obispo, Ca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I will be attending&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://thefarmchicks.com/show.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Farm Chicks Antiques Show&lt;/a&gt; in Spokane&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3yQB6GIagxQ/T5MIB84npAI/AAAAAAAACek/rNVVOkykAi0/s1600/Farm+Chicks+2012.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" qda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3yQB6GIagxQ/T5MIB84npAI/AAAAAAAACek/rNVVOkykAi0/s640/Farm+Chicks+2012.bmp" width="436" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and my friend and sale rep extrodinaire Kriste&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36kr_Fx5jYg/TJjrTCzFbMI/AAAAAAAAB00/_y8kABkcBrI/s1600/barn7+Kriste.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" qda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36kr_Fx5jYg/TJjrTCzFbMI/AAAAAAAAB00/_y8kABkcBrI/s320/barn7+Kriste.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;will be be schlepping my wares to&lt;a href="http://remnantsofthepast.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Remnants of the Past&lt;/a&gt; in SLO...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y1_HdgPSiY/T5MIFQVIb_I/AAAAAAAACes/-n-t5CyjnUE/s1600/ROTP+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" qda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y1_HdgPSiY/T5MIFQVIb_I/AAAAAAAACes/-n-t5CyjnUE/s640/ROTP+logo.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Here is a&amp;nbsp;tiny&amp;nbsp;hint&amp;nbsp;about what I have been tinkering with in my attic...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tYIBzVhJ7z4/T5MXL9t03SI/AAAAAAAACfM/EnmV8RXQqnk/s1600/MICKEY+3+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" qda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tYIBzVhJ7z4/T5MXL9t03SI/AAAAAAAACfM/EnmV8RXQqnk/s320/MICKEY+3+cropped.jpg" width="274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Need another hint????&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uvqGzRFpXKA/T5MBqOdvOhI/AAAAAAAACd0/-6Hs28tjdr8/s1600/IMG_0907.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" qda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uvqGzRFpXKA/T5MBqOdvOhI/AAAAAAAACd0/-6Hs28tjdr8/s640/IMG_0907.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4e3vkkJRhEU/T5MB21DmGzI/AAAAAAAACeE/x2Pu57u-7xo/s1600/IMG_0908.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" qda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4e3vkkJRhEU/T5MB21DmGzI/AAAAAAAACeE/x2Pu57u-7xo/s640/IMG_0908.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IfGNgD9GjLk/T5MCBk1bJnI/AAAAAAAACeU/fcVgilfwRy4/s1600/IMG_0910.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" qda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IfGNgD9GjLk/T5MCBk1bJnI/AAAAAAAACeU/fcVgilfwRy4/s640/IMG_0910.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These will be at both shows, so stop by and see &lt;em&gt;me if you're in the Northwest&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Kriste if you happen to find yourself on the beautiful Central Coast of California.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And don't forget, Dennis's&amp;nbsp;fabulous work...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rzVNKv9jKMw/T5MViqQHKUI/AAAAAAAACfE/kQGhsMe-AKc/s1600/IMG_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" qda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rzVNKv9jKMw/T5MViqQHKUI/AAAAAAAACfE/kQGhsMe-AKc/s640/IMG_0008.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;will be featured at Farm Chicks as well!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve, so stay tuned...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-2685577402624139114?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/zvI4RNF3_OM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/zvI4RNF3_OM/i-know-it-has-again-been-ages-since-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3yQB6GIagxQ/T5MIB84npAI/AAAAAAAACek/rNVVOkykAi0/s72-c/Farm+Chicks+2012.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-know-it-has-again-been-ages-since-i.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-2410717008084256529</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-11T13:04:47.139-08:00</atom:updated><title>getting ready for Farm Chicks...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We are so excited to be participating in the wonderful &lt;a href="http://thefarmchicks.com/show.html"&gt;Farm Chicks Vintage Show &lt;/a&gt;again this year...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Last year Dennis was contacted by someone who saw all of his fabulous cedar furniture at the last Farm Chicks in Spokane, Wa. They were planning on stripping the ancient cedar siding from their home and wondered if Dennis would be interested in taking it off their hands...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ummm...YES PLEASE!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;He went over&amp;nbsp;to Spokane to see what they had,&amp;nbsp;and after two full days of picking through and hauling he had a stash of weathered cedar to 'play' with.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Check out what he has been working on:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1HyuUiOZfE/TzbTFduX_yI/AAAAAAAACdc/1d2tmMP5oiU/s1600/IMG_0608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1HyuUiOZfE/TzbTFduX_yI/AAAAAAAACdc/1d2tmMP5oiU/s640/IMG_0608.JPG" width="594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I painted the drawer numbers...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jxGAaAWLlhg/TzbK3UWPZ-I/AAAAAAAACcc/Kl2eVOObiJ0/s1600/IMG_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jxGAaAWLlhg/TzbK3UWPZ-I/AAAAAAAACcc/Kl2eVOObiJ0/s640/IMG_0008.JPG" width="476" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Isn't this clever? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8oD_gTJoaIA/TzbKztpg-_I/AAAAAAAACcU/EHhb0kSVYdU/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8oD_gTJoaIA/TzbKztpg-_I/AAAAAAAACcU/EHhb0kSVYdU/s640/IMG_0005.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zB9ngjp4VnQ/TzbK5aupabI/AAAAAAAACck/VJaRp9kuli4/s1600/IMG_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zB9ngjp4VnQ/TzbK5aupabI/AAAAAAAACck/VJaRp9kuli4/s640/IMG_0006.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;LOVE the hardware cloth instead of glass.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOTmFJmawzU/TzbK8E0U6VI/AAAAAAAACcs/6jzEBprZhOM/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOTmFJmawzU/TzbK8E0U6VI/AAAAAAAACcs/6jzEBprZhOM/s640/IMG_0007.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;How about this sweet pie safe???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FDIe2e7sKcM/TzbLAHEAIiI/AAAAAAAACc0/-Q7Knp-8xew/s1600/IMG_0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FDIe2e7sKcM/TzbLAHEAIiI/AAAAAAAACc0/-Q7Knp-8xew/s640/IMG_0010.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oORFyG216yU/TzbLL12HNDI/AAAAAAAACc8/9JKOkMhr9ec/s1600/IMG_0011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oORFyG216yU/TzbLL12HNDI/AAAAAAAACc8/9JKOkMhr9ec/s640/IMG_0011.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2uvKVMLIPI/TzbLNsRnVfI/AAAAAAAACdE/jzjthLZjzE4/s1600/IMG_0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2uvKVMLIPI/TzbLNsRnVfI/AAAAAAAACdE/jzjthLZjzE4/s640/IMG_0012.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-msj70DZM84c/TzbLQAhEXYI/AAAAAAAACdM/D8wL5Zddh9c/s1600/IMG_0013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-msj70DZM84c/TzbLQAhEXYI/AAAAAAAACdM/D8wL5Zddh9c/s400/IMG_0013.JPG" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And a fabulous console table.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5JxfBNC6ItU/TzbLR4qjbwI/AAAAAAAACdU/p0blpFpjPvI/s1600/IMG_0014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5JxfBNC6ItU/TzbLR4qjbwI/AAAAAAAACdU/p0blpFpjPvI/s640/IMG_0014.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I just think these are dandy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;He's got lots more up his sleeve so stay tuned...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hWZ5I9BbuG4/TzbWw6QnYxI/AAAAAAAACdk/SsmIiaafuaA/s1600/Farm+Chicks.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hWZ5I9BbuG4/TzbWw6QnYxI/AAAAAAAACdk/SsmIiaafuaA/s1600/Farm+Chicks.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;...and start making your plans NOW for this incredible show!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Stay warm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-2410717008084256529?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/-qkOsIFDnmw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/-qkOsIFDnmw/getting-ready-for-farm-chicks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V1HyuUiOZfE/TzbTFduX_yI/AAAAAAAACdc/1d2tmMP5oiU/s72-c/IMG_0608.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-ready-for-farm-chicks.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-667274563268250100</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-31T08:27:54.360-08:00</atom:updated><title>words to live by...</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy New Year...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thought I'd squeeze in a little post before&amp;nbsp;this month&amp;nbsp;leaves us. It's still ok to wish you a Happy New Year if it's still technically January, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I decided on my &lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2010/12/time-to-name-your-yearagain.html"&gt;Word of the Year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2010/12/time-to-name-your-yearagain.html"&gt;Last year&lt;/a&gt; I chose the word "open".﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Boy, did I pick the right word.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I wanted to be open to anything God had in mind for me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I now work a 40 hour week in a job I am passionate about&amp;nbsp;and you have to&amp;nbsp;believe me, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; saw coming.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So this year?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I need DISCIPLINE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;With so little free time now, I need to discipline myself in every area...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;How I exercise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;How I sleep.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Who I spend time with.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Creating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What I put in my mouth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What comes out of my &lt;strike&gt;heart&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;mouth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What I watch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What I read.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;How I pray.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6q-XHkiJBNg/TygSua_-i6I/AAAAAAAACbc/x6Hwys6c0AI/s1600/Words+To+Live+By+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6q-XHkiJBNg/TygSua_-i6I/AAAAAAAACbc/x6Hwys6c0AI/s640/Words+To+Live+By+006.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Forget the fact that I downed an entire&amp;nbsp;brick of cheese immediately after deciding on this word.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I'm a work in process....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0_KYjVwe7wo/TygTYcKF1CI/AAAAAAAACbs/67_cgTMC0w4/s1600/Words+To+Live+By+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0_KYjVwe7wo/TygTYcKF1CI/AAAAAAAACbs/67_cgTMC0w4/s640/Words+To+Live+By+008.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I just received an order from a&amp;nbsp;customer who had a group of her friends and family name their year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Q3GJtDrevY/TygTgjErp1I/AAAAAAAACb0/EA_DVgJDV4o/s1600/Words+To+Live+By+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Q3GJtDrevY/TygTgjErp1I/AAAAAAAACb0/EA_DVgJDV4o/s400/Words+To+Live+By+001.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She added scriptures to the back...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1adIeqmB3ss/TygTmS0aN9I/AAAAAAAACb8/lvXK0Fb6BVM/s1600/Words+To+Live+By+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1adIeqmB3ss/TygTmS0aN9I/AAAAAAAACb8/lvXK0Fb6BVM/s640/Words+To+Live+By+009.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Do YOU have a word or scripture that you want to 'become' this year???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0cIVGDVFfMw/TygTtIsOWtI/AAAAAAAACcE/mccpd0ds3IY/s1600/Words+To+Live+By+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0cIVGDVFfMw/TygTtIsOWtI/AAAAAAAACcE/mccpd0ds3IY/s320/Words+To+Live+By+010.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Stay warm,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-667274563268250100?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/-wvN_OhG1tc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/-wvN_OhG1tc/words-to-live-by.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6q-XHkiJBNg/TygSua_-i6I/AAAAAAAACbc/x6Hwys6c0AI/s72-c/Words+To+Live+By+006.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/01/words-to-live-by.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-1272870633301046279</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-11T12:12:49.698-08:00</atom:updated><title>I HEART Susan Branch...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Well here it is...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xriM89LYMQU/Twspl_pcWcI/AAAAAAAACaw/-Sb9Tdj_bNo/s1600/Susan+Branch+heart+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xriM89LYMQU/Twspl_pcWcI/AAAAAAAACaw/-Sb9Tdj_bNo/s400/Susan+Branch+heart+003.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A heart with a little one in it...original&amp;nbsp;artwork by Susan Branch...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ABsT84S5mUc/TwspsWtqRFI/AAAAAAAACa4/30f8p4bFtxw/s1600/Susan+Branch+heart+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ABsT84S5mUc/TwspsWtqRFI/AAAAAAAACa4/30f8p4bFtxw/s400/Susan+Branch+heart+004.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And a sweet poem on the back&amp;nbsp;by &lt;a href="http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/749/"&gt;Nancy Luce&lt;/a&gt; in Susan's own&amp;nbsp;lovely handwriting you've come to love...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PbvWW9mbMGI/TwspzR9DqCI/AAAAAAAACbA/MR1oFFHftII/s1600/Susan+Branch+heart+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PbvWW9mbMGI/TwspzR9DqCI/AAAAAAAACbA/MR1oFFHftII/s400/Susan+Branch+heart+005.