Tell Me A Story: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

RED

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

GOOGLE BREAKDOWN
Blogger Piracy

Someone is choosing ads and putting them on my blog, and it is NOT me.
Someone is getting paid for ads on my blog, but it isn't me.

Google's breakdown - - an ongoing problem is still not fixed.

Any ads from Linksicle or Keep Now linked to any words or images on this blog are here without my permission. Please join me and other bloggers to fight this piracy by boycotting Linksicle and Keep Now, and any company who uses Linksicle or Keep Now to advertise.

Follow By Email
I tried to "follow" my own blog, and was kicked off!
Are you having difficulty becoming a follower on my blog?

Some readers (on my blog, and other popular blogs) are being "kicked off" - or not allowed to follow. Some readers are lost - floating somewhere in cyberspace.

This is what is supposed to happen: To Follow - Add your email address in the "FOLLOW BY EMAIL" box at the right of my blog, and click on SUBMIT. Instructions will follow to verify your request through Feed Burner.

Thank You,
Marcia

COUNTDOWN

TO VALENTINE'S DAY: 14 DAYS

RED

Remember Birdie?

Birdie is the beautiful hand-carved bluebird created by my best friend.

Birdie has a new friend, RED, a hand-carved cardinal: a gift from my amazing friend.

Isn't he handsome?

Cardinals are also called redbirds. This beloved bird is the official bird of seven U.S. states. Bright red cardinals are easy to identify. Only males sport the brilliant red plumage. Females are an attractive tan/gray.

Cardinals do not migrate, and have expanded their common range in recent decades to the north United States and even into Canada.

Male redbirds feed their monogamous partners as they incubate cluthes of eggs - usually three per season.

Males are social with other species, but frequently attack other males who intrude on their territory in mating season. Sometimes they fly into glass windows because they charge an "intruding bird" that is actually their own reflection.

Cardinals sing a variety of different melodies.

A true friend

reaches for your hand,

and touches your heart.

If you're a bird...

I'm a bird.

The Notebook

The most beautiful view

is the one I share with you.

I realized

that if I had to choose

I would rather have birds

than airplanes.

Charles Lindberg

Keep a green tree

in your heart,

and perhaps

a singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

Life without love

is like a tree

without blossom and fruit.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours

than the first consciousness of love,

the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You have to believe in happiness,

or happiness never comes...

Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing -

on his darkest day

he believes in Spring.

Douglas Malloch

Two

are better

than

one.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

There are two gifts

we should give our children:

one is roots

and the other is wings.

You are every reason,

every hope,

and every dream

I've ever had.

No matter what happens

to us in the future,

every day we are together

is the greatest day of my life.

The greatest thing

you'll ever learn

is to be loved

and love in return.

If you can't get someone off your mind

they are probably supposed to be there.

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

READ MORE ABOUT BIRDIE:

Tell Me A Story: BLUEBIRD of HAPPINESS

Oct 24, 2013

I named her Birdie... partly because, well...she is a bird, and also as a namesake for the character, Birdie, in one of my favorite movies, "HOPE FLOATS." HOPE FLOATS. CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your ...

http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/

Tell Me A Story: CURIOSITY

Oct 26, 2013

Birdie, The Bluebird. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood. Thanks for stopping by! Come back often, and invite a friend! Marcia Norwood. America's STORYTELLER. Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public ...

http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 30, 2014

JOURNEY

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Follow By Email

Google has a breakdown - - an ongoing problem that is still not fixed.

Some readers (on my blog, and other popular blogs) are being "kicked off" - or not allowed to follow. Some readers are lost - floating somewhere in cyberspace.

Are you having difficulty becoming a follower on my blog?

This is what is supposed to happen: To Follow - Add your email address in the "FOLLOW BY EMAIL" box at the right of my blog, and click on SUBMIT. Instructions will follow to verify your request through Feed Burner.    I tried to "follow" my own blog, and was kicked off!

Hopefully Google will be able to correct this ongoing problem, and help stop Blogger Piracy. Someone is getting paid for ads on my blog, but it isn't me.

Blogger Piracy
Any ads from Linksicle or Keep Now linked to any words or images on this blog are here without my permission. Please join me and other bloggers to fight this piracy by boycotting Linksicle and Keep Now any company who uses Linksicle or Keep Now to advertise.

Thank You,
Marcia

JOURNEY

            The act of traveling from one place to another.

            Expedition

             Passage

"Not all those who wander are lost."

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

"I tramp a perpetual journey."

Walt Whitmen,

Song of Myself

"It is good

to have an end to a journey toward;

but it is the journey

that matters,

in the end."

Ernest Hemingway

"We should not judge people

by their peak of excellence,

but by the distance

they have traveled

from the point

where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

HANDMADE HEART PENDANTS

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

BLOGGER UPDATE

Follow By Email

I followed the instructions from Feed Burner, and got kicked off my own blog.

Are you having difficulty becoming a follower on my blog?
This is what is supposed to happen: To Follow - Add your email address in the "FOLLOW BY EMAIL" box at the right of my blog, and click on SUBMIT. Instructions will follow to verify your request through Feed Burner.

Some readers (on my blog, and other popular blogs) are being "kicked off" - or not allowed to follow. This is a breakdown with either Feed Burner or Google. We have alerted Google, and they are working on it.

Hopefully Google will be able to correct this ongoing problem.

Thank You,
Marcia

Blogger Piracy
Any ads from Linksicle or Keep Now linked to any words or images on this blog are here without my permission. Please join me and other bloggers to fight this piracy by boycotting Linksicle and Keep Now any company who uses Linksicle or Keep Now to advertise.

Valentine's Day Countdown: 17 Days

HANDMADE HEART PENDANTS

Wearable Art

These exquisite handmade heart pendants are filled with vintage buttons and beads.

I saved my broken pearl necklaces that once belonged to my mother and grandmother, and re-used the pearls and charms in heart pendants, and added seed beads and buttons.

A friend gifted me with beautiful antique and vintage buttons.

I used Diamond Glaze to glue to buttons, beads and charms in the blank heart pendants, and also as a glaze on top.

Let all pendants dry for 24 hours.


http://www.beadaholique.com/p-20545-judikins-diamond-glaze-water-based-adhesive-2-fl-oz.aspx

I ordered blank heart pendants
(Antique Silver/Lead & Cadmium Free)
and white and black silk cord necklaces
bails and jump rings,
and jewelry boxes from Panda Hall.

CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser
www.pandahall.com

Copyright 2014 Marcia Norwood

Heart Pendant

Panda Hall Item #LF11251Y

CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser

http://www.pandahall.com/ProductSearch?keyword=LF11251Y

www.pandahall.com

Item #NFSO31-1, White Silk Necklace Cord

Item #NFSO31-2, Black Silk Necklace Cord

I added bails to some pendants, and jump rings (solder all jump rings) to other pendants -- and then pulled the beautiful silk necklaces through the bail or large jump rings.