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Laura

Princess Tatianna, My Dazzling Secret Alter Ego

March 10, 2010

Once in a while I imag­ine myself as the beau­ti­ful, slen­der, fash­ion­able and dia­mond wear­ing Princess Tatianna. Com­ing from some old world type of fam­ily, whether they be Russ­ian roy­alty or some­thing touch­ing on the para­nor­mal like Fey crea­tures. Although my sis­ters may be the typ­i­cal blondes, I am always brunette. (Stay true to your […]

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The Decadent Leisurely Hostess Brunch Basket

March 9, 2010

I was read­ing an old copy of Chate­laine, a Cana­dian women’s mag­a­zine. I found a lit­tle blurb about giv­ing the host­ess of a party you attend a gift bas­ket  which she can use the morn­ing after the party to have her­self (and fam­ily) a deca­dent brunch (or break­fast if there are chil­dren, to be realistic). […]

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Chocolate Caramel Latte

March 8, 2010

From the Hershey’s website:

Choco­late Caramel Latte:

1/4 cup hot espresso
1/2 cup steamed skim milk
1/4 cup HERSHEY’S Clas­sic Caramel Top­ping, room tem­per­a­ture
Foamed milk(optional)

Stir together hot espresso, steamed milk and caramel top­ping in large mug or cup. Top with foamed milk, if desired. Serve immediately.

Think of this as writ­ing inspi­ra­tion. I know I will. I just have to pick […]

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Cityscape, Skyline Metropolis?

March 7, 2010

The suf­fix of one word can lead to so many other inter­est­ing words. In look­ing into the theme for Doo­dle Week on U3 this Fri­day I knew I wanted to draw some kind of city sky­line, a cityscape. That led to look­ing up other kinds of words with ‘scape’ as a suf­fix. That led me […]

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Stop Writing Mid…

March 6, 2010

Posted by Claire on Twit­ter:
Claire code: shirt = short and pie = pre. You can tell when I was tired, those days I just stopped writ­ing mid sen­tence.
How would your writ­ing be if you just stopped mid-word or mid-sentence a few times? Do you need all those words? Should some of your sen­tences be split […]

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What’s Your Vote on How World Ends?

March 5, 2010

From a poll on Face­book:
How do you think the world will end?
Floods — 12%
Earth­quakes — 24%
Pol­i­tics — 64%
84,250 peo­ple voted.
Isn’t that inter­est­ing? How many other options could you add to the list: Tor­na­dos, Aliens, Envi­ron­men­tal Dis­as­ter…? Would peo­ple still pick Pol­i­tics first? I did and would prob­a­bly keep to that.
How many other ways can you think of that the world (the […]

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Attention Game Developers

March 4, 2010

My nephew and I were talk­ing one day after school this week, we want a game that is a com­bi­na­tion of Strong­Hold and Fall­out. A game where the world has gone through an apoc­a­lypse and is being rebuilt. But rather than being just a basic shoot them all, we want it to include build­ing towns, […]

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For Girl Talk Thursday

March 3, 2010

I’m frus­trated with myself. I know what I want and I am pretty sure I have the skills I need. What I lack is the trust in myself to try to do what I want to be doing.  Maybe I just need some­thing or some­one else to tell me I can do all these things. […]

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Your Business Card as a Web Page

March 2, 2010

Have a look at Flavors.me. This link goes to the pro­file I made for myself. I think it’s great. Like hav­ing a busi­ness card online with­out any­thing else like a blog or forum. It’s a quick intro­duc­tion, like a business card.

Book­mark It

Hide Sites

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1,000 Comments Challenge

March 2, 2010

Can you leave 1,000 com­ments this month? Though the but­ton says leave me com­ments it is actu­ally myself who will be leav­ing the com­ments, 1,000 of them over the month of March.
Sign up on the blog, Har­riet and Friends.
The only down­side is keep­ing track of how many com­ments you make. If you know of a way […]

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What Does 9Rules Need?

March 1, 2010

What does 9Rules need?
Have a look at the net­work and give your feed­back to the blog. A few years ago 9Rules was an active, vital net­work of blogs. Peo­ple applied to join. Peo­ple made embit­tered posts on their blogs if they were not accepted. Peo­ple put that leaf graphic on their blog in a […]

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The Sum of all Your Parts

February 28, 2010

“The home gar­dener is part sci­en­tist, part artist, part philoso­pher, part plow­man.” — John R. Whit­ing
I like this quote because we are all so many parts of dif­fer­ent things to make up the whole of who we are. When you write a char­ac­ter does he or she have a lot of parts? Can you name […]

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Jellybeanology to Create a Character?

February 27, 2010

We did Jelly­beanol­ogy as part of the True Colours Work­shop with the Bar­rie Job Find­ing club at North­ern Lights this month.
I picked the red jelly­bean.
Cheer­ful, skill­ful, intel­li­gent. A born opti­mist, sel­dom down long. A joy to be with. Never have to worry about money, finan­cially ample. Determined, passionate, sym­pa­thetic for less for­tu­nate. Likes enter­tain­ment and prefers to be […]

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Salt is Lazy and Pepper is Fickle

February 26, 2010

Salt is lazy and pep­per is fickle.
I was mak­ing lunch, it’s funny how ideas just come into your mind from nowhere. As I poured salt into the pan I thought about how slow it poured out, as if it had all the time in the world. Mean­while, the pep­per became blocked after the sec­ond shake […]

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Secrets to Charisma

February 25, 2010

Secrets to Charisma (from the Bar­rie Job Finding Club)

Good hand shake
Eye con­tact
Remem­ber­ing names and names of fam­ily
Express emo­tions
Smile broadly and laugh lustily
Imag­ine that you are an elec­tric gen­er­a­tor
Human­ize what you have to say and put others first

One thing I have con­sid­ered for myself is to not always add my own sto­ries to every story when peo­ple are talking. […]

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