Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Forever in our hearts

A beautiful girl was born on this day, and was taken from us too soon.
Sad are the hearts that loved you,
sad are the tears that fall,
But living our lives without you,
is the saddest part of all.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

A blazing sky

As the saying goes...
Pink sky at night
sailors delight
Pink sky in the morning
sailor take warning......


Oh am I ever so happy this was an evening sky. This has been the craziest winter I can ever recall. I was on the telephone and happen to walk to the window, and I couldn't believe the colors I was seeing. The sky was ablaze with colors. There was a strip of turquoise blue that didn't show in the photos, and was the prettiest color sky ever.
These photos were taken January 6th at around 5:00 P.M. And I will say the following day was a warm January day.
Hope your 2012 is off to a wonderful start.
Hugs,
Ellen
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Meet Miss Brigly

This Miss Brigly. She belongs to my sister in law Mary. I had the pleasure of dog sitting last week while Mary was on a cruise. This lil one is 8 months old and full of fun.  I was very surprised to have been able to get such a great photo shoot. I had printed and framed some of Brigly's photos and placed them in Marys home as a welcome home.... This is her second Yorkie. It almost made me want to get a puppy, but I can always visit Brigly as she lives next door.

This is Brigly's "sit pretty"

she loves her toys

I nick named her Wigly Brigly

this is a chew bone, she carries them around almost every moment she's awake

 
Oh she loves loves taking a bath.

I just love the way she takes her little paws and holds her chew bone.





Hugs,
Ellen
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Beaded ornaments

Beaded ornaments

My 50th Birthday banner my sister made for my surprise party


Hedda Hopper


Birth:

May 2, 1890
Death:

Feb. 1, 1966
Actress, Journalist. Despite a 23 year career that encompassed over 120 motion picture appearances and chorus girl roles on Broadway to motion pictures, she is best remembered for her newspaper column and radio show that focused exclusively on Hollywood gossip, a subject she was able to tell more about to her audience due to her Hollywood insider status. Born Elda Furry in Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, she left school to act on Broadway. In 1913 she married marquee star William DeWolfe, a man who was 32 years her senior. They had one son, and divorced in 1922, but she kept his name for the rest of her life (and changed her name to Hedda on the advice of a numerologist). In 1931 she began “The Hedda Hopper Show”, which initially ran as a 15 minute gossip show mostly devoted to Hollywood marriages and divorces. Enormously popular, it ran until 1951, and on the strength of its popularity she started the “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” column in the Los Angeles Times in 1938. She steadily gained a reputation for exposing tidbits about the lives of Hollywood figures, and created a character of herself in her own right, especially in regard to her vast collection of sometimes outrageous hats, and a long standing feud with rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons. With the advent of television’s popularity in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he radio show waned, but she herself became a staple of television programs and game shows, being a frequent panelist on “What’s My Line?’, and appear on shows like “I Love Lucy”, “The Colgate Variety Hour” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”. In 1960 she received the Journalistic Merit award, and published her autobiography “The Whole Truth and Nothing But!”, which recapped her over 20 years or being an Hollywood insider. She died in Los Angeles of double pneumonia in 1966, working right up until her passing. As a Hollywood icon, she created a number of friends and enemies; she gave harsh advice to actress Ida Lupino, which helped her gain recognizable part, but was despised by actress Joan Bennett, who once sent her a skunk. In 1985 a movie about the feud between her and Parsons was released as “Malice in Wonderland”, which Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper and Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons