<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025138133525819002</id><updated>2009-09-25T13:15:34.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lynda Cookson Links</title><subtitle type='html'>Links I strongly recommend ... just click the links and enjoy!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lyndacooksonlinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2025138133525819002/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lyndacooksonlinks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Paintings On Impulse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11624928018358787312</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025138133525819002.post-2216353763201431428</id><published>2008-08-04T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T03:03:15.995-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecademy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='images'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustrations'/><title type='text'>Links that are a must ..... just click the lilac links!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newirishart.com"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 26px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/So5wo7gMVFI/AAAAAAAAAvM/YhIwhaEpmYg/s320/bannEye4.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372355253969376338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;Personal recommendation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I cannot say enough good words about Tom and Alan at &lt;a href="http://www.newirishart.com/"&gt;www.NewirishArt.com&lt;/a&gt; ... they're professional and incredibly consistent with their high level of outreach to both artists and art markets; as either an artist in Ireland or an art collector world-wide, you cannot go wrong by working with &lt;a href="http://www.newirishart.com/"&gt;www.NewIrishArt.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It's a no-fuss art portal, all about &lt;em&gt;the art&lt;/em&gt;, and only about &lt;em&gt;the art&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here's their link :  &lt;a href="http://www.newirishart.com/"&gt;www.NewIrishArt.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bestblogs.org/"&gt;Blog Directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bestblogs.org/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bestblogs.org/blog_directory_BG.png" border="0" alt="Blog Directory" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJd0FDTvrlI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/9KjEL3KxxQ0/s1600-h/LCsignatureinverted72dpi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 99px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJd0FDTvrlI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/9KjEL3KxxQ0/s320/LCsignatureinverted72dpi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230777122350411346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Please join me on &lt;a href="http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=148216"&gt;Ecademy - the most incredible profile building platform!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an international forum not at all like FaceBook or the likes. Here you'll find business people as friends and colleagues, boosting your business and always ready for an interesting conversation .... you choose the subject. An excellent networking tool which I can vouch for. I have made sales and contacts worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=148216"&gt;Lynda Cookson on Ecademy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwS9AVBtI/AAAAAAAAAc4/5mY808IBLYk/s1600-h/PurpleBowlOfSunshine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 68px; height: 93px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwS9AVBtI/AAAAAAAAAc4/5mY808IBLYk/s320/PurpleBowlOfSunshine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772963130017490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwNiRvVFI/AAAAAAAAAcw/8A3t3_JzqQc/s1600-h/LeopardPawsAbstract.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwNiRvVFI/AAAAAAAAAcw/8A3t3_JzqQc/s320/LeopardPawsAbstract.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772870055941202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwafq8PtI/AAAAAAAAAdA/-YlL5gK1pBA/s1600-h/StPatsPosy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwafq8PtI/AAAAAAAAAdA/-YlL5gK1pBA/s320/StPatsPosy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230773092694638290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwIKVmuiI/AAAAAAAAAco/XM9-JDnGZlI/s1600-h/flamingo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwIKVmuiI/AAAAAAAAAco/XM9-JDnGZlI/s320/flamingo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772777730357794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I have a gallery of images - both illustrations and photographs - do have a look ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Purchase from my &lt;a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search.php?q%5Buid%5D=Lynda%20Cookson&amp;amp;q%5Bao%5D=1"&gt;Stock Image library on Big Stock Photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdv6i26hNI/AAAAAAAAAcY/U_tP22s3cJI/s1600-h/DolphinAbstract.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdv6i26hNI/AAAAAAAAAcY/U_tP22s3cJI/s320/DolphinAbstract.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772543794349266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwAwYgdeI/AAAAAAAAAcg/tBEkbvk21tY/s1600-h/AStepUp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdwAwYgdeI/AAAAAAAAAcg/tBEkbvk21tY/s320/AStepUp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772650504123874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdv0ZxzytI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/XfJ6fEgTwZw/s1600-h/Celebrate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 79px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdv0ZxzytI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/XfJ6fEgTwZw/s320/Celebrate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230772438277802706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdyDCqox2I/AAAAAAAAAdI/1tsyGDEmpQo/s1600-h/CountryBus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SJdyDCqox2I/AAAAAAAAAdI/1tsyGDEmpQo/s320/CountryBus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230774888794998626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=7wBaTuIrwK"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/images/bsp-headleft.