Look at what I won!!

I won this Pillsbury Pie Pack from Midwest Mommy!! I'm so excited! I got an awesome Pyrex pie plate, really cool measuring cups (and egg separator which I could have used last week, just sayin'), an apple corer, a really cute apple kitchen timer, a pot holder, a trivet & a coupon for a free pie crust!! Woohoo! We're having pie!!!


Thanks go to Mommy from the Midwest for sponsoring this giveaway so.....THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

I just ♥ it all!

Thank you Jennifer!

My friend Jennifer over at Confessions of a Kitchen Witch honored me with an award!

Here are the rules:

1) Thank and link back to the person who gave them to you
2) Share 7 things about yourself
3) Pass onto 15 other bloggers you have discovered
4) Contact the bloggers and let them know they have been chosen

I most certainly thank Jennifer for thinking of me when she was passing out this award and I linked back to her too...that's #1 done :)

#2 Seven things about myself (I'll try to tell you things you might not know...):

1.) I have Graves Disease. Sometimes I don't even know I have it and other times life is a real struggle.  

2.) I drink coffee from the time I wake up until I'm ready for bed at night. I very rarely drink anything else...except tea :)

3.) I don't understand what the Do Not Call list is all about since I'm on it and still get at least 10 calls a day from random strangers wanting me to buy something or vote for someone or do a quick survey. Do Not Call means Do Not Call. It's very irritating.

4.) I never "baby talk" to babies. I talk to them just like I talk to grownups. I don't understand the concept of baby talk. I don't want babies to learn how to talk like a baby, I want them to learn how to talk like I do.

5.) I love music and very rarely find things I don't like to listen to...that includes rap, classical, opera, country & rock.

6.) I have a HUGE movie collection....over 1,000 movies. For real.

7.) Speaking of movies, I have many horror movies but I never watch them. Those are Tim's. I can read Stephen King all day, every day, but I can't watch people being killed even though I know it's not real. It freaks me out.

#3 & #4 I'm sticking together and doing it right here (TWSS, I know). I have way too many blogs to choose from to narrow it down to just 15 so if you'd like this award then it's for you! That's right, take it! And I just told you all about it :)

Thank you again Jennifer for thinking of me ♥ I love your blog too :-D







Sometimes I'm so silly lol Jennifer just let me know that she gave me 3 awards not just the one :) Yay! Here are the other two...

You are welcome to these two awards too!

Thank you Ji ♥

I am the first one to admit to you that I have been ignoring this blog. I promised to get back to it and to keep talking about the new Blogger Template Designer but so far I just haven't had the time to be able to do that. I grovel at your feet for forgiveness. :(

Wait. I have a little more groveling to do...

Ji from this blog and this blog, is always so very thoughtful and sweet and kind. She always leaves me awards and love and I haven't thanked her properly for all the kindness she left me while I was offline with the move and all so that's what I need to do now. 

Thank you so much Ji ♥ I just love ya girl! 

These are for you:

Thank you Jennifer!

Jennifer over at My Crazy Life gave me an award! Yay! You know I looove awards! She said I get it because I always say she's soooo cute :-) Guess what? She is TOTALLY cute!! If you don't visit her you should! You'll think she's adorable too! Here's the award she gave me:

The rules and stuff...

I am supposed to tell you 7 things about myself and then pass it on to 15 other Beautiful Bloggers. I'm going to try to tell you 7 things that you don't already know about me...

1. I am an artist. I bet you didn't know this about me :-) I've been drawing since Elementary school and have drawn everything from the Campbell's Kids doing different sports activities for the gym that my mother was a P.E. teacher in to the Grim Reaper that was airbrushed onto someone's truck. 

2. I am super scared of birds. Like birds landing on me. My daughter had a cockatiel for many years and I was always freaked out when he was out of his cage. Snakes, mice, bugs and whatever other creepy crawlies you can think of don't bother me a bit but don't let a bird land on me!

3. I am THE. BIGGEST. STEPHEN. KING. FAN. EVER. but only of his books. I have read every single one of them and own over 30 of them. I can't stand to watch the movies though or any other scary movie. Seriously. Can NOT stand to watch them!

