Fascinated with Hats and Fascinator's

Kate Middleton Dutchess of Cambridge.

Kate Middleton looks good in just about anything – including traditional British hats, particularly the Fascinator. Worn at fancy society events, the Fascinator headpiece is an alternative to a full brimmed hat and often includes feathers, flowers, and beads. It’s often placed on the side of the head or at the back.

Where would you choose a fascinator? In certain occasions where you might think about wearing a hat you can wear a fascinator instead. Hats can sometimes crush or damage your hair style. However, most times your hair may be styled around the look of your fascinator. Or should you have a smaller piece it can be added to the hair without fear of damage or having that crushed hair look. 

Many hats use pins to hold a hat in place. You do not want to harm yourself should they slip. A single comb is all that is needed to keep the fascinator on your head for long periods of time without pain. Fascinators have been kept in place with hair clips as well, plus can be placed on a headband. 

Where should the Fascinator be placed? The old fashioned rule for hats was that a lady always wore her hat on the right side of her head so that her beau on her left arm could see her face when they were walking together and, also he could draw his sword with his right hand if necessary without removing her hat at the same time!

We don't need to worry about those rules any more thank goodness, although the right side of the head, and tilting forward, remains the most popular side to wear fascinators although covering your parting is a good idea too if you can.  Having said that the smaller fascinators or hair accessories can also be worn at the back of the head too. Wondering how to make your own Fascinator? There are some ideas here.

Hats, headbands or fascinators, Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge has made wearing headpieces fashionable again. 

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Fascinated with Hats and Fascinator's

Kate Middleton Dutchess of Cambridge.

Kate Middleton looks good in just about anything – including traditional British hats, particularly the Fascinator. Worn at fancy society events, the Fascinator headpiece is an alternative to a full brimmed hat and often includes feathers, flowers, and beads. It’s often placed on the side of the head or at the back.

Where would you choose a fascinator? In certain occasions where you might think about wearing a hat you can wear a fascinator instead. Hats can sometimes crush or damage your hair style. However, most times your hair may be styled around the look of your fascinator. Or should you have a smaller piece it can be added to the hair without fear of damage or having that crushed hair look. 

Many hats use pins to hold a hat in place. You do not want to harm yourself should they slip. A single comb is all that is needed to keep the fascinator on your head for long periods of time without pain. Fascinators have been kept in place with hair clips as well, plus can be placed on a headband. 

Where should the Fascinator be placed? The old fashioned rule for hats was that a lady always wore her hat on the right side of her head so that her beau on her left arm could see her face when they were walking together and, also he could draw his sword with his right hand if necessary without removing her hat at the same time!

We don't need to worry about those rules any more thank goodness, although the right side of the head, and tilting forward, remains the most popular side to wear fascinators although covering your parting is a good idea too if you can.  Having said that the smaller fascinators or hair accessories can also be worn at the back of the head too. Wondering how to make your own Fascinator? There are some ideas here.

Hats, headbands or fascinators, Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge has made wearing headpieces fashionable again. 

Linking to:
http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/
http://chiconashoestringdecorating.blogspot.com/
http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/
http://trulylovelywiththelaneysisters.blogspot.com/
Sunday linky
http://petitehermine.blogspot.com/
http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

Sleepy Bunny Coloring Pages

Sleepy Bunny Coloring Pages

Bugs Bunny is the Roman Emperor Coloring Pages

Bugs Bunny is the Roman Emperor Coloring Pages

Bugs Bunny in a Rabbit Hole Coloring Pages

Bugs Bunny in a Rabbit Hole Coloring Pages

The Royal Wedding Free Printables

Princess Katie Doll and Ball Gown

Picture courtesy of Family.com

The Royal Wedding,  Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married on April 29th in Westminster Abbey.

What little girl doesn't like a Princess story?  Celebrate a Princess wedding with your little girl Print out the cut outs, place on card stock and let her dress her princess Katie doll. 

A Princess needs a Tiara

Photo courtesy of Family.com

Princess Kate's Rose Tiara printable for your little girl's princess doll.

Find cute printables on Family.com. My favorites are the Princess Kate Paper Dolls and Printable Tiara! 

Thanks to LivingLocurto For bringing this and other Royal wedding ideas.
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http://www.sugaranddots.com/
http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/
http://runwithglitter.blogspot.com/
http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

The Royal Wedding Free Printables

Princess Katie Doll and Ball Gown

Picture courtesy of Family.com

The Royal Wedding,  Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married on April 29th in Westminster Abbey.

What little girl doesn't like a Princess story?  Celebrate a Princess wedding with your little girl Print out the cut outs, place on card stock and let her dress her princess Katie doll. 

A Princess needs a Tiara

Photo courtesy of Family.com

Princess Kate's Rose Tiara printable for your little girl's princess doll.

