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PRECIOSA ORNELA presents the new PRECIOSA Pip™ pressed bead from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads brand.
The bead’s dimensions of 5 x 7 mm comply with the current trend for mini beads. The axially symmetric flattened shape of the small core enables the realisation of half metal coating on both sides of the bead with the resulting effect of an overall decoration. The strung beads fit together tightly and create an interlocking zip effect. Six beads connected in a circle can easily be used to create an application in the shape of a flat flower which is a suitable accessory for seed bead embroidery. Thanks to its small protrusion, this bead is an excellent accessory to the two-hole PRECIOSA Twin™ beads and seed beads, like PRECIOSA Solo™.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Article number: 111 01 346
Size: 5 x 7 mm
ca KS / KG: 6600
Project: Flowering Meadow ON-LINE
Project: Ring Around The Rosie ON-LINE
Project: Wire Jewelry Making With PRECIOSA Pip™ ON-LINE
PRECIOSA ORNELA presents the new PRECIOSA Pip™ pressed bead from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads brand.
The bead’s dimensions of 5 x 7 mm comply with the current trend for mini beads. The axially symmetric flattened shape of the small core enables the realisation of half metal coating on both sides of the bead with the resulting effect of an overall decoration. The strung beads fit together tightly and create an interlocking zip effect. Six beads connected in a circle can easily be used to create an application in the shape of a flat flower which is a suitable accessory for seed bead embroidery. Thanks to its small protrusion, this bead is an excellent accessory to the two-hole PRECIOSA Twin™ beads and seed beads, like PRECIOSA Solo™.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Article number: 111 01 346
Size: 5 x 7 mm
ca KS / KG: 6600
Project: Flowering Meadow ON-LINE
Project: Ring Around The Rosie ON-LINE
Project: Wire Jewelry Making With PRECIOSA Pip™ ON-LINE
Back from getting pretty at Andreja's studio ^^ This makes me sooo happy!
She's wearing the obligatory 'welcome home' wig that seems to look good on everyone but hasn't found a permanent resident yet.
Now, I didn't realise this before but her sister actually wears an eye size that is larger than hers so I don't know which one to change... I shall ponder this along with wig choices. Pepper has always worn a fur wig but I'm not too sure for Pip.
Also, she is well floppy so I think perhaps some glue sueding is in order when I am feeling better.
Yes, I DID sell him a little more than a month ago... But I've been commissionned for several imp outfits and let's face it, it's easier to sew with the doll!
So, Pips is back, and I must admit I dont regret it ^^
Museo Histórico Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
There are at least two parts to the context behind these simple-looking objects: the Guaraní indians and the Jesuit missions, aka Jesuit reductions.
The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture states:
A unique experiment at controlling Indian populations took place in the northeastern area of the Río de la Plata. Starting in the seventeenth century, the Jesuits established religious missions; there were thirty mission towns by the middle of the eighteenth century. The Jesuit missions attracted a good number of Guaraní Indians, to whom the Jesuits offered protection and shelter against Portuguese bandeirantes (slave traders, who enslaved them) and enemy Indian groups. Mission Indians received religious education, knowledge of Spanish literacy skills, and training in music and crafts. They were allowed to hold land in common and to have their own ethnic authorities. Still, the priests supervised most aspects of economic and cultural life in the missions, although they left the solution of daily issues to the Indian authorities. These missions were major players in the colonial economy, especially in the production of yerba mate (a very popular infusion then and now), which was commercialized throughout the region. The missions helped also control the border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. To put an end to a long-standing conflict, in 1750 Spain decided to hand out most of the territory where the missions were located to Portugal in exchange for Colonia do Sacramento. Believing that Portugal was to dissolve the missions, the Indians rebelled against the territorial swap in the Guaraní War, but the rebellion was put down by forces of the two empires combined. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and its colonies in 1767, the missions entered a period of sharp decline.
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Para entender el significado de estas pipas, hay que conocer
por lo menos dos partes de su contexto histórico: Los indios guaraníes, y las reducciones jesuíticas.
Wikipedia conoce a los guaraníes:
Los guaraníes o avá, según su autodenominación étnica original (que significa "ser humano"), son un grupo de pueblos indígenas suramericanos que se ubican geográficamente en Paraguay, noreste de Argentina (en ciertas zonas de provincias de la Región del Litoral),1 sur y suroeste de Brasil (en los estados de Río Grande del Sur, Santa Catarina, Paraná y Mato Grosso del Sur) y sureste de Bolivia (en los departamentos de Tarija, Santa Cruz y Chuquisaca) y norte de Uruguay.
