WELCOME TO THE HOP! My One Little Word (OLW) reveal
By kate blue - Saturday, January 19, 2019
HAPPY JANUARY! Welcome to the WHOGIVESASCRAP/! blog hop! Hope you came from {JENNY'S BLOG} but you can always start at the beginning with {CONNIE CAN CROP} and then follow the hoppers till you get back here!
I'll be honest, I have only had a few One Little Word (OLW) choices over the past few years because I'm always forgetting about it! My past words have included:
to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so
verb (used with object), be·lieved, be·liev·ing.
to have confidence or faith in the truth of (a positive assertion, story, etc.); give credence to.
to have confidence in the assertions of (a person).
to have a conviction that (a person or thing) is, has been, or will be engaged in a given action or involved in a given situation
I'll be honest, I have only had a few One Little Word (OLW) choices over the past few years because I'm always forgetting about it! My past words have included:
- LOVE
- REFRESH
- CLARITY
- JOYFUL
For 2019, I toyed around last month with a few possibilities- CELEBRATE, BALANCE, TRUTH, CREATE, FLOURISH...but then, on December 28th, I was watching the Kennedy Center Honors and Adam Lambert and his STUNNING rendition of BELIEVE for his tribute to the lovely CHER:
Of course, he moved me to tears (I've always been a fan of his and his eclectic personal style) and so for 2019, my word is BELIEVE! 2019 will bring confidence into what I "BELIEVE" is best for me and my children and no one else! No Monday morning quarterbacks, no naysayers, no critics, nobody telling me what THEY think I should/shouldn't be doing.... I'm just going to BELIEVE that my decisions are mine and so will any consequences that come with that. I BELIEVE things can only get better that way cause what was happening in the past hasn't worked so far :) Believe in myself, my abilities, my mental and physical road to better health is what's in store in 2019.
verb (used without object), be·lieved, be·liev·ing.
verb (used with object), be·lieved, be·liev·ing.
to have confidence or faith in the truth of (a positive assertion, story, etc.); give credence to.
to have confidence in the assertions of (a person).
to have a conviction that (a person or thing) is, has been, or will be engaged in a given action or involved in a given situation
So there you have it! Next on the hop is KAREN but before you go, thank you for letting us (me)inspire you!! My RAK for one of my followers is a $ 20 GC to The Scrap Room!
This is a quick hop , so all you have to do is leave a comment along with your ONE LITTLE WORD to win! My winner will be chosen on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, so you have until 10 pm on Sunday to visit all the blogs, follow us and leave LOVE!
This is a quick hop , so all you have to do is leave a comment along with your ONE LITTLE WORD to win! My winner will be chosen on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, so you have until 10 pm on Sunday to visit all the blogs, follow us and leave LOVE!
Get your minds out of the gutter...I'm talking Friday Fabulous Feature sillies!!! I saw this crafters' work over at the Platinum Scraps blog, and although I can't make a card to save my life, (be quiet, Natalie) I do love looking and admiring the work of those that can....
I love the fact that he says that he has a particular style (shabby), but I just see fabulosity whether it is shabby chic, eclectic, romantic...he has all kinds of style if you ask me...I like that he thinks that you aren't limited to red & pink for Valentines Day (yes, I went WWAAYYY back in his blog posts) and I adore his mini treat boxes! He can do all the things I wish I could do like stamping, painting and embossing! So without further ado, I give mad props on this sweet Friday the 13th (MY BIRTHDAY) by kicking it off & introducing you to Terrance, aka Trell who you may know from My Creative Time or, from his personal blog, Polka Dots, Paint & Cake Batter!!!
Terrance allowed the Queen to asknosy questions interview him for the blog! He's been crafting since 2010...no typos..only 2010! He was working at JoAnn's, learned to use a Cricut and the rest was "his-story" LOL...He's obviously been hiding his talent. Can you imagine what would happen if he scrapped layouts??? (he doesn't) but OMG, he'd surely be published !
Q: What inspires you to create? Do you work with others or alone?"
A: I am a big believer in inspiration presenting itself in many forms. I love color, it can be a great starting point for a project. Like man others. I love pattern. I think that is the reason why we hoard some of our favorite papers. Florals are near and dear to my heart. And, I'm a sucker for damask.
Now, when I create for My Creative Time, I let the stamps be my inspiration. If one looks around my blog for a while, I think they'll find that I have a bit of a vintage/shabby style of personal cardmaking. However, I try to go outside of my box and do my best to make the stamps shine when I design with Emma's stamps. I pretty much work solo, but I get great feedback from close friends.
Q: What are your 3 favorite crafting supplies?
A: Since I started, I've evolved into a stamper mainly, so I gotta have my stamps, ink, and good cardstock. But it's very seldom that I make a card without the use of my dies and Cuttlebug. Also, anyone that knows me knows that I love ribbon and tying bows. It's one of the things I get the most comments on. I'm admittedly addicted to ribbon - preferably grosgrain or saddle stitch!
