{"id":115,"date":"2010-02-04T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janelaverick.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:08:04","slug":"welcome-new-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janelaverick.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Welcome new readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favourite cartoon of the Bash Street Kids depicted the children waiting to greet their relief teacher, Eliza Take. On the playground they had spelled out a message in pebbles:<\/font><\/p>\n

           Welcome MissTake. <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

So whether you found me through Sandra\u2019s blogspot or the latest info on the Miniatura website, or any other way, welcome new reader, I hope you will find that time spent here isn\u2019t a mistake at all.<\/font><\/p>\n

The site, launched at autumn Miniatura \u201809 has been growing organically in response to reader requests. If you find something you want to share, the icons at the end of each article allow you to do so.  The entire content is written by me and all the pictures are made by me.  There is nothing second generation from anywhere else on the web.  Over in the shop, accessed by the shop button on the right, are my own original porcelain dolls and oil paintings each an individual that can be bought directly and securely from this site.  On the shop page you will find more buttons with permanent content about the art and how I perpetrate it.<\/font><\/p>\n

On this page the blog has been posted at least three times a week since I began but more often, more often.  So if you only check back twice a week do scroll down, there\u2019s heaps.  I\u2019m a writer, writing is what I do. The articles are also categorised, clicking on the categories on the right will get you to the bits you\u2019re most interested in.  It\u2019s worth checking \u2018uncategorised\u2019 because sometimes some idiot forgets to set the category.  You can\u2019t get the staff, you know.  <\/font><\/p>\n

I aim to use the World Wide Web to promote friendship, art and fun.  I hope you like all those things too.  If you do, welcome new reader, you\u2019re in the right place and not a MisTake at all. Unless you actually are called Miss Take, in which case bad luck in English, it probably means something else in another language.<\/font><\/p>\n

Years ago, when I was a teacher of seven year olds, I got married in the summer holiday and changed my name (to Laverick). I approached my new class, which was lined up by the classroom door, from the back of the line.  A famous teacher saying is: there is always one<\/strong> and he was at the front of the queue, facing away from me shouting \u2018Mrs Lavatory!  Mrs Lavatory!  Haha!  Mrs Lavatory!\u2019<\/font> so loudly that he didn\u2019t hear the rest of the queue fall silent as I passed.  It was an extreme joy to stand behind him for another minute before saying \u2018Yes?\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Golden moments \u2013 I hope you\u2019ll find many here.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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