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It's so great to see so many of us girls getting out shopping and enjoying being the girl we always knew we were! For some of us who are on the fence wanting to go out shopping here are some tips from my experience to help getting there!:
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-- Prepare- Make sure you have everything ready including a route and makeup and essentials in you hand bag.
-- Dress nicely- I tend to over dress for shopping but try to look your best and wear what makes you feel feminine. Remember you might be trying on outfits so something you can get and out of yourself helps. 2 pairs of shoes too, leave one in the car so if your feet start hurting or you break a heel you have a backup pair.
-- Timing- I try to go weekdays and early. There are more women and less families, couples, and kids around.
-- Know the stores- If it's a mall I usually check out the mall map to see where the stores I like are and where to park for them.
-- Attitude- Although everyone has been nervous try to get into the mindset of being a woman. Keep saying to yourself that you are female and going to do what females love doing!
-- Going in- Don't be a lurker hiding behind clothes racks and walls, women don't do that. I suggest to immediately find something that you want to see closer. Most times you will be greeted by someone in sales so smile because it makes breaking the ice so much easier. When asked if you need any help try to gush a bit over that item you have chosen to look at closer. Saying things like "This is such a cute dress!" , " I love the colors in this!", "What sizes does this come in?" or just " I love this!" will make the sales person feel at ease and implies that you are really in tune with the feminine world you want to be included in!
-- Buying and playing dress up- It's fine to look around the whole store to see everything. When you find something you want pick it up and also gather other things you may like. Someone will eventually come over and ask if they can hold your selections and offer a try on room until you are done looking. When you decided what you want to buy tell them that you are getting this but want to look around more and they will hold it for you up front. This also confirms you are a paying customer and now frees you up to play "dress up" maybe choosing some things you would have never thought to try on! This approach works like a charm.
-- Compliments- Always give compliments to the girls working in the stores. You can ask if something they are wearing was bought in this store because you love it or maybe the girl has amazing hair or a fantastic make up job that you like. People get closer to you when you notice nice things about them!
-- Be considerate- Do not try to force yourself into something that is obviously too small for you and stretch or tear it. Also keep some folded up paper towels in your purse and use it to cover the neck area when putting on or taking off a pull over top or dress. Better yet ask them if the have a face guard and they will appreciate that you care about the merchandise.
-- Names- Always ask for their names and tell them yours, it makes it more of a intimate and cordial visit. I have had so many sales girls greet me by name on returning visits and goes a long way it showing you care about them.
-- Check out- Be pleasant and talkative while purchasing your new item. Tell them thank you for all the help or that you love the things in the store and will be back!
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Using these simple tips will make your shopping trips much more fun and I have noticed that if you make it fun for them and they see you having a good time it makes them feel good that they were part of your good experience. I have stopped into stores that I have purchased in just to say hello even if I wasn't going to shop in that that store that day and they appreciated that. I have also done really girlie things like getting cupcakes and bringing them into the store for them to have! One girl said that I was so nice and none of their customers ever did anything like that for them! I have also shown pictures on my phone of me out dressed in a dress or outfit that I bought for them and they loved seeing them! So get out there and enjoy yourselves!
Male Orange Tip butterfly hiding in the box hedging at Little Morton Hall (Tudor hall and moat). Not the clearest of macro shots...a tad breezy! But I just had to put this 'first of the Orange Tips' on for you to see :)
Below is a shot of this fabulous little butterfly with its wings closed...such beauty! :)))
Many thanks for all your comments, faves and visits...lovely to hear from you,
Jeannie :)
Happy Friday's Flower Power.
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This is a pretty self-explanatory picture; these are the tips of several Crayola crayons.
I've owned these crayons for a few years now, so as you can see, most of them have been used, while a few others are in brand new condition.
This picture was taken as part of an assignment on color for my photography class.
(May 23, 2007: Featured on the front page of Yahoo! Answers.)
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Hull Strawberries
Use a straw to hull strawberries (it’s fate!). Press a straw through the bottom of a strawberry until it breaks through the top and takes the hull—the white part of the center of the berry—with it. Remove any remaining leaves with your fingers.
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I was half-way to work when I heard 271 get a track warrant out of Nahant and knowing there was still water over the rail, I doubled back to take a look. The water receeded enough to allow running through without much fear of getting water in the traction motors which was just fine by me!
CP 8891 tip-toes through the Mississippi River floodwaters in downtown Davenport, IA.
July 3, 2013.
