crikey, I'm a galah...

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think there's some weird Steve Irwin channelling going on here...I never say crikey!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLNCtQXIfASXz6PbPRMxyT4O-CMBI-52m8wlY1J9MyC2HoXjUHQjVuwDU0fECJcwvYECxfLkX20igkLXAUEuEq6a3qAkqFS2eC4hNOned8Lvv9q6vD3HyVpI2WyduVF5_DbcSw9KxQ-g/s1600/anthropologie+cockatoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLNCtQXIfASXz6PbPRMxyT4O-CMBI-52m8wlY1J9MyC2HoXjUHQjVuwDU0fECJcwvYECxfLkX20igkLXAUEuEq6a3qAkqFS2eC4hNOned8Lvv9q6vD3HyVpI2WyduVF5_DbcSw9KxQ-g/s400/anthropologie+cockatoo.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, so I know strictly speaking that's not a galah...it's a sulphur crested cockatoo...which is actually a type of parrot (or so I'm reliably informed by the <a href="http://www.australiazoo.com.au/">Australia Zoo</a>), but c'mon (oh dear, now I've gone all Lleyton Hewitt on you)..I've never been one for letting the facts get in the way of a good story...</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, the reason that I feel like a bit of a <s>goose</s> galah is this...last week, I was given a very lovely award...this one...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0am2EpWHRvWmQI6jlZK1d-v-Bl3Ydz0e4oLgfHeEj5pdx9o48DZO9m-l4SZ341pxP1ddOaO42MUd9Xa7pg1sUmDSq_7JICnRu7cFR6X4IkvrtYeQ8TgqnN5Qa3ZCdqxuADy0v-DeKc4/s1600/beautiful_blogger_thumb3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ0am2EpWHRvWmQI6jlZK1d-v-Bl3Ydz0e4oLgfHeEj5pdx9o48DZO9m-l4SZ341pxP1ddOaO42MUd9Xa7pg1sUmDSq_7JICnRu7cFR6X4IkvrtYeQ8TgqnN5Qa3ZCdqxuADy0v-DeKc4/s320/beautiful_blogger_thumb3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">..by Darnonymous who writes the <a href="http://darnonymous.blogspot.com/">Satisfy my Soul</a> blog...and I haven't acknowledged it publicly...and that makes me feel really bad. Scoot on over to Dar's blog...she writes some wicked and funny things about real life, and  makes me especially glad that I no longer have small kidlets...although I'm sure hers are perfectly lovely. And she strips, sands and paints stuff too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, where was I...cockatoos...the teapot above is in the <a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/">Anthropologie</a> range...is this because they now ship to Australia I wonder?  They also have this...which I quite like...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0H-GjGS9M8vTEL0pIBw9rMVT2dkUVegWPMcmLVh3FEmEpnCJ1VlcIBk3MBnh-AeGCzHjOvj9fusP5fB1pB2zLKtelFsSaz1anmS_XfiH85D-qzMJi1XZx-ZY-Uq-CiWauOn9j-cwS5Bo/s1600/cockatoo-pillow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0H-GjGS9M8vTEL0pIBw9rMVT2dkUVegWPMcmLVh3FEmEpnCJ1VlcIBk3MBnh-AeGCzHjOvj9fusP5fB1pB2zLKtelFsSaz1anmS_XfiH85D-qzMJi1XZx-ZY-Uq-CiWauOn9j-cwS5Bo/s400/cockatoo-pillow.jpg" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and this... less sure about that...much prefer my free <a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/04/simple-things-my-tea-towel-on-table.html">Inside Out teatowel</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGT2HWr25Y56TRU9Uo7IfBZZ3qX0eNQVmxygn2kMU5ANG59hGOzByxzRxkIUhEvU74UzkOfKZazwEkraosCuMIN8Cu-P5kFy-pisms8F0O8oWH10uMkaTnobLQSckPhWGvqhtZOxwV0a8/s1600/cockatoo-teatowel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGT2HWr25Y56TRU9Uo7IfBZZ3qX0eNQVmxygn2kMU5ANG59hGOzByxzRxkIUhEvU74UzkOfKZazwEkraosCuMIN8Cu-P5kFy-pisms8F0O8oWH10uMkaTnobLQSckPhWGvqhtZOxwV0a8/s320/cockatoo-teatowel.jpg" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...which makes me a tad suspicious about their motives (that was a joke, you know that right? I have my eye on some of their stuff)...and while I can't be sure that these birds are only found here (and in New Guinea...I do know that)...because I'm a bit too tired to do <b>that</b> much research... they're sure as heck <u>iconically Australian</u>...found in backyards all over the country, stripping the leaves from beautiful trees!