Monday blog love

I hope everyone had a lovely long holiday weekend!

Blissitydoodah
Cabin & Cottage
Catnip Studio Chronicles
Deirdra Doan
Evi's Country Snippets
Humble Pie
Jo Wholohan
Katie's Rose Cottage
Les Carnets de Miss Clara
Lili M
Ozma of Odds
Papillon Bleu
Petite Michelle Louise
Retro Charm Garden
Robin's Egg Blues
Sepia Saturday
Tattered Chic
The Twice Remembered Cottage
Thistle Cove Farm
Victorian Vignettes
Vintage with Laces
vintagesusie & wings
Xela's Art Blog

Calling all tomato growers & Monday Blog Love

ACK! sniffle sniffle SOB!

We planted six tomato plants in pots and they have been thriving and looking gorgeous, and lo and behold, little tiny fruit has begun to appear.

But now, three of the six are looking poorly. WAH! They have some yellowing and blackening leaves and also curling of leaves.

Do you know what's wrong with my precious tomatoes??? I'm a brand new tomato mommy and I'm so sad and lost.





Bird Nests and Paper
Bobby Socks Quilt Company
Emmelines
Holiday Frivolities by JoAnn
Joey's Dream Garden
La Minute Papillon
Lanetz Living Vintage Sewing Patterns
Les surprises de Fifi Mandirac
Make Do and Mend
My Heart's Ease
Nicely Done
olivelse
on va voir si
Paper Bird
Retro and Ruby
Rose Miniscule
The Queen of Re
tous les jour dimanche
Valita's Fresh Folds
Vert Cerise

Monday blog love and Gifties for my niece

(scroll down to the end of post for Monday blog love)

(I couldn't think of anywhere to hang the garland from
for a photo so I threw open the armoire and voila!)

Happy Monday morning to everyone!

It sure felt odd to not have been firmly planted in front of the computer screen as usual for a week and half.

I've been consumed with my nieces graduation gift and let me tell you, I could kick myself from here to Tierra del Fuego - I am so sick of myself and my procrastinating! ARGH!

Let's see - I only had MONTHS to work on her gift ... so what do I do???! Wait until five days before her baccalaureate event to begin. What a knucklehead I am.

Thankfully I can say, WHEW! It's done. Right down to the wire, but done. We all went out to dinner last night to celebrate Baccalaureate and at the end of the evening, I nervously handed over the bag with goodies for her and my anxiously wrought handiwork. I am listening for the phone to ring, hoping to hear she loved everything. Nothing yet (except for constant political calls - we vote tomorrow). I'm wondering if she's waiting until her actual graduation day on Thursday??? Certainly I will go nuts waiting, if that's the case.

If you're from California, you know that every occasion calls for See's Candies, so I got her the graduation hat box of candy - it came boxed in another box, with a cute diploma attached. (They taped it so I couldn't read See's good wishes for the Graduate - perhaps some subliminal message to buy lots of chocolate every day bwhahahahha!)

My niece is a major Twilight nut, so I begged hubby to run out and pick up the (just released Saturday morning) new Stephanie Meyer book for her too, while I continued to toil and stress away on her gifts.

And bringing up the rear, the two things I made for her were, a Congratulations garland and a quote book.

Free Rag Quilt Letters Pattern and Tutorial from Happy Together.
Congratulations garland inspiration from here.

Ay yi yi!

I started to type out every misstep and crazy thing that went on for you and then thankfully I came to my senses teehee.

Let's just say that I worked non-stop from Tuesday morning until Sunday afternoon, literally three hours before we had to leave to meet up with everyone for her baccalaureate celebration dinner.

Here's a few pages from the book I made ... thank you Leslie for the inspiration to include photos throughout her growing up years!

It's bare bones simple since this noodle head of an Auntie can't get her stuff together enough to allow ample time for a project. Sheesh! (hanging head in shame and kicking own patootie!)








