tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53657351118109177172023-11-16T11:41:35.549+01:00Hilde's LoveLea LeatherworldHere I share my passion for crafts, especially all things leather, painting, sewing; my thoughts and every day experience.
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denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-73966671847813494772019-04-21T08:23:00.000+02:002019-04-21T10:28:54.257+02:00How about a fashionable Easter handbag? Will we eat organic tomatoes and peppers this summer?<h2>
An Easter handbag</h2>
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When I went visiting my daughter a couple weeks ago, we went to the leather shop and besides some hard ware, I bought 3 of the most soft and butter like hides in yellow, chocolate brown and in a dark brown hue with a metallic sheen.<br />
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I like vibrant colors, deep colors and warm colors; since I had 3 whole hides, I decided to make a bag. I loved the <a href="http://cute%20leather%20handbag.%20bisons%20in%20belgium%2C%20really/?%20Fall%20pictures%20hunting!" target="_blank">bamboo handle bag</a> a lot and decided to make the same bag but slightly bigger because the handles I had were bigger too. It's all about proportion and balance! And I choose the vibrant yellow hide. This way, no worries or pondering the model or bothering about the pattern; I could start right away.<br />
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Before all, it is an Easter bag! the same color as daffodils! Who says daffodils says Easter and spring. And on top of all that, yellow is in fashion this year, so you could use the bag all year round. It is not a city handbag, rather for an night out, or when visiting, eating out or whenever you don't need your city bag, still big enough (33x30 cm) for your wallet, keys, sunglasses, kleenexes, a small bottle of water.<br />
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If you like French Riviera Style, navy and yellow is a good match and the yellow gives your outfit a contemporary touch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's bamboo handled<br /> leather Easter bag, French Riviera style</span></td></tr>
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Denim is always a good background, almost everything goes well with denim, be it light or dark.<br />
And below are the 3 hides that I purchased a couple weeks ago and are waiting to be turned into whatever comes to my mind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">my new leather hides acquisition</span></td></tr>
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Organic tomatoes and peppers!</h2>
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Our garden has kept me busy. Last year, we planted tomatoes in pots; they flowered all right, the flowers turned into green tomatoes but despite 3 months oflast years hot weather, the tomatoes refused to turn red. We had 3 red tomatoes in October and I turned the green ones into pickles.<br />
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This year, this will change, won't happen again because we bought a small green house, 6 m²! We hired to guys to build the greenhouse and then it was my job to labor and till the soil, IN the greenhouse. It took me 4 days to till 6 m², an hour a day. It was real labor because the green house was, well hot! Meanwhile our tomatoes were hatched in the kitchen on the very sunny window sill and we planted them yesterday. There is some space left for the peppers they aren't big enough yet to be transplanted.<br />
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I really hope our effort will bare fruit and we'll have plenty of tomatoes to eat. No enough tomatoes to eat and to dry in the sun for eating in winter. Yummy fried and served with yoghurt and garlic.<br />
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I'll keep you updated! See you next post!<br />
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I am aware that I still haven't made my own bag, a bag I thought out myself, a bag that is totally me! But I have been taking notes in my design notebook and a bucket bag is on it's way.<br />
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The pattern of this big drawstring bag is out of a Japanese book: Leather Bag Lesson 1, 2 by Yoshima Eduri. I had to go through a lot of trouble to get the book. Somebody suggested the book but it took me a while to find the book on the internet: either the book was way too expensive or the site's message was: sold out. Finally I found a book at a good price but the firm didn't sent to Europe. Luckily I have a sister who lives in the US and I could use her address. I did so because another sister was going to the US and was willing to take the book back to to me.<br />
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About 4 months after ordering my book, I could leaf through it. I immediately fell in love with a big drawstring bag in black leather and blue stitching. I have been waiting to get my hands on a piece of leather big enough for a circle, 50 cm in diameter and a length of 85 cm for the draw strings. Mine is in a brown-grey leather and has black stitchings: <br />
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The book is entirely in Japanese but if you know a bit about sewing, have done some bag sewing you can figure it out. The book features about 15 different, unusual and genuine original bags. All the patterns are on a big sheet, pell-mell but still clear. I love Yoshima Eduri's efficient, a bit minimalistic approach. If you love to sew bags, as I do, and you can lay hands on that book, just get it.<br />
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Since it is a drawstring bag, it can take different forms, large and rather flat or narrow and high, depending on what you stuff it with. Shown here, the bottom is about 22 cm measures and the sides are 15 cm. You can style it dressy with a scarf, leather mittens and a trench coat. Will look equally well casual with denim, or for an evening out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's leather drawstring bag; <br />pattern by Y Eduri</span></td></tr>
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The bag's nice and the very neutral color gives you plenty of styling possibilities.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's leather drawstring bag;<br /> pattern by Y Eduri</span></td></tr>
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Physical store for my Men's Leather Jewelry, yeah!</h2>
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My skull bracelets for bikers, my cowhide bracelets and fish skin bracelets are available <a href="https://www.jeansstation.be/home" target="_blank">Jeans Station</a>, Tienen, Belgium.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lovelea's leather men jewelry<br /> available at Jeans Station, Tienen, Belgium</span></td></tr>
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Thank you girl's for doing a good job displaying my leather jewelry. Since I took this picture, a price list has been added.<br />
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I went to visit my daughter last week and when returning home, we went to the leather shop and I got out with 3 hides in terrific colors and some hardware. I'll show you the hides next week! See you then.<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-78652176772999248872019-03-16T10:34:00.000+01:002019-03-16T10:34:55.583+01:00Kufu and the revamping project.What does spring do to you? Spring=creation time. Enticing Mood Picture!<h2>
Kufu and Revamping.</h2>
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Last week I showed you a picture of my to be <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/03/revamping-new-and-cherished-garment.html" target="_blank">revamped</a> blouse. I spent about 1 hour searching the lace fabric I had in mind but found only a small part. While contemplating the piece of lace in my hands, I remembered I used a big part of the fabric for a cushion for my grand daughter. The 50 cm² I had in mind has become a small scrap, significantly smaller then I remembered; I have only 2 whole "flowers" and 3/4 of a flower left.<br />
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See for yourself, the fabric is super cute! I made a T-shirt out of it when lace was in a couple years ago. Here you see the flower in detail.<br />
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And here is where kufu comes into sight: kufu is a Japanese conception, you could even say "a way of life". It is the art/ability of getting along and doing with what you have; you use your imagination and your creativity to solve a problem without buying or acquiring new stuff, you fall back on what you have.<br />
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In my vision the back of my blouse was scattered with about 5 or 6 flowers randomly sewed unto my blouse. I have a whole closet full of fabrics, remnants, remainders of wool and cotton (with them I could crochet small doily-like patches), it would be a shame to go out and buy another piece of lace or fabric. This is THE moment to apply kufu. What I thought would be an easy project will take me a whole lot more of time.<br />
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2 weeks ago, nature teased us with 4 days of super nice weather: 15 à 17° in February! We payed dearly for this extravagance with a week of forceful and frightening blows of wind a bit everywhere on the Northern side of the globe. Luckily we don't have any damage but my sons' roof has missing tiles and it is raining on top of all this.<br />
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Spring is coming alright, I do feel it in my body: a big urge to create! I started a couple projects all at once and I have to tell myself: hey first finish the projects you started up. Could also be the influence of the new moon on the 6th of March. I started a handbag that I can't finish now because I don't have the right tools; I discovered those giant flowers or bouquets functioning as wall paper on Pinterest and want to put my hand on a scaled down project. Those wall papers are copies of the very dark still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age. I love this baroque style. (And I listen almost exclusively to baroque music.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jan Davidsz de Heem Stilleven vaas met bloemen </span></td></tr>
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I already sketched some flowers on paper. My first attempt won't turn out this grand; I refuse to be intimidated by focusing on the result, it is the doing that counts and doesn't practice make perfect?<br />
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All this beside, I have to channel all this forces in me, they should not overwhelm me; a good plan and a firm follow up might do the job.<br />
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Mood picture of my latest creations for men.</h2>
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Another side effect of spring is the urge to clean and declutter and I mean a deep cleaning, the ideal way of inventoring what you have. I took pictures of my latest creations and made this mood board!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's mood picture of men bracelets.</span></td></tr>
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And here is the version my hubby made:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moodboard made by my hubby.</td></tr>
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He picked out a very nice green as background.<br />
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I am proud and happy with this mood pictures. Next week I 'm planning on showing my leather jewelry to shops in my home town and the mood picture is the way to create the right setting. I'll keep you updated. See you next week.<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-79875382771034702632019-03-08T16:53:00.000+01:002019-03-08T16:53:00.921+01:00Revamping a new and cherished garment!It sounds silly to revamp a new and cherished garment. Why would I want to revamp a new garment? My favorite cream colored linen blouse, its back in polyester with a big pleat to give the blouse ampleness and freedom of motion needed refreshing.<br />
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Linen takes some skill and diligence to iron and wrinkled polyester too so I decided to iron the blouse while still wet. I plugged in my iron, put it on the lowest grade and started ironing; all well and then the iron didn't slide smooth any more and the next second: I had a whole the size of an egg.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the hole? I am not overstating, sadly.</td></tr>
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O.M.G., (big panic!)I have a hole in my favorite blouse! My eyes didn't want to believe what they saw: a hole. I DON'T WANT TO THROW AWAY A NEW and FAVORITE BLOUSE. What can I do? Immediately my brain went to a lace fabric I bought years ago, about the same color of my blouse. It has roses or flowers made of layers of organza-like fabric, the motifs rather big. I could use this fabric to cover up the hole and sprinkle some more flowers on its back so it isn't obvious that I am covering up a hole.<br />
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Plan de campagne</h4>
Knowing your problems is a first step when starting your project and at the same time it gives you a reasonable knowledge of the time you need to finish our project. What are possible problems?<br />
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Problem #1: where is this fabric? did it go through my fingers when I stuffed my fabric stash into my new closet? I can't remember. If I can't find it in my closet, I have to search through several boxes of fabric. But I can ask for help: Etem Dede. He is a real help in time of despair. I told you about him in an <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/02/cool-bracelet-for-feminine-dress.html" target="_blank">earlier post</a>. He is amazing! Just try it out: copy the words on a piece of paper, keep the paper some where at hand and when something gets lost, say the words and start yoyr quest. You'll find your object in no time.<br />
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Problem #2: how will I attach the flower to the big hole? Do I need additional supplies?<br />
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Problem #3: after covering the real whole, how will I spread the other flowers convincingly.<br />
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Now that I know my problems, I can make my "plan de campagne" with easy steps to finish this project well.<br />
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I'll keep you updated on this revamping project. See you next week!<br />
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I manifested! </h2>
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and the truth is: I wasn't even aware of it!</h4>
Some time ago I went with my sister to an exposition. We would have lunch together and we found a restaurant that advertised "ray wings" as today's special. I dote on ray wings and it was delicious. Back home I googled ray wings and read that they are in season till the end of March.<br />
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We decided to go to the seaside, have ray wings, stay 1 night in a hotel and take some fish home. I found some nice hotels with parking but my husband kept saying: let's wait. When my husband says: let's wait, I know he has feelings that something isn't right so I didn't insist and put all fish and seaside ideas way back in my memory. And what happened: tooth problems! My husband spent about 3 weeks going back and forth to the dentist.<br />
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Last Monday, early in the morning my daughter phoned. The weather has been incredibly nice the last days and she had a very strong desire to see the sea, feel the wind, walk barefooted in the sand, let the dog runto his fill. But her husband had a meeting and couldn't go so she asked if we would care to go. We had nothing to do and she picked us up and we drove the 150 km to the sea. It was low tide and we walked about 500 m to the waterline; the sea was an incredible nice blue!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughter and me walking to the sealine.<br />
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the water was very cold, even the dog jumped back feeling the cold water. The beach was almost empty, 2 little girls in pink dresses playing in the sand, a dozen people walking their dog and the 4 of us: my daughter with dog, my husband and me. Filou who has macho character traits, was led by the nose by a very fast female greyhound; they ran rounds and rounds of big circles till they were exhausted.<br />
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The short walk made us hungry and within 5 minutes we saw a restaurant that permitted dogs and had "ray wings" as today's special. Was I even lucky! The 3 of us had ray wings in butter sauce with capers; Filou is a terrible beggar but the running on the beach had exhausted him and we ate in peace.<br />
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Lunch finished, we went to the beach again, did some walking and returned home. Short but we returned loaded with energy and a head full of nice ideas.<br />
