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Thursday 21 June 2012

Times2Style: BBloggers Unite: Red Carpet Make Up Challenge

Times2Style: BBloggers Unite: Red Carpet Make Up Challenge: For this make up look I wanted to keep it low key but at the same time bold and glamorous. I used browns and gold for my eyes and a b...

loopysos: Casual Outfit ft Orange Circle Co

loopysos: Casual Outfit ft Orange Circle Co: T-shirt:  Orange Circle Co Jeans: TK MAXX Floral Plimsolls: Primark Anchor Studs: Forever 21 Hello Kitty Necklace: gift...

loopysos: 99p Store Shocked Me

loopysos: 99p Store Shocked Me: Was in town, whilst getting things that was on my To Get List, thought I go in 99p store to buy some batteries, however I ended coming out o...

Sunday 17 June 2012

Happy Father's Day - How it all Started

Happy Father's Day to all Dads                                  

Many scholars believe that Father's Day is almost 4,000 years old and can be traced back to Babylon when a young boy called Elmesu carved Father's Day wishes on a card made from clay - wishing his father good health and a long life.

However, Father's Day as we know it today, was actually inspired by a woman - Mrs John B Dodd of Spokane, Washington in 1909.   Her mother died in childbirth and her father was left to raise 6 children and so grateful was she, she wanted a day to celebrate fathers.   She even dedicated a flower for Father's Day - the rose.   Red roses for living fathers and white roses for fathers who have died.

She began circulating petitions and within a year, Spokane agreed to honour fathers on the 3rd Sunday in June.   Cities and towns across the USA also began to celbrate Father's Day too.

In 1924, President Coolidge supported the idea of Father's Day and in 1966, President Johnson declared Father's Day a national holiday and it was made official by President Nixon in 1972.

Now Father's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world - a day for children (of all ages) to thank their fathers and pay tribute to them.