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A Love-fest of TheRaggedEdge's Favourite Activities, Websites, People and Places.


A completely self-absorbed page about all the lovely stuff that thrills and inspires me. I have added links to all the pages I've made around my favourite things. Join in the gorgeousness by adding your comments below.

I joined Squidoo in July 2009 and was very quickly assimilated :-) Building lenses on subjects that I love is totally absorbing to me, and, being able to make money out of one of my favourite hobbies - writing - is an added bonus. I have become more adventurous in my writing, have made lots of new friends, won several awards for my pages and gained tons of confidence. If you want to join the Squidoo fun, click HERE.

Right at the bottom of the page you'll find a list of my other Squidoo pages, where you will find even more deliciousness... there's kids, food, books, tarot, art, people, places, "I hate housework" and even hairy men!

10 Things To Make YOU Happy!

Ten Practical Actions You Can Take to Make Yourself Happy.

Simple, straightforward and to the point. Take one, or more, of these small but practical actions to make your life happier and more fulfilling. Try it and see the difference a day can make.
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My kids

Three of my own, a gorgeous daughter-in-law and two wonderful steps.

I live my life with appreciation...

and delicious anticipation...

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One of my favourite photos

This photo of my scrumptious daughter lifts my heart every time I see it. A great friend used it to create an oil painting and even added a unicorn for a extra magical touch. I love the way that light seems to emanate from her - she glows!

Homeschooling

Or Home-education, autonomous learning, unschooling, whatever you want to call it.

Almost (but not quite) everyday I thank the gods that we chose this path. We educate at home in a completely free and eay way. Allowing the kids to follow their own interests and make their own choices in what they learn. It's all a bit higgledy-piggledy and haphazard but we can see how this organic way of developing will eventually result in two young adults who can think and act independently.

Some days I would love to be able to bundle them off to school but that feeling doesn't last long :-) Actually I'd be happy to bundle myself off to school.


Teach Your Own:
The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Homeschooling our way

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I love Tarot

I have around 50 decks. I have been reading professionally for about 9 years although I don't do so much these days. I love to gaze at cards and simply immerse myself in their exquisiteness. My current (and has been for a long time now) favourite is the Revelations Tarot.

The deck artist/creator Zack Wong, has managed to incorporate a very original take on reversals; the upside down images are very revealing.

Zack Wong's stunning artwork


Revelations Tarot

My favourite tarot decks

and other tarot pages

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The Beach

Dunraven Bay, Southerndown

We enjoy our trips to the beach. This is our local one. It's not my best beach (that would be Porthpean in Cornwall where my mother took me when I was a kid - remember how the sun used to shine in the summer then?).

Wales

I love Wales!

Although I wasn't born in Wales, I have spent a very long time here and have fallen in love with this quirky little principality. I love the Welsh countryside, the beaches, the people and their matchless sense of humour! I love the food, the sunshine, the rain and the mountains. I love the forests and the footpaths, the traditions and the village I live in. I love that my children have such a rich heritage to tap into - wherever they are in the world.

Late Night Brynna

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Coffee

Mmm... iced-coffee

I love coffee; ground, instant, I don't care. My most favourite way to drink it at the moment is 'cold brewed'. You end up with an extra-strength coffee concentrate that you can keep in the fridge. It has none of the harshness you often get with conventionally brewed coffee. You can add water to it, heat it and make normal coffee; you can use it in recipes and, of course, you can whizz it up with a little syrup, some cream and ice-cubes to make the best, smoothest iced-coffee ever.

Get a great cold brewed coffee method/recipe here: One Particular Kitchen

Best Coffee Recipes

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I love to cook

... but I have to be in the right mood

I enjoy cooking when it's a creative process. I rarely follow recipes without adapting them, adding to them or changing them in some way. My favourite kind of cooking is exploring new flavours in casseroles and slow-cooked meals. I love real, traditional ingredients too... such as butter. How could anyone choose those plastic spreads over the real, melting, golden creaminess of proper butter from proper cows?

I can't bake to save my life though :-(
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My ongoing art journal

I love to play with paint and crayons and collage and pens.... when I get the chance. These are pics of my current project... I decided to prep all the pages with watercolour washes, pastel and collage before using it as a regular journal. At present I am working on the backs, or facing pages, with wash and Zentangle borders.

