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A booklet from a correspondence course from the 1920s. Blogged (with link to whole booklet in PDF format) here.
Finally organized all the recipe tear sheets I have been saving... into nice sheet protectors and binders.
Blogged at: notquitevintage.typepad.com
"Moonrise" ~ This is a more simplified version of another ring in my shop with the same name. The spirals have been reduced to simple loops for a more subdued look, but no less stunning. I designed this silver wirewrapped ring with a brilliant faceted AAA Fire Rainbow Moonstone briolette as the focus with its brilliant iridescent flashes of blues, greens. I chose the perfect compliments of AAA grade crimson Garnet and warm Tundra Sapphire beads that resemble the deep colors of an Autumn sunset with a big Harvest Moon on the horizon. These are wrapped with highly tarnish resistant and nickel-free Argentium Silver completely around a handcrafted Argentium Silver ring frame.
It has a gentle give to it, great for when fingers swell a little. With it's organic, nature inspired lines and romantic, yet vintage feel, it would make a truly special gift for that fashion savvy gal who likes something just a little different to polish off her unique style, that includes you. ;) Also, Moonstone is considered a traditional birthstone for the month of June, Garnet is January, and Sapphire is September.
For more info on this ring visit my Etsy shop: www.mossandmist.etsy.com
Blackberry capture, CNX2 to bring out colors and sharpen, Topaz Simplify to make it look like a painting.
Found a more simple way to achieve the wheel driven drive for the carousel. This one works much smoother.
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Note the button placket back of the Danger, Curves Ahead top (2nd from left) from a recycled mans Façonnable shirt. Adding in a Shapes skirt in a stripe that has the reds and purples that coordinate with the DCA sleeveless tops and the linen knit layer.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.~Henry David Thoreau
Taken during various visits to the Temple of Heaven in China's capital city, Beijing.
Some info on the Temple of Heaven from Wikipedia:-
The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven (simplified Chinese: 天坛; traditional Chinese: 天壇; pinyin: Tiāntán; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It has been regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism.
The temple complex was constructed from 1406 to 1420 during the reign of the Yongle Emperor, who was also responsible for the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The complex was extended and renamed Temple of Heaven during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor in the 16th century. The Jiajing Emperor also built three other prominent temples in Beijing, the Temple of Sun (日壇) in the east, the Temple of Earth (地壇) in the north, and the Temple of Moon (月壇) in the west . The Temple of Heaven was renovated in the 18th century under the Qianlong Emperor. Due to the deterioration of state budget, this became the last large-scale renovation of the temple complex in the imperial time.
The temple was occupied by the Anglo-French Alliance during the Second Opium War. In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Eight Nation Alliance occupied the temple complex and turned it into the force's temporary command in Beijing, which lasted for one year. The occupation desecrated the temple and resulted in serious damage to the building complex and the garden. Robberies of temple artifacts by the Alliance were also reported. With the downfall of the Qing, the temple complex was left unmanaged. The neglect of the temple complex led to the collapse of several halls in the following years.
In 1914, Yuan Shikai, then President of the Republic of China, performed a Ming prayer ceremony at the temple, as part of an effort to have himself declared Emperor of China. In 1918 the temple was turned into a park and for the first time open to the public.
The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as "a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world’s great civilizations..." as the "symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries."
The surroundings of the Temple of Heaven are now a very popular park for exercising.
The Temple grounds cover 2.73 km² of parkland and comprises three main groups of constructions, all built according to strict philosophical requirements:
The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿) is a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, 36 meters in diameter and 38 meters tall, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests. The building is completely wooden, with no nails. The original building was burned down by a fire caused by lightning in 1889. The current building was re-built several years after the incident.
The Imperial Vault of Heaven (皇穹宇) is a single-gabled circular building, built on a single level of marble stone base. It is located south of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and resembles it, but is smaller. It is surrounded by a smooth circular wall, the Echo Wall, that can transmit sounds over large distances. The Imperial Vault is connected to the Hall of Prayer by the Vermilion Steps Bridge, a 360 meter long raised walkway that slowly ascends from the Vault to the Hall of Prayer.
The Circular Mound Altar (圜丘坛) is the altar proper, located south of the Imperial Vault of Heaven. It is an empty circular platform on three levels of marble stones, each decorated by lavishly carved dragons. The numbers of various elements of the Altar, including its balusters and steps, are either the sacred number nine or its nonuples. The center of the altar is a round slate called the Heart of Heaven(天心石) or the Supreme Yang(太阳石), where the Emperor prayed for favorable weather. Thanks to the design of the altar, the sound of the prayer will be reflected by the guardrail, creating significant resonance, which was supposed to help the prayer communicate with the Heaven. The Altar was built in 1530 by the Jiajing Emperor and rebuilt in 1740.
In ancient China, the Emperor of China was regarded as the Son of Heaven, who administered earthly matters on behalf of, and representing, heavenly authority. To be seen to be showing respect to the source of his authority, in the form of sacrifices to heaven, was extremely important. The temple was built for these ceremonies, mostly comprising prayers for good harvests.
