<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='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'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913</id><updated>2012-02-17T06:24:02.034+10:30</updated><category term='shark egg'/><category term='Hand made bear'/><category term='sunset'/><category term='Poem/Tribute for Haiti'/><category term='Basa Freshwater Fish Fillets Delicious'/><category term='Welcome to my blog'/><category term='Pomegranate almost ripe'/><category term='rocks.'/><category term='Computer trouble'/><category term='sea'/><category term='Hills.'/><category term='nature'/><category term='Thankful:~)'/><category term='Poem/Ode to the people that have done it tough like my parents etc.'/><category term='Grandchildren/Babysitting'/><category term='Waterfall Gully South Australia'/><category term='Unripened Pomegranate'/><category term='Pomegranate bunch early stages'/><category term='own recipe creation.'/><category term='My own version of Garlic Prawns'/><category term='Crocheted Hat and Scarf/my creation.'/><category term='Pomegrate branch'/><category term='Treasures found on beach getaway'/><category term='edible plants&apos; flowers.'/><category term='Necklace/Bargain'/><category term='Valentine&apos;s day/Chinese new year'/><category term='Organic fruit and vegetables'/><title type='text'>Love 'n Light</title><subtitle type='html'>Every day life through my eyes.
Some poetry, pearls of wisdom, photos and other interests.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-7437867285030025904</id><published>2011-06-18T22:10:00.003+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-20T09:41:05.560+09:30</updated><title type='text'>*It's been a long time!*</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope my post finds you all in good health!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a long time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have become so passionate about photography that flickr takes up most of my spare time now...I have also just recently taken up the hobby of painting...it's something I've wanted to do for years but due to my time being taken up with family, it was not possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My father passed away end of last year (I still miss him). My family are all grown up and now I find I have much more time on my hands so I have been doing all the creative things I've always wanted to do...photography, poety and now painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought I'd post the pictures of the paintings I've done up to date...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am starting art classes soon so I can't wait to learn properly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one I traced the pattern from the material I used in my dresser makeover from a previous post.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;It's called 'Leaves a plenty'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goJ-B1Y44JM/TfyZ6QZ5rqI/AAAAAAAAAZM/1gT_y9OcI-s/s1600/Leaves+a+plenty.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="244" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goJ-B1Y44JM/TfyZ6QZ5rqI/AAAAAAAAAZM/1gT_y9OcI-s/s320/Leaves+a+plenty.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This one I painted&amp;nbsp;freehand and it's called &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;'Wind blown'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DyxJqqU5S_M/TfyaCzsqamI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/aaHs7QkxFNk/s1600/Windblown+painting.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DyxJqqU5S_M/TfyaCzsqamI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/aaHs7QkxFNk/s320/Windblown+painting.JPG" width="257" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;This one was one that really wanted to come out...I just painted without thought...it's called&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Love grows on trees?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BA25de-GTZk/TfyaP3U7KwI/AAAAAAAAAZY/IILFXGBBxLE/s1600/Love+grows+on+trees.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BA25de-GTZk/TfyaP3U7KwI/AAAAAAAAAZY/IILFXGBBxLE/s320/Love+grows+on+trees.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; These are all done in acrylics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Loving wishes, Nat :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-7437867285030025904?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/7437867285030025904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-been-long-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7437867285030025904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7437867285030025904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-been-long-time.html' title='*It&apos;s been a long time!*'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goJ-B1Y44JM/TfyZ6QZ5rqI/AAAAAAAAAZM/1gT_y9OcI-s/s72-c/Leaves+a+plenty.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-847429054226262515</id><published>2010-07-26T14:35:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2010-07-26T14:35:11.405+09:30</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful Day Out</title><content type='html'>Greetings,my dear blogsters...it has been a while!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you are all keeping happy and healthy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, we are in the middle of Winter here in Aus., we are so lucky here because we still get Sunshine practically every day. Yesterday was no ecxeption!&lt;br /&gt;After a week of cold and dreary wheather we had the most glorious, sunny day so I decided to go to the beach to meet a friend for coffee...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TE0V33B3kWI/AAAAAAAAAYs/Tzhy0TmDmrE/s1600/Latte.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="285" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TE0V33B3kWI/AAAAAAAAAYs/Tzhy0TmDmrE/s320/Latte.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;After our coffee we went for a nice walk along the board walk, to absorb the beautiful Sun's rays...It was great...instant boost of cheeriness!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TE0WkY-jXJI/AAAAAAAAAY0/_mB-OhkTpVU/s1600/Grange+Board+Walk.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TE0WkY-jXJI/AAAAAAAAAY0/_mB-OhkTpVU/s320/Grange+Board+Walk.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You can see the beautiful Rays shining down!&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 hope you all had a Superb weekend, my dear friends! :)&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;Even though I haven't been blogging much, you are all still in my thoughts and prayers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Loving Wishes Nat :~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-847429054226262515?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/847429054226262515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/07/beautiful-day-out.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/847429054226262515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/847429054226262515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/07/beautiful-day-out.html' title='Beautiful Day Out'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TE0V33B3kWI/AAAAAAAAAYs/Tzhy0TmDmrE/s72-c/Latte.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-3622840202114992498</id><published>2010-06-04T09:44:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2010-06-04T09:47:20.272+09:30</updated><title type='text'>About Time</title><content type='html'>&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;/div&gt;Greetings dear blogsters...it sure has been a while!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been slightly obsessed with my new hobby---Photography---so it is taking up any spare time I have.&lt;br /&gt;Posting photos on flickr---viewing contacts photos and posting them in groups, takes more time than I can spare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have been in my thoughts and in my prayers though...I haven't forgotten you!&lt;br /&gt;Here's my latest post on flickr...it's a photo I took at the Botanical Gardens a couple of weeks ago...and added a poem I wrote..&amp;gt;I hope it looks ok!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TAhE5umLBfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/BAFoHe9jhiU/s1600/United+As+One.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="323" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TAhE5umLBfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/BAFoHe9jhiU/s400/United+As+One.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;United as one&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A journey begun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;To a future we see&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Where all are set free&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I want to start&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A revolution in part&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;One of Love and Peace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And Giving...never to cease&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love and Light Nat :~)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-3622840202114992498?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/3622840202114992498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/06/about-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3622840202114992498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3622840202114992498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/06/about-time.html' title='About Time'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/TAhE5umLBfI/AAAAAAAAAYE/BAFoHe9jhiU/s72-c/United+As+One.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-1035790882491008104</id><published>2010-05-12T12:03:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2010-05-12T12:07:20.909+09:30</updated><title type='text'>New Plants</title><content type='html'>Greeting dear blogster friends...it was about time I placed another post, don't you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to confess...I have taken up a new hobby...it is photography. I seem to spend all my spare time on flickr now...but have missed you guys...so I thought I'd better come say hi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought you might like to see these plants, my husband brought home the other day...for those who don't know these, they are cabbage like ornamentals...they look unreal (literally speaking) and I just love them to bits...I hope you do too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S-oSuqF5dRI/AAAAAAAAAX0/bayYMaOoitY/s1600/Our+New+Plants+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S-oSuqF5dRI/AAAAAAAAAX0/bayYMaOoitY/s400/Our+New+Plants+1.JPG" tt="true" width="372" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Although I like the colour of the one above...I do think the one below show the leaf details better!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S-oSzSkcSAI/AAAAAAAAAX8/KPT4J7TEAV0/s1600/Our+New+Plants+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S-oSzSkcSAI/AAAAAAAAAX8/KPT4J7TEAV0/s400/Our+New+Plants+2.JPG" tt="true" width="372" /&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;If you want to see what I've been up to on flickr...just click on my flickr link and pop in to say hi!&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;LL Nat :~)&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 apologise...these photos look a bit wonky&amp;nbsp;here for some reason...they look so much better on flickr!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-1035790882491008104?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/1035790882491008104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-plants.