This last year has been really busy for our family and thus, I wanted to apologize to the sweet women who bestowed awards to this blog that haven't been properly acknowledged. Included is also a nomination we received for a "People's Choice Award" that could use your vote if you are so inclined :) And finally, is some random information about this author and sentiments for a Happy New Year!
First, Shandy of Aprons n' Pearls had nominated this blog for the "Leibster Award". Thank you so much, Shandy! You will want to visit her for some tasty recipes and homemaking inspiration. Her blog is a pretty place and encourages creative home-keeping :)
Second is Bren of BGgarden.com! She has nominated this blog for the "Sunshine Award". Bren shares beautiful pictures of garden life, food creations and lovely home ideas! Be sure to take a stroll through her lovely garden of posts. You will be enchanted :)
Thirdly, this blog has been nominated for "The People’s Choice Award" for our Printable Pantry Stock Up List post! The ten most popular "Wildcrafting Wednesday" posts from the past year will be featured this Wednesday on all six of the blog hop host sites and readers will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite on each site – The Woodwife’s Journal, The Entwife’s Journal, Bella Vista Farm, Blessed in Homemaking, Herban Momma, and Mind Body and Sole. Voting will begin today on January 1st and run through Sunday, January 5th. Results will be announced on Wednesday, January 8th. Be sure to make a visit over, they have a really neat blog hop!
Update: Thank you to everyone who cast their vote! Our Printable Pantry Stock Up List received the award :)
Update: Thank you to everyone who cast their vote! Our Printable Pantry Stock Up List received the award :)
Lastly, the blog author is supposed to share 10 RANDOM FACTS about themselves per the awards. I am choosing to answer with some sentiments from favorite quotes and literature as well:
1. I am in love with history!..
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
~ Rudyard Kipling
2. Dark chocolate is my weakness and my strength :) Milk chocolate has no power over me...
“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
~ Katharine Hepburn
3. My dark hair reaches my waist and my Heavenly Hairdresser has begun weaving in some silver highlights...
"Long hair minimizes the need for barbers…"
~ Albert Einstein
"Gray hair is a crown of splendor…" (this keeps me going ;)
~ Proverbs 16:31 NIV
4. I own over 1,000 books (purchased second-hand) and read several at a time because I dear reader, am a moody reader...
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! --
When I have a house of my own,
I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
5. I drink my coffee with heavy cream and raw honey. I *love* my morning cup...
“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas!
6. I ball my head off when reading aloud to my family… (I'll never forget my husband's face when he saw me struggling for words with tears pouring down my cheeks while reading to my four year old. I couldn't even finish the sentence. "What's wrong?!" he asked. "Charlotte died!!!", I cried. You wouldn't believe his expression when he found out that she was just a spider…)
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas!
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle.
She is gracious, she is godly and she is giving...
You and I, if we are women, have the gift of femininity.
Very often it is obscured just as the image of God is obscured in all of us...
The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified.
As I say to you women, 'Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God."
~ Elisabeth Elliot
8. I am a very passionate person which can be good and it can also be bad...
10. I love being a keeper at home (oops, I suppose you already know that!)...“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes,
and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”
~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes,
and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.”
~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”
~ Louisa May Alcott
“It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?”
~ Audrey Hepburn
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
~ Jane Austen
What about you? Do you share any of my weird "randomness"?
Thank you to all the ladies who have been so gracious with kind comments this past year and I look forward to reading your inspiring blogs this upcoming one! It is nice to see what like-minded women are up to!
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.
It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
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