Celebrate Good Times, Come On!!!

Back at the beginning of December I received this award from my dear sugarpiehoney friend Marysol, the marvel of confections over at Memories in the Baking. She is Temptation Incarnate but don't we all love temptation! I so want to watch her in action one day because we have never met despite my occasional jaunt to the wilds of Michigan. That's a darn big state folks!

I strongly suspect that this award should be updated to read 2009, but at the moment I am not up to Photshopping it. I am up to making the awards though and I'm sticking to a trio. So drumroll please!

First is a blog that I found last fall I think, and in the manner of blogging, feel that Ginny is someone I'd love to live closer to and know on a f2f basis. I hope this happens someday. She makes lovely art and shares her life at Ginny's Small Studio. She's warm, kind and cooks lasagna for the holidays. Could one ask for more?

Second is another art blog that I've fallen for recently - Dispatch From LA, artsyfartsy fun with cats and children aka the young punks in the classroom. You'll wish you were in her class! Mary Ann, you are my kinda woman. Look at all her cool links too plus a changing playlist.

Third is Benita, the Mistress of Sweden's Chez Larsson. If you ever long for clean and minimal, you will love looking at Benita's home as she makes it all possible and explains how. Two adults, one teenage boy, and two cats and an immaculate white home, a simple homey home. You'll feel serene and zenlike just looking.

Now, here are the rules for the recipients:

1. The award may be displayed on a winner’s blog.
2. Add a link to the person you received the award from.
3. Nominate up to seven other blogs.
4. Add their links to your blog.
5. Add a message to each person that you have passed the award on in the comments section of their blog.

And then go off and be happy and enjoy spreading smiles in blogland.

Wicked Sol

Thank god she can cook....well... and bake like there's no tomorrow and then there's her photography skills, and her writing skills. Let's just say the woman is talented and I haven't EVEN met her...yet. (Sol, you have been warned! There's a payback ahead.) Click that title of this post and you can find her. She does stuff like this.


(All about those Dirt Bombs)

She tagged me, which is kind of nice cause we 'knew' each other from our days in the Cooking Forum, but I haven't had time to spend all day there since I no longer have a paid job. (Yes, that is how my job was...wonderful in some ways being chained to a desk waiting for work to happen about 9 months of the year.) But anyhow it's good to see (Mary)Sol out here in the vast temptations of blogland. However, I did this one before back in April but I've never been shy about talking, especially about the center of he universe...Me. You do want to know more I'm sure. Don't you????

So the rules -


1. Link to the person who tagged you. (see title and click away)
2. Post the rules on the blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.


1.My favorite flower is the lily of the valley. (My mother brought me some in England wrapped in a damp washcloth. Oh those were the wild and crazy pre-security days.)

2. I am an excellent shot with an uzi.

3.I have spoken 6 languages in my life incl two with non-Roman alphabets, and yet my husband can still misunderstand me.

4. I believe a home without books is a home with people who cannot be trusted.

5. I have posed naked. (see above)

6. My wildest and most long lasting dream is to live in a house on the ocean.

And I will tag these potential victims players.

Hoola Tallulah

Knit Witch

Smiles and Sunshine

Sues News

The Gahan Girls

Pretty Little Fings