We are surrounded with the practical necessities of what we need to survive and enrich our lives. I really feel we should try to include beauty in the mix! I decided to create a blog featuring a variety of practical yet beautiful and joyful articles to live with. Many of them can be customized with your personal names and sayings.

Using my original photographs and designs I have created so many products for my online stores, Bebop's Place and Bebop's Weddings, and want to share them here. I am also constantly amazed at the fantastic products available from the rest of the Zazzle community and plan to showcase some of them as well. I am hoping viewers, in discovering this blog, will enjoy and possibly purchase some of these lovely items.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

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A gorgeous outer space lamp design from HightonRidley showing our universe in all its beauty. How would it look with your initials? Click to personalize and find out...


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Just over a thousand years ago, the stellar explosion known as supernova SN 1006 was observed. It was brighter than Venus, and visible during the day for weeks. The brightest supernova ever recorded on Earth, this spectacular light show was documented in China, Japan, Europe, and the Arab world.
Ancient observers were treated to this celestial fireworks display without understanding its cause or implications. Astronomers now understand that SN 1006 was caused by a white dwarf star that captured mass from a companion star until the white dwarf became unstable and exploded. Recent observations of the remnant of SN 1006 reveal the liberation of elements such as iron that were previously locked up inside the star. Because no material falls back into a neutron star or black hole after this type of supernova explosion, the liberation of this star's contents is complete. It represents, therefore, a cosmic version of Independence Day for this star.
This is a composite image of the SN 1006 supernova remnant, which is located about 7000 light years from Earth. Shown here are X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical data from the University of Michigan's 0.9 meter Curtis Schmidt telescope at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO; yellow) and the Digitized Sky Survey (orange and light blue), plus radio data from the NRAO's Very Large Array and Green Bank Telescope (VLA/GBT; red).
This combined study of the Chandra, CTIO and VLA/GBT observations shows new evidence for the acceleration of charged particles to high energies in supernova shockwaves. An accompanying Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1006 shows a close-up of the region on the upper right of the supernova remnant. The twisting ribbon of light seen by Hubble reveals where the expanding blast wave is sweeping into very tenuous surrounding gas.
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Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/G.Cassam-Chenaï, J.Hughes et al.; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/GBT/VLA/Dyer, Maddalena & Cornwell; Optical: Middlebury College/F.Winkler, NOAO/AURA/NSF/CTIO Schmidt & DSS

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Zazzle Premium Jumbo Shortbread Cookie from TLC Graphix: Sports Baseba...

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This beautiful Merry Christmas gift bag features a green, white, grey and red baseball and is great for a ball player. Whether they like to hit, pitch, catch or coach. If they love to bat and hit the ball, run the bases and slide home this sports design is for them. Great kids, teens, womens or men's sports athlete gift bag for a baseball player, fan or coach. #ribbon #baseball #christmas #gift

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Zazzle Placemat from Bebops: Field of Grain Laminated Placemat

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This decorative laminated placemat presents a scenic summer landscape of a field of ripening gold, brown and yellow grain, almost ready to harvest. The stalks are blowing in the wind to form a lovely abstract pattern.

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Zazzle Placemat from Bebops: St. Croix Alley Laminated Placemat

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This decorative laminated placemat features an adaptation of a fine art painting of a small street in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, by the American artist, Anna Unterman. The bright, sunny scene is a riot of colors. There is a red, pink and magenta bougainvillea vine over the archway as well as orange flame vines and other green shrubs and leaves. The colorful buildings are yellow, gold, blue and green. Reprinted with permission from the estate of Anna Unterman. All rights reserved.

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Zazzle Placemat from Bebops: Sunflower Abstract Laminated Placemat

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This placemat will bring brightness and cheer to your dining! Three brilliantly colored sunflowers are illuminated by the sunlight streaming through the petals. The flowers display a gorgeous palette of gold, yellow, orange, red and brown. The blue sky completes this composition of color and form.

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Zazzle Placemat from Bebops: Hanukkah Menorah Laminated Placemat

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This joyful laminated placemat celebrates the Festival of lights, also known as Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or the Feast of Dedication. It is an eight day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem by Judas Maccabee at the time of the Maccabean Revolt. The festival is observed by the kindling of the candles of a unique candelabrum, the nine branched Menorah or Hanukiah, one additional candle on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night. The extra light is called a shamash whose purpose is to have a light available for use, as using the Hanukkah lights themselves is forbidden.

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