Blogging Friends Forever

My friend Serena is very bad, she would not let me get away without this award. BFF gold card - BFF stands for 'blogging friends forever'. You are a little sneak Serena, and I do appreciate our friendship. Please stop by Serena's blog and be amazed at the beautiful painting she does. Everything is done to perfection and I know one day she will have her own showing in a gallery, so everyone will be able to see just how wonderful her art is....

Here is how the award is to work.....
1. 5 people are allowed to receive this award.
2. four dedicated followers of your blog.
3. one is to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. please link back to whoever gave you the award.

So here's hoping that my choices are watching closely...

Kat Lee who keeps me waiting and waiting for her wonderful patterns for her Christmas elves and soon the big guy himself. Such a lot of details and thought that goes into her Christmas designs.

Colleen Babcock who just gives me fits waiting on her next designs. She is another wonderful online friend and another creative soul I'm so happy to know.

Connie McBride does the best pin dolls I've seen. Each time she posts a new one, I'm just so impressed with her creativity.

Michelle Munzone who knows how much I love jesters, jesters, jesters. The first teacher I had online for doll making and who made me understand how to turn those eenie weenie little fingers.. ;o)

Venus I can't forget you... I just love the dolls you make, you're a lady after my own heart with the obvious fun you have making them.

Please do not feel obligated to participate in this award exchange, but if you do, just save the award above and post it to your own blog along with the rules for passing it along.... I am glad to know you ladies....

She Sparkled me !!!

Thank you for Sparkling me Colleen.... Isn't that a cute tag...what fun.
Like you I don't want to tag the same people when there are so many out there that inspire us with their blogs and creativity. I will pick out a few more that haven't been noted yet and let you decide. There are some really clever people out there and these little tags serve to direct you to them... Enjoy....and if the ladies I've mentioned below want to continue the tag, please scoop the tag and add it to your blogs...
Handmade by Venus
My Name is Heather
Art by Michelle

I Love You This Much

I Love You This Much award.
Thank you for this award Serena.

These are some of the blogs I frequent. Fun creative and inspiring blogs and in no particular order. Judy Wellnitz Craft Apple Cynthia Howe Angry Chicken Barb Lawrence Stephanie Novatski Bent Objects(this guy is a hoot) Connie McBride Johnson Colleen Babcock

There are so many more......

1. If you get tagged (and want to play along), write a post with links to blogs that you love. Obviously, if you've already been tagged by someone, you won't need to repeat the process.

2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.

An Award

My very good friend Serena has sent me this award, and has given quite a lot to live up to calling me "multi-talented. Serena herself is an extremely accomplished artist. Click on over to her blog to see what I mean. I did a little research into this award, and discovered that this is a very special award because it recognizes the bloggers who work hard to keep their blogs interesting and creative and most importantly their own.






Following is an excerpt from the creator of the "Be The Blog" award.
"Earlier this year I was tagged with the blogging tip meme in which the tip I offered was “Be the Blog“. That phrase stuck with me because I think that really sums up what a successful blogger does. And what I mean by successful is that they make it their own, stay with it, are interactive with their readers, and just plain have fun."

Click here to visit the creator of this award and if you have someone in mind that you feel deserves to be recognized for their blog and the work that's gone into it, send them to the site to choose the colour of award they would like to post to their blog.

I would like to now award Kate Iredale the "Be The Blog" award. Kate has a great blog, full of inspiration and interesting reading. She does some wonderful photography, graphic work and I look forward to the newest articles she's posted. She has what I like to think of as a "quiet place" to pull up to the computer with a cuppa in hand and see what's new. Click "here". to read all about Kate.... So Kate, please head over to Me and My Drum and choose your well deserved award...

I've been tagged for being nice!!!

I have been tagged with a 'Nice Matters' award from my friend Connie McBride of Clothmatters. I am to nominate five people who qualify for being nice. Talk about pressure, I can name all kinds of people who are nice, but I will do my best to keep the numbers down to those who have blogs or websites, but I will compelled to spill over to a couple who don't have either of those.

My nominees are:

Ladybug Jan McCraw of Ladybug Creations for her work for kids

Leila Desborough of Wayward Wombat for her work with animals

Gwen Crichton of Crichtons Craft for her efforts to inspire creativity in her students

Serena Lewis of Searen Art and Design who is just simply nice and a fantastic artist

Colleen Babcock of The Magic Bean who is also nice and a wonderfully creative doll maker

Ladybug, Leila, Gwen, Serena and Colleen, you need to copy the banner above and nominate your 5 friends now...Have at it ladies.!!!!!!!

My 6th nomination goes to Lorene Sherpinskas who doesn't have a blog or website but is just a very nice person who deserves to be mentioned.

And my 7th nomination to Pat Atkinson who keeps me and everyone else around her in stitches with her stories but who I couldn't convince to put together a blog and share her wit with the world. There are many many nice people that I can mention but I have tried to keep it to the short list.