Always Home
Beautiful Things To Share
C. Dianne Zweig
Celestial Charms
Eszterda
Gold Country Girls
itkupilli
J. Nichelle
Jolly Goode Gal
Meadowbrook Farm
min lilla veranda
Mom Wald's Place
Paper Art
pinkbuttercreme
Pringle Hill Studio
sew take a hike
Sunday Postcard Art
The English Kitchen
The Gahan Girls
The Pleasures of Homemaking
The Pleated Poppy
The Seventh Magpie
The Vintage Nest
whatever ...

Monday blog love

Happy Monday to everyone!

Good gravy, the weekend went by fast! Lots of errands, housecleaning and then some fun on Sunday.

Ever the procrastinators, we finally made it to the special exhibit at LACMA, American Stories ... on the last day of the exhibit. By the hair of our chin-y chin chins! We'd seen several of the pieces included before but it still was a lovely exhibit.

But first off, we went to Farmer's Market for breakfast at Loteria Grill, YUM! And then I went berserk at B & N and came home with these ... please, if you should see me about to enter a bookstore, tackle me and give me a good talking to! Ay yi yi.











A Gathering of Thoughts
A Gentleman's Samplings
Banner Haus News
bear bits
Days of a Sampler Lover
Froken Skicklig
Happy @ Home
Ivory Blush Roses
Joy's Thoughts and Things
Le Manior Rose Blanche
Linda Ruthie's Apron
Lissu's Dollhouse
mommy lion
My Byrd House
Never Enough Time
Petits reves blancs
Rusty-Prim
Shabby Chic Green Cottage
Sweet Finds
The Adams Family Mini Mansion
The Stone Fence Cottage
The Vintage Polka Dot

Monday blog love

Waving hello to everyone!

I'm having so much fun and pleasure from visiting your blogs and all of your comments on Rednesday and Vintage Thingie Thursday. I must admit that I'm rather overwhelmed too. I guess I'm a plodder - it seems to take me so long to come up with an item to share and then I try to visit all of the blogs participating and comment and then my time seems to have slipped away. I'm a big believer in replying to comments on my blog and I just feel terrible for not doing so. WAH! Now I understand why you guys start a day early, yes sirree! I'm going to try to do better. Thanks again for all of your sweet comments, I so appreciate you and them.

Well ... I've been thinking about joining Amy Power's latest embroidery stitch-along, "Counting My Blessings". Every day I think about it. ACK! I have such performance anxiety. shiver shiver shake.

Anyway, over the weekend I picked up my fabric and threads. I am kicking myself in the rumpus! I got so dazzled by this one fabric that I forgot that I wanted a higher thread count linen, so I could have more detail if I wanted it. ARGH! Back to the drawing board, er, graph paper and start charting and see how it goes. miffle piffle posh ... kick in the patootie.


OH! We went to this wonderful nature store in the Valley on Saturday, Wild Things ... first off, there's a resident Golden Retriever, who came to greet us ... I can pet doggies all day long and not lose interest. So I played with my new best friend while my husband got down to business.

(Two monarch butterflies emerged from their chrysalis while we were there too! Neato!)

We were there to find a squirrel proof (or rather rat proof, I don't mind the squirrels) bird feeder and somehow ended up with a new hummingbird feeder and a hummingbird bell/wind chime thing too. And tons of birdseed that supposedly squirrels and rats don't like. Yeah sure. Check back with me later.

A day and half later and no birds and no hummingbirds. We've had hummingbirds for years but they are seemingly confuzzled by the upgrade in their restaurant counter! We had the traditional red plastic feeder and bought a (gorgeous) green glass one and they're like, "Nuh uh. Nuthin doin! Where's our red and yellow plastic flowers?!" There have been a couple of fly by's this morning, fingers crossed they'll eventually get brave and take a drink.

Happy Monday to you!