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All sandwiched between beautiful, puffy glass and soldered by me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ju2t64FQ__U/Twsp5QKfhYI/AAAAAAAACbI/smQISb8J7aM/s1600/Susan+Branch+heart+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ju2t64FQ__U/Twsp5QKfhYI/AAAAAAAACbI/smQISb8J7aM/s640/Susan+Branch+heart+011.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Sweet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You can only get them on &lt;a href="http://www.susanbranch.com/"&gt;Susan Branch's website&amp;nbsp;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vW8SChBNYTQ/Tw3pm45fa0I/AAAAAAAACbQ/QcqBlDTEyuo/s1600/necklace+front+and+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="382" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vW8SChBNYTQ/Tw3pm45fa0I/AAAAAAAACbQ/QcqBlDTEyuo/s640/necklace+front+and+back.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So go on over and check them out - &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Love,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-1272870633301046279?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/d1MwS3nAKz4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/d1MwS3nAKz4/i-heart-susan-branch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xriM89LYMQU/Twspl_pcWcI/AAAAAAAACaw/-Sb9Tdj_bNo/s72-c/Susan+Branch+heart+003.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-heart-susan-branch.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-154237994110011883</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-09T09:49:14.100-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Susan Branch</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">arts and crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">friendship</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shopping</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jewelry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Valentine's Day</category><title>Happy New Year....what's new?!!!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Shocking though it may be, I am finally blogging again! The reason I haven't been posting more in the past several months, is not only that I have been working a 40 hour/week job (that I love...) but I haven't had much to share. I spend hardly any time in the attic any more - which does NOT mean I am not creating. I have been immersed in the world of set design, which is something I am passionate about. (The minute I get some good pictures, I will share what I worked on for Christmas Eve services. It was definitely 'smoke 'n mirrors' on steroids!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But today I have something pretty sweet to tell you about...I have been in the attic the past week or so working on a lovely little design for my friend &lt;a href="http://www.susanbranch.com/"&gt;Susan Branch&lt;/a&gt;.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EM_Cs4VODGk/TwjlpcV9_NI/AAAAAAAACaA/LlxI-EFvebg/s1600/susan+branch.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EM_Cs4VODGk/TwjlpcV9_NI/AAAAAAAACaA/LlxI-EFvebg/s400/susan+branch.bmp" width="370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This week she unveils her latest offering for Valentine's Day....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PwC4mWyyS1M/TwsoGTDO8bI/AAAAAAAACao/klRRv51wb9c/s1600/Susan+Branch+heart+004+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="566" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PwC4mWyyS1M/TwsoGTDO8bI/AAAAAAAACao/klRRv51wb9c/s640/Susan+Branch+heart+004+cropped.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested????&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stay tuned.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-154237994110011883?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/E90WjAsralQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/E90WjAsralQ/happy-new-yearwhats-new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EM_Cs4VODGk/TwjlpcV9_NI/AAAAAAAACaA/LlxI-EFvebg/s72-c/susan+branch.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-new-yearwhats-new.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-1673454466841451132</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-30T10:07:30.883-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">arts and crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Remnants of the Past</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jewelry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Farm Chicks show</category><title>missed me?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think the last time I posted (FOUR MONTHS AGO!!!)&amp;nbsp;I told you that I'd recently started working again. Full time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I naively thought I would just keep chugging right along, posting here, soldering there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Silly me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I have resurfaced to tell you that I am indeed still designing my jewelry and in fact, I am preparing to leave for California and the wonderful &lt;a href="http://remnantsofthepast.com/home.html"&gt;Remnants of the Past Vintage Show&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here is a small sample of what you will see in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Space #20&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pammy's Attic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0SlZuPgZTE/ToXySvGZd_I/AAAAAAAACZo/O1XO1y4dmDY/s1600/Fall+ROTP+preview.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0SlZuPgZTE/ToXySvGZd_I/AAAAAAAACZo/O1XO1y4dmDY/s640/Fall+ROTP+preview.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWHaxKqqJEE/ToXzmr_mfPI/AAAAAAAACZs/SEGY0tqweq8/s1600/pumpkins1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWHaxKqqJEE/ToXzmr_mfPI/AAAAAAAACZs/SEGY0tqweq8/s400/pumpkins1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4qvlBkzPmh0/ToXz_Wst1yI/AAAAAAAACZw/lxbZlZJDS-s/s1600/Santa+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4qvlBkzPmh0/ToXz_Wst1yI/AAAAAAAACZw/lxbZlZJDS-s/s640/Santa+1.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJt7TzHksj0/ToX1GCrn9KI/AAAAAAAACZ0/ZwKVNC2ZCsU/s1600/QueenB.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJt7TzHksj0/ToX1GCrn9KI/AAAAAAAACZ0/ZwKVNC2ZCsU/s640/QueenB.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hfb1oymw1pQ/ToX1PDF1yKI/AAAAAAAACZ4/Uu6_n0LiDU4/s1600/Queen2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hfb1oymw1pQ/ToX1PDF1yKI/AAAAAAAACZ4/Uu6_n0LiDU4/s1600/Queen2.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdFr-VfzFbI/ToX1RGzqaJI/AAAAAAAACZ8/udylzxTH0IA/s1600/Queen1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdFr-VfzFbI/ToX1RGzqaJI/AAAAAAAACZ8/udylzxTH0IA/s1600/Queen1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lIw4L_mW-x4/TeZPRIBe4bI/AAAAAAAACY8/d_lsU96RMr4/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lIw4L_mW-x4/TeZPRIBe4bI/AAAAAAAACY8/d_lsU96RMr4/s640/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+009.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqVss0kJfuM/TeZPXjDZveI/AAAAAAAACZA/W6tLJzoxQlI/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqVss0kJfuM/TeZPXjDZveI/AAAAAAAACZA/W6tLJzoxQlI/s640/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+007.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ajKeXAZy-4s/TeZPeO2sz1I/AAAAAAAACZE/DRgfGnxng4w/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ajKeXAZy-4s/TeZPeO2sz1I/AAAAAAAACZE/DRgfGnxng4w/s400/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+010.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really hope you are planning on coming to this show - it is on Rachael Ashwell's Top Flea Market lists, and because of the mass of humanity that came last spring, it has moved to the Madonna Expo Center.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;By the way, Farm Chicks was amazing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A record breaker for us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh yeah, and....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I LOVE my job!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I am hoping to share more about that soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Until then, thanks for hanging in there while I learn how to&amp;nbsp;spin&amp;nbsp;several&amp;nbsp; plates at once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Take care - hope to see you soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-1673454466841451132?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/zNagqJOw4-8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/zNagqJOw4-8/missed-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r0SlZuPgZTE/ToXySvGZd_I/AAAAAAAACZo/O1XO1y4dmDY/s72-c/Fall+ROTP+preview.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/09/missed-me.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-8908547668311277346</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-01T07:52:38.470-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Farm Chicks show</category><title>FARM CHICKS!</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Where have I been?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I GOT A JOB!﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Yep, I real job.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;More on that later, because it's a really cool opportunity and I don't want to gloss over &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ANY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;But I have also been busy getting ready for Farm Chicks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THREE DAYS AWAY!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here's a sneak peek on one of the new designs I am very excited about....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lIw4L_mW-x4/TeZPRIBe4bI/AAAAAAAACY8/d_lsU96RMr4/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lIw4L_mW-x4/TeZPRIBe4bI/AAAAAAAACY8/d_lsU96RMr4/s640/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+009.JPG" t8="true" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;BOOK MARKS!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqVss0kJfuM/TeZPXjDZveI/AAAAAAAACZA/W6tLJzoxQlI/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqVss0kJfuM/TeZPXjDZveI/AAAAAAAACZA/W6tLJzoxQlI/s640/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+007.JPG" t8="true" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ajKeXAZy-4s/TeZPeO2sz1I/AAAAAAAACZE/DRgfGnxng4w/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ajKeXAZy-4s/TeZPeO2sz1I/AAAAAAAACZE/DRgfGnxng4w/s400/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+010.JPG" t8="true" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nk86B0MULMQ/TeZPllUlBFI/AAAAAAAACZI/yu0-h2cAY4M/s1600/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nk86B0MULMQ/TeZPllUlBFI/AAAAAAAACZI/yu0-h2cAY4M/s640/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+011.JPG" t8="true" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;10 different sentiments....the PERFECT gift for teachers and grads!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Interested???&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Make sure you come by my booth &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y4Wg1jX9LM/TeZQTPSOUxI/AAAAAAAACZM/wB5EPlsCpjg/s1600/THE+MAP+cropped.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Y4Wg1jX9LM/TeZQTPSOUxI/AAAAAAAACZM/wB5EPlsCpjg/s640/THE+MAP+cropped.JPG" t8="true" width="578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;...to say hi!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Gotta go!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-8908547668311277346?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/-gZCQkgDlEw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/-gZCQkgDlEw/farm-chicks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lIw4L_mW-x4/TeZPRIBe4bI/AAAAAAAACY8/d_lsU96RMr4/s72-c/NEW+STUFF+for+Farm+Chicks+009.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/06/farm-chicks.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-4936399331233728460</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-02T05:50:51.550-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Remnants of the Past</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vintage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Country Living Magazine</category><title>omg.</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.remnantsofthepast.com/"&gt;Remnants of the Past Vintage Show&lt;/a&gt; (ROTP)&amp;nbsp;was yesterday, and I am usually pretty good about getting around to all my favorite vendors to take photos of their fabulous booths filled with all of their treasures..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;However, this time around it was a little different.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You see, Country Living magazine did a great story on ROTP in their April issue, and apparently people actually paid attention to it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Because&amp;nbsp;immediately after this was taken:&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lWjqsQFKsCY/Tb4V11iCMcI/AAAAAAAACYk/ehsESAHkpZA/s1600/Remnants+Spring+2011+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lWjqsQFKsCY/Tb4V11iCMcI/AAAAAAAACYk/ehsESAHkpZA/s640/Remnants+Spring+2011+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;the only picture&amp;nbsp;I got.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;....the gate was opened and THIS happened:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9bxqxxpVWg/Tb4V5to1GqI/AAAAAAAACYo/lPdP8XUMk9E/s1600/2011_0430remnants0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="160" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9bxqxxpVWg/Tb4V5to1GqI/AAAAAAAACYo/lPdP8XUMk9E/s640/2011_0430remnants0002.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jJ8dAntpGfg/Tb4V9xx576I/AAAAAAAACYs/qagW3PdjtNo/s1600/2011_0430remnants0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jJ8dAntpGfg/Tb4V9xx576I/AAAAAAAACYs/qagW3PdjtNo/s640/2011_0430remnants0005.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DGAIDRe8X1w/Tb4WBeZv6_I/AAAAAAAACYw/c8wgDeQXmxc/s1600/2011_0430remnants0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DGAIDRe8X1w/Tb4WBeZv6_I/AAAAAAAACYw/c8wgDeQXmxc/s640/2011_0430remnants0006.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And unfortunately this did&amp;nbsp;too:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IMn11MgpyUw/Tb4WEcG8moI/AAAAAAAACY0/5fcH_Ssr0DM/s1600/2011_0430remnants0013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IMn11MgpyUw/Tb4WEcG8moI/AAAAAAAACY0/5fcH_Ssr0DM/s640/2011_0430remnants0013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These were all taken by my husband who braved the traffic snarls and found a place to park.