Flower Art, by Kathy Shell 02/07/2010
   Today I have added five new pages to my Bloggers Muse, website. I am featuring my flower art in affordable print/art/craft form, through my web pages off my bloggers muse, blog site. You will be able to select here from my Print Flowers, Cart Flowers, and Fridge Magnet Flowers. I still have more cards and fridge magnets to ad to this selection, and this will happen through the coming week. Our tour of Australia continues, the caravan is rolling as from tomorrow. :-), hope to meet you during our travels.    White Frangipani, Charity Auction 02/07/2010
 I am promoting this charity auction to strive to reach moe people to support this great cause. 1x White Frangipani– Value $80.00 - please note picture is for illustration purposes only, your plant will differ, all proceeds go to the Hope From Ashes charity to assist those rebuilding their lives after the Toodyay Fires of December 2009 EBay item 300394523788 1x white Frangipani – Value $80.00 Plumeria pudica (white frangipani) is perhaps the best Plumeria available today. They are very easy to grow, and bloom heavily for a long time. The flowers also have a light fragrance. This Plumeria requires lots of direct sun and drier conditions most of the year. Normally evergreen in warmer locations. They can use a little water during the warmer months, something like once every 10-15 days if it doesn't rain. During the winter freezing temperatures should be avoided the plant can be kept drier with waterings every 4 weeks or so. Plumerias don't like wet soil, therefore good drainage is important. Fertilization should be done primarily during the warmer months when the plant is actively growing. Fertilize with the approximate 1-1-1 ratio are preferable. ( Value $80) Provided by Tass 1 Trees Hope from Ashes The Hope From Ashes auction will run online starting on the date of the benefit concert with new items being put up daily over the next week. This online auction will raise awareness and funds and give people the opportunity to contribute and help Toodyay people who are rebuilding after the fire. We have tried to gather together a range of diverse and high quality items and services that in some way reflect the diversity and creativity of the Toodyay community. In finding a gift for yourself you will be giving to the Toodyay community and we hope the excitement and high energy of the auction will be uplifting and inspiring in its way. The auction has the Hope From Ashes flavour celebrating and demonstrating the generosity, positivity and support that has flowed so readily for and within the Toodyay community. As well as people from Perth many local Toodyay businesses and individuals have also contributed to the auction, some although deeply affected by the fires through loss of home or workplace. Artworks, craft items, trips away, fantastic meals and even life coaching sessions, massages, motoring items, clothing and collectors plates are just a few of the amazing items we can offer you. The list grows every day so “no napping” or you may miss a fabulous item…which is just what you need! We hope you will enjoy the items on offer and we hope you have fun whilst you bid big as we pull together to raise much needed funds for the survivors of the Toodyay Bushfires. . If you wish to make a donation in person, please use the following Bendigo Bank details. Thank you. Hope from Ashes BSB: 633 000 Account: 139 064 364   Overnight stay in a Regency Club room, all proceeds go to the Hope From Ashes charity to assist those rebuilding their lives after the Toodyay Fires of December 2009 http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Overnight-stay-in-a-Regency-Club-room_W0QQitemZ300393594800QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Vouchers?hash=item45f0da7fb0 Overnight stay in a Regency Club room Hyatt Regency Perth is pleased to donate an overnight accommodation voucher for this wonderful fundraising initiative in support of the people in Toodyay following the recent fire troubles. For the successful bidder, overnight accommodation at Hyatt Regency Perth will include the following:
Hope from Ashes The Hope From Ashes auction will run online starting on the date of the benefit concert with new items being put up daily over the next week. This online auction will raise awareness and funds and give people the opportunity to contribute and help Toodyay people who are rebuilding after the fire. We have tried to gather together a range of diverse and high quality items and services that in some way reflect the diversity and creativity of the Toodyay community. In finding a gift for yourself you will be giving to the Toodyay community and we hope the excitement and high energy of the auction will be uplifting and inspiring in its way. The auction has the Hope From Ashes flavour celebrating and demonstrating the generosity, positivity and support that has flowed so readily for and within the Toodyay community. As well as people from Perth many local Toodyay