An award….For Me??…...And For You….

 

There's an award in blogland. It's the Liebster Blog Award, and I was recently nominated for it. I was surprised and honored that Dawn at vesselsmemories2.blogspot.com felt my blog deserved to be recognized.

The Liebster Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. "Liebster" is German for sweetest, valued, welcome and, or favorite. I think the nomination itself, is an award. It's certainly a nice way of recognizing and being recognized.

Thank you Dawn for nominating me….. http://vesselsmemories2.blogspot.com/

There are a few rules to follow...

1.  Each nominee must share 11 things about themselves. 

2.  Answer the 11 questions set for you and create 11 questions for the people you nominate.

3.  Nominate promising new bloggers who have less than 200 followers.

11 Things About Myself….

1. I could watch NCIS reruns all day.

2. I enjoy playing RPG’s on my XBOX.

3. I think birch trees are amazing and spiritual.

4. I lost my first child through a miscarriage at 5 1/2 months of pregnancy.

5.  I am a former smoker….over 30 years. Just over 3 years nicotine free!! Yay!

6. I have a deep faith in God.

7. I believe we all have psychic abilities.

8. I love to laugh.

9. I battled depression for a short time in my life.

10. My absolute favorite holiday is Christmas. I love everything about it!!

11.  I was the 8th grade champion of my schools’ spelling bee and I still can’t spell the word I lost on in the states!

And now for the 11 questions Dawn asked me to answer…..

Q. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

A. Playing guitar, sewing, playing xbox, finding new recipes, pinterest.

Q. Do you have a favorite quote?

A. Let Go And Let God

Q. The ocean or the lake?

A. Ocean of course!

Q. Do you have a favorite food or restaurant?

A. I just love bacon….LOVE IT!

Q. If you had to move, where would you want to go?

A. Hawaii

Q. Do you like sports, if so, what's your favorite?

A. Baseball….Red Sox Fan!!

Q. Pet peeve?

A. Drivers not using their blinker when turning! Makes me Loco!

Q. What kind of music do you like and do you have a favorite artist?

A.  I love most all music except for opera. Aretha has always been one of my favorites.

Q. A favorite movie?

A. My favorite the last couple of years was Spielburgs’ Super 8

Q. Do you text?

A.  Not if I can help it.

Q. What chore do you least like to do?

A. Cleaning the bathtub!!

I nominate the following blogs for this award ~

Dawn @ http://candgdesign.blogspot.com/

Jane @ http://northfinchley.blogspot.com/

Elenka @ http://downeastdoingstuff.blogspot.com/

 

Here are your 11 questions my fellow bloggy friends….

1. What’s your favorite season of the year?

2. What’s the most exciting thing you have ever done?

3. Best thing you ever ate?

4. What makes you crazy?

5. Do you believe in God?

6. What’s you absolute favorite hobby?

7. Favorite actor or actress?

8. Favorite meal including dessert.

9. What’s your favorite song from your teen years?

10. One of the most difficult things you’ve ever had to do?

11. What insect/animal scares you the most?

I’ll be back soon I hope. Life has gotten pretty busy this winter and both hubby and I got sick with a flu virus in between that seemed to just hang on. Some of you that I wanted to nominate (beyond the ones I did) already had over 200 followers!! So….good for you!! /See you all soon….. Debbie

Winter Mumblings…..

    Hello all….It’s 5:30 a.m. and why am I up at this Godforsaken time of the morning you ask? My husband is scheduled for a colonoscopy at 7:00 in Portland. Neither one of us slept last night. Why I didn’t sleep is a mystery, but the reason for his tossing and turning has to do with a possible flu, that curiously began last evening. Right in the middle of the great Colonoscopy preparations, he started getting the chills. Never having been through this before, he was starting to think it was lack of food! The orange Jell-O and the yellow Gatorade just weren’t cutting it! Being a seasoned contender at this (twice now!) I knew that wasn’t it. So….we will see what the day will bring….he’s just rising now and we will head out shortly.

