Showing posts with label blog award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog award. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

I feel very honored....

that Rae Lynne, of Drip Drip Drop, would select me to honor with this award! Thank you so much. Check out Rae Lynne's blog for inspiring knitting and sewing and two very adorable children. I've been on the receiving end of a swap package from Rae Lynne and I use, almost daily, the needle case and notions case she made for me. My granddaughter uses the blanket she sent me to nap with. Rae Lynne is a wonderful mom as well as an inspirational part of the itty bitty group on ravelry.





The purpose of this award is to share 5 enjoyable blogs with under 200 followers with the blogging world.



So here are my nominations: (I would definitely have picked Rae Lynne's as one, as well as several that she already listed.)




Mari has a passion. A passion for her family, for orphans, for missions, for her home. She shares that passion willingly and in a way that any great author captivates. She is inspiring.




What can I say? She's my daughter. I love her family content, I love her knitting and what ever else she accomplishes. I encourage her to keep her blog and I love reading anytime she posts which is not enough but given her life with 3 children and a full time job and her church work, I'll take it when it comes. And there is a new little one one the way in their family which is definitely blog notable!



I've been reading Elizabeth's blog I think since I found the blog world. Her blog is always upbeat, full of love for God first and her family second. But her joy comes from both and it radiates from her blog. She does some wonderful reading critiques, recipe sharing, as well as creating cards and knitting and sewing. Her blog: http://texasjoy.blogspot.com/







Do you sense a theme with the first three?



Blue Garter is a local lady. While we probably wouldn't be found in the same social circles, or even knitting circles, her knitting is inspiring. Especially now that she has a little one to knit for. She also has a flair for writing and photography. A teacher before she became a Mom so that explains alot. Her blog: http://www.bluegarter.org/




Along the lines of the yarn harlot, Toni makes knitting and sewing fun and funny. Her goals are amazing (no knitting for fun here) and she attains them! Seriously, she loves to knit and sew but her witty sarcasasm at a broken machine, hurt back, yarn stash that attacks, and sewing projects with trouble written all over them gives me pause at times. http://yarnontheside.blogspot.com/

If you read blogs and haven't met these, give them a read. I think you'll be hooked or needled (pun intended). And definitely check out Rae Lynne's blog: http://www.rlchase.blogspot.com/



You will be inspired by her knitting and her family. (there is that theme again)


In keeping with the family theme, let me give you a glimpse of the end of my day today:
My husband just worked a 10 hour day at a job he mostly dislikes. It's the end of his work week. He doesn't like to read. And yet, here he is. I've already read them 7 stories and yet they clamor for more and he obliges. Any wonder why I love this guy? And why they are excited when he gets home?





Thank you again Rae Lynne! I'm sure we'll be "talking" soon in the chatty itty bitty group.



Now I'm off to knit something since the scrapbooking isn't staring at me and making me feel guilty. I'd like to cast on something for a baby but I'll resist and work on some WIPs. Maybe I'll have some wonderful knitting to show like those that inspire me.

Please excuse the spacing. I have edited this post numerous times to remove the extra spacing to no avail.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Aw, shucks...an award...me???




I've been given an award by: http://katididscreations.blogspot.com/
I'm honored! Sheepishly grinning, red cheeks in embarassment, slight shy head tilt, and "aw shucks, thanks".

So without further ado, I accept this award by doing the following:

1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award.
2) Share "ten honest things" about myself.
3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me
4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it.

Thank you Katidids!

In all honesty:

1-I am an introvert, thus the blog and email. I don't do well at chit chat face to face with people that aren't very close. I usually wind up inserting my foot in my mouth. The blog and email have delete keys.
2-I don't play nice when it comes to my family. I don't share well and the green eyed monster rears it's ugly head too often. I can say all I want about their supposed faults but no one else can. And you step on 'em and you're toast.
3-I tend to "over think" things, as my son (in law) so lovingly (I'm sure it was lovingly) put it. I dwell and I vent and my husband, bless him, is where I blow the steam, or my daughter. Sorry to both of them except they both take me to task if it goes on too long.
4-I don't accept that life isn't fair very well.
5-I spend too much money that my husband works too hard for.
6-I don't put my husband first all of the time.
7-I hate to shop except in yarn stores, book stores, or fabric stores.
8-I don't like to leave home.
9-I don't practice hospitality, except when forced by my husband and I'm always glad I did but I sweat it out for days before the event.10-I'm usually late because I make a list of must get dones that take longer than I allot for or I get sidetracked...on ravelry or blogs or facebook!
I don't sound like a very nice person do I? The upside is we all have our foibles and only through my faith in Jesus Christ do I have any hope of turning these from negatives to positives.

Now for 7 others to share honestly:
I gotta work on this list!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Me? An Award? Thank you very much

I got notice today I got an award! Wow! I blog because I enjoy it and I've met some really neat people in the blog world. One such neat person is Gail of http://mooselovingmamabear.blogspot.com/ who bestowed this award. Check out her blog, it's great fun!
So, since I got this award, the next step is to:
1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate 10 other blogs
4. Add links to those blogs on yours
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

So here goes, the blogs I'm nominating are:
Christina: http://chrissmarie5.blogspot.com/ because she's got some of the cutest kids I know and they are such fun! (I can say that since they are my grandmunchkins!) Oh, and she's a great crocheter too!
Katidids: http://katididscreations.blogspot.com/ A fun blog to read! Beautiful knitting! Cute grandsons and she shares her family.
Elizabeth: http://texasjoy.blogspot.com/ A fairly new blog to me but one I enjoy reading. Her granddaughter is pretty cute too.
Wool Windings: http://woolwindings.blogspot.com/ I've been reading her blog for awhile. It was one of the first I started following. Her charity knitting is inspiring. And she fishes which is near and dear to my heart since I'm married to a fisherman.
Rebecca Jo: http://rebecca-belle.blogspot.com/ Another "new to me" blog but I enjoy reading. Uplifting Christian blog and she has some great fun with teens.
Penny: http://pennyknits.blogspot.com/ She knits for her grandchildren and posts her creations regularly. Need I say more?
Saundra: http://fibroknits.blogspot.com/ Inspirational charity knitting, despite suffering from fibromyalgia (sp?) and inspirational.
Passing Down Crazy: http://passingdowncrazy.wordpress.com/ Great fun to read and great knitting.
Theresa: http://stitchesofgrace.blogspot.com/ Her blog is devotional in content many times and worthy of reading.

I don't think that's ten but I'll work on that. I like reading my niece's blogs as well but one of them is locked so I won't nominate it. Now I've got to let these people know and get busy today. Those quiet books are not sewing themselves and the exercise machine isn't moving itself either...wish it would! And I've been wasting far too much time on Facebook. I'm off of it now and will stick with my blog and ravelry. That's enough!