Find cute printables on Family.com. My favorites are the Princess Kate Paper Dolls and Printable Tiara! 

Thanks to LivingLocurto For bringing this and other Royal wedding ideas.
Linked on tuesday
http://reasonstoskipthehousework.blogspot.com/
Linking to:
http://www.lollipopscards.com/
http://itssoverycheri.com/map-it/linky-your-wednesday-blog-party/
http://www.sugaranddots.com/
http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/
http://runwithglitter.blogspot.com/
http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

Bugs Bunny is Running Coloring Pages

Bugs Bunny is Running Coloring Pages

Slam Dunk, Bunny Coloring Pages

Slam Dunk, Bunny Coloring Pages

Bunny Star Coloring Pages

Bunny Star Coloring Pages

Delicious Potato salad recipe

I love Paula Deen's recipes, they are easy to make and delicious! I found this potato salad recipe just in time to serve at my Easter dinner this year and it was a big hit!

Photo courtesy of Paula Deen

I improvised a bit and changed the recipe, when making this salad I used 5 red potato's, 2 kielbasa links, celery and green onions chopped,  the dressing I used was italian dressing.  It served 6 people. I boiled the potato's for about 30 minutes to keep the potato's firmer otherwise they become to soft and turn into mashed potato's. I cut them in cubes, boiled the sausage links for 45 minutes, sliced one whole link into tiny pieces put in with the other ingredients and put the leftover one sliced around the honey baked ham.  

The menu consisted of  breads, cheeses, pickles, olives, cherry tomato's, the potato salad and the honey baked ham for a delicious early Easter dinner/brunch. It was absolutely delicious and easy to make! I sliced a few slices of the honeybaked ham for my daughter who doesn't like it warm or baked, before I baked it for 30 minutes to get the glaze melted.

Paula Deens recipe is here..

Delicious Potato salad recipe

I love Paula Deen's recipes, they are easy to make and delicious! I found this potato salad recipe just in time to serve at my Easter dinner this year and it was a big hit!

Photo courtesy of Paula Deen

I improvised a bit and changed the recipe, when making this salad I used 5 red potato's, 2 kielbasa links, celery and green onions chopped,  the dressing I used was italian dressing.  It served 6 people. I boiled the potato's for about 30 minutes to keep the potato's firmer otherwise they become to soft and turn into mashed potato's. I cut them in cubes, boiled the sausage links for 45 minutes, sliced one whole link into tiny pieces put in with the other ingredients and put the leftover one sliced around the honey baked ham.  

The menu consisted of  breads, cheeses, pickles, olives, cherry tomato's, the potato salad and the honey baked ham for a delicious early Easter dinner/brunch. It was absolutely delicious and easy to make! I sliced a few slices of the honeybaked ham for my daughter who doesn't like it warm or baked, before I baked it for 30 minutes to get the glaze melted.

Paula Deens recipe is here..

John Dominic Crossan's Jesus

John Dominic Crossan says even the writers of the Bible disagreed about Jesus' message.

John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus

By John Blake, CNN

February 27, 2011 -- Updated 0648 GMT (1448 HKT)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• John Dominic Crossan's dubbed "demonic" because of his theories about Jesus
  
• Crossan is one of world's top "historic Jesus" scholars
  
• Crossan's says traditional portrait of Jesus is flawed
  
• Crossan: Jesus was a "peasant with an attitude"

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Christianity both admits and subverts the historical Jesus.
--John Dominic Crossan, historic Jesus scholar.

http://www.johndominiccrossan.com/

Bunny a Director Coloring Pages

Bunny a Director Coloring Pages

Boy Pick Easter Tree Coloring pages

Boy Pick Easter Tree Coloring pages

Spring and Pinwheels

Pinwheel Hairclip Tutorial click on picture.

Spring and pinwheels, they just go together, they are cute and fun. Children love to run holding their pinwheel on a stick as the wind whirls their litle  twirlie delighting them.  The adorable pinwheel pictured above is made of fabric and is a hairclip for your little princess. Thanks to Mother Huddle Blog for sharing a tutorial for you to copy and make. I like easy no-sew crafts.

The fabric pinwheel could be used on a throw pillow, as a hairclip as shown, placed on a board and framed for a little girl's cute room theme.  What other ideas can you come up with using  fabric pinwheels?  

Another version of pinwheels, a paper flower pinwheel thanks to Alphamom

Spring Flower Pinwheels by Alphamom

Simple to make out of cardstock and dowels.  Imagine them in your garden, or in a vase, as party favors, put them on skewers and decorate a cake, what about a garland or a wreath?  Use your imagination and tell me what other ways you would use these adorable flower pinwheels. Than head on over to Alphamom's website and see how easy they are to make. 

Woman's Day Magazine had another pinwheel project.

Picture courtesy of Woman's Day pinwheel project.

