tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871374894480168092024-03-19T02:34:02.495-07:00New BeginningsAnnette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-74872508723780407402012-09-14T22:56:00.002-07:002012-09-14T22:56:39.317-07:00September 15th<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Welcome to my new Followers - Ruth, Shane (got here at last!), </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Jennifer </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">and Gleise......!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I've had a lovely time to-day adding two more Giveaways to my</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">sidebar - </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://mikropragmatakia.blogspot.co.uk/">Anna</a> who is celebrating 300+ Followers and <a href="http://www.lovejoybears.blogspot.co.uk/">Vicky</a> of </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Lovejoy Bears who </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">is </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">celebrating opening her Etsy Shop. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Shane, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I notice you haven't yet </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">been to visit <a href="http://mikropragmatakia.blogspot.co.uk/">Anna's</a> blog. With </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">your </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">expertise on Libraries and her skill </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">with books, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I think you </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">would </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://miniaturemavendiaries.blogspot.co.uk/">Ruth</a>, I got your email and your post and will follow it up soon.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Meanwhile I hope your preparations for moving go smoothly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">At a risk of losing my fairly few Followers, I'm going to pop in </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">another </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">couple of 'Nature studies' as I'm still not being </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The very beautiful Red Admiral butterflies </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">have been quite </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">The Large Red Damselfly which introduced itself to me last week</span></div>
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Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-37857843642624764932012-09-08T07:09:00.000-07:002012-09-08T07:09:22.632-07:00September - Gorgeous so far!<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September started very nicely for me - I'm a keen lover of all the </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forms o</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">f life which visit my garden and I had a treat earlier this week </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when I </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spotted an </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">unusual butterfly on our Buddleia. Before going out </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">investigate I had a look </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">through the binoculars and couldn't believe </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">my </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">eyes! It was a Camberwell Beauty! We have lived in Lincolnshire </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">for </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">24 years and this was the first one we have ever seen in our garden. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Its a rare and infrequent visitor to the East Coast of England (we live </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">not too far away from the Wash) and although we used to get many, </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">many varieties of butterflies, in the last three years or so we have </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">noticed </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">that we see only a fraction of those who used to be regulars. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">This year in particular started off very badly and when it came to the </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Weekend </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Butterfly Count, I would have had to say - 'no sightings at </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">all'! </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">However, after having carefully checked with the binoculars in </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">case </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">disturbed it, I grabbed my camera and </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">proceeded very </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">carefully </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">towards </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">the Buddleia. I need not have worried. Luckily this</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">is one of </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">the less </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">nervous species! It just carried on feeding! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I took some shots but then it very co-operatively moved down to a </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">branch </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">just on my </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">eye level and I had a field day! It posed for me at </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">every </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">possible angle! Here are the results! And to 'ice the cake' so </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">speak, it stayed all day on that one </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">large bush often accompanied </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">by Red Admirals, Peacocks and a couple of Small Tortoiseshells. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">When </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I enlarged </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">the photos </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I even found one which had a Silver Y </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">sharing the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">flower but unfortunately </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">he was out of focus!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, as promised I want to include a photo of the Bird Cage similar to the one which Jazzi filled so beautifully with 'An Afternoon Tea Party'. I am going to include one of Jazzi's photos too, hopefully with a link to her post!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Bird Cage - Height is 17" and diameter 10"</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">It is made of cast iron and I think the mesh part is steel.</span></div>
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Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-82991204355422770632012-09-02T08:31:00.001-07:002012-09-04T11:17:43.478-07:00Back at last.........<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;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well after </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">several attempts at getting back </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">into the habit of adding</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">Cant believe I could have forgotten everything I had learned two months ago! I'm going to have to get this attempt right first time</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">because all my other attempts went completely wrong when I went </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">to 'Preview' before publishing the Post! When I tried to go back to Compose my whole Post completely </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">disappeared!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">What I'm aiming to try to do is add another page to my blog - calling it 'SWAPS' on which I can put photos of any swaps I get involved in. I got the idea from seeing Drora's photos of her Christmas in July Swap which is how I got involved with blogging in the first place. Jazzi's great idea appealed to me - she mentioned it on Minis4all - but I needed a blog, and a whole lot of help from her to set up my blog before I could get involved. And my goodness what an impact this has had on my 'Miniature' world!<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The adventures of Mini Jazzi on her World Trip are now keeping me on the edge of my seat every day! And how widespread her 'fame' has become is really quite amazing. Have just been reading about her Invitation to a London Fashion Weekend - an actual Full Size Fashion show, not a Dollshouse version! And that comes after she has been sailing on the Aegean Sea and getting involved with Greek Dancing which may end up in the Guinness Book of Records!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I will now try to publish this - but I might just highlight-and-paste to a Word document in case it also disappears!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">And just to see how much I've managed to remember....(?)....here</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">is the photo I tried to put in to enrol in Jazzi's Monday Mini Link Party!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">I managed to mis-crop it - showing only the bottom of the skirt!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">(I made the Chatelaine but not the Doll!)</span><br />