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/1035790882491008104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/1035790882491008104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-plants.html' title='New Plants'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S-oSuqF5dRI/AAAAAAAAAX0/bayYMaOoitY/s72-c/Our+New+Plants+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-6065966697283564393</id><published>2010-04-26T14:45:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2010-04-26T14:45:06.478+09:30</updated><title type='text'>Future champion!!!</title><content type='html'>Saturday we went to watch my son's soccer game.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't the best day but there some clear patches. &lt;br /&gt;The photo I captured here happened because I saw my son change position from defence to attack...as they were 1&amp;nbsp;goal down...I knew instictively that he was going to shoot a goal...I saw the hunger witten all over his face!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9UfrAeemdI/AAAAAAAAAXs/LB4i-ogWXwU/s1600/Future+Champion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="306" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9UfrAeemdI/AAAAAAAAAXs/LB4i-ogWXwU/s400/Future+Champion.jpg" tt="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I held the camera facing the goal...and to my surprise, not only did I capture the goal but (double whammy...I got my grandson running with the ball...a second before he let his right foot rip...to kick a great kick (he is only 3yrs old) to my daughter&amp;nbsp;(who's out of the picture...she was on the right of the photo).&lt;br /&gt;He has definetly inherited his father's gift!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look closely...the ball is at the back of the net...my son is the one in yellow&amp;nbsp;top,&amp;nbsp;at the front, bending down for his victory...whatever it is they do!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LL Nat:~)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-6065966697283564393?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/6065966697283564393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/future-champion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6065966697283564393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6065966697283564393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/future-champion.html' title='Future champion!!!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9UfrAeemdI/AAAAAAAAAXs/LB4i-ogWXwU/s72-c/Future+Champion.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5635434059497436497</id><published>2010-04-23T18:26:00.003+09:30</published><updated>2010-04-23T18:29:41.196+09:30</updated><title type='text'>Beach timeout!</title><content type='html'>Hello my dear blogster friends!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night, my daughter Mina (from Sugar Baby Creations) and I went for a lovely bit of 'timeout' at the beach (our favourite place to be)...we'll call it timeout but it was more a photo shoot...we both love photography and nothing give us more pleasure (and free therapy) than a beach shoot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have posted one of the photos I took...I hope you like it!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;This is a photo of the Jetty/Pier at Grange Beach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9Ff36T9RuI/AAAAAAAAAXk/937oLSYMzDI/s1600/Grange+Jetty+NC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9Ff36T9RuI/AAAAAAAAAXk/937oLSYMzDI/s320/Grange+Jetty+NC.jpg" tt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Have a super weekend everyone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;LL Nat :~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5635434059497436497?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5635434059497436497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/beach-timeout.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5635434059497436497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5635434059497436497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/beach-timeout.html' title='Beach timeout!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S9Ff36T9RuI/AAAAAAAAAXk/937oLSYMzDI/s72-c/Grange+Jetty+NC.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5037210353750261318</id><published>2010-04-12T21:47:00.008+09:30</published><updated>2010-05-01T15:19:56.612+09:30</updated><title type='text'>Druuuuuuum Rooolll Pleeeeaaase!!!~~~Chrystallier Makeover!</title><content type='html'>Greetings my dear blogster friends!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so happy to say that my project has finally been finished...(delayed by a couple of weeks due to unforseen circumstances)...I was starting to think that would never happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has taken blood...sweat...and tears (literally) to do it but &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;it's done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I won't bore you with the details but just will say that it's not something I will undergo in a hurry...not when I don't have the time to spend on it continuously until it's finished!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am happy to say...I am quite pleased with the end result...and with having saved this piece from doom!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MMupwIA4I/AAAAAAAAAXM/Gohjb4SFxMY/s1600/P4121387.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MMupwIA4I/AAAAAAAAAXM/Gohjb4SFxMY/s320/P4121387.jpg" width="298" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is the complete piece!&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://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MNAqgIWgI/AAAAAAAAAXU/XPvp8WvzWRc/s1600/Inside+top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MNAqgIWgI/AAAAAAAAAXU/XPvp8WvzWRc/s320/Inside+top.jpg" width="240" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is the inner detail of the top piece as shown in an earlier post!&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="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;/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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MNOhnNlxI/AAAAAAAAAXc/e78IEr-p20Q/s1600/Right+bottom+door.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MNOhnNlxI/AAAAAAAAAXc/e78IEr-p20Q/s320/Right+bottom+door.jpg" width="240" wt="true" /&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;Here you can see the details of the black I gently rubbed on, to give it a more&amp;nbsp;aged look...I would have liked it plain white but didn't think it would suit the style of the cabinet!&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;This is actually, a 1930 piece that mum had rotting in the garage...it was painted brown all over with gold handles.&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;It's good to be back, I hope to catch up with you all, in the next couple of days!&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;LL Nat&amp;nbsp;:~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5037210353750261318?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5037210353750261318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/druuuuuuum-rooolll-pleeeeaaase.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5037210353750261318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5037210353750261318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/druuuuuuum-rooolll-pleeeeaaase.html' title='Druuuuuuum Rooolll Pleeeeaaase!!!~~~Chrystallier Makeover!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S8MMupwIA4I/AAAAAAAAAXM/Gohjb4SFxMY/s72-c/P4121387.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-4376929613166557811</id><published>2010-04-01T21:26:00.015+10:30</published><updated>2010-04-02T22:58:21.148+10:30</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter!</title><content type='html'>Hello dear blogsters, it has been a while since my last post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have had a very busy 3 weeks due to funerals, ill health and my usual commitments. &lt;br /&gt;It was around a&amp;nbsp;year since my last visit to the doctor, I thought I did pretty well until a couple of weeks ago and then&amp;nbsp;I was back there. &lt;br /&gt;I'm happy to report that it's nothing that a couple of doses of antibiotics won't fix (even though I don't like medication, i guess sometimes it's got to be done).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;Anyway onto a happier note...I'd like to...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(from the&amp;nbsp;depth&amp;nbsp;of my heart) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"&gt;wish you all a very,very happy Easter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&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;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R6txndzjI/AAAAAAAAAWs/vJkEYulSZwY/s1600/He+is+risen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R6txndzjI/AAAAAAAAAWs/vJkEYulSZwY/s320/He+is+risen.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;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R9hJu8ABI/AAAAAAAAAXE/5R-yk6GboxE/s1600/Matthew+28+1-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R9hJu8ABI/AAAAAAAAAXE/5R-yk6GboxE/s320/Matthew+28+1-10.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"&gt;May you all be blessed with love, laughter, joy and good health!&lt;/span&gt;&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;&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;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R7fFqQ2AI/AAAAAAAAAW8/j4b2Ma5FtxI/s200/easter_clipart_flowers.gif" width="155" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I will be back next week with my completed project to post about...It was hard work but hopefully worth it!&lt;br /&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="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Love and Light to all.....Nat xxx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img height="72" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R6txndzjI/AAAAAAAAAWs/vJkEYulSZwY/s320/He+is+risen.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 324px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 270px; visibility: hidden;" width="96" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-4376929613166557811?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/4376929613166557811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-easter.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/4376929613166557811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/4376929613166557811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-easter.html' title='Happy Easter!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S7R6txndzjI/AAAAAAAAAWs/vJkEYulSZwY/s72-c/He+is+risen.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5529169039411017316</id><published>2010-03-17T19:10:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-17T19:13:55.791+10:30</updated><title type='text'>My Project 3rd piece of the puzzle</title><content type='html'>Hi all,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;today I worked very hard to get all the prep work done on my project...I am posting a picture to show you part of what I've done today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2 coats of undercoat on this and the rest of the pieces!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Pieces... there are lots of)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I did ask for it when I decided to paint the inside as well.....boy that's hard work!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S6CTz72G7oI/AAAAAAAAAWk/hwvm1kiXtRw/s1600-h/Top+piece+chrystallier+prep+finished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S6CTz72G7oI/AAAAAAAAAWk/hwvm1kiXtRw/s320/Top+piece+chrystallier+prep+finished.jpg" vt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I think by now you've guessed, what my project is but the finishing has got me stumped! