Blog Award

Hello crafters! Sorry I've been a little MIA. My 3yr old as of this week has been in summer camp (can ya hear my YEAH!! where you live?? LOL). My 9 yr old has reaaaaalllly been looking forward to one on one with me. And, I've been touching up paint etc on the house. My dh "thinks" he want to put our house up for sale to get a bigger one. He tells me "so, you might have to pack up your crafty stuff for a while and store it at my parent's." My thought...forget it!!! I ain't movin'!! LOL Although, it would mean I get my VERY OWN scrapbook room, rather than have the opposite end of our huge bedroom as my scrapbook area.

Ok, on to another surprise...a blog award..."The Irresistably Sweet Blog Award," given to me by the wonderful Leirad at:
I'm very honored to receive this! You must stop by her blog and check it out. She just found out she is on the DT for the new challenge blog Cricut 360.



Seven things about myself:

1. I didn't get married till I was 30. I traveled a lot when single for my job and never had time for dating. I have no regrets because I got to see so much of our wonderful country. And, what 26 yr old girl can say she actually played 9 holes of golf at Pebble Beach?
2. I am an avid couponer...not like a hoarder or the "extreme couponers" But, if I need the item and we use it a lot and I find it on sale, I will buy a few with a coupon at the grocery store. The money I save on my bill I transfer to the "fun money" account. That is used for vacations, bdays or Christmas.
3. I do my best creativity at night
4. My husband really wants to get a bigger house with 4 bdrms & an office or playroom. I'm the type that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm content with stuff, I don't mind change but I'm content and feel blessed with what we have. My DH needs change. It frustrates me sometimes.
   
5. We are in the middle of trying to toilet train our 3 yr old and he is very head strong and he knows it frustrates me if he does it one day and won't the next. And, yet he can go to his summer camp for 3 days this week and he does it all day for the teachers...go figure!!
6. I will be 45 in September and I'm already ready for menopause LOL
7. I'm a bad girl and love sweets tooooo much!
   

Now, I will like to pass this award on to the following 7 bloggers: there are so many awesome bloggers who are so creative that I wish I could have everyone's name below...

1. Terri at My Need To Craft
2. Emily at Cool Cricut Creations
3. Julietta at 4 Goofballs
4. Tina & Wendy at Two Chicks and a Cricut
5. Madison at Funky Cards
6. Deanne at Deanne's Creative Juice
7. Kristal at Getting Cricky

Another Blog Award

Well the wonderful Dusti at Scrappin With Cricut honored me with the Cricut-tastic Award.
Please go check out her blog and follower her if you aren't. She really has a fantastic blog!

BIG Thanks to Dusti!! :)

Here are the 5 cricut-tastic things about myself:
1). Well, I've listed stuff before so...I'll spare you LOL
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I would like to pass along this award to the following bloggers:
(It is suppose to be 10 but I just passed this award to 10 people a few weeks ago so I would like to choose these 5 additional people.)

1). Kimberly at Just Wordz
2). Sherry at Gone Buggy
3). Madison at Funky Cards
4). Tatiana with Create by Tatiana
5). Erlinda with Stampin with Erlinda

Congrats to all these well deserving crafters and please go visit their blogs!

So Excited--Another Blog Award and Happy NSD!

WoW! I found out that the wonderful Tina at Two Chicks and a Cricut bestowed this award upon me.

Please go check out her terrific blog Two Chicks and a Cricut and become a follower if ya aren't already. And, thank you Tina...you are a wonderful and creative blogger friend!

Also, I guess Tina wants to feature me on her blog on May 18th. She left the post for me on April 28th and I just now figured it out
Don't get me wrong my wonderful blog follower friends and fellow crafters. I really do read my comments and I love them all. Keep em coming :)

Here is what she said...

Two Chics & a Cricut said...

Donya,
I love love love your blog and I'm going to feature you on our Website Wednesday.
You will be featured on May 18th! and I have even added your button to our page. Great blog!
Tina

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ON TO THE BLOG AWARD RULES:

Wear this badge proudly on your blog and share it with friends. Share this award with 10 people that you think have Cricut-tastic blogs. You also have to tell 5 cricut related things about yourself.

Here are my little secrets...

1. I never watched any of those videos included in the cricut box. I just opened the box and "winged it!" My DH gets frustrated with me because I hate reading directions. LOL

2. My DH still really doesn't know how many carts I have and how much I've spent. But yet he still knows he must get me one for those special days...like...Mother's Day LOL

3. I use my Gypsy everyday. Doesn't mean I cut things everyday. I just get an idea and grab it and start using the Gypsy.

