Nuptial Treasury...With Candy Mushrooms!

 (Nuptial-Etsy Treasury by Leslie of elbowsdesigns)

      I apologize 'right off the bat' to those of you used to reading my blog before 9 a.m. in the morning. I'm VERY late today! O_O And I'm not even gonna try to hide why. I slept in...a long, long, long time!! And that's because I took a nap yesterday afternoon that went for about four hours, having me waking up almost at 10 p.m.!!

      Then, after I woke up, I couldn't go back to sleep!... O_O ...until around 1:30 a.m. that is! UGH!...Soooo, here I am at this late hour this morning, trying to write something on the blog...and wipe the sleep from my eyes at the same time! LOL FORGIVE, please!

     Anyway!...I'm thankful to Leslie, the curator of the treasury that's in the header photo today, because without her treasury to share with you I might've been here talking about the details of how to wake your sleepy body parts up after sleeping too long! ^_^ Go ahead...'YOU' say thank you to Leslie also!! LOL

       I'd also like to thank Leslie for sharing my little mustard colored crochet necklace!..

 (Tiny Mustard Yellow Button Flower Dangle Crochet Necklace by Wuglyees)

     It's been in the back of my shop, underneath all of the back-stocked items I can't seem to move! :-)) She brought it out and showed it the light of day! :-) ...Speaking of light of day!...Look at the time!!!!!...Gotta go. But I'll be back tomorrow...more awake hopefully!!! :-] Have a good day, Everybody! :-) And click on the treasury and go check out the 'cool' items Leslie put together...like the candy mushrooms below. YUM!!!!!... WARNING though! Browsing through this treasury might keep you awake! ^_^

 

(Edible Chocolate Cluster Candy Mushrooms by andiespecialtysweets)

Logging All My Blogging

What will I talk about?
My camera's ready all the time!
Seems that everything's a subject,
whether ridiculous or sublime.

I upload all my pictures;
Head my post with one I like.
Put the title in the spot
that makes my story come to life.

Then I start the easy part,
talking til my face turns blue!
A little humorous bit of 'ME'!
(Is this what other bloggers do?)

After all my work is done,
and all my photos fit right in,
Then I hit to "Publish Post",
Well, first a "Preview", and a grin.

All that's left is constant checking.
Does anybody even care
that I'm nervous what they think,
and that my heart's all just 'Out There'?!

In the end, I have to like it!
Because it's done, won't hit "Undo"!
It's all fun and being me!
I leave the comments now to "YOU"!

A Little Blogging....A Little Looking.....A Little Music!

(crab cakes - bouffe e bambini blog)

        Usually on Saturday morning I'm here going on and on about where hubby and I darted off to for our 'Virtual' Friday Night Date, but, since he's been off from work, every day has become a date day! :-) So, I'm not finding that much interest in telling you about our excursions. ^_^

       Here's what we're doing: studying together, reading to each other before sunrise, listening to lots of music...and dancing, eating all kinds of things...at all times of the day and night, giggling, watching reruns of shows hubby wasn't able to see when he was working those long hours, hunting for jobs...online and in the paper, talking non-stop...about everything under the sun, sleeping...Oh! the lovely daytime naps all cuddled up! :-), organizing things around the house, filling out a lot of paperwork, and giggling...Oh! Did I already say giggling?! ^_^

     So, we're still gonna be having our 'Friday Virtual Date Night', but from now on, I won't be going on and on about it..unless something special happens!...But no worries! I'm still gonna have stuff to talk about! ^_^ Is there any doubt about that?!...If so, you must be new here! ^_^

        Case in point...the header photo!...Crab cakes! :-) {You can click on the picture and go get the recipe too!}...I started thinking about all of the things that have caught my eye lately as I was going around the world on my blog visits, and I decided to share a few of them with you today...and a little music too. :-) The music is courtesy of hubby and my date last night....which we spent looking at the replay of some of the contestants on "American Idol"...Oooooo Wheeeee! Those kids can sing!!!! ^_^

        While my ears have been having a good time, so have my eyes! :-) ...

 (Interesting Fruit - journalling through photos)

        I'd never seen a fruit like this before!...I still don't know exactly what it is...but I sure wanna taste it! :-) Doesn't it look yummy?!...I'd have to travel too far away in order to taste it though!

       And how about this colorful 'baby'?!...

 (Crocheted Mouse Clock - SusanD1408 Crochet Addict blog)

        This mouse clock of happiness...my name for it! ^_^...was shared by a guest blogger to Susan's blog..she was from the blog Planet Penny...Her blog looks like it might be a fun place to visit too! I'll have to check it out more closely...and soon! :-)

        I've been on a good blog ride lately...but not as good as the ride these guys were on!...

       Alex and Mina have been in the Sahara desert...riding on camels and stuff!!...

