Awards!

Hello Y’all! Can you believe it? The gorgeous and wonderfully talented Marina Capano (Argentina TV Star!) of Only Cute Things has awarded me two, TWO!, Blog Awards! How sweet is that? I’m not sure I really qualify since I haven’t posted much lately, but, hey – I’m flattered and excited about it so thank you so much Marina! Here goes . . .

The rules for receiving this award are:

1) Put the logo on your blog.

2) Add a link to the person who awarded it you.

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4) Add links to those blogs on yours.

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

Now I have the honor of selecting some other inspirational and talented artists to pass this award along to.
I will begin with the most inspiring and beautiful blog I have ever had the pleasure to frequent:

M. Kate of La Vie Est Belle

and then on to one of the most creative, talented, and generous women in the world:

Vicki C of This Art That Makes Me Happy

and I mustn’t forget the creative and intuitive writings of:

Ro of Life Muses by Ro

or the decorating and gardening diva:

Donna Lynn of Blushing Rose Antiques

And the supreme designing talent of sweet:

Kara W of My Studio Pink

and, of course, the Digital Designing Queen herself:

Flergs (Megan) of Flergalicious

who could leave out the multi talented artist:

Laurie of Laurie’s Charming Designs

and last but certainly far from least is the ever entertaining as well as talented:

Rachel of A Romantic Porch!

Each and every one of you ladies has made my life better for knowing you and I appreciate your talent and friendship. So many times in the last few months, you have made my way in life easier and more pleasant so I feel you deserve both of these awards. So take a bow you Cyber Princesses!

Love,
Liv

Effort Required

Hey Y'all! My title today refers to a muse by Rozanne Paxman, otherwise known as "Ro," who is the driving force behind one of my all time favorite sites, Scrap Girls. Ro sends us some great life "muses" along with tutorials, layouts, ideas, new products, beautiful layouts, and freebies in the Scrap Girls daily newsletter. Effort Required is the title of today's muse and it just struck a cord in me that wanted to share it with you. It begins: "I want to be on the other side of tomorrow." Isn't that an intriguing opening sentence? Don't you just have to know what Ro has to say to us? Ro has posted it on her blog so that I can refer you there to read the entire muse. Go there NOW! You can come back here afterwards and continue to read the rest of my post. And if you can't figure out what the photo in the layout is (I didn't know until she told me), it is of a cactus bloom! I know that after reading just this one muse you will be compelled to read more and in order to do that you need to go to the Scrap Girls site and sign up for their newsletter. I'm begging you to do this for yourself, you will never regret it! I have learned more from Scrap Girls than I learned in my month long Photoshop online tutorial! But I believe the greatest gift I have received from Scrap Girls is Ro's muses. She makes me think. She makes me want better for myself. She makes me want to BE with capital letters! Yes, she has touched my heart so many times in the last three months that it seems like she has a window on my life and is writing her muses just for me! Thank you, dear Ro, for being you and sharing those little bits and pieces of yourself with me.

I've been working on a hybrid scrap project this week. It is an album of last year's birthday luncheon for a gift at this year's birthday luncheon. I just thought it would be nice for my friend to look back at us a year ago and if all goes well, I might make it a tradition. I've been so pleased that my fingers have allowed me to paint today; tomorrow I will cut and paste! I hope to have it done and photographed by tomorrow afternoon since the birthday luncheon is this Friday (I'm no Vicki Chrisman with all those little elves helping out [that she says she doesn't have-ha!] to speed the project along). I'll be sure and share it with you even if it doesn't come out as good as I want it to, as it will be the first large project I've done in my studio since last fall. Speaking of Vicki C, you should check out her blog from yesterday; great project Vicki (as usual) I love the colors and the Crafty Secrets image!

Well, it's tomorrow already and I need to catch up on my TV before I sleep!

Tootles!

PS: Oh, My, Gosh! I forgot to tell you that my darling little grandson, Joshua, made the winning home run for his team tonight! Woo Hoo! Way to go Joshua!