What's a Zentangle? Click here

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I Love my Fabric Journals

These quilted covers are so easy to make!

When you want something relaxing to do, these fabric journals are the perfect way to zone out. I use glorious Kaffe Fassett fabrics and hand stitch each one into sweet little pillows, which are then quilted and sewn together. They don't take long to make and all you need to do is sew in your choice of paper and you have a completely unique journal... or, if you are like me, a whole collection of them. They make fantastic gifts too!

FABRIC JOURNALS

My Art Journal Lenses

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Zentangles are here:

Creating Zentangles and listening to music or a radio play is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable ways to spend half an hour or even a whole wet Sunday afternoon. Anyone can do it and you only need a pencil, pen and some paper. Check out my lens on how to start. Update: "How to Zentangle" was awarded a Purple Star of Excellence on January 8 2010 and Lens of the Day on January 10 2010

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Latest Zentangle Page: THE DOODLE
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I love to write!

Writing





I blog, journal, write short stories, articles, Squidoo lenses, reviews... all kinds of writing. Using the right tools is very important to me so I have a collection of various software and resources to help me indulge my urge to write.
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Things That Make Me Happy!

The Blog

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Mr Ragged Edge

I love my man!

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Incidentally, I am *not* in that photo!
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I love my friends

I just don't like them much the morning after!

The Worst Hangover Ever
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I love magic!

Not the conjuring sort - though that can be pretty cool - the everyday sort. The coincidences, the synchronicities, the many evidences of Law of Attraction and the magic in a child's smile. I love knowing that I can make it happen; enhance it; bring it to me and use it to make my life even better. I love to see magic in nature and in humans as they change and grow and mature. I love to see it in my cats; their magical abilities are clearly in evidence as they always get exactly what they want in the moment.

Sparkles


Photo courtesy of Dawnzy58
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I love reading

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I Love Music!

Especially Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam

One of my favourite bands. Can't believe they are so young! Shame in a way... I can't really be a groupie to a band younger than my son. I would if could!

Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam come from a small island in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man. It sits in the middle of the Gulf Stream between Ireland, Scotland and Wales so their rockin' blues is occasionally influenced by Celtic rock.

This is a live performance of their brilliant "Come Home". Go on... play it and see if you don't want to be a Davy Knowles groupie too!

Visit the lens below to read more.
DAVY KNOWLES & BACK DOOR SLAM "Come Home" - live
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Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam

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Do you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard professor Gilbert reveals his take on how our minds work, and how the limitations of our imaginations may be getting in the way of our ability to know what happiness is. Sound quirky and interesting? It is!

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"Packed with fascinating facts about the science of happiness and rich examples of how she improves her life through changes small and big The Happiness Project made me happier by just reading it." (Amy Scribner, Bookpage).

Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things that Make Me Happy 

Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things that Make Me Happy

Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things that Make Me Happy

by: Scott Menchin

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Feeling blue, and stumped as to what might cheer her up, a girl (called Sweet Pea by her mother) poses the question What makes you happy? to a fanciful array of characters. In his authorial debut, illustrator Menchin (Bounce) cheerily portrays the youngster and respondents in ink and watercolor spreads against pastel backdrops. Sweet Pea's own dog, dressed in a shower cap and carrying a rubber ducky, replies Taking a bath!, while a rabbit likes to run on a hamster wheel (who knew?) and a woman with a nest of squiggly red hair indulges in adorning it with myriad bows and clips. A droll sense of humor is evident as well: an elderly man perches next to a tree stump, stating that he enjoys counting, while a dapper gentleman on a park bench demonstrates his love of stripes with a comically clashing outfit-and a striped tabby on a leash. Sweet Pea (who herself begins to smile about halfway through her informal survey) gradually realizes that many things make her happy and, in a rebus-like spread, she catalogues more than 20 things that do just that, including bake cookies with faces, stick finger puppets on my toes, slurp spaghetti and swim at night. This will likely inspire youngsters who are in a funk to seek joy in the unexpected as well as in the perfectly ordinary. Ages 4-8.

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