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I know what I want to do but tried it on an old stool and didn't like the look so it could be another week before it's finished!&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;If you have any suggestions...I would looove to hear them!&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;LL Nat:~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5529169039411017316?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5529169039411017316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-project-3rd-piece-of-puzzle.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5529169039411017316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5529169039411017316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-project-3rd-piece-of-puzzle.html' title='My Project 3rd piece of the puzzle'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S6CTz72G7oI/AAAAAAAAAWk/hwvm1kiXtRw/s72-c/Top+piece+chrystallier+prep+finished.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-3779659304005432071</id><published>2010-03-14T20:10:00.003+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-14T20:16:01.994+10:30</updated><title type='text'>'Sugar Baby Creations' givaway!</title><content type='html'>Hello dear blogsters!&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;hope you have all had a great weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I thought I'd let you know about this givaway&amp;nbsp;from Mina&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;'Sugar Baby Creations', (for her 100th Post).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5yrshF1X_I/AAAAAAAAAWc/IQqGQKSnpws/s1600-h/Mina%27s+album.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5yrshF1X_I/AAAAAAAAAWc/IQqGQKSnpws/s320/Mina%27s+album.jpg" vt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is a beautiful&amp;nbsp;mini album scrapped by Mina&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;herself, with some very pretty pages inside!&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;To see more pictures and to enter the draw, click on the link below and go leave her a message!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sugarbabycreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.sugarbabycreations.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;GOOD LUCK!!!&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;LL Nat:~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-3779659304005432071?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/3779659304005432071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/sugar-baby-creations-givaway.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3779659304005432071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3779659304005432071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/sugar-baby-creations-givaway.html' title='&apos;Sugar Baby Creations&apos; givaway!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5yrshF1X_I/AAAAAAAAAWc/IQqGQKSnpws/s72-c/Mina%27s+album.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-6531054021623652337</id><published>2010-03-11T18:46:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-11T18:46:15.751+10:30</updated><title type='text'>My project 2nd piece of the puzzle</title><content type='html'>Yesterday was my day off from my commitements (with elderly parents) so I spent the best part of the day working on my new project.&lt;br /&gt;I am giving you a glimpse at the second piece. I think you will be able to work out what it is from this photo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't a very good day for painting but I managed to get 2 coats of undercoat done!&lt;br /&gt;It would've been easier for me to get my husband to do it (he is a painter) and it would probrably have been finished by now but&amp;nbsp;it is&amp;nbsp;my project and I want to enjoy every minute of it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5ilCYHml4I/AAAAAAAAAWU/HVIx2QK-H7Y/s1600-h/My+project+piece+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5ilCYHml4I/AAAAAAAAAWU/HVIx2QK-H7Y/s320/My+project+piece+2.jpg" vt="true" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I can't wait to get this finished and see if it comes out as I picture it to!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I have tomorrow morning off so I will work on it some more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Wish me luck!!!&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;LL Nat :~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-6531054021623652337?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/6531054021623652337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-project-2nd-piece-of-puzzle.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6531054021623652337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6531054021623652337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-project-2nd-piece-of-puzzle.html' title='My project 2nd piece of the puzzle'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5ilCYHml4I/AAAAAAAAAWU/HVIx2QK-H7Y/s72-c/My+project+piece+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-7029151604360242267</id><published>2010-03-08T18:31:00.003+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-08T18:48:28.984+10:30</updated><title type='text'>New (from old) project!</title><content type='html'>Greetings dear blogsters!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you have all had a super weekend!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm working on a new project which is probably going to take me around 2wks&amp;nbsp;(could be more)&amp;nbsp;of my spare time to complete.&lt;br /&gt;I am giving you a sneak peek but&amp;nbsp;if you want to know more, you need to come back&amp;nbsp;in a couple of days when I'll be posting more clues, sorry!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part one (below) has been completed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5SjoHbuJwI/AAAAAAAAAWM/7gqjMbtZ_fw/s1600-h/my+project+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5SjoHbuJwI/AAAAAAAAAWM/7gqjMbtZ_fw/s320/my+project+2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw this gorgeous print at Ikea! It was exactly the sort of thing I was after. &lt;br /&gt;This is glued to a piece of MDF (Particle Board). I liked it so much (the way it looked) that I was tempted to hang it up as a print.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for more!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LL Nat :~)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-7029151604360242267?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/7029151604360242267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-project.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7029151604360242267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7029151604360242267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-project.html' title='New (from old) project!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S5SjoHbuJwI/AAAAAAAAAWM/7gqjMbtZ_fw/s72-c/my+project+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5384158610742211941</id><published>2010-03-03T22:08:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-04T08:47:36.177+10:30</updated><title type='text'>Great Givaway</title><content type='html'>Hi all, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm excited to tell you about this great givaway I saw on a post!&lt;br /&gt;Epiphane are giving away a choice of a Cannon 5D Mark ll or $2500 gift certificate to Southwest Airlines!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go check it out by clicking on the link below!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haveanepiphanie.com/home/2010/2/28/epiphanie-give-away.html"&gt;http://www.haveanepiphanie.com/home/2010/2/28/epiphanie-give-away.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LL Nat&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5384158610742211941?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5384158610742211941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/great-givaway.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5384158610742211941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5384158610742211941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/great-givaway.html' title='Great Givaway'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-8439175656151242917</id><published>2010-03-03T12:44:00.016+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-03T19:03:00.597+10:30</updated><title type='text'>Northern Lights/Adelaide/South Australia</title><content type='html'>Greetings my blogster friends! &lt;br /&gt;At the moment in Adelaide/South Australia we have the fringe festival and the city is abuuuuuzzz.....with tourists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Friday night, we went to see the Northern Lights (a friend had asked me if I had seen them.....seen them? I didn't even know about them, so much&amp;nbsp;for advertising)&amp;nbsp;and as, &amp;nbsp;I always take my camera with me I thought I'd take some photos...but alas my battery was dead.....not to worry I'll use my mobile, all excited I get it out, go to take a photo and guess what?.....yep you guessed it, 'low battery' flashing.......so on Saturday off we went again and this time both camera and mobile were totally charged...I made suuuure of that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JEF5-t2I/AAAAAAAAAVs/qqEnMMQ6qGM/s1600-h/Northern+lights+sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JEF5-t2I/AAAAAAAAAVs/qqEnMMQ6qGM/s320/Northern+lights+sign.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could not believe how many people were in the city! The traffic was at a crawl. It looked like a foreign country LOL. Here in Adelaide we can still (NORMALLY) move with ease in the city!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway getting to the point, I wanted to share, with those of you who can't see them in person, these beautiful lit up buildings, keep in mind these are just your normal, old stone buildings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you will see in the photos, these buildings are lit up with different patterns and colours, they look so good, they look as though they have been painted that way...until they change the pattern, that is! &amp;nbsp;( This occurs every 5minutes or so ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These lights go on from 28th Feb-5th March,&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;every night from 10pm-12am&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;If you would like to see MORE,&amp;nbsp;there are&amp;nbsp;another&amp;nbsp;4 more&amp;nbsp;photos on the next page and some more on flickr, you can click 'read more' below, or click on my flickr link on the right, to go view the other different patterns.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I hope you enjoy!!!&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;LL Nat :~)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&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;The first three pictures are of the same building, taken at different times! &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;You can see how the patterns vary.&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;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S429_7_FPTI/AAAAAAAAAU8/tFhzqaM1uT0/s320/pink+and+blue.