beautiful blogger

I’m pretty new to blogging.  I remember vividly a few years ago my husband talking about ‘blogs’ and I was clueless.  Somehow, I found a blog which led me to another and then another, and … you know the story. I was hooked.  I go in spurts.  Right now I’m on a blog-love spurt. I think the lack of magazines in print has influenced this greatly.  Sometimes {okay, a lot of times} I just want to sit on the couch and look at an inspiring magazine. However, my favorites have all been cancelled {I’m still in mourning}, and so I have turned to blogs.

One of those blogs is Loving Pretty Things.  Good inspiring photos, links, personal stories. Its what I love.

  

And she generously nominated me for a Beautiful Blogger Award. 

Sometimes I feel like I don’t really know why someone would want to read about me or see images that I like {do we all doubt ourselves? Do we blog for each other or for our own pleasure?}. The fact that Tracy, a perfect stranger, would find my blog both beautiful and worthy of a little award is touching. 

And so, as a recipient of a nomination, I am now required to follow the rules:

Thank the person who nominated you for this award.

Copy the award & place it on your blog.

Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
Tell us 7 interesting things about yourself.

Nominate 7 bloggers.
Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.

So here is my list of 7 interesting things about me {can’t promise it is very interesting, but it is a list nevertheless}:

1. I really love good worship music. I wish I could always listen to ‘my’ music in the car, but most of the time it is Psalty or a kid movie. Although I can’t complain because an in-car DVD player is the greatest invention ever created for moms like me.

2. I prefer every light to be on in the house. For no other reason than that I like light {my husband did just walk past me and mutter, “why is every light in our house on right now?”}

3. This is NOT interesting, but I am just dying to lay on my stomach. Soon, I remind myself. Soon.

4. Both my husband and I are from the Seattle area, but we met at college in California {Azusa Pacific University}. We joke that neither of us needs a degree to do our jobs. Therefore, we paid A LOT of money to meet each other {and some great friends}.

5. As a little girl I was a ballet dancer and still have a secret dream of being a ballerina. It is such a far cry from anything that might happen, so I just do pilates instead {I call it ballet laying down}.  But let me be honest for a moment and add that I haven’t done pilates in, oh, ten months maybe. I’m really not a devoted work-out kind of girl. Perhaps someday.

6. The highlight of my day is getting the mail. That sounds like I have a terribly boring life. But I do really enjoy getting mail.

7. Someday I’m pretty sure we’ll live in a warehouse. This is my husband’s dream of all dreams and I will oblige happily once we no longer have kids who need a neighborhood to play in.

And now for seven of my favorite blogs {that I also think are beautiful}

1. armommy.blogspot.com

I do love this blog, but even more so, I love the lady behind the blog. Rae is a dear friend of mine with such a creative talent and sweet heart for moms. Please have a look around at her stuff!

2. audreycaroline.blogspot.com

it is very likely that you’ve read her story, but I adore Angie’s wisdom and vulnerability and can’t wait for her book to come out!

3. mymamamadeit.blogspot

great creative ideas for re-designing clothes.

4. blog.urbangrace.com

she hasn’t been blogging as much as when I first started reading {could be something to do with the darling baby she just had} but I love Erika’s style, her ideas and photographs.

5. flythroughourwindow.com

a fun mix of amusing stories, recipes, adventures and thoughts from Erika’s twin sister Darby. Definitely one of my favorites.

6. resolved2worship.xanga.com

I mostly adore this one for the photography of this G O R G E O U S woman’s G O R G E O U S seven children.

7. lindseycheney.blogspot.com

good craft ideas, inspiring house, darling children … a fun read.

 

So there you have it. Thanks again Tracy for the nomination!