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Want to see some real ones...course you do...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wtYAb_yMzlR2bjNC9eTvPkdnXDOK6mf4hTGKjp13H743srAMrbYqcut9QFqKqO9z60M1Pmv8XnQDut6EYrYuWIzDjAb6OwwPfjPIQmO5MckSNV1yUqQsyR6NwVYF-bJMrXRqnE3zWd4/s1600/cocky1from+wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wtYAb_yMzlR2bjNC9eTvPkdnXDOK6mf4hTGKjp13H743srAMrbYqcut9QFqKqO9z60M1Pmv8XnQDut6EYrYuWIzDjAb6OwwPfjPIQmO5MckSNV1yUqQsyR6NwVYF-bJMrXRqnE3zWd4/s320/cocky1from+wiki.jpg" width="212" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJT_HwvF-ckDAm7zj-mXkwFY17ROvtPWysQfk1ly0GOc6xkNG6sCdWbyyalXPWKawLSmnlR6ZfzQ7YuCnoQP8uhHXYlKk7RHp9FdKH8wWc6eUSKW4uCW0hyoBZv0bm3iWXm3nwHEhEnU/s1600/cockies+on+red+background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJT_HwvF-ckDAm7zj-mXkwFY17ROvtPWysQfk1ly0GOc6xkNG6sCdWbyyalXPWKawLSmnlR6ZfzQ7YuCnoQP8uhHXYlKk7RHp9FdKH8wWc6eUSKW4uCW0hyoBZv0bm3iWXm3nwHEhEnU/s400/cockies+on+red+background.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwUoEoeFa6mCr3ND2-AaQ_T29WqP3VYbBp6NhkegwtUhQE2BLE_8lt8a3rFxapSWuM3LhFtM_UWWFAkj1htvkln4LHuNYiittSxx2PhSzfgLhWFiMt8yOx1WiM_4_QMMAy1GdfyW4HkM/s1600/sulphur-crested-cockatoo-rising-sheila-smart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwUoEoeFa6mCr3ND2-AaQ_T29WqP3VYbBp6NhkegwtUhQE2BLE_8lt8a3rFxapSWuM3LhFtM_UWWFAkj1htvkln4LHuNYiittSxx2PhSzfgLhWFiMt8yOx1WiM_4_QMMAy1GdfyW4HkM/s320/sulphur-crested-cockatoo-rising-sheila-smart.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And because I know you're beside yourself wanting some cockatoo facts...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">These birds are naturally curious creatures, as well as very intelligent.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> These parrots produce a very fine powder to waterproof themselves instead of oil as many other creatures do. [who would have thought?]<br />These birds are very long-lived, and can live upwards of 70 years in captivity, although they only live to about 20–40 years in the wild. [it's tough out there in the wild you know]<br />Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, along with many other parrots, are susceptible to a widespread viral disease known as <a href="http://www.avianweb.com/PBFD.html" style="color: #354777;">Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease</a>, which causes the birds to lose their feathers and grow grotesquely shaped beaks....ewwww (highly educated editorial comment)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And while I think they look quite beautiful...unless they've got that beak and feather disease thing going on... they screech like a demented fishwife, and that is highly unattractive and a huge insult to fishwives.</span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bet you wish I'd stopped at the teapot now don't you?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't be posting tomorrow bloggy people. The very nice Canadian Grace from <a href="http://gracie-senseandsimplicity.blogspot.com/">Sense and Simplicity</a> and I are working on a bit of a project which we will reveal on Thursday morning...provided we can work out the time zones properly that is. She's set me a difficult task I have to tell you, so I'll be working hard trying to do her proud. I'm not confident!  So till then, as my best friend Jo says...love ya loads.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">cockatoo facts from</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.avianweb.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (I didn't make them up you know!); images from anthropologie and google</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">p.s. I didn't mean to bold that bit about the screeching...I just can't make it go away :(</span></div>