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;br /&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JgyJnxjI/AAAAAAAAAV8/F6H3ZqA8Z1s/s1600-h/patterned+lights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JgyJnxjI/AAAAAAAAAV8/F6H3ZqA8Z1s/s320/patterned+lights.jpg" 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;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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JXKu6-MI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1LSzcegzwOI/s1600-h/Nthrn+lghts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JXKu6-MI/AAAAAAAAAV0/1LSzcegzwOI/s320/Nthrn+lghts.jpg" 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;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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S42-KrkCEZI/AAAAAAAAAVM/Xc32-vlE-5k/s1600-h/pink+and+purple+building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S42-KrkCEZI/AAAAAAAAAVM/Xc32-vlE-5k/s320/pink+and+purple+building.jpg" 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/3730902017708894913-8439175656151242917?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/8439175656151242917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/northern-lightsadelaidesouth-australia.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8439175656151242917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8439175656151242917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/northern-lightsadelaidesouth-australia.html' title='Northern Lights/Adelaide/South Australia'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S43JEF5-t2I/AAAAAAAAAVs/qqEnMMQ6qGM/s72-c/Northern+lights+sign.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-8913576586725088927</id><published>2010-02-22T23:31:00.008+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-22T23:49:26.773+10:30</updated><title type='text'>Hahndorf (our treat)</title><content type='html'>Greetings blogsters!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine wasn't the most exciting (very quiet one) so this morning I went with my daughters (as a bit of a treat) to a place called Hahndorf. (Around 40 min drive from the city).&lt;br /&gt;It's a quaint Little town in the Adelaide hills, &amp;nbsp;Sth. Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Hahndorf they have this gorgeous cafe` called &lt;strong&gt;chocolate n.5&lt;/strong&gt;. They make the best hot chocolate and waffles to die for. (Our treat when we need a pick me up).&lt;br /&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://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J2PZjmQSI/AAAAAAAAAR8/i1Bf-CZG6rc/s1600-h/Chocolate+n.5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="270" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J2PZjmQSI/AAAAAAAAAR8/i1Bf-CZG6rc/s320/Chocolate+n.5.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I forgot to take a photo of the waffles,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;it wasn't until half way through eating, that I realise I hadn't taken a photo of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;very thing&lt;/strong&gt; we went there for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had been a while since we had some waffles and as this will be my last treat for 4wks you can understand why I forgot to take the photo, &lt;strong&gt;I was busy savouring every mouthful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some beautiful old stone buildings and lots of &lt;strong&gt;amazing&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;art and craft shops at Hahndorf.&lt;br /&gt;Hahndorf was established by German immigrants in Adelaide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3ImZcO3I/AAAAAAAAASE/ckBsT6-5uHE/s1600-h/Vintage+child%27s+car.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3ImZcO3I/AAAAAAAAASE/ckBsT6-5uHE/s320/Vintage+child%27s+car.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This gorgeous red vintage car was out the front of a craft shop.&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3a3AWMhI/AAAAAAAAASM/gf-OqxecO0I/s1600-h/Vintage+wagon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3a3AWMhI/AAAAAAAAASM/gf-OqxecO0I/s320/Vintage+wagon.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This beautiful old wagon advertises the market. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This brought back memories of when I was a child and used to ride&amp;nbsp;on the back of one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(Back home in Italy).&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3lUSK08I/AAAAAAAAASc/biIfSIPvzsI/s1600-h/P2220660.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J3lUSK08I/AAAAAAAAASc/biIfSIPvzsI/s320/P2220660.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love stone buildings!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I don't think modern buildings have anywhere near the charecter, these have!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The wooden tubs all over the footpaths add charm to the place!&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;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a great tourist attraction so if you come to Adelaide go see it. It is only around 40min., &amp;nbsp;from the city.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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/3730902017708894913-8913576586725088927?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/8913576586725088927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/hahndorf-our-treat.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8913576586725088927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8913576586725088927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/hahndorf-our-treat.html' title='Hahndorf (our treat)'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S4J2PZjmQSI/AAAAAAAAAR8/i1Bf-CZG6rc/s72-c/Chocolate+n.5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-1369638930306665295</id><published>2010-02-14T20:38:00.014+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-14T23:24:41.709+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valentine&apos;s day/Chinese new year'/><title type='text'>Happy St. Valentine's Day everyone!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fGN5efFRI/AAAAAAAAAQk/3fXDL6NKLO8/s1600-h/heart+balloons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fGN5efFRI/AAAAAAAAAQk/3fXDL6NKLO8/s200/heart+balloons.jpg" width="122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning at church, the priest told us the story of how Valentine's day came about. &lt;br /&gt;Apparently in the time of the reign of Claudius 2nd., Claudius decided he didn't want his army of men to get married because he wanted them to be totally dedicated to the army. When Valentine saw the distress these young men suffered he went against Claudius and married them in secret.&lt;br /&gt;When Claudius found out, he had Valentine Tortured and beheaded. Not a good story but&amp;nbsp; if it's true, it goes to show what people would do for love! (This is a short version Google it if you want to find out more).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fF6YQ3hbI/AAAAAAAAAP8/PrSYNCN1h1U/s1600-h/Tree+of+hearts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fF6YQ3hbI/AAAAAAAAAP8/PrSYNCN1h1U/s320/Tree+of+hearts.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I hope you all had a super Valentine's day and wishing you all much love!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy Chinese New Year as well!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&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;/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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fKL0W8elI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/vmDTD-cXSyU/s1600-h/cartoons_clipart_image5+dragon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fKL0W8elI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/vmDTD-cXSyU/s320/cartoons_clipart_image5+dragon.jpg" /&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;(We had a beautiful dragon, dance in Church this morning). They put on a good show!&lt;br /&gt;I hope you like the clipart, I got off the net free, (Thanks to the generosity of&amp;nbsp;the people who create them and give them away). There sure are some talented people out there!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;LL Nat xxx&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-1369638930306665295?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/1369638930306665295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-valentines-day.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/1369638930306665295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/1369638930306665295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='Happy St. Valentine&apos;s Day everyone!'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3fGN5efFRI/AAAAAAAAAQk/3fXDL6NKLO8/s72-c/heart+balloons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-2563248116938881500</id><published>2010-02-13T14:53:00.008+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-13T22:05:18.912+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hills.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Waterfall Gully South Australia'/><title type='text'>Waterfall Gully Walk.</title><content type='html'>Greetings Blogsters!&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday we took my cousin (who is over from Italy) for a walk up the hills to a place called Waterfall Gully,&amp;nbsp;here in&amp;nbsp;South Aus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;We went for a nice walk up the mountain with lots of nature to see along the way. We were going to go all the way up (3km) but when we got about 1km up it was just too hot so we turned back. (It a very steep climb).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;was able to take&amp;nbsp;some lovely shots so I thought I'd share a few with you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;If you want to see more you can click on my flickr link.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;The first two are of the waterfall. (I know! To those of you who have humungus waterfalls, this is more of a&amp;nbsp;trickle). To us though it's a Waterfall. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I love this spot, it's so serene and only less than ten minutes from the city!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjRR06v7I/AAAAAAAAAPk/tCIBFFUpBig/s1600-h/Cascade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjRR06v7I/AAAAAAAAAPk/tCIBFFUpBig/s320/Cascade.jpg" width="179" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjBl1WYdI/AAAAAAAAAPU/XfJRjAALkow/s1600-h/Waterfall+Gully+S.Aus..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjBl1WYdI/AAAAAAAAAPU/XfJRjAALkow/s320/Waterfall+Gully+S.Aus..jpg" width="179" /&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 love Blackberries and although they're just starting to ripen, I have to confess I JUST HAD to sample. YUUUMMMY!!!&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://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YisJyCkbI/AAAAAAAAAO0/pglzHe-iMbM/s1600-h/Blackberries+at+Waterfally+Gully.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="177" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YisJyCkbI/AAAAAAAAAO0/pglzHe-iMbM/s320/Blackberries+at+Waterfally+Gully.jpg" 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;This photo below is my fav, I would love this in my back yard!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Yi7GuNcmI/AAAAAAAAAPM/5FvsOZdyNVQ/s1600-h/Stone+Path.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Yi7GuNcmI/AAAAAAAAAPM/5FvsOZdyNVQ/s320/Stone+Path.jpg" 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;This photo below is a game for you, it's called 'Spot the Cricket'.&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;This looks like&amp;nbsp;debris but there is a treasure among 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;Let me know if you found the cricket!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjGKYgSXI/AAAAAAAAAPc/U6VIuDL9fnU/s1600-h/Spot+the+cricket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjGKYgSXI/AAAAAAAAAPc/U6VIuDL9fnU/s320/Spot+the+cricket.jpg" 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;I love the dry tree branch holding on tooth and nail, left and right is a photo of the woods, pretty!&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://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YqleqC9TI/AAAAAAAAAP0/TA_NgHZGbvM/s1600-h/In+the+woods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YqleqC9TI/AAAAAAAAAP0/TA_NgHZGbvM/s320/In+the+woods.jpg" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Yqg502mRI/AAAAAAAAAPs/U93PVNUJHIU/s1600-h/Dry+tree+branch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Yqg502mRI/AAAAAAAAAPs/U93PVNUJHIU/s320/Dry+tree+branch.jpg" width="180" /&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;We had a lovely walk getting to know my cousin whom we'd never met, he said he really enjoyed it too but wished it was a bit cooler so we could've gone all the way up. &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;My husband has agreed to take him back next week, one morning, early, before it gets too hot and then they'll have breakfast at the restaurant which has been (cleverly) constructed at the top.&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;LL Nat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-2563248116938881500?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/2563248116938881500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/greetings-blogsters-yesterday-we-took.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/2563248116938881500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/2563248116938881500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/greetings-blogsters-yesterday-we-took.html' title='Waterfall Gully Walk.'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3YjRR06v7I/AAAAAAAAAPk/tCIBFFUpBig/s72-c/Cascade.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-8415439833082159089</id><published>2010-02-10T23:49:00.004+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-17T10:08:37.963+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Crocheted Hat and Scarf/my creation.'/><title type='text'>My Hat and Scarf</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;A few days ago My daughter asked me if I wanted to go to Spotlight with her, I jumped at the chance!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;While she was looking for material to make my other daughter a bag, (which turned out beautiful by the way) . I went to look at the bargain table. (I love bargain hunting).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I found 3 ball of this gorgeous wool for $2 ea. I thought 'this will make a nice warm hat'.&lt;/em&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;em&gt;Let me tell you, it is not easy to crochet with this wool, as it goes from quite thin to very bulky, as you can see in the picture.&lt;/em&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3KrcLrt2KI/AAAAAAAAAOU/vpIbj6tPWUY/s1600-h/strnd+of+wool+from+my+hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="179" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3KrcLrt2KI/AAAAAAAAAOU/vpIbj6tPWUY/s320/strnd+of+wool+from+my+hat.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/em&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; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The other night, there was nothing interesting on tv (I'm sick of crime shows) so I decide to crochet my hat. Here it is.&amp;nbsp; It was quick&amp;nbsp;(I did it in a few hours) although the wool was annoying to pull through when it got to the bulky bits. No patterns were used. I just followed my instict! &lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;I found a button in my collection that went perfectly with it so I stitched it on.&lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&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://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3KsZp8cKpI/AAAAAAAAAOc/bs0KNzzwNh0/s1600-h/hat+on+stand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3KsZp8cKpI/AAAAAAAAAOc/bs0KNzzwNh0/s400/hat+on+stand.jpg" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/em&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; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Considering we have been having weather in the high 30s, I never thought I'd be making a winter hat.&lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;I had 1 ball of wool left over so I decided to make a scarf to go with it. I crocheted 3 long strands of chains, platted them together, tied the ends in a knot at top and bottom and left the ends loose as tassles.&lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Ks0B-sm9I/AAAAAAAAAOk/QtGmYZeq1Bs/s1600-h/my+scarf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3Ks0B-sm9I/AAAAAAAAAOk/QtGmYZeq1Bs/s400/my+scarf.jpg" width="223" /&gt;&lt;/em&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; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&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;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&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;em&gt;As you can see it is bulky in places and thinner in others but I like things that are a bit different so at least I don't have to worry about seeing anyone else with the same!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&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;em&gt;Total cost $6.&lt;/em&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;em&gt;I hope you like and&amp;nbsp;it inspires you to create!&lt;/em&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;em&gt;LL Nat&lt;/em&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="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/3730902017708894913-8415439833082159089?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/8415439833082159089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-hat-and-scarf.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8415439833082159089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/8415439833082159089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-hat-and-scarf.html' title='My Hat and Scarf'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S3KrcLrt2KI/AAAAAAAAAOU/vpIbj6tPWUY/s72-c/strnd+of+wool+from+my+hat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-6965946220209238835</id><published>2010-02-06T15:16:00.006+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-18T21:42:27.789+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Organic fruit and vegetables'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='edible plants&apos; flowers.'/><title type='text'>Organic, Home grown v Bought</title><content type='html'>Recently I bought some nectarines that looked a million dollars but when I ate them, they tasted like poison!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know what they use to treat them but if the taste (and the way my stomach felt afterward) is anything to go by, it can't be good for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;This, (needless to say) has brought me to appreciate the few fruit and vegies we&amp;nbsp; grow in the garden. I thought I'd share them with you.&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;/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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zsFadlHoI/AAAAAAAAAM0/pkiyIJrR2nk/s1600-h/peach+organic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zsFadlHoI/AAAAAAAAAM0/pkiyIJrR2nk/s200/peach+organic.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zrZHmytFI/AAAAAAAAAMk/KcDtlbKJtPA/s1600-h/organic+peaches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zrZHmytFI/AAAAAAAAAMk/KcDtlbKJtPA/s200/organic+peaches.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;These are some peaches we have at the moment. Although they don't look the best, they taste amazing!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I guess that's why they call them 'Million dollar Peaches' &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;Nothing beats the taste of home grown fruit!!!&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="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Below is a picture of our blood&amp;nbsp;oranges, they are green at the moment but I can't wait till they ripen as they are the only oranges I (absolutely) love!!!&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://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2ztNfkz5UI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Gu6LddlW1AM/s1600-h/blood+oranges+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2ztNfkz5UI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Gu6LddlW1AM/s320/blood+oranges+green.jpg" width="238" /&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;We are&amp;nbsp;now trying to grow as much organic produce as we can. I'm encouraging my husband to plant more fruit trees.&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;We also have&amp;nbsp;fresh herbs,&amp;nbsp;(which I love cooking with as nothing gives the same flavour to foods), lemon tree, chilli plant, eggplants, potatoes.&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;Below left is a photo of the potato plant flowers. ( I think they are so prettty) Vegetables and herbs actually have some very pretty flowers!!!&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;To the right is the flower from a&amp;nbsp;plant called chicory, which is a bitter lettuce type of plant, to cook as greens. Very healthy!&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;In the middle is a branch of our lemon tree.&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zvI_qUOEI/AAAAAAAAANE/kuVySPjDV5I/s1600-h/organic+potato+plant+and+flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zvI_qUOEI/AAAAAAAAANE/kuVySPjDV5I/s200/organic+potato+plant+and+flower.jpg" width="186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zvm7H5YmI/AAAAAAAAANM/pE5I3T5tvr4/s1600-h/Lettuce+flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zvm7H5YmI/AAAAAAAAANM/pE5I3T5tvr4/s200/Lettuce+flower.jpg" width="186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zwgdwdnWI/AAAAAAAAANU/5JoWau8ZU-I/s1600-h/our+lemons+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zwgdwdnWI/AAAAAAAAANU/5JoWau8ZU-I/s200/our+lemons+green.jpg" width="186" /&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;Last but not least I thought I'd show you a photo of the pomegrate (as in an earlier post) fully ripened. This is a photo of&amp;nbsp;one from last year as this year's have a few weeks to go yet.&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;The grandchildren have a ball picking the seeds out ot them and eating them!&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;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2z1RLkslbI/AAAAAAAAANk/5rQMPT1QrRY/s1600-h/Pomegranate+fully+mature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2z1RLkslbI/AAAAAAAAANk/5rQMPT1QrRY/s320/Pomegranate+fully+mature.jpg" width="240" /&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="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;When our Mulberries are in season I will take a photo of them and show you what they look like.&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 hope this inspires you all, to grow some fruit and vegetables, because no matter how small your garden you can always grow something, even if it's in pots.&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;LL Nat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-6965946220209238835?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/6965946220209238835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/organic-home-grown-v-bought.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6965946220209238835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6965946220209238835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/02/organic-home-grown-v-bought.html' title='Organic, Home grown v Bought'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2zsFadlHoI/AAAAAAAAAM0/pkiyIJrR2nk/s72-c/peach+organic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5427364768691547386</id><published>2010-01-29T19:49:00.011+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-18T19:40:06.850+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Basa Freshwater Fish Fillets Delicious'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My own version of Garlic Prawns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='own recipe creation.'