This project would be great for a 4th of July celebration. Made of paper and attached to a straw.

There you have several ideas for making and using Pinwheels!  Have fun this spring and summer!

Linking here:

Spring and Pinwheels

Pinwheel Hairclip Tutorial click on picture.

Spring and pinwheels, they just go together, they are cute and fun. Children love to run holding their pinwheel on a stick as the wind whirls their litle  twirlie delighting them.  The adorable pinwheel pictured above is made of fabric and is a hairclip for your little princess. Thanks to Mother Huddle Blog for sharing a tutorial for you to copy and make. I like easy no-sew crafts.

The fabric pinwheel could be used on a throw pillow, as a hairclip as shown, placed on a board and framed for a little girl's cute room theme.  What other ideas can you come up with using  fabric pinwheels?  

Another version of pinwheels, a paper flower pinwheel thanks to Alphamom

Spring Flower Pinwheels by Alphamom

Simple to make out of cardstock and dowels.  Imagine them in your garden, or in a vase, as party favors, put them on skewers and decorate a cake, what about a garland or a wreath?  Use your imagination and tell me what other ways you would use these adorable flower pinwheels. Than head on over to Alphamom's website and see how easy they are to make. 

Woman's Day Magazine had another pinwheel project.

Picture courtesy of Woman's Day pinwheel project.

This project would be great for a 4th of July celebration. Made of paper and attached to a straw.

There you have several ideas for making and using Pinwheels!  Have fun this spring and summer!

Linking here:

Disney Dalmatian Easter Coloring Pages

Disney Dalmatian Easter Coloring Pages

What I read during Holy Saturday

helpful book for me to understand the Jesus Quest.

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Happy Easter of Bunny Coloring Pages

Happy Easter of Bunny Coloring Pages

Good Friday Service 2011

Sis Caroline Lee sings 'Lord, You Are My Greatest Friend' or '主，你是我最好的朋友' in Hokkien at the Holy Light Church Good Friday Combined Worship Service, April 22, 2011.



HLCE Men's Choir sings 'At The Cross' at the Holy Light Church Good Friday Combined Worship Service, April 22, 2011.

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Consulting an Australian Paediatrican

In the first national snapshot of paediatician consultations in Australia published in The Medical Journal of Australia, some interesting facts have emerged.

Children Attending Paediatricians Study: a national prospective audit of outpatient practice from the Australian Paediatric Research Network


Harriet Hiscock, Gehan Roberts, Daryl Efron, Jillian R Sewell, Hannah E Bryson, Anna M H Price, Frank Oberklaid, Michael South and Melissa A Wake

MJA 2011; 194 (8): 392-397

The ten common conditions are listed with the frequency in brackets. The time given for the first consultation is also given  - the first figure shows the normal allocated time and the second the additonal time.


1. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (10%) [average consultation time-first visit - 47.6 + 12.2 minutes]
2. Learning difficulty/disability (8%)  [average consultation time-first visit - 55.1 + 15.2 minutes]
3. Eczema (7%)  [average consultation time-first visit - 41.3 + 6.9 minutes]
4. Behaviour (6%)  [average consultation time-first visit -51.3 + 13.2 minutes]
5. Language delay(6%)  [average consultation time-first visit -53.2 + 17.7 minutes]
6. Asthma (6%)  [average consultation time-first visit - 45.2 + 8.5 minutes]
7. Allergy — other food† (6%)  [average consultation time-first visit -36.2 + 7.1 minutes]
8. Dermatological/skin problems‡ (5%)  [average consultation time-first visit -33.6 + 8.2 minutes]
9. Baby check (premature/full-term) (5%)  [average consultation time-first visit -29.8 + 5.9 minutes]
10. Anxiety (5%)  [average consultation time-first visit -50.0 + 11.0 minutes]


I am fascinated by this study. First, what is interesting is that ADHD and behavioural problems forms the large bulk of the Australian paediatricians' workload. Second, is the amount of time allocated to the first consultation.

The situation in Malaysia is very different - both in the type of problems seen for paediatric consultations and the length of time given to patients in the first consultations.

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The Murder of God

§ 1.11.1 and § 1.11.2 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics discusses God the Son: “The one God reveals Himself according to Scripture as the Reconciler, i.e. as the Lord in the midst of our enmity towards Him. As such He is the Son of God who has come to us or the Word of God that has been spoken to us, because He is so antecedently in Himself as the Son or Word of God the Father” in the section on the Revelation of God (§11). Karl Barth affirms the New Testament and early church dogma that Jesus is God, the same God who is a reconciler and the revealer of Himself.

As I meditate on this during the Holy Week of 2011, I have this image of God moving towards Jerusalem as Jesus of Nazareth, well aware that he is walking into a trap. Yet he continue to walk to his own murder. The supreme irony of this is the Creator walking towards a murder, organised by his own creations, in the name of a religion based on his revelations about himself.

