Inspiring blog for the New Year by Inspiring lady Kookie

I have attended one of Kookie's presentations and she is brilliant... she works with who you are and whatever your body shape is and finds a way to connect you to your inner Goddess full of confidence to shine!  Inspirational lady.
Kookie Muhretti -Why 2019 is the year for a Personal Stylist

"So it's resolution time. The time where we reflect on our achievements and transgressions and plan to do more or better for the next year. I plan to run again, eat better and really take care of myself, which I think is a realistic plan, plus I've started it already so its more of a continuation! And that's the key: setting realistic goals and pacing yourself. Not going too slow where change is not visible but at the same time not so drastically (unless you can handle it) where you end up going backwards. My question is: what ARE you planning to do differently next year?
Can I make a suggestion?...
Hiring a Personal Stylist! I'm being truly honest here and let me explain why before you switch off..." read on.....

Betty's Bargain

Got the @Bettys Christmas cake in the bargain seasonal reductions so pleased....Betty's Seasonal Reductions https://www. This will be going to Sabine, my friend in Germany tomorrow with some NYR goodies too. NYR Winter offershttps://…http://marjoriesyard.blogspot.com/ 

Beautiful artwork

Naranjas y limones, 1862. 
MENSAQUE Y ALVARADO, ANTONIO (Sevilla, 1825 - Sevilla, 1900) 
Óleo sobre lienzo, 53 x 36 cm.
Museo Del Prado 

How to draw skin -- Basic tips with colored pencils.

Cat sums up today for me too

Marcelle‏ @marseelee 6h6 hours ago

It was the day AFTER Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even the Cat! @ramblingsloa

Cats blissful Boxing Day

another hot of the needles

yesterday managed to get this tunic top completed for Leen Family Link Up

Kendji Girac - Les Yeux de la Mama (Clip Officiel)

Beautiful Reindeer Art by Jessica

One of my favourite artists. Jessica Stride and just found this beautiful artwork in my facebook newsfeed with a lovely message to all her followers. 

Jessica Stride Paintings

 

 

A very happy Christmas to you!😘🎄🦌🎅🎊Thankyou to my followers and my lovely customers who have made it possible for me to continue to make my art. You are all very much appreciated!💕💕 I wish you all a happy and peaceful festive season and a joyous, colourful new year!xx

Jessica Stride Website

Reindeer special adaption for the Tundra

Been watching some good programmes while sat quiet knitting
Reindeer and me was fascinating on a journey to see the Northern Lights... and I am struck with the adaptation of the Reindeer to the tundra
The Coat
Caribou have a double coat, like the Arctic fox. The fuzzy layer next to the skin holds air and keeps the caribou dry when they have to cross a river. Each hair of the outercoat is hollow and filled with air. This trapped air acts as insulation against loss of body heat, as well as making the animals more buoyant when swimming.

The Feet
Caribou have split-hooves, like a cow. They walk on the middle two toes of each foot, which are covered with hooves. Because there are two hooves instead of one as in the horse, they can spread apart to bear more weight without sinking into snow or wet ground, and also act as paddles when swimming. The hooves also change shape with the seasons. In the summer, the fleshy pad in the center grows thicker, but in the winter it retreats and is overgrown by hair, so the caribou walk on the hard horn of the hoof for cold protection and better traction on snow and ice
The Food
Even the caribou's digestion has adapted to their environment. During the summer they browse and graze like other plant-eaters, but come winter, they've cornered the market on a food source utilized by no other animal -- lichen. Pronounced "lie-ken," a lichen is a two-part plant-like organism composed of a fungus living symbiotically with a green algae or a blue-green bacteria. Some form of it grows on rocks and trees and sand in almost every biome, and in the tundra it can cover the ground like wall-to-wall carpeting. Caribou can smell lichen under deep snow and use their scoop-shaped hooves to dig down to it. They also have developed special bacteria in their gut that help them digest lichen, and their ability to use this abundant but low-nutrition food helps them survive when there's nothing else to eat.

https://animals.mom.me/caribou-adaptations-tundra-7556.html

Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland

Frankincense a very wise gift

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh 

The benefits and value of Frankincense on health and beauty has been known for centuries..read more nip over to my Marjorie's Yard  Blog and see pages The Story of Frankincense and A Wise Journey with Frankincense

Frankincense essential oil comes from the resin, or sap, inside the Boswellia tree. The sap is extracted and then left to dry and harden. Once hardened, it is then steam distilled to produce a pure essential oil. Frankincense essential oil continues to be one of the most popular essential oils due to its many amazing benefits. The scent it produces is enough to promote peace, tranquillity, and overall wellness in the home.

Kindred Spirits link up

🎄💐2018 had a pathway for me to meet up with an amazing lady - a kindred spirit... who is doing a lot of work with kids education and has projects in India... we are teaming our energies to link up with my project Family Link Up too .....so looking forward to 2019.... lovely card from her...very special given our different religions and cultures - you see the message is for all Peace on Earth being compassionate and lovi ng to all creation and be a Global Family....learning and sharing together.... and we have so much fun too.... ! The pathway to her with Allah Kareem is just round the corner from me... Shukran Allah... 