/><title type='text'>SEAFOOD TONIGHT</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Greetings Blogsters!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This afternoon I went to do some shopping and saw some lovely green prawns, I thought 'I haven't cooked fish for a while (I'm not a fish person but love shell fish) so tonight I think I'll cook some prawns', &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then some saw some Basa Freshwater Fish fillets that looked so nice so I bought a couple of those too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not what you call a confident cook so I basically cook from my heart, adding what I feel might taste nice, not what the recipe say will.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Took shopping home and immediately started to clean the prawns (hard job but so worth it).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;For photos and recipe,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KdzDEzw-I/AAAAAAAAALs/7NLJONzYSxg/s1600-h/Raw+Prawns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KdzDEzw-I/AAAAAAAAALs/7NLJONzYSxg/s200/Raw+Prawns.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I&amp;nbsp;then placed them in a dish and added some freshly grounded LEMON ZEST&amp;nbsp;and the juice of half lemon and&amp;nbsp;the other half I used for decoration purposes.&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KeEdJhtkI/AAAAAAAAAL0/1X0i5hXo2C0/s1600-h/cleaned+Prawns+with+grated+lemon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KeEdJhtkI/AAAAAAAAAL0/1X0i5hXo2C0/s320/cleaned+Prawns+with+grated+lemon.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then in a separate bowl I added&amp;nbsp;, a good&amp;nbsp;splash of OLIVE OIL, about 2 tablespoons of (The Food Company) crushed onion,&amp;nbsp;garlic and chilli. Then I chopped 3or4 small sprigs thyme and 3 or 4 small stems of Italian Parsley and added it to the mixture.&lt;br /&gt;I poured it on the Prawns and (with freshly&amp;nbsp;washed hands) I&amp;nbsp;mixed it into the prawns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KeW6CHfOI/AAAAAAAAAL8/GjAyYxWhtzM/s1600-h/Marinated+Prawns+ready+to+cook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KeW6CHfOI/AAAAAAAAAL8/GjAyYxWhtzM/s320/Marinated+Prawns+ready+to+cook.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have to tell you, they smelt so nice at this stage I just about wanted to eat them raw, I knew I had created something special here! (I hope I don't sound too boastful!)&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;Then it was off to the HOT&amp;nbsp;frying pan, to which I added a splash of&amp;nbsp;vegetable oil and a BIG&amp;nbsp;dollop of butter.&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2Kf-cXh_KI/AAAAAAAAAME/AepTp4PXWbc/s1600-h/Prawns+cooking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2Kf-cXh_KI/AAAAAAAAAME/AepTp4PXWbc/s320/Prawns+cooking.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Cooked the prawns for a couple min each side and Voi-la`!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is the end result.&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;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KgYj8qIxI/AAAAAAAAAMM/wnPrLS7JO8I/s1600-h/Cooked+Prawns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KgYj8qIxI/AAAAAAAAAMM/wnPrLS7JO8I/s320/Cooked+Prawns.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;&lt;em&gt;There was all this beautiful juice left over, 'what do I do with&amp;nbsp;it?&amp;nbsp;Hang on&amp;nbsp;what about the fillets? I know I'll add a splash&amp;nbsp;of white wine and in go the fillets.' &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;&lt;em&gt;I must say I was so plesantly&amp;nbsp;surprised with the end result that I reckon I could just about sell the recipe to a restaurant. lol&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;&lt;em&gt;The family and I sure enjoyed eating them!!!&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;Sorry Min I tried to ring you but there was no answer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Honest truth!!!&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KiczivOjI/AAAAAAAAAMU/3qbRosL4b4k/s1600-h/Basa+Freshwater++Fish,+Fillets.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KiczivOjI/AAAAAAAAAMU/3qbRosL4b4k/s320/Basa+Freshwater++Fish,+Fillets.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;These are the Fish Fillets. As I said I don't like fish but I really enjoyed these because they didn't have a fishy taste.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Buon Appetito!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5427364768691547386?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5427364768691547386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/seafood-tonight.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5427364768691547386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5427364768691547386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/seafood-tonight.html' title='SEAFOOD TONIGHT'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2KdzDEzw-I/AAAAAAAAALs/7NLJONzYSxg/s72-c/Raw+Prawns.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-6139530935513291672</id><published>2010-01-28T23:47:00.004+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:06:51.324+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hand made bear'/><title type='text'>My teddy Rufus</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Greetings blogsters,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;seeing that I did say in my profile that I enjoy making bears, I thought I better post a photo of at least one of my bears.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is my first opened mouth bear I have made. He is made from good quality synthetic fur, suede hand and foot pads and glass eyes. His face has been scissor sculpeted to give him his charecter. He stands at around 22cm high, is jointed at arms and legs and head with wooden disks and cotter pins, this makes him very posable.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The back of his eyes have been shaded with copic markers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I enjoy making bears as I never know what charecter they take on. I look forward to finishing them and see what name suits them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This one I thought looked like a Rufus! What do you think?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2GSKPiyTiI/AAAAAAAAALc/_p20eb5NQGk/s1600-h/Rufus+my+opened+mouth+bear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" mt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2GSKPiyTiI/AAAAAAAAALc/_p20eb5NQGk/s400/Rufus+my+opened+mouth+bear.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&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://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2GSQz2d92I/AAAAAAAAALk/ajV7vX3ONEo/s1600-h/Rufus+standing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" mt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2GSQz2d92I/AAAAAAAAALk/ajV7vX3ONEo/s400/Rufus+standing.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The tongue on this little fellow was also shaded using copic markers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&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="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;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-6139530935513291672?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/6139530935513291672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-teddy-rufus.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6139530935513291672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/6139530935513291672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-teddy-rufus.html' title='My teddy Rufus'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S2GSKPiyTiI/AAAAAAAAALc/_p20eb5NQGk/s72-c/Rufus+my+opened+mouth+bear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-4789998898336956845</id><published>2010-01-27T00:13:00.025+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-18T19:40:48.652+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rocks.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shark egg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Treasures found on beach getaway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunset'/><title type='text'>Aldinga Beach Getaway</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;This weekend I went with my daughter Mina and her family to Aldinga Beach (South Australia) for a weekend getaway. The weather was nice and warm, good beach wheather. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The "Tour Down Under" (Bicycle Race) went through Aldinga Beach so the city was abuzz with excitement.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The beach on one side (Silver Sands) is so clean, has the finest sand and is just beautiful to walk on. In contrast just 5min down the road it is hilly, rocky and hardly able to walk on but great fun for exploring.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The first day we went to Silver Sands, there were cars parked on the beach, as far as the eye could see. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The last day my daughter and I took my granddaughters to the Rocky one where we had to climb down a steep, winding path. (I felt like I went back to my childhood as I was a bit of a tomboy and loved climbing rocks, trees, roofs, anything really). We went treasure hunting to see what little treasures we could find...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ambi (Miss 9) found a shark egg, I found a rock with my initial on it, my daughter pointed out that the N was written exactly as I do my N's, I am including a photo to show you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;How Bizarre!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sissy (Miss 5) found pretty shells and Mina photographed anything in sight. It was so much fun!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a photo of Silver Sands the rest below are of Aldinga Beach rocky side.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S175SiCEJlI/AAAAAAAAAK8/4tiV_3h4Y-Q/s1600-h/Cars+at+Silver+Sands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S175SiCEJlI/AAAAAAAAAK8/4tiV_3h4Y-Q/s320/Cars+at+Silver+Sands.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;em&gt;&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;&lt;em&gt;Left: Shark Egg Ambi found&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Right: Rock with my initial on it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&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://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17I1EA4A-I/AAAAAAAAAGc/u9SOSqCRYvk/s1600-h/Shark+egg+Ambi+found+close+up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17I1EA4A-I/AAAAAAAAAGc/u9SOSqCRYvk/s200/Shark+egg+Ambi+found+close+up.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JKBCwteI/AAAAAAAAAGs/UmQZo01tpOc/s1600-h/Rock+with+N+on+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; height: 192px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 237px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="147" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JKBCwteI/AAAAAAAAAGs/UmQZo01tpOc/s200/Rock+with+N+on+it.