The only pearls I want

I think thats lovely. I like the way it seems to pop out of the frame and yes i would prefer those to pearls too.

*s* I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the finished pic full-screen; wasn't that big while I was working on it - tried about a dozen frames in Paint Shop Pro, but glad I settled for this one.

I think you're going to give Pimpernel a run for his money. It's beautiful!
P.S. Is your new avatar you? Is that a big blue cloud of depression over your head, or a lovely violet halo? Very distinctive.

thanks, Gattina, I don't think he'll have to worry about his laurels for some time yet - I'm just starting out, and I've only got a point-and-shoot camera - shee, I'm so gald we don't have to take film to the chemists' to be devleoped these days, most of them would be junked because of blur!

Yes, my new avatar is of me - well, of me about twenty years ago! I went to the London Mind, Body Spirit event and they had loads of stuff there, one of which was "photograph your aura", so I had a go and that's what I got. When I find the paper they gave me explaining the meaning of the colours I'll add it

*s* "purple haze", that's me all over

Pimpernel once referred to me as "Misty Blue", which I rather liked. When I get booted off GoY for inappropriate remarks, I might just come back with that as my alter ego. If anyone had a go at photographing MY aura, I think we'd discover it was an anaemic, wishy-washy beige, dusty and moth-eaten round the edges.

gattina that is really funny, no one is going to boot you off but i will look out for misty blue!!!

would be interesting to see if we could come up with a colour for everyone!!!

Sticki, you have no idea some of the things I could write if you caught me on an off day! I'm not the genteel, ladylike old soul you might imagine - I'm a fierce old bat with a comprehensive vocabulary of dreadful, purple insults in several languages..... So watch it!

dont worry gattina my hand has not slipped across to the flag button!!!

so purple is your colour???

you know the jenny joseph poem???

Oh, I'm already there! I have the red hat, and a lovely matching purple sweater and tights, but mostly I wear blue jeans. I gave up worrying about shocking people a while back. It upsets Daughter a treat!

i dont have a daughter i wonder if daughters in law will say anything!!??

one of them mentioned i should have a different hair dresser but she was quite drunk at the time. im sure the advise was correct though!!!

Sometimes drunk is fun! I remember one New Year's day sitting on the living room floor with Daughter (then about 4) and my dressmaking shears, and we each cut the other's hair off. Well hers, she could sit on in those days, but she hated the tangles, and mine was longish, too, and I just felt ....well, I'm not sure WHAT I felt, just tiddly. We put the piles of hair out in the spring for the birds to make nests with. And they did! I tidied up both haircuts once I had sobered up, so that was all right, then!

someone would be ringing childline these days!!!

thats very funny though, does your daughter remember it?

Don't know - I haven't asked her. One thing is sure, we'll each have TOTALLY different versions of the same event. Her memory is getting really bad as she gets older (LOL)

might have to check that one with her!!!!!

Not B****y likely. She scares me!

hold on a moment ~ who is the mother here???

Whimper!

and have you run off from the other blog too??

sorry fran for deviating from your blog.

Goodnight!

see you tomorrow!!

*s* no probs, Sticki - I've done it mself to other people; it's nice to have a convo flowing wherever the current takes it, without having to remind onself to keep to the straight and narrow

Thanks fran.

She's a lovely, generous and understanding lady, is our Fran!

aw, shucks! *blushes modestly*

I agree with gattina!

hmm, for some reason I'm not getting any pix - just a square with an x in the corner. is anyone else getting this, or is it just my pc?

it's only my GoY page that's affected: I can get pix on my other tabs.

NO, I'm not getting your picture either, Fran - maybe your aura has gone walkabout!

lol I "contacted us" and now get pics again - q;uick work on their part!

Well done you. I have been so lucky over the years in that not only do I have my small urban garden but for over 25 years I had an allotment as well. Now I can hardly bend, walk or lift anything remotely heavy ( I am 5'11'' and well built , pity about the face!) and my garden is all pots, tubs and baskets and my garden is a wee bit larger than yours. It is still small and it is amazing what you can cram into a small space so you keep in touch and let us know how you are progressing. Fishermen say "tight lines" by way of good luck. I do not think gardeners have an equivalent so I'll just say "have a slug and weed free year" as our saying.

thank you, Grampar dear!

I've only had this flat about 18 months, still trying to get stuff unboxed (but need someone to put shelves up, etc). I dreamed of a garden for years, and made plans for when I got one - though I did imagine a "small garden" of about 12x24 feet, whjch I thought was pretty small. And I tended to assume that it'd be diggable!

I think my main prob now is simply deciding which way to go: I've wanted dwarf landcapes (can't see well enough for proper miniatture plants), but that means making hypertufa troughs, and as I've never done anything remotely like that before ... so I need to work out what to do, and then how I can do it - and stop buying plants "just because they're there"!

Like the "art" they look like crystals dont they..really nice:)

lol they looked even better in reality; I still need to learn how to use the camera better.

Tears of the tree. Beautiful picture, like 3D. :)

thank you *s* I did this frame in Paint Shop, had tried several, but liked this one best: I didn't notice the 3D effect till later, the samples were quite small.