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It is only 3 days later that I had my aha-moment: I did manifest! I went to the seaside and had ray wings! Lesson to learn: when you give up on something, when you don't push, your dreams come true.<br />
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To blog or not to blog!</h2>
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as I wrote a couple posts ago, this blog leads to nowhere. I spent a lot of time and effort and I don't get what I want. Comes the question: should I stop or should I continue? I got paper and a pencil and asked myself questions: what happens if I don't blog? what happens if I don't Pinterest? and the answer is: nothing will happen and what's more: I 'll have freed time up to do other things. Not only will I have more time to BE, but my head will be cleared of all the rumble around it.<br />
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Making this decision was scary: a jump in the unknown! Immediately I felt better, relaxed and now that I am writing about this decision, I am asking myself: what was so scary? what was I scared of? the unknown is the answer!<br />
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I might continue posting pictures of my products. I have to take pictures anyway so I might as well do something with them.<br />
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So my dear reader, thank you for reading my posts, supporting me thereby. If you're interested in pictures of my creations and some anecdotes, keep looking out for my posts.<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-264326991394174222019-02-22T09:17:00.000+01:002019-02-25T19:06:18.033+01:00Have a look at my new jewelry line for men. Have a sacred grounded object! And have a Sister Day!<h2>
Fish skin for men jewelry.</h2>
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In my last post I have a <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/02/happy-valentine-day-to-everyone-update.html" target="_blank">picture</a> of the fish skin I ordered. The skin is not very supple nor flexible or bendable, almost brittle. I should have thought earlier on to make a small bracelet for myself and test out how flexible or supple this skin actually is. I can still do this of course. I guess I was too eager to create something new. What I did is making a regular bracelet and embellished it with a strip of fish skin. Since I claim to make unique pieces I have to be true to my word and I made 3 bracelets in size S, M and L (I looked up on the internet what is a standard measure for men wrists) in different leather and with separate strips of fish skin.<br />
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This style of bracelet would suit a dressy outfit perfectly as a more casual one..<br />
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Your sacred grounded object</h2>
Negative thoughts attract negative thoughts and once you are in a negative mood, you get more and more gloomy, dreary and somber. But how do you get out of this spiral?<br />
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Jen Mazer has different ways for you to do this: whenever you catch yourself having a negative thought, "Focus on what makes you feel good— on what you want to attract", says Mazer, Jen. Manifesting Made Easy: How to Harness the Law of Attraction to Get What You Really Want (p. 145). Adams Media. Kindle Edition. It is obvious that negative thoughts in itself or not to avoid, see them as an opportunity to refocus on what you really want! Just don't get caught in a downwards spiral of negative thinking, do make an effort to get out!<br />
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A second thing you can do is to "find an opposite statement". Change f.i. “I have so much work to do” into “I’m so lucky I have a thriving business and get payed well". Mazer, Jen. Manifesting Made Easy: How to Harness the Law of Attraction to Get What You Really Want (p. 146). Adams Media. Kindle Edition.<br />
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A third way is "to choose a sacred grounding object that will remind you that your dream is on its way". Mazer, Jen. Manifesting Made Easy: How to Harness the Law of Attraction to Get What You Really Want (p. 146). Adams Media. Kindle Edition. Language is very powerful and your mind believes everything you say, so pay attention to what you say and how you say it!<br />
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What does this mean? How do you do this? Find an object that talks to you (jewelry or a stone, a shell) that you can carry easily; hold it in your hand and envision your dream manifested. By doing this your stone or piece of jewelry that you have chosen becomes sacred. Now it is not a random stone anymore, at least to you but a stone with a meaning, a sacred stone. Use this sacred object as a reminder of your dream or a reminder to be in a positive state of mind. Your sacred object takes you back to a better state of mind and grounds you to this state of mind.<br />
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Until now I have used <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/11/fashionista-revamp-and-grade-up-your.html" target="_blank">a tree</a>. It works splendid, grand. I only have to close my eyes and look at my tree and I feel instantly better. I didn't want a physical object as a sacred grounding object because you need a pocket to carry around an object. While I was writing all this down for you my reader, a thought came into my mind: I'am carrying my alliance all the time, I could use my alliance as a sacred grounding object; you could use your alliance or any other ring or necklace you wear all year round as you sacred grounding.object<br />
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Sister Day in Lille, France.</h2>
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Though we saw each other during the family weekend (<a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/02/family-weekend-story-hooponopono-is.html" target="_blank">read here</a> and <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/02/happy-valentine-day-to-everyone-update.html" target="_blank">here</a>), we held a sister day. The reason is that one of my sisters lives abroad and it was now or next year to come together just the 4 of us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">4 sisters in Lille, France; second to the left is me.</span></td></tr>
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We chose Lille/Rijsel because of the nostalgic attachment we have to this city and to see the amazing scenery painted on the walls of Lille-Europe Station.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Wall Paintings of Lille-Europe station</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Wall Paintings of Lille-Europe station</span></td></tr>
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Our family is native of the Lille/Rijsel region, the same region where the movie<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Sticks" target="_blank"> Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis.</a>takes place. You might not know that this city ones was part of Flanders till 1667 when Louis XIV conquered the city. My grand mother had her dressmaker in Rijsel and occasionally she invited two of my brothers and sisters to come along. Even though we had to wait a long time while my grandma's new clothes were adjusted, we loved to come along because we could have a drive in her car, a fabulous dark gris Citroën DS with ultrasoft cushions (few people had a car at that time) and once my grandma's business finished we had hot chocolate and croissants in a pastry shop. 55 Years ago, only in France did they have croissants, now every bakery makes them.<br />
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We agreed to visit The Museum of Fine Arts. It is housed in a very imposing building and is said to be the second best or biggest I can't remember after The Louvre. I' ve never visited the Louvre, but this museum is huge, chock-full of paintings, sculptures, faience etc. We started out at ease before noon with the Antiquity - (a summary section) and Middle Ages section but realized soon that the museum was unexpectedly big and huge and immense. We had a good look at paintings of Brueghel and Bosh, The impressionist were located in a corridor and I could examine and marvel at all the brushstrokes right in front of me of Manet, Monet, Turner, Goya. The Renaissance section was visited swiftly and at last galloped through the Modern period because at 14.30 your brain can't take any more in and your body is craving for food.<br />
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We tasted a local dish with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroilles_cheese" target="_blank">maroilles</a>, a kind of cheese as lunch and decided to have our coffee at <a href="https://www.meert.fr/" target="_blank">Meert's</a>, Lille's most famous, most visited, popular and stylish patisserie since 1761. Compare it to Florian's in Venice. Meert's is not very big and there was a waiting line of 10 people, waiting time: 30'. I asked for and got the permission to take a picture at least.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Inside of Patisserie Meert, Lille, France</span></td></tr>
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Meert is a beautiful jewel in a jewelry shrine; please admire this facade!.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Facade of Patisserie Meert, Lille, France</span></td></tr>
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Thus we strolled through the small and meandering streets of the old center. My sister had a must see address: <a href="https://www.ladroguerie.com/boutiques/lille/" target="_blank">la droguerie</a> with beautiful yarns, cute buttons, special sewing haberdashery. I bought an interesting and tasty round goat cheese and very tasty running Corsican herb cheese at <a href="https://www.philippeolivier.fr/" target="_blank">Fromageries Philippe Olivier</a>;<br />
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by the way, we past by a lot of small "fromageries" with very mouthwatering looking window displays. We visited the bookshop <a href="https://www.furet.com/fr/" target="_blank">Librairie Furet du Nord</a> where my dad used to buy the very good Michelin Road Maps. The last place we visited was "la vieille Bourse" a magnificent building with a superb inner courtyard full of stands selling old books, old prints, postcards, maps before heading back to the train station.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Book stalls at Vieille Bourse, Lille, France</span></td></tr>
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Why having a sister day</h4>
or a friends day: what counts is that you are together with people you love and can trust totally; people you know well and who know you well and you can say all you want without holding back because your sisters or friends know it is you speaking and know what you mean. It is very refreshing and liberating and leaves you full of energy. A sister day is like a hot bath on a cold day! Organize your own sister day!<br />
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See you next week!<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-20581705436308699042019-02-14T14:09:00.002+01:002019-02-18T08:48:44.532+01:00Happy Valentine Day to everyone! Family Weekend Update with pictures! Fish leather you said?<h3>
I wish all my readers a Happy Valentine Day. May we use this day as a reminder that we NEED love in our life. Let's start with giving Love and thus make space for getting love in return! Not only today but for the rest of our lives. Remember: L<i>ove is the absence of judgement</i>!</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/02/family-weekend-story-hooponopono-is.html" target="_blank">last post</a> hadn't any pictures because my laptop was in the shop. Again the battery caused problems so either I replace the battery or I get a new one; my laptop surely is 10 years old. I refuse to use Cloud; I know it is handy but I don't want to give out of hand the little control that is left to us, end consumer. All is well now and I have pictures for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's go 1 week back in time. My big brother would get the keys of the ex-hotel now gite around 4 pm on Friday February 1; we had a save drive through a snow landscape and on arriving 10 people were already there. We brought the food we were responsible for to the kitchen, choose a room and I made the beds right away; nothing more awful than you want to crawl into bed, drunk with sleep and your bed is unmade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More and more people dripped in and around 8 pm we were "plenary", 29 in total. We had decided on a potluck dinner for the first evening and it was fun to discover what was displayed on the table: mostly cheese, cold meats and soup. I had brought an avocado salad and a dry pea soup; pea soup is just what you need when it's snowing outside. My nephew you can see in the picture is ALWAYS in shorts, inside and outside!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sister-in-law <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2017/08/what-happened-in-march-2017.html" target="_blank">Gudrun (Concept Smalle)</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> made a doodle and we signed up in advance for 2 corvees and food for 15 people for Saturday and Sunday; on the spot everybody knows what she/he has to do and once supper over clearing the tables and doing the dishes went smooth and the kitchen was spic&span in no time and we could start our games, play pool or just talk and catch up with family. I played Cluedo with my sisters, a niece and my goddaughter; then we played Codenames with my nephews and around midnight I went to bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This 3 nieces slept in one room, did something with Musically until after midnight and were out of bed at 6.30 am eager to make their slime:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After breakfast the next morning, we left the hotel for a walk monitored by a guide. He showed us a beaver dam, traces in the snow of a badger, a wild boar and deer. The children walked along bravely without complaining, we only heard their cries of joy when seeing a field covered with untouched snow; in no time a small snowman was made!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That noon, my husband and I had signed up for preparing lunch. Luckily we had prepared our bolognaise sauce at home, it is a nuisance to cook in an unknown kitchen; my sister Lieve made a salmon sauce and Catherine and Mieke a Far Eastern type of noodles. The young ones were hungry after the 5 km walk and were first in line to serve themselves heaps of pasta and went back for more before everybody else was served.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the afternoon, we visited the city, La Roche en Ardennes; some of us went to the WWII museum, I went with my nephews to visit the local castle built wholly with local schist stone. Sadly it was closed by the time we got there so we went for a hot chocolate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For Saturdays supper, we catered; we did some speeches and I took word to tell that this year I had presents for all the guys: a little <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/01/butter-for-birds-what-does-snow-smell.html" target="_blank">pouch</a> or a <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/11/bikers-get-yourself-skull-stuck-with.html" target="_blank">memento mori</a> for the bikers. Supper finished I took my box and let them choose a pouch or a skull bracelet for the bikers. They all loved the idea of the memento mori. That evening, the ladies occupied the pool room and my brother in law started dancing later on. I am self conscious but between family I feel secure enough to dance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My second brother is born on December 24 and my mother used to adorn the Christmas Log for his birthday with a marzipan baby Jesus. He continues this tradition and got us special breakfast bread with little pink Jesus'es.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After breakfast on our last day, we walked the 2.5 km to the castle; one of my nephews, who is an architect, told us that he is "going through a medieval period" and he was very excited to finally visit the stronghold/feudal castle; very impressive with its courtyards, cistern, prison, guarding towers.The building was started in the 11th century and is entirely constructed with shale held together with chalk and sand. It is built on various impressive rock formations. The structure is visible in this picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below an overview of the different courtyards and defense tower with the semicircle of the cistern visible in the foreground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At noon we had our last meal together: a delicious <span style="font-weight: normal;">chili-con-carne and when the kitchen was tidied up, we left. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is the youngest of the family, Gust with his grandpa, the second eldest of my family. </span><br />