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &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;Sissy with "Snowflakes Seaweed" she said "Nonna this seaweed looks likes snowflakes, hence the name&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Jh0ahVUI/AAAAAAAAAG8/A8P8M0LcomU/s1600-h/Sissy+holding+white+seaweed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Jh0ahVUI/AAAAAAAAAG8/A8P8M0LcomU/s320/Sissy+holding+white+seaweed.jpg" /&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;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;/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;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KDaI0j5I/AAAAAAAAAHc/fBtZxbQwa_M/s1600-h/pretty+shell+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KDaI0j5I/AAAAAAAAAHc/fBtZxbQwa_M/s320/pretty+shell+2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KXTalekI/AAAAAAAAAHk/iBmMH-g8NYo/s1600-h/Sissy+on+rocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KXTalekI/AAAAAAAAAHk/iBmMH-g8NYo/s320/Sissy+on+rocks.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KioxUqAI/AAAAAAAAAHs/R1c2g2aOzRg/s1600-h/Ambi+exploring+Aldinga+Beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" mt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17KioxUqAI/AAAAAAAAAHs/R1c2g2aOzRg/s320/Ambi+exploring+Aldinga+Beach.jpg" 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;The girls had an amazing time and didn't want to go home&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://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Joocp4nI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Hb05s5vWTg8/s1600-h/girls+at+sundown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Joocp4nI/AAAAAAAAAHE/Hb05s5vWTg8/s320/girls+at+sundown.jpg" /&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;You can sure find some wonderful things on the beach&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Ks8WN4iI/AAAAAAAAAH0/hewA1jwrZss/s1600-h/Shells+and+pebbles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17Ks8WN4iI/AAAAAAAAAH0/hewA1jwrZss/s320/Shells+and+pebbles.jpg" 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;I love this photo of Mina, it's as though the Sun was embracing her&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17J6UVoOfI/AAAAAAAAAHU/A4yGmkaE3TI/s1600-h/Min+with+sun+on+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="236" mt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17J6UVoOfI/AAAAAAAAAHU/A4yGmkaE3TI/s320/Min+with+sun+on+head.jpg" 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;Mina looking to see what would make for a great photo&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/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JvtVq11I/AAAAAAAAAHM/dCXptMcHQFg/s1600-h/I+think+Mum+found+something.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JvtVq11I/AAAAAAAAAHM/dCXptMcHQFg/s320/I+think+Mum+found+something.jpg" width="240" /&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;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JbC_c_AI/AAAAAAAAAG0/02GtOKeUHBw/s1600-h/Sandy+rock+pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S17JbC_c_AI/AAAAAAAAAG0/02GtOKeUHBw/s320/Sandy+rock+pool.jpg" width="240" /&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;If you would like to view more photos of this amazing beach click on my flickr link on the right.&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;LL Nat x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-4789998898336956845?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/4789998898336956845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/aldinga-beach-getaway.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/4789998898336956845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/4789998898336956845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/aldinga-beach-getaway.html' title='Aldinga Beach Getaway'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S175SiCEJlI/AAAAAAAAAK8/4tiV_3h4Y-Q/s72-c/Cars+at+Silver+Sands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-385890218641969976</id><published>2010-01-21T18:22:00.005+10:30</published><updated>2010-03-01T17:46:38.559+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thankful:~)'/><title type='text'>Thankful</title><content type='html'>&lt;div 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;br /&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 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I am thankful for everyone who has ever touched my life in any way, (good or bad) no matter for how brief a moment, for they have helped shape me to be the person I am today!&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;br /&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 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Everyone serves a purpose in our lives and whatever those purposes it's all a growing curve.&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 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;br /&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 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1gIczqhhJI/AAAAAAAAAF8/pxG56yco3vY/s1600-h/free-clipart-flowers39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1gIczqhhJI/AAAAAAAAAF8/pxG56yco3vY/s320/free-clipart-flowers39.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&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 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;br /&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="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Thank you x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-385890218641969976?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/385890218641969976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/thankful.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/385890218641969976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/385890218641969976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/thankful.html' title='Thankful'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1gIczqhhJI/AAAAAAAAAF8/pxG56yco3vY/s72-c/free-clipart-flowers39.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-28613400814401530</id><published>2010-01-20T20:19:00.006+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-18T21:47:06.547+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poem/Tribute for Haiti'/><title type='text'>My Tribute to Haiti</title><content type='html'>HAITI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;They look around at their beloved city&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is now reduced to a pile of rubble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Earthquake that shook Haiti&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Left its people in so much trouble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The shattered city is a monumental site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;With many lives lost and many pulled free&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In haste they answer their tremendous plight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;By sending many to help clean the debris&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do they recover from such devastation?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Only if the world unites to send much aid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There cannot be any procrastination&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because new foundations must now be laid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Haiti, you&amp;nbsp;will sing and rejoice again&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;As your lives will be built anew&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It may take some time to ease your pain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;But the world unites in prayer for you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loving wishes, Haiti&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-28613400814401530?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/28613400814401530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/28613400814401530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/28613400814401530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti.html' title='My Tribute to Haiti'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5763323086077755392</id><published>2010-01-20T16:20:00.017+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-17T12:35:02.845+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grandchildren/Babysitting'/><title type='text'>Granddaughters</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Today I had the pleasure of babysitting and spending some time with my granddaughters&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(so that their mum can have the day free for sculpting). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children&amp;nbsp;are self sufficient these days, they just about look after themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miss 9 and Miss 5 arrived this morning with their little suitcases in tow, filled with their favourite things, so between the videos, colouring in, stamping etc., there wasn't much I needed to do for them except make their lunch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took some photos of their artworks. The first three are miss 5's and the last one is miss 9's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I even managed to get some embroidery done while they were here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you're making good progress on your sculpt Min!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;1/ Olympic Mascots by Miss 5 &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXWs8itgI/AAAAAAAAAE8/NtWQqc3zMho/s320/Sissy%27s+version+of+the+Olympic+Mascots.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&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;2/ Kevin and Russell from Up &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXf-Tj1QI/AAAAAAAAAFE/nw9a-jOLfc8/s1600-h/Sissy%27s+masterpiece.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXf-Tj1QI/AAAAAAAAAFE/nw9a-jOLfc8/s320/Sissy%27s+masterpiece.jpg" /&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;3/ drawwing by Miss 5 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXojE2sQI/AAAAAAAAAFM/QJFzC5KBfp4/s1600-h/Sissy%27s+art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXojE2sQI/AAAAAAAAAFM/QJFzC5KBfp4/s320/Sissy%27s+art.jpg" /&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;4/ Food at Dragon party by Miss 9&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXsla1oDI/AAAAAAAAAFU/tW9bn93vtwA/s1600-h/Ambi%27s+art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" mt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXsla1oDI/AAAAAAAAAFU/tW9bn93vtwA/s320/Ambi%27s+art.jpg" /&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/3730902017708894913-5763323086077755392?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5763323086077755392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/granddaughters.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5763323086077755392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5763323086077755392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/granddaughters.html' title='Granddaughters'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1aXWs8itgI/AAAAAAAAAE8/NtWQqc3zMho/s72-c/Sissy%27s+version+of+the+Olympic+Mascots.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-3406439884192333784</id><published>2010-01-18T20:48:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:27:15.287+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pomegrate branch'/><title type='text'>Different stages of the Pomegranate</title><content type='html'>A friend of ours moved back to Portugal a few years ago and before he left he said we could take anything from his garden that we liked.&lt;br /&gt;I looked around and saw a baby Pomegranate tree. It was so pretty that I kew it was what I would pick.&lt;br /&gt;My husband dug it out and replanted it in our backyard, (Not sure if it would take) but hoping and praying it would.