businesses and individuals have also contributed to the auction, some although deeply affected by the fires through loss of home or workplace. Artworks, craft items, trips away, fantastic meals and even life coaching sessions, massages, motoring items, clothing and collectors plates are just a few of the amazing items we can offer you. The list grows every day so “no napping” or you may miss a fabulous item…which is just what you need! We hope you will enjoy the items on offer and we hope you have fun whilst you bid big as we pull together to raise much needed funds for the survivors of the Toodyay Bushfires. If you would like more information about the auction please contact Bruce or Linda Sharman by completing the website contact and writing DONATION at the beginning of your message. If you wish to make a donation in person, please use the following Bendigo Bank details. Thank you. Hope from Ashes BSB: 633 000 Account: 139 064 364 FREE Art Supply Giveaway Competition, Last Week. Ten x $100. Value, FREE Art Supply Kits. 02/05/2010
 The Giveaway: In conjunction with Mummified Times Five, I am giving away up to $1000 worth of Maimeri Classico oil paints! Each prize pack includes 10 tubes of Maimeri Classico paints valued at $9.55 each…so with free postage, that’s a prize pack valued at over $100!! And we have 10 packs to give away!! To enter, all you need to do is: -comment on any post ON EACH of Kathy Shell’s blogs (listed in my blog side bar and below): http://mummifiedtimesfive.net/2010/02/01/spotlight-on-kathy-shell-giveaway/ and say why you would like to win a 10 pack of Maimeri Classico paints. (Both steps are mandatory to be in the running to win this prize) Giveaway finishes 15 Feb 2010 This blog post has been illustrated by postcards from the art of Kathy Shell. These can be orderd through the artist's postcards-art web site or purchased 'direct from the artist', in her caravan awning studio (Both steps are mandatory to be in the running to win this prize) Giveaway finishes 15 Feb 2010 This blog post has been illustrated by postcards from the art of Kathy Shell. These can be orderd through the artist's postcards-art web site or purchased 'direct from the artist', in her caravan awning studio In conjunction with Mummified Times Five, I am giving away up to $1000 worth of Maimeri Classico oil paints!    Potatoes, Growing the not so humble Spud. 02/03/2010
 Potatoes have been much maligned with the low carb diets and emphasis on calories and brightly coloured vegetables, but the potato is a valuable nutritious food. Potatoes are starchy tubers that grow underground, swelling and getting larger as the top half of the plant matures. I am growing a crop of five varieties of potatoes on the roadside verge of our country summer retreat home, here in Northern Victoria. They require little attention aside from a morning watering if there has been no rain. Potatoes are very inexpensive to buy, some people might wonder why you would bother growing your own, as a gardener, I see them as having two great advantages. They are a wonderful, first crop into the ground. I mulch my potatoes as they grow, then dig this mulch and the dried foliage of the potatoes into the ground after I harvest the potato and this greatly improves the soil, leaving it full of vegetable fibre, nutritious, friable and moisture retaining, ready for growing a more demanding of soil quality crop the following year. My homegrown potatoes will be chemical free. It is a small private country road, only used by a few residents, only one resident up the road, past us, so there is no passing exhaust pollution. This will be a very healthy vegetable crop once matured. Potatoes do not need a rich soil so are the ideal first crop. They are more at risk of disease if grown in the same soil where you grew potatoes or tomatoes the previous year. can be finicky to grow, because of pest and disease problems. Being high up on the roadside bank the ground is well drained so there is no risk of rot. Latin Name Solanum tuberosum Common Name: Potato Exposure: Full / Partial Sun Size: Varies widely with variety. I am growing five varieties. Harvesting: Days from planting to Harvest: 2 - 4 Months. The entire crop is ready to harvest once the tops of the plants die off. You can leave the potatoes in the ground for a few weeks longer, as long as the ground is not wet. New potatoes are small, immature potatoes. You can harvest a few of these without harm to the plant, by gently feeling around in the soil near the plant, once the plant reaches about a foot in height. Harvest carefully, by hand or with a shovel. Turn the soil over and search through for treasure. The tubers can branch out and digging in with a fork is a sure fire way of stabbing a potato or two. Growing Conditions & Maintenance: What to Plant: Seed potatoes aren’t really seeds at all. They are full-size potatoes that are allowed to start producing shoots in the potato eyes. You’ve probably seen this happen when you’ve stored potatoes in the kitchen