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Catherine by the quilt display, 2024 Wayne County Fair
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Poland 2024 - Gdansk - National Museum - Inner Door St Catherine Church 1611
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Catherine joins the audience at Wildlife Encounters, 2024 Wayne County Fair
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St Catherines Ontario ~ Canada ~ Knox Presbyterian Church ~ Heritage Building
Erected 1859 ~ Serve Scottish Immigrants ~ Welland Canal Workers ~ Lamps and entrance and lamps are out standing ~ Gothic
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2024-04-26 Odigitria Monastery, near Sivas, Crete
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Arbirlot Burns 2001
Arbirlot Church celebrated the birth of the Bard when they held their annual Burns Supper in the Church hall in January, 2001. The top table guests included, from left, back - Alec Harrison, Ron Kerr, John Henderson, Peter Black and Rev Kenneth Brown: front - Jenny Dunlop, Catherine Brown, George Dunlop and Maureen Pert.
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Church of "Our Lady of the Rosary" in Pompei, Italy
The painting of "Our Lady of the Rosary" with its bronze gilt frame is presented to the pilgrims on the high altar. The venerated painting depicts the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena. Originally bought by Dominican priest Alberto Radente for eight carlini in Naples,[6] it was offered to Bartolo Longo on the 13 November 1875 for the church he was building in Pompei.
An attempt was made by an amateur to restore it, and it was placed in the church on 13 February 1876, the foundation day for the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary there. In 1880 the famous Italian painter, Federico Madlarelli, offered to restore the image. It was again finally restored by Vatican artists in 1965.
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Mr. Darcy is Ready to Dance
Did you know that modern high heels were brought to Europe by Persian emissaries of Abbas the Great in the early Seventeenth Century? Here is another interesting fact you may not know – men wore high heels up until the mid 1800s to imply their upper-class status; only someone who did not have to work could afford, both financially and practically, to wear such extravagant shoes!
The theme for the 27th of July for “Smile on Saturday” is “wearing shoes” where the photo is showing a model (human or otherwise) wearing shoes and the shot must show the feet or the legs and not the entire body.
In the last three years, I have been exploring a new avenue in my photographic creativity, that of portraiture photography. I used a somewhat illusive sitter for several “Smile on Saturday” themes over that period as part of this exploration. Usually, you see part of his face or his hands, however today we see his feet and his legs: and what lovely legs he has! When my sitter turned forty, he threw a rather fabulous and extravagant fancy dress party, where the theme was “literary”, and he chose to go as Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s famous novel “Pride and Prejudice” in an outfit made for him from top to toe which he is modelling today for my photograph. You can see the tails of his frock coat, his cream breeches with antique buckle detailing, his shapely legs clad in white silk lisle stockings and a pair of black patent leather dance pumps with suitably raised heels as befits a Regency gentleman like Mr. Darcy as he attends a ball thrown by his friend Charles Bingley, or the thrillingly terrifying Lady Catherine de Borough! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme and that it makes you smile!
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KCC 15-14 Stampendous
Working through my Christmas scraps for KCC 15. and the BYSHC Challenge. This was a perfect sketch for those little bits of patterned paper.
I used the following to make this card:
Stamplorations Circles All Over cover plate die
Stampendous Reindeer Swirls stamped with Catherine Pooler ink
pink gems
Entered intio:
KCC15 Sketch 14 FB
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.757954849750604&ty...
BYSHC Christmas in July
byshcardmakers.blogspot.com/2024/07/christmas-in-july-202...
Crafty Fun with Friends FB
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Scrap n Stamp FB Number #5 Reindeer #snschallenge
www.facebook.com/groups/290492598469347/?hoisted_section_...
Allsorts 79 using AG
allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/week-790.html
Crafty Calendar using a sentiment
craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/crafty-
Rudolph Days July
rudolphdayschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/rudolph-days-j...
Outlawz Festive Fridays
theoutlawzchallenges-friday.blogspot.com/2024/07/festive-...
Outlawz Challenges July
outlawzchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/july-2024-linky.html
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ROMAIN NOVARINA & CATHERINE NOVARINA
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Catherine Lansfield
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Catherine Lansfield
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Catherine Lansfield
Holly and Mistletoe
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Catherine Lansfield
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Catherine Lansfield
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Catherine Lansfield
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Catherine Lansfield
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