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Attendance &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tripled &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;from the last show.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thank you to everyone who came out to see me ~ I loved seeing dear old friends and so enjoyed meeting many new ones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thank you Kriste for being such a wonderful support and partner to me...&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36kr_Fx5jYg/TJjrTCzFbMI/AAAAAAAAB00/_y8kABkcBrI/s1600/barn7+Kriste.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36kr_Fx5jYg/TJjrTCzFbMI/AAAAAAAAB00/_y8kABkcBrI/s400/barn7+Kriste.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;(I needed you more than ever!)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My deepest gratitude goes to my friend Judy Watkins, who has worked so hard to grow this show into&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;the beautiful show it is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BK7jgjzA2N0/TJotEcVaQdI/AAAAAAAAB4g/-TamjymxKgA/s1600/judy+w.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BK7jgjzA2N0/TJotEcVaQdI/AAAAAAAAB4g/-TamjymxKgA/s400/judy+w.bmp" width="325" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;And I would be remiss if I&amp;nbsp;didn't thank&amp;nbsp;dear friends Judi and Ed who own the property and are the hardest working couple I have ever known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/S99TfjI9pAI/AAAAAAAABWg/BHEQP9MpQvY/s640/misc+road+trip+2010+042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/S99TfjI9pAI/AAAAAAAABWg/BHEQP9MpQvY/s400/misc+road+trip+2010+042.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;See you in October at the next show!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Next stop....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0hHk1FI3Is/Tb4aRarCnTI/AAAAAAAACY4/pcet0r6Upwo/s1600/2011FCShowAd%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X0hHk1FI3Is/Tb4aRarCnTI/AAAAAAAACY4/pcet0r6Upwo/s640/2011FCShowAd%255B1%255D.jpg" width="474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-4936399331233728460?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/DFlThVS9KcI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/DFlThVS9KcI/omg.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lWjqsQFKsCY/Tb4V11iCMcI/AAAAAAAACYk/ehsESAHkpZA/s72-c/Remnants+Spring+2011+001.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/05/omg.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-3097483593931436513</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-27T08:50:46.193-07:00</atom:updated><title>Easter Bliss 2011</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Every year, for more years than I can count, our family has celebrated Easter Sunday at the home of our dear friends Judi and Ed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1mZt07zZI0/Tbd-uwogIgI/AAAAAAAACYM/JVtrGZXbIV0/s1600/n78442768306_1640086_5333487.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="456" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1mZt07zZI0/Tbd-uwogIgI/AAAAAAAACYM/JVtrGZXbIV0/s640/n78442768306_1640086_5333487.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is the Dana-Powers house ~ Judi's grandparents built this beautiful home and it has been a vintage wedding venue on the central Coast of California in Nipomo for many years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;But on Easter, Judi and Ed host a buffet and Easter egg hunt that has been a family tradition for generations of family and friends - our family included!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And every year I plan on taking pictures and sharing with you, but as soon as I get there I am overwhelmed with friends and family and FUN, and I forget!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;But this year, between Dennis, me, Aleah&amp;nbsp;and some of Judi's own photos, I am able to show you why we make the trek down from Idaho every year....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;First, the setting....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyc8jD2y6yY/TbgzzJWt6sI/AAAAAAAACYc/Ne29PEiGqoI/s1600/2011_0424easter0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="162" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyc8jD2y6yY/TbgzzJWt6sI/AAAAAAAACYc/Ne29PEiGqoI/s640/2011_0424easter0012.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Idn6PxDTxDw/Tbd1gurVcYI/AAAAAAAACWw/B4T-Z9LgfDY/s1600/224230_1656012563029_1318547458_1335976_946271_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="384" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Idn6PxDTxDw/Tbd1gurVcYI/AAAAAAAACWw/B4T-Z9LgfDY/s640/224230_1656012563029_1318547458_1335976_946271_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7pcSjnj7ing/Tbd1ZeZQwbI/AAAAAAAACWs/1kFl9Am708U/s1600/222361_1656011683007_1318547458_1335973_244703_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="360" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7pcSjnj7ing/Tbd1ZeZQwbI/AAAAAAAACWs/1kFl9Am708U/s640/222361_1656011683007_1318547458_1335973_244703_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h7crVL-cU0/Tbd1qPR6hPI/AAAAAAAACW0/D9l5YxguOis/s1600/222989_1656011202995_1318547458_1335972_4678627_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--h7crVL-cU0/Tbd1qPR6hPI/AAAAAAAACW0/D9l5YxguOis/s400/222989_1656011202995_1318547458_1335972_4678627_n.jpg" width="331" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5kyjFewaYGQ/Tbd12vMhVoI/AAAAAAAACW4/zah422obm0k/s1600/EASTER+2011+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="554" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5kyjFewaYGQ/Tbd12vMhVoI/AAAAAAAACW4/zah422obm0k/s640/EASTER+2011+010.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NV7CzuZlJC8/Tbd2O0lyS7I/AAAAAAAACXA/E5BQlKTIo68/s1600/EASTER+2011+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NV7CzuZlJC8/Tbd2O0lyS7I/AAAAAAAACXA/E5BQlKTIo68/s400/EASTER+2011+011.JPG" width="336" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;C'mon now...is this cute or what?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnuCvY7LwVU/Tbd2xsy5pdI/AAAAAAAACXI/B7sjR72lElY/s1600/EASTER+2011+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnuCvY7LwVU/Tbd2xsy5pdI/AAAAAAAACXI/B7sjR72lElY/s400/EASTER+2011+002.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Free range chickens!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SARX42l98q8/Tbd5snD1k0I/AAAAAAAACXo/j9bIC_TMBLI/s1600/217202_1656012283022_1318547458_1335975_7642340_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="460" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SARX42l98q8/Tbd5snD1k0I/AAAAAAAACXo/j9bIC_TMBLI/s640/217202_1656012283022_1318547458_1335975_7642340_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Everywhere you look, around every corner,&amp;nbsp;there is a feast for the eyes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kjFUNwKYr68/Tbd7Aeek4tI/AAAAAAAACX8/dR6JCEGyv04/s1600/EASTER+2011+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kjFUNwKYr68/Tbd7Aeek4tI/AAAAAAAACX8/dR6JCEGyv04/s400/EASTER+2011+006.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;two of my wee grand-munchkins&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M0GBGsBmoOg/Tbd6tOaK8sI/AAAAAAAACX4/drJ-x3Bvhbw/s1600/EASTER+2011+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M0GBGsBmoOg/Tbd6tOaK8sI/AAAAAAAACX4/drJ-x3Bvhbw/s640/EASTER+2011+007.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b3x-KxTmdHs/Tbd83QFH99I/AAAAAAAACYE/kGEtn5pzzUc/s1600/EASTER+2011+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b3x-KxTmdHs/Tbd83QFH99I/AAAAAAAACYE/kGEtn5pzzUc/s400/EASTER+2011+008.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Brand new outdoor fireplace in the Secret Garden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qWSPUMo11Rk/Tbd3ngAP5TI/AAAAAAAACXc/vAasQDmvgYk/s1600/EASTER+2011+027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qWSPUMo11Rk/Tbd3ngAP5TI/AAAAAAAACXc/vAasQDmvgYk/s640/EASTER+2011+027.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cWCR4KSmXRQ/Tbd3vcFBXgI/AAAAAAAACXg/Hz3A-Ml7BkM/s1600/223010_1656010122968_1318547458_1335967_2481445_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="264" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cWCR4KSmXRQ/Tbd3vcFBXgI/AAAAAAAACXg/Hz3A-Ml7BkM/s640/223010_1656010122968_1318547458_1335967_2481445_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;As you've probably guess so far, Judi is a gifted gardener and display artist.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And only she can combine her two passions so beautifully....&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p0hzUgEZqSA/Tbd37fDtPWI/AAAAAAAACXk/8rylFEfoF-4/s1600/223351_1656010482977_1318547458_1335969_6855465_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p0hzUgEZqSA/Tbd37fDtPWI/AAAAAAAACXk/8rylFEfoF-4/s640/223351_1656010482977_1318547458_1335969_6855465_n.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;roses from a garden her grandfather planted years and years ago....under glass.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Second, the Hunt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;All of the children are sent on a walk down the lane while the adults hide the eggs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TeMMbN_bzOY/Tbgz6oI8GUI/AAAAAAAACYg/ezZ3pY8ld0k/s1600/2011_0424easter0017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TeMMbN_bzOY/Tbgz6oI8GUI/AAAAAAAACYg/ezZ3pY8ld0k/s640/2011_0424easter0017.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqalM8C00VI/Tbd1E3ttmxI/AAAAAAAACWk/iwYQgVYyyjI/s1600/217353_1656013203045_1318547458_1335979_8362448_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="482" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqalM8C00VI/Tbd1E3ttmxI/AAAAAAAACWk/iwYQgVYyyjI/s640/217353_1656013203045_1318547458_1335979_8362448_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Little ones&amp;nbsp;go first...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOLlVYQSixk/Tbd52R2NyyI/AAAAAAAACXs/-3VRZES-2Q4/s1600/217243_10150166260252669_606672668_6903847_1199668_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dOLlVYQSixk/Tbd52R2NyyI/AAAAAAAACXs/-3VRZES-2Q4/s640/217243_10150166260252669_606672668_6903847_1199668_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXxWvoOFDH0/Tbd6EJLLULI/AAAAAAAACXw/zYMWTIPf6DE/s1600/EASTER+2011+018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXxWvoOFDH0/Tbd6EJLLULI/AAAAAAAACXw/zYMWTIPf6DE/s400/EASTER+2011+018.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;my adorable grandson Corban's first hunt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5iq1b9CnWhs/Tbd1Mlm8jqI/AAAAAAAACWo/ejn0lNaa2RM/s1600/217790_1656013763059_1318547458_1335981_6360196_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="360" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5iq1b9CnWhs/Tbd1Mlm8jqI/AAAAAAAACWo/ejn0lNaa2RM/s640/217790_1656013763059_1318547458_1335981_6360196_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It is as much fun for the adults as it is for the kids!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tJhyzLWrf0U/Tbd22IEQkaI/AAAAAAAACXQ/Fxy4lGIWBnY/s1600/224760_10150165922107669_606672668_6899959_5171423_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tJhyzLWrf0U/Tbd22IEQkaI/AAAAAAAACXQ/Fxy4lGIWBnY/s640/224760_10150165922107669_606672668_6899959_5171423_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My beautiful Karise...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aiccYEEvfxk/Tbd2zxFMDnI/AAAAAAAACXM/52e1sWk9RXM/s1600/223462_10150165922507669_606672668_6899963_2326281_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aiccYEEvfxk/Tbd2zxFMDnI/AAAAAAAACXM/52e1sWk9RXM/s640/223462_10150165922507669_606672668_6899963_2326281_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;...and her brother, Dresden. I could just eat him up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7jhlMm2ctS4/Tbd2-tXLvLI/AAAAAAAACXU/5rFAiGEd0qw/s1600/EASTER+2011+023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="232" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7jhlMm2ctS4/Tbd2-tXLvLI/AAAAAAAACXU/5rFAiGEd0qw/s400/EASTER+2011+023.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Corban finding a treasure. SO cute!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Next, the FOOD!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7qqynToaybk/Tbd2faERhZI/AAAAAAAACXE/KAO5MsRFDRY/s1600/EASTER+2011+012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7qqynToaybk/Tbd2faERhZI/AAAAAAAACXE/KAO5MsRFDRY/s400/EASTER+2011+012.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Judi and Ed provide the turkey and ham and rolls and appetizers and wine and beer and lemonade and...and....and, but everyone brings a dish to share.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J7gfjb2VVXo/Tbd3Tnkwg7I/AAAAAAAACXY/Bgy8f9gAvqA/s1600/EASTER+2011+024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J7gfjb2VVXo/Tbd3Tnkwg7I/AAAAAAAACXY/Bgy8f9gAvqA/s640/EASTER+2011+024.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Desserts galore!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6kqQcz-dmzg/Tbd6TqMaaRI/AAAAAAAACX0/DHVNLQkw01U/s1600/EASTER+2011+026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6kqQcz-dmzg/Tbd6TqMaaRI/AAAAAAAACX0/DHVNLQkw01U/s640/EASTER+2011+026.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The buffet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/S99TfjI9pAI/AAAAAAAABWg/BHEQP9MpQvY/s320/misc+road+trip+2010+042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/S99TfjI9pAI/AAAAAAAABWg/BHEQP9MpQvY/s640/misc+road+trip+2010+042.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;our hosts&amp;nbsp;Judi and Ed&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;From the bottom of my heart I say THANK YOU to the most gracious hosts, and&amp;nbsp;hardest working couple I have ever known...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Last, I wanted to share Judi's latest bathroom re-do with you....just because I love it so much!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xprO7QXkyd0/TbeCVxZpmzI/AAAAAAAACYQ/u7vmhP8-biQ/s1600/EASTER+2011+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xprO7QXkyd0/TbeCVxZpmzI/AAAAAAAACYQ/u7vmhP8-biQ/s640/EASTER+2011+013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Who would have thought of painting a bathroom black?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Judi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She's amAZing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttsZFlz6vlk/TbeChddLOHI/AAAAAAAACYU/JJ2XJqyYudQ/s1600/EASTER+2011+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttsZFlz6vlk/TbeChddLOHI/AAAAAAAACYU/JJ2XJqyYudQ/s400/EASTER+2011+014.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ljk69A9jkEM/TbeCp9sUThI/AAAAAAAACYY/DR8dEwheY-E/s1600/EASTER+2011+015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ljk69A9jkEM/TbeCp9sUThI/AAAAAAAACYY/DR8dEwheY-E/s640/EASTER+2011+015.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;OK, I took Karise to powder her nose, and she looked so darn cute in the room, I had to snap a picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Indulge me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And while we're at it....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Who has the most wonderful family in the entire world????&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9K40t8G-9NQ/Tbd7TOmmpUI/AAAAAAAACYA/KUormllehIg/s1600/EASTER+2011+028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9K40t8G-9NQ/Tbd7TOmmpUI/AAAAAAAACYA/KUormllehIg/s640/EASTER+2011+028.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Come on everybody....look at the camera!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ijS-dUzCd0/Tbd9iWHiWGI/AAAAAAAACYI/3J-IRWxQd6w/s1600/2011_0424easter0036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" i8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2ijS-dUzCd0/Tbd9iWHiWGI/AAAAAAAACYI/3J-IRWxQd6w/s640/2011_0424easter0036.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This will be the last family shot for a long, long time. This Easter was especially meaningful for our family because&amp;nbsp;son Dusty and his wife Aleah and&amp;nbsp;the wee&amp;nbsp;Karise and Dresden are moving to London where they will be stationed for the next four years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;:-(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;By the way, &lt;a href="http://judywatkins.blogspot.com/"&gt;Remnants of the Past&lt;/a&gt; is held in the Barn on Judi and Ed's property.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;That's this Saturday, in case you hadn't heard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These photos&amp;nbsp;should compell you to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;How could you not?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Til next time....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-3097483593931436513?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/CgLCeWNE8cY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/CgLCeWNE8cY/easter-bliss-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E1mZt07zZI0/Tbd-uwogIgI/AAAAAAAACYM/JVtrGZXbIV0/s72-c/n78442768306_1640086_5333487.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-bliss-2011.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-7499803848843771354</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-15T09:23:24.901-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bird's nests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">baby shower</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jewelry</category><title>nesting update!</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;A couple of weeks ago I wrote about these:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/03/nesting-while-on-vacation.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kbHf7xoInBA/TaX1aqw7diI/AAAAAAAACVo/0dVL-4wd26I/s1600/NESTS+4+ALEAH+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kbHf7xoInBA/TaX1aqw7diI/AAAAAAAACVo/0dVL-4wd26I/s640/NESTS+4+ALEAH+004.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YMs48fgpzoA/TaX2EmvvBfI/AAAAAAAACVs/yftvpiHLuUI/s1600/NESTS+4+ALEAH+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YMs48fgpzoA/TaX2EmvvBfI/AAAAAAAACVs/yftvpiHLuUI/s640/NESTS+4+ALEAH+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Last weekend was the nest-themed baby shower, and I wanted to write an update on how Aleah presented these wee nests....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Since I couldn't be there, I had her take pictures and send them to me ~ &lt;em&gt;enJOY!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The presentation was adorable - a nest-within-a-nest!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u-_6JxfYG_4/TaYvNb-l2NI/AAAAAAAACV0/m8KInb-wCts/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u-_6JxfYG_4/TaYvNb-l2NI/AAAAAAAACV0/m8KInb-wCts/s640/My+HipstaPrint+1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4bTdZ1x5Q6Y/TaY002diEwI/AAAAAAAACWg/yC93k6xZqz8/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4bTdZ1x5Q6Y/TaY002diEwI/AAAAAAAACWg/yC93k6xZqz8/s400/My+HipstaPrint+0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿And here are some photos of the recipients....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1zKTZEql2N8/TaYvQlHPyZI/AAAAAAAACV4/0-L5gd1riyc/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1zKTZEql2N8/TaYvQlHPyZI/AAAAAAAACV4/0-L5gd1riyc/s640/My+HipstaPrint+5.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RA-bwHU1bXU/TaYvZjb90iI/AAAAAAAACWA/UwW4jMEapkg/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RA-bwHU1bXU/TaYvZjb90iI/AAAAAAAACWA/UwW4jMEapkg/s640/My+HipstaPrint+0.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zGxBJaYGzR4/TaYvUv69Y3I/AAAAAAAACV8/AneGsUSxbIM/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zGxBJaYGzR4/TaYvUv69Y3I/AAAAAAAACV8/AneGsUSxbIM/s640/My+HipstaPrint+3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;That's my pretty Aleah under the umbrella...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmXxGWBlCp0/TaYwQT7nMvI/AAAAAAAACWU/01LKAzcmcv4/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmXxGWBlCp0/TaYwQT7nMvI/AAAAAAAACWU/01LKAzcmcv4/s640/My+HipstaPrint+7.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(had to include this photo of my grandaughter Karise on the left with her&amp;nbsp;BFF Sienna!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swd8BIfv4qY/TaYv-WxcAzI/AAAAAAAACWI/xtsd8ptj6bU/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swd8BIfv4qY/TaYv-WxcAzI/AAAAAAAACWI/xtsd8ptj6bU/s400/My+HipstaPrint+6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Of9tq5fBV2k/TaYwARyLKJI/AAAAAAAACWM/XjDUUsvc82M/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Of9tq5fBV2k/TaYwARyLKJI/AAAAAAAACWM/XjDUUsvc82M/s400/My+HipstaPrint+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Aleah's sister Evelyn, the beautiful&amp;nbsp;guest of honor...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJ0SKdTtwM4/TaY0ahrKxXI/AAAAAAAACWc/O54EPaDi1nk/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJ0SKdTtwM4/TaY0ahrKxXI/AAAAAAAACWc/O54EPaDi1nk/s320/My+HipstaPrint+4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Isn't this cake beautiful?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OjFIkxCE8oI/TaYvbhQLqiI/AAAAAAAACWE/1mS21oAAFLQ/s1600/My+HipstaPrint+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OjFIkxCE8oI/TaYvbhQLqiI/AAAAAAAACWE/1mS21oAAFLQ/s640/My+HipstaPrint+4.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Aleah wanted me to make sure I told you how much&amp;nbsp;her guests&amp;nbsp;loved their nests....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're still&amp;nbsp;enjoying fun in the California sun ~ wish you were here!&lt;br /&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;p.s.: check out the recent buzz about&amp;nbsp;yours truly,&amp;nbsp;from &lt;a href="http://judywatkins.blogspot.com/2011/04/pammys-attic.html"&gt;Remnants of the Past!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-7499803848843771354?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/8EyCjosTwb0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/8EyCjosTwb0/nesting-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kbHf7xoInBA/TaX1aqw7diI/AAAAAAAACVo/0dVL-4wd26I/s72-c/NESTS+4+ALEAH+004.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/04/nesting-update.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-2977873337569704828</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-08T07:59:05.933-07:00</atom:updated><title>need I say more...???</title><description>22 more days.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://judywatkins.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="ROTP"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/856545/ROTP/ROTP_button.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Have you made your plans?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-2977873337569704828?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/jdw6uIBgmmQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/jdw6uIBgmmQ/need-i-say-more.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/04/need-i-say-more.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-1313134779012910799</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-29T18:14:50.734-07:00</atom:updated><title>nesting while on vacation...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So, here I sit outside our sweet RV in lovely Palm Desert, Ca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OK0PRDDhVpQ/TZJ9JGK2H3I/AAAAAAAACVk/MWf4Rt0UCBA/s1600/PALM+DESERT+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="271" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OK0PRDDhVpQ/TZJ9JGK2H3I/AAAAAAAACVk/MWf4Rt0UCBA/s400/PALM+DESERT+002.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My daughter-in-law Aleah contacted me and asked if I had any of my nest shadowbox&amp;nbsp;necklaces with me ~ she is throwing a nest themed baby shower for her sister next month and wanted to give the necklaces as party favors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf2yYBVikj4/TJjtih4-S_I/AAAAAAAAB2U/dQsfToQPA8w/s1600/new+specimens+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf2yYBVikj4/TJjtih4-S_I/AAAAAAAAB2U/dQsfToQPA8w/s400/new+specimens+001.JPG" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I said I only had enough for next month's &lt;a href="http://judywatkins.blogspot.com/"&gt;Remnants of the Past show&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; but I had wire and pearls with me and I offered to experiment a little with them. I told her I would do my best to help out in any way I could.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She needed 15.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U_cZI3qn7lg/TZJ6ZmefFJI/AAAAAAAACVg/oE9sB0skLaQ/s1600/NESTS+4+ALEAH+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U_cZI3qn7lg/TZJ6ZmefFJI/AAAAAAAACVg/oE9sB0skLaQ/s640/NESTS+4+ALEAH+004.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I had so much fun making 2 or 3 each day as I had my morning coffee....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-18NX2SqzREo/TZJ4biS79UI/AAAAAAAACVc/07jNtVCIQ34/s640/NESTS+4+ALEAH+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I am now thinking that these might sell like hotcakes at a few of the shows....just add a dainty chain or ribbon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thank you Aleah for inspiring me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Now it's back to the pool for me....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-1313134779012910799?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/D1hWL0l9y-w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/D1hWL0l9y-w/nesting-while-on-vacation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OK0PRDDhVpQ/TZJ9JGK2H3I/AAAAAAAACVk/MWf4Rt0UCBA/s72-c/PALM+DESERT+002.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/03/nesting-while-on-vacation.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-7861451677409254658</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-09T09:43:27.733-08:00</atom:updated><title>just checking in while I'm on the road...</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;As I sit here in sunny Las Vegas, enjoying my family and the warm weather, I can't help but get excited about this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YGm20_4zrCU/TXe7GGDDsSI/AAAAAAAACVY/yRDVXWVSzBI/s1600/VendorButton2011medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" q6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YGm20_4zrCU/TXe7GGDDsSI/AAAAAAAACVY/yRDVXWVSzBI/s640/VendorButton2011medium.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mark your calenders.... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nhZqN-w11KI/TXe7C3yiJcI/AAAAAAAACVU/Wkq8AJYTELo/s1600/2011FCShowAd%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" q6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nhZqN-w11KI/TXe7C3yiJcI/AAAAAAAACVU/Wkq8AJYTELo/s640/2011FCShowAd%255B1%255D.jpg" width="474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;....﻿is right around the corner!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Now I'm off to the pool!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-7861451677409254658?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/ec_61TJehU4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/ec_61TJehU4/just-checking-in-while-im-on-road.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YGm20_4zrCU/TXe7GGDDsSI/AAAAAAAACVY/yRDVXWVSzBI/s72-c/VendorButton2011medium.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/03/just-checking-in-while-im-on-road.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-1304172051131930723</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-25T16:29:07.479-08:00</atom:updated><title>counting the days...</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;The RV is parked out in the driveway....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We are leaving in a few days to go on an extended road trip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Most of our trip involves&amp;nbsp;visiting family and friends, but&amp;nbsp;we are mixing a little work with pleasure at the very end.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Our last weekend in California I am participating once more in the fabulous &lt;a href="http://remnantsofthepast.com/index.html"&gt;Remnants of the Past Vintage Show&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here's a sneak peek at just one of the new designs I will be unveiling at the show...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gie7BUGNJvY/TWhC_cPhx-I/AAAAAAAACU0/2jrmr3y2zsw/s1600/POOH+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" l6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gie7BUGNJvY/TWhC_cPhx-I/AAAAAAAACU0/2jrmr3y2zsw/s640/POOH+001.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These ornaments are a beefy 2 inches across.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RnnWlBpKZgI/TWhDNEU1sBI/AAAAAAAACU4/O5vi2Xc3xqg/s1600/POOH+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" l6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RnnWlBpKZgI/TWhDNEU1sBI/AAAAAAAACU4/O5vi2Xc3xqg/s640/POOH+002.