Artful Affirmations
Bluebird Baby
Colleens Reflections
comfort stitching
Crafty Makes
Creative Carmelina
Jeanne Kelley Kitchen
jumilla stories
Martha's Favorites
My Art's Desire
Office Type
Our Yellow House
Ramshackle Solid
Rancho Garbanzo
Rancho Gordo
Rhonda Mum
Small Measure
Tea Cup Stitches
The Beehive Cottage
the custards
The Tangled Nest
Vignettes

Monday blog love

always time for tea
Amelie's House
Astrid's Artistic Efforts
Designs by Terri Gordon
Farmama
Frizzlestix
Joosy Card Co.
lady i swear by all flowers
les petites croix de Christine
Modish
my arts desire
My Desert Cottage
my moments of time
Paperiaarre
Shirley Stitches
Simple Treasures
Sheezo, Frenya and the little lamb
Tabby's Place
Twice Upon a Life

Festival of Books & Monday blog love

edited to add: I didn't know that today is Boobquake! How did I not hear about this?! To cut to the chase, some cleric in Iran said that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes (or something like that, I'm late to the controversy teehee!). If I'm understanding correctly, we are all supposed to show a bit of decolletage today, for the sake of science.
stumbled upon Boobquake on dsharp blog
directed to CBS News from dsharp blog
directed to creator of Boobquake experiment blog, Blag Hag from dsharp blog

Ladies, get out those wonder bras, certainly this call to action cannot go unanswered!!! bwahahhahahha



Helllooooooooo!

I've started a list of my Monday blog love links for myself, in the hopes that I won't include any that I previously had listed ... my chin dropped to the floor ... I've listed more than 850 blogs ... (that's just on Monday entries, doesn't include any other entries or my side bar). WOW! And there's no slowly down ... there are always more more more to be delighted by. :)

art and lemons
Beautiful Art
El Taller de Punto de Cruz de Maria
emma lamb
everyday musings
Flower Hill Farm
gretelies
Honey Girl Studio
Inking Pink
jessica swift
Julie Whitmore Pottery
Kard Krazy
La Fuji Mama
Novel Eats
Oia Santorini
One Tribe Gourmet
sea salt with food
un conte de campagne
Vita Lenta nel Bel Paese
What Anna Loves
Whisk Kid
Wish on a Whisker


We went to the (Los Angeles Times sponsored) Festival of Books at UCLA this Saturday and Sunday. Two days, one girl, one guy, tickets in hand to seven of the panels, twenty five+ authors, then book signings, walking walking walking, funky ankle, bum knee, one aching back and little nourishment on Day Two and we're still alive. WAHOO! This is the life!

Our Saturday panels:

"Water: The Past, Present and Future of our Most Precious Resource", with Thomas Curwen, Michael Hiltzik, Jenny Price, Steve Solomon and D.J. Waldie.
Article about panel from LA Times blog.

"America: In Hope or In Crisis?" with Patt Morrison, Mark Danner, John W. Dean and Tom Hayden.

"Haiti and Recovery From Disaster" with Davan Maharaj, Mark Danner, Rebecca Solnit and Amy Wilentz.
Article about the panel from LA Times blog.

Our Sunday panels:

"Does the American Economy Have a Future?" with Jan Wiener, Joyce Appleby, Roger Farmer, Steven Hill and Matt Miller.


"Bill McKibben in Conversation with Susan Salter Reynolds"
Bill McKibben, author/activist, is the creator of 350.org.
Article from LA Times blog.
Article, The Science of 350, the Most Important Number on the Planet by Bill McKibben at Treehugger.
350.org and 10:10 Global are partnering together to sponsor a Global Work Party on 10/10. (from their website, 10:10 is a global campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in a year – starting in 2010.) Hoping everyone will participate!


"Watching the Detectives" with April Smith, Elizabeth George, Susan Kandel, Lisa Lutz and Stuart Woods.

"#Book: New Media Meets Publishing" with Carolyn Kellogg, Pablo Defendini, Dana Goodyear and Wil Wheaton.


