Stylish Blogger Award

Thanks to Butterfly Feet Walking on Life and Chick Lit Central: The Blog, I have received the Stylish Blogger Award!



The rules of the award:


1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
2. Tell us 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 15 super stylish bloggers this award.
4. Contact those bloggers and let them know they have won.


7 things (you might or might not know) about me:


1. I'm allergic to red dye.
2. I don't watch scary movies.
3. I was VP of the Honor Society in High School.
4. I haven't watched any prime time TV in almost four years due to having a night job.
5. I don't have a brother.  I have two sisters.
6. I have had the same hair style for 10 years.  (not color, just style/cut)
7. I have been married for 6 1/2 years.  I look forward to MANY more years with my husband.

Blogs chosen for the award (in no particular order):


Discovering the Me in Mommy

Book Couture

A Chick Who Reads

A Crumb Falls

A Life Bound by Books

About Happy Books

Coffee and a Book Chick

Lazy Girl Reads

My Overstuffed Bookshelf

Novel Confessions

Reading Angel

Scarrlet Reader

Something Old to Something New

The Book Bug

The Book Inn

Congrats to you and your stylin' blogs! Keep up the great work!

Life Is Good Award

Life Is Good Award (x2)

Graciously given by Anna @ Books to Brighten Your Mood

 &

 Tina @ Book Couture

Thank you both for the honor!

Please stop by both of these wonderful blogs!  I do!!

Rules

• Thank and link back to the person that gave this award.
• Answer the 10 survey questions.
• Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic.
• Contact the bloggers you’ve picked to let them know about the award.

Questions

1. If you blog anonymously are you happy doing it that way; if you are not anonymous do you wish you had started out anonymously so you could be anonymous now?
I don't follow any anonymously.  Personally I LOVE my followers!  I would enjoy getting to know each one of them better.  I guess because I love knowing who follows me, I like to let others know who I am when I follow them.  I really don't have a desire to be anonymous.  I don't feel that my non-anonymous nature is for any specific reason or to gain any extra exposure.  I follow because I enjoy or like the blog.

2. Describe one incident that shows your inner stubborn side:
Learning to blog!  I didn't give up and started with no knowledge of how anything worked!  HTML was incredibly new and foreign.  I have come a long way quickly.  I strive to achieve and I love that people enjoy my blog.  It's my oasis and it is flattering that people enjoy my thoughts and opinions.

3. What do you see when you really look at yourself in the mirror?
I see a mom.  I see a wife.  I see a friend.  I see a daughter.  I see someone who may be tired, might not feel well, may be having a good or bad beauty day, but overall is happy and blessed.  I see love.  I see God's handiwork.  Beauty is on the inside and I strive to be truly beautiful in those terms.

4. What is your favourite summer cold drink?
Root Bear Float!!!  I love them!  Chocolate ice cream only!!

5. When you take time for yourself, what do you do?
I read! I go to the spa!  I shop for me!   My 3 favorite things to do for just me!

6. Is there something you still want to accomplish in your life? What is it?
Wow, Yes, I am a mom... I have a lot more to accomplish in my two beautiful children.  They are artwork in the making.  I love watching their personalities blossom and their individual talents grow.  I want to help them grow into the person they will become.    I would love to design my own house some day too!  I would love to have a job as a publicist or as an event coordinator.  I love to plan large scale events down to the very nitty gritty details! 

7. When you attended school, were you the class clown, the class overachiever , the shy person, or always ditching?
I was quiet but not shy.  I enjoyed my friends and goofing off with them.  I achieved to my abilities, striving to give everything my best but I also had fun.  I am a rule follower and didn't ditch often.  For me to do my best I felt I should be in class.  When it came to college classes, I was paying for them so I might as well be there!

8. If you close your eyes and want to visualize a very poignant moment of your life what would you see?
Mine is not one that I would want to visualize.  Instead it is one that I can still to this day visualize regardless of if my eyes are opened or closed.  It was my grandfathers funeral.  I was very young and it really made a huge impact on me in a negative manner.


My sweet poignant memories were my wedding and the birth of my two children.