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I love to try exotic food: fruits, vegetables, meat, the more exotic and strange, the better! That does not include insects and the like. Not surprising at all that one day on Pinterest I saw <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/01/admire-my-vibe-board-pictures.html" target="_blank">a pin</a> about fish skins: flexible enough to be used in jewelry! Last Monday my trout skin in dark chocolate arrived in a big box. Despite the good care, the skin was bent and did not straighten out. I thought about ironing the skin but my gut feeling told me it wasn't o.k. so I emailed the company about it. I got a mail back in a couple of hours: especially no ironing, just put a heavy book like a dictionary on top of it for a couple days. What I did and here is the skin:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">It is a lot more brittle than expected so I'll have to do a good thinking session what I can do with the skin. One thing I know: it will be jewelry for men. Jewelry for men is doing very good on Pinterest, so I 'll follow this lead. The biggest challenge will be to protect the edges from crumbling or so I think, I might be wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, if you are curious about this fish leather, don't miss my next post, I'll have more news for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a nice Valentine Day, keep away from judging and you'll be loved by everyone.</span></div>
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I am back from the family weekend loaded with energy. Everybody was in a good mood, happy to see each other what created heaps of energy. We are a walking family; when coming together our main activities are walking, eating and drinking, party games and sometimes dancing. We discovered the environment while walking with a guide, saw a beaver dam, badger tracks, special plants, played pool in the poolroom, played party games and did some dancing.<br />
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The girls, between 9 and 12 made slime, and this is a nice example that the way is equally imported as the goal; they spent good time on making the slime and having a lot of fun comparing each other results: whoaaa, yours is so malleable and mine is still sticky. The boys, between 12 and 18 played pool and my grandson, the youngest of the boys learned pool and became a good player in a short time.<br />
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At the moment, I am not able to show pictures, since the lamp of my laptop crashed again! I downloaded all the pictures to my laptop and deleted them from my camera, no pics at the moment. I hope my laptop will be done by publishing time. I have a family picture that my husband made before starting the big walk in the surroundings. I haven't heard yet from the shop where I took my laptop, I'll make a phone call right after publishing this post!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family weekend at La Roche, Be; <br />
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Saved by Ho'oponopo!</h2>
Two weeks ago we got a big screen to watch movies we download from the internet. Then I got an email from my provider that my 150 GB were almost finished; this is when I learned that a big screen is a pixel hoger and we used half of our GB by watching 3 or 4 movies. At this moment we have no GB left; we can still surf but very slowly. I can't even use Tailwind, only 3 or 4 pins at a time! I am doing my homework to find a solution for this new situation.<br />
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Luckily there is Ho'oponopono. What's that? Since all that happens to us, we have attracted, we can forgive ourselves with this Hawaiian clearing prayer, says Jen Mazer in Manifesting Made Easy. You say out loud 10 times:<br />
- I love you= to get in a state of love;<br />
- I'm sorry= you take responsibility for what you have brought into your life so far,<br />
- Please forgive me= for forgetting that the Universe is love<br />
- Thank you= is acknowledging that your petition has been heard.<br />
You can say this prayer whenever you are upset or notice others upset around you.<br />
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These technical problems give me reasons enough to get upset but thanks to this prayer, I can take the situation without fretting, I can accept the situation without worrying. Isn't that great? If I am not manifesting, at least my life is getting more sereen.<br />
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I hope I'll be able to show you pictures of the family weekend by next week and I'll tell you what I did for my technical problems.<br />
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About 6 months ago, somebody posted an article on FB about manifesting. I commented that I didn't believe in manifesting any more. She advised me to read: Manifesting Made Easy by Jen Mazer and that this book would really help.<br />
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I got the book, started reading, made (almost all) the exercises, found my limiting beliefs, watched my language, choose a date when my dream should come true and wrote that date into my calendar. 19th of January came and went: nothing happened. What was I thinking?? that really out of the blue a shop owner would contact me and say: hey, I like your leather jewelry, I super mostly want sell your jewelry! I did the planting and the nurturing and waited. Don't they say that you don't have to worry about the how.<br />
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While waiting, I also bought an e-book about marketing handmade products, did all the work so my business would be ready, would look professional: I know all about sales channels and funnels, ideal customer, branding, unique selling points but nada, rien du tout.<br />
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You know I design and create leather jewelry! That's the fun and easy part. Selling, marketing, seo is the hard part; it takes up so much time that you hurt your relationships. So I had a dream that a shop, a real shop, not a virtual, online shop would be interested in my jewelry.<br />
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I did manifest! </h3>
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Actually I have manifested, but that was ages ago, when nobody talked about manifesting, when people didn't believe in manifesting, you underwent your life, no control possible, only coincidence existed. I married in my second year of college; we were very poor and lived from a scholarship, just enough for very basic stuff; no money for clothes for our second baby. I remember this as yesterday: as a matter of fact, no drama, I simply remarked to myself that my baby girl needed clothes and 2 days later an aunt mailed me some clothes! Several of this cases happened. I didn't do anything special; the only had to think: I need this and a couple days later it manifested.<br />
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When I was still a teacher, one morning I went to work and it started pouring; I was soaked to my bones. That was the last time it happened because since then, every time the weather looked bad, I asked the universe for dry weather. I asked if the weather could be dry between, let's say, 8 and 8.30 am and the weather would be dry. I never take an umbrella any more and I always am lucky with the weather, with the help if the Universe! Thank you Universe, Funny, it didn't work on my way back home. You see: I can manifest good weather, most of the time or a parking space.<br />
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Could it be that I know too much now. Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing. Maybe I try to hard and I should let go, try to find the state of mind I was in when young and had no clue? Little things I have manifested, at least what seems small to me though the Universe knows no big or small. Writing this out was beneficial, I feel reinvigorated. Thanks for listening!<br />
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If anybody can give me some practical advise, you're welcome, I'll be glad to read it.<br />
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This post is kind of short. My husband and me have both been ill, we got stomach flu, thankfully a light version but we both feel weak, no energy left. I'am using my energy sparingly and keep it for the Family Weekend starting tomorrow Friday. One more good night rest and I 'll be born new.<br />
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Butter for the birds.</h2>
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I like a bit of butter with my bread for breakfast. I also like spiced olive oil to dip my bread into at breakfast, but now we are diverging: it is about butter. For 2 years we've been buying buttermilk-butter: it has a lot of taste and is slightly acid. About a week ago, I took out a bar of butter out of the fridge, cut it in half and deposited one half in it's special tray. It kind of smelled different, maybe looked slightly more yellow than usual and I thought: the cows must have been fed a different kind of food. My husband also had questions about the butter and we put the tray aside.<br />
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About an hour later, my son called and said: I am in the neighborhood, could I grab a bite to eat. Mothers are always glad to feed someone and if it's your child, it even feels better. So I prepared him a nice lunch and put the butter tray on the table. When he sat down, he said: what's this smell. Then I thought about the butter and said: maybe it is the butter. He smelled the butter and said: yes, this sour smell comes from the butter. Now we were sure that something was wrong with this butter.<br />
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I had no desire to keep the butter in the fridge till we were going back to the super market. Besides this, a week before my butter "problem" I had had a problem with cheese that I reported by email and I got an email back: we didn't made this product, you should report it to the producer!! You understand I had no incentive to email them again.<br />
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I hate to throw away something; my daughters always says: it is obvious that you are a post-war child. I toyed with the idea to give the bar to the neighbors; what could I say: we didn't like the smell of this butter, do you want it? No, that would be very rude even insulting. I felt a resistance to throw the butter in the trashcan. Then my mind went to the birds: it is cold outside, birds like some fat, need fat. This is THE moment to find out if birds like butter! I cut a small piece of butter and left it outside together with some cheese rinds. The next day, the butter was gone. Conclusion: birds like butter even if it is somewhat rancid.<br />
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I am more than halfway through my 250 gr of butter as I get an email in my box: "after many complaints from customers about funny smell and taste of the buttermilk butter, we have decided to take this butter out of the racks. You can return butter with 09/02/2019 expiration date to the shop!" This was our very butter. Finally the shop takes it's responsibility seriously.<br />
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I am happy I could be of service to the birds. The weather has been particular bad in the last month: persistent rain since a month, now 3 days of sun but temperatures beneath zero. Maybe my butter saved lives! Today, the day of my publishing, they will be fed the last part of the butter.<br />
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Finally snow!</h2>
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It is almost February and only 3 days ago we had the first snow! I like a real winter with cold, sunny and dry days;weather that you have to wear 2 pair of woolen socks to keep your feet warm. I like to wear wool. I can finally wear my nice winter clothing before it is eaten by moths. That's me in the picture below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">your author in the snow.</td></tr>
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The city is blissfully silent, few people are walking in the streets, almost no cars on the road. Your feet make the lovely crunchy sound that is specific for snow suitable for a good snowball fight. We walk carefully where the sidewalk is sloping; slipping and being smacked to paving stones hurts your butt.<br />
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What I did miss is the smell. Snow announces itself with this particular fresh, cold smell, I can't find words to describe! A couple hours, sometimes days before, when the snow is still in the sky, you can smell snow. Maybe it is a tiny bit like laundry washed and boiled with real, old fashioned, artisanal, hand-made soap. I miss both smells.<br />
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Preparations.</h2>
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Next weekend we will be heading south for our bi-annual family gathering. I have one week left to <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/make-cute-little-gifts-for-your-beloved.html" target="_blank">make more pouches</a>. I have made 8 of them so far but I am running out of slouchy leather; this quality of leather makes the nicest pouches. Luckily there are a lot of bikers in the family and I will gift them a <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/11/bikers-get-yourself-skull-stuck-with.html" target="_blank">memento mori</a> with the advice to have a small ritual before hitting the road. I can't wait to see all of them back and hold the smallest member and latest asset in my arms.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegD5cmYgHWPQxANQvqvXrQhrSiwvXNXdyy6FyG-KFTMIWXieF0yAO43Dtaa7dQDNTSmhSX1HIONGoH3_Hi71UAhAhbpwaX9zsnrizdwiD-90HICvdRjws9ShSze-7FptD9EAwmRkWLHNv/s1600/IMG_20190126_084209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's leather pouches." border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegD5cmYgHWPQxANQvqvXrQhrSiwvXNXdyy6FyG-KFTMIWXieF0yAO43Dtaa7dQDNTSmhSX1HIONGoH3_Hi71UAhAhbpwaX9zsnrizdwiD-90HICvdRjws9ShSze-7FptD9EAwmRkWLHNv/s320/IMG_20190126_084209.jpg" title="LoveLea's leather pouches." width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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I'll tell you all about the weekend later; that is in 2 weeks. For now that's it. If you have snow, enjoy the whiteness, the crispness of your world, the new silence, the joy of your children or grand children, making a snowman, having a snow ball fight, gliding on a home made ice rink !<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-28429622549817200392019-01-17T17:30:00.001+01:002019-01-17T17:33:30.940+01:00Use the coming Valentine's day to make up the balance of your relationships.<h2>
The world needs a Valentine Day</h2>
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Some time ago my husband and I went to a restaurant; we were making conversation when a couple arrived and was shown to their table. Barely seated the girl started texting and this went on till their food arrived, then some conversation was started! Her plate finished, she returned to her cell phone and her companion/friend/husband was left to himself.<br />
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Luckily there is Saint Valentine to remind us, human beings, that we live a life in community, are part of a entity. Valentine's Day gives us a chance to celebrate the special and wonderful relationship you HAVE with another person or you get a chance to SHOW that you want a special relationship with someone.<br />
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Lovelea's Valentine Jewelry</h2>
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My Valentine jewelry is here to help you express your feelings when you can't find the words, if words don't come easy to you. More: Valentine jewelry is a permanent declaration of your love. If you do find words, your gift will fortify them. A gift shows that you took the time, the effort to choose and spent money on a present for your beloved.<br />
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This year I only created bracelets so you get to choose between different kinds of bracelets: in a color you associate with your beloved; pink or pale blue leather will look nice on a delicate girl. The word "LOVE" plain in sight will do wonders, your message will come over, no dubiety;<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lovelea's pink and pale blue leather<br /> Love bracelets</span></td></tr>
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or your message can be passed on a lot more subtle with one of this leather bracelets:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-zyqDNr5DvxyaWoT4d6VJ0zYqW8gR7wF3HSDtxB0qxEK2z5dEUG0V5A9XcTms3z-vyFNo73qBOSdtwAIDzrNmDGyIgkokx9ZgzivYF853leaSthjpXUZnW-XI-PaokVHy4aZB7gqZSS7/s1600/IMG_1480.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Lovelea's black or red bracelets with intermediate heart" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-zyqDNr5DvxyaWoT4d6VJ0zYqW8gR7wF3HSDtxB0qxEK2z5dEUG0V5A9XcTms3z-vyFNo73qBOSdtwAIDzrNmDGyIgkokx9ZgzivYF853leaSthjpXUZnW-XI-PaokVHy4aZB7gqZSS7/s320/IMG_1480.JPG" title="Lovelea's black or red bracelets with intermediate heart " width="213" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lovelea's black or red leather bracelets<br /> with intermediate heart.</span></td></tr>