And ... the exciting news to wake up to this morning ... Hugh Hefner has donated the remaining monies needed to save the land the Hollywood sign is on from crazy developers. (Do other states build luxury homes, hanging from the sides of their mountains??? In earthquake and mudslide country. Ay yi yi.)

sweet wanderings

oh my gosh ... there are little sweetnesses out there in blogland that just tug at my heart ... here's a few today ...

so very loved

i must have some

mushroomy goodness

enchantment

Monday blog love & fuzzy brain giveaway

Helloooooooooo! Hubby returned to work today after his two week spring break. He's begun PT - sadly his knee is hurting more. Seems to me when I had my frozen shoulder that it hurt more when I began PT too. OUCHERS!

Gosh, I've missed you all! I have been peeking in of course but not had the time to really read what you've been up to. I look forward to catching up.

OH! I'm having a little giveaway. I bought two of the same magazine (15 smackers X two = dumb dodo head!) - my middle aged memory loss is your gain bwhahahhahhaha!

So ... I am gifting to you my extra copy of the current issue of "Where Women Create" ... you may already have it??? Gosh, I hope someone wants it! Stampington publishes the most wonderful of magazines. If you're not familiar with this series, it's jam packed with yummy photos and stories of well known artists divine creative work spaces and their artistic process.

Let's see I've never done this before ... hmmmm ... so to enter you must have an "active" blog - in other words, you must have posted entries on your blog, not just a blog address used to enter giveaways, okie dokie?

whisper whisper I am hoping to lure out some of you lurkers to come and say hello - wouldn't that be fun to meet new friends?!

Please post a hello on this thread and I will pick a winner next Monday morning, April 19th, say at 9 am, PST and announce it here.


On to Monday blog love ...

A Bird in the Hand
A Dickens of a Book Club
Aileen Clark Crafts
Art Spirit
craftinitalia
Fennel and Fern (I just checked the link, they are currently experiencing difficulty, try again later)
Hausfrau in Melbourne
Humble Pie Designs
In the Labyrinth
In This Life
Inspirational Tips, Techniques & Tutorials
Juicy Bits
Kathy Schmitz
Le petit monde de Rima
Lennun Tekeleet
Little Nest Studio
mach etwas
Moline
Moss Hill Studio
My Mothers Pearls
My Pink Tickles
Office Type
Once Upon A Pink Moon
Orts and Ends
Pink Roses
Quaint Handmade
Quilting with the past
Spagat
Stitch Sew Scrap
tapestries of nature
teapots teapots teapots
Time to Stitch
Up the creek crafts

Monday blog love

Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours
{Albert Hammond}

It's pouring down here right now. So odd, or perhaps my old brain isn't remembering but I sure don't remember many rainy days in April here??? (The glorious unexpected warm days come to mind, but no rain.)

The roller coaster ride continues over here ... We received a call Saturday afternoon that my husbands father is in the hospital (in North Carolina) ... my father-in-law had fainted at work and they're trying to figure out what is going on. They said that he has only 20% opening in one of his arteries (or was it a vein???) but they don't think that is the only thing going on. Please think a good thought for him.

WAH!

The good news is hubby's knee is feeling a tad better. He's off getting his MRI right now ... he no longer needed his chauffeur teehee, so I'm able to catch up a wee bit with all of you.

Oh! I had such a time crunch doing my Easter cards that I never got a chance to show you them ... not my best effort WAH!

(Sally's 2010 Hoppy Easter card)

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter! We had a nice one, albeit a pretty quiet one. We were going to see a movie early but we just didn't get it together in time. (First we were going to go see "The Secret of Kells", then we were going to go see a documentary about Disney's animation comeback with "Beauty and the Beast", then we were going to go see "Alice" as it got later and later ... then we ran out of steam.)

So with that change in plans we had the time to get a yummy vegetarian Easter lunch from Native Foods - their Spring Wellington. YUM!