Found a couple of fresh female Orange-tips in the lane outside the house on Thursday however due to the current Hobby obsession, which shows little sign of abating, I didn't take a look at the shots.
Can go as Large as you like with this.
Organised criminal gangs are being blamed for the continued rise of large fly- tipping incidents across England.
This is not the place to loiter around for too long, both in terms of exposing the photographic equipment and one's well-being. It is quite amazing that anything grows in this area, but this tree's attempt to flourish proved to be a futile attempt, with bucket loaders constantly moving about alongside the railway line. SY 1397 stands with its air pump in operation to power the side-tipping wagon's mechanism as fly ash is discharged with the assistance of a bucket loader. In this harsh environment it is hardly surprising that 'expendable' steam traction continues to be used for such duties.
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This 1988 Hino tipper was owned by a Dunstable haulier; it was last licensed in August 1999. Snapped, I think, off Victoria Street in March 1994.
Pentax K1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
Early morning sunrise created this back-lit silhouette of a Great Blue Heron stealthly walking along the dock, hoping to grab his breakfast. Photo taken in northern Wisconsin on Lost Lake.
Tidy Tips Flower. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A spring tidy tips flower.
This photographs takes me back just a few months to this past April, when a wetter-than-normal winter produced a spectacular wildflower bloom all over California. The state's late-winter and spring transition is always special, but in these wet years it can astound. Places that are dry and brown most of the year are magically transformed — with fields of lush grasses and wildflowers everywhere.
In early April we made a weeklong trip to some of these typically dry areas to photograph the brief display. We spent a couple of days in the hills located roughly between the coast and the Central Valley. As we headed east, into increasingly drier climates, we stopped at one remarkable valley carpeted with wildflowers, the place where I made this photograph.
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Im on my own mission. My mission is to tip toe around hiding so I wont get caught and dragged into another case.....lol. Im enjoying this vacation and I dont wanna go back to work. Thanks to Cheeky who put out the perfect shoes to do my hiding in, I wont be caught and brought in to solve a case. Ladies if you havent been to CHeeky yet, you ladies are missing out. These shoes come in a wide range of colors and a HUD to change different parts of the shoes. Sooooo ladies, if you want these shoes and you want to be tip toeing around, make sure you take the landmark below and head down to Cheeky's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And as always, happy shopping ladies ☺
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Wearing
Skin
• Amara Beauty • Dolce 02 • Ivory • Catwa Applier • maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Illusions/119/160/4000
Hair
• Truth • Cerys • Variety • maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Truth/158/27/34
Outfit
• Blueberry • Hazel • Mesh (Maitreya, Slink, Belleza) • maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lenox%20and%20Blueberry/12...
• Blueberry • Lola Shorts • Mesh (Maitreya, Slink, Belleza, Standard) • maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lenox%20and%20Blueberry/12...
Shoes
• Cheeky • Pria Tip Toes • Black • Mesh (Slink, Belleza, Maitreya) • Newness • maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AMERICAN%20BAZAAR/204/148/26
• Maitreya body, feet, and hands
This is a re-edit of one of my most watched Flickr videos: "Hunting Wood Ducks with the GH4 in 4K", and includes some "never before seen" footage of the wonderful mother hen who successfully raised all ten ducklings to flying, protecting them from hawks, alligators, fox, bobcat and other predators.
I was shooting from a blind in my backyard with a camo cover over my scope, camera and head. Near the end the hen brought the babies almost directly below my blind, and I could no longer stay behind the camera and use the EVF as the scope was pointing down at such a sharp angle that I would have had to have gotten up, and would have panicked the hen and ducklings. Instead I was able to stay low behind the wall of the blind, and I reached up under the camo cover and flipped out the LCD screen and tilted it down, using the focus peaking feature to keep their ever-so-close faces in focus.
All footage was digiscoped with the camera on manual focus by focusing the scope. My digiscoping system was a Panasonic GH4 +20/1.7 mounted on a Swarovski STX85 scope using the Digidapter.
Orange Tip Butterfly ( Anthocharis Cardamines )
the underwing ( closed position ) has a mottled pattern.
RUTA DE LA ARQUITECTURA NEGRA
La pizarra es el elemento estructural fundamental en las construcciones de este tipo de arquitectura, sirviendo para cubiertas y paramentos. El uso de la pizarra provoca que sus pueblos presenten un aspecto negruzco en sus vistas.
Estas construcciones se asientan en prados formando pequeños núcleos o grupos aislados de elementos auxiliares.