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If your boyfriend likes leather bracelets, I have 2 very sturdy and cool bracelets: cowhide and hand-cut leather hearts! He will love it and be proud to were your gift.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxV4v8msq5Wn-vx_fWNV3vKjC7ijXg5MDZOF4oPfRm6PZ7wVfr-dkrDTyQs2p17vYYh5iNqpXw7ijeOA30F2OltVJu7mY6HCC7N4l6wb8oHFw_IWPqfvrGBO_c0e4i7bH17yIwe-K_auS/s1600/IMG_1487.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's brown or white cowhide men's bracelet with black leather hearts" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxV4v8msq5Wn-vx_fWNV3vKjC7ijXg5MDZOF4oPfRm6PZ7wVfr-dkrDTyQs2p17vYYh5iNqpXw7ijeOA30F2OltVJu7mY6HCC7N4l6wb8oHFw_IWPqfvrGBO_c0e4i7bH17yIwe-K_auS/s320/IMG_1487.JPG" title="LoveLea's brown or white cowhide men's bracelet with black leather hearts" width="213" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's brown or white cowhide<br />boyfriend bracelet with black leather hearts</span></td></tr>
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Maybe you are more tender-hearted and prefer soft, pliable, supple leather hearts, 5 for an exuberant girlfriend or 3 for a boyfriend?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's red leather bracelet with 5 red<br /> leather hearts and white cowhide bracelet<br /> with 3 black hearts</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the 5 leather hearts.</td></tr>
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If your boyfriend is a bit boho, ethnic than he will like this bracelet in cognac colored leather with a LOVE sign, a vintage evil eye bead and a distressed coin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lovelea's boho/ethnic men's Love <br />bracelet in cognac leather</span></td></tr>
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For punk girls I have this bracelet in black leather, a red metal plaque with a silver heart and 3 leather hearts, hand-cut, stacked on top of each other.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's black leather bracelet<br /> with heart plaque and leather hearts</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Detail of stacked leather hearts</span></td></tr>
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This choice of 8 different bracelets is available at my FB shop: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/denyshildemaria.lovelea/shop/?rt=28">look out for my "Valentine 2019" collection</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's leather Valentine bracelets</span></td></tr>
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or email me <a href="mailto:hildedenys@yahoo.com" target="_blank">for more info</a>.<br />
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A little more than 4 weeks is left for Valentine's day: gives you plenty of time to give your relationship a good thought. Is the quality of your relationship with your beloved alright or could you do better? What is good and where could you do better?<br />
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Personally I made the resolution to invest more time in my relationships and less on my blog and Pinterest account. Finding were you can do better and making a resolution to DO better is an easy step; sticking to it and applying to your life is the hard part! Maybe I should add this item to my "Every Day To-do List".<br />
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Never thought I would glamorize Saint Valentine's Day! As always, it depends on how you look at life!<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-56697185130516288122019-01-10T17:37:00.000+01:002019-01-10T17:40:25.167+01:00Quotes are not read-only, yet apply-only! <h2>
Says the Dalai Lama: Love is the Absence of Judgement! </h2>
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This week, <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2019/01/admire-my-vibe-board-pictures.html" target="_blank">my quote is ready.</a> I've found time to turn my insight into a nice quote. The rainbow adds an extra dimension to the quote as the rainbow is a sign from above that someone is caring, loving us, watching over us. The rainbow reminds us in time of sorrow that we are not alone.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A good quote should stir something inside you; it should speak to your heart, create an emotion, a thrill. Then you say: so very true, nice, lovely! and there it stops! Only your intellect was touched and your brain tells you: this is nice. We get a glimpse, a flash of a truth and that 's it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The goal and the intention of the author of the quote </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is t</span>o</span> pass his/her insight to you, the reader, and to inspire and push you to apply the message to your life. You can read hundreds, thousands of quotes, books and even if you understand all of them, without applying, you might as w</span><span style="font-size: large;">ell not have read them, it was a waste of your time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Authors of quotes and self-help books have worked on their subject for years, maybe decades and they feel ready to write their book. And that's the problem: the poor reader, the novice in need of help and advice does not have the luggage, insight and experience of the author and the message is merely words, nice sophisticated ideas. T</span><span style="font-size: large;">he message hasn't been passed on; they tell you the what, where, why, when, but nothing about how.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The whole cue is about judgement! The Dalay Lama says: Love is having no judgement. If we don't have a judgement, if we don't judge, we have love, we feel love, we can practice love, we are love. What does judgment mean, what is its profound significance? The oxford dictionary says:"<i>The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions</i>" and a second meaning: <i>An opinion or conclusion</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have 3 grand children and I love all 3 dearly; one of them is difficult to love, the child was noisy, boisterous, with a huge ego! You see: all judgments. The moment I told myself: this is your grand child, you should see through his performance, don't have opinions, I could love this child easily and I could see his big heart, his facetiousness, kindness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have all sorts of opinions about other people. We see a person in a flash and we have made an opinion on this person: he/she is</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we turn back to what the Dalai Lama says: Love is the absence of judgment or Love is not having an opinion! And if you don't have an opinion about a person, then you can love the person, in other words: see the person as he/she is in his/her wholeness, without your life experiences coloring this person. The secret is to <i>accept </i>another person as he/she is. If you do this, than you are able to love a person.</span><br />
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Says hilde denys: Self-love is the absence of Self-judgement</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have, you have, we have problems loving ourselves because we know all our flaws and faults, our imperfections our weak sides; you know what really is going on in your head, the bad, negative, harmful thoughts you have, the nasty grim words you don't say... All judgments about yourself. Your are not alone in this, we are all in the same position, we all judge ourselves. If all we have said above is true, then the path to self-love goes over not to judging yourself but a<u>ccepting yourself the way you are.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now you won't miraculously become flawless, faultless or perfect. In a way, you are perfect, as perfect as you can be in THIS moment. Being perfect in this moment is not a permission to narcissistic behavior, does not mean that you have to be pleased with yourself and that you can't do better! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The point is to accept yourself how you are without having an opinion about yourself. You simply observe: I failed in this! and recognize your failing. Don't beat yourself up for it. Don't say: how could I be so stupid, how could I do this, how silly of me; this is judging yourself. In all honesty and sincerity find where and why you made the mistake and plan a way to do differently. Don't accept excuses; this is shoving all responsibility on someone else or on circumstances; we are responsible for our acts and words. In all situations, we have a choice: to do or not to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we give love, we get love back! If we give love to ourselves, we will be able to love ourselves more and if we have more love, we have more love to give hence we'll be able to love others more easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow, 804 words! all about 1 quote. The publishing of my quote and the new year are good timing! This year I am choosing "<a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/01/balance-is-what-i-need.html">balance</a>" again as theme. I can do better. And I intend on incorporating more love into my life; in other words: abandoning all kinds of opinions and ideas about the persons in my life and accepting everybody as they are, myself included!</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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Two weeks ago, I posted about <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/photo-shoot-with-my-daughter-for-my.html" target="_blank">the photoshoot</a>, using my daughters hands; she has nice groomed hands that show off the leather jewels I make beautifully. More mood pictures <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/xmas-mood-pictures-and-more-texture.html" target="_blank">here.</a> Putting everything together resulted in the mood boards below! Well, maybe "vibe" board would be more appropriate.<br />
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Choosing which pictures to use and trying out different ways and arrangements was tough. My vibe board should entice females to wear my jewels and either feel like a classic beauty, elegant and chic with my chunky chain/leather jewels (left side of the picture) or daring, provocative and fearless with the slim chain&leather combination (right side of the picture). The middle section contains my logo, the different materials I use and a scenery picture to add a touch of green.<br />
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Vibe board 2 above is circa the same but has as background a color similar to my logo's color.<br />
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And vibe board 3 has the classy style and punk style pell-mell.<br />
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In the past week lots of synchronicities has happened. Could be induced by my higher spiritual involvement in this time of the year; who isn't making 2018's balance and deciding on what to do and how to be in 2019?<br />
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I love Pinterest and I use it daily. Home decor is a favorite subject but lately this topic didn't give me the satisfaction it used to do. You know why? because all the interiors Pinterest showed me were white; I saw one dull, bland page with scattered a bit of beige, soft pink, pale blue or pine wood accents. How boring, tedious, how flat!<br />
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Till I discovered by chance pages and pages of strong colored, dark colored rooms! How exciting, how energizing, how adventurous, lively, stimulating!<br />
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Last Saturday we celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary in a newly opened restaurant in town and guess what: the old stately home had the most beautiful dark, black, inspiring walls! A painting exhibition added color to the whole. This was a nice surprise, a bonus, an extra dimension added to our celebration; at least to me! My husband is more matter-of-fact on interiors of restaurants.<br />
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Fish skins</h3>
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The Sunday before Xmas, <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/xmas-mood-pictures-and-more-texture.html" target="_blank">my daughter and family</a> came over. At one moment, out of the blue, to us anyhow, my grand daughter asked: "Does Oma make the leather herself?". We explained that this was a whole process and that I bought scraps of leather. And the next day, idem on Pinterest, I accidentally arrived on a page where a pin catched my eye: This woman is turning fish into shoe leather! How interesting! I found her business on the internet and I might order 1 hide to find out about the texture, the strength, the look, the vibe, in short: can fish leather be turned into jewels.<br />
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A couple days ago, it occurred to me that I hadn't been inspired to make a quote in a long time. The next day, I visited my daughters FB-page where and saw her Dalai Lama quote: Love is the absence of judgement! in a flash this came into my mind: if this is true than "self-love is the absence of self-judgement"! Wow, nice find! isn't it and true! by next week I shall find a nice picture and make a helpful quote.<br />
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Lots of nice little things happened this past week, 2 events involving my daughter, I observed! In the coming week I want to finish my looking back at 2018 and distill my path for 2019.<br />
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I hope you have a nice start to 2019! and have decided where you want to be at the end of this year. Write it down on a slip of paper or make it a little work of art and put it any place where you can be reminded of the path you decide to follow.<br />
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See you next week!<br />
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I have some mood pictures for you: my grand children with the dog, my daughter and her family, me with the grand children and my husband with the grand children; we took the pictures during their pre-Xmas visit last Sunday.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsEsBdxDsJLLCVz2W5mrDsSYarZ0Qrd3lTXJA6oLVp7zHuYibDO9GqnkFfjAF8niOzQ7BNRsCEi6oeDl_U6aoygm7F7bYjFoStPddUa5P7zgfAGWQvC7nyQKyYwT9wR1skgoArLIHDC9D/s1600/Kerstkindjes+mt+Filou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's grand children with dog Xmas 2018" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="597" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsEsBdxDsJLLCVz2W5mrDsSYarZ0Qrd3lTXJA6oLVp7zHuYibDO9GqnkFfjAF8niOzQ7BNRsCEi6oeDl_U6aoygm7F7bYjFoStPddUa5P7zgfAGWQvC7nyQKyYwT9wR1skgoArLIHDC9D/s320/Kerstkindjes+mt+Filou.jpg" title="LoveLea's grand children with dog Xmas 2018" width="237" /></a></td></tr>
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It seems to me that pets are getting more and more human traits with time: the dog Filou is posing! Read more about Filou <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-event-of-year-in-my-town-pros-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>. At the summer house, we cared for <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2017/11/about-pomegranates-dogs-insight-and.html" target="_blank">a stray dog</a> and she was afraid when I pointed my camera, left us tail between legs!<br />
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Off this 2 pictures you could deduce that my grand daughter is not happy sitting on my lap. It is not the case, we get along grand! She was low spirited that day because of a brooding ear infection. She is much better now.<br />
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Texture pictures for my mood board</h2>
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And here is <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/photo-shoot-with-my-daughter-for-my.html" target="_blank">the second part of pictures for my mood board.</a> The photo below features the materials I use concisely: 2 types of chain and leather and an organza bag for storing your necklace.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-1Xt51qRzUFwAYIxwBPnX5Lw7-zcn9uMGsM2sE1E4OyzL2y8xSkK20mH5BqfeRgA6nRLpLLkSCyE5u-c49hSq2x2wMUAV2idHb457NXgoY_wrA8dtb47_CLXPDGZzFzXkewORKiu-Ophyphenhyphen/s1600/IMG_1348.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's mood board picture" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-1Xt51qRzUFwAYIxwBPnX5Lw7-zcn9uMGsM2sE1E4OyzL2y8xSkK20mH5BqfeRgA6nRLpLLkSCyE5u-c49hSq2x2wMUAV2idHb457NXgoY_wrA8dtb47_CLXPDGZzFzXkewORKiu-Ophyphenhyphen/s320/IMG_1348.JPG" title="LoveLea's mood board picture" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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And here a close up of my bigger leather scraps.<br />
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and some more textures: the coldness of the metal balanced with the wool of the sheepskin and the soft feeling of the leather.<br />
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Winter hours</h3>
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I don't know about you, but I wish they never introduced summer and winter hours. The theory about saving energy doesn't make sense and it is bad for health. When my children ware small, they started this nonsense; the children needed at least a month to get used to the new summer or winter hours; their whole biological clock was mixed up.<br />
