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.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Center of The Swan Nebula Samsung Galaxy SIII Cover

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 Amazingly this could almost be some underwater scene with strange creatures swimming in the aquamarine waters. It's actually the centre of the Swan Nebula, or M17, a hotbed of newly born stars wrapped in colourful blankets of glowing gas and cradled in an enormous cold, dark hydrogen cloud. This stunning picture was taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The region of the nebula shown in this picture is about 3500 times wider than our Solar System. The area also represents about 60 percent of the total view captured by ACS. The nebula resides 5500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Like its famous cousin in Orion, the Swan Nebula is illuminated by ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars - each about six times hotter and 30 times more massive than our Sun.

The powerful radiation from these stars evaporates and erodes the dense cloud of cold gas within which the stars formed. The blistered walls of the hollow cloud shine primarily in the blue, green, and red light emitted by excited atoms of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur. Particularly striking is the rose-like feature, seen to the right of centre, which glows in the red light emitted by hydrogen and sulphur.
As the infant stars evaporate the surrounding cloud, they expose dense pockets of gas that may contain developing stars. Because these dense pockets are more resistant to the withering radiation than the surrounding cloud, they appear as sculptures in the walls of the cloud or as isolated islands in a sea of glowing gas. One isolated pocket is seen at the centre of the brightest region of the nebula and is about 10 times larger than our Solar System.

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Image credit: NASA, the ACS Science Team

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Zazzle Porcelian Pitcher from ValeriesGallery: White Rose

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A photograph of a beautiful white rose on a sunny day on a pitcher

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This pin has a rooster silhouette with a white eye and red heart surrounded by strips of red and black triangles forming white diamonds.

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Zazzle Card from marcia s.: Happy Valentine's Day, Floral, Red, Black,...

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Happy Valentine's Day, Floral, Red, Black, & White - This sophisticated Valentine's Day card has a red background with large black and white flowers and white text. Inside has white text on a matching red background. You can easily personalize the card. All Rights Reserved © 2015 Alan & Marcia Socolik

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This table runner is decorated with an image of a beautiful artistic, rustic wood carving in shades of brown, gold, mahogany and black. It is so realistic it looks almost three dimensional. A central abstract circular flower image has petals radiating out to a carved circle which is surrounded by four wooden sections. Each section has abstract leaf carvings. The image is so realistic it almost looks three dimensional!

Wood Carving Abstract Short Table Runner

Wood Carving Abstract Short Table Runner

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Zazzle Card from Bebops: Hairy Woodpecker Earth Day Card

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Easily customize the text on this Earth Day card which presents the male Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus). This striking bird has black and white feathers and a red patch on the back of his head. He is often confused with the Downy Woodpecker but he is larger with a much longer beak. Here he is on a suet feeder against a lovely blue sky.

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