Rainbow Violet - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow Summer School - Rainbow Violet

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Today is Thursday and time to link with Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow Summer School. This week's colour is Rainbow VIOLET. I thought that I would begin this Rainbow VIOLET-post by doing something a little bit DIFFERENT.

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The top picture is a still that I have taken off the screen of the character Violet Parr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parr, the Incredibles, from the movie, with the same name, about a family of superheros. Violet Parr is a shy teenage girl, who has the power to make herself invisable, similar to to the Invisible Woman, and to create force fields that can be used as shields.

Invisible Woman.
Artwork by Steve McNiven

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In this first scene, we see Violet as a shy high school girl who has a crush on a boy named Tony Ridinger. Violet makes her head invisible for Tony when he walks by her at school.

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When Tony has gone

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Violet allows herself to be visable again.

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Her mother, Helen Parr or 'Elastic-Girl'

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as she was called at the height of her super-heroine-career,

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picks Violet up in a typical 1960's car.

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Helen Parr has just received new super-costumes for the whole family

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from top-designer Edna Mole (who looks a lot like film-costume-designer Edith Head).

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Violet's new super-clothes can disappear and reappear at the same time that she does!

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This next scene is on the jet plane that Helen Parr has been allowed to borrow in order to find her husband who has fallen into the hands of the villian, Syndrone. The children, Violet and her younger brother, Dash, have stowed away on the aircraft and are discovered by their mother here:

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Many crazy and amazing things happen until the happy end when life returns to normal

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and through a series of adventures together with her parents and brother she becomes a stronger person

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and becomes brave enough to speak to Tony Ridinger.

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Now that I am finished telling Violet's story, I would like to show some violet-coloured objects. First: Elisabet's flip-flops/bathing slippers.

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And here are some violet-coloured beads from my collection:

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Here is my son Erik hugging a lavender-coloured stuffed toy elephant, called 'Heffaclump'.

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Lovisa, the cat, sends purrs and kind regards, but does not want to appear on a Rainbow Summer School post for a third time. Since this is the end of the rainbow, I thought that I would do a quick button & bead rainbow review:

Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet

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Thanks for visiting!
Best wishes,
Anna

First Commenter:
Kelly of Design Ties



To visit other posts about the colour violet, please go to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site Off My Tangent for 'Alphabe-Thursday's Rainbow Summer School' - Rainbow VIOLET.





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H is for Happiness - Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's abc-Wednesday, round 7 - H

I am participating in Mrs. Denise Nesbitt's wonderful alphabet-theme-challenge, abc-Wednesday, Round 7. This week's letter is 'H'. My choice of H-word is 'Happiness', something that we are not always aware of that we have, until we lose it.

Happiness is in your hand,
As a pretty rock found in the sand,
Or sending bubbles to Wonderland.

Happiness is children's laughter,
Tiny flowers and running faster,
Fairy tales, so ever after.

Happiness is in your hand,
As two sets of footprints in the sand,
Come, make me happy, take my hand!

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Thanks for visiting!
Best wishes,
Anna

P.S.
Scroll down past the abcWed-logo
to find a Swedish version of this poem.

First Commenter:
Mrs. Denise Nesbitt

To see more posts with H-words in - H-posts, please visit ABC-Wednesday, Round 7 here.

This is my Swedish version/translation. (Now it's an L-word!):
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Lyckan ligger i din hand,
Vacker som en sten funnen i sand,
Eller bubblor sända till Samarkand.

Lyckan klingar med barnens skratt,
Lyser i ögonen på min katt,
Eller ligger och lurar i en sagoskatt

Lyckan ligger i din hand
Som två par fotspår tryckt i sand
Kom, gör mig lycklig. Tag min hand!

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Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus: Week 18 - It was a Dark and Stormy Night

Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus: Week 18 - (With an extra 100 words at the bottom of this post!)

This is a themed writing meme.

You can use UP to 100 words (not including the prompt) to tell your story. It can be fact or fiction. The only restrictions are: The prompt must be left intact AND you cannot split up the words in the prompt.

WEEK 18 PROMPT

It was a dark and stormy night.

It was a dark and stormy night. The lights went out, and I was alone with just my cat. The howling wind rattled and whistled through the old wood frame house. As if I were blind, I groped in the darkness to find the cupboard where I knew I kept the emergency flashlight, candles and matches. Lightning flashed and I saw that the cupboard was bare. Who has done* this? I asked myself as thunder roared outside. The cat meowed loudly out of fright, and I turned around and saw...