Twice a year the Emperor and all his retinue would move from the Forbidden city through Beijing to encamp within the complex, wearing special robes and abstaining from eating meat. No ordinary Chinese was allowed to view this procession or the following ceremony. In the temple complex the Emperor would personally pray to Heaven for good harvests. The highpoint of the ceremony at the winter solstice was performed by the Emperor on the Earthly Mount. The ceremony had to be perfectly completed; it was widely held that the smallest of mistakes would constitute a bad omen for the whole nation in the coming year.
Earth was represented by a square and Heaven by a circle; several features of the temple complex symbolize the connection of Heaven and Earth, of circle and square. The whole temple complex is surrounded by two cordons of walls; the outer wall has a taller, semi-circular northern end, representing Heaven, and a shorter, rectangular southern end, representing the Earth. Both the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and the Circular Mound Altar are round, each standing on a square yard, again representing Heaven and Earth.
The number nine represents the Emperor and is evident in the design of the Circular Mound Altar: a single round marmor plate is surrounded by a ring of nine plates, then a ring of 18 plates, and so on for a total of nine surrounding rings, the outermost having 9×9 plates.
The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests has four inner, twelve middle and twelve outer pillars, representing the four seasons, twelve months and twelve traditional Chinese hours respectively. Combined together, the twelve middle and twelve outer pillars represent the traditional solar term.
All the buildings within the Temple have special dark blue roof tiles, representing the Heaven.
The Seven-Star Stone Group, east of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, represents the seven peaks of Taishan Mountain, a place of Heaven worship in classical China.
And more info here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_heaven
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I hope you have a Happy Simple Sunday, sweet with relaxation, and if you do, please take a few extra moments for me, please! i will try, but i have both beans this from about 2pm this afternoon until 10 or 11pm....the kids have yet ANOTHER wedding to attend....somewhere down by the beach. Needless to say i will be a busy bee until they go to bed around 8pm. Will check in to see how many of you were able to catch a bit of rest in my name so i know how late i can stay up! Lileigh Grace is officially in her big girl bed, hopefully she will stay put!! Wish me luck!
Oh....this is a Cormorant on a post in the middle of Edwin B Forsyth Wildlife Preserve in Brigantine. i was in the mood to play a bit in Elements tonight....since i am waiting for a rack of ribs to be done in the oven for tomorrows dinner, for Kiera and her dad. I am not sure whether i will even have time to eat....so grazing is on my menu for tomorrow evening...or the ever popular bowl of cereal with fruit!
Here's another possibility for a Christmas card front. I might still tangle the foreground and hills, and I sure wish I had done auraknot for the star instead of the star of David. I guess I could erase it in photoshop and redo the star.Original is about 5" square. Based on a clip art I found, but greatly simplified. Original had the three wisemen, and some sheep, and I couldn't draw them anyway;, lol.
Bird's Nest - Beijing Olympic Stadium
Herzog de Meuron & Ai Wei Wei
Beijing National Stadium (simplified Chinese: 北京国家体育场; traditional Chinese: 北京國家體育場; pinyin: Běijīng Guójiā Tǐyùchǎng), also known as the National Stadium (国家体育场), or colloquially as the "Bird's Nest" (鸟巢), is a stadium in Beijing, China. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
The Longmen Grottoes (simplified Chinese: 龙门石窟; traditional Chinese: 龍門石窟; pinyin: lóngmén shíkū; lit. Dragon's Gate Grottoes) or Longmen Caves are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. Housing tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples, they are located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of present day Luòyáng in Hénán province, Peoples Republic of China. The images, many once painted, were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains, running east and west. The Yi River flows northward between them and the area used to be called Yique ("The Gate of the Yi River"). The alternative name of "Dragon's Gate Grottoes" derives from the resemblance of the two hills that check the flow of the Yi River to the typical "Chinese gate towers" that once marked the entrance to Luoyang from the south.
There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae", as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas. Situated in a scenic natural environment, the caves were dug from a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) stretch of cliff running along both banks of the river. 30% date from the Northern Wei Dynasty and 60% from the Tang, caves from other periods accounting for less than 10% of the total. Starting with the Northern Wei Dynasty in 493 AD, patrons and donors included emperors, Wu Zetian of the Second Zhou Dynasty, members of the royal family, other rich families, generals, and religious groups.
In 2000 the site was inscribed upon the UNESCO World Heritage List as “an outstanding manifestation of human artistic creativity,” for its perfection of an art form, and for its encapsulation of the cultural sophistication of Tang China.
Patterns are the Ebb & Flow top (I used the Ebb button front over the Simpify Your Life top with cut-on sleeve and sleeve cuffs. Lengthened/added a horizontal seam (front & back) and used the lower portion of the Ebb top, lengthened.
The vents for this dress, for which I used the lower portion of the pattern for the Ebb top w/ vents, are longer than the Ebb top vents.
A photo from this past summer taken at The Inner Harbor and adjusted with the Topaz Simplify addin for PShop.. The more I work with this filter the more I like it!
What's for lunch?? maybe sushi!! ;-)
large here - farm4.static.flickr.com/3496/3193126188_1873d5b837_o.jpg
Shot with a Nikon D80 with the Nikon 18-135 zoom, and edited in Lightroom with the Topaz Simplify Plugin for the artsy look.
When you learn how to say yes to the things you want in your life and no to the things you don't want in your life – your life becomes simpler.