 (camel rides - ...sending postcards blog)

         If you check out the last few entries on their blog (just click the link) you'll find more pictures, AND video of their camel ride and trip. It looks like sooooo much fun! :-) I like it!!

        Last, for today, is the pretty green thing that caught my eye! :-) ...

(Green Mixer Giveaway - The Pioneer Woman Cooks)

        Isn't this mixer gorgeous?!...The pioneer woman is giving it away y'all!! All you have to do to enter is go over to her blog and answer the question: "What are your plans this weekend?"...Even if you're not doing much of anything, you can put that down as your answer! :-) ...I hope I win it! I know hubby hopes so. He's got two box cake mixes just waiting for a green mixer! ^_^

      YAY!! As I promised yesterday, my blog is up early...before 9 a.m. (our time zone), which was what I always shot for before...and will shoot for on a regular basis again!...And...with a little music here and there too! :-) ... Enjoy!!!! And have a good rest of the weekend, Everybody!! :-) ...I love blogging!

Logging All My Blogging

What will I talk about?
My camera's ready all the time!
Seems that everything's a subject,
whether ridiculous or sublime.

I upload all my pictures;
Head my post with one I like.
Put the title in the spot
that makes my story come to life.

Then I start the easy part,
talking til my face turns blue!
A little humorous bit of 'ME'!
(Is this what other bloggers do?)

After all my work is done,
and all my photos fit right in,
Then I hit to "Publish Post",
Well, first a "Preview", and a grin.

All that's left is constant checking.
Does anybody even care
that I'm nervous what they think,
and that my heart's all just 'Out There'?!

In the end, I have to like it!
Because it's done, won't hit "Undo"!
It's all fun and being me!
I leave the comments now to "YOU"! 

Stylish?!....Who?!....Me?!

       I have had a most wonderful thing happen to me...I was awarded the Stylish Blogger Award by...not one person, but two!!! By Nat of Nat's Natterings...and my blogger pal T.Rusk4u. I was very surprised, and very honored that they thought I deserves such a nice notice. So, thanks to both of them!!!
   I feel sorta like 'Miss America', but only in the fact that there are duties bestowed upon the winner of this award. {I got that pretty thing down though!...^_^....but I'm not as smart as the real 'Miss America', and I don't know how to do the special hand wave! LOL}

        There are 4 duties to perform to receive this award though:

1. Thank, and link back to, the person who awarded you this award
2. Share 7 things about yourself
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award! 

    Since number one is done, I'm going to tackle my 2nd duty...sharing 7 things about myself. I'm not going to do the obvious ones...like I love to crochet, and I write poetry like a nut! ^_^ I'll try to tell you some things you may not know about me:

(1.) Shortly out of High School, I had the opportunity to be the lead singer in a band. I decided not to because at the same time that this offer came up, my siblings were having some problems and needed to be relocated to live with me. I wouldn't have been able to leave them for nights out singing in a band.

(2.) I was a "Regular Pioneer" of Jehovah's Witnesses for 12 years (meaning that I went door-to-door and taught the Bible full-time for that period of time). I am a minister still. I just can't spend the same amount of time in the work as I used to. Health issues...But I miss it!

(3.) My husband has twins in his family, and this was a factor in our deciding not to have children! (Certainly not the only factor though) We were afraid we'd get more than one at a time. What chickens we were back then! LOL If we had it to do over again, we'd go for it!

(4.) I had chronic shyness from my early childhood, up to my 2nd year of High School! I don't think I saw anything but my feet the first year of High School!! ^_^

(5.) I sleep with a foot out from under the covers every night...no matter how hot or how cold it is. I feel like I can't breathe with it under the cover!!...I know! I need Therapy!!!! LOL

(6.) You'd have to have seen "The Mirror Has Two Faces", with Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand,  to understand this one, but no matter what I'm eating, the fork has to be loaded in such a way that everything is proportioned exactly correctly before it heads to my mouth!...I don't just eat...I ENJOY my food! :-)

(7.) My favorite music is Country! Me and my hubby used to go line-dancing regularly, and LOVED it!! That was before the hips went! LOL And considering that  I grew up surrounded by Motown music, it's a wonder that I fell in love with Country! {Not so surprising when you consider that I write poetry though. Every Country song is like a poetic story set to music!}...But, as a side point, there's very little kinds of music that I don't like!! I can appreciate Barry Manilow, Opera, and a good banjo too!!!

                 Charlotte Strumming her Banjo... by heatherfuture

     Now...on to duty number 3. I have to award 15 recently discovered bloggers this prestigious award. This one is going to be a little bit harder. Not because I don't have enough blogs that I follow, but because I don't have very many RECENTLY discovered bloggers to award it to. 