4. I love arrogant men but not in real life. My favorite men on T.V. are seriously, extremely arrogant...Simon from American Idol, Gordon Ramsey from Hell's Kitchen, Russell Hantz from this season and last season of Survivor. I'm warped. I am aware of this :)

5. I love playing pool. I suck at it royally but it's a lot of fun!

6. Speaking of pool....I prefer the ocean over any other place to swim. Second place is a lake. Then a pond. Then the tub. A pool is waaaaay down the list. The chemicals are not nice to me.

7. I have a photographic memory and can repeat movie lines word for word which is very irritating to the people watching the movie with me but I like it :-)

So now I'm supposed to name 15 beautiful bloggers....Have you seen my blog list?!?!?!? There are waaay more than 15 beautiful bloggers on it! Ok, I'll do my best...


In random order :)

1. Mary @ Work of the Poet because she is awesome! She always thinks of every single person and never misses a thing!

2. Sheila @ The Quintessential Magpie because she writes the sweetest stories, is impossible not to love and always makes me feel loved in her comments.

3. William @ William's Poetry because he is super nice and never fails to say something on everything I write even if it's just good post Kath :)

4. Amy @ Keeping up with the Schultz Family because she is a doll and her daughter Alyce is a doll and I consider her one of my good friends.

5. Doris @ Crocheting in Georgia because she is a dear. She's so kind and sweet and I am in love with her pooch Gizzy :-D

6. Shakira @ You Are Never Alone because she makes me feel like I am never alone ♥

7. Jenners @ Life with a Little One and More because she rocks! She always makes me laugh even when I don't think I have anything to laugh about.

8. Blue Violet (I was a good girl see?) @ A Nut in a Nutshell because she's my girl! She's always there to lift me up when I need a friend!

9. Joni @ Screaming for Chocolate because she's just like a sister to me. We've been through quite a bit of the same stuff and I relate to her.

10. Jess @ Aayden and Aaron's Mommy because she rocks the mommy world WHILE going to college. I am so impressed by that!

11. Terry @ A Canadian Blogger because she is sincere and a total sweetheart and she always makes me feel good with her comments.

12. Helen @ Random Musings because she is a wonderful, caring woman who makes my heart smile.

13. Britt @ Following the Path as a Thrifty Pagan because she is a good friend of mine who knows way too much about me and I have to bribe her every now and then to keep my secrets lol just playing...she knows I love her to bits!

14. Wendy @ Weight...What? because she is super funny and makes me have mental images of things that I never would have known about if it wasn't for her (I'm still seeing the bubble butt by the way...thanks!) :)


15. Susan @ Stop Calling Me That because her sarcasm and this-is-the-way-it-is-so-deal-with-it attitude make me scream with joy. Seriously. They do! She is awesomeness defined!


Now everyone reading this needs to visit everyone else so that you can see that I'm totally right in everything I said! And again, THANK YOU JENNIFER! You are so sweet! Oh yeah! And Jennifer has a cool beans blog button too! You know how much I love them :) So I'm going to show that off and then I'm going to hush. Have a great day everyone!

Thanks for the love

This blog is all about love. And blogging. And the love of blogging. Because of that I'd like to show some love to the people that show me love by following me.

They are:

• Brittany @ Following the Path as a Thrifty Pagan

• Doris @ Crocheting in Georgia

• Sue @ Pear Tree Lane Farmhouse

• Michelle @ Graceful

• Beth @ Beyond the Garden Gate

It means so much to me to have you follow me! I think I'm following all of you...if I'm not then please tell me so I can fix that asap!


I'd also like to thank everyone that leaves me comments here. They make my whole day ♥ 


Now I have a question to pose to you...


Is there anything that you're not sure how to do that you want to know how to do and I haven't talked about it yet? (In case you don't know, you can go under "Blog Tips" from my sidebar to see everything I have talked about.) Let me know! I'll be happy to either tell you how to do it or find out how to do it and then tell you :) 


Have a wonderful day everyone!