Thank you Terrance for being part of my ROYAL celebration; what better thing to do on my birthday than to share gifts with friends ???
I mean, for real, feast your eyes on this beauty:
gorgeous right??
and how about THIS:
and how about THIS:
Terrance allowed the Queen to ask
Q: What inspires you to create? Do you work with others or alone?"
A: I am a big believer in inspiration presenting itself in many forms. I love color, it can be a great starting point for a project. Like man others. I love pattern. I think that is the reason why we hoard some of our favorite papers. Florals are near and dear to my heart. And, I'm a sucker for damask.
Now, when I create for My Creative Time, I let the stamps be my inspiration. If one looks around my blog for a while, I think they'll find that I have a bit of a vintage/shabby style of personal cardmaking. However, I try to go outside of my box and do my best to make the stamps shine when I design with Emma's stamps. I pretty much work solo, but I get great feedback from close friends.
Q: What are your 3 favorite crafting supplies?
A: Since I started, I've evolved into a stamper mainly, so I gotta have my stamps, ink, and good cardstock. But it's very seldom that I make a card without the use of my dies and Cuttlebug. Also, anyone that knows me knows that I love ribbon and tying bows. It's one of the things I get the most comments on. I'm admittedly addicted to ribbon - preferably grosgrain or saddle stitch!
I won't reveal much more, go hang out at his blog and at My Creative Time...tell em Queen Kat sentchya and leave him some royal L-O-V-E :):):)
Thank you Terrance for being part of my ROYAL celebration; what better thing to do on my birthday than to share gifts with friends ???
1. I dislike cell phones for many reasons and that could be why I hardly ever keep track of mine.
2. I don't drink soda hardly ever...maybe once every coupla months. My kids don't either.
3. Silver jewelry thrills me !! Lots!!
4. Etsy is my new addiction. Especially for bracelets.
5. I am a fraternal twin; born on the 13th of July (yup, today is my b-day)-I am the younger twinnie by 7 minutes.
6. Eighties was the best decade ever...that includes fashion AND muzik.
7. I don't wear flipflops outside the house even if I have a pedicure-something to do with my sweaty feet :0
8. I love comedy-everything from Blue Collar, Jeff Dunham, George Lopez** all the way to Katt Williams.
9. Am a lover of ALL things Micheal Jackson, Prince and Madonna...again, it's an 80's thing...
10. Despite the tons of flavors out there, my favorite ice cream is and always will be Vanilla-yes, plain old Vanilla.
NOW, on to MY 6 (I just picked 6 cuz I wanted to) crafty BLOGGERS THAT Inspire me all the time-in no particular order are:
1. Myra @ Maganda Memories
2. Sherry @ Got Art ?
3. Jenny aka Chez
4. Cassie @ Cassie Box
5. Alissa
6. MandyK @ RustyStars& DustBunnies
**I'm not even describing WHY I love these blogs; just hop over yourself and YOU'll see...each is different and crafty and totally awesome....TOTALLY.
One last post-then the break! This talented UK diva, TracieH who I have adored for years cause she has a style I truly love (I remember posting about her on the Fiskateers site back in the day and people were like who?? Shame shame shame they didn't know who she was), is hosting a giveaway on her blog...she makes stuff like this:
and this:
Today is the FIRST DAY of Adornit’s Christmas Blog Party! We’re excited to “Make it Merry” for the next five days. Look forward to holiday inspiration, projects, challenges, and, of course, PRIZES!
Let’s get this party started! We’re jumping right in – today is CHRISTMAS CARD day. We have some great samples, and, of course, something fun for you to do – our 30-Minute CARD Challenge.
Go to their blog and join in the fun! I'm part of the blog hop so hope you'll come back for more!
I rec' this fabulous blog award from my great pal Charity (a/k/a CharyGirl)
The rules are I have to pass this along to 5 other friends and answer a list of questions in ONE word!
Here are the questions:
1. Where is your cell phone? Purse?
2. Your hair? streaked
3. Your mother? stylish
4. Your father? strong
5. Your favorite food? italian
6. Your dream last night? chaotic
7. Your favorite drink? alcoholic? vodka non alcoh? coffee
8. Your dream/goal? speech (Brandon)
9. What room are you in? scrapstudio
10. Your hobby? scrapping
11. Your fear? fire
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? working
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren't? relaxed
15. Muffins? cranberry
16. Wish list item? $$
17. Where did you grow up? everywhere (military brat)
18. Last thing you did? movie
19. What are you wearing? shorts
20. Your TV? on (DIY)
21. Your Pets? none
22. Friends? asleep
23. Your life? improving
24. Your mood? tense
25. Missing Someone? nope
26. vehicle? suv
27. Something you're not wearing? acrylics (nails)
28. Your favorite store? tie : Homegoods or Target
29. Your favorite color? teal
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? recently (watched GHOST tonite)
32. Your best friend? asleep
33. One place that I go to over and over? library
34. Facebook? yes
35. Favorite place to eat? chipotle
So now I have to pick five people whose blogs I love and award them:
1. Jody
2. MandyK (a/k/a MandyKay)
3. Jen (a/k/a Chez)
4. Christina
5. Jenny (a/k/a Candy Apple Red or JennyB)
I love reading their blogs (call it scrapstalking if that's the term you wanna use)....They are so talented and funny and continue to inspire me...stop by and check them out if you don't already- you won't be disappointed! Tell them Queen Kat sent ya !!!!
