Alphabe-Thursday-Rainbow Summer School - Rainbow Orange

Orange Lily

All photos on this post are the copyright Christina Wigren

These are some orange beads from my collection of glass and other kinds of beads. I have no orange-coloured buttons at this time.

The colour orange is in between red and yellow. It is sometimes quite light and can be confused with yellow, when it is near yellow, but the red in it gives it a depth and weight that yellow alone does not have. Dirty orange is on its way to becoming brown. Pure orange is a signal colour, warning signs and clothing for prisoners or men who repair the road or hunters so as to not be shot by other hunters. So orange is both a practical as well as a artful colour.

The tube of paint labeled 'skin-colour' that I had in my paint-box as a child, was really a shade of orange mixed with white. I took these photos of the pink-orange peace-roses and the lily at the top of the page, about a month ago, just for this post. Now there are no orange flowers left in the garden.

Orange is a great accent-colour. I have one necklace that I am very proud of because it has been sold to at least two different buyers. It is made up of mostly simple black beads with just a few orange beads that are allowed to shine.

Click on image for for information about this necklace

Here is Elisabet with her orange-haired Pippi Longstocking doll late October, almost a year ago when she was five.

Thank you for visiting.
Best wishes,
Anna

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C is for Cats - ABC-Wednesday, Round 7 - C

My very first cat, Cajsa, born 1991.
She hopped onto my bed this morning and lay down on my tummy and purred. Nice alarm-clock?

It's time for Mrs. Nesbitt's ABC-Wednesday, Round 7, and this week the challenge is the letter 'C'. My C-word is Cat or Cats. In case anyone hasn't noticed, I really like cats. I have three cats and the children want to adopt two more! This first photo is my very first cat, Cajsa, who is eleven years old. So I never had a cat as a child. I got my first cat as an adult. Cajsa is part Norwegian Forest Cat and part Angora.

I think cats are beautiful animals. I like images of cats, even toys. Here is a wooden puzzle with three cats painted on it, that I bought for the children:

My husband was against me getting my first cat, but he rescued a kitten that was trapped under the roof of a root-cellar on our farm. This kitten became his special friend, Calle Cat:

When you have a special interest, you are more likely to notice images in your surroundings that relate to your interest. Here is a sign with two cats on it, for no special reason than to be a nice decoration for this farm:

Cats are beautiful. I bought a chair for my son because it had a pattern with cats on it. Now that we have two children, I wish I had purchased two! Yes, the cats like to sit in it too.

One very snowy, windy day in February two years ago, a red kitten came wandering into the garden on the farm. My son Erik found her and took her inside to warm up. We named her Anna-Lisa after my grandmother and a girl in a movie* about a group of children that wander in a snowstorm looking for shelter. My sister-in-law took her in permanently because my husband put a limit at three cats in our household. This is a recent photo of Anna-Lisa, as a grown cat.

This is Anna-Lisa

Lin, of 'Duck and Wheel With String' left this comment on Calle Cat's blog:

Do you know what is cuter than a red cat??? RED KITTENS!!! Hooray! How very exciting to have two stripey kittens!! Give them a big smoochie from Aunt Lin. :)

This is Nils:


This is Anna Mathilda


Lin knows what she's talking about. Here is her cat Hobbes, who is co-blogger with Calle on The Red Cat Society, our blog.

Photo copyright Lin of Duck and Wheel With String

Hmmm... Am I missing someone? Of course, my little blogging cat, Sara of Sara Cat writes / Sara Katt skriver:



Thank you for visiting!
Best wishes,
Anna
Purrs from Cajsa, Calle, Anna-Lisa, Nils, Anna Matilda and Sara Cat

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To see more interesting posts about C-words, please click here to go to ABC Wednesday, with thanks to Mrs Nesbitt and others who work to maintain this wonderful meme.

* The movie in question was Barnen från Frostmofjället (1945), after a novel by Laura Fitinghoff (1848-1908) from 1907. Seven orphaned children avoid being sent to the poor house, by making their way on foot in a snowstorm in the 1860's years of famine in Sweden. The oldest brother takes care of his younger siblings through their travels, looking for shelter and new families. One of his sisters, Anna-Lisa, wins the hearts of a couple who had just lost their daughter to an unnamed illness, by singing to and comforting their only surviving child, a son, who is also battling the same illness. Their daughter's name was also 'Anna-Lisa'.
The children love this very serious black-and-white film. I cannot see it without shedding tears.

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French Obsession #5 - A French Rodent's Impossible Dream

(You see here the packaging for the DVD for Råttatouille, the Swedish language
version.This film has been dubbed into many languages.
The Swedish language version is very good.)

It is already August! For this month's French Obsession I would like to present a family film (for children seven years or older) called Ratatouille. Script writer and director, Brad Bird discribes Ratatouille as a story about 'The Impossible Dream'.

Brad Bird, script writer and director of Pixar's Ratatouille

A rat named Remy dreams about becoming a five-star gourmet chef in Paris!

It is the meeting of the art of cooking at the highest level, and sewer-dwelling rodents; two worlds that cannot be farther apart! But anything is possible in the world of film-animation.

This is Remy looking at a cookbook by Auguste Gusteau, his favourite chef.

The animators at Pixar go to great lengths to capture the atmosphere of the older areas of Paris.

In order to make this film believeable, the film team travelled to Paris to take photographs and make sketches of different environments.

Since this motion picture is about small animals, it also meant getting down on the ground to study what gutters and drains look like.

The rat Remy admires humans and loves cooking.

He secretly watches cooking programs on TV where he lives with his extended family in the attic of an old cottage in the country.

But circumstances change and the entire rat-colony must run away and use the sewer system to flee.

Remy gets separated from his family and winds up under the streets of Paris near the five-star restaurant that Remy admires most, Gusteau's. Here, Remy meets and is befriended by the restaurant's young busboy, Alfredo Linguini.

Linguini's boss sees a rat (Remy) in the kitchen, and orders Linguini to take the rat to a place far from the restaurant and despose of him. Linguini rides his bike to the river Seine, but cannot kill Remy. He lets him live.

After that there are many twists and turns to this very funny story.

This is the first time I am linking up with French Obsession! I was not certain that this post would qualify because this film is made by Americans. Thank you Frenchy for letting me do this review.

You cannot miss seeing the love and admiration, that the film team have for France and French culture, in this delightful comedy.

Best wishes,
Anna

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SUPERNATURAL 4° SERIE

4x01: Lazzaro Risorge
4x02: Sei Li Dio Sono Io Dean Winchester
4x03: In Principio
4x04: Metamorfosi
4x05: Monster Movie
4x06: Febbre Da Fantasma
4x07: La Grande Zucca
4x08: Il Pozzo Dei Desideri
4x09: So Cosa Hai Fatto L'Estate Scorsa
4x10: Paradiso E Inferno
4x11: Resti Di Famiglia
4x12: La Settimana Della Magia  
4x13: Inferno A Scuola 
4x14: Il Canto Della Sirena
4x15: Quando La Morte E' In Vacanza 
4x16: Sulla Punta Di Uno Spillo
4x17: Una Vita Terribile
4x18: Il Mostro Alla Fine Del Libro
4x19: Il Salto Dello Squalo
4x20: Il Rapimento
4x21: Quando Si Rompe La Diga
4x22: Lucifero Risorge