May I Have the Envelope Please?

I am really, really behind on giving out awards!! Pardon this long post, but I want to make sure to give credit where credit is due!

First up:

Thanks to Diana Paz, at Writing Roller Coasters AND Shannon Messenter, from Ramblings of a Wannabe Scribe! For this award, From Me to You (aka the Picasso Award) I am charged with passing it on to seven other bloggers and telling you seven MORE things about myself! Ooooooh man. Hope you're not sick of learning about me yet, lol! I'll try to make them short and sweet... But first, here are the 7 blogs that I want to pass this to!

1. Anne Riley, at Anne Riley
2. Jemi Fraser, at Just Jemi
3. Jonathan Danz, at Words and Coffee
4. Kelly Lyman, at Kelly's Compositions
5. Carol Valdez Miller, at Carol's Prints
6. Alexandra Shostak, at The Publication Follies of Miss Alexandra Shostack
7. Calista Taylor, at A Steampunk Reverie

AND here are 7 new things about ME!!

1. I'm going to Italy for a week and then Greece for a week in Summer 2010!!
2. The names of three characters in my new WIP are: Catia, Anatole, and Tevin.
3. I'm in a crit group with Alexandra and Carol. They ROCK. And I'm crit partners with Shannon, who ALSO rocks!
4. Similar to Shannon's Ella, I have Gray Kitty. Surprisingly, she's a stuffed animal - a gray cat. I've had her since the day that I was born and it's a RARE night that I don't sleep with her. When I was younger, I couldn't decide on a name that was important enough to match what she meant to me, so I stuck with Gray Kitty. Her head kinda looks like that of a seal because I chewed off her ears years ago...
5. I just started watching Dexter, and I'm pretty much obsessed.
6. I'm HUGE on scents that I like. I always have a candle lit while I write. And since we don't have a tree this year, I light pine-scented candles all day long! My favorite perfume is still what I wore in 8th grade (White Musk from the Body Shop.) Though I have a HUGE collection of perfumes because, as previously stated, I have a thing about things that smell good :-)
7. I love swans.

Next: 

Thanks so much to Shannon O'Donnell, at Book Dreaming!  This award is given to five other blogs... Five other UPLIFTING blogs that find a silver lining even on those gray days. How fun! There are a lot of blogs who I run to when I need some uplifting, so this was a hard choice. But, the following five nominees ALWAYS make me smile at what they've written! Whether in nostalgia, or at self-debricating humor, or youtube videos, or just general good nature... they're all superb!  My five nominees are:

1. Lisa and Laura, at Lisa and Laura Write
2. Sherrinda, at A Writer Wannabe
3. Shannon Messenger, at Ramblings of a Wananbe Scribe
4. Frankie Diane Mallis, at Frankie Writes
5. Princess Courtney, at Southern Princess
   

Next up, we've got the:

A huge thank you to Carol Valdez Miller, at Carol's Prints! This award, created by Elizabeth Spann Craig, has the following (very easy) rules!

You can post this image to your blog…or not.

You may share this award with others…if you like.
You may adapt or alter this image in any way.

The blogs that I am sending this award to are my favorite writing group blogs:

1. The fabulous ladies of The First Novels Club
2. The similarly fabulous ladies of Let the Words Flow

Shannon O. also granted me the Honest Scrap award! Thanks Shannon :-) I've already passed that one on though, so click here to see where that one went!

Frankie tagged me in the writing TAG survey, but I'd also already answered those questions!  Thanks so much for thinking of me though Frankie!  Click here to read my answers!

Okay. So, this was a long post, but I just follow so many fabulous blogs!! If you haven't already discovered the writers/readers behind the blogs I've linked to... hightail it over there!! Because they're all AWESOME!


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