En cuanto a las reducciones de los jesuitas, Wikipedia en inglés dice:
Una reducción de los jesuitas fue un tipo de asentamiento para los pueblos indígenas en América del Norte y América del Sur establecido por la Orden de los jesuitas de los siglos XVI al XVIII.
Los imperios español y portugués adoptaron una estrategia de reunir poblaciones nativas en comunidades llamadas "reducciones indias" (español: reducciones de indios) y portugués: "redução" ("reducções" en plural). Los objetivos de las reducciones eran organizar y explotar el trabajo de los habitantes indígenas nativos (término arcaico "indios") al mismo tiempo que imparten cristianismo y cultura europea. Las autoridades seculares y religiosas crearon reducciones.
Las reducciones jesuíticas fueron más extensas y exitosas en un área que se extiende a ambos lados de las fronteras actuales de Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina (la triple frontera) entre los pueblos guaraníes. Estas misiones a menudo se llaman colectivamente las misiones del Río de la Plata. Los jesuitas intentaron aislar a los "indios" de las influencias seculares y la explotación de los colonos españoles y portugueses. Un factor importante que atrajo a los nativos a las reducciones fue la protección que brindaban de la esclavitud y el trabajo forzoso de las encomiendas.
Bajo el liderazgo tanto de los jesuitas como de los caciques nativos, las reducciones lograron un alto grado de autonomía dentro del imperio colonial español. Con el uso de mano de obra nativa, las reducciones se volvieron económicamente exitosas. Cuando las incursiones de los traficantes de esclavos brasileños Bandeirante amenazaron la existencia de las reducciones, se establecieron milicias "indias" que lucharon eficazmente contra los colonos portugueses.
En 1767, los jesuitas fueron expulsados de las misiones guaraníes y de las Américas por orden del rey español y la era de las reducciones jesuíticas terminó. Los motivos de la expulsión se relacionaron más con la política en Europa que con las actividades de las misiones jesuíticas.
Las reducciones de los jesuitas alcanzaron una población máxima de 141.182 en 1732 en 30 misiones en Brasil, Paraguay y Argentina.
Las reducciones de las Misiones Jesuíticas de Chiquitos en el este de Bolivia alcanzaron una población máxima de 25,000 en 1766. Las reducciones jesuíticas en los Llanos de Moxos, también en Bolivia, alcanzaron una población de aproximadamente 30,000 en 1720. En Chiquitos se fundó la primera reducción en 1691 y en los Llanos de Moxos en 1682.
Las reducciones de los jesuitas han sido elogiadas como una "utopía socialista" y una "república comunista cristiana" y criticadas por su "rígida, severa y meticulosa reglamentación" de las vidas de los pueblos indígenas que gobernaron con mano firme a través de intermediarios guaraníes. .
upped the contrast on Photoshop as the colours had been really greyed out (anyone know why this tends to happen? -not enough direct light in the shot?)
-Pip in the morning, admiring my dressing gown and slippers.
This is Pip her first spring season. Yesterday she saw a bee, it was a beautiful day.
Much better on black...please press "L"
We call this beautiful peach tiger "The Professor" because he likes to pick things up in his paws to try to figure them out. He is also very loving, but he likes to be the one to initiate the cuddling, which he does a lot with people he knows. Not surprising considering his age, he is very playful. Pip is fine with most other cats and is used to dogs. No young kids.
Portrait with Pipe
Albert Einstein. The Scientist, Sailing and Pipes
...his wife was always reproaching him for smoking too much, and so he bet that he could stop smoking until the New Year, sarcastically saying to his friends that now “I am no longer a slave to the pipe, but to my wife”...
We wish you happy pipe smoking
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Ritratto con Pipa
Albert Einstein. Lo scienziato, la vela e la pipa
...lei lo rimproverava sempre di fumare troppo così lui scommise che si sarebbe tenuto lontano dalla sua pipa fino al nuovo anno, dicendo sarcasticamente agli amici “ecco non sono più schiavo della pipa, ma di questa donna”...
Buone fumate
It never ceases to amaze me when a group of people spontaneously feel the need to express their opinion that I am number 1.
Be sure to check it out full size.
(5 frame stitched pano.)
