not my usual blog post...

 

the blogging community is as vast as we want it to be

or

as personal and intimate and bonding

and

i am still new to linking and affiliating

mainly because of my lack of computer skills.

there is a reason my blog looks the same

and follows the same format each post

 

one day i will recruit a friend and get a face lift in this space

 

today,

i was given a blogging award from

Michaela

who is a beautiful woman of faith,

a mother to a precious child

and an authentic, 

words strung like jewels

 blogger.

 

she is here

please do visit her space and witness her heart.

 

i think what i love most about receiving this from her

is that she is a young woman whom i had always been

intimidated by for a variety of self imposed reasons

but now,

years later,

a mutual love and respect and kinship has been forming

as we read one another's blogs.

and i love that

and i know that if i were to see her face to face now,

i would gather her up into a hug and feel such love and connection.

 

i love that about blogging

i do.

friendships forged that would not have the opportunity to become

in the day to day.

 

this little virtual award comes with 5 questions and after I answer them,

i pass it along to a fellow blogger.

how fun is that.

and, not at all what i usually do

which makes it feel like an adventure.

 

here we go.

 

what is your current beauty obsession:

so right away we can see how this blogging  award can take one in a direction they would not normally go.

i don't have any beauty obsessions unless taking an unusually large amount of bubble baths counts. i am hopeless when it comes to fashion, hair styling and makeup.

i have considered interventions but am always quick to remember they wouldn't do any good because i need to be true to me.

casual. natual.unadorned.

that is me.

 

name one item that you wished you owned:

 

ha! this one i can answer because i have been working on wanting things and being okay with that!

i wish that i owned a kick ass pair of leather boots.

i want them to go to just below my knees and be flat.

yes flat.

i don't do heels.

ever.

and i want them to be dark dark brown leather

and i want them soon....

 

what is your favorite topic to read about?

 

i am currently in love with poetry.

Rumi, Hafiv, Mary Oliver,

Lucy Shaw

(whom i discovered on the bottom shelf at the local sally ann)

 

usually though i am found reading all sorts of magazines

which I then cut up and paste into my art journals

 

i think i am a seasonal reader.

in the spring

 i have stacks of gardening books

and in the summer

 i occasionaly will read  a novel.

autumn 

often finds me introspective and my stack reflects that.

winter

 i go back to magazines, craving the glossy photos and colours.

 

what inspired you to become a blogger?

 

there were a few false starts with my blogging

and it wasn't until this one began that it really clicked for me.

originally my blog was started as a collaboration

with my friend Suzy who had moved to another city

as a way for us to remain connected and as an accountability piece for her.

that changed and i just kept on blogging.

if you go back to the very first  posts

you will see a back and forth blogging style between the two of us.

she picked the name too and it just stuck.

blogging became a life line for me as i have walked through my illness,

especially this past year being off work.

it is a place where i spill out what i want my heart to remember.

 

what nail polish are you wearing right now?

 

i try to always have my toenails painted.

it might be the one girly thing i do.

right now they are...

( i need to look...hold on)

deep purple.

 

that.was.fun.

 

thanks Michaela

 

i am passing this award on to the lovely Erin