crikey, I'm a galah...

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butterflies

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just because they're beautiful...</span></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Q7CUZtfIGBpdF-9WHdjdWjI5rc6wSIfuMW3mVwyNTDJxYohd1W7EQIp9dA5Y-QPVXBzggYGa10ciZ5wsVeX709JeUw6E3vTpayrGLT-Con8n0ggO469BUsEMriIlhdpNvRpvlcEMxkKM/s400/HBZ0108BO002-de.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">via*visual*vamp*</span></span></a></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Q7CUZtfIGBpdF-9WHdjdWjI5rc6wSIfuMW3mVwyNTDJxYohd1W7EQIp9dA5Y-QPVXBzggYGa10ciZ5wsVeX709JeUw6E3vTpayrGLT-Con8n0ggO469BUsEMriIlhdpNvRpvlcEMxkKM/s1600/HBZ0108BO002-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Q7CUZtfIGBpdF-9WHdjdWjI5rc6wSIfuMW3mVwyNTDJxYohd1W7EQIp9dA5Y-QPVXBzggYGa10ciZ5wsVeX709JeUw6E3vTpayrGLT-Con8n0ggO469BUsEMriIlhdpNvRpvlcEMxkKM/s400/HBZ0108BO002-de.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9gYlp_lwcSSwmgz_L4vsuyPmEKvYDW2S6gUnoNokHsclHAjmE0lKI0owMlrZk-Yl2ZWz45_Lnwu5awMtNYT28kmS9opUZVJTqCRnKQIvBa7VIYt0cUvc9a29r4zNgZztWz1-q0omM5Xh/s400/300x600d.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">via decorology</span></span></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9gYlp_lwcSSwmgz_L4vsuyPmEKvYDW2S6gUnoNokHsclHAjmE0lKI0owMlrZk-Yl2ZWz45_Lnwu5awMtNYT28kmS9opUZVJTqCRnKQIvBa7VIYt0cUvc9a29r4zNgZztWz1-q0omM5Xh/s1600/300x600d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT9gYlp_lwcSSwmgz_L4vsuyPmEKvYDW2S6gUnoNokHsclHAjmE0lKI0owMlrZk-Yl2ZWz45_Lnwu5awMtNYT28kmS9opUZVJTqCRnKQIvBa7VIYt0cUvc9a29r4zNgZztWz1-q0omM5Xh/s400/300x600d.jpg" width="246" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">hand painted butterflies by </span></span><a href="http://www.luludk.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">lulu</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggcw3zKw4h4Wjrbce4ySdfKX-5oPl36mlbaaOnKvugrXSyl__JE0gcfKjbpiKkm7oGQbDMsk9sk8COtWXriu2vJh7NBPS_q0Paz2fedONcz3UaFThyphenhyphengyPxvZJTbxufffQQexHmralr5pM/s640/nikon+luludk+contract+746.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">via shelte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">r</span></span></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggcw3zKw4h4Wjrbce4ySdfKX-5oPl36mlbaaOnKvugrXSyl__JE0gcfKjbpiKkm7oGQbDMsk9sk8COtWXriu2vJh7NBPS_q0Paz2fedONcz3UaFThyphenhyphengyPxvZJTbxufffQQexHmralr5pM/s1600/nikon+luludk+contract+746.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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Just because they're beautiful... via*visual*vamp* via decorology hand painted butterflies by lulu   via shelte r via apartment diet via...

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Go For A Walk...

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAC2ZnqyecajY8fUuJqwvE8-NM1YGn3dLwSKS_mAXPrwfbvpo6S_CF2C1NWftjCLQfRdITXYg0zWtLellXrZ3rpVHewBHV1s5-X8MN2FPk12gg0qddEk6Gto8HDUFsBCM2QdhU2L1D_ps/s1600-h/100_4640.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154955012776818274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAC2ZnqyecajY8fUuJqwvE8-NM1YGn3dLwSKS_mAXPrwfbvpo6S_CF2C1NWftjCLQfRdITXYg0zWtLellXrZ3rpVHewBHV1s5-X8MN2FPk12gg0qddEk6Gto8HDUFsBCM2QdhU2L1D_ps/s400/100_4640.JPG" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a> <strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#00cccc;">I find that when decorating my home I tend to stick with fun, vibrant colors that draw the eye. Not only is it a reflection of my personality, but it also becomes eye candy for those who walk through the door. Need some help getting inspired? Go for a nice, peaceful, walk through a beautiful neighborhood or garden. Draw your inspiration from the colors, sounds and smells of nature. I am a huge nature lover and love the fact that I live on a lake. I look outside and get the tingles just looking at the sun come up, the morning dew on the green grass and the light fog above the water. It reminds me of a fabulously decorated home with candlelight and vibrant patterns and colors. Taking the outside in, isn't just about breathing in some fresh air and appreciating all of our planet's beauty. It's also about literally bringing the outside into your living or working space. The earthy colors, the flower patterns and the lovely candle scents. Try it. It will bring you a fantastic inner peace. Then, sit in your favorite chair and read a terrific book. I bet you will feel absolutely fabulous. Enjoy...</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#00cccc;">Happy Decorating,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#00cccc;">Mina</span></strong>

Go For A Walk...

I find that when decorating my home I tend to stick with fun, vibrant colors that draw the eye. Not only is it a reflection of my personali...

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