Wednesday, October 6, 2010
How to solder brass
OK so I want to make some Steampunk jewelry. Only thing is epoxy does not work and I want to weld, solder or what ever the correct name is for what I want. so if you know how to do this I would love your input.
Friday, September 10, 2010
School the Final Days
I never thought I would get this far but here I am with a Bachelors in Visual Communication and Web Design.
Hasn't helped my spelling any but then codes so abbreviated whats a frog to do.
I'd like to start posting more but it's not my thing however a friend of mine said it was a good place to share photos so I may do that and try to blog in the evening instead of 4 in the morning.
Hasn't helped my spelling any but then codes so abbreviated whats a frog to do.
I'd like to start posting more but it's not my thing however a friend of mine said it was a good place to share photos so I may do that and try to blog in the evening instead of 4 in the morning.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
New Year. Where did last year go?
I can't believe how things have turned around from being one the of the worst years of my life into one with goals achieved new friends made and those mountains that had been looming over me seem more like hills, now I truly believe I can make it over.
I have earned my AA in Graphic Design and I am continuing with Web Design Course to earn my Bachelors.
A very good friend is helping me tackle getting organized so I don’t feel so overwhelmed by it all and if you saw the boxes I haven’t gone through since my move the endless amounts of craft supplies and my yarn, fabric and jewelry supplies you would know she must be a dear friend because anyone else would run. I know I have and the stuff belongs to me!
Notice how I didnt mention my walls of books you never can have too many of those.
I don't know if blogging is going to become a more natural routine but I hope maybe it will and someone beside my dear friend Jana will follow. LOL!
I wish everyone a healthy prosperous New Year.
Love from
The Frogs and Dogs…Karen
I have earned my AA in Graphic Design and I am continuing with Web Design Course to earn my Bachelors.
A very good friend is helping me tackle getting organized so I don’t feel so overwhelmed by it all and if you saw the boxes I haven’t gone through since my move the endless amounts of craft supplies and my yarn, fabric and jewelry supplies you would know she must be a dear friend because anyone else would run. I know I have and the stuff belongs to me!
Notice how I didnt mention my walls of books you never can have too many of those.
I don't know if blogging is going to become a more natural routine but I hope maybe it will and someone beside my dear friend Jana will follow. LOL!
I wish everyone a healthy prosperous New Year.
Love from
The Frogs and Dogs…Karen
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Getting a monkey ready to travel is no easy task. Especially when said monkey truly believes she’s a fairy princess! Trying to get Toots in the box for shipping was a wee bit of a challenge
and of course big sister Praline couldn’t wait to help her stay in the box.
This consisted of drinking
and then jumping on the box to keep her in it.
No sooner had she left for her travels but I come home to find Praline and Tormentor deciding the best way into the box that arrived while I was out.
Monkeys and scissors are never a good mix
It was our first visiting monkey little Miss Sherbert from Arkansas.
Tormentor, Miss Sherbert, Praline and her new dolly.
and of course big sister Praline couldn’t wait to help her stay in the box.
This consisted of drinking
and then jumping on the box to keep her in it.
No sooner had she left for her travels but I come home to find Praline and Tormentor deciding the best way into the box that arrived while I was out.
Monkeys and scissors are never a good mix
It was our first visiting monkey little Miss Sherbert from Arkansas.
Tormentor, Miss Sherbert, Praline and her new dolly.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Transformers
Whoo Hooo! I love comics and enjoyed this movie. It was a little longer than needed but I got my action fix and the humor in it was done in a way that if you were old enough you got it.Some movies need a big screen to enjoy the special effects and this is one of them. It was a great Saturday afternoon out of the heat and out with a friend!
Somtimes things need to be remembered
The Wedding Gown That Made History
Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him. For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person's camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs?
Fate would intervene in the guise of a former German pilot who walked into the food distribution center where Ludwig worked, eager to make a trade for his worthless parachute. In exchange for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes, Lilly would have her wedding gown.
For two weeks Miriam the seamstress worked under the curious eyes of her fellow DPs, carefully fashioning the six parachute panels into a simple, long sleeved gown with a rolled collar and a fitted waist that tied in the back with a bow. When the dress was completed she sewed the leftover material into a matching shirt for the groom.
A white wedding gown may have seemed like a frivolous request in the surreal environment of the camps, but for Lilly the dress symbolized the innocent, normal life she and her family had once led before the world descended into madness. Lilly and her siblings were raised in a Torah observant home in the small town of Zarica, Czechoslovakia where her father was a melamed, respected and well liked by the young yeshiva students he taught in nearby Irsheva.