Unlike many religious traditions where either man is an avatar of a god or man himself becomes a god, the Christian tradition maintains that Jesus is already truly God and truly man. That is Barth’s main thesis in this section. The deity of Jesus is important because it gives so much significance to the horrors of Good Friday and the joy of Easter Sunday.

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Easter Bunny Painting Egg Coloring Pages

Easter Bunny Painting Egg Coloring Pages

Maundy Thursday



From Wiki

Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great & Holy Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries, is the Christian feast or holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter that commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels. It is the fifth day of Holy Week, and is preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday.

The date is always between 19 March and 22 April inclusive. These dates in the Julian calendar, on which Eastern churches in general base their calculations of the date of Easter, correspond throughout the 21st century to 1 April and 5 May in the more commonly used Gregorian calendar. The Mass of the Lord's Supper initiates the Easter Triduum, the three days of Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday that commemorate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus

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Learning the Presentation Skills of Steve Jobs

and you can find some greats videos of Steve Jobs' presentation here

Easter Bunny Family Coloring Pages

Easter Bunny Family Coloring Pages

Thy Will be Done

Organizing and Decorating

Several months ago, out of necessity I began an organizing project in my bathroom, it was a success, since than I organized, closets, linen closet,dresser drawers, and the largest of all the organizing projects, my home office.

What's interesting about that is that it was easy to do one at a time as opposed to trying to accomplish it all at one time or imposing specific time limits.  Moral of the story, begin somewhere and the rest will follow. 

Since completing those projects I noticed that certain areas in my living room looked bare and unfinished, it was time to redecorate my mantle and mirror display area.  I had a snow picture by artist Thomas Kinkade above my mantle for a few years, I also had a collection of Kinkade accessories given to me by my daughter for different occasions. It was time to make a change.

My inspiration came from a blog hop dedicated to mantle's.  I went from this

Plain and simple mantel with Kinkade snow picture.

I took down the picture, found a mirror hidden away in a closet, took my angel collection and designed a new more spring look for my mantle.  My original idea was to have it all white and yellow but the mirror and candlestick holders are silver, my angels are blue, a pretty look so for now they will stay that color until I can freshen them by painting the angel and mirror white and get white candlestick holders. 

Silver mirror, Candlestickholders, Angel collection.

Than I went on to decorate the mirrored display area and added some of my favorite crystal pieces

I like Rose Bowls so I have several of those, different sizes, large and small. Crystal vase and Angels. And a crystal, antique creamer, one of my mom's favorite pieces.

Crystal pieces.

So out of one organizing project I was able to clean, organize, sell items in a garage sale and redecorate my mantle and display case.



I am linking to :

Tip Junkie is where I get a lot of inspiration!
Linking to 
http://www.sjunkie.com/
http://www.boobiesbabiesandablog.com/
http://www.littleyayas.com/2011/04/follow-me-back-tuesday_18.html?showComment=1303266056383#c7303092505131321948
















Organizing and Decorating

Several months ago, out of necessity I began an organizing project in my bathroom, it was a success, since than I organized, closets, linen closet,dresser drawers, and the largest of all the organizing projects, my home office.

What's interesting about that is that it was easy to do one at a time as opposed to trying to accomplish it all at one time or imposing specific time limits.  Moral of the story, begin somewhere and the rest will follow. 

Since completing those projects I noticed that certain areas in my living room looked bare and unfinished, it was time to redecorate my mantle and mirror display area.  I had a snow picture by artist Thomas Kinkade above my mantle for a few years, I also had a collection of Kinkade accessories given to me by my daughter for different occasions. It was time to make a change.

My inspiration came from a blog hop dedicated to mantle's.  I went from this

Plain and simple mantel with Kinkade snow picture.

I took down the picture, found a mirror hidden away in a closet, took my angel collection and designed a new more spring look for my mantle.  My original idea was to have it all white and yellow but the mirror and candlestick holders are silver, my angels are blue, a pretty look so for now they will stay that color until I can freshen them by painting the angel and mirror white and get white candlestick holders. 

Silver mirror, Candlestickholders, Angel collection.

Than I went on to decorate the mirrored display area and added some of my favorite crystal pieces

I like Rose Bowls so I have several of those, different sizes, large and small. Crystal vase and Angels. And a crystal, antique creamer, one of my mom's favorite pieces.

Crystal pieces.

So out of one organizing project I was able to clean, organize, sell items in a garage sale and redecorate my mantle and display case.



I am linking to :

Tip Junkie is where I get a lot of inspiration!
Linking to 
http://www.sjunkie.com/
http://www.boobiesbabiesandablog.com/
http://www.littleyayas.com/2011/04/follow-me-back-tuesday_18.html?showComment=1303266056383#c7303092505131321948