ARTS AND MINIATURES: A gentle gift from Australia

domingo, 27 de junho de 2010

A gentle gift from Australia

This week I received a very gentle gift from Australia. Norma from - http://www.makeminemini.blogspot.com/, wished to send me some souvenirs for my grandchildren (one of them has two months). When I opened the parcel I was delighted with the contents, thank you Norma, I apreciated your gift so much, and the little koualas are amazing.

6 comentários:

Merry Jingle27 de junho de 2010 às 14:17
What an wonderful give, Norma is such a sweetheart :)
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Norma Bennett27 de junho de 2010 às 16:47
It was quite a challenge to think of how to reciprocate the kindness of an accomplished miniature artist until I though that instead of sending minis for you I could send something FOR YOUR MINIS - your mini grandchildren that is :)

I was happy to find the little dish decorated with Australian wildflowers so that their Grandmother wasn't left 'empty handed' in spite of instructions not to send anything for you ;) I never was very good at doing as I'm told - but I think that with just a small thing I can only be in small trouble ;)
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Glenda27 de junho de 2010 às 20:43
What a fun package!! Norma is so kind and generous!!
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Ascension28 de junho de 2010 às 03:37
Enhorabuena!!!
Todo es precioso, me encanta su trabajo, soy seguidora suya.
besitos ascension
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Ana28 de junho de 2010 às 07:51
Thank you Ira, Glenda and Ascension.
Norma really your dish with wild Australian flowers is also precious, and I realized it was for me, thank you very much.
Ana
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Jo Raines29 de junho de 2010 às 18:56
Norma is such a sweet person! I know you will cherish these little gifts for your grand's!

Jody
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Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

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HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.