Sisterhood

Christine, Winnowings, has given me the Sisterhood Award.

The Sisterhood award rules are as follows:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received your award.

So without futher ado

With Heart and Hands...

A Simple Girl

Elaine Adair Pieces

From The Strawberry Patch

Pieces from my Scrapbag

Stillmeadow Quilting

The Calico Cat

It's the Cat's House, I just live here

These are just a few of the blogs I read daily. Please visit.

Brillante Weblog Premio-2008

Sweet P at Coffee Time Quilt Studio nominated me for this award because, and I quote, "She makes adorable small quilts". Well, gosh, thank you! I try.

So here are the rules: the awarded peep puts the logo on his/her blog and needs to link back to the person who gave the award. Then the awardee nominates at least 7 other blogs, putting links of those blogs in the post. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.

Erm, let's see. I read so many blogs; 268 at last count and I just finished paring them down. Thank goodness everybody doesn't post at the same time! But I digress. Who should I pick? O this is so hard. I don't want to leave anyone out but I only get 7.

Libby, A Simple Girl, because we are like quilt sibs. Libby is a sweet and gentle woman who makes the bestest primitive (and not so primitive) quilts. Kim of Stillmeadow Quilting a new friend with whom I love to chat. Doesn't the name 'Stillmeadow Quilting' evoke peace? And who couldn't love a person owned by cats named Simon and Schuster? Such joie de vivre! Toni, The Quilting Pirate, who has an unabashed enthusiasm for pirates that even extends to her quilting! Elaine at Eleaine Adair Pieces because we think so much alike when it comes to quilting that it is scary. Have you noticed that, Elaine? Mrs. Goodneedle From the Strawberry Patch, is such a good story teller and writer and she just keeps you entertained and when you come to the end of a post you are sad. You just have to wait for the next post. Finn at Pieces from my Scrapbag. She has an old-fashioned sense of home and family that just fits with my sensibilities. Her trips down memory lane trigger my own memories of family. Michele (with one ell) of With Heart and Hands, A Quilting Journey has such a caring and giving spirit and posts such informative, carefully researched articles. Pop over and introduce yourself.

I could keep going but I really need to stop at seven. It is like the seven sisters quilt block now isn't it?

You Make My Day

I have been tagged with this award by two different people and have been remiss in mentioning it. Vicki over at Knitting Dragonflies and Connie over at Simply Quilted have both recently awarded me this button. I'm not quite sure what I've done to deserve this, I've just been myself.

Thank you ladies!

I should award this to ten other people but being the zodiacal sign that I am, I cannot make up my mind, so if you are reading this you can consider yourself tagged.

U Make Me Smile!

Michele over at With Heart and Hands, a Quilting Journey has nominated me for this "You Make Me Smile" award and it's accompanying meme. Thank you Michele!

I've spent a lot of time in the sewing room this weekend working on several different projects and contemplating the meme. It involves using the letters of your name to share something about yourself and and then tagging 6 other blog friends to play along. OK then. Here's what I came up with:
P --> particular
A --> astute
U --> unique
L --> loving
A --> artistic

And since I've seen this particular award and meme around for awhile, I am not going to name any one person but you can play along with me if you want.

Thinking Blogger

I was tagged for a Thinking Blogger award. Now I don't usually post meme's or quizzes. I did when I first started blogging but I have since gone back and removed those from my archives. I think I got them all, probably missed some though. Why don't I do them? Because I was using them as filler, just as a way to get a post in when I had nothing to say. Nothing to say? You can stop laughing now. As a new blogger, I didn't really stop to consider the focus of my blog and found myself speechless at times. Now the true Paula is out. Anyway. My first thought was "What is this Thinking Blogger award?" For research, I did what any self-respecting computer literate would do: I Googled. Ilker Yoldas' blog "The Thinking Blog" came up. I followed the link and found that this was started on Feb 11, 2007. There is even an icon for it.

Now, I usually try to post about either quilting or knitting, crochet or other fiber related adventures with an occasional side trip into books. That is the focus of my blog, after all. I think I'm doing a fairly good job of staying on topic(s). Like Ilker, I don't post a blogroll in my sidebar. Why? I have over 200 blogs that I read (I have way too much time on my hands during daylight hours because it is actually 300; note to self: whittle that down) and I feel that nobody but me would scroll through an hellacious list like that, so I don't do it. What I do instead is to give you a link inside my post that you can follow (or not). If I were to include a blogroll it would be a diverse fibery thing that includes quilters (art, crazy and traditional), knitters, crocheters, fabric dyers, scrapbookers, photographers and journalers. Plus the uncategorized ones like Ilker's. Thank goodness they don't ALL post daily! There are actually a couple of blogs that I read that I have in my del.icio.us account because there just aren't any feeds to them.

So. Onward. I especially like to read posts that I can ponder and think about. And so, before I post my list of 5 that I read to make me think or laugh or cry or walk down memory lane or just to pour a cuppa & pull up a chair for a chat, I want to thank Connie of "Simply Quilted" for including me in this meme. And I mean this sincerely because this one made me stop and think. I have lucky number 13 in my 'Daily Reads'. It is going to be hard to prioritize them but here goes (and because I can't follow directions I've thrown in an extra one or two, tee hee!).

1. CrazyAuntPurl
2. A Simple Girl
3. Pieces from my scrapbag
4. Gone to the Dogs
5. Kim's Big Quilting Adventure
   
6. With Heart and Hands, A Quilting Journey
7. In A Minute Ago

From Ilker's blog:
Congratulations, you won a

Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme.

The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).