Charles Dickens used the churchyard of St James' Church as his inspiration in the opening chapter of Great Expectations, where the hero Pip meets Magwitch the convict. The site - on the Hoo Peninsula with marshes stretching north to the Thames estuary, is dramatically desolate and bleak in winter, recalling the sinister opening scene in David Lean's 1946 film of the book.
Here, you can find what have become known as Pip's Graves - the forlorn gravestones of 13 babies that Dickens describes in the chapter as "little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their [parents'] graves".
Inside, the church is light and spacious. There is a 500-year-old timber door that still swings on its ancient hinges - even though it now leads to a blocked north doorway! Another quirky feature is the 19th-century vestry - its walls are lined from top to bottom with thousands of cockle shells - the emblem of St James.
The monuments in the church walls and floor are a fascinating record of those who once lived here. They include a slab with a brass effigy of Feyth Brook, who died in 1508 and was the wife of Lord Cobham, of nearby Cooling Castle.
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St James' Church dates from the late 13th century. No evidence of an earlier building survives. It seems likely that the de Cobham family, who held the manor from 1241, were instrumental in its construction. The nave, chancel and the lower part of the tower were part of the initial building phase stretching into the 14th century. The tower was completed to the height at which it now stands by about 1400.
St James' Church seems to have been little altered until the 19th century, when there was a sustained burst of activity in and around the church. The vestry was built onto the south wall, and the porch took on its present appearance. There was also a new pine reading desk, banners for the altar, carpets for the chancel, pulpit stairs and altar kneelers. In the space of a few years, the church was thoroughly renovated.
he church itself is built of a characteristic Kentish mixture of ragstone and flint, with a variety of other stone, including chalk, also to be seen. The tower was probably the final part of the church to be completed, at the end of the 14th century.
The small stone lean-to structure on the south wall is the 19th century vestry. The interior walls of the vestry are covered from floor to ceiling in the most unusual, yet appropriate form of decoration; they are lined with hundreds of cockle shells, mounted here in the 19th century. This shell was worn as an emblem by pilgrims to one of the most renowned holy sites in Western Europe, the shrine at Santiago de Compostela of St James - the patron saint of Cooling church.
The porch over the current entrance was also rebuilt in the 19th century, after many hundreds of years during which access to the church was through a porch over the north door, which is now blocked up. Inside the church, the large north door is still swinging on its hinges before its blocked-up doorway! Although this north door has not been in use for many years, its construction of braced panels, long hinge arms and huge lock make it an intriguing survivor.
There are six heavily-worn benches inside the church at the west end; these are possibly the original furniture dating back to the 14th century (the other benches inside the church were replaced in 1869).
Halfway between the north and south doors stands the 13th-century font, perhaps the oldest unaltered feature of the church.
The nave gangway is paved with four memorial slabs, one plain and uninscribed, the others of some interest. The first has a brass inscription to a man called Thomas Woodycare, who died in 1611; the second has no brass but only the recess where the plates have been lost, revealing the absence of four figures, an inscription and perhaps a badge. The final memorial displays both an inscription and a brass figure, of Feyth Brook, the wife of John Brook, Lord Cobham, who died in 1508.
St James' Church is well known for its association with Charles Dickens, who lived nearby in Higham, and who is thought to have set the opening to Great Expectations in its churchyard, complete with the row of children's tombstones now inevitably referred to as Pip's graves.
Dickens pictures them as '....five little stone lozenges each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat row ... and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine....'
In fact the Cooling graves belong to the children of two families, aged between 1 month and about a year and a half, who died in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
It is impossible to stand in the churchyard and not feel the impact of that 'dark, flat wilderness ... intersected with dykes and mounds and gates' and the 'distinct savage lair' of the sea (Great Expectations).
A shout-out to Ape Lad and his awesomely hilarious Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comic series. Wish I knew how to fave all 475+ of those drawings at once!
I love 'em so much, I see them (especially Pip) in just about every kitteh pic I see, and I just couldn't help riffing on them a bit. (Adam said OK.)
Meowlin Q, Kitteh and his little sidekick Pip are hoboes in the early 20th century. They can be absolute rascals one minute and heart-meltingly sweet the next. (What do you expect? They're cats! =grin=)
Pip is absolutely head-over-heels in love with leaves. They're his most favorite things in the entire universe.
Myself and Pip decided to go and sit in the shade in the garden as the sun has appeared again! She insisted on taking her bear bag with her though.
We faced many bees, ants and mating dragonflies for these pictures!