This is a very disturbing trend. Please read and share this article and do what you can to help.
Monarch Butterflies Down Again This Year as Decline Continues.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Tuesday is Quickly Becoming the Best Day of the Week!
Hello everyone! Tuesday is quickly becoming the best day of the week!
Every week Yogibear66 hosts the Terrific Tuesday game on OLA and we have a blast!
This sale runs for 12 hours on Tuesdays
Times are as follows:
5:30am to 5:30pm (HST - Hawaii Time)
7:30am to 7:30pm (AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time)
8:30 AM to 8;30 PM (OLA time, PDT - Pacific Daylight Time)
9:30am to 9:30pm (MDT - Mountain Daylight Time)
10:30am to 10:30pm (CDT - Central Daylight Time)
11:30am to 11:30pm (EDT - Eastern Daylight Time)
Each seller joins the sale and posts their weekly specials for the game. Buyers can then take advantage of these specials by shopping each store that is listed.
Once a buyer makes a purchase, they post the item they bought and from whom. The buyer with the most purchases wins the game and a nice prize donated from either Yogibear66 or another seller from OLA.
It is very easy and fun!
Sellers receive traffic for their listings and buyers cash in on some great deals!
If you are thinking about signing up to be a member of OLA, now would be a great time!
I am bedding4me and I try to sign up each week..although my life gets pretty hectic sometimes! I sell just about everything under the sun..and the moon too! Feel free to stop by my store!
So..why not give the game and OLA a try?
If you are a seller, there are no listing fees, no final value fees and no craziness like the "darkside" LOL
If you are looking for great deals, feel free to join! Read all about OLA here!
Tell a friend too! I have made some very wonderful friends here on OLA and I am so very proud to call OLA my family!
Every week Yogibear66 hosts the Terrific Tuesday game on OLA and we have a blast!
This sale runs for 12 hours on Tuesdays
Times are as follows:
5:30am to 5:30pm (HST - Hawaii Time)
7:30am to 7:30pm (AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time)
8:30 AM to 8;30 PM (OLA time, PDT - Pacific Daylight Time)
9:30am to 9:30pm (MDT - Mountain Daylight Time)
10:30am to 10:30pm (CDT - Central Daylight Time)
11:30am to 11:30pm (EDT - Eastern Daylight Time)
Each seller joins the sale and posts their weekly specials for the game. Buyers can then take advantage of these specials by shopping each store that is listed.
Once a buyer makes a purchase, they post the item they bought and from whom. The buyer with the most purchases wins the game and a nice prize donated from either Yogibear66 or another seller from OLA.
It is very easy and fun!
Sellers receive traffic for their listings and buyers cash in on some great deals!
If you are thinking about signing up to be a member of OLA, now would be a great time!
I am bedding4me and I try to sign up each week..although my life gets pretty hectic sometimes! I sell just about everything under the sun..and the moon too! Feel free to stop by my store!
So..why not give the game and OLA a try?
If you are a seller, there are no listing fees, no final value fees and no craziness like the "darkside" LOL
If you are looking for great deals, feel free to join! Read all about OLA here!
Tell a friend too! I have made some very wonderful friends here on OLA and I am so very proud to call OLA my family!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Sugar painting..amazing!
A friend sent this to me on Facebook, and I found it FASCINATING!
"As a unique art for producing artistic pieces entirely composed of sugar, sugar painting is very different from normal painting. First, since the hot liquid sugar could freeze solid if it cools, the painter has to produce his/her work very quickly. Second, the painter has to follow some orders of strokes and draw a continuous line into a picture of an animal or other pattern. To get familiar with the whole process, the painter has to do some practice of normal painting in the first place.
These impressionist-style paintings fall into two main categories: plane painting and solid painting. It is comparatively easier to do the former. When producing the latter, the painter needs more knowledge and techniques of sugar painting. For example, to produce a flower basket, he/she has to do a round sugar pancake first, and then make a smaller sugar circle on the pancake. Due to the difference of the two parts in temperature, it is easy to pull up the whole smaller and resilient sugar circle with some tool and form a solid basket. Later on, the artist adds a lifting beam and flowers to the basket, making a vivid flower basket.
According to some academic studies, sugar painting originated from the Ming Dynasty when sugar animals and figures were made in molds as part of a sacrifice in religious rituals. In the Qing Dynasty, sugar painting gained more popularity. The production techniques were upgraded and the patterns became more various, most of which were auspicious such as fish, loong and monkey. Afterward, the folk artists in Sichuan developed this art by incorporating techniques of Chinese shadow puppet and Chinese paper cutting. The molds were also replaced with a small bronze spoon. As time passed by, the contemporary form of sugar painting has gradually evolved.
Although the number of sugar painters has decreased, due to its unique charm, a certain number of artists are making sustained efforts to preserve it by offering classes, holding relevant activities such as sugar painting contests and applying for the National Non-material Cultural Heritage.
Nowadays, this art is garnering support again, from both the general public and the government. It has already been listed as Provincial Non-Material Culture Heritage by the Sichuan Government. Moreover, the sugar painting artists have gained increasing recognition."
