Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

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Wishing you a wonderful Christmas full of joy and peace. ❤

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This is a Christmas bouquet of a large, dark red rose, some pine cones, and white mums and daisies, all on the branches of an evergreen tree.

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coloring book page of elves and jingle bells

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Jingle all the bells

Make a joyful noise today

Happy Holidays

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2021 BS

Throwback Thursday – Sentimental Pictures

Throwback Thursday – Sentimental Pictures

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https://lssattitudeofgratitude.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/throwback-thursday-2-sentimental-pictures/

https://lssattitudeofgratitude.wordpress.com/

Every Thursday, Maggie from cave walls will alternate hosting with Lauren from LSS Attitude of Gratitude. We will post a blog with the title Throwback Thursday  – subject of the week. (This week the subject is ‘Sentimental Pictures’.

in your post and tag it with #TBTMemory or #IRememberWhen to make it easier for others to find.

To take part in this challenge, just click the link above for details.

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I do have hundreds of old family photos. You might call them old, or antique, or vintage, and I love them all. I’ve never really tried to organize any of them. Most all have pictures of people in them. I don’t post photos with family members on here, though. I don’t know that any were ‘gifted’ to me, more like they just came into my possession after my parents and grand-parents passed away.

So, instead of photographs, I have some beautiful oil paintings that were done by my mom. these were all gifted to me at one time or another. She was always painting something, all kinds of subjects from animals, Indian art and pottery, flowers, clowns, family member’s portraits, unicorns, and fun things for the kids.

I think of my mom every time I see one of her paintings in my house (and I even have some hanging up in my garage). I can still see in my mind’s eye of her in her painting room in front of the easel, with all her paints and brushes. It makes me smile at the remembrance.

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These oil paintings show:

• A tiger in the snow
• An Indian (Native American) woman with blue feathers in her hair
• A longhorn cattle skull, with turquoise necklace and two vases of pottery
• An Indian (Native American) woman sitting on a fur rug
• A big bouquet of white, yellow, and pink flowers (maybe dahlias) in a wicker looking vase
• Several ducks flying over a lake with tan colored reeds on the edges (these 2 photos are of one large painting)

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2021 BS

 

Smiles For a Month – May

Smiles For a Month – May

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Here’s a fun little photo challenge for the month of May. I just heard about it from a friend blogger  Janet . I think I’ll try to do these!

Here’s the link to the host of the challenge, Debs Stott:

https://dibzzen.com/2021/04/30/31-days-of-smiles/

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# 1 Fresh

These purple and pink flowers were being refreshed by a fine mist.

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# 2 Sharp

Four of our sharp knives from the kitchen (silver with black handles)

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# 3 Brand

My Ghost tattoo could be my ‘brand’. It’s right above my ankle and the letters are in sky blue ink

I thought of my tattoos. Some call it getting inked. My first one is of course in the same color ink that I always loved. I wrote the letters myself, and the artist transferred it to my skin. I love getting tattoos, and have three, so far. The others are a peace sign, and the names of my grand children with 2 stars.

 

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2021 BS

Color Your World – Royal Purple

Color Your World – Royal Purple

Color your World: Royal Purple

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• Royal purple facts = hue family is purple
• Royal purple Crayola crayon
• Banner in royal purple for a trampoline park here
• Purple flowers in a weathered red planter
• My drawing of Royal purple – a crown
• Paolo (RIP) our cat from years ago wearing cape and crown I made for him.

     

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2021 BS

Nanopoblano 2020 – Day 30

Nanopoblano 2020 – Day 30

 

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This is the final day of the Nanopoblano 2020 challenge. It’s been lots of fun to color these pages and make a little Haiku poem for them.

Thank you everyone, who stopped by to have a look. So glad you did, and I do appreciate this, and your likes and comments.

Thanks so much to our hostess of this fun challenge, Ra! ❤

There were lots of participants this year, and you might want to take a look at their posts, too, at this link https://cheerpeppers.wordpress.com/2020-team/

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Three little brown bunnies, the larger one handing out red tulip flowers to the others

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Always be gracious

Show your appreciation

A flower for YOU

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

Color Your World – Plum & Purple Heart

Color Your World – Plum & Purple Heart

Color your World: Plum

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• Plum Crayola facts = hue family is purple, introduced 1957
• Plum Crayola Crayon
• My drawing of a plum colored square w/word
• Actual plums
• Turnips with plum colored tops
• Plum purple cabbage
• Book with plum colored cover “Plum Lovin'” by Janet Evanovich

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Color Your World – Purple Heart

Color your World: Purple Heart

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• Purple Heart Crayola Crayon
• Purple Heart facts = hue family is purple, year introduced 1998
• Paolo (RIP) in his basket with purple blanket
• Purple flowers in weather worn red container
• My drawing of a Purple Heart
• My painting of a wolf with purple & yellow background

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

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Color Your World – Mango Tango

Color Your World – Mango Tango

Color your World: Mango Tango

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Photos show:

• Several orange flowers
• Toy mama cat (orange) and 3 kittens nursing
• Mango Tango Crayola Crayon
• Mango Tango facts – It’s in the family of Orange
• My art – the words Mango Tango colored in orange
• Orange streaked sky of a sunrise
• Orange tops of grafted cactus plants
• An orange canary

 

 

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

Color Your World – Jazzberry Jam, Jungle Green, Laser Lemon, Lavender, & Mac ‘n Cheese

Color Your World – Jazzberry Jam, Jungle Green, Laser Lemon, Lavender, & Macaroni & Cheese

 

Color your World: Jazzberry Jam, Jungle Green & Laser Lemon

Color your World: Lavender

Color your World: Macaroni and Cheese

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Whew! Trying to catch up with the CYW challenge colors I’ve missed the past few weeks. This will be a very shortened version of my usual ones. 🙂

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Jazzberry Jam is a deep purple/red color. One photo is of a plastic Easter chicken of this color.

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Jungle Green is a dark bluish/green color. One photo is of Weena the cat, with her green eyes.

  

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Laser Lemon is an almost florescent bright yellow. One photo is of 5 small pumpkins painted this color & to look like emoji faces.

  

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Lavender is a pastel purple color or sort of a dark pink. One photo is of some fluffy flowers of this color.

 

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Macaroni & Cheese is a medium to dark orange. One photo is of a thick layer of orange clouds in the sunset over some houses.

  

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020

 

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Feline Friday -Smiley Kitty Planters

Feline Friday – Smiley Kitty Planters

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Feline Friday

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Here are a couple of cute planters shaped like cats. They are black and white and are smiling. There are little plants in them, one with a tiny pink flower and one with a tiny yellow flower.

 

Wishing you a Happy Feline Friday! 🙂

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2019 BS

Color Your World – Carnation Pink

Color Your World – Carnation Pink

Color your World: Carnation Pink

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Thanks, Jennifer, for bringing back Color Your World!

To join in, just click the above link for details!

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Photos are:

• Painted rocks of pink, blue, purple & peace
• Crayola Crayon in Carnation Pink
• Carnation Pink facts = Family of red – introduced 1949
• Carnation Pink color sample
• Gray teddy bear wearing a pink tutu
• My art (pink background with black printed words)
• White cat wearing a big pink hat (picture from a greeting card)
• Pink artificial flowers (roses & carnations) & an angel

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2019 BS