4. I'm guilty of keeping a notepad and pen handy in my car to jot down ideas to do on my gypsy. Of course, I don't do this while I'm driving. LOL

5. I have goobered up 2 mats by miscalculating how to size my papers on the mat when using the gypsy and ended up having the cricut cut into my mat where my paper "should've been" LOL

Here are the well deserving and creative blogger friends I
Awarded this to:

1. Terri at My Need 2 Craft
2. Sharon at In the Big Blue House
3. Julietta at 4 Goofballs
4. Cathryn at In the Pink, (and a new DT member at Emma's/Creative Time for Me)
5. JoJo at Peace Love Stamp
6. Ashley at Welch Creations
7. Emily at Cool Cricut Creations
8. Kim at My Crafting Creations
9. Chris at Chatterscene
10. Sandy at Paper Transformer

*****Someone had asked me about how to put these award badges on their blogs, so I thought I would post a little blogger detailsl. #1)Right click the award and "save to your computer." Then when you post about it to your blog post, click on "Add image" and find the image on your computer, then download" To post as a permanent badge on your blog you need to download it to your photobucket account. Then, copy the html tag that says I use blogger to create my blog so on my dashboard, I clicked on Create a text box/configure text. Then in the text box paste the code from photobucket and hit the upper right words that say Rich Text or Edit Html.
If not working for you please feel free to email me and I'll walk ya through it. I want you all to have your well deserved awards on your blogs if you'd like :) ******

Blog Award

Wow! I am so honored to receive another blog award in a month! All of you know that when you are juggling home and work life, trying to do daily chores AND find time for you to be creative, it IS hard. I have genuinely tried the last month to get my blog rolling full steam and to let all of you see how much I love what I do. These awards show me that maybe, I'm doing something right. LOL

So....a HUGE thank you to Emily at Cool Cricut Creations for her generosity in giving me this award. Please go visit her blog. She does some creative things!


Here are the rules for this award:
1. Thank the person who sent it to you!
2. Tell us 7 things about yourself.
3. Reward this to 15 bloggers.

**7 Things about myself**

1) I love baseball--my favorite game ever to see was at Wrigley field when the Cubs played the Mets.
2) I'm a a sucker for The Young and the Restless
3) I've been deep sea fishing before and I loved it!
4) My all time favorite desert is tiramisu
5) It kind of freaks me out I will be 45 this year
6) Cats are my favorite animal
7) I started out majoring in Accounting at OSU and changed my major
my junior year because I hated it. I have a Bachelors in Marketing and
a minor in Accounting.

I have recently found many new blogs to follow, and thought I would share some of those with you! Here are 15 well deserving blogs:


1) Mistyrose at http://sweetmagnoliarose.blogspot
2) Lissi at http://littledetails-lissi.blogspot.com/
3) Erlinda at www.stampinwitheerlinda.blogspot.com
4) http://4goofballs.blogspot.com
5) Terri at http://myneed2craft.blogspot.com/
6) Sharon at http://inthebigbluehouse.blogspot.com
7) Rae at http://.wahoocrafts.blogspot.com
8) http://katieoscreations.blogspot.com
9) Marie at http://craftelicious.blogspot.com/
10) Tosha at http://gold-treasures.blogspot.com/
11) Cathryn at http://inthepinkcathryn.blogspot.com/
12) Kimberly at http://canadiancraftcorner.blogspot.com/
13) http://scrapperinthemaking.blogspot.com/
14) Joanna at http://peacelovestamp.blogspot.com/
15) Minta at http://mintascreations.blogspot.com

Thank you Amy and congrats to these 15 terrific blog award recipients :)

My first blog award

WOW! I am so stoked...someone very sweet gave me my first blog award!
I am so thankful to Sandy at http://thecraftycreationspot.blogspot.com/ for her kindness. Please go check out her cute little blog :) Thank you!!!

So I will graciously pass this award on. Here the scoop:

Rule #1: Link back to the person who gave you the award (see above)

Rule #2: Share seven random things about yourself.

A little about me:

1) My almost 3 yr old boy is a special blessing. (both my children are) But, we thought we could never have any more children and then after our 10th anniversary and being a few months shy of 41, found out about our little blessing. Having a boy is so much fun, he's such a lover now, and...energetic! LOL

2) I like American Idol, in fact I'm watching it right now.

3)My favorite color is blue

4) I love to cook, plant flowers/garden and dance. My husband doesn't like to dance so guess what I haven't done in a while LOL

5) I've always wanted to travel to Italy

6) I really, really really ant to find the cart Kates ABC's and am having no luck at my local Joann's. Don't they want my money? LOL

7) My favorite comfort foods are: cooked chocolate pudding and the best part is when the skin forms on the top of the pudding (is that weird? LOL) and a chocolate, banana milkshake. When I was younger and I didn't feel good my Dad--not knowing what to do to comfort me, use to make one for me.

Rule #3: Award seven recently discovered bloggers with this award:

1) Tatiana at http://createdbytatiana.blogspot.com

2) Faith-Abigail at http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com

3) Leirad at http://www.leiradcardmakingcorner.blogspot.com/

4) Stacy at http://lovethatbug.blogspot.com/

5) http://nanadonnascarddreams.blogspot.com/

6) Angie at http://www.ohsocutecreations.blogspot.com/
7. http://www.multicrafter-amy.blogspot.com/