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I have about six different designs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-frhpfmJbqiY/TWhDbCw1-_I/AAAAAAAACU8/-c5uDhMh1zQ/s1600/POOH+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" l6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-frhpfmJbqiY/TWhDbCw1-_I/AAAAAAAACU8/-c5uDhMh1zQ/s640/POOH+003.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;If you love&amp;nbsp;that silly old bear&amp;nbsp;like I do....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0yP7TpdW4Ok/TWhDpdpamjI/AAAAAAAACVA/ilnEBvhDXiw/s1600/POOH+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" l6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0yP7TpdW4Ok/TWhDpdpamjI/AAAAAAAACVA/ilnEBvhDXiw/s640/POOH+004.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;...you will love these in all their bubbly splendor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_6NUcJestQE/TWhD7aKTnUI/AAAAAAAACVE/KcEYMCdmyz8/s1600/POOH+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" l6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_6NUcJestQE/TWhD7aKTnUI/AAAAAAAACVE/KcEYMCdmyz8/s640/POOH+006.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And if you love walking through lemon orchards and browsing through booth after booth filled with&amp;nbsp;one-of-a-kind&amp;nbsp;treasures from days gone by...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Save the date.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;April 30.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Nipomo, Ca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Be there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dkN9ckSWfco?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stay tuned for more&amp;nbsp;stories from the road....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-1304172051131930723?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/iG7WqMkEr4A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/iG7WqMkEr4A/counting-days.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gie7BUGNJvY/TWhC_cPhx-I/AAAAAAAACU0/2jrmr3y2zsw/s72-c/POOH+001.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/counting-days.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-8703975682415558690</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-22T08:05:28.078-08:00</atom:updated><title>a room with a view...</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We built our home three years ago and thought we had designed the perfect kitchen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After living in it for the past few years however, we came to realize that it was way too closed off from the family room.(actually my darling husband did - I had to be dragged to this party)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Not only did I worry about the mess and the hassle and the final outcome, but the wall that had to be removed was &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; wall:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Suc20oJck1I/AAAAAAAAA00/rZ4xa-bcM5I/s320/Barry's+Wall+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Suc20oJck1I/AAAAAAAAA00/rZ4xa-bcM5I/s400/Barry's+Wall+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Great Wall. (more about that &lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2009/10/great-wall.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;But after a little coaxing, and knowing what my brilliant husband was capable of, I relented.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I will let the following photos speak for themselves.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Process:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qKoOS0RdaRc/TWPRBAZmieI/AAAAAAAACTo/NcU6-7kp2AM/s1600/kitchen+remodel+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qKoOS0RdaRc/TWPRBAZmieI/AAAAAAAACTo/NcU6-7kp2AM/s400/kitchen+remodel+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrpXq1LyDBQ/TWPRK2TEM2I/AAAAAAAACTs/3La1vYw3zFY/s1600/kitchen+remodel+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrpXq1LyDBQ/TWPRK2TEM2I/AAAAAAAACTs/3La1vYw3zFY/s400/kitchen+remodel+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I forgot to take pictures of the cabinets before they were taken down - here they are with the doors removed,&amp;nbsp;resting on the counter, getting ready to be moved to their new location.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QbgHCkabEiU/TWPRczug5UI/AAAAAAAACTw/xHUzBfbqME0/s1600/kitchen+remodel+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QbgHCkabEiU/TWPRczug5UI/AAAAAAAACTw/xHUzBfbqME0/s320/kitchen+remodel+3.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUWFBCRIj7o/TWPSPdbtkSI/AAAAAAAACT0/kJst6kXv5UE/s1600/kitchen+remodel+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUWFBCRIj7o/TWPSPdbtkSI/AAAAAAAACT0/kJst6kXv5UE/s400/kitchen+remodel+4.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;(ate lots of meals from that old crock pot during the remodel!)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPnHI4evbn8/TWPSXUgPpmI/AAAAAAAACT4/6u6ExT5C9wA/s1600/kitchen+remodel+5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wPnHI4evbn8/TWPSXUgPpmI/AAAAAAAACT4/6u6ExT5C9wA/s400/kitchen+remodel+5.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl9qyp6g2sw/TWPSgKpyfyI/AAAAAAAACT8/PyLTEIUMBFk/s1600/kitchen+remodel+6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl9qyp6g2sw/TWPSgKpyfyI/AAAAAAAACT8/PyLTEIUMBFk/s400/kitchen+remodel+6.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;That is a load bearing wall, so Dennis had to carefully remove some drywall, install a huge laminated beam, and then patch the drywall back in place.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pf3NpFGhQXo/TWPSoc3-_DI/AAAAAAAACUA/NkmNzoY55SU/s1600/kitchen+remodel+7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pf3NpFGhQXo/TWPSoc3-_DI/AAAAAAAACUA/NkmNzoY55SU/s320/kitchen+remodel+7.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KlC7g4L990Y/TWPSw97JoII/AAAAAAAACUE/COGZ-wZ5HCw/s1600/kitchen+remodel+8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KlC7g4L990Y/TWPSw97JoII/AAAAAAAACUE/COGZ-wZ5HCw/s400/kitchen+remodel+8.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In this picture you can see a corner of the granite that was on the huge island - we had that removed and re-cut for the new bar countertop.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_1br6Sq--48/TWPS5Zv7KkI/AAAAAAAACUI/0Q70sxWAlJU/s1600/kitchen+remodel+10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_1br6Sq--48/TWPS5Zv7KkI/AAAAAAAACUI/0Q70sxWAlJU/s400/kitchen+remodel+10.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here it is in it's new home!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1-a6vWaBiE/TWPTBwOVRKI/AAAAAAAACUM/qrITxtCCZFU/s1600/kitchen+remodel+11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1-a6vWaBiE/TWPTBwOVRKI/AAAAAAAACUM/qrITxtCCZFU/s640/kitchen+remodel+11.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dennis did all of the electrical and plumbing re-routing, but decided to call on the same folks who built our cabinets to do the finish carpentry - we wanted it to look like it had been here from the beginning.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Result:&lt;/div&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PYni_5_eBHg/TWPTPsKyKuI/AAAAAAAACUQ/rdxMGDu6idw/s1600/kitchen+remodel+12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PYni_5_eBHg/TWPTPsKyKuI/AAAAAAAACUQ/rdxMGDu6idw/s640/kitchen+remodel+12.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;In place of the island granite we went with a beautiful maple butcher block - really warmed the place up!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l4Ejf1SlAg8/TWPTe4g_YkI/AAAAAAAACUY/45nWi5uI5sw/s1600/kitchen+remodel+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l4Ejf1SlAg8/TWPTe4g_YkI/AAAAAAAACUY/45nWi5uI5sw/s640/kitchen+remodel+005.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Great wall was moved to the other side of the room, where I can see it from the kitchen and actually enjoy it more.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhbCY278cvM/TWPTlsSk3ZI/AAAAAAAACUc/CGL5CGaiIGc/s1600/kitchen+remodel+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fhbCY278cvM/TWPTlsSk3ZI/AAAAAAAACUc/CGL5CGaiIGc/s400/kitchen+remodel+010.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4LsvLF6-FCQ/TWPTuLVqOhI/AAAAAAAACUg/-Vqn8obb3pg/s1600/kitchen+remodel+012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4LsvLF6-FCQ/TWPTuLVqOhI/AAAAAAAACUg/-Vqn8obb3pg/s640/kitchen+remodel+012.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;And the view of the fireplace.......&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRICELESS!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9xJFimGKj4/TWPT237dEoI/AAAAAAAACUk/MffHr5aWqRM/s1600/kitchen+remodel+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9xJFimGKj4/TWPT237dEoI/AAAAAAAACUk/MffHr5aWqRM/s320/kitchen+remodel+013.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ghugbi3NaH4/TWPUHJf2sjI/AAAAAAAACUo/dNPKAqAG_PM/s1600/done+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ghugbi3NaH4/TWPUHJf2sjI/AAAAAAAACUo/dNPKAqAG_PM/s640/done+013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLJI7pBpoR8/TWPafdMRz7I/AAAAAAAACUs/8u76Au3h89s/s1600/kitchen+remodel+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLJI7pBpoR8/TWPafdMRz7I/AAAAAAAACUs/8u76Au3h89s/s640/kitchen+remodel+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;We found the perfect place to hang Mara's watercolors...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lRvJkPMCcg8/TWPallq_MlI/AAAAAAAACUw/wxUVpfdHFRc/s1600/kitchen+remodel+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lRvJkPMCcg8/TWPallq_MlI/AAAAAAAACUw/wxUVpfdHFRc/s400/kitchen+remodel+002.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;...as well as the perfect location for the cabinets that came down!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Once again, Mr. Johnson was right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I LOVE my new room with a view....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-8703975682415558690?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/L7hqtBy6G1U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/L7hqtBy6G1U/room-with-view.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Suc20oJck1I/AAAAAAAAA00/rZ4xa-bcM5I/s72-c/Barry's+Wall+2.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/room-with-view.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-6863238026136738275</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-18T12:43:32.560-08:00</atom:updated><title>inspired by a friend from Blogland!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love to blog hop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Several days ago I&amp;nbsp;popped on over to&amp;nbsp;one of my favorites,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://mammabellarte.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-class-it-was-really-treat-to-have.html"&gt;Mammabellarte&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Rita, who is the artist extraordinaire behind Mammabellarte, teaches soldering (as well as many other skills).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She lives in California&amp;nbsp;and I live in Idaho, which means that sadly, I cannot participate in one of her classes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;However, a few days ago she shared on her blog about&amp;nbsp;a recent workshop she taught that combined wonderful collage ideas with her soldering.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;She used a &lt;strike&gt;cheap&lt;/strike&gt; simple chipboard jewelry box, some glitter, royalty free images, and her soldering skills to create the sweetest little shadowboxes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Simply&lt;/em&gt; brilliant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This was hers:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6fEnchG1yU/TVc8FhXGeqI/AAAAAAAAGyw/jgvJFg2v7PI/s400/February+12th%252C+2011+soldering+class+012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6fEnchG1yU/TVc8FhXGeqI/AAAAAAAAGyw/jgvJFg2v7PI/s400/February+12th%252C+2011+soldering+class+012.jpg" width="315" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and here is my interpretation:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oVGRMhZo9W4/TV6PygwrBAI/AAAAAAAACTU/ueVTDPbaiqQ/s1600/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oVGRMhZo9W4/TV6PygwrBAI/AAAAAAAACTU/ueVTDPbaiqQ/s640/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+002.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TsvDzlnLx98/TV6QCXT-NeI/AAAAAAAACTY/o9giRMUayf8/s1600/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TsvDzlnLx98/TV6QCXT-NeI/AAAAAAAACTY/o9giRMUayf8/s640/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+005.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yQymfxmzY8A/TV6QQP2kMVI/AAAAAAAACTc/NgNkpAzqCFw/s1600/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yQymfxmzY8A/TV6QQP2kMVI/AAAAAAAACTc/NgNkpAzqCFw/s400/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+006.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I never thought cardboard would hold up to the messy soldering process....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYBPFv1ooxw/TV6Qi1vRn2I/AAAAAAAACTg/ZVkZrIyGTPE/s1600/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYBPFv1ooxw/TV6Qi1vRn2I/AAAAAAAACTg/ZVkZrIyGTPE/s400/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+007.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It was fine!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NT9FLcJTXCA/TV6Qzp7fHnI/AAAAAAAACTk/VJLyJTuHaa8/s1600/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" j6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NT9FLcJTXCA/TV6Qzp7fHnI/AAAAAAAACTk/VJLyJTuHaa8/s640/FEATHER+YOUR+NEST+009.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;One thing you don't know about me is, one of my favorite things to do is to cut glass.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I know, weird, huh?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love the sound of a great score.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So this is very satisfying for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;On&amp;nbsp;many levels!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Linking to &lt;a href="http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;Inspiration Friday&lt;/a&gt; over at &lt;a href="http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;Common Ground&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Stay warm and keep learning!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-6863238026136738275?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/Wsjny0G0KGY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/Wsjny0G0KGY/inspired-by-friend-from-blogland.