    I'm not the kind of person that racks up blogs JUST BECAUSE. I'm particular about who I follow, and I stay pretty loyal. If I follow you...I follow you!! :-) I don't like to accumulate so many bloggers that I can't keep track of what you're doing. So, I don't have but a few NEW people that I follow...But I'll do my best. Look out some of you OLDIES!! LOL But I can say...These blogs DESERVE this award!!

(1.) A little Piece of Me

(2.) A Scattering

(3.) And Baby Makes Three

(4.) Art Life

(5.) Artistikat Scratching Post

(6.) jansjems

(7.) Croatia

(8.) Duda Daze

(9.) Ezra Pound Cake

(10.) Facing 50 With Humour

(11.) Flight of the Pook

(12.) Framed

(13.) A Cup of Jo

(14.) Katherine's Corner

(15.) Mill Girl

     Being very honest with you, none of these bloggers need ME to give them an award to tell them how stylishly fabulous their blogs are! Some of them have a B-I-G following already! But they are so fabulous that I thought they should know how I feel about them, and you should get a chance to experience them yourselves!...I'm talking fun, art, good food, funny, and downright pleasant to visit. They are a part of the crew that make blogging such a delight to me!

   Okay, I'm off to fulfill obligation number 4!! I hope they left a light on! I don't want to be rambling around in the dark and hurt my crocheting arm again!!! ^_^

Logging All My Blogging

What will I talk about?
My camera's ready all the time!
Seems that everything's a subject,
whether ridiculous or sublime.

I upload all my pictures;
Head my post with one I like.
Put the title in the spot
that makes my story come to life.

Then I start the easy part,
talking til my face turns blue!
A little humorous bit of 'ME'!
(Is this what other bloggers do?)

After all my work is done,
and all my photos fit right in,
Then I hit to "Publish Post",
Well, first a "Preview", and a grin.

All that's left is constant checking.
Does anybody even care
that I'm nervous what they think,
and that my heart's all just 'Out There'?!

In the end, I have to like it!
Because it's done, won't hit "Undo"!
It's all fun and being me!
I leave the comments now to "YOU"!

Construction For The Poetess!

    I talk a lot about my crocheting, but as those of you who read my blog every day know, I also write poetry. (In fact, there's a poem at the end of every single blog post I've done since I started blogging!) It dawned on me yesterday, as I was doing another blog post about the scarves I've been crocheting, that I never really talk about my poetry and how much a part of my life it really is!

    My husband could tell you, because he's always picking up pieces of paper with my words, doodles, and phrases all over them and asking: "Is this important?" Usually it's not! The reason is because once it's down on paper a light goes off in my head that says: "That's the word!!!" After that the paper is immaterial!

   I'm going to do a poem right now, and show you the process that usually takes place with me...I start with a subject...Whatever comes to mind, or is pushing it's way "ON" my mind.

Image by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr

     Then I write down the things I think about when I think of that subject...Today I'm writing a poem about blogging!

     Then I put down my first thought. Sometimes I do this on the computer so I don't have to keep throwing away paper!

      ...And just because it's my FIRST thought, doesn't always mean it'll end up being the first line of my poem. (You'll have to check out the finished poem at the end of this post to see what I mean.)

    Then, as I work on it line by line, I write down rhyming words that I can choose from.

     Sometimes I think of words that I need to look up the definitions for, to make sure I'm using them  correctly.

    Then it's on to the next line, and more words.

    When I choose words, I'm more concerned with their sound than with their spelling. Don't get me wrong, I want them spelled right, but 'right' doesn't mean that it has to be spelled exactly like the one it's suppose to be rhymed with. For instance "Bike" and "Tyke". They rhyme, but aren't spelled alike at the end. And sometimes they don't rhyme exactly at all...but they fit!

    I'm sure all poets don't work like this, and that's okay!There's plenty of room in the world for "words"...All kinds of rhyming and wonderful Rhymers and their "words"!!!

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr

    Do you like the one I constructed today?! (Below)

       {Just as a wonderful side note, as I was writing this post I had my Zemanta Assistant operating. When I started to write about poetry one of the "RELATED ARTICLES" it recommended was MINE!! COOL!!! :-)) }

Logging All My Blogging

What will I talk about?

My camera's ready all the time!

Seems that everything's a subject,

whether ridiculous or sublime.

I upload all my pictures;

Head my post with one I like.

Put the title in the spot

that makes my story come to life.

Then I start the easy part,

talking til my face turns blue!

A little humorous bit of 'ME'!

(Is this what other bloggers do?)

After all my work is done,

and all my photos fit right in,

Then I hit to "Publish Post",

Well, first a "Preview", and a grin.

All that's left is constant checking.

Does anybody even care

that I'm nervous what they think,

and that my heart's all just 'Out There'?!

In the end, I have to like it!

Because it's done, won't hit "Undo"!

It's all fun and being me!

I leave the comments now to "YOU"!