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I used to wake up at 8. am sharp but since the last time-change I am waking up either late, around 9. am or too early, 6.30. Anyway, getting up as early as 6.30 has it advantages; it gives you a chance to see the sun rise and take nice pictures. Does the transit from summer to winter time upset you? Tell us about it.<br />
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What a joy to see the sky in all its morning glory. My day can't go wrong!<br />
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I might have my mood board finished by next week; it will be a tight race since we are having visitors this Friday, 3 children and 5 adults who will stay the night and New Year's eve is almost there.....<br />
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I hope you all had a lovely and happy Christmas and I wish you a splendid New Year's eve celebration. May all your dreams come through in 2019.<br />
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See you next year!<br />
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How good it feels to hug my grand children, to feel their tiny bodies in my arms, play games with them, feel that you count in their life. And babbling with my daughter while doing the dishes or hanging up the laundry together and close the day, watching a movie with my daughter and son-in-law.<br />
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On Friday we walked the dog while picking up my grand daughter from school, on Saturday we celebrated my son-in-law's birthday with their friends and on Sunday we took pictures.<br />
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I <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/12/i-have-to-admit.html" target="_blank">announced</a> in my last post that I am working full speed on manifesting a shop that will sell my jewelry by 19 January 2019. By that time I want a collage ready that shows off my products in a favorable way. Jewels look best on a model. I had asked my daughter before if I could use her lovely and groomed hands but she didn't feel like it. In a last attempt, I told my daughter that I had some jewels with me if she felt like modelling.<br />
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On Saturday night lying in bed and going over the day, I had given up all hope of having a photo shoot. But! on Sunday at the breakfast table, my daughter said: did you read my mail? I hadn't so she said: well, I decided to do help you with the photo shoot!<br />
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Self-help books always say that you shouldn't try too much; if you did everything you can possibly do, then let go. And the books are right, here was the proof: I had given up all idea of having a photo shoot, saying: I have to do it by myself and now: here it is.<br />
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Breakfast over, my daughter renewed her mail polish, rubbed lotion on her hands; it is incredible how each tiny unwanted detail shows up in an image. We choose some outfits, tried out different poses and light positions, decided which outfit would go with what bracelet or necklace and started shooting, my son-in-law and I. Wow, this shooting is no small stuff, it was exhausting and for the model and for the shooters; we didn't last more than 1 hour.<br />
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Have a preview of the mood pictures I have in mind for my mood board; I want to suggest 2 vibes: chic elegance and badass punk.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p2atHcUekZQBF4OfDTeKoAShnoyH0SZ47A0u4b5kbpiQdUj2QfZ30t0C0qEMerEpkFE-KRPkruO9tRWrN1cJ8epI4Zzkz0p8iryIodya2H-5Fw_-fjrcg_LGeT9dqYpT7MUtDNa5qi6P/s1600/IMG_0387.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's red leather glam bracelet and punk bracelet; courtesy of F Vaessen" border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="800" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p2atHcUekZQBF4OfDTeKoAShnoyH0SZ47A0u4b5kbpiQdUj2QfZ30t0C0qEMerEpkFE-KRPkruO9tRWrN1cJ8epI4Zzkz0p8iryIodya2H-5Fw_-fjrcg_LGeT9dqYpT7MUtDNa5qi6P/s320/IMG_0387.JPG" title="LoveLea's red leather glam bracelet and punk bracelet; courtesy of F Vaessen" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Here I have the two styles in 1 picture. I like the image but maybe it is a bit too nice.<br />
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Punk style jewels</h3>
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The three following pictures are of my punk line:<br />
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The bracelet and the choker are not a set, but can be worn together. And below is a cow hide bracelet in punk style.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcrasUEItYPafbd2lNaWoVbSNP8LQMHMCNYOXeAHGonSvG2-iZeasymZRXEBzdhY7g_ZOTOVGhhyVPvri2LGLRpJjaTNYVsxeAMKFvnuKpEtBVtqNzZEY-zyt1xDo_tGyYV7weffWs7UL/s1600/IMG_0437.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LoveLea's punk style cow hide bracelet in black/white" border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcrasUEItYPafbd2lNaWoVbSNP8LQMHMCNYOXeAHGonSvG2-iZeasymZRXEBzdhY7g_ZOTOVGhhyVPvri2LGLRpJjaTNYVsxeAMKFvnuKpEtBVtqNzZEY-zyt1xDo_tGyYV7weffWs7UL/s320/IMG_0437.JPG" title="LoveLea's punk style cow hide bracelet in black/white" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Chic, glam and elegant jewels</h3>
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This glamorous, elegant and chic line is a favorite of me; the chunky chain and the more sensual leather are a good team. Have a look at a bracelet with tassels and a necklace in the same version.<br />
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Another glam leather&metal necklace in a different version. This image has a chic and elegant feel:<br />
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Well, this is it for this week. I still have to take pictures of my workplace; or I might show some impressive tools on my mood board and/or a picture of my (mini) leather stock.<br />
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What do YOU think of my pictures? Do they show the vibe I have in mind: chic elegance and punk? Tell me about it, please.<br />
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Next week, I'll show you some pictures of my work shop, tools and my stack of leather. See you.<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-61703767164205953432018-12-13T16:49:00.000+01:002018-12-13T16:49:28.322+01:00I have to admit<span style="font-size: large;">that at this moment a whole lot is growing over my head! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My FB- shop didn't bring the results I expected and wanted thus changed my policy. Didn't Einstein so eloquently says: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At this moment I am studying Made Urban's "How to Sell Handmade beyond Friends & Family" book. Well, studying is really not an adequate description, I am wrestling myself through the exercises! I understand the material, but applying what I read, imaging an ideal customer with her values and personality to find my niche market, formulating an USP, and many more, is giving me a hard time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I discovered Made Urban's e-book, I read almost everything about entrepreneurship my eye came upon, but all content was about services and selling courses or digital products,... whereas I am in leather jewelry! On top of that, all this young 6-figures business women say: you can't do it by yourself! you need help! buy my course or join my community or the like. I snorted and thought: you only want people to join your master class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How wrong I was! What would I not give to have somebody next to me holding my hand and explaining in depth how I can apply all this to my own business. I'm experiencing this at first hand now that I'm plowing through my study book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some time before I discovered Made Urban, I read a post on FB about The Law of Attraction. I commented that I didn't believe in that law anymore and that it didn't work. The poster advised me to read: "Manifesting Made Easy...." by Jen Mazer, it would open my mind. Yes, this book is really an eye opener. I recommend this book to everybody interested in manifesting their dreams. Reading is not all you do, every chapter has a "How to Apply" section. And I am very diligently applying the theory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I am reading and applying this 2 books at the same time. The dream I want to manifest is that a store sells my jewelry so that I only have to engage myself with the designing and creating process. One action that helps you manifest is to choose a date you want your dream to become true and mark in your agenda. The date I choose and wrote down in my agenda is approaching rapidly: 19th of January 2019.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Studying the 2 books, blogging, social media is overwhelming, I feel drowned, lightly panicking that I won't be ready by January 2019. Hence for the time being, I'll reduce my blogging and social media presence to concentrate on manifesting my big dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm cloistered easily 6 hours a day to this laptop, reading, studying, writing, e-mailing. And I have my coffee, first thing in the morning in one of my favorite cups, specially made for the exposition in Amsterdam, some 10 years ago, about the connection between the Netherlands and the Court of the Russian Tsars. Behind my cup you can see my laminated feather to remind me that I am not by myself and that Universe is watching over me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the moment it is not yet clear to me what I'll post next week. Maybe you like to be surprised? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See you next week!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-27965621511584119232018-12-06T16:55:00.001+01:002018-12-06T16:55:16.433+01:00 Make cute little gifts for your beloved ones. Watch out for signs from above to keep you going. Green tomatoes turning red. <h2>
Cute gifts for your beloved ones.</h2>
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Every 2 years, the first weekend of February we come together. We are my brothers and sisters with each their children and grandchildren. I am not the only one with grandchildren any more, we have a 6 month old <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/08/babyshower-why-i-like-boring-household.html" target="_blank">baby boy.</a>. We find a place big enough for 35 people and spend the weekend together. We explore the area on foot, take turns cooking and doing the dishes and in the evenings we play games. The small children love to be with peers and the bigger "children" talk with aunts and uncles mostly about motorcycles and music! It feels really good to be part of a big family.<br />
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Up to now, I've made or bought little presents for the ladies in the family but this year I decided to give at least my 3 brothers a present: so far I have made 3 cute money pouches. Beside my brothers I have 2 brothers-in-law, a bunch of nephews, my nieces have boyfriends and there is my son and my son-in-law. That is a lot of people! My husband doesn't want one. I haven't decided yet for who I"ll make a pouch. I have 6 weeks left and if I can make a pouch for every guy, all the better.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">money pouch</span></td></tr>
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I might make a tuto for the pouches within 2 weeks.<br />
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A sign from above or a synchronicity tale!</h2>
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One week after Halloween, I went with my daughter and grand daughter shopping and wandering around to a city a 30 minutes ride away. There is a popular shop that sells all kinds of carnival stuff and spoofs and they had a huge collections skulls, skeletons etc. Since the selling of my skull bracelets didn't go the way I liked, I decided to give this shop a try. I am talking about these bracelets.<br />
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And here is a red eyed skull!<br />
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Back home I immediately went to work, ordered some more leather lace and made a variety of bracelets and necklaces in size S, M and L, put them in plastic grip bags, tagged them and made a price list. During this preparations I visualized people liking and buying my jewelry and telling others about it.<br />
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I decided to go on Friday and took 2 collections with me. There is a store that sells handmade and very unusual jewelry and they might be interested in my vintage button collection.<br />
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And this is not only my favorite bracelet, it has been liked a lot on Pinterest and Facebook! I call it my mystery bracelet!<br />
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I took the train, a mere 12 min ride and went straight to the shop. Only the weekly Friday market was held temporary in the main street. People take their time to look at the stands and talk to friends and acquaintances in the middle of the street so it took me a while to get through the crowd.<br />
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I continued my way but this time my road across a market place was blocked and closed for passersby because of XMas preparations. I had to take the surrounding narrow streets full of vans delivering what they had to deliver. Meandering through the narrow streets and vans I had a <span style="color: #e06666;">vision </span>that I was wandering through a narrow pipe, as an esophagus, something like Alice in wonderland and I said to myself: <span style="color: #e06666;">you'll get where you want to go even if it may take a while.</span><br />
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Finally I reached the shop and showed my jewelry. The girl in charge liked my products only she was afraid my products were to expensive for their customers who are mostly students on a tight budget. However she took my price list and business cards and I left a pair of earrings to show to her boss. I asked her about the other shop I had in mind; sadly it had closed. She gave me directions for a shop selling hippy clothes so they might be interested in leather jewelry.<br />
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I found the hippy shop easily and when I told the shop owner that I had some leather jewelry to show, he shouted "no" at me. I said: you don't want to have a look, he again shouted no. It wasn't even early in the morning. OMG, what a humiliating experience! I made the intention, right at that moment to never treat sales people as I had been treated.<br />
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I didn't allow this second set back to damper my spirits and went a couple shops back to Dandy's&Diva's where I had seen Steampunk mannequins in the window display. I couldn't make out what kind of shop it was but still went inside. The girl in charge, dressed and coiffed in punk style, clearly the owner of this hairdresser salon, was very nice and friendly and genuinely liked my products but wasn't sure if she could sell them and would think it over and let me know. It"s not a yes, but everything is still possible!<br />
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All my business done, I bought a sandwich, more out of nostalgia ( I was a student for 4 years in this city) than of hunger and took the train back home. Looking at the passing lovely landscape, I kept telling myself: something better is waiting for you; I didn't want to slump in a negative spiral. But I had an even better message in store!<br />
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Back home, I went to work and when I looked up, there was a beautiful and clear rainbow in the sky! Yes: this was a sign from above that I am being watched over, cared for! Remember: <span style="color: #e06666;">butterflies, feathers, rainbows, special music, a song or words are signs from above.</span> But you have to be alert and attentive,<span style="color: #e06666;"> </span>mindful!<br />
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Am I not a lucky person!<br />
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Green tomatoes turning red</h2>
I was stuck with lots of green tomatoes when the weather turned cold; some of them I <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/11/bikers-get-yourself-skull-stuck-with.html" target="_blank">fermented </a> into relish and another part I put into a box with 2 apples. It seems that apples sent out a gas to warn the others: hey it's time to get ripe. Other fruits can benefit from this gas and I put the tomatoes nicely spread so they won't touch each other in a box together with 2 apples. Almost all of them have turned red and are ready to eat. I am a color freak, don't they look nice and see how many shades of red there are.<br />
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That's it for this week! I will be busy the next weeks and it might take me 2 weeks to get a tuto ready about the making of the pouches, still in time for anybody who wants to make a cute XMas present.<br />
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See you!<br />
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The pomegranates are in season! </h2>
