Welcome Autumn (Fall)

Welcome Autumn, how I love you! The change from summer to this wonderful season is so subtle and yet... There is a certain change in how I feel, a change as if my soul is waking up from its eternal summer siesta and feels alive again. Is it the air, the sounds, the colours, the autumn fruits, nuts, berries, the children going back to school, the end of holidays, the promise of cozy evenings, hot chocolate? I think it really is a bridge to winter, a gradual aperture to the wonderful and magical season of Christmas!

Creativity is.....

I could not resist sharing this beautiful quote/picture I
found on the internet. Creativity indeed is one of life's
magical forces!

11 Ways to Love

These are some beautiful words to keep
in mind.

I came across them on Facebook and
an online friend asked if they could
be put on a bookmark.

I love the way each sentence has a reference
to a quote from the Bible.

So here you go Shilo...
a Bookmark all for you! Just click on it for a
better image and you can copy and paste into
your printing program.

Hope others can use it too : )

Enjoy!

Whimsical Wednesday ~ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

♪♪♪ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ♪♪♪

Click here to hear the song and see part of the movie

In the Disney movie Mary Poppins, also in the stage show version, this was one particular song sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and written by Richard and Robert Sherman. This word has always taken my fancy and I always wondered how it came about. Besides the fact that I always loved musicals, this particular film has been one of my favourites ever since it came out in 1964.

I have been reading about the roots of this word which when broken down into segments is explained as...super meaning above, cali meaning beauty, fragilistic is delicate and docious as educable. Now according to the movie when all these parts are put together they mean "Something to say when you have nothing to say". This is exactly what Mr Banks says when he is confronted by his employer who has just fired him. So Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! ♪♪♪

A year later this song was the subject of a lawsuit by songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young against Wonderland Music who were the publishers of the song from the Disney film. They alleged that it was an infringement of their own 1951 song entitled "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus" also known as "The Super Song". The Disney publishers won the lawsuit partially because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known ... many years prior to 1949".

According to a search I made this 34 letter word is NOT the longest word recorded...there is one with 189,819 letters...it is the Chemical name of titin, the largest known protein BUT it is NOT in the dictionary so NOT really a word at all!

How Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Happy St.Valentine's Day!

*A Word or Not a Word - that is the question!

*A Word or Not a Word - that is the question! ... title with
apologies to Shakespeare


GIZES - LINATICA - STAMLIN


I'm sure that you have come across those 'funny' or should I call them
'unusual' words which, when read, don't seem to mean a thing to you
but still, you are looking at them and you type them because you
want your message to go through.

OK, I won't keep you guessing much longer. Yes, they are the key
words or word verification which is actually the computer testing
to see you are someone and not a robot heehee! Well, you know
what I mean. Then, if you copy this 'word' right and hit enter,
your message/comment is accepted.

So when you see words like GIZES - LINATICA - STAMLIN, you
probably don't think they mean anything, right? Well I made a
search and guess what, yes these ones actually mean something...

GIZES is actually a city/town in Latvia

LINATICA is a site for MP3 Album Downloads (maybe you knew that one!)

STAMLIN - no, it isn't a town in Berlin or Russia...it's actually a family
name, a surname.

So next time you type a 'nonsense' password I'm sure you'll be
wondering whether it really exists. Of course not all do but which ones
do?


Now here's an example that makes sense...so bless you all for
reading this and following my blog...I hope you enjoyed my post : )

Whimsical Wednesday ~ Kindness and Courage Tag

This is a tag I made quite a while ago for a friend who had requested it.
I think the words of Adam Lindsay Gordon are so true to what we go through
sometimes in our daily lives.
I hope this quote tag will uplift your spirit and make you smile.

May God bless your kindness and give you the courage you need.

L**k out for Whimsical Wednesday (starting tomorrow)

I find that I am not posting as much as I'd intended when I first started this blog. Sooo I am going to start something new here and hope to continue as long as I can with this project.
Some of you probably have heard of Wordless Wednesday in which the post is usually a picture with only a few or no words at all, letting the picture say it all. Now for me that is a little impossible, you see I love words and once I start there's no stopping me. I have chosen Wednesday to be the day in which I will post regularly with whatever whim takes my fancy...it could be a recipe, a quote, a discussion, a poem, an idea shared... AND I am calling it Whimsical Wednesday, so I hope you'll check in every Wednesday to take a l**k : )

A Fall Bookmark for You

I love Autumn, yes I know I have probably mentioned it before.

The feeling of earth going to sleep and the time to prepare for another

lovely season inspires me.

I was playing a word game recently with my on-line friends

on a craft forum I visit and we came up with such meaningful words

that when put together depict a fantastic picture of fall.

I thought 'Why not put them on a bookmark?'

So I got to work and designed this bookmark to share here with you all.

Here it is, hope you like it and can make good use of it too : )

Every season with all the wonderful changes,

we realise we have so much to be

thankful for ~ maybe this would make a nice token

to give out at Thanksgiving!

Enjoy!

What poetry is to me...