(image from Quarry Girl)

I think ours looked even yummier than this and it came with delicious asparagus and the most tasty lemon sauce (her photo seems to show broccoli instead of the asparagus we received). nummers! I want more!

We DVR'd "Love Comes Softly" and "Love's Enduring Promise" yesterday morning, recommended by adorable Alicia, of Posie Gets Cozy and plopped ourselves in front of the TV with our Easter luncheon and had a great time.

Then our dear family friends, Betty and Caroline, picked us up and we all had Easter dinner out with my dad, his girlfriend, my sister-in-law and my two nieces. It was a lovely low key kind of day, spent with friends and family.



A couple of weeks ago, I had fun going through old bookmarks and finding beloved blogs from way back when (when I first started reading blogs) and some how lost them to memory ... I am going to start including some of them as reminders to myself.

1st Floor Flat Freebies
a fairie tale of inspiration
A Note of Friendship
All the Small Things
Behind the Curtain
Biancas Welt
Fairysteps
frilyy frolic
Garden Mama
girlprinter
Handmade with love
Haust
Hilltop Hall
Humblearts
In This Life
Karen Michel
Karenika
Kim's Suitcase
Kristen Doran Designs
making time
my day
My Nifty Needle
My Own Sweet Thyme
My2Penn'orth
Natascha Rosenberg
Needleprint
Nostalgic Collage
Oodlekadoodle Primitives
Paper and Gluestix
Primarily Primitives
Queen Be Altered Needs
quilting Jeannet
Quinn Knits a Twisted Yarn
Sir Woodstock's World
Stamplicity
The Lonely Bean
The Needles Promise
Vintage + Goodness = Happiness
Vintage Stampers Freebees

Monday blog love

ACK! When I went to the needlework store on Saturday, the clerk was really REALLY sick. And now I feel yucky. Praying it's just allergies but I don't think it is. WAH! Loads of blog links for you ... I think I'm beginning to repeat myself but it's always good to make our way back to and revisit charming spots isn't it?! (is that a good excuse for my middle aged failing memory teehee?!)

100 Pretty Things
123 lavender lollipop lane
A Cuppa Tea With Me
All I Ever Wanted
At Home in Albuquerque
Beedeebabee
born to fly
bricolage life
cherished vintage
Constantly Vintage
Freebie Gallery
Gingham World
Marilyn Butler
On Awesome Avenue
one crafty mumma
Over the moon
Rebekaha
recipe look
sophistimom
Talk Crafty To Me
The Art of Clothes
The Vintage Housewife
Truffles
turn UP the sound
Unlimited Possibilities
Vegetable Matter
Vintage Rescue Squad

Monday blog love

Well goodness me ... I think you can tell from the list below that I spent one day last week glued to my chair in front of the computer. gosh, that's a little embarrassing, gulp, stammer stammer ... but I'm gonna own it teehee. Hope you find something that tickles your fancy in the list.

And a special mention of one of my favorite blogs ... yup, I was stuck to my chair again ... Julie Collings of the adventures of bluegirlxo, has the most adorable Easter tutorials on her blog and you need, yes, you need, to run over and see them if you haven't already. :) She has several so just keep scrolling down ...

Happy Monday!

1richtungsblog
39 squares
a conversation at goodwill
A Polar Bears Tale
Angela Harris
Blessed and Distressed
Bleu Bird Nest
Charming Quark
Chronically Vintage
Fair Blue Moon Studio
Gypsy Fish Journal
Handmade Today
Into Vintage
Ishtar Olivera
It's All About Creating
Kay Loves Vintage
Kitchen of the Princess
Little Red House
MadeStuff
Margo's Junkin Journal
Miss Mustard Seed
My Nifty Needle
My Scandinavian Retreat
Nicole's Needlework
Nobody Puts Mama In A Corner
Nordic Book Blog
Notes from Blue Hen Hollow
Oodles and oodles
Reflections from the Stone Nest
Sea Cottage
Sweet Myrtle
The Sum Of All Crafts
time out stitching
Vintage Flair
when skies are grey
With thy needle and thread