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six or so years later the tree is not very big (they're not fast growing) but it never fails to produce some beautiful pomegranates. &lt;br /&gt;This morning I looked out the window and saw how pretty it looked so I grabbed my camera and went out to take some shots. I hope you like them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pomegranate Branch&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1WxcHEYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/Sz23HQwfZKw/s1600-h/pomegranate+branches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1WxcHEYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/Sz23HQwfZKw/s320/pomegranate+branches.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-3406439884192333784?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/3406439884192333784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_4003.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3406439884192333784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3406439884192333784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_4003.html' title='Different stages of the Pomegranate'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1WxcHEYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/Sz23HQwfZKw/s72-c/pomegranate+branches.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-7539302936926608618</id><published>2010-01-18T20:47:00.005+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:28:51.390+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unripened Pomegranate'/><title type='text'>Unripened pomegranate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1GSv_UAI/AAAAAAAAACk/I1bHyT4I654/s1600-h/Pomegrate+pre+maturity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1GSv_UAI/AAAAAAAAACk/I1bHyT4I654/s320/Pomegrate+pre+maturity.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&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/3730902017708894913-7539302936926608618?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/7539302936926608618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7539302936926608618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7539302936926608618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title='Unripened pomegranate'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1GSv_UAI/AAAAAAAAACk/I1bHyT4I654/s72-c/Pomegrate+pre+maturity.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-3461119803276880268</id><published>2010-01-18T20:47:00.004+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:28:25.042+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pomegranate bunch early stages'/><title type='text'>Pomegranate bunch early stages</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1PejdCKI/AAAAAAAAACs/SRW7mZM9bOc/s1600-h/pomegranate+baby+bunch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;.&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1PejdCKI/AAAAAAAAACs/SRW7mZM9bOc/s320/pomegranate+baby+bunch.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Every time it blooms, it reminds us of our friend and his beautiful gift to us.&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/3730902017708894913-3461119803276880268?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/3461119803276880268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_18.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3461119803276880268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3461119803276880268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_18.html' title='Pomegranate bunch early stages'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1Q1PejdCKI/AAAAAAAAACs/SRW7mZM9bOc/s72-c/pomegranate+baby+bunch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-3371661687723278519</id><published>2010-01-18T20:45:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:29:42.280+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pomegranate almost ripe'/><title type='text'>Pomegranate almost ripe</title><content type='html'>&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://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1QzwHUebpI/AAAAAAAAAB8/aCdvBZzULiE/s1600-h/Pomegranate+almost+mature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1QzwHUebpI/AAAAAAAAAB8/aCdvBZzULiE/s320/Pomegranate+almost+mature.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a piece of trivia for you: Apparently Pomegranates were once the Christian symbol of ressurection due to their many seeds.&lt;br /&gt;The Pomegranate was also considered a symbol of fertility and new life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love them because they have quite a distinct taste and look so beautiful.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-3371661687723278519?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/3371661687723278519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/pomegranate-tree.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3371661687723278519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/3371661687723278519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/pomegranate-tree.html' title='Pomegranate almost ripe'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S1QzwHUebpI/AAAAAAAAAB8/aCdvBZzULiE/s72-c/Pomegranate+almost+mature.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-5301716953482079803</id><published>2010-01-18T19:31:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:30:08.955+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Computer trouble'/><title type='text'>Computers</title><content type='html'>Computers, don't you just love them? The exteded warranty runs out and what happens? Ahhhh!!! You start having problems with them.&lt;br /&gt;I have been without mine for a few days, until today that is. I called the computer technician and thank goodness he was able to come past within a couple of hours.&lt;br /&gt;I'm happy to say it was something minor that he was able to fix there and then. Hooray I can now check out everyone's blogs.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Min &amp;amp; Mauri for letting me use your laptops to check my emails, over the last few days.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe we should start a new sign off appropriate for today, instead of best wishes etc., we could say,&lt;br /&gt;"wishing you computer problem FREE days".&lt;br /&gt;Love'n light Nat&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-5301716953482079803?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/5301716953482079803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/computers.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5301716953482079803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/5301716953482079803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/computers.html' title='Computers'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-7333067797828929656</id><published>2010-01-14T18:22:00.003+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:30:43.947+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Necklace/Bargain'/><title type='text'>New Necklace (Bargain)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings, Thursdays I take Mum shopping and since I have a couple of hours to kill while I wait for her, I make this my relaxation morning. I&amp;nbsp;meet my daughter&amp;nbsp;for a coffee &amp;amp; some breakfast (would love to take Mum too but&amp;nbsp;she prefers to eat at home) and then go bargain hunting, which I enjoy immensely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S07KtBflwyI/AAAAAAAAAA8/oD5YCYHMUbM/s1600-h/necklace+bargain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S07KtBflwyI/AAAAAAAAAA8/oD5YCYHMUbM/s320/necklace+bargain.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This morning I was lucky to find this pretty necklace which only cost $5. How good is that? I will probably only wear it when I go out somewhere special but for that price I couldn't pass it up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-7333067797828929656?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/7333067797828929656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/hi-there-thursdays-i-take-mum-shopping.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7333067797828929656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/7333067797828929656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/hi-there-thursdays-i-take-mum-shopping.html' title='New Necklace (Bargain)'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWFp68N3_Y/S07KtBflwyI/AAAAAAAAAA8/oD5YCYHMUbM/s72-c/necklace+bargain.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-9002979409645267412</id><published>2010-01-13T19:28:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2010-02-18T21:45:13.176+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poem/Ode to the people that have done it tough like my parents etc.'/><title type='text'>You Kept Going</title><content type='html'>Greetings, this morning I woke up at 6am and couldn't go back to sleep because I kept getting this poem playing in my head so I decided to&amp;nbsp;get up and write it down,&amp;nbsp;writing &amp;nbsp;poetry is something I enjoy, so here goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You Kept Going&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When times were tough &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;and you had enough&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You kept going&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When you felt alone &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;or like you'd lose your home&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You kept going&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When you felt so ill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&amp;nbsp; couldn't afford a pill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You kept going&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When you had no clue&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;how your next meal would come to you &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You kept going&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Never through all of this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;did you lose your faith or inner peace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You&amp;nbsp;still kept going&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You trusted that one day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;good things would come your way&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you could just keep going.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Love and Light Nat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-9002979409645267412?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/feeds/9002979409645267412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/greetings-this-morning-i-woke-up-at-6am.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/9002979409645267412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3730902017708894913/posts/default/9002979409645267412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovingwishes.blogspot.com/2010/01/greetings-this-morning-i-woke-up-at-6am.html' title='You Kept Going'/><author><name>Love 'n Light</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01232401554872006632</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M-8DKRZXjv8/Tqan3UAVE8I/AAAAAAAAAZs/NMwzC0KRnkE/s220/Me.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3730902017708894913.post-4989433679603881663</id><published>2010-01-13T12:35:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:32:05.137+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Welcome to my blog'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello my name Natalie or Nat as my friends call me, welcome to my new blog.&lt;br /&gt;This is going to be a blog about my interests and life as I see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love and Light Nat&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3730902017708894913-4989433679603881663?l=lovingwishes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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