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I love this beautiful, sober looking fruit, full of benefits that we will need with the festive season approaching. With winter coming, some of our problems are aggravated, but no panic, the pomegranate is there for us. There is a down side: they are a nuisance to pare. It takes a bit of knowledge and know how to cut them, <b>but the trouble is it all worth!</b><br />
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Have a look at this gorgeous colored fruit. Is the color red? or pink? Lets open them up.<br />
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Where do you start?</h4>
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First of all, get dressed! Yes, get dressed: tie on your apron, the biggest one you have and be sure there is nothing uncovered because the juice will find this uncovered spot and stain it! and you know: fruit stains are difficult to get rid of. You got the message: paring a pomegranate is a messy job.<br />
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Now you can cut off a thin slice of the top of the fruit; you'll see paper thin yellowish meridians that divide the fruit in sections: follow one of this meridian while cutting the skin very carefully along this meridian, don't touch the berries. As you have split the pomegranates in 2 or in multiple pieces, your second challenge is visible: how to get all this berries out without cutting them up; the paper thin yellow membrane should not get mixed up with the berries because it has a bitter taste.<br />
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When the cutting business is finished, clean your knife, put it away and grab your kitchen gloves or latex gants, that is if you don't want stained nail beds and finger tops. Start handpicking the berries. Use the top of your fingers and your thumb but don't put pressure on them, do not crush the berries; try to get the berries out of their bed. You want them to stay whole without spilling the precious juice. Either you pare the whole fruit or you dig out how much you want or need, put the berries in a nice bowl, take a dessert spoon and enjoy.<br />
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Warning: the seeds inside the berries might taste bitter, chew them or squeeze out the juice in your mouth and spit the seeds out. The juice is deliciously refreshing with its own special taste, miles away from the ready made grenadine you might remember from your child hood! <br />
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Why it is worth the trouble</h4>
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As I told you above, you went through all this trouble because the benefits are greater than the nuisance! As you are savoring your "work" know that your are getting vitamins and minerals, that you are protecting yourself from inflammation, cancer, high blood pressure and the more. Why paying for artificial enzymes to help your digestion when you can have the real ones? You can find all the benefits on the internet, but here are some of them in a row: pomegranates<br />
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<li>provide you with vit A, C and some B</li>
<li>give you: calcium, potassium and iron</li>
<li>have anti-inflammatory effects</li>
<li>reduce your risk of heart diseases</li>
<li>lower your blood pressure</li>
<li>are good for your joints</li>
<li>are a natural anticoagulant</li>
<li>prevent your arthritis</li>
<li>have lots of anti-oxidants</li>
<li>enzymes help your digestion</li>
<li>are a protection against dental plaque</li>
<li>prevent cancer spread</li>
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If after reading this you say: wow, I could use this, don't go out and get ready made juice! It is most likely full of additives, conservatives and added sugar. Be brave and buy the fruit. Look for unblemished fruits and choose the most colorful ones: the more color the healthier. The fruits in the picture are a bit blemished but they are a gift from friends who grow them in their garden. I know the source!<br />
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Pomegranates have a long season and they stay good for a long time, they don't spoil easily. Buy a couple of them and view the fruit as medicine in a nice and colorful package<br />
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For more details, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/pomegranate-benefits/articleshow/60114168.cms" target="_blank">read here</a> and <a href="https://www.naturalfoodseries.com/11-health-benefits-pomegranate/" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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Symbol of prosperity and fertility.</h4>
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I have some Greek friends and they gave me pictures, cards, paintings and glass pomegranates as a gift, especially around New Year. How can a not even sexy looking fruit be a symbol of fertility? As you can see in the picture, the pomegranate has no flesh but only berries, that are actually SEEDS!<br />
The function of seeds is reproduction! Every pomegranate contains 400 to 650 seeds. You get that much trees out of 1 pomegranate. You easily fathom why the pomegranate is symbol of fertility and prosperity.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">When pomegranates are in season, flue season is not far away; I have a couple of flue symptoms and if I want to get better I have to get rest. Yes, 1 necessary remedy is to get rest. There are some more things you can do, but that is for the next post.</span><br />
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This is it for this week. I hope you all are in good health. Walk to your vegetable store and treat yourself and your family with pomegranates!</div>
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The pomegranates are in season! </h2>
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I love this beautiful, sober looking fruits, but from a distance! Why from a distance? Because they are a nuisance to pare them. It takes a bit of knowledge and know how to cut them: the skin is tough but thin and you don't want to cut the berries because you don't want a mess, a colorful mess but still a mess.<br />
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How to proceed?</h4>
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First of all, get dressed! Yes, get dressed: tie on your apron, the biggest one you have and be sure there is nothing uncovered because the juice will find this uncovered spot and stain it! and you know: fruit stains are difficult to get rid of and pomegranates stain the more if that is possible. You got the message: paring a pomegranate is a messy job.<br />
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Cut off a thin slice of the top of the fruit, find a yellowish meridian and only cut the skin very carefully along this meridian, don't touch the berries. As you have split the pomegranates in 2 or in pieces, your second challenge is visible: how to get out all this berries without cutting them up; the paper thin yellow membrane should not mix up with the berries because it has a bitter taste.<br />
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Now you don't need a knife any more, the moment has come to take out your kitchen gloves or latex gants, that is if you don't want stained nail beds and finger tops and: you can start handpicking the berries. Use the top of your fingers and your thumb but don't put pressure on them as to not crush the berries; try to get the berries out of their bed. You want them to stay whole without spilling the precious juice. Once you have finished the pomegranate or you have a handful of berries, put them in a nice bowl, take a dessert spoon and enjoy.<br />
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My husbands cousin, who dotes on pomegranates and cleans them himself, gave us a plastic recipient with a lid that looks like a giant honeycomb. You divide or rip your granate in pieces, put the pieces inside down on the hexagons, take a table spoon and tap the pomegranates with the convex side of the spoon. It works but it still stays a hell of a job. Too bad I striked too hard and the honeycomb cracked.<br />
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Why am I telling you all this: because the benefits are greater than the nuisance! You can find it easily on the internet, but here are some of them: pomegranates<br />
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<li>provide you with vit A, C and some B</li>
<li>give you: calcium, potassium and iron</li>
<li>have anti-inflammatory effects</li>
<li>reduce your risk of heart diseases</li>
<li>lower your blood pressure</li>
<li>are good for your joints</li>
<li>are a natural anticoagulant</li>
<li>prevent your arthritis</li>
<li>have lots of anti-oxidants</li>
<li>enzymes' help your digestion</li>
<li>are a protection against dental plaque</li>
<li>prevent cancer spread</li>
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If you really want the advantage of these benefits, don't buy ready made juice! You don't know how the juice has been made and what additives they have added. Buy the fruit, look for unblemished fruits and choose the most colorful ones: the more color the healthier. and make the juice or eat the berries The fruits in the picture are a bit blemished but they are a gift from friends who grow them in their garden. I know the source!<br />
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For more details, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/pomegranate-benefits/articleshow/60114168.cms" target="_blank">read it here</a> and <a href="https://www.naturalfoodseries.com/11-health-benefits-pomegranate/" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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I have some Greek friends and they gave me pictures, cards, paintings and glass pomegranates as a gift, especially around New Year. As is easily to comprehend, the berries, who are actually seeds, are very abundant. I pomegranate can possibly give you hundreds of trees! There are between 400 and 650 seeds in one pomegranate. It is obvious why the pomegranate is a symbol of prosperity and fertility.</div>
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My post is short this time because I am having some flue symptoms: I am shivering, the shivers running along my spine and I am unable to feel warm. My whole body hurts and aches and moving is difficult and I am not charging energy. I feel very tired. I can not prevent it anymore but I can obstruct it from breaking through.<br />
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What to do so the flue won't break through!</h4>
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There are some "if"s that I do and YOU can do to prevent the flue from breaking through:<br />
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<li>if you take a lot of rest, lie down frequently and do only the most necessary household chores, you might not get the flue</li>
<li>if on top of this you pull on your warmest WOOL sweater, you might not get the flue</li>
<li>if I dig up my mink knee blanket, left to me by my grandmother and sleep on top if it, I might not get the flue </li>
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This is all there is to it. Do this for 2 or 3 days and you'll feel a lot better, maybe totally cured.<br />
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About my mink blanket, I get it that not everyone has a mink blanket; a good alternative is a sheep skin; before I had my mink blanket I used a sheepskin. Since neither my blanket or a sheepskin are big enough to sleep comfortably under it, I sleep on top of it! Spread your sheepskin out on your mattress and pull your bottom sheet on top of it. You'll benefit from the animal warmth and you'll keep whatever you are sleeping on, clean.<br />
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This is it for this week. I hope you all are in good health.<br />
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Bikers, get a skull and be protected on the road!</h2>
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I don't know what it is but after creating <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-dont-have-garden-but-like-to-grow.html" target="_blank">leather Halloween jewelry</a>, my mind kept circling around skulls. It might be the time of the year: on 1 & 2 November we remember the saints and our beloved deceased ones and on the 11th of November, Armistice,we commemorate the end of WWI, when so many died in excruciating circumstances for the benefit of what? This year, November makes me pensive and reflective.<br />
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From art classes, I remembered the presence of skulls in paintings, especially in 16th century Venetian paintings as a memento mori (remember you must die) and as vanitas (futility of -, fleeting life) in Dutch 17th century paintings. Nothing new under the sun! It is a good thing to remember that after all we're mortals and we should make the most of our time.<br />
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When doing some research about the contemporary meaning of skulls I found out that bikers like the skull symbol, as a memento mori; when riding your bike, the only protection you have is your helmet and sturdy leather clothes; an additional spiritual assistance is hence welcome! And here comes a memento mori in the picture!<br />
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Have a small ritual before taking the road!</h4>
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A skull tattoo does the job but a skull bracelet or necklace is less radical then a tattoo. A skull bracelet or necklace, you can take it in your hand, kiss it or touch your forehead with it. While doing this formulate something, aloud or in your head, ask whoever you believe in to help you and to be protected while on the road. Then pull the bracelet over your hand or the necklace over your head and off you go, serene and tranquil in the knowing that you're not alone and you're protected..<br />
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This way you create something solemn, a small ritual, one minute of your time, (but effective if carried out with mindfulness,) before taking the road. Of course the skull won't protect you, it's duty is to remind you of your precarious position, remind you to drive carefully and to ask whoever you believe in for protection. Nowadays we are so busy that a reminder in the form of symbol is welcome.<br />
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With this in mind, I created some leather skull bracelets, particularly for bikers but anybody can benefit from a "memento mori". This set of bracelets and 1 necklace has the additional benefit of being all leather, no metal closures hence no metal allergy problems. A sliding knot permits you to pull the bracelet/necklace over your hand/head and adapt the size to your own needs. I used solid 3 mm leather cord and the skulls measure 2 cm in height, 1.2 cm in width, 1.5 cm in depth.<br />
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So the skulls will stay in place, I added a knot on both sides of them.<br />
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Below are 2 simple bracelets: the left bracelet has a leather cord, 1 sliding knot and 1 skull, the one to the left has 2 skulls, nothing fancy, but it fulfills the duty of the memento mori.<br />
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The necklace of course is the most efficient since you will wear the skull closer to your skin and you'll feel it more and whenever you look into a mirror, you'll see your skull. The skull measures 3 cm in height, 2.5 cm in width and 2.7 cm in depth.<br />
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My niece assists in emergency operations: "more than half of the operations are on bikers" she told me. I almost lost my sun in a heavy accident when riding his bike. Bikers, do yourself, your family and your friends a favor and protect yourself!<br />
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If you are like me and you have a lot of green tomatoes and I mean totally green tomatoes and you have let go off all hope they will ever turn red, here are some solutions to your problem.<br />
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Who has not seen this memorable, funny and moving movie? when you are stuck with green tomatoes, that's the first thing you think of. Before frying them, I looked in my cook books, on internet: no recipe. How difficult can fried green tomatoes be? I sliced them, fried them in olive oil but the green slices had no taste at all. It's up to you to try this out; maybe I did something wrong, I omitted something, if you know about this, please tell me!</div>
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Green tomato jam</h3>
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My mother used to turn the green tomatoes into jam. She cut the tomato in pieces and boiled them with the same amount of sugar. I loved my mother's jam, exotic and with a little crunch; but I want to reduce our sugar intake so jam is not an option.</div>
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And here is what I did with my tomatoes: I fermented them.The recipe is from <u>"Fermentation for beginners" by Drakes Press, 2013 Berkeley, Ca,</u> According to this e-book, fermented food is healthy because it is pre- digested and anybody with digestion problems will benefit from eating fermented food. Mind the salt of course.<br />
