One Lovely Blog Award & a TUSAL

Hello, world! I've been sick of body then sick of mind so it was quite a surprise to find I received a "lovely blog" award from the Great Poodle Lover! It was quite timely to kick myself out of the funk I've been in, so thank you so much, Vickie! :D It feels good to be normal(?) again~


The purpose of this award is for bloggers to nominate fellow, mostly newer, bloggers that they wish to recognize. The goal is to bring attention to blogs that we think are "lovely" and enjoy reading. We hope others will enjoy reading these blogs also.

In order to accept the award, the nominated blogger must follow these rules:

• Thank the person who nominated you & link back to them in your post
• Share seven facts about yourself
• Nominate 10 other bloggers for the award

Thank you again, Vickie, you must know I like to talk about myself. ;)

1. I love to travel but due to some weird screw-up in my head, I have become afraid to fly! I have been to Okinawa, Japan twice, England once, and to at least 40 of the States. Only the extreme NE/SE and Alaska have eluded me.
2. I like anime, manga, and video games... a lot. I wish there were more projects geared towards those subjects so that I didn't have to make the patterns myself!  Luckily there's a lovely community at Sprite Stitch that helps out.
3. Most of my stash comes from thrift stores.  I must see and touch things before I buy and I have no needlework shops within easy driving distance.
4. Blue, blue, blue!  Everything must be blue!  I like yellow and green a lot too, but mostly blue.  And rainbows.  But blue.  Think of the cerulean Crayola crayon and you've got the perfect blue though all blues are wonderful.  Blue.
5. I lived in Hawaii for ~five years while getting my university degree.  Truly a beautiful place but I don't think I would ever want to live there again; so expensive!  Even if money were no object, I felt "trapped" by the lack of four seasons.  My husband is a nice souvenir though.  :b
6. I love to cook, especially to bake bread!  I have tried a bread machine before and it just takes the fun part away from baking.  I love kneading the warm dough and punching down.  My favorite is a plain ol' loaf of wheat bread.
7. I love yard work!  I have a vegetable garden started (cabbage, garlic, potatoes, broccoli, onions, lettuce, and spinach so far, with tomatoes and peppers started and cucumbers waiting) and probably more houseplants than is really necessary.  I also really like to mow grass... with a push mower.  We have a lot of grass (around an 3/4 of an acre) so I get my fix quite readily.

And here are my 10 linked blogs you should check out, in no particular order~  Perhaps they've already got nominated... well, you're getting nominated AGAIN. :b  Also please don't feel obligated to participate.  :)

1. Daniela at Krížikové vyšívanie
2. Alyssa at Brownie's Chair
3. Preeti at Creat - E - witty Unleashed
4. Pandy at Adventures of a Crazy Cat Lady
5. Missy at Dork Stitch
6. Annie at The Crafty Pixie
7. Reaper at The Stitching Reaper
8. Becca at finding flapjack
9. Elle at EllemereCrafty
10. Pamela at Hokkaido Kudasai

Sneaking this in on this here post, I present my (somewhat late) TUSAL!  What do you think is added in there?

Answer: Moooore Muppets!

And because we haven't seen her in a while, Oreo would like to be on the blog. She takes the time to sniff the flowers, this time one of my African violets.  Don't mind the stretching Kalanchoe in the back; it was a dark winter and it got quite leggy.  I haven't the heart to cut off the flowers just yet.

Welp, that is all from me today. It's a somewhat bizarre weekend so I am going to pretend it is IHSW and hermit up with my Muppet letters and see just how many I can finish before Sunday evening.  I will set a lofty goal of four letters.  Fingers (needles?) crossed!

Hragarglblagh!

Zombie Rosey rises up from the dust of nothingness and is hungry for braaaaaaaains...

Well, hello there, Internet world! I still have no Internet (fingers crossed for something reasonably soonish) so I am catching up as best I can from my mother's connection! It was quite a happy surprise that I've been nominated for a Liebster award! It's my first award and it gives me warm fuzzies like you can't even imagine; thanks so much, Reaper! :D

Here's a little bit about the award:

Liebster is a German word meaning favorite, dearest or beloved. The Liebster is awarded by bloggers to other new bloggers who have fewer than 200 followers, to help spread the word about their blogs and to help them gain wider recognition.

The Liebster award comes with four conditions that each recipient must satisfy when accepting.

1. Choose 5 up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
   


I had a difficult time finding those who haven't already been nominated and there are so many amazing stitchers out there...! I do apologize if you've been nominated before and/or didn't want to participate. I love all the blogs I follow even if I'm horrid at expressing it!


2. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
   


In case you missed it before: THANK YOU REAPER YAAAAAAY :D


3. Post the award on your blog. List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites. Leave comments on their blog so they know about the award.
   


☆ Adventures of a Crazy Cat Lady
☆ Anime Stitching
☆ Craftiness... Starrley's Stitchings
☆ Cross me not
☆ Lissanne's Stitching and Creations


4. Share 5 random facts about yourself that people don't know about you.
   
   
   ① Oranges make me hyper. I could be completely mellow all day but give me an orange and I'll bounce off the walls.
   ② I read very, very quickly but miss quite a bit of the finer details. I've taken to reading books aloud... It's a good way to notice a LOT of plot holes, even among favorites, hahaha.
   ③ I cannot braid my own hair (but I'm learning!).
   ④ I'm convinced the only good part of an Oreo (Cookie. Not to be confused with Oreo my cat, haha) is the creme.
   ⑤ I love mowing the grass with a push mower instead of a riding mower, regardless of yard size.

I wish I could give you shiny pictures but I am a potato that forgot the camera on the one weekend of Internet access! I have a backlog of TUSAL (I'm still doing it because floss in jars is pretty and I like giving the birds pretty things for their nests~) and I finished the sparkly moth! Yes, yes, I did! I found sparkly floss (which I've never purchased before and wowzers, I didn't realize how much more expensive it would be!) and got that arch finished in about 2 hours of stitchy happiness. Quite a bit of those two hours involved puzzling over how to edit the arch to fit my changed angel and wondering why on earth the vines weren't even on both sides. I figured something out and now it will forever lurk in my pile of "finished-but-not-really-finished finishes" which is turning into a little mountain by now!

You are a brave and kind soul for reading this despite the lack of pictures! :D