Christmas Bells and Gingham

When I got out the Christmas decorations it remined me that I had picked up a couple aprons at an estate sale in the fall. And one was a Christmas apron! I love the bells on it!

Large bells and tiny bells...… It is a little hard to see the seam, but it has a curved pocket. I love discovering all the small details!

The other two aprons are gingham and well loved with quite a bit of staining. I couldn't decide between the two, so decided I needed both!

I don't think I have ever seen ties sewn this way before. So easy to sew and a nice touch!

Such simple embroidery on the pocket, waistband and hem, but so cute!

Someone really took a lot of time and care making these aprons. There is even handsewn decorative rick-rack on the ties!

I love the use of the two sizes of rick-rack! 

Are you getting ready to tie those aprons on? I have a few things that need to be baked last minute and I think it will be fun to the Christmas bells apron!

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Pink Christmas

It is probably no surprise to anyone that my room is decorated in Pink for Christmas! I was very excited to get out my pink Shiny Brights. In the old house I also hung them in my windows, but when I was upstairs they just felt like too much in the windows. 

One of the projects I was working on before Christmas present making is a patchwork cover for my down comforter. I am so excited with how it turned out! It is not quite all the way finished, but hasn't stopped me from using it! I love down comforters, there is nothing quite as cozy.

Sometimes just a few decorations go a long way. So after hanging the ornaments in the window, my little Shiny Bright corsage on the mirror and crocheted snowflakes on my door I called it good. (Plus my dressing table has turned into a sewing table and is heaped with projects and fabric!)

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Jay Tam

Jay Tam

Pre-Competition Selfies Fall 2018

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Christmas Upstairs

Mandy has had her room decorated since the beginning of November. She said she was in the Christmas mood early! We have had so much fun decorating our "new" spaces this year.

This little wooden cut out nativity was from JoAnn Fabrics. A new addition to Mandy's collection and so cute!

A couple of years ago Mandy knit an advent calendar. The ornaments are so cute and little!

A sneak peak at Mandy's room! Such a cozy room. One of my favorites are the little straw ornaments in the frame.

Even the closet got a little Christmas! As you can see, these are now plant shelves.

Mandy has a lovely snow globe collection and now she has more room to spread them around!

Stay tuned! Tomorrow I will be back with my room decked out!

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Ho Fung Shum

Ho Fung Shum

Backstage Competition Fall 2018

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Shaper 1/5

Bir bilimkurgu. Pek bilimkurgu ile aram yoktur. Şimdiye kadar da hiç çevirmemiştim. Bu sefer benim için de bir ilk oldu. Bir çocuk, zamane gençleri gibi, biraz haşarı ve biraz uçarı ve Halifeliğin Kahramanları adında bir kart oyununun ve o oyundaki kahramanların bir hayranı. Favori kartı Tor Ajax, oyunda Tor Ajax olduktan sonra yenilmez oluyorsunuz, o mertebeden sonra da Vıctus oluyorsunuz ve Shaperların gezegeninin yerini öğrenerek onları yok ediyor ve oyunu kazanmış oluyorsunuz. Vıctus'un bir yeteneği var. Yakın geleceği görebiliyor. Tam olarak on nefes sonrasını. Sıradan bir genç kahraman bildiklerinin bir süre sonra düşmanı oluyor ve geçmişinde büyük bir sır sakladığını öğreniyor.

Her hafta düzenli olarak yayında. Desteklerinizi ilginizi çeken reklamlara tıklayarak da gösterebilirsiniz. Eğer basılı şekilde satın alarak destek vermek isterseniz şuradan sipariş edebilirsiniz ve beklemeden tam macera okumanın zevkine varabilirsiniz.

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Korece istek cümlesi aktarma eki + -아/어/여 달라고 하다

Korecede karıştırılan eklerden biri de 주다 ve ~달라다 ekleri.

Kullanım :

Fiil + -아/어/여 달라고 하다
İsim + -을/를 달라고 해다

"아/어/여 주다" ile kurulmuş  olup duyduğumuz ya da kendi söylediğimiz cümleyi tekrar bir başkasına aktarırken kullanılır.

Önce türkçe olarak bir olay üzerinden örneklendirelim.

Birisinden bir şey yapmasını isterken "Bunu yapar mısın?" deriz. Bizi duymadığını ya da anlamadığını

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The Insignificance of the Dog in the Night-Time

Holmes, dressed for the country, will soon hear about the dog in the night-time 

I’ve just written a scene in my upcoming Sebastian McCabe – Jeff Cody mystery novel in which I turn the dog-in-the-night-time trope upside down.

You know what I mean: The passage from the Sherlock Holmes short story “Silver Blaze” is one of the most familiar dialogue exchanges in the Holmes Canon. It’s quoted frequently in mystery fiction – and outside of it. It begins with a Scotland Yard inspector asking Holmes a question: 

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”
“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes. 

In mysteries (except for my new one), the context for citing this passage is the sleuth pointing out a negative clue, something significant by its absence. On a car trip once I listened to two of Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels written 36 years apart – Cards on the Table and Elephants Can Remember. Both used the dog in the night-time as a metaphor.

The most extended literary allusion to this quote comes in a novel by Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which I recently reread. Haddon’s narrator, a 15-year-old autistic boy, uses the methods of his hero, Sherlock Holmes, to investigate the killing of a dog.

But my favorite reference to the dog in the night-time is a “Peanuts” comic strip from January 28, 1994. Charlie Brown is reading aloud to Snoopy from “Silver Blaze.” When Charlie says, “the dog did nothing in the night-time,” Snoopy thinks to himself, “My favorite part.”

Spoiler alert: In my book, the fact that the dog did nothing in the night-time just means he’s a lousy guard dog!

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Elf on the Shelf

Aren't they the cutest? We have a small collection of elves that pop up in a different place each year. This year they seemed to find the kitchen the comfiest!

I think it was in November that I decided to finally move my milk bottles (they were still upstairs in Mandy's room!). So most of the kitchen shelves also got rearranged! For what better place for milk bottles then in the kitchen! 

 My milk bottle collection started with finding a couple at our local antique shops and then finding a few in Ohio when we would go to visit our grandpa. This one Mandy brought home from Vermont when she visited our aunt. I was trying to collect a bottle from each state/town I had been. It is really hard to find milk bottles in Texas though...…

 This little elfin always hung on our tree growing up, she is my Mom's.

 This bottle was the one that really started my collection. I found it in my Grandpa's garage in Ohio. Love the name of the dairy! The strawberry sugar pot is also a memento from my Grandma. She collected strawberries.

 I made sure I put this bottle on the lowest shelf at eye level. It always makes me laugh! 

 The larger milk bottles I put up on the shelves over the stove. With a few Shiny Brights and an elf tucked in among the glassware it is quite festive!

This week is looking like it will be a lot calmer than last week. Most of the presents are finished and packages shipped. Now I am contemplating baking another batch of ginger snaps! They are so fun to make and eat!

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