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It is really a no-brainer: slice or cut your vegetables, in casu your green tomatoes, put them in jar that is tight closing, if you like, add other vegetables like ginger or what you eat together with tomatoes, add spices, whey, water and salt. I added basil leaves, nigel seeds, 2 cardamom pods, lemon juice (the recipe said lime juice but I only had lemons), black peppercorns, water and salt. If you don't have whey, add 1 teaspoon salt instead. Don't fill your jar too high, you should have 2.5 cm between the water and the lid. Leave it in the kitchen or any other room for 2 days, taste it; if you like the taste, store it in the fridge; if not, leave it in the warmth for a half day, 1 or more days. Keep in mind that the taste will continue to develop while in the fridge and will get more salty. </div>
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I forgot to add sliced onions but I have more green tomatoes in the garden, that will be for another batch. I could have added some garlic, the taste would combine tremendously with the basil, but you know the problem. I might add some to my second batch.</div>
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Start with a small jar and experiment with tastes and spices, the amount of salt, the exposure to warmth etc. It only takes a couple of days before your fermented green tomatoes are ready and enjoy! I'll experiment with fruit: we have lots of raisins from the garden. They are small and full of seeds, very hard seeds; I might ferment them, a small batch to start with and I can improve or alter when making a second batch.<br />
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You can eat them as they are with cold meat, as a contrast to cheese or smoked salmon, to spike up a hamburger, delicious next to fried chicken or fried fish; in Belgium we eat them with french fries to balance and brake down the fat; add some of the juice to your salad instead of dressin, and it is an alternative to vinegar pickles. So many ways to eat your fermented veggies.<br />
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Maybe you have a biker story to tell, I would love to hear it!<br />
Maybe you have a recipe to ferment vegetables or fruit, share it here!<br />
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I am a bit tired of designing and creating jewelry and wanted a different experience; I like diversity and diversification. My <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/09/faux-fur-handbag-done-maybe-not.html" target="_blank">faux fur handbag</a> turned out all right and I was ready for a new bag challenge. (I am still pondering a bucket bag design of my own!) This sounds courageous but it took me a while before I actually put my hand on it. I know, I know: when you create something you shouldn't be focused on the result but having fun going your path; well, let me tell you this, I want both: fun while designing and creating AND a good end product.<br />
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I had my mind set on round (bamboo) handles to save me the designing and sewing handles on. You already know that pinterest is my craft dictionary and I spent hours and hours studying bamboo handle totes. But all totes were in fabric so for a leather tote I was on my own. I had a butter soft piece of beige leather, smooth as silk, with the drape of old and used linen. It looked not small to me but when I started measuring, my tote couldn't be bigger than 30 x 30 cm. From pinterest I knew that my round handle should be about 20 cm. I had a pair in dark brown acrylic mottled with lighter spots and a diameter of 18 cm: perfect. And to be super super safe, I made first a "specimen" in fabric before tackling the real one.<br />
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This handbag is perfect as a small city bag and will look gorgeous hanging from your arm, set off against a black outfit, it will upgrade your denim attire and when not using, it won't take up space in your closet. The tassels spice up the bag and are used to close the handbag.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovelea's leather city bag<br /> with denim outfit</td></tr>
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We, my husband and I have been talking more than a year about visiting this bison ranch in Orchimont friends of us where talking about. At last, we went. It was a 2 hour drive and we where right on time for the guided visit. With a real wagon we made the tour of the property but I was mostly interested in the bisons, this prehistoric, mythic and fierce looking animals. Seeing this proud beasts in the open (I won't say "in the wild"), your soul is stirring, something is grabbing you and your imagination starts to work. You want to grab their woolly looking skin with both hands. I am very very thankful to have this experience .<br />
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Another reason why we (especially me) wanted to visit the ranch is that in the restaurant, they cal lit "Saloon" they serve bison meat. I always have been interested in "tastes" and I am eager to try out different things. When we went to Norway a couple years ago, I had whale. It actually tasted more as meat than as fish but it has it's own special taste, not a very strong taste. I was a bit disappointed in the taste expecting a more gamy taste, seen the dark red meat, it tasted surprisingly equal to beef, maybe a bit sweeter.<br />
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I have been fascinated with everything native American since a child. I've read all of Karl May's Winnetou and Old Shatterhand adventures. I read so many of them that at last I was disgusted. I never liked girl books: very boring, dull and unstimulating. Now I saw those beasts with my own eyes.<br />
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They have been rearing bisons since 1998, starting with a couple animals and now they have a flock. They sell the meat, serve it in their restaurant and have a bison project running in Billings, Montana, USA.<br />
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This brings me to the book: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams. The book is very very good and very good in describing the horror people commit without blinking an eye. It describes in a very observing way the landscape, the journey to the secret valley, the slaughtering of thousands of bisons and with nothing, zero as an end result. Frightful how people were and still are only guided by greed! Don't read it if you are faint at heart.<br />
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Whenever I see autumn pictures, I assume that halve of the colors are photo shopped! Last Tuesday the weather was extremely nice, 18° on the 6th of November! and we went photo hunting. All the yellows and reds made my blood go faster. And yes, the pictures I show you are not photo shopped, the yellows and the reds were there! I captured them as I've seen them. I merely adjusted the horizon in some of the pictures. A lake always gives smart pictures and the tall trees give a cathedral like feeling.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall at Zoete waters, Oud-Heverlee, Belgium</td></tr>
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Does nature give us this strong colors, this exuberance of shades and tinges so we can get through the blandness and hardships of winter? as a memory to fall back on during the long and dark nights?<br />
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When admiring all this beauty, this stark colors I think: yes fall is my season but then comes spring to my mind with its tenderness, the soft hues and best of all: the knowing that winter is over. What is your favorite season and why? Tell us, please!<br />
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In fact I am not a real fashionista. At the beginning of a season I go to the bookshop and take my time to choose some fashion magazines. When home, I choose a free half hour, make myself a coffee, sit in a comfortable chair, choose a magazine and brows through it without reading. I make a mental note of what I like and maybe I might get myself something new. Way back, when I was young, I was a consumer but now that I am 65, I' ve seen it all, everything comes back in a more modern, sleeker way.<br />
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I like the faux fur trend because it adds some splash and punch, gives an exotic touch to your outfit. I have a silk hand printed leopard scarf for some years that I treasure and wear it all the time now; gives my raincoat my white blouse a boost. But I wanted a new item, something small not a jacket or a coat. I was thinking of this yesterday while I had some errands to do; looking at the window displays nothing caught my eye or smiled to me and then it downed: I can revamp or upgrade my coat with a leopard belt!<br />
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Thus I bought 50 cm of leopard jersey, cut off 12 cm lengthwise, made a tube out of it, turned the tube inside out and then, here comes the key point: I hate ugly going fabric belts and had no iron on stiffener. But! I found a very stiff band in my stock. I cut off 50 cm, introduced it into my tube and spaced it evenly to the right and left of the belts center. My new belt will stay nice and rigid at the back of my coat and I'll be able to knot my belt.<br />
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My rather plain coat looks a lot more interesting with it's new belt!<br />
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My sister in law can ask some intense questions as on <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/07/about-celebrating-and-being-65.html" target="_blank">my 65th birthday</a>. Last weekend again; after the Lebbe-family commemoration in <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/10/ode-to-north-sea-is-silence-of.html" target="_blank">West-Vleteren</a> I was seated next to her at lunch. She told me "about their decision not to use paper napkins any more but fabric napkins instead. But then you need something to identify who's napkins is who's! Napkin rings as in old times is perfect and maybe napkin rings is an item I could put on my to do list".<br />
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Back home her words kept repeating in my head and a couple days ago I started the project. Now that I have my shelves, it is great to choose out leather: every tiny bit or big chunk of leather is at one place in boxes according to color or displayed on shelves. It so much nicer and quicker to work<br />
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I decided to use a snap button to close the circle instead of studs. On choosing the leather for my sister-in-law, I went for bright colored leather and a bit of fancyness some fantasy as to not be boring.<br />
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Brings us to the problem of overusing paper. Since a couple of years, out of the blue all institutions that issues invoices are concerned about the number of trees that are cut down to provide us with paper, at the same time they continue shamelessly wrapping their products individually in plastic and carton. To me the real reason and their only concern is to cut down expenses and have the advantage of seeming politically correct but we, as a consumer, have to organize a new filing cabinet on our laptop or whatever digital device you use.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was ironing this week and all sort of negative thoughts were going through my head. Really, it was just terrible and I was disgusted with myself. I know that negative thoughts are counterproductive and I know that I should change them into positive thoughts if you want to make your dreams happen. Of course I want my dreams come through but how to get rid of this black, ugly mood! Well, if you are in a mood like this, it is very hard to find a positive thought.</span></div>
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To end this post I have a very good quote for you. When reading Jen Mazer's Manifesting made easy..., I came across this sublime quote of Eleonara Roosevelt. I want to share this quote with you, it is so amazing and if we apply it, we can have a more interesting and fulfilling life; aren't we all into this goal?<br />
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Tell me if you did something to revamp or upgrade an old but treasured and beloved outfit. What did you do? how did you do it? I am curious!<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-6419123054900341632018-10-25T17:03:00.000+02:002018-10-25T17:03:40.018+02:00Ode to the North Sea! Is the Silence of a Cistercians abbey something for you? Feeling yourself safe as a member of a big family.Last week I told you about the upcoming <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-dont-have-garden-but-like-to-grow.html" target="_blank">w.e. at the North Sea and West-Vleteren</a>. The Lebbe-family gathering on Saturday started at 11 am and we wanted to be on time and without stress so we decided to take the whole weekend. My grand children had a week off so we could start our w.e. on Friday morning. We were at destination at 2 pm, put on our bathing suits and left immediately for the sea.<br />
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I love the North Sea! I love it's beaches with the tides and I love the sand dunes with their peculiar vegetation, the bumps and the pits that protects you from the fierce winds.<br />
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I love taking a walk on the beach when the wind is blowing full speed and the sand is giving your face an acupuncture treatment and your underwear is full of sand!<br />
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I love the myriad of seashells that the tides leave on the beach and the crushing and crashing sound they make when walking overthem, with each beach its own type of shells.<br />
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I love the small pools of water that are left when the sea is withdrawing where I learned to float.<br />
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I love the never ending always rolling waves, an irresistible invitation to get in, play and have fun.<br />
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I love the view from a distance: the grey sea, the blue sky and the yellow golden sand!<br />
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I love the peculiar light that is hanging above the beach and sea, nowhere else can you have this light.<br />
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And I did have my <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-dont-have-garden-but-like-to-grow.html" target="_blank">swim!</a> despite the blowing wind and the coldness of the water. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING BAD ENOUGH, YOU CAN CONQUER THE OBSTACLES! NOTHING CAN HOLD YOU! My legs were red red red when coming out of the sea. I was with my daughter, she also had a swim and Filou, the dog was keeping watch over our belongings. That was so cute; he kept running small distances in every direction and always coming back to our pile of belongings.<br />
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On Saturday we left the sea behind and headed southeast for West-Vleteren, a small village near the French border. (You can read all about this Cistercians abbey <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2017/10/westvleteren-world-most-famous-beer.html" target="_blank">in this previous post.</a> and have a look at <a href="https://sintsixtus.be/trial/" target="_blank">images here</a>.) We were a 20 minutes early for the service and the monastery chapel already was almost full so we had a seat in the front row.<br />
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The service finished we followed the others to the hall where the reception took place. There was beer and cheese, 2 eminently abbey products. At least a 100 persons were present with lots of young people and small children, the family is still growing. Belonging to a big, loving family gives you strength, makes you feel safe, gives you a sense and place of belonging.<br />
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This little guy also feels safe on my brothers knees with my oldest brother, his grandpa next to him.<br />
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I had the intention to connect to members of the other family branch and one of my cousins who is into family trees introduced me to a couple of persons. One woman's mother was a cousin of my grand mother and it was funny to hear the stories she had heard from her mother about my grandmother; I got to know a to me unknown side of my grandma.<br />
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If you want to know who YOU are, if you want to touch your idea about yourself to reality, go to a place by yourself and stay for a couple of days. The Trappists cultivate stillness and ask the same of their visitors. The abbey has a guesthouse, open to men and women. Even a so closed community as Trappist monks is evolving and changing.<br />
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Nothing is more confronting than silence and being alone, just you and yourself! And if you give yourself a reading restriction, you'll learn still more. To be accurate, all sorts of stashed away feelings assault you, your ego gets a huge crush but you get a glimpse of what is underneath. And this gets you on a path to finding yourself again.<br />