Pretty impressive!
And, speaking of impressive, check out all the "sweet" deals at Onlineauction.com you'll find!
Beautiful Dragonware sugar and creamer from thebluerose!
4 lbs of Domino sugar from knightowls!
Sunset Creek Sugar Cookie Candle (mmmm...I can smell if from here!) from kornkountrytreasures!
Adorable Sugar Plum Fairies Music Box from Draggontagger!
Wishing everybody a
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
BARGAINS GALORE! It's Time For The Terrific Tuesday Sale!
Welcome to TERRIFIC TUESDAY!
If you are new here and see something you'd like to buy, sign up with OLA, bid or buy your item, then come back here and use the comment feature on the "Terrific Tuesday Sale" post to add your OLA ID and the auction # of the item you bid on or purchased. That's all there is to it! At the end of the game, we will add up the bids/buys for all who participate. The person with the most entries wins a prize!
KornKountryTreasures and CountryNaturals are offering $2 gift certificates to all new members who sign up today.
Click here to find participating members and their specials. Check back on this blog, often, to see more super specials. HAPPY SHOPPING!
If you are new here and see something you'd like to buy, sign up with OLA, bid or buy your item, then come back here and use the comment feature on the "Terrific Tuesday Sale" post to add your OLA ID and the auction # of the item you bid on or purchased. That's all there is to it! At the end of the game, we will add up the bids/buys for all who participate. The person with the most entries wins a prize!
KornKountryTreasures and CountryNaturals are offering $2 gift certificates to all new members who sign up today.
Click here to find participating members and their specials. Check back on this blog, often, to see more super specials. HAPPY SHOPPING!
Rescue Yarn For The Rescue Critters
I let the word slip out that I love to knit and that everything I make and sell would be donated to the Love Your Pet Expo Sanctuary For Special Needs Animals. Since then, the yarn donations have been pouring in and I can't turn away even the tiniest scrap (I think I heard my family whispering about an intervention). Bags of yarn now fill the bedroom and every inch of extra storage space in our temporary living quarters (we really need to find a house SOON!)
In order to keep from being buried alive in bags of yarn, I am knitting all-purpose thick-knit mats as fast as I can. Thick-knitting is a technique I developed just for this situation. I can use just about any kind of yarn scraps to make super-thick cushiony mats for sit-upons, rugs, cat beds, etc. It's fun and easy and would use up a normal knitter's "stash" in no time. For me, it has become an act of self-defense. THIS YARN HAS TO GO!
In the interest of self-preservation, I'm offering $10 off any thick-knit mat in my store, INCLUDING SPECIAL ORDERS! TODAY ONLY!
In order to keep from being buried alive in bags of yarn, I am knitting all-purpose thick-knit mats as fast as I can. Thick-knitting is a technique I developed just for this situation. I can use just about any kind of yarn scraps to make super-thick cushiony mats for sit-upons, rugs, cat beds, etc. It's fun and easy and would use up a normal knitter's "stash" in no time. For me, it has become an act of self-defense. THIS YARN HAS TO GO!
In the interest of self-preservation, I'm offering $10 off any thick-knit mat in my store, INCLUDING SPECIAL ORDERS! TODAY ONLY!
These mats are available in my OLA store and so is the ebook for instructions to make your own.
Thick-knitting uses large needles and 3-4 strands of yarn. This allows me to combine yarns in a variety of ways to create interesting patterns and effects. Each mat is unique.
Here is just a tiny sample of the yarn I have available.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Penguin Cam! (my new addiction...)
A friend at work turned me on to the Penguin Cam at Sea World.
Click here to watch! Just click multi-view to change cameras.
It's on 24 hours a day, and has different views.. on land and underwater. Fascinating to watch these critters go about their daily business! I wish more zoos, refuges, etc had these..I'd love to watch all different kind of animals - all day. I find this very relaxing and soothing... I hope you do too! And, take a little break once in a while to check out some fun items at Onlineauction.com!
And when taking a break from the Penguins, please visit my stores:
curiocache and crittercache!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Frog Invasion!
Every Spring, we have a "seasonal" frog pond in one of the pastures. It's straight out the back door of my house, about 75 feet away. It starts with a couple of tentative croaks about mid-February, and increases every night until there are so many frogs croaking so loud that I can't even hear the TV!
The YouTube video is an example of the sound these particular froggies make (not my video, but the same type of frogs..) Since it has rained so much lately, the drain between pastures has clogged, and now I have 2 huge ponds... the second one QUICKLY filled up with frogs, making it twice as ...musical. I love the little green frogs, (not because of the noise..) but because they're kinda cute, and they attract 2 pairs of ducks that seem to like tadpoles, a raccoon family who seems to favor frogs as well, and even a Blue Heron that pops in once in a while and spears himself a snack.
I found lots of Frogs at Onlineauction.com, too! Like this cute trio from LyndaLeesLoft!
ADORABLE Frog Prince trinket box from anniescup11!
Cute TY Jumps the Frog from spock100!
Hop on in to OLA.com to find YOUR special frog to kiss! Onlineauction.com!!
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