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6fEnchG1yU/TVc8FhXGeqI/AAAAAAAAGyw/jgvJFg2v7PI/s72-c/February+12th%252C+2011+soldering+class+012.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/inspired-by-friend-from-blogland.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-3492619209552931831</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-12T10:07:10.445-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">church set design</category><title>more smoke 'n mirrors from the attic....</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I have been happily&amp;nbsp;working on a little set design again....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember &lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2009/12/smoke-and-mirrors.html"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt;?﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/SxU6IHv6-GI/AAAAAAAAA6w/LvIrEAZM89U/s800/mosaic.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/SxU6IHv6-GI/AAAAAAAAA6w/LvIrEAZM89U/s400/mosaic.JPG" width="235" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Smoke and Mirrors Part 1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2010/12/smoke-and-mirrors-ii-or-how-to-stretch.html"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TPhyceB09MI/AAAAAAAACIc/J6sTmd3XnHk/s320/Devon%2527s+necklace+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TPhyceB09MI/AAAAAAAACIc/J6sTmd3XnHk/s320/Devon%2527s+necklace+016.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Smoke and Mirrors Part 2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;Pastor Mike&amp;nbsp;is doing an 11 week series on JOY. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;He is referencing the book of ﻿Philippians, which is known as Paul's book of Joy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;But how do you illustrate JOY without being too literal....?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;#1: THE INSPIRATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I had just seen this and it got me to thinkin'...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DejfSnoMcWg?rel=0&amp;amp;hd=1" title="YouTube video player" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(You're welcome.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;#2: THE EXECUTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ever made one of these?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a1eRLcsMpn0/TVQ2HBn3HeI/AAAAAAAACSM/L-tjf3QslJ8/s1600/beaded-art-craft-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="307" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a1eRLcsMpn0/TVQ2HBn3HeI/AAAAAAAACSM/L-tjf3QslJ8/s400/beaded-art-craft-1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But what material was used&amp;nbsp;in that video?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;At a local sign shop I found 4' x 8' sheets of this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.modelsforsale.com/listphotos/PU121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="240" src="http://www.modelsforsale.com/listphotos/PU121.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I had to fill a huge space, so I needed a minimum 4 foot circle to start with. Each 4' x 8' sheet provided two 4 foot discs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here are eight 4' x 8' sheets ready to go....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iqm526d_cSg/TVQ4Nbv-BOI/AAAAAAAACSQ/G9DJ0rUueiQ/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iqm526d_cSg/TVQ4Nbv-BOI/AAAAAAAACSQ/G9DJ0rUueiQ/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+005.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;cut into 4' squares...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FtxPo88kBQs/TVQ4Ul3ZgvI/AAAAAAAACSU/A3nhCxDRD1Q/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FtxPo88kBQs/TVQ4Ul3ZgvI/AAAAAAAACSU/A3nhCxDRD1Q/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+006.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I made an old fashioned compass using string, pencil and nail...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SORVqz6Li1I/TVQ4y82aktI/AAAAAAAACSc/QcEqltetA3c/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SORVqz6Li1I/TVQ4y82aktI/AAAAAAAACSc/QcEqltetA3c/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+013.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;freehanded a spiral...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-csD63xaI5YE/TVQ7vtWlvXI/AAAAAAAACS4/69dFmBGXCkI/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-csD63xaI5YE/TVQ7vtWlvXI/AAAAAAAACS4/69dFmBGXCkI/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+009.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;cut it out with my good sewing shears...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qgzzQUni8AA/TVQ471tJ7mI/AAAAAAAACSg/EJqIO4nFBso/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="342" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qgzzQUni8AA/TVQ471tJ7mI/AAAAAAAACSg/EJqIO4nFBso/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+015.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;hardly any waste - me likey that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eli1oOZf9OU/TVQ5D9LMHLI/AAAAAAAACSk/r5QSE8qhz3A/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Eli1oOZf9OU/TVQ5D9LMHLI/AAAAAAAACSk/r5QSE8qhz3A/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+017.JPG" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The only thing that worried me about these was tearing - since it was so easy to cut, would it hold up to hanging for 11 weeks?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;So I cut some smaller discs from the waste.....&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1RjMQbTrZPo/TVQ5MHd5wcI/AAAAAAAACSo/FdPiC7JO1j4/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1RjMQbTrZPo/TVQ5MHd5wcI/AAAAAAAACSo/FdPiC7JO1j4/s320/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+018.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and glued them top and bottom at the center stress point.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vfA3BzJ2pGg/TVQ5THPznVI/AAAAAAAACSs/mvUlHRcSrsc/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vfA3BzJ2pGg/TVQ5THPznVI/AAAAAAAACSs/mvUlHRcSrsc/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+019.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Using an eye screw, washer and bolt and some heavy duty fishing line, we hung them from the 'rafters'....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tdj81O58jMQ/TVQ7oUdL5EI/AAAAAAAACS0/sZGw7dw9jmk/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tdj81O58jMQ/TVQ7oUdL5EI/AAAAAAAACS0/sZGw7dw9jmk/s640/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+003.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;#3: THE RESULT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This...&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jipy8KaPG6A/TVRAhRf5rFI/AAAAAAAACS8/HBN-Sso4wOM/s1600/Auditorium.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jipy8KaPG6A/TVRAhRf5rFI/AAAAAAAACS8/HBN-Sso4wOM/s400/Auditorium.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;became......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uPags170Kl4/TVayn8xctlI/AAAAAAAACTA/b-YNvFfMtOM/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uPags170Kl4/TVayn8xctlI/AAAAAAAACTA/b-YNvFfMtOM/s640/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+010.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;THIS!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EZy2xUI-cyM/TVa2pRWHhTI/AAAAAAAACTQ/LXU4sPhd6LY/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EZy2xUI-cyM/TVa2pRWHhTI/AAAAAAAACTQ/LXU4sPhd6LY/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+004.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yJm8jUHxuCk/TVazBEQGBHI/AAAAAAAACTE/1AlBA3113nI/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yJm8jUHxuCk/TVazBEQGBHI/AAAAAAAACTE/1AlBA3113nI/s640/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Joyful?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's the bonus: when the air kicks on in the building, &lt;em&gt;THEY SPIN!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Notice the way the power point screens tie in? Thanks to the talented Linda on the creative team for that attention to detail)&lt;br /&gt;I would be remiss if I didn't tell you how important the lighting crew was/is on this project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without these guys:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0IjLnQrjCBg/TVaz2xgomkI/AAAAAAAACTM/tMuxcDOADd8/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+003+w+text.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0IjLnQrjCBg/TVaz2xgomkI/AAAAAAAACTM/tMuxcDOADd8/s400/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+003+w+text.jpg" width="371" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...it would just have been a bunch of gigantic rotelle pasta hanging in space. (not to mention these guys also hung these things while I pointed and said, &lt;em&gt;"a little to the left....no right....no wait, left."&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ALj8iSl5nuU/TVazD14lwMI/AAAAAAAACTI/t2Hza9nUrIw/s1600/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ALj8iSl5nuU/TVazD14lwMI/AAAAAAAACTI/t2Hza9nUrIw/s640/SPIRAL+SET+DESIGN+014.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Thanks guys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joyfully yours,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-3492619209552931831?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/6EQ7zPKNz2c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/6EQ7zPKNz2c/more-smoke-n-mirrors-from-attic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/SxU6IHv6-GI/AAAAAAAAA6w/LvIrEAZM89U/s72-c/mosaic.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-smoke-n-mirrors-from-attic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-9132662405783429085</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-10T10:27:22.742-08:00</atom:updated><title>I am one lucky girl!</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;I never win anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Even when I was on Wheel of Fortune (30+ years ago)....can you say &lt;em&gt;bankrupt&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I enter everything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Zip, nada, nothing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Until last week.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Deb Kennedy&amp;nbsp;over at ﻿&lt;a href="http://hummadeedledee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Hummadeedledee&lt;/a&gt; had &lt;a href="http://hummadeedledee.blogspot.com/2011/01/love-giveaway.html"&gt;a little contest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Side note&lt;/em&gt;: Deb is just about the most creative and gifted person&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; on the the planet. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Just hang out awhile&amp;nbsp;in &lt;a href="http://retreatdesign.blogspot.com/"&gt;Retreat&lt;/a&gt; and bask in the creative-ness that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Deb Kennedy. (not to mention her adorable husband, Bob)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I even "knew" her, I posted &lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2009/06/field-trip.html"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt; about this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Siv5MqhBbxI/AAAAAAAAAMw/3rDrs5upFsk/s400/IMG_1140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="505" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Siv5MqhBbxI/AAAAAAAAAMw/3rDrs5upFsk/s640/IMG_1140.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I digress......&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deb&amp;nbsp;was giving away a lavish collection of vintage music and various ephemera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Since all of this wonderful material had a love theme, all we needed to do to enter was to tell her what our favorite term of endearment was, and Deb would choose her fave.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I always called my kids punkin', so that's what I suggested.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Apparently her grandpa used to call her, "&lt;em&gt;His little punkin eater&lt;/em&gt;" and that struck a chord with her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;So I won!!!!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uscamlizG_0/TVQjHwSBezI/AAAAAAAACSE/DV5xMef0_RU/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="323" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uscamlizG_0/TVQjHwSBezI/AAAAAAAACSE/DV5xMef0_RU/s400/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+001.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;this arrived in the mail a couple of days ago ~ yipeeeee!!!!!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What did I win, you may ask?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;THIS!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mvam_mp6fds/TVQfH51JsbI/AAAAAAAACRg/m0YBNgiLVsc/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mvam_mp6fds/TVQfH51JsbI/AAAAAAAACRg/m0YBNgiLVsc/s640/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+007.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hcSFDMb5VkA/TVQffX9wWAI/AAAAAAAACRk/iSU2q_5fwdk/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hcSFDMb5VkA/TVQffX9wWAI/AAAAAAAACRk/iSU2q_5fwdk/s640/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+006.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRw_xywt0Kc/TVQf4HzxLCI/AAAAAAAACRo/NxsSSmW-5BM/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRw_xywt0Kc/TVQf4HzxLCI/AAAAAAAACRo/NxsSSmW-5BM/s400/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+005.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;my favorite...gotta think of something special for this one:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jbPHw60Y0So/TVQgPV_D2uI/AAAAAAAACRs/gWWoa_WcZvY/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jbPHw60Y0So/TVQgPV_D2uI/AAAAAAAACRs/gWWoa_WcZvY/s640/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+008.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Along with this fabulous stash came a sweeeet handmade Valentine from Deb:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MUM_-VEaR8M/TVQgmh6IDsI/AAAAAAAACRw/JvC_f5FHiXg/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MUM_-VEaR8M/TVQgmh6IDsI/AAAAAAAACRw/JvC_f5FHiXg/s400/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+002.