9. Is it easy for you to share your true self in your blog or are you more comfortable writing posts about other people or events?
Regardless of my post it is the true me.  I seldom share really personal things in my blog because it is set that anyone and everyone can read it, but I am not uncomfortable with revealing who I am through my writings.  Slowly but surely a little more of me comes out because I pour myself into my blog.  It is not something that anyone else contributes too.  It is purely my thoughts, my opinions and my emotions.  I have a mommy blog that I started that shares a little more of me because this blog is about my reviews.

10. If you had the choice to sit down and read or talk on the phone, which would you do and why?
READ-READ-READ!  I have always been a reader!  I do not like to talk on the phone.  I would rather write a letter or read a letter, READ!!

Recipients

Here are the lovely people with wonderful blogs I am passing on this award to:

1. 
   
   Bookend Diaries
2. 
   
   Book Lover Carol
3. 
   
   Create With Joy
4. 
   
   Crazy-for-Books
5. 
   
   Curled Up With a Good Book and a Cup of Tea
6. 
   
   Every Last Page
7. 
   
   For What It's Worth
8. 
   
   Graced With Books
9. 
   
   In the Hammock
10. 
    
    Into the Morning Reads
11. 
    
     Mommy Minded
12. 
    
    My New Life as.... Mom
13. 
    
    Lori's Reading Corner
14. 
    
    Mindful Musings
15. 
    
    The Book Frog

Note: I did not check every blog to see if you have already been awarded this award.  If you do not want to accept it that is quite alright!  I would love it if you accepted the award I passed to you, but you are absolutely under no obligation to pass it on. It would also make my day, and quite a few other people's days if you did, though. *winks*

AWARD: The Versatile Blogger

I am so honored! I have been given the Versatile Blogger award by my new friend Pris over at The Benterud Bookshelf!! Check it out!

Here are the simple rules:

1) Link back to the blogger who gave the award;

2) Share seven things about yourself

3) Pass the award on to ten bloggers; then contact each of them.

So here goes:

Seven Things About Me:

I LOVE Books. Reviewing books is so much fun for me!

I am allergic to red dye.

I am married to my best friend and the best husband a girl could wish for!  He consistently puts me before his own needs and is a wonderful father to our children!

I have 2 kids

My favorite colors are blue and purple

My favorite genre is fiction, specifically Women's Fiction & Chick-lit (My library is not limited to these genres in anyway!)

I love to read and review children's lit with my kids!  It's great to see how their opinions differ from mine!

10 Bloggers I feel deserve this award!

A Musing Reviews

Allison's Attic of Books

An Abundance of Books

Books and Things

Books Are A Girl's Best Friend

Curling Up by the Fire

Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

Giraffe Days

Good Choice Reading

Love is....

*I am sorry but I did not check to see if these blogs accept awards or not.  I just found them deserving!  I tried to make sure you hadn't recently been awarded the same award however I could have missed that too!  If for any reason you do not want to accept the award please let me know!  You won't hurt my feelings and hopefully I didn't offend yours.  I will gladly pick another of the many great blogs I have found if one of the above doesn't want to participate.  Thanks for understanding!*



Tag..... You're it!

This is an international game of tag and I've been tagged by Books are like People. I must answer some questions about myself so you can get to know me better and then I tag four other bloggers so we can learn about them.


4 Things in my Purse:
phone
wallet
sanitizer
mase

4 Things in my Desk:
pens
paper
pictures of friends/family/kids
sanitizer

4 Favorite Things in my Bedroom:
my bed complete with a pillow top mattress!
my books
my clothes
my scrapbook work station

4 Things I Always Wanted to Do (but haven't yet):
take a spa vacation for 1 week.. just me, the spa, the pool, the drinks and my books!
take a cruise
will a million dollars
design/build my own home

4 Things I Enjoy Very Much at the Moment:
reading
scrapbooking
massage
watching my daughters dance,play & be young


4 Songs I Can't Get Out of My Head:
um.... ABC's
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Down by the bay
The Bible
(Can you tell I have kids that sing a lot!)

4 Things you Don't Know About Me:
I have 3 rotated disk at the bottom of my spine
I'm tall
I grew up in NH
I have traveled all over the US on road trips


And the four people I am gonna tag are:
 Chick-lit Central the Blog
Romance Book Junkies
My Love Affair With Books
I'm A Reader, Not A Writer