    As some of you might know, I was hit with a bunch of spam. I’ve cleaned out most of it….I had a HUGE number of Anonymous spams about pills, enlargement devices, and other various crap that seemed to take over my blog! It really ticked me off. So….I had to disable the anonymous feature and I apologize for anyone that cannot get into the blog.There really was no other way around it. Having said that, I apologize once again for not being around here much! Some of you have come by anyway and I so appreciate that!! We had a wonderful holiday. I have been very busy with antiques I got from Peaks Island that I am sorting, researching and selling for a friend. Right now I am working on two good sized lots of Dollhouse Miniatures from the late 60’s into the 70’s. We will soon be listing them on Ebay. A woman from the island was quite handy when it came to crafting these wonderful little treasures. From old buttons,  antique pieces of jewelry, and great imagination, wonderfully unique items were created by her. Here’s an example of one of her many chandeliers for a dollhouse…..

The bottom is an old brooch with garnet stones. Above that is a combination of old jewelry. The stem are crystals and diamond (not real) studded jewelry pieces and the ceiling tile is hand painted….isn’t this something? They are mini treasures and I have a lot of them…it will be fun.

    I hope you are all well and I promise I will be by this week to see what you have been up to this winter thus far. Thanks for being so loyal and sorry for my absence! I am going to try and get back every week. Hope you are all well!!!

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2012

Hey everyone….I have been incredibly busy but wanted to pop in and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!! We are hosting this year and hopefully it will come off without a hitch. There will be 8 of us and maybe a few extras for dessert later on. Yesterday we cleaned and today I  bake and tomorrow we cook. I got a 21 pound turkey and will have butternut squash, mashed potatoes and gravy, my mother in law’s peach/pork stuffing which is to die for, my daughter who is vegetarian is bringing baked stuffed acorn squash.  We’ll have homemade snowflake rolls, stuffed celery, two kinds of olives, and pickles. Oh and garlic carrots. Today I am baking two apple crumb pies, one pumpkin, a chocolate with chocolate filling and glaze Bundt cake, and banana bars. I think that’s enough don’t you? What are you all having?

I wanted to apologize for not visiting all of you and not responding to my comments. Life has been so busy. I started selling on Ebay a lot more than I thought I would. The research and all else that goes with it has taken up a lot of my time. My upstairs room is filled and I mean FILLED to the brim with antiques!! I will take a picture after the holiday to show you. I want to wish all of you a wonderfully joyful Thanksgiving!!! Relax and take time to smell the turkey!! Love you guys!! Blessings to you all.++

CRAFT IDEAS AND A BREAK…..

While perusing my new addiction Pinterest.com recently, I came across this amazing blog. It has tutorials on some very cool items to make for your craft room if you have one. Here’s a link to this woman’s site…………SCOUTS STITCHES  Hopefully it will bring you to her blog and you may have to do a bit of searching to find the crafts. The picture above is from there. I love that! I plan on making one this winter!!

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Meanwhile, my best friend Lorraine    came home from Florida about a week ago.  She was on vacation here for the week. We grew up in the same small town and went to the same schools. We see each other just once a year. This year was very special because she recently survived Ovarian Cancer. I’m so proud of her. Her joy regarding the colors of the fall trees and the cooler temps invigorated me! She helped me remember to be grateful. Living in Maine is wonderful and the four changes of the seasons are a wondrous part of our existence here. But…I sometimes take that for granted. She helped me see the colors with new eyes.We had breakfast twice at a place called in North Yarmouth, only about 15 minutes from here. I have heard good things about it but have never been. They are a favorite of the locals and apparently chefs in Maine declared the place one of the top 50 in Maine to eat. Stone’s Café makes their own pies, pastries and many other amazing desserts and meals. Here’s a link……STONE'S CAFÉ  It’s definitely worth the trip if you are a Mainer. We had lunch at my niece’s golf club called Toddy Brook. It is so lovely there overlooking the golfing green. TODDY BROOK

We had gone to our home town and picked up another dear friend from school and she joined us for lunch.

We visited our parents at the cemetery, and then took a ride across the ocean in our home town to a place we loved as kids called Cousins Island and then Little Johns Island. Here’s the bridge we drove over to get to Cousins Island….We walked down to that beach. As teens we jumped off that bridge in the middle! Then on to Little Johns Island down the road a bit. It was a place we retreated to party as teens sometimes. The roads are narrow going around the island and halfway around there’s a dock we used to fish off.

People still do. We had a lot of laughs. The next day, we had a big barbecue together with Lorraine’s family. I can’t wait to see her again next year…..it was a fun time. I am so glad she is still with us….she’s a courageous girl and my best friend.