Magic Cube

This magic cube was magic in the class yesterday helping the children to understand shapes and measuring shapes.  I am enjoying helping as a teacher assistant.  Gaining lots of experience for helping with my Syrian Family Link UP project.

King of Dates

Never ever tasted dates so so utterly yummy as the Medijoul dates from Palestine... they are just like caramel... managed to get these two boxes in the Oxfam Online Shop there is a sale on now too. 

You've Got A Friend, West End Friends (Official Music Video)

Goodies from Germany

💞Goodies arrived from Germany ... just enjoying tea and yummy advent cookies before class.... thanks to Sabine do you remember my German tourist friend that fell outside the Regents Park Mosque that we helped.... friends for life now .... x

Economics for the Many

Looking forward to receiving my copy.

Verso Books

Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge possibilities presented by new technology and better ways of organising our economy in the wake of neoliberalism’s failure. With the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, and the extraordinary turnaround in Labour’s fortunes in the 2017 election, we have a real opportunity to build an economy in Britain that is radically fairer, radically more democratic, and radically more sustainable. But we need the right ideas and strategies if we’re going to get there.
Economics for the Many, edited and with an introduction by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, features contributions from the participants in his New Economics conferences, including Barry Gardiner, Ann Pettifor, Prem Sikka, and Guy Standing. It covers topics from housing, public ownership, and fairer international trading systems to industrial policy for the twenty-first century and how to tackle tax avoidance and regional imbalances. Together, the essays in this volume lay out a vision for a new economics, one that works for the many, not the few.

Nick Knowles sings Driving Home For Christmas… with Chris and Dom

Lol love this.... fond of Nick with his DIY SOS programme and recently I'm a celeb get me out of here.. 

When I saw Santa, We love him | Specsavers

Cranberry & Orange Cake a winner...

 💞💐My neighbour Ros and me just had a feast of cake with a cup of tea.... this Cranberry and Orange cake from Bettys in well yummy... and the sugar topping yummmmmy too... One of our best teashops in Yorkshire their cakes are so good. https://www.bettys.co.uk/

Tina the Musical performs during the Royal Variety Performance 2018

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical | West End trailer

Clean Bandit - Baby (feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi) [Official Video]

Been an active busy day

This one photo sums up a lot done today.  I have been finishing another cardigan for the Family Link Up project this is for one of the older boys in Turkey. Plus been getting more educational resources to trial with a local school where I am helping as a teacher assistant.  The Maths and English books are brilliant and I am going to get some copies for the Family Link Up too. 

I have been trying out some adaptive slides for Leen and Celine to understand in the languages they are learning by exposure. But the maths of course is maths whatever the language spoken. Dante feels he can use the books too for the families in Turkey.  He has received a parcel of mine today with a warm thick wool jumper I knit and some goodies..

Grandmother Moon

Tribal Whispers

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Grandmother Moon was just a tiny sliver the other evening. She is slowly growing into her full self and reminding us that we grow with knowledge and wisdom gathered each day by the things we do, people we talk to and the things we witness <3
(Art by SB Mathieu)

just been trying to capture the moon outside the house... I am hopeless at getting the right setting on my camera for moon photos... but you can see the Grandmother through the woodland trees opposite my house. 

Holy Land Palestine - Christmas wishes for Peace

 🎄💞Love this direct in from the Holy Land Palestine...Shukran to Abdelrhman Shabaan

Useful educational tool

This is good the local library are selling the educational series for English and Maths Leap Ahead by Igloo books I will be getting more for my Family Link Up project. I have just tried this out on at the local school with an Algerian student and he enjoyed the work - with good word recognition and improved his writing skills. So well pleased with this resource. 

Beyaz Show - İrem Derici & Mustafa Ceceli - Kıymetlim

Kıymetlim google says My Precious lol love this Turkish singer Irem Derici... 

Knitting Techniques

Keen in Knitting- This book is brilliant I had borrowed a copy from the local library but enjoy the ideas so much that I managed to get a bargain copy from Amazon

Safran

Love this found in my facebook newsfeed from a friend that loves to visit Tunisia. Looks a lovely place to visit. Safran

Yummy Coffee Break

The blissful joy of working from home and having a Bettys delivery of goodies for a much earned coffee break.. I love our Yorkshire Bettys Tea Rooms and their wonderful cakes and chocolates... and it is good they deliver internationally as we got some out to Belgium for Boshra and the Girls - they loved their goodies Family Link Up Goodies

More knitting for Family Link Up

I am still busy knitting for my Family Link Up project trying to get warm clothes for them for Winter months.... and spotting good shirts and clothes in the AGE UK shop. But I would like to get the funds for some brilliant fur lined cardigans and fur lined shirts I have seen in the local Sainsbury store... you can help with donations to GoFundMe - phase 2 settlement  Help me to rebuild lives together!