He and his two sons were marked for extermination immediately upon arriving at Auschwitz . For Lilly and her sisters it was only their first stop on their long journey of persecution, which included Plashof, Neustadt, Gross Rosen and finally Bergen Belsen .
Lilly Friedman and her parachute dress on display in the Bergen Belsen Museum
Four hundred people marched 15 miles in the snow to the town of Celle on January 27, 1946 to attend Lilly and Ludwig's wedding. The town synagogue, damaged and desecrated, had been lovingly renovated by the DPs with the meager materials available to them. When a Sefer Torah arrived from England they converted an old kitchen cabinet into a makeshift Aron Kodesh.
"My sisters and I lost everything - our parents, our two brothers, our homes. The most important thing was to build a new home." Six months later, Lilly's sister Ilona wore the dress when she married Max Traeger. After that came Cousin Rosie. How many brides wore Lilly's dress? "I stopped counting after 17." With the camps experiencing the highest marriage rate in the world, Lilly's gown was in great demand.
In 1948 when President Harry Truman finally permitted the 100,000 Jews who had been languishing in DP camps since the end of the war to emigrate, the gown accompanied Lilly across the ocean to America . Unable to part with her dress, it lay at the bottom of her bedroom closet for the next 50 years, "not even good enough for a garage sale. I was happy when it found such a good home."
Home was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C. When Lily's niece, a volunteer, told museum officials about her aunt's dress, they immediately recognized its historical significance and displayed the gown in a specially designed showcase, guaranteed to preserve it for 500 years.
But Lilly Friedman's dress had one more journey to make. Bergen Belsen , the museum, opened its doors on October 28, 2007. The German government invited Lilly and her sisters to be their guests for the grand opening. They initially declined, but finally traveled to Hanover the following year with their children, their grandchildren and extended families to view the extraordinary exhibit created for the wedding dress made from a parachute.
Lilly's family, who were all familiar with the stories about the wedding in Celle , were eager to visit the synagogue. They found the building had been completely renovated and modernized. But when they pulled aside the handsome curtain they were astounded to find that the Aron Kodesh, made from a kitchen cabinet, had remained untouched as a testament to the profound faith of the survivors. As Lilly stood on the bimah once again she beckoned to her granddaughter, Jackie, to stand beside her where she was once a kallah. "It was an emotional trip. We cried a lot." Two weeks later, the woman who had once stood trembling before the selective eyes of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele returned home and witnessed the marriage of her granddaughter.
The three Lax sisters - Lilly, Ilona and Eva, who together survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and Bergen Belsen - have remained close and today live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn. As mere teenagers, they managed to outwit and outlive a monstrous killing machine, then went on to marry, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and were ultimately honored by the country that had earmarked them for extinction.
As young brides, they had stood underneath the chuppah and recited the blessings that their ancestors had been saying for thousands of years. In doing so, they chose to honor the legacy of those who had perished by choosing life.
Hinda
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In Memoriam
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white gown he realized he had his work cut out for him. For the tall, lanky 21-year-old who had survived hunger, disease and torture this was a different kind of challenge. How was he ever going to find such a dress in the Bergen Belsen Displaced Person's camp where they felt grateful for the clothes on their backs?
Fate would intervene in the guise of a former German pilot who walked into the food distribution center where Ludwig worked, eager to make a trade for his worthless parachute. In exchange for two pounds of coffee beans and a couple of packs of cigarettes, Lilly would have her wedding gown.
For two weeks Miriam the seamstress worked under the curious eyes of her fellow DPs, carefully fashioning the six parachute panels into a simple, long sleeved gown with a rolled collar and a fitted waist that tied in the back with a bow. When the dress was completed she sewed the leftover material into a matching shirt for the groom.
A white wedding gown may have seemed like a frivolous request in the surreal environment of the camps, but for Lilly the dress symbolized the innocent, normal life she and her family had once led before the world descended into madness. Lilly and her siblings were raised in a Torah observant home in the small town of Zarica, Czechoslovakia where her father was a melamed, respected and well liked by the young yeshiva students he taught in nearby Irsheva.
He and his two sons were marked for extermination immediately upon arriving at Auschwitz . For Lilly and her sisters it was only their first stop on their long journey of persecution, which included Plashof, Neustadt, Gross Rosen and finally Bergen Belsen .