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-94IxnCSLwKk/TVQg8xBz4lI/AAAAAAAACR0/0EFtuYPkkbk/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-94IxnCSLwKk/TVQg8xBz4lI/AAAAAAAACR0/0EFtuYPkkbk/s320/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;As a bonus, Deb sent me this gift:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hY5JDOOZ1rM/TVQhSqyZJfI/AAAAAAAACR4/AFdGryveVfo/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hY5JDOOZ1rM/TVQhSqyZJfI/AAAAAAAACR4/AFdGryveVfo/s640/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+013.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Deb's talking my &lt;em&gt;LOVE language&lt;/em&gt; here.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bOQzcxHyuYk/TVQibkZ7rkI/AAAAAAAACSA/E97dbqfOzfk/s1600/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+012.BMP" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="264" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bOQzcxHyuYk/TVQibkZ7rkI/AAAAAAAACSA/E97dbqfOzfk/s640/DEB+KENNEDY+PRIZE+012.BMP" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿I cannot believe how generous a prize this was.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I am already thinking of fun projects&amp;nbsp;using this aMAZing gift....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;THANK YOU Deb Kennedy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You are just one of the many reasons I love my little blogging life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Winner,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-9132662405783429085?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/o3DbYPOABRA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/o3DbYPOABRA/i-am-one-lucky-girl.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/Siv5MqhBbxI/AAAAAAAAAMw/3rDrs5upFsk/s72-c/IMG_1140.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-am-one-lucky-girl.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-6189371829883999588</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-08T11:45:08.133-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crafts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">soft sculpture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wee Be Bunnies</category><title>The Year of the Rabbit (or....the year I THOUGHT I would be rich and famous) ~ Part One.</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have been a carnie a very long time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Long before I ever picked up a soldering iron.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿I went from show to show making these...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGNyVyjXhI/AAAAAAAACP0/-POaHrqxce0/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGNyVyjXhI/AAAAAAAACP0/-POaHrqxce0/s400/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+009.JPG" width="260" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Ever heard of Wee Be Bunnies?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGN7ThcipI/AAAAAAAACP4/v778xbFOK0E/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGN7ThcipI/AAAAAAAACP4/v778xbFOK0E/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+0010.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Wee Be Bunnies were what I was known for back in the day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGS1MnK-aI/AAAAAAAACQk/qPtq9kgqijg/s1600/scan0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="434" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGS1MnK-aI/AAAAAAAACQk/qPtq9kgqijg/s640/scan0010.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;the original artwork for my hang tag&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Back in the '80s when we were all going crazy for the Cabbage Patch Doll.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Back when soft sculpture was what everyone was interested in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I even had a bit of a following....before Facebook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;One day, I woman named Debbie Linker approached me about teaching folks how to make my beloved bunnies - she wanted me to design a series of patterns that she would distribute. (she owned a very popular fabric/quilting store in Morro Bay, Ca. called The Cotton Ball)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;"Give away all my secrets???!!" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debbie:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;"There are two markets out there - the ones who will steal your idea and try to make it themselves without your permission, and the ones who wouldn't dream of making it and have the money to buy your original work - this way you hit both groups - it's a win-win!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Having shooed away many camera -&amp;nbsp;toting &lt;strike&gt;bootleggers&lt;/strike&gt; crafters from my booth, I knew she was right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So I got down to it.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGOyh4D-zI/AAAAAAAACP8/XsM3XkD4Bdc/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="442" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGOyh4D-zI/AAAAAAAACP8/XsM3XkD4Bdc/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I had the patterns printed and my entire family spent many an evening in front of the television stuffing patterns into plastic bags.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPNseoIQI/AAAAAAAACQA/LKUrZB31mfw/s1600/scan0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPNseoIQI/AAAAAAAACQA/LKUrZB31mfw/s400/scan0001.jpg" width="252" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPXiSO1NI/AAAAAAAACQE/B0YnpkX2Xxk/s1600/scan0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPXiSO1NI/AAAAAAAACQE/B0YnpkX2Xxk/s400/scan0002.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPh0V7emI/AAAAAAAACQI/0MyG7BO-tqQ/s1600/scan0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPh0V7emI/AAAAAAAACQI/0MyG7BO-tqQ/s400/scan0003.jpg" width="257" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPrcGNqtI/AAAAAAAACQM/YtGxv42TFb0/s1600/scan0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGPrcGNqtI/AAAAAAAACQM/YtGxv42TFb0/s400/scan0004.jpg" width="253" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGP1H9GZRI/AAAAAAAACQQ/FzTHdQ-yzJM/s1600/scan0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGP1H9GZRI/AAAAAAAACQQ/FzTHdQ-yzJM/s400/scan0005.jpg" width="257" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;My attempt at&amp;nbsp;a kitty.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGP-82EGrI/AAAAAAAACQU/d4mPc6DQIog/s1600/scan0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGP-82EGrI/AAAAAAAACQU/d4mPc6DQIog/s400/scan0006.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQG79ny5I/AAAAAAAACQY/UBsOvj5kMKw/s1600/scan0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQG79ny5I/AAAAAAAACQY/UBsOvj5kMKw/s400/scan0007.jpg" width="246" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQQZ7RRxI/AAAAAAAACQc/K71ybh6XP00/s1600/scan0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQQZ7RRxI/AAAAAAAACQc/K71ybh6XP00/s400/scan0008.jpg" width="255" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQZryxMoI/AAAAAAAACQg/CDd1qLw7Eww/s1600/scan0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGQZryxMoI/AAAAAAAACQg/CDd1qLw7Eww/s400/scan0009.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We were a hit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;One day Debbie called to say that the megachain House of Fabrics was interested in picking us up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;And do you think you could design a line of nursery fabrics to go with the patterns?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;You betcha!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(they don't call me "anything-for-a-buck" for nothin'...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;started with this....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGS-VVvGSI/AAAAAAAACQo/p7P_s1WQCt0/s1600/scan0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGS-VVvGSI/AAAAAAAACQo/p7P_s1WQCt0/s400/scan0011.jpg" width="392" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTB3hk52I/AAAAAAAACQs/0uO6AWiAmU8/s1600/scan0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTB3hk52I/AAAAAAAACQs/0uO6AWiAmU8/s640/scan0013.jpg" width="401" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTF75FSFI/AAAAAAAACQw/A5vuByaPlL8/s1600/scan0014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTF75FSFI/AAAAAAAACQw/A5vuByaPlL8/s320/scan0014.jpg" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTL5pOtMI/AAAAAAAACQ0/n_VQ2g_2cl4/s1600/scan0015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTL5pOtMI/AAAAAAAACQ0/n_VQ2g_2cl4/s400/scan0015.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTOWi2L8I/AAAAAAAACQ4/7Bg5oRgjXKE/s1600/scan0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="394" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTOWi2L8I/AAAAAAAACQ4/7Bg5oRgjXKE/s640/scan0017.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTTDxqlaI/AAAAAAAACRE/hibJKmHI98I/s320/scan0021.jpg" width="295" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Which became....this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;my 'story board' presentation:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUGWUUsCI/AAAAAAAACRQ/PIG787mnxcw/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUGWUUsCI/AAAAAAAACRQ/PIG787mnxcw/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+003.JPG" width="420" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTour1EjI/AAAAAAAACRI/az4u0x_B8Dw/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGTour1EjI/AAAAAAAACRI/az4u0x_B8Dw/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+001.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGT8qOV24I/AAAAAAAACRM/3jCJC5NV08c/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGT8qOV24I/AAAAAAAACRM/3jCJC5NV08c/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+002.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUQa0VPsI/AAAAAAAACRU/oOpEFOqB2qo/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="308" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUQa0VPsI/AAAAAAAACRU/oOpEFOqB2qo/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+004.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUlC5kj5I/AAAAAAAACRY/RuZVzBPr0VE/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGUlC5kj5I/AAAAAAAACRY/RuZVzBPr0VE/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+005.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I actually hand painted a crib sized quilt top.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;After several trips to Los Angeles, we were told that the only guy standing in the way of fame and fortune was the CEO, who wasn't sure if he wanted to invest in a young mother from Smalltown, USA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We waited....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;And waited.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I guess you know where I'm going with this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;It didn't happen, and all I have to show for it are some yellowing, old sketches...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;a few patterns....&lt;br /&gt;(you can even&amp;nbsp;find&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Country-Bunny-lass-doll-15-Wee-Bunnies-clothes-/290494483507?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;amp;hash=item43a2d20c33"&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; from time to time&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Country-Bunny-lass-doll-15-Wee-Bunnies-clothes-/290494483507?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;amp;hash=item43a2d20c33"&gt;on eBay&lt;/a&gt;...!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and this....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGWJoeXJnI/AAAAAAAACRc/BHaK7ANAEyk/s1600/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGWJoeXJnI/AAAAAAAACRc/BHaK7ANAEyk/s640/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+008.JPG" width="550" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The last of a dying breed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I invite you to come back for Part Two&amp;nbsp;when I will show you more of my life with soft sculpture.&lt;br /&gt;(I was even featured on the news and have the video to prove it!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-6189371829883999588?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/8hROVRIe8to" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/8hROVRIe8to/year-of-rabbit-orthe-year-i-thought-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TVGNyVyjXhI/AAAAAAAACP0/-POaHrqxce0/s72-c/WEE+BE+BUNNIES+009.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/year-of-rabbit-orthe-year-i-thought-i.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-277814269288303868</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-03T10:59:37.312-08:00</atom:updated><title>what on EARTH am I up to these days...?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I recently came across a picture of&amp;nbsp;planet earth that had been photoshopped into the shape of a heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It gave me an idea.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5AxNW-3I/AAAAAAAACPk/TExq9O-sQ5M/s1600/WORLD+hearts+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5AxNW-3I/AAAAAAAACPk/TExq9O-sQ5M/s640/WORLD+hearts+005.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I thought I should offer a couple of choices...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;this....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5Hck3U-I/AAAAAAAACPo/sjuYLyKRrHk/s1600/WORLD+hearts+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5Hck3U-I/AAAAAAAACPo/sjuYLyKRrHk/s640/WORLD+hearts+007.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and this...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5OeJTmII/AAAAAAAACPs/kN8vcZe2Nu8/s1600/WORLD+hearts+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5OeJTmII/AAAAAAAACPs/kN8vcZe2Nu8/s640/WORLD+hearts+008.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You like?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Me likey.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A lot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;See ya later world....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-277814269288303868?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/2vJdRX-HasA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/2vJdRX-HasA/what-on-earth-am-i-up-to-these-days.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUr5AxNW-3I/AAAAAAAACPk/TExq9O-sQ5M/s72-c/WORLD+hearts+005.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-on-earth-am-i-up-to-these-days.