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I know, I don't usually list on Sunday. I'm taking a short break from painting so this will be it for this week!
Click to bid on summer courtesan!

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I'm really pleased with the way the kimono design turned out - which is good because the painting was built around the idea of the kanji picked out in flowers. I'm having fun incorporating kanji in non-obvious ways into my paintings. Click to bid, and thanks for looking!

OMG Ponies! Inspired by a book called The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. If you like fantasy, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! I'm shocked I missed it when I was a kid.
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Talisman for a sunny day. click to bid and thanks for looking!

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Here's an elf with her cute baby dragon. Click to bid and thanks for looking!

Also, Zen Ballet is ending tomorrow and is still at opening bid! It's a lovely painting - please don't let it go for $5!

The wild roses are in bloom like crazy right now around here.  Click to bid and thanks for looking!

Click to bid on "ocha" (green tea). Thanks for looking and have a great day!

This one's called Zen Ballet. Click to bid and thanks for looking!

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Magnets, keychains and stickers in my zazzle store!

Looks like ebay may soon disallow custom templates. When I tried to post my last listing, I got a new form with no option for html. There was a link to the old form, but it looks like ebay will phase this in soon. So say the rumors on the ebay boards. You will be allowed to upload photos, and there will be a small text area for description. No wallpaper, banners etc. Anyone heard of this? Will be a major bummer. Everyone's listing will look identical. Worse, they only allow one photo upload for free, so we will be forced to pay extra for detail shots. We'll see how it works once they implement it I suppose. >_<

Here's a cute little fairy hitching a ride with a friend. Click to bid and thanks for looking!

A big thank you to ebay, for revising your listing template yet again, causing me much anguish and time to figure out.
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

WATCHING MOVIES DOES NOT COUNT!!!


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (on hold at the library)
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (started reading this once...)
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (in my possession)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Whew - that's a lot of books!

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This was listed yesterday, but I was too tired to keep online and post my links. I'm working on another painting right now that will be up later today! For now, sparks will fly!

Coast to Coast AM presents a free 2 hour streamed interview with Art Bell and George Carlin. Find the links about 3/4 way down this page:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2008/06/24.html

I haven't listened too it, so I really don't know what it's like but c2c interviews are usually pretty good.

Thanks to kechineko244  for this recipe - it's the best tuna patties I've ever had! I added an egg to your recipe, because I was scared they wouldn't hold together without it, and they turned out fabulous. I served them with oven roasted baby potatoes, and today for lunch I had a big salad with romaine lettuce, poppy seed dressing, and chopped up left over patty and potatoes and it was heavenly.

2 cans light tuna in water, drained and flaked
1 pkg. chicken flavored stuffing mix
1 cup shredded mild cheddar cheese
1/2 cup shredded carrots
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 egg
3/4 cup water

Mix all ingredients together and set aside for at least 10 minutes or more (I made them early in the afternoon and just let the mixture sit in the fridge till dinner). Make into patties and fry in a non-stick pan till done (about 15 minutes total). Made six large patties, enough for dinner and leftovers for the next day.

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