Gratitude * Liebster Award *

Awards are fun, even if I don't totally know what they are or what they are for. Either way, I thank you, Rachel, from
Swell and Stylish. 

So what is the Liebster award? 
Well, there is no definitive answer to that in any dictionary and vague descriptions in a google search. I've compiled that it's an award that you are given by someone else that says, "Hey, I like your blog and keep up the great work you're doing." It's a great way to discover new blogs and share the love.

Here's how it works once given a Liebster Award:
1.  Post the award on your blog.
2.  Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
3.  Choose 5 other blogs deserving of the Liebster.
4.  List the bloggers you gave the award to with links back to their sites.
5.  Leave a comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.

Yay for finding new blogs! You can 
view Rachel's FIVE blog picks here.

Now to picking out FIVE blogs to pass 
this rad little award on to. hmm...
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I think these ladies are pretty awesome 
and provide some fun reads. Hope y'all enjoy!

• Sweet Green Tangerine 
• a girl named Sue 
• Girl Meets Camera
• Run With Scissors
• grrfeisty

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

VALSPAR held a contest via their Facebook page. Remember me blogging about it? Here (#6)

Valspar Paint

" Thank you to everyone who participated and voted in our Play to Spray contest! Congratulations to our winners - Becky W, Matt K, Marie S, Anne H, Cheryl M, Pamela S, Belinda H, Holly E, Dorene W and Karen F! You will receive an email with next steps. Happy Painting! "

It came on Christmas Eve. 5 cans of paint: Blue, Gold, Red, Green, and White. A basket, and a couple $1 thingies from Michael's.  - . - Thanks again, to everyone who voted for me!! You rock my socks! 

I'm already brainstorming. What to use the gold one... hmmm... 

Stylish Blogger Award

Thank you to my fabulous partner in crime, 

Jessica @ Sweet Green Tangerine. 

Thanks Jess for including me on the 

Stylish Blogger Award! 

How cool is that? Especially with all the heartache I had this week with my blog being highly uncooperative with  any changes I tried to make with it.I guess I showed it, huh?

I have to post 7 things about myself that you probably don't know. Then, I get to pick 15 other stylish bloggers to share the award with. 

 Let the games begin...

About me:

1. I totter back and forth between being grimly 

rational and painfully superstitious. 

I periodically knock on wood, look for signs 

& omens, and even (occasionally) secretly 

read my horoscope. I find that my level of 

superstitious-ness increases in direct 

proportion to my powerlessness in 

many situations I am faced with in 

this ever so exciting life.

  2. I love gray, rainy, windy, stormy, 

drizzly, foggy cold weather. 

I like to dress in warm clothes, 
scarfs, mittens, sweaters etc. 
I like to get 

cold because then I can come inside &

warm up. I may complain, oh I will 

complain, but I still find it to be quite 

exhilarating! I never feel more alive 

than I do after being exposed 

to some frosty, windy elements. 

3. I don't like SUVs, but I drive one. 

I bought it because I needed the space & for the 

safety features. When the kids are older 

and the space is no longer needed, 

my dream car is a mini cooper. 

 4. I Love stupid, random, simple jokes. 

They make me laugh. Seeing the looks on other 

people’s face when I laugh only makes 

me laugh harder. It’s a win win situation, really.

If corn oil is made from corn, and olive oil is made from olives, 

what is baby oil made of?

5.  I hate when people over generalize. 

Is that an over generalization?

6. I have written the first page of three books, 

but the second page of none. 

7. My high school was located on 

Historic Rout 66. 

It is hard to grasp how cool that is when you 

live in that tiny town where nothing 

happens, but looking back, 

I’m proud.That place helped 

make me who I am today.

Now onto 15 blogs I Love.

(in no particular order, of course)

1-The Moon Chylde Chronicles

2-A day in the life of...

3-3 Sun Kissed Boys 

4-A Glipse of the Girl Next Door

5-Be Different...Act Normal 

6-Love Big, Bake Often 

7-It's a Hodgepodge Life 

8-{Primp} 

9-The Sometimes Crafter 

10-The Crafty Ninja 

11-Under The Table Dreaming

12-Pieces of Me 

13-Sawdust and Paper Scraps 

14-Revamp Boutique 

15-Oopsey Daisy