Award Time!! Lemonade Award AND the Your Blog is Fabulous Award

Ohhh - Aren't awards fun? I was so honored to receive the Lemonade Award from Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews, the Your Blog is Fabulous from Teddy Rose of So Many Precious Books, So Little Time!

The Lemonade Award is for blogs with great attitude and/or gratitude. There are so many blogs that deserve this award!
For this one, I'm going to choose a few of the blogs who regularly participate in the FIRST WildCard Tours, a group of bloggers who review Christian books. These bloggers all work hard to review and share the books on tour. A note about WildCard Tours - it is a free tour group where authors and/or publishers can have bloggers sign up to be a part of the WildCard Tour for their book. The bloggers agree to post the WildCard Tour of the books they sign up for, and are encouraged to include an honest review in the tour post.

So, the award goes to:

Wyn of Wyn is Reading Books - I really enjoy stopping by and reading her reviews, plus right now she has a really nice giveaway going on for the book Dear God, It's Me and It's Urgent!

Stacey of Word Up! - Stacey has some wonderful reviews, as well as some great posts on Bible Studies. I thought her current post Plagues - Old Testament? New? NOW! had some very good information and challenged the reader to really think.


Mimi B. of Woven by Words - Mimi has posted a great review of the book Scrapping Plans by Rebecca Seitz. I was hoping to get in on this tour, but didn't sign up in time. It was great to be able to read her review and the first chapter of the book!

(Isn't this button just adorable!!) Recipients of this award are encouraged to write five things that they are addicted to and then pass it on to five other blogs.

Five Things I'm Addicted To:

1. My family! Without a doubt - if my family members are available, I absolutely love to spend time with them. Extended family members actually complain a little that they never get to watch our son. :)

2. Books, Books, Books - As if you all didn't already know that! I LOVE reading. I love sharing my reviews, and talking about books with people - in fact, I participate in three different book clubs.

3. Crafts - When I'm not doing things with family or reading (which really hasn't been leaving me much time anymore), I love to do crafts. ANY crafts! I prefer to do Hardanger, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking and beading . . . but I also enjoy making candles, soap, stamping, sewing, spinning yarn, making cigar box purses, Pergamano paper crafts . . . . do you see where I'm going here . . . I really could go on and on here!

4. Chocolate - anyone who knows me really well knows that I've always got a stash of chocolate in at least two rooms in the house! LOL

5. Interactive games! Have you tried the Wii Fit yet? It is wonderful! And the bowling - we've had family over for entire days of Wii Bowling! Then we've got the XBox 360 Rock Band thing going on too - my niece loves to come sing or play the guitar - it really is fun! Bet you didn't know that about me! No - - - I'm not really a gamer, but I do like to play games WITH people, so I guess you can lump this one in with my number 1!

Now - to pick five more people to share this award with. . .

Amy of Passages to the Past - She has an amazing post about one of Queen Marie Antoinette's homes - the pictures she has shared are truly beautiful - I encourage you to stop by!

Janel of Janel's Jumble - Ohhh - the book she has recently reviewed is Sweet Love, and if the cover doesn't make you want to run out and pick it up, her review probably will!

Ramya of Ramya's Bookshelf - She has quite a few reviews up for books I've recently added to my wish list. :) That list only seems to get longer as I read more reviews!

Patricia of Patricia's Vampire Notes - She has written so many great reviews it is hard not to get completely sucked in to this genre! ;)

Kathy of The Oklahoma BookLady - I love to stop by her site and check out the pictures she shares (if only I could take pictures like she can!). I also love to read her reviews. . . . remember that when you visit and get distracted by all her wonderful pictures.


I tried to spread these awards around as I've tried to catch up on all my awards over the past few days. If you weren't on here, please consider yourself tagged by me if you would like to play along. I also understand that not everyone has the time to participate in these awards. :)

Award Time!! Let's Be Friends

I feel so honored to have received this award from three different and wonderful bloggers! Many thanks to Jane of Fleur Fisher Reads, Ruth of This That and the Other Thing, Cathy of Kittling Books, and Stacey at Word UP!, who all sent me this award - it is so nice to know that I've got bloggy friends out there! :) Ladies - can I send the award right back to you?

I frequently stop by each of these ladies blogs to see which books they have reviewed. I can't tell you how many books I've added to my wish list because of these ladies, and those that I'm about to pass on the award to!