Lilly Friedman and her parachute dress on display in the Bergen Belsen Museum
Four hundred people marched 15 miles in the snow to the town of Celle on January 27, 1946 to attend Lilly and Ludwig's wedding. The town synagogue, damaged and desecrated, had been lovingly renovated by the DPs with the meager materials available to them. When a Sefer Torah arrived from England they converted an old kitchen cabinet into a makeshift Aron Kodesh.
"My sisters and I lost everything - our parents, our two brothers, our homes. The most important thing was to build a new home." Six months later, Lilly's sister Ilona wore the dress when she married Max Traeger. After that came Cousin Rosie. How many brides wore Lilly's dress? "I stopped counting after 17." With the camps experiencing the highest marriage rate in the world, Lilly's gown was in great demand.
In 1948 when President Harry Truman finally permitted the 100,000 Jews who had been languishing in DP camps since the end of the war to emigrate, the gown accompanied Lilly across the ocean to America . Unable to part with her dress, it lay at the bottom of her bedroom closet for the next 50 years, "not even good enough for a garage sale. I was happy when it found such a good home."
Home was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C. When Lily's niece, a volunteer, told museum officials about her aunt's dress, they immediately recognized its historical significance and displayed the gown in a specially designed showcase, guaranteed to preserve it for 500 years.
But Lilly Friedman's dress had one more journey to make. Bergen Belsen , the museum, opened its doors on October 28, 2007. The German government invited Lilly and her sisters to be their guests for the grand opening. They initially declined, but finally traveled to Hanover the following year with their children, their grandchildren and extended families to view the extraordinary exhibit created for the wedding dress made from a parachute.
Lilly's family, who were all familiar with the stories about the wedding in Celle , were eager to visit the synagogue. They found the building had been completely renovated and modernized. But when they pulled aside the handsome curtain they were astounded to find that the Aron Kodesh, made from a kitchen cabinet, had remained untouched as a testament to the profound faith of the survivors. As Lilly stood on the bimah once again she beckoned to her granddaughter, Jackie, to stand beside her where she was once a kallah. "It was an emotional trip. We cried a lot." Two weeks later, the woman who had once stood trembling before the selective eyes of the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele returned home and witnessed the marriage of her granddaughter.
The three Lax sisters - Lilly, Ilona and Eva, who together survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and Bergen Belsen - have remained close and today live within walking distance of each other in Brooklyn. As mere teenagers, they managed to outwit and outlive a monstrous killing machine, then went on to marry, have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and were ultimately honored by the country that had earmarked them for extinction.
As young brides, they had stood underneath the chuppah and recited the blessings that their ancestors had been saying for thousands of years. In doing so, they chose to honor the legacy of those who had perished by choosing life.
Hinda
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In Memoriam
In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Bake Sale
Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this, especially all of those who bake
for our faith community events.
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa,
but forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered the morning of the bake sale
and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it
while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack for Scout camp.
When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was
horribly disfigured. She thought, 'Oh dear, there isn't time to bake another cake.'
This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church
and in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house
for something to build up the center of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and covered it with icing.
Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect.
Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke
her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at
9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already
been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom..
Alice was horrified - she was beside herself. Everyone would know!
What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed!
All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her
behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would
attend the fancy luncheon/ bridal shower at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time.
Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice
because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa but, having already RSVP'd,
she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home.
The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and, to Alice 's horror,
the cake in question was presented for dessert! Alice felt the blood drain from her body
when she saw the cake!
She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to
her feet, the Mayor's wife said, 'What a beautiful cake!'
Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess
(who was a prominent church member) say, 'Thank you, I baked it myself.'
Alice smiled and thought to herself,
'God is good.'
for our faith community events.
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa,
but forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered the morning of the bake sale
and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it
while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack for Scout camp.
When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was
horribly disfigured. She thought, 'Oh dear, there isn't time to bake another cake.'
This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church
and in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house
for something to build up the center of the cake.
Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and covered it with icing.
Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect.
Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke
her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at
9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.
When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already
been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom..
Alice was horrified - she was beside herself. Everyone would know!
What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed!
All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her
behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would
attend the fancy luncheon/ bridal shower at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time.
Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice
because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa but, having already RSVP'd,
she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home.
The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and, to Alice 's horror,
the cake in question was presented for dessert! Alice felt the blood drain from her body
when she saw the cake!
She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to
her feet, the Mayor's wife said, 'What a beautiful cake!'
Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess
(who was a prominent church member) say, 'Thank you, I baked it myself.'
Alice smiled and thought to herself,
'God is good.'
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