Award Season

I received a blogging award from 50villapeikkoa, and I wanted to say thank you! It's a real honor
coming from her, because she is like everything I am not: an efficient and awesome knitter! I
tried knitting once, and well, let's just say, I didn't get very far. But I love looking at the knitting
creations of other people, and really enjoy the pictures on her blog. So thank you! :)

The rules for the Versatile Blog Awards are:

• Nominate 15 fellow bloggers.
• Inform the bloggers of their nomination.
• Share 7 random things about yourself.
• Thank the blogger who nominated you.
• Add the Versatile Blog Award picture on your blog post.

I know not everybody likes blogging awards, but I do like them, because they are what blogging
is all about: sharing! A lot of the blogs below I read and stalk and rarely to never comment on, so
here I'm sharing them with the world:


I'd like to pass on the award to these blogs, in alphabetical order:

- Fridulina
Thoughtful words and lovely craft projects. And a very special woman in real life. <3

- Domestic reflections
I like her honesty.

- El hada de papel

craft projects with kids.

- Kaffiknopf

family life in Germany (in German)


- lista asioista
artsy and cool (in Finnish)

- Manteli

Because she captures the everyday so beautifully.

- Moka

Because her children always make the coolest things.

- Oon
Because she has a way with color and patterns, and I think she should start selling kids clothes!

- Paju

Because her pictures are always full of patterns and texture.

- Remind Me Sara
Because she is my real-life friend and I love her so. :)

- Ringo

Inspiration for kids art


- Rockstar Diaries
She makes life seem so pretty and easy

- tila

Because she is living proof that there is elegance in a simple life.

- Trula

Because she makes me want to sew, badly!

- Zilverblauw

Color therapy.

In case the blog owners see this: There is no pressure to show this award on your blog, or to pass it on, if you don't want to. 
I just want to show my appreciation. :)




Oh, and then 7 random things about me:

• 1. In my ideal world, I'd have a house full of children, right by the sea, and it would be barefoot-running and pebble skimming, and pancake making, and sunshine and bliss all the time!
• 2. In real life, I barely manage to take out the trash, so maybe not.
• 3. Though I'm thinking, maybe another girl would be nice, someday; and a little boy. And twins on top of that.
• 4. As of yesterday, my husband is back in school and I'm happy and excited for him and for us, but also seething with jealousy. I'm so jealous that I'm seriously considering signing up for a pole dancing/cabaret strip class. Just so I have something exciting and new and slightly shocking in my life. Desperate Housewife much? (Edit: No worries, it's just a class with a silly name at my gym. No poles, and certainly no stripping. Too bad. :D)
• 5. So, I'm thinking it's time for me to go back to school, too. At least part-time. Maybe in fall. To study human rights law, like I always wanted. Or maybe Hebrew, that would be cool, or creative writing, or egyptology, or underwater basket weaving! You know. Something! Anything!
• 6. Hmm.. Can't I have a house full of children, and be a novelist, and have a PhD, and save all the women and children on earth, and live by the sea, all five? 
• 7. I like to day-dream. :)

Thank you, 50villapeikko, for the award! And sorry that it took me a month to finally blog about it!


 :)

Spring

I'd like to thank sweet Sirja for awarding me the Gorgeous Blogger Award.
Thank you for your kind words. :) I really feel very honored that you read my blog.

The award comes with a few questions:

1. When did you start blogging?
I started my first blog in November 2008. Fé was 18 months old then (whoa!).
When Sisi was born, I started this blog: Schlitzohren. That means, roughly translated,
little rascals.

2. What do you write about in your blog? (what's your blog about?)
I think I blog about my children, mostly. Motherhood, a bit of the everyday,
the ups and the downs, too (remember when I just quit this blog for 8 weeks...?!).
And whatever things pop in my mind.

3. What makes your blog special?
 The same thing that makes everybody's blog special:  my own unique self.

4. What made you take up blogging?
I hardly know. I had a need to share. And I wanted to keep friends and family
in the loop about what's happening with us. (It was a more personal blog back then...
with pictures of diarrhea on the wall, the most random pieces of writing
[about Twilight and Obama and such things], summaries of family trips... ).

5. What would you like to change in your blog (if anything)?
I day-dream about having a fancy, professional blog with scheduled posts
like Food Mondays and Inspiration Fridays and Pretty Perfects, etc. But it's
not very me to have scheduled anythings. So, you'll just keep getting the random
mesh of me-ness., I'm afraid. :)

I'd also like to write more German.

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I'm awarding this award to one of my new favorite blogs, Izakoo:
Your photos always make me smile.

AND: We planted flowers today, wearing our new rainboots. It must be spring!

Happy weekend!

Beautiful Blogger Award

Lilla a gave me an award (oh thank you, thank you, how exciting!). I feel so honored, because lilla a is one of my all-time favorite craft blogs. This woman is simply amazing. She comes up with the coolest projects on an almost daily base. How does she do it, I ask! ;)

Seven Things That Make Me Glad:

the sound of raindrops dripping on the roof at night.
the feeling of thick Spanish grass under my bare feet.
a fresh ocean breeze on a sunny day.
bikes and scooters and playgrounds and ice-cream trucks.
this postcard.
lavender bushes and cherry blossoms.
my family. Yes, foremost and forever: my family.

... And I pass this award along to Katarina of Grain & Silk. Her blog is nothing short of absolutely stunning. Always.