Starting Over info...

Everything re my life has moved on for me.
My house sale was 'Fast Track' even for me :)))))))))))))))))
As my life is 'Starting Over', so has my blog....
If you want to reconnect...
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http://blue-startingover.blogspot.com/

Wordless Wednesday - Moving on...

Coloured Thursday - BABY PINK!

Babies are/were never my thing - not a maternal bone in my entire body!

But I do occasionally do girly PINK and childhood nostalgia.

What I would have given for a Dolls House like this one...

Or BABY girl dolls in PINK like these...I was certainly spoilt for choice re choosing a BABY PINK christening cake from the Celebration Cake Shop's window but settled on this particular bootie one because of who it's for...
My original meme 'True Colours Thursday' is now hosted by friends, the fun pups Doyle & Mollie @ Blue's Coloured Thursday, with me as Colour Consultant :)
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Wordless Wednesday - My late Mother's 1st Birthday photo!

Saturday Photo Hunt - Dark!

To be honest was unsure whether to post today as tnchick's prompt seemed to conjured up my unfortunate present dark mood rather than an image, but then I recalled this happy memory photo of Little Buddy barbecuing me my steak supper on a dark evening back in '07...It was taken @ one of my favourite spots on Vancouver Island, CA - the Shorewater Resort, located over looking the Straits of Georgia on Qualicum Beach's foreshore, became my home from home on four lengthy vacations - I'd take up residence & LB would commute from the mainland, in between his flying job & going home to wifey!

Looking back now wonder which time I enjoyed the most - my alone time beach combing/exploring the delightfully artsy area where I could so have happily lived or my time with LB when we always had to drive somewhere & ended up in a bar - dark hindsight reflections indeed!

Coloured Thursday - PUMPKIN ORANGE!

As the nights grow decidedly cooler & with Halloween this weekend, I've been thoroughly enjoying the perfect seasonal comfort food aka soup from the New Covent Garden Food Company's cauldron - it's described as a 'wickedly tasty PUMPKIN soup blended with tomatoes & mixed beans' - called 'Witches Brew' there's no 'wing of bat or eye of toad' involved but I love the hint of garlic to warn off the unwelcome... Heading through the Covered Market to that cake shop, came across these ornimental PUMPKIN coloured gourds...Plus this wonderful Autumn floral arrangement featuring ORANGE lilies...And for my cake - this is as good as it gets re PUMPKIN ORANGE & it perfectly expresses my wishes for everyone...My original meme 'True Colours Thursday' is now hosted by friends, the fun pups Doyle & Mollie @ Blue's Coloured Thursday, with me as Colour Consultant :)
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Ruby Tuesday - Rosehip Time!

Not as pretty as the rose blooms that came before them but these huge hips do add great autumnal colour...

Monday Blues - Labradorite Magic!

When first seen the mineral Labradorite, not surprisingly originally mined in Labrador, Canada - seems an uninspiring dull, dark grey to black stone, hardly a suitable material for jewellery but it has hidden depths!
In the world of Crystal Magic it's believed to encourage patience & perseverance - rightly so for if one uses both and turn a piece in bright light or natural sunshine, in certain directions a magical play of colours called labradorescence suddenly appear.

This pendant of mine produces flashes of vibrant blue...Labradorite is also thought to protect & balance ones aura, which seems appropriate as it always reminds me of the Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights as it shimmers brightly then disappears, only to reappear & dance again.

Saturday Photo Hunt [& Camera Critters] - Orange!

As tchick's prompt this week is a colour had to play along.

Butterflies fascinate me, they are the only reason I retain a Buddleia Bush in my garden since it attracts them & Bees .

So given the opportunity to visit the Victoria Butterfly Gardens whilst on Vancouver Is. in BC, Canada, I jumped @ it.

An Orange beauty, a Julia, native to Central & South America, thrived in the humid glass house atmosphere, which was heady with fragrance from it's favourite blooms rich in nectar...

Coloured Thursday - COFFEE!

When I came to post re COFFEE, realised I'd struggled back in May this year, it's last outing, but as due to my ever increasing short term memory I'd re-listed, had to give it a go!!!

This little fellow spotted on a shopping trip is showing all shades of COFFEE through Expresso to Latte'...At home I usually take my ground COFFEE black, but my local convenience store currently has on offer... Regrettably the end results aren't quite a good as this one was...And, on a few of my longer planned walks by the river I've been known to take along my multi COFFEE coloured mini flask filled with said beverage...
For the cake I'm reprising one of the Celebration Cake Shop's most famous pieces - the Radcliffe Camera with it's Latte' brickwork [my previous post which shows the various stages of the cakes construction and the actual building it's based on in Dreamingspires can be seen HERE]...
My original meme 'True Colours Thursday' is now hosted by friends, the fun pups Doyle & Mollie @ Blue's Coloured Thursday, with me as Colour Consultant :)
Please do join in again!