Monday blog love

a cottage in the woods
A Little Bit French
Artful Spirit
Artisans Gallery Team
By the Bay Needleart
English Muse
French Charming
French Kissed
frogs, dogs & ferns
Garden Mama
idemakeriet
It's All About Creating
keep it simple
knit ... stitch ... crochet
Le Secret Muse
Let's Come Together
Lovely World
Matou en peluche
Mockingbird Hill Cottage
Ours for a year
Scarborough Fair
Sharon Lovejoy
The Rustic Victorian
Three Kitchen Fairies
Treasured Heirlooms & Elegance and Whimsy
Vintage Catnip

Monday blog love

Happy Monday to everyone!

Did you enjoy watching the Academy Awards last night? I did! I loved Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, I thought they were a lot of fun. Wasn't Sandra Bullock's gown divine?! So gorgeous! She wasn't my pick for best actress but I love her real life persona and find her charming. My husband wanted "Avatar" to win best picture but I personally think it has some flaws compared to "The Hurt Locker", which was pitch perfect.

I've included several links to book blogs that I stumbled upon last week, in my blog love today. We're all about the books over here and excitement is building as we near our absolute favorite event of the year, The Festival of Books, at UCLA in April! Cannot wait, so much fun!

A Little Bit French
A very fairy garden
Books and Cooks
Bunches and Bits
C'est la vie
Celebrate Creativity
Classic Mysteries
Cornflower
Csuheba zart kis vilag
Design Mom
Dolls and things
Duo Fiberworks
Folk and Fairy
Gift of Stitching
Golden Gems
Irkafirkák
Jen's Book Thoughts
Jules Food
katafoltok
Lilla Blanka
Love for Books
Moonlight and Hares
Öltögetek tehát vagyok
Open Gate
Otletelo
rachael amen art
Scraps of Time
Suffix Abuse
The Lonely Bean
This art that makes me happy
Vintage Romantic

Monday blog love

A casa do Guaxinim
A Foothill Home Companion
A Vintage Chic
Balance in Me
butterflyfood
Inspired By Life
Penty de Val
Pretty Petals
Soed idee
The Making of an American Sampler
XuXudidi


For Lindsey, of Two Crazy Crafters,

Hi Lindsey! Here's the card that I made using a vintage pattern envelope of my mom's for my friend Pam (waving hi to Pam!). I had so much fun making it!

And here's the link for the original inspiration, at Paper, Scissors and Superheroes.

Monday blog love

If you've been reading blogs for a few years or if you are a habitual link clicker like me, you have no doubt found yourself in the charming land of Posy. I read over the weekend that the dear author of Posy, Jane, is laid low and has been feeling very poorly for awhile. If you haven't already, I think it would be lovely to shower her with some blog love.

Posy


There is a lovely gathering of hearts going on in blog land.

Charlotte Lyons Pieces of Heart
Rebecca Sower Heart Sessions
Rebecca has a list of other bloggers joining in.



badskirt
bird in the hand primitives
Bloom
hazelruthe's
Kviltstina
Laughing with angels
pompom rouge
Robin's Egg Bleu
Rosebud's Cottage
Simplify
Sugar Stitches
The Late Bloomer
turning turning
Vintage Collage and Quilts

Monday blog love

I read last week on Charlotte Lyon's blog, House Wren Studio, that Rebecca Sower had put out a request for embroidery threads for a woman she became friendly with in Haiti, Jeannine. Over the weekend I gathered up some DMC floss and pearl cotton and sent it on it's way to Rebecca this morning. I think this is such a lovely idea and an additional way that we as creative people in the blogging community, can give to those in need in Haiti, who also put their hands and hearts to work, being creative. These women have a dream to earn a living by being creative, a dream also that many of us share.

