How cool is this? My church friend, Eileen, the Artful Crafter, has been blogging seriously for more than three years. Now that I’ve gotten started again, she subscribed to receive my new blogs every day and now look!
She received an award this week and when she had to chose seven blogging friends to pass it to.
Thank you so much Eileen…what a nice surprise! Your record of over 1000 daily posts is one for most of us to admire and respect.
I’ve discovered some really wonderful thoughts and ideas in blogs, and have “met” some really terrific bloggers since I recreated my blog this year.
I hope you’ll take a look at some of these sites and browse through some of the wise, wonderful and beautiful things these folks are writing and achieving.
Now in return for receiving the award I have to do the same seven things Eileen just did:
1. Post the image of the award – Here it is– isn’t it pretty?
2. Thank the person who gave it to me – I’ve sent that email.
3. Link to the person who gave it to me – That’s done, know you’ll enjoy her posts.
4. Tell you seven things about myself that you probably don't know – I think with nine years of reading my online magazine you know me pretty well – I’ll have to think about some surprises for you.
5. Choose seven great bloggers to give this award to – choosing just seven is very difficult.
6. Give a link to their blogs – Of course, I’m hoping you’ll visit them.
7. Leave them a message on their blog – Now that’s a habit I need to work on, and hope you readers will start leaving me comments, too!
Seven things about myself you probably don’t know:
1. My desire to be a writer stretches back to 1952 and a Brownie Scout trip to the local newspaper office.
2. I received my first camera at nine. Pointing that tiny Kodak Brownie at the grand vistas of Colorado on our first family vacation let me to realize my love for photography, and recognize that not only do I not like heights; I have vertigo at the edge of a precipice. Even stairs without a handrail get to me these days.
3. I’m plagued by being unable to remember names– it gets worse – I’m finding that these days faces are becoming blurred, too.
4. I find it far easier to do an hour-long talk for a group of 50 strangers than attend a party with 12 friends.
5. I don’t like speed -- velocity that is. It’s ok in a car, but even as a kid I dragged my toes to slow my sled.
6. I flunked first year Spanish in college! I didn’t “get it” and fell so far behind in the first two weeks and didn’t know I could drop the class without penalty. Now that was a bad move – it was a five-hour course. Talk about irony…now I live in Mexico and speak passable Spanish.
7. I used to be very into sewing, quilting, machine embroidery, doll making, pen and ink, oil painting, tole painting, silk flower making, decoupage -- all crafts. I owned an arts and crafts supply store back in Iowa. My guilty secret is my ever-growing stash of fabric, even though I’ve not plugged in a sewing machine for several years. I’m always fighting the temptation to buy sewing notions and tools and craft supplies whenever I see them.
Seven bloggers to receive the Kreativ Blogger Award
1. While I’d been thinking about returning to blogging, it was Patsi, with all her Writing on the Web expertise and coaching and marketing enthusiasm that gave me the nudge I needed to make the commitment. Like Eileen, Patsi maintains a pair of daily blogs and several websites, conducts webinars and has Ebooks out there to help others.
2. On a totally different theme, for pure beauty and easy how-tos, I love A Little Cup of Mexican Hot Chocolate: A Girl’s Guide to Cooking Mexican Food Just Like Her Abuelita. This busy California Translator only posts about once a month, but with wit and information, they are worth waiting for. The current post is “You Little Tamalera You.” And before that was “Love Means Never Having to Say I Won’t Cook you Pickled Pigs Feet.” She may be in California, but she knows the way to a Mexican heart….ah, there’s more: mole, pumpkin empanadas, a world of delicious specalities!
3. A Creative Dream never ceased to amaze me. Her writing is absorbing, her dolls are incredible and her doodles, well just take a look at what she can do with a pen, paper and sometimes a little color. Seeing her images make me want to give up the computer/writing addiction and leap into a pile of art supplies.
4. Charlotte is The Word Strumpet. Even if Charlotte wasn’t a great writer and source of continually good ideas and different ways of thinking of things, she’d have to be part of this list…just for the creativity of the name of her blog!
5. Lisa (The Curious Girl) has to be here, wait til you see her soft, moody, intelligent photos…they not only emote, they grab me my the hair and quietly say – stop being so busy, look at your world again. Ah, what a breath of fresh spring air she brings to my office. I would have chosen her even without the picture of my very favorite flower in the world, the blue hyacinth.
6. Don’t you love how one blog leads you to another and then to another and another. This week I’ve had some outstanding finds, and two of my new “friends” have to be included here. First I discovered The Dance of a Painted Lady. The more I explored her short essays and poems, the more I loved Kenda Lee and her way of looking at life. Who else takes pictures of the commute on the last day she’s driving the old car? Browsing down a few posts will bring you to a favorite – “Too soon to dream of picnics? “
7. It was KendaLee who led me to Rachel Awes – and her drawings and bits of wisdom that leave me thinking and in awe. A sample? ”As she grew older she cleared out more clutter to make room for matters of the heart.” In her blog All I did Was Listen, this wise woman shares the “bits of gold” she discovers. The cards she creates and the posts she writes are wonderful, powerful, beautiful.
There it is…Now we’ll hope that these great bloggers will enjoy passing the torch – as it were.
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