Love makes the (blog) world go round!

Margaret at Water Blossoms honored me with this award. Thank you Margaret! I love her blog too....every time I visit I want to run and grab my sketchbook and draw something. She's a wonderful artist. This is my first award...exciting! I'm supposed to pass this on to 5 bloggers whose sites I love to visit.

1. Andrea Joseph's Sketchblog: Want to be inspired? Go see her wonderful sketches! I love her drawings of collections of small things!

2. Julie's Pictures: Julie is a marvelous artist. She captures her family and friends in wonderfully loose sketches...someday I hope to be able to do that! She also encouraged many of us to get off our duffs and walk for exercise by linking it to drawing. I didn't stick to it as I should have, but I enjoyed what I did and now I always carry my tiny moleskine when I walk.

3. Felicity's Philosophies: You will just have to check her out......Felicity is a master with the pencil and she just started using colored pencils with the most amazing results. You will be astounded. Felicity also lives in some wonderful places and her photos let me travel from my desk chair.

4. So Many Stars: Kathleen just got set up in a studio space away from home. Her blog is always inspiring...from journal pages and paintings to collages and stamp carving. She'll inspire you to do something creative today.

5. Learning Daily: Cin has a wonderful blog. You'll be charmed by her sketches of the people and places of her life!

The participation rules are simple:

1. If you get tagged (and want to play along) write a post with links to blogs that you love, too.

2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme, created by Emilia.

Tagged!

Felicity tagged me for this little game...tell 7 facts about myself and pass it along to 7 other bloggers. Be sure to visit Felicity's blog if you haven't before...she is a master with the pencil.

1. I love dogs....so much personality and always so eager to love you and please you. I have lots of little dog figures and art around our home.
2. I attended Purdue University....holy cow, 25 years ago. I did 2 years, got married and never went back to complete my degree. I never did stop learning...lifelong learner....keeps you sharp (I hope).
3. I was raised in the American Baptist Church and am still a Baptist. Contrary to popular belief, many Baptists are fun folks who are or aren't teetotalers (I'm not). We dance, play cards, tell jokes and laugh out loud. I'm always suprised when folks think being a Christian means you can't have fun...after all, God invented the platypus...he's got to have a sense of the funny.
4. For some reason, I have to work twice as hard to be half as organized as most people.
5. I really enjoyed being a full time housewife. I was never bored...there's always a million and one things to do or make or read. We had to sacrifice some things for me to stay home with our kids, but it was worth it and I'm glad I did. I like all the creative stuff about homemaking, but hate doing laundry.
6. I love books. And paper. And I'm kind of wierd about it...the texture and feel and smell of the paper, ink etc. is important to me.
7. I'm afraid of heights. I don't even like to watch other people being up high.

Now, who to tag? I don't know who's done it before so forgive me if I'm tagging you and you've already played.

Julie, Cindy, Starr, Julie, Linda, Teri, Lisa