House Wren Studio re Rebecca Sower & call for supplies
Haiti By Hand (link to Rebecca's post about Jeannine)
Rebecca Sower


Charmed Life
chez Elisa
constantly vintage
Cynthia's Cottage Design
dessert first
Dessert Girl
ginger and george
Happiness is cross stitching
Happy Threads
Heartfelt Handmade
House of art
jessica jane
Lila Tueller Designs
l'Opale d'Arthenice
Papier Girl
Providence Handmade
Tapestry of Dreams
That crafty fish
waking up in Bavaria
Zinc et grisaille

Monday blog love

I strayed from my resolve to not plop myself down (for hours on end) in front of the computer last week and the result is a small list of places to visit and feast upon. Enjoy!

Becky Shander

Bitter Betty Blogs

Cowboys & Custard

elvie studio

Flor Larios Art

HenHouse Homemade

naphtaline

noodle and lou

pookieville

Vintage, Pretty & Shabby

The Washerwoman

Monday blog love

The Best News

The most best-est, most exciting-est, most cozy news is ... drum roll ... and lots of jumping up and down from me ... the most charming blog, Buttonwillow Chronicles has returned. I completely missed the return while I was way laid with dental problems. Now I'm skipping around the house grinning, hurray hurrah, Lauren Mumford has returned to delight us.

The ButtonWillow Chronicles


Enjoying these charming dog-filled blogs

2DogStudio
Anne Leuck Feldhaus
Blue Mutt Photography
Sit.Stay.Smile.


Sad and infuriating news - Copyright Infringement

So sad and awful to read of the rip off of these artists designs!
Carol Eldridge
Ellen Crimi-Trent

Monday blog love

Little by little, baby steps, one step at a time, I'm gaining strength. (Now if my jaw would just release and unlock! Sheesh, so depressing!) Last Thursday I went grocery shopping with my husband - first time in weeks - he's been having to do it all himself. We went to this ginormous Whole Foods in Venice and there was a lot of walking back and forth (and back and forth again!) Saturday hubs drove me to the needlework store (yippie skippie!) and to Michael's - the needlework store clerk loves to talk and she really put me to the test. And Sunday, yesterday, we went out for breakfast at the Farmer's Market and to the bookstore. Everything pooped me out but I'm none the worse today. Hurray hurrah!

Thought I'd do Monday blog love a little differently today ... with commentary. ;)

Gnome Sweet Gnome

The charming blogs, Creative Breathing and Paula's Palace of AltAred Art,
are having a Gnome Party. Pull up a toadstool and join the fun!

Creative Breathing
Paula's Palace of AltAred Art

And there's also a blog all about gnomes:
Better Gnomes and Garden
Check out the gnome habitat ornament tutorial they link to at My Paper Crane:
Gnome Habitat Ornament at My Paper Crane blog
Also the mini-cone gnome tutorial at Lune Vintage blog:
Mini Cone Gnome


Be Mine

The adorable mom and daughter team, Twyla and Lindsey of Two Crazy Crafters, are having a vintage valentine celebration, called Bella Vintage Valentine. Run over and be charmed!

Bella Vintage Valentine at Two Crazy Crafters


Where blogs and magazines meet

Did you read the exciting news? The wonderful Olivia Kanaley, of A Field Journal blog, is now part of the Victoria Magazine team as their 2010, Artist in Residence.

Enjoy her gorgeous blog, A Field Journal.


A Family Affair

The sisters of much beloved bloggers Alicia Paulson of Posie Gets Cozy and Jennifer Murphy of And other silly things, have their own beautiful blogs.

Alicia's Sis, Julie may be found at Under the Tulip Tree.
Jennifer's Sis, Kindra may be found at kindra is here.


The meaning of life

Thank you to Pam of yoborobo for the introduction to the haunting and life affirming blog, Circling My Head. A blog of family and friends. A blog of grace and gratitude. A blog of art with a chorus of healing angels.

Circling My Head