for too long. Seed potatoes can be planted whole or cut into pieces, with each piece containing an eye or two More Vegetable Growing Tips ·Pumpkins - How to Grow All Kinds of Great Pumpkins ·Asparagus - Growing Asparagus in the Home Garden ·Eggplant - Growing Eggplant in the Vegetable Garden Home Vegetable Gardening ·Vegetable Gardening in a Small Space ·A Long Producing Vegetable Garden - Extend Your Vegetable Growing Season ·Cool Season Vegetable Gardening - Fall and Winter Greens & Reds & More Related Articles ·Growing Sweet Potatoes - How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in the Home Garden ·Springtime Gardening with Kids - Taking your homeschooling outdoors. ·Chia Tatos Craft ·How to Grow Cabbage and Kale ·Plant Perennial Seeds - Grow a Perennial Plant from Seed Video - About.com     The Giveaway: In conjunction with Mummified Times Five, I am giving away up to $1000 worth of Maimeri Classico oil paints! Each prize pack includes 10 tubes of Maimeri Classico paints valued at $9.55 each…so with free postage, that’s a prize pack valued at over $100!! And we have 10 packs to give away!! To enter, all you need to do is: -comment on any post ON EACH of Kathy Shell’s blogs (listed in my blog side bar and below): http://mummifiedtimesfive.net/2010/02/01/spotlight-on-kathy-shell-giveaway/ and say why you would like to win a 10 pack of Maimeri Classico paints. (Both steps are mandatory to be in the running to win this prize) Giveaway finishes 15 Feb 2010 This blog post has been illustrated by postcards from the art of Kathy Shell. These can be orderd through the artist's postcards-art web site or purchased 'direct from the artist', in her caravan awning studio      Advance Notice. $1,000 . value of Oil Paint to be given away FREE to my blog readers during February 2010. Not just any oil paint but, quality Italian Maimeri Classico 60ml tubes. These paints are the artist’s daily bread and butter. Anyone – professional or amateur – who picks up a tube of Classico oil paints will find in it just what they need. They contain no waxes or thickeners, and pigment concentration is very high. Bright, lively colours with overall harmony in the palette, these paints from Italy are made with non-toxic, non-polluting pigments that improve light-fastness. They are versatile paints, offering exceptional value for money, but you could own a set plus postage FREE. Watch this blog and http://mummifiedtimesfive.net for further details and be the first to enter this FREE competition.  You Are Beautiful. 01/27/2010
 The You are Beautiful NOW, T Shirrt, I made, featuring an art work of mine and the inspirational message from Operation Beautiful. I joined a forum about six months ago, called "You Are Beautiful" I began spreading the 'You are beautiful', message. The forum encourage sharing the message that "You are Beautiful." I have not been active with the group and a friend has just reminded me about the positive work they do at http://www.operationbeautiful.com The mission of Operation Beautiful is to leave post-its that have heartwarming, pleasant, smile-provoking messages on them. Write on a bunch of post-its and leave them anywhere: on peoples cars, change room mirrors, wherever - you'll be able to brighten someones day :-) I had some business cards printed up, saying 'You are beautiful'. I give them out when I do the shopping wearing my T Shirt, I designed, that says' You are beautiful. Believe in yourself, YOU are Beautiful, NOW. HOPE! 01/18/2010
 Hope Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Emily Dickinson Support the Hope from Ashes Concert and Auction. http://www.hopefromashes.com.au/  Our WONDERFUL, Toodyay, friends, Jo and Wayne, on the right . Reg and I on the left,. Our eco tourer caravan on their Toodyay, block of land. Wonderful times in Toodyay. Western Australia. HOPE from ASHES – Toodyay Benefit Concert Venue: Toodyay Town Oval – cnr Toodyay Road & Telegraph Rd Date: 30 th Jan 2010 Time: 12pm – late (gates open 11am) Tickets: $35 adult; $28 conc / pensioner; $10 child (4yrs – 15yrs); $85 family (2 adults & 2 children). Tickets available from Thurs Jan 21 st at participating branches of Bendigo Bank and from Moshtix.com.au and 1300 Get Tix (438 849). More information available on ‘hope from ashes – Toodyay benefit concert' on facebook or www.hopefromashes.com.au Bar operating from 5pm. Lots of bands and dancers for entertainment. Plenty of family friendly entertainment – Old McDonalds Travelling Farm; Bouncy Castle ; Circus performers and more. Great food & refreshments for sale – also concert merchandise. Bring chairs, picnic rug, hats and sunscreen. Tickets will be available from the main gate on the day and from participating branches of the Bendigo Bank - (branch details TBA). http://www.hopefromashes.com.au/concert.php | Kathy Shell on Facebook  Your Advertisment, 160 x 160, could be here. See advertising page and contact, Kathy Shell, for details. Artist and Author
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