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Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-81183669612796235972012-07-02T12:56:00.000-07:002012-09-08T07:17:42.842-07:00Hi folks<br />
Just a short post to explain my absence from my blog - I have been having some problems and cannot use my left hand. Awaiting results of various tests to determine what is wrong but in the meantime I haven't been able to do anything with it - so definately no mini-ing and worse still no driving! I have now been spirited away to stay at my daughter's for a few days for my Birthday. I will be taken back on Thursday. Unfortunately I didn't get time to make sure I had all my contact email addresses with me, so although I've been given a small lap top to 'play' with my only way of communicating has been through my blog! I was involved in Jazzi's Christmas in July Swap but didn't get it finished before the problem with my hand. Hoping that my attempts to leave messages on Debbie's blog and Jazzi's too, including my apologies, will have worked! Just my luck to create such a bad impression with my new blog contacts! Hopefully I will be back soon.........many good wishes to all. <br />
Annette B.Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-8234094035338084382012-05-30T03:13:00.001-07:002012-09-08T07:28:06.502-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still experimenting folks - bear with me! At the very least I hope that a visit here leaves you laughing - even if its only at all my blunders! Having succeeded in getting a working link in my side bar for biwubaer giveaway - but still no picture, I am now going to insert a picture into this post......</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from BiWuBaren </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is out of date but...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like it too much to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">....... till I've published I wont know if it has worked but its looking good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Birgit, I tried the instructions you kindly sent me but I wasnt given any opportunity to add a picture? Obviously I must master this and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will visit </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Jenny's "How To" page to-day but so far this morning I've </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">only managed to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">go and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">leave </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">a comment on your Giveaway....then </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">another visit to your Witcht</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ower </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">which diverted me to Nicky's blog! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">goodness, I couldn't believe </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">it! At this moment in time my </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">particular </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">passion is Dragons, Wizards, Skeletons and Steampunk </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in any </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">combination </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">or setting that is crazy enough. For me e</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">xploring </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nicky's </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">work was like letting a chocoholic loose in Thornton's!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I must now come back to some sort of reality - my two cats, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">after </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">having walked across my keyboard a couple of times </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(near disaster!), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">made determined attempts to sit on my lap, they </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">are now in the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">process of tying </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">up spotted hankies on sticks and are </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">pulling on their </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">walking boots - they are still </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">waiting </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">to be fed!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Be back later!</span>Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-50151430759963869372012-05-29T06:24:00.001-07:002012-05-29T06:24:31.633-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that all I've written just lately has been 'thank you's' to visitors! Promises to keep adding interesting things haven't been kept so I better try a bit harder. I have had a couple of days of visiting other blogs and Etsy shops and being so, so impressed and rather intimidated by the quality and standard, not only of the things people have made, but by the wonderfully professional way they have been presented. It has been a joy doing this. But a lot of frustration arises when I cant immediately find the right way to comment on the blog I'm visiting! So until I've learned how to achieve that, I will just have to scuttle back to my blog and post about my visits and name names! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday I spent a long time on </span><a href="http://www.plushpussycat.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.plushpussycat.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> reading the lovely stories about Jennifer's characters - such great ideas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there Jennifer provided a link to the wonderful world of Vicky at </span><a href="http://lovejoybears.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://lovejoybears.blogspot.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. That is a really special site and I'd love to ask Vicky some questions. As she lives in the U.K. (so do I) - where is the beautiful beach she obviously visits a lot? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To-day I've been browsing through </span><a href="http://biwubaer.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://biwubaer.blogspot.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Thank you for the translation - I enjoyed all that I saw - I think I managed to leave a comment..?? I also spent ages reading about The Witchtower Crew - great fun. Got inspiration from one of your photos, near the end, of what I could do with all the tiny creatures and people I've been 'rescuing' from charity shop kids boxes for longer than I care to remember. At last they might find a 'life' out side their carrier bags!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But here goes - I'm now trying to include the </span><a href="http://biwubaer.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">biwubaer giveaway</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If it doesn't work, f</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eel free - all you seasoned bloggers - to let me know how I can put links, with picture, into my side bar? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another quick question - too much </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">writing for one post.....?? Honest answers please!</span>Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-64743144135753375832012-05-26T15:11:00.000-07:002012-05-26T15:11:18.212-07:00<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Still not sure what I'm doing! But I have just added some photos with descriptions. Before I do any more I'm hoping I can check and see what they look like! A Small Sample......</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Then I should go and try to catch up with Jaz and Debbie......</span>Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-287137489448016809.post-77412923557355513992012-05-26T14:28:00.001-07:002012-05-26T14:28:35.111-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Well in the hope that this last attempt actually succeeded - hello fellow bloggers......? I must admit that setting this blog up has cost me quite a lot of frustrating hours on my computer. Must be losing my ability to follow instructions! This is all the fault of Jazzi and her Christmas in July swap which she promoted on Minis4all. Everyone else who signed up had a blog - not me! <br />But if this has worked this time - I shall be eternally grateful Jaz. <br />Now all I've got to do is make use of it.........!! </span></span></div>Annette Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863368595406151591noreply@blogger.com4