The award says:

“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

Like many other bloggers have said before me, it is so hard to only pick eight people to send this on to. I've got so many bloggy friends!! :)

First let me start by saying that without the help of the following two individuals, I probably wouldn't be blogging. When I knew absolutely nothing about blogging, they were both willing to answer my questions and help me get going!! Tina of Bookshipper was one of the first people I ever contacted, and she was so nice and helpful - thank you Tina! After thanking Tina, I have to take the time to thank Amy of My Friend Amy - on more than one occasion, we have teamed to work on little bloggy projects, and she has helped me with html code questions and other miscellaneous bloggy questions - thanks Amy!!

There are also a few individuals who always leave nice comments on my posts (which makes me feel really good), and they are Kelly of Enroute to Life (by the way, Kelly has been finding some really great giveaways, and she is so nice to share them with the rest of us!!), and Kathy of Bermudaonion's Weblog (who leaves great comments on so many blogs).

Next we have Anna of Diary of an Eccentric and Serena of Savvy Verse and Wit, who have both helped me contribute to my About the Author: Author Interview Index. I absolutely love to see when they add new interviews to the index - they are always great fun to read!

Jenny of Come Meet AusJenny is another blogger who has been very nice and supportive. I don't recall exactly how I met her, but I have a feeling it was as a result of participating in FIRST WildCard Tours - I always love reading her reviews and checking in on what is going on in her world over in Australia!

And finally, I'd like to acknowledge Michele of A Reader's Respite, who is one of the first bloggers I've chatted with who lives in the same general area I do - it is so nice to know that there are other bloggers in my area!

So - to recap - I'm sending this award out to (wish I had the time to triple up this award as I really do have many other bloggy friends I'd like to include!):

Tina of Bookshipper
Amy of My Friend Amy
Kelly of Enroute to Life
Kathy of Bermudaonion's Weblog
Anna of Diary of an Eccentric
Serena of Savvy Verse and Wit
Jenny of Come Meet AusJenny
Michele of A Reader's Respite

Awards!!

Click on the award to read the details and see who I passed it on to!

















The 2009 Friendly Blogger Award: I received this fun award from Serena over at Savvy Verse & Wit

The Butterfly Award: Kelly, Bonnie, Kaye and Ryan G of Wordsmithonia all awarded me with the Butterfly Award! Thanks everyone!!

I Love Your Blog Award: I am also honored to receive the "I Love Your Blog" award from Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews

The Lemonade Award: I was so honored to receive the Lemonade Award from Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews

The Lemonade Award is for blogs with great attitude and/or gratitude.

Let's Be Friends: I received this award from three different and wonderful bloggers! Many thanks to Jane of Fleur Fisher Reads, Ruth of This That and the Other Thing, Cathy of Kittling Books, Kristi of Books and Needlepoint (have you ever stopped by to see what needlepoints she shares?), Missy of Missy's Book Nook, and Stacey at Word UP! who all sent me this award - it is so nice to know that I've got bloggy friends out there!

One Lovely Blog Award: I received this lovely award from Rebecca of Lost in Books, Mary of Bookfan-Mary, and LuAnn of Reading Frenzy!

Premio Dardos Award: I received this award from Sunny over at That Book Addiction, and from Melissa over at Bibliphile's Retreat!

This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.

The Proximidade Award: I received this beautiful award from Mari, of MariReads (who also knits), Alyce (whose name rhymes with peace!) of At Home With Books, Pabast from Reading Mama, and Blodeuedd of Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell.~ Thanks Alyce and Pabast!!

"This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this clever-written text into the body of their award."

The Sisterhood Award: Many thanks to Bev of Merry Weather, Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews, and Kelly of Enroute to Life, who have each graced me with The Sisterhood Award!

The Splash Award: Melissa of Melissa's Bookshelf, and Kristi of Books and Needlepoint have awarded me with this splashy and glitzy award. (Melissa doesn't know it, but after seeing how nice her link bar was under her heading, I HAD to figure out how to get one on my blog - so I ultimately took two nights to figure out how to do it, and I also updated my header!! Thanks for the inspiration Melissa!!)

You Don't Say Award: I received this wonderful award from Melonie of Wandering Quail Road and Wanda of A Season To Read!

"We give and get awards for having a great blog and being a good friend. What I want to award is those people whose comments have meant THE WORLD to me. It takes time to visit a blog and leave a comment ... I wanted to recognize some special bloggers whose comments have made such an impact on me. The “You Don’t Say?” Award is awarded to these special bloggers in hopes that they will pass the award along to 5-10 of their best commenters!"

Your Blog is Fabulous: I received this award from Teddy Rose of So Many Precious Books, So Little Time!

(Isn't this button just adorable!!) Recipients of this award are encouraged to write five things that they are addicted to and then pass it on to five other blogs.