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This posts is all about my feelings that have been stirred up this last weekend. I hope you can distill something out of this that works for you. I hope YOU belong to a family where you can be you and feel safe to be you.<br />
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See you next week!<br />
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For everyone a mini garden!</h2>
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I thank my mini garden to Tiffany from "<a href="https://dontwastethecrumbs.com/2015/05/regrow-food-water/" target="_blank">Don't waste the crumbs</a>". I red her post about regrowing food in water last year and tried it out for fun and it did work! In another post I don't recall, I learned how to plant them. This is still better than growing in water. Now I have my own mini garden and for free (you would anyhow have bought the veggies you are starting with); thank you Tiffany for <a href="https://dontwastethecrumbs.com/2015/05/regrow-food-water/" target="_blank">sharing!</a>! If you want one too, just follow the steps below; it won't take much time or effort.<br />
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Preparing your garden</h3>
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Everyone can have a mini garden! The only thing you need is a container and some soil (this could be the hardest part). Your container can be anything that is waterproof; this could be a plastic container as well as an empty can. I have used a metal empty 5 liter olive oil can in the past. This summer I had a container with a hydrangea that was more dead then alive; I took the hydrangea out and planted it in the garden and used the container for my mini garden.<br />
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Choose something that you have laying around in your kitchen or buy a fancy container, put some pebbles, stones, beer bottle caps, or the like at the bottom so the roots aren't permanently wet, fill up with soil (most soils have already a fertilizer incorporated) and your garden is ready! Best place to grow your mini garden is outside in your garden or on the balcony but a window sill with some sun will do too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mini garden!</td></tr>
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Choosing your (organic) veggies.</h3>
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When your garden is ready, go out to an organic store or market you trust and buy organic vegetables you like such as carrots (best is if they have some green on top), fresh onions, lettuce, spinach. If you start with organic veggies, you can grow your own organic food. When washing your veggies, don't throw away the water, because it has become fertilized: poor it over your babies.<br />
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Preparing your veggies.</h3>
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Let's say you'll having a lettuce salad for lunch. And you'll add some scallions to spice up everything. You have chosen onions with long and healthy roots. When paring 1 or 2 scallions, leave at least 5 mm of stem when cutting the roots, they feed on the 5 mm stem you left above the roots Let the roots soak in water, on the window sill (I cut a small plastic bottle in half and used the bottom to soak my onions) till they spruce a bit; you'll see a small bump on the surface you have cut. This takes 3 or 4 days. Leave them a couple of days longer, take them out of the water and then transplant them into your container.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My onions 3 weeks after planting<br />
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Do the same for carrots; you don't have to spruce them in water, you can plant them directly into the soil; good carrots that don't have some green left, will spruce but with more difficulties<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My spruced carrots</td></tr>
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Lettuce is fun and easy: cut off the stem of your lettuce and plant it directly in the soil; in a couple of days you should have 1 small tiny leave. If you buy fresh spinach with roots, choose the nicest ones, leave about 1 à 1,5 cm of stem and plant them directly into the soil. I throw banana peels into the container as fertilizer; still better would be to cut the peel in small pieces and bury them about 1 cm under the soil; but I am always in a hurry and just leave them on top of the soil.<br />
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You use the green leaves of your onions in your salad; I planted 4 onions and every couple of days I have enough green to add to a salad. Just cut off the amount you need; not from 1 onion but from different plants; this way you don't wear out 1 plant and the onions can reproduce the leave more easily.<br />
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The scallions in the picture above were a meager 5 mm at the start; look what they have become in a couple of weeks!<br />
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I had quite some carrot leaves. I checked the internet to have some ideas on how to use them. Some articles suggested soup but I didn't have enough for a soup; others said to use it in a salad. At the end I followed my instinct: I boiled some potatoes, put some olive oil in my salad bowl, cut the boiled potatoes while still hot, tossed them in my bowl and swirled them around in the oil. This way they absorb the oil nicely and are very tasty. To top off the salad, I cut up the carrots leaves and mixed them with the potatoes. But I must confess: the leaves didn't add any extra taste to my salad. Maybe when cooked in a soup they might add some taste, but that I have to found out still.<br />
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My lettuce is sprouting well, but not the leeks. I have another confession to make: I forgot to soak them in water and planted them immediately in the soil. Apparently that doesn't work for leeks; I could get them out of the soil, soak them a couple days and then replant them.<br />
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I planted the upper part of radishes (the pink color underneath the leek) with some stems and the cutting is producing new leaves are growing. I doubt if I'll get radishes but the leaves are very tasty stewed with or without onion in olive oil.<br />
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If you have limited space and have only room for a small container (even a tuna can could become your container), grow preferably scallions, then lettuce leaves and/or spinach leaves. You can try out carrot leafs and decided about the taste yourself, after all tastes differ. They sprout very easy. And try out for yourself and experiment, it's fun and gives a lot of pleasure.<br />
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How to entertain your grand children.</h2>
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Next weekend is the annual Lebbe- gathering in West- Vleteren, Belgium the very same gathering I couldn't attend <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2017/10/westvleteren-world-most-famous-beer.html" target="_blank">last year</a>. But this year I am attending. My daughter and family and dog are attending too and we'll make a weekend out of it. They're picking me up on Friday and ride straight ahead to the coast. It is about a 2.5 hrs drive which is long for children. But when Grandma is in the car, time passes quickly and in no time we are at destination.<br />
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Children are happy when they get exclusive attention: when you are with your grand children lent them both your ears, not one ear directed to what the adults are saying and the other to the children! That won't do: give them all of your attention.<br />
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The easiest thing to do, when they are small (till 8) is to let them choose a color and count all the cars they see in their color, very exciting! or they can choose a type of car, truck, whatever.<br />
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It takes some sophistication to get the attention of older children. Best thing to do is to talk about and ask questions about their interests. My grandson is 12 and he gets very passionate when talking about his games. He talks and goes on and I listen, asking him questions about the things I don't get or know nothing about till his sister of 9 interrupts him saying: you have talked enough, my turn.<br />
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Cute Halloween leather earrings and bracelets.</h2>
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Last week I said that I wouldn't <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-secret-of-bobbin-lace-poor-over.html" target="_blank">show any pictures</a> of my leather Halloween creations because they are in consignment at a shop in my home town. But the earrings are so cute that I have to show them to you.<br />
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Aren't they adorable: and the skulls and the bones!<br />
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Here are 2 very simple leather bracelets with a sliding knot, perfect for people with metal allergy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's unisex 2 skull <br />bracelet with sliding knot</span></td></tr>
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Tomorrow, Friday I am off to the the North See! I haven't seen the see in months and the North See in 2 years. I would love to have a swim in the North See but with the tides, I don't know if my swim will fit in, And to West-Vleteren. I'll tell you all about it.<br />
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That's it for this week. See you next week.<div class="blogger-post-footer">If you enjoyed reading this post, you can subscribe to get my post by E-mail. </div>denyshildehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479418195965828871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5365735111810917717.post-43947899070252647932018-10-11T17:04:00.000+02:002019-01-26T09:53:31.723+01:00Bobbin lace and leather! Poor over coffee memories. Superb sunrise to start my day!<h2>
The secret of bobbin lace!</h2>
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At this moment I am reading the incredible useful e-books of Erin from <a href="https://www.madeurban.com/blog/made-urban-ebooks/" target="_blank">Made Urban</a>. She has simple but very genius ideas like bringing together products with the same color to create unity (in a craft display). I created some series like <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/06/leather-bracelets-styled-for-pool-my.html" target="_blank">my pool wear collection</a> and <a href="https://hildemariapierredenys.blogspot.com/2018/07/3-glam-chic-leather-necklaces-after-40.html" target="_blank">more here!</a>, but lots of my products are kind of disparate.<br />
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To apply this principle I had a look at all my products and found out that I have a lot of red/burgundy bracelets and a lot of them are embellished with lace. And while stuffing my new closet (hey, I haven't shown it to you), I discovered my box filled with real lace. I say real lace because I am Belgian from the Flemish region and we are very proud of our world known bobbin lace.<br />
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How I am so sure it is bobbin lace?</h4>
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Because the town where I was raised, small as it is, has a tradition of bobbin lace. When I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, we had a choice between the regular needle work lessons or going to the bobbin lace class. I choose the latter and with a couple of other girls we crossed the whole school to the kindergarten section where the class of Soeur Marie des Anges was situated! Yes, I went to an all girl, catholic school, directed by nuns!<br />
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Anyway, the class was fun, more relaxed, at the most 5 girls and at the end of the school day. We learned the basics as where to put your pins, read and comprehend the pattern charts because each stitch has its symbol. I I remember the linen stitch and the embellishments as the spider, picots and the fan. We made only long strips of lace. Albeit they couldn't be that long because I still have a little booklet with samples of what we learned and made. I never made it to lace in a circle on a round cushion because the next year I went to a boarding school.<br />
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Above is an mage of a page of the sample booklet we got at the end of the school year. It shows varieties of the "spider" motif.<br />
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My collection of red+lace bracelets contains a large cuff embellished with a crocheted doily motif; (I have a plain one for myself and the cuff is heavenly and pleasantly warm in winter.) The white motif ads freshness to the dark winter days.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's red leather cuff with white vintage motif</span></td></tr>
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For the second narrow bracelet I used a piece of bicoloured crocheted lace made out of a very fine thread; my mother in law gave it to me, it is what is left from a headscarf. It is a very simple but very beautifull example of crocheted lace.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lovelea's red leather bracelet with <br />vintage crocheted lace</span></td></tr>
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Here comes the bracelet adorned with real bobbin lace. The name of the motif is "little spider". Bobbin lace can be faked fairly good! but I'll tell you a little SECRET: if you can see the little, tiny holes where the pins used to sit, then you have real bobbin lace. Because this lace has been washed several times, only the holes in the spiders are still visible in the image below right.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Red leather bracelet <br />with vintage bobbin lace</span></td></tr>
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And for the fourth bracelet I used a sturdy mechanically produced lace. To compensate this fact, I used a vintage glass evil eye bead as button.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">LoveLea's red leather bracelet with<br /> lace and vintage evil eye bead.</span></td></tr>
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Poor over coffee</h2>
When reading <a href="https://www.bestofthislife.com/2018/07/the-pour-over-method-a-perfect-cup-of-coffee-every-time.html" target="_blank">Emily Smith's post</a> (she is Editor of The Best of This Life) about poor over coffee, I was pleasantly surprised that a whole post was dedicated to poor over coffee. I haven't known any other way of making coffee in my whole life. I think I was in my twenties when I had an Italian expresso for the first time and a Turkish coffee.<br />
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I have memories of my father making coffee with the Melitta filter in our own big coffee pot. In the morning when descending the staircase to have breakfast, the smell of fresh coffee awaited us. While the right amount of water was put to boiling, my father, who made coffee every morning for the whole family, measured out the number of table spoons of coffee and a little tiny bit of chicory root into the coffee filter. The chicory is some habit, left over from the war when they substituted coffee by chicory or roasted acorns. When the water boiled, he poured only a small amount of water so the coffee had time to swell and after this first time he just filled the filter with water covering the filter with a lid, so everything could stay warm.<br />
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But before we used the paper filter, we used a cotton bag that was sewn to a metal ring that fitted in the coffee pot. Farmers and poor people used the same method but they didn't use a ready made bag, they sew a nylon SOCK into the holder. The cotton bag made tastier coffee than the paper filter but I bet you can imagine the horror of emptying this bag full of coffee grounds every day and washing the thing every day! The paper filter was very convenient but we lost some of the taste.<br />
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Sunrise</h3>
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Today I got up early to finish this post and I have been rewarded with a superb sunrise: the sky was on fire. Things like this make me feel good and energizes me the whole day.<br />
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About my Halloween jewelry, </h4>
I took what I had made: 2 chokers, 2 bracelets and 2 pair of earrings to the local gift shop and they are doing great. This is why I don't show pictures of this creations.<br />
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I hope you liked my bracelets (available <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/denyshildemaria.lovelea/shop" target="_blank">@ my FB page, LoveLea.</a>) and my childhood memories.<br />
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See you next week.<br />
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