Blog Blessed

I've been blessed with the gift of a beautiful (couldn't think of a more beautiful) award from Tricia at It's All About Him. As I tripped on over to the Arte Y Pico (Peak of Art) site my heart just smiled to find myself at a Mexican blog, written in spanish. Here is a translated tidbit from the website (just because I love translating!).

El arte es maravilloso, mas aun cuando se puede compartir con otros.
Art is a marvelous thing, made more marvelous yet when it is shared with others.

This made me smile as I have always considered myself a bit of a dud as an artist, but I do love to paint word pictures, and take pictures, and it warms my heart to know someone sees that as art. If art is an expression of the beauty, struggles and emotions one experiences within, then I guess these words on a screen can also be construed as art. That delights me. Thank you Tricia!

As a recipient of this award, I have been asked to share it with five blogs that bless my life. I don't like to single people out or place anyone on pedestals as I am blessed by kazillions of sources... but I also don't want to kill the award so, without further adieu;



Ann at Holy Experience; Ann is a true artist, *truly* worthy of this beautiful award, she makes me feel like a bumbling first grader when I read her eloquent thoughts and emotions. She challenges me to aim higher with her moving meditations.

Andrea at The Flourishing Mother, she's real, she's beautiful, she's living a parrallel existence and that is comforting to me.

Ree at Confessions of a Pioneer Woman; because she's got grit and spunk and great humour, and her site is a smorgasbord for both the eyes AND the taste buds. Any woman who can love a man covered in manure has got to be a kindred spirit of mine. Not to mention she has mustangs, and cowboys, a bassett hound and Marlboro Man ;)....

Jenni at One Thing; she's raw, she's real, she's REALLY funny, and if she can raise 12 it gives me hope I can raise 5 :D

Gina at Chats with an Old Lady; Gina is that Titus II figure with a passion for God and a desire to see other women in love with Him too and living for His glory. She blesses and challenges and encourages me daily.