Best wishes,
Anna

P.S. Scroll down to another 100 words!

First Commenter: Terra of
sittingonanoak

*P.S. Sorry about my verb forms!

By popular demand, I am writing 100 more words:

...the glare of headlights. I could see them through the kitchen window. Someone is coming up the drive. Who could that be? At two in the morning? My nearest neighbours live miles from here. I heard a car engine stop. My cat weaved nervously around my ankles. I heard footfalls first crunching on the gravel drive and then on the wooden porch. The door bell was not working. Someone rapped mightily on the old wooden screen door. As my kitty hopped up and perched on my shoulders digging her claws into my knitted woolen sweater, I called, 'Who is it?'

'The Rest of the Story' - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week # 17

WEEK 17 ASSIGNMENT: Take any other SC stories (yours or someone elses) and using ANOTHER 100 WORDS...tell us the "rest of the story". Please copy and paste the first story so we can read both entries easily. So... A 100 word story that tells the rest of any previous Saturday Centus!

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Saturday Centus-Week 16
(Written Sunday August 22nd, 2010)
'What I did over my Summer Vacation'

Summer in the North is short and intense. I longed for it all winter. But when summer finally arrived, I whiled away the hours, days and weeks watching snow drops turn into tulips and daffodils, then lilies, peonies and roses. Now I see sunflowers as I pass my neighbors' gardens.

The once light nights are again black and starry. Tomorrow is the children's first day at school. And I feel sad. Next Wednesday is the first of September, and it usually feels as if a shade is pulled down over the golden light of summer. Splendor is brief.

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I have a confession to make. Several commenters liked the image 'snow drops turn into tulips etc.', and took for granted that 'snow drops' meant literary drops of frozen water falling from the sky in the form of white flakes in winter. 'Snow drops' here, is me simply being very lazy and not bothering to look up what these very early white flowers are called. 'Snow drops' are called 'snowdrops' (Galanthus) in English; the first spring flowers that come up when there is still snow on the ground.
I am not so creative, as lazy, with a flawed English vocabulary.

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Best wishes,
Anna

To read other SC-posts for week 17, please go to this site.

First Commenter:
Ann of
Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap

Indigo - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday - Rainbow Summer School - Rainbow Indigo

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Today is Thursday and time to link with Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday Rainbow Summer School. This week's colour is RAINBOW INDIGO. I have a problem with Indigo because I don't think that it is the right colour to be placed between blue and violet/purple. I agree with Prof. O. N. Rood, who writes in the article below that ultramarine would be a better choice for a blue on its way to being violet.

My first photo is a close up of a cat collar that is nylon and has a bright ultramarine blue hue. Then I would like to show some beads that are different hues: violet, purple, ultramarine, indigo and blue:

Here are some of my collection of blue-ultramarine-violet glass beads

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The following text is retrived from Wikipedia

Newton denoted by the name of "indigo" the tint of the spectrum lying between "blue" and "violet." Von Bezold, in his work on color, rejects the term, justifying his objection by observing that the pigment indigo is a much darker hue than the spectrum tint. Prof. O. N. Rood, who follows Von Bezold in rejecting the term, brings forward the further objection that the tint of the pigment indigo more nearly corresponds in hue (though it is darker) with the cyan-blue region lying between green and blue. By comparing the tints of indigo pigment, both dry and wet, with the spectrum, and by means of Maxwell’s disks, it appears that the hue of indigo is almost identical with that of Prussian blue, and certainly does not lie on the violet side of "blue." Indigo in the dry lump, if scraped, has, however, a more violet tint; but if fractured or powdered, or dissolved, its tint is distinctly greenish. Prof. Rood considers that artificial ultramarine corresponds much more nearly to the true tint of the spectrum at the point usually termed "indigo," and he therefore proposes to substitute the term "ultramarine" in its place, the color of the artificial pigment being thereby intended.

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By popular demand, Lovisa the cat, has returned to help us figure out
which colour is best for this spot, indigo or ultramarine.

Thanks for visiting!
Best wishes,
Anna

First Commenter:
Rocky Mountain Woman


To visit other posts about the colour indigo, please go to Mrs. Jenny Matlock's site Off My Tangent for 'Alphabe-Thursday's Rainbow Summer School' - Rainbow Indigo.