I won an award!

SweetJeanette awarded me with this award. Thank you very much,Jeanette ,for honoring me with this award. The rules are to post the rules on your blog, link back to the person who honored you with the award, and pass the award on to 15 other blogs. Well, I feel awkward about award giving, sort of like the forwarding e-mails, so I am naming some of my favorite blogs to give them bloggy love and let people have the chance to visit them. If you are on the list you are welcome to grab the award for your blog. I just do not want to make anyone feel obligated.

1. Keeper of the Home
2. Moms the Word
3. Sew Mama Sew
4. Southern Savers
5. The Pleasures of Homemaking
6. Whatever
7. 50's Housewife
8. Homebody
9. The Pleated Poppy
10. Lil Blue Boo
11. Mustard Seed Creations
12. My Mama Made It
13. Our Creative Life
14. Fly Through Our Window
15. An Oregon Cottage

Awards

I have had two awards given to me in the last few days. I want to thank Michelle and Marva for thinking of me and honoring me with sending it my way. I am always so amazed at the friendships made through blogging and truly appreciate just having you both as friends. Be sure to check out these ladies. Michelle at Somerset Cottage gave me this Love Ya Blog Award.

Marva at Blessed Frugalness Times Two With Twins gave me this Thinker Award.

Taking a break

As you can tell I am taking a break this week from blogging. I am going to continue through the weekend because I just feel like all has been poured out and I need to refuel. Nothing major- just surrounded by a lot of unfinished projects, a home that needs cleaning and organizing, and a body that won't sleep through the night.




Julie at Blessed with Five honored me with the BFF(Best friend forever) award. What an honor to get an award and know that people that I have met through blogging are such good friends. Thanks Julie, you made my day. Visit Julie's blog to be entertained by her stories about her five kids and see the fabulous addition to their home that they are building. I get a little jealous looking at her lot on the lake. She has a boat, pool, lake, aaah! I love the water so I would feel right at home.

A Blogger Award

I woke up to an award on Saturday! It came all the way from New Zealand from http://romansmummy.blogspot.com/. Isn't it so cool to be able to be a part of things that go on half way around the world? Becky blogs about her life in New Zealand and her little boy is just adorable.

I would like to pass the award on to these great bloggers.
Meg at Whatever. Maybe I will be able to take fabulous photos of my kids if I watch her long enough. She reminds me to have fun with the kids. To let them make a mess. To find the small ways to bring joy to our lives.


Susie at Bienvenue gives me such great inspiration for projects. And, you have to check out her gardening shoes! They are as great as the high heel flippers without the zany quality.

Angie at Thrifty Florida Mamareminds me to keep chugging away at living a frugal life. She keeps us posted on the weekly store deals and isprires us to continue on even through house fires and setbacks.

Check out these ladies and leave them some bloggy love.

An Award!

I received this award today from both Tami and Muddin Thru Motherhood and Julie at Blessedwith5
. Tami is a stay at home mom of four precious kids. She shares her life and great store deals with all of us. Tami serves the Lord by going on mission trips and working where she can. Julie is a stay at home mom to five kids. She is also under construction at her house and shares all about her life with the kiddos. I think she has to get the comment award from me because she is always first to comment almost on every post. Both these ladies are great cheerleaders and great to have around.

I am passing on the award to these five bloggers:

Sandy at 4 Reluctant Entertainers I think I found a soul sister in Sandy. She shares my love of entertaining, but she is so much better than I am! She lives too far away to invite me over so I have to pretend. So, go pretend, too. She will show you what you would eat and how her table would look if you could have been there.

Mrs. Darling at Peter Pan and Family. Mrs. Darling has childhood experience of a large family and is a great storyteller. She seems so wise beyond her years. She and I are fighting the fat together and we are going to be skinny one day. She shares her life with her precious kids and all their adventures in Sherwood Forest. For some reason I picture Mrs. Darling talking with an English accent. Whether it is true or not I picture her and her family living down a lane with a fence and flowers. Oh, she has to have a front porch so she can serve me lemonade in the rocker.

Valerie Lea from Tennessee now in AL She lives about 30 minutes from me but I have never met her in person, just blog friends. She is absolutely gorgeous. We have kids of similar ages so really need to get together. She shares the greatest photos of her family and lately is getting all crafty on us. She seems like she would be so much fun to be around.

Melissa at Off the Wall is newer to blogging, but oh my, go check her out! She has a business and can paint anything. She faux paints and decorates for actual money! I am amazed at her treatment to make metal garage doors and regular shutters look like European wood doors and shutters. I get so much inspiration from her.

Connie at Laughter By Lakeside is one of my new finds in blogworld. She is an interior decorator that specializes in faux finishes. She shows photos of homes she has done and is fabulous at glazes and paint treatments. She lives on Smith lake and is so sweet she invited all of blogland over for the 4th of July. Check out her site because it will give you lots of inspiration on how you can mistreat walls and cabinets and mantels.