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=7wBaTuIrwK"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=7wBaTuIrwK"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Unlimited Images  ......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=7wBaTuIrwK"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stock Photos, Search and Download Now!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/cooksoninirel-%2021"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 157px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SZGBI6Q3QOI/AAAAAAAAAj0/oBRqz60KCAQ/s320/SIGNcroppeddownsized.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301160226470707426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/cooksoninirel-%2021"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/cooksoninirel-%2021"&gt;&lt;aves_div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;aves_span size="10pt"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/aves_span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/aves_div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Please take the time to browse through my three book and gift stores on Amazon.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My personal book store has literally hundreds of new and second-hand books for sale.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please click here : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/shops/storefront/index.html?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&amp;amp;sellerID=A1YLFWEMQKD3ZK"&gt;Chapman Loney and Cookson Publishers at Amazon&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazon gift central is here : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/gift-central?tag=cooksonbusine-%2020"&gt;Amazon.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My personal selection of popular titles : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/cooksoninirel-%2021"&gt;Amazon.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then, of course, there's new technology! &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?tag=cooksonbusine-20"&gt;The Kindle wireless e-book reader.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperpack, the new Kindle has seven times more storage and now holds over 1,500 books. It has a longer battery life and faster page turns. An advanced display provides even crisper images and clearer text for an improved book-like reading experience. And Kindle 2 even reads to you, with “Read to Me”, our new Text to Speech feature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?tag=cooksonbusine-20"&gt;With Kindle 2 we kept everything readers love about the original Kindle&lt;/a&gt;—the convenience of reading what you want, when you want it, the immediacy of getting a book wirelessly delivered in less than 60 seconds, and Kindle’s ability to “disappear” in your hands so you can get lost in the author’s words. We’re also excited to announce that the Kindle Store has over 230,000 ebooks available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?tag=cooksonbusine-20"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 163px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/SZGHQ0jFQfI/AAAAAAAAAkE/gpFb5HwCP5E/s320/earths-biggest-selection-450px._V251249388_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301166959445230066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?tag=cooksonbusine-20"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI?tag=cooksonbusine-20"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family:arial;"&gt;POSTERS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="APCAnchor" href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?AID=264087809&amp;amp;PSTID=4&amp;amp;LTID=16&amp;amp;lang=1"&gt;Buy Posters at AllPosters.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spain-internet.com/"&gt;Spain Internet Directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artinprint.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Irish Artists Links Network&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.artinprint.com/"&gt;www.artinprint.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This website presents a comprehensive list of Irish artists' &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; websites. For art lovers, it offers an exciting way to view art, learn about the artists and if desired, arrange to visit their studios or galleries and buy their work, often at a considerable saving.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The website owner, Brian McCarthy, has, for many years, been  a stalwart supporter of Irish arts.  An artist himself, it is a more than worthwhile trip to click the link and surf his personal website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Here's a really great Irish website to visit :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hidden-dublin.com/"&gt;www.hidden-dublin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's an alternative Dublin guide for tourists, written by a native. It is not intended to be a comprehensive tourist review but somewhere to find the best expert information about alternative Dublin. It contains detailed information and advice about Dublin's attractions, people, history, transport, music, culture, sport and night life. Additionally, you will find Irish facts, trivia, links and sayings. Join the free newsletter and get advice on hotels and B&amp;amp;Bs with a monthly acommodation update including an exclusive topical article and occasional features about fun tips and advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2025138133525819002-2216353763201431428?l=lyndacooksonlinks.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lyndacooksonlinks.blogspot.com/feeds/2216353763201431428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2025138133525819002&amp;postID=2216353763201431428' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2025138133525819002/posts/default/2216353763201431428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2025138133525819002/posts/default/2216353763201431428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lyndacooksonlinks.blogspot.com/2008/08/please-join-me-on-ecademy-most.html' title='Links that are a must ..... just click the lilac links!'/><author><name>Paintings On Impulse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11624928018358787312</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07749826202944849731'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q7ob_5ehlIE/So5wo7gMVFI/AAAAAAAAAvM/YhIwhaEpmYg/s72-c/bannEye4.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>