Los elementos más peculiares y llamativos de la arquitectura negra son las pequeñas edificaciones usadas para guardar el material tanto agrícola como ganadero y las tainas y las majadas utilizadas como cobertizos para el ganado en lugares aislados en la montaña. Estos elementos junto con las viviendas y los edificios comunitarios constituyen todo el elenco arquitectónico.
Son las viviendas los edificios más elaborados con múltiples recursos para la utilidad y comodidad de los habitantes de una zona que sufre de un clima de montaña muy frío y tendente a las nevadas.
La vivienda representa el elemento constructivo más importante de la arquitectura negra. Se adaptan a las duras condiciones climáticas que tienen que soportar sus inquilinos, sobre todo, en invierno. Tradicionalmente las viviendas se han mezclado con unas dependencias para los animales domésticos, quedando normalmente la planta baja separada en dos dependencias: una para ovejas, vacas, cabras y gallinas y, otra, para los sus dueños; y la planta alta para reservas de alimentos, paja y leña que permitan sobrevivir los meses más crudos del invierno.
Los recursos disponibles hace que su construcción se base en la pizarra, el barro y la madera, ya sea de roble, pino, chopo u olmo, según la zona en la que se encuentra la vivienda. Los volúmenes compactos de estas construcciones sólo se abren al exterior con ventanales muy pequeños en la fachada sur que responden únicamente a un mínimo de ventilación e iluminación de la estancia. El resto de las fachadas quedan ciegas por no recibir a penas luz solar durante buena parte del año. Estos ventanales y la puerta de acceso que se abren en la fachada sur se recuadran con grandes refuerzos de madera.
Calle de Umbralejo. La construcción de la vivienda comienza con la ejecución de los muros sobre el terreno asentando pizarra sobre barro y cantos rodados, mezclados con paja, consiguiendo un espesor de unos ciuncuenta o sesenta centímetros. Los tabiques interiores se construyen con armazón de palos verticales, llamados colondas, entre los que se colocan adobes. La estructura interior se realiza a base de postes sobre los que se sitúan las vigas horizontales. Sobre los muros descansan las vigas horizontales de los forjados y, sobre ellas, el entablado del piso superior.
La planta superiorse contruye con postes de distintos tamaños, según la inclinación de la cubierta, que soportan tanto las vigas longitudinales, llamadas sopandas, como la viga de la cumbrera de la cubierta, normalmente paralela a la fachada. Sobre las sopandas se apoyan los cuartones que forman los faldones de la cubierta, construida con lajas de pizarra extendidas sobre una capa de barro mezclado conpaja para dar mayor consistencia, soportada por un entablado asentado en los cuartones.
Normalmente se presentan en las viviendas cubiertas a dos aguas, siendo el faldón de la parte norte, que se extiende diagonalmente desde la parte más alta de la vivienda hasta casi el suelo mostrando un desnivel ciertamente pronunciado, de mucho mayor tamaño que el de la parte sur, permitiendo así la extensión de la fachada meridional. En muchas ocasiones, la vivienda carece de faldón en la parte sur.
Pórtico de entrada a un edificio en Majaelrayo. Bajo la cubierta, en el piso superior, se sitúa el desván que se presenta llena de alimentos, paja, forrajes y leña en los meses más crudos del invierno. En la planta baja es donde residen habitualmente el ganado y los moradores separados en dos estancias. Una sola puerta sirve de entrada tanto para animales domésticos como para sus dueños. La puerta se sitúa siempre en la fachada sur y se cubre por un pequeño tejado independiente o por la prolongación de la cubierta. Está hecha o bien de una sola hoja de madera labrada con hacha, o bien de hoja partida horizontalmente en dos mitades. Por ella se accede al zaguán, solado con lajas de pizarra y provisto de poyos adosados a las paredes. Desde aquí se accede, por un lado, a la cuadra, por otro, a los dormitorios, por unas escaleras se esciende al desván y como habitáculo central de la casa, la cocina, que sirve, a parte de lugar donde preparar los alimentos, como sala de estar, comedor y recibidor y, a demás, en ella se encuentra el horno para el pan y, con ello, la chimenea y es, también, donde cura la matanza.
Las viviendas modernas de la arquitectura negra muestran construcciones más propias de la época actual respondiendo al estilo de vida de hoy, manteniendo como caracterísitca común a las viejas construcciones el hecho de cubrir los muros con lajas de pizarra negra, las grandes cubiertas y las fachadas, olvidándose, por desuso, de las estancias dedicadas al cobertizo del ganado y al almacenaje de víveres.