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-5336053179408924745</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-02T08:31:15.362-08:00</atom:updated><title>sweeeeeeeeet hearts.....</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;During these dreary winter days, as we approach Valentine's Day.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have been asked to bring a wee bit of color into my line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGOZcI6oI/AAAAAAAACPU/r55HWYTfmrE/s1600/SWEET+HEARTS+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGOZcI6oI/AAAAAAAACPU/r55HWYTfmrE/s640/SWEET+HEARTS+007.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGWobSrvI/AAAAAAAACPY/gAVH4TMDLjo/s1600/SWEET+HEARTS+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGWobSrvI/AAAAAAAACPY/gAVH4TMDLjo/s640/SWEET+HEARTS+006.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGagur4dI/AAAAAAAACPc/axLMACYq4f0/s1600/SWEET+HEARTS+012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGagur4dI/AAAAAAAACPc/axLMACYq4f0/s640/SWEET+HEARTS+012.JPG" width="396" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGfXX5SiI/AAAAAAAACPg/aNqj1S1u9CQ/s1600/SWEET+HEARTS+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="243" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGfXX5SiI/AAAAAAAACPg/aNqj1S1u9CQ/s400/SWEET+HEARTS+014.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;What do you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img height="30" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 114px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 238px; visibility: hidden;" width="28" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-5336053179408924745?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/wr9t3aGL-ps" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/wr9t3aGL-ps/sweeeeeeeeet-hearts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUmGOZcI6oI/AAAAAAAACPU/r55HWYTfmrE/s72-c/SWEET+HEARTS+007.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/02/sweeeeeeeeet-hearts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-4743766267450685243</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-31T07:46:22.819-08:00</atom:updated><title>the joys of bartering.....and of knowing my friend Mara Parent...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I would like to introduce you to my friend Mara Parent. She is &lt;a href="http://www.marilynparent.com/"&gt;an incredible water color artist and teacher&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We met when Mara and her lovely daughter Marcia sat behind us in church - during the 'meet-'n-greet' I turned around and saw two beautiful&amp;nbsp;women dressed in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;coolest&lt;/em&gt; style - I knew she&amp;nbsp;had to&amp;nbsp;be&amp;nbsp;an artist.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Later on, when I was involved in spearheading an art gallery there at the church, ﻿I discovered that she was indeed a gifted artist. I sought her out to see if she would consider contributing to our little venture, and she submitted a beautiful water color of sheep grazing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQLgxITsI/AAAAAAAACOw/T8_6O84qiSU/s1600/MP22-The-Lost-Sheep-10_5-x-13_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="496" s5="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQLgxITsI/AAAAAAAACOw/T8_6O84qiSU/s640/MP22-The-Lost-Sheep-10_5-x-13_5.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"The Lost Sheep"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I later found out that we were &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; fortunate to have her work in our little fledgling gallery - she was a very busy and popular artist in the San Luis Obispo, Ca. area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mara started her studies at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. She has also studied at U.C.L.A., the Academy of Color in Los Angeles and has had many teachers in watercolor, I.E. Tony Couch, Margarite Lyons, Milford Zornes, Don Andrews, Etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;She taught painting on silk fabric with liquid dyes for many years but her love of watercolor always prevailed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Many teachers have rigid rules and Mara finally decided to forget all the rules and create in her loose, impressionistic style. Now her paintings reflect the mystery that she prays for. She always asks God to guide her hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Her work is in collections nationally. She continues to gather pictures in her mind of God's beautiful creations and tries to encourage her students with the belief that if they have the desire to paint, they can learn. She loves to teach people who have that passion. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fast forward 10+ years.....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Mara, Marcia and Marcia's husband Thor have relocated up to Coeur d'Alene where I live!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We have had lots of fun reconnecting, and we've spent many lovely evenings together.&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUbUHGsE15I/AAAAAAAACPM/lv_thOhwMcQ/s1600/mara+and+me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUbUHGsE15I/AAAAAAAACPM/lv_thOhwMcQ/s400/mara+and+me.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mara, Marcia, Dennis, moi with friends Fred and Michele celebrating in downtown Coeur d'Alene!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Mara has become a huge fan of Dennis's furniture, and it is mutual admiration, because Dennis is totally taken by Mara's work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So they worked out a deal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Mara drew up a side buffet table she wanted, and Dennis spotted a couple of pieces of Mara's he loved of wine bottles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The die was cast and the work began.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This....&lt;/div&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNMSHzWXI/AAAAAAAACOg/A2gKoMddRrA/s1600/2011_0111winepics0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNMSHzWXI/AAAAAAAACOg/A2gKoMddRrA/s400/2011_0111winepics0004.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;flanking the cabinet Dennis made - that's Mara on the&amp;nbsp;right and&amp;nbsp;Marcia on the left!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;for these....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNszMwZgI/AAAAAAAACOo/LNbGQRChX_I/s1600/2011_0111winepics0018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNszMwZgI/AAAAAAAACOo/LNbGQRChX_I/s640/2011_0111winepics0018.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYPr0fltlI/AAAAAAAACOs/s_2XdhuB1TU/s1600/2011_0111winepics0015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYPr0fltlI/AAAAAAAACOs/s_2XdhuB1TU/s640/2011_0111winepics0015.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here are some of my favorites from Mara's archives:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;one of my favorite places on earth...﻿﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQiEhZ_pI/AAAAAAAACO0/khqJTXngbJ4/s1600/MP7-Cambria-Pines-23-x-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQiEhZ_pI/AAAAAAAACO0/khqJTXngbJ4/s640/MP7-Cambria-Pines-23-x-15.jpg" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Cambria Pines"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿&lt;/div&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;from her sketchbook....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQqxXvT_I/AAAAAAAACPA/4Cfo_-RFgts/s1600/sketch-book_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="272" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQqxXvT_I/AAAAAAAACPA/4Cfo_-RFgts/s400/sketch-book_1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQn8-XZBI/AAAAAAAACO8/Vbeo8iB86m8/s1600/Fashion15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQn8-XZBI/AAAAAAAACO8/Vbeo8iB86m8/s640/Fashion15.jpg" width="448" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;of course this...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNNC4dbLI/AAAAAAAACOk/Fmm_dA8xAyM/s1600/MP2--14_5-x-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYNNC4dbLI/AAAAAAAACOk/Fmm_dA8xAyM/s640/MP2--14_5-x-20.jpg" width="466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;love the labels from familiar Central Coast wines!(notice the 2 Buck Chuck on the right?)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQsRExvNI/AAAAAAAACPE/UREZYahiTBc/s1600/Fashion5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="432" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQsRExvNI/AAAAAAAACPE/UREZYahiTBc/s640/Fashion5.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I just love these kitties......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Makes me think.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I wonder if Mara would be interested in another barter.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUZC-mAjfhI/AAAAAAAACPI/ci0achKb8zs/s1600/Monkey.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUZC-mAjfhI/AAAAAAAACPI/ci0achKb8zs/s640/Monkey.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Don't you think Monkey would be a fabulous model????&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Please go on over to &lt;a href="http://www.marilynparent.com/"&gt;Mara's website&lt;/a&gt; and take a self-guided tour of her gallery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Tell her Pammy sent you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="320" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-4743766267450685243?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/tkqQ2zkiS4Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/tkqQ2zkiS4Y/benefits-of-barteringand-my-friend-mara.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TUYQLgxITsI/AAAAAAAACOw/T8_6O84qiSU/s72-c/MP22-The-Lost-Sheep-10_5-x-13_5.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/01/benefits-of-barteringand-my-friend-mara.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-4662652623632681853</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-25T08:54:56.286-08:00</atom:updated><title>turn out the lights, the party's over......</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Yep, my little giveaway is now officially closed and I have chosen a winner!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TT77CbdLRoI/AAAAAAAACOY/zPzZ3YxPJ20/s1600/HEART+contest+012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TT77CbdLRoI/AAAAAAAACOY/zPzZ3YxPJ20/s400/HEART+contest+012.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And the winner is.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TT77GZadjoI/AAAAAAAACOc/LE9HTeJSDnM/s1600/HEART+contest+013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" s5="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TT77GZadjoI/AAAAAAAACOc/LE9HTeJSDnM/s400/HEART+contest+013.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Congratulations &lt;a href="http://httpvintagesandy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Vintage Sandy&lt;/a&gt;!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Please email me with &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; choice from my new &lt;em&gt;Words From the Heart&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;collection and I will send your new bling off to you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(oh yes...and your address too!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Just in time for V-Day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Thanks to all of you who took the time to enter....this was so much fun &lt;em&gt;I may have to do it again!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Stay tuned....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-4662652623632681853?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/LPxFZlyE0Rs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/LPxFZlyE0Rs/turn-out-lights-partys-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TT77CbdLRoI/AAAAAAAACOY/zPzZ3YxPJ20/s72-c/HEART+contest+012.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/01/turn-out-lights-partys-over.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4414971292391322605.post-1993694820925459002</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-23T08:40:00.086-08:00</atom:updated><title>have a heart.</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Just a quick reminder to all of you in blog-land....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You have only a couple of days left to enter &lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/01/brand-new-heart-felt-giveaway.html"&gt;my little giveaway&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Have you entered?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;﻿YOU HAVEN'T??????&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This is what you could win:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TTxW_9jWN6I/AAAAAAAACOU/IzPGDiGMcoA/s1600/words+from+the+heart+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" s5="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TTxW_9jWN6I/AAAAAAAACOU/IzPGDiGMcoA/s640/words+from+the+heart+004.JPG" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So if you want to be wearing one of these sweet pendants on Valentine's Day (and beyond...) or if you know someone who could use a little encouragement...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;...jump on over&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/01/brand-new-heart-felt-giveaway.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; and tell me which of them speaks to you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You will&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt; be sorry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I guarantee it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;xoxo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="160" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/107/449C33691D63D78EB3D18819497A1049.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4414971292391322605-1993694820925459002?l=upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~4/YyXGIcyQB68" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/KxNA/~3/YyXGIcyQB68/have-heart.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (PammyJ)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAw6QZ7ir58/TTxW_9jWN6I/AAAAAAAACOU/IzPGDiGMcoA/s72-c/words+from+the+heart+004.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://upintheatticwithpammyj.blogspot.com/2011/01/have-heart.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