Here are the questions:
1. Where is your cell phone? Purse?
2. Your hair? streaked
3. Your mother? stylish
4. Your father? strong
5. Your favorite food? italian
6. Your dream last night? chaotic
7. Your favorite drink? alcoholic? vodka non alcoh? coffee
8. Your dream/goal? speech (Brandon)
9. What room are you in? scrapstudio
10. Your hobby? scrapping
11. Your fear? fire
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? working
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren't? relaxed
15. Muffins? cranberry
16. Wish list item? $$
17. Where did you grow up? everywhere (military brat)
18. Last thing you did? movie
19. What are you wearing? shorts
20. Your TV? on (DIY)
21. Your Pets? none
22. Friends? asleep
23. Your life? improving
24. Your mood? tense
25. Missing Someone? nope
26. vehicle? suv
27. Something you're not wearing? acrylics (nails)
28. Your favorite store? tie : Homegoods or Target
29. Your favorite color? teal
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? recently (watched GHOST tonite)
32. Your best friend? asleep
33. One place that I go to over and over? library
34. Facebook? yes
35. Favorite place to eat? chipotle
So now I have to pick five people whose blogs I love and award them:
1. Jody
2. MandyK (a/k/a MandyKay)
3. Jen (a/k/a Chez)
4. Christina
5. Jenny (a/k/a Candy Apple Red or JennyB)
I love reading their blogs (call it scrapstalking if that's the term you wanna use)....They are so talented and funny and continue to inspire me...stop by and check them out if you don't already- you won't be disappointed! Tell them Queen Kat sent ya !!!!
well. let's see...boring week....finally got my behind outta the sick bed for Inauguration...did I mention that I passed the sickness on to hubby???
* got to see my friend Mandy who I hadn't seen in like forever; had a great time and got home entirely too late.
* Scrapped about 6 cute layouts but haven't photographed them cause they are out in the car-too lazy to lug the big tote inside till tomorrow.
* May start early and start doing the CLEAN thing since Kim's coming on Saturday and there's no football on tomorrow. I love the Ravens anyway!
*Had a yummy Greek burger (not gyro) with lots of cucumber and tzatziki sauce-I'll probably dream about it tonight :)
Saying prayers for my scrapbooking friend Kimberly Madrid and her little man Ryan who has had leukemia since 2006..was in remission and it has returned and despite a stem cell transplant and other medical procedures, the treatment he is undergoing now may not work. Kim's words are here and it hurts me to post them for I know how her heart is heavy right now:
"Ryan will be getting 5 days of a combination of ARA-C and clofarabine. These are both ''big gun'' drugs. The doc was very clear that they did not know if this would work or not. She was also very careful to state (and re-state) the possible side effects of this chemo: immuno-suppression, possibly for a very long time, nausea, fever, vomiting, severe organ damage (to the point that he could die from this).
Well. If we don't go forward we *know* for certain (barring Godly intervention) that the cancer will kill him. We won't know if this chemo can help him unless we try"
She asks for nothing but prayers right now. If you have a minute, pleae visit their www.Caringbridge.org page (key word is MADRID) and leave some words of encouragement... thank you {heart & hug inserted}
* got to see my friend Mandy who I hadn't seen in like forever; had a great time and got home entirely too late.
* Scrapped about 6 cute layouts but haven't photographed them cause they are out in the car-too lazy to lug the big tote inside till tomorrow.
* May start early and start doing the CLEAN thing since Kim's coming on Saturday and there's no football on tomorrow. I love the Ravens anyway!
*Had a yummy Greek burger (not gyro) with lots of cucumber and tzatziki sauce-I'll probably dream about it tonight :)
Saying prayers for my scrapbooking friend Kimberly Madrid and her little man Ryan who has had leukemia since 2006..was in remission and it has returned and despite a stem cell transplant and other medical procedures, the treatment he is undergoing now may not work. Kim's words are here and it hurts me to post them for I know how her heart is heavy right now:
"Ryan will be getting 5 days of a combination of ARA-C and clofarabine. These are both ''big gun'' drugs. The doc was very clear that they did not know if this would work or not. She was also very careful to state (and re-state) the possible side effects of this chemo: immuno-suppression, possibly for a very long time, nausea, fever, vomiting, severe organ damage (to the point that he could die from this).
Well. If we don't go forward we *know* for certain (barring Godly intervention) that the cancer will kill him. We won't know if this chemo can help him unless we try"
She asks for nothing but prayers right now. If you have a minute, pleae visit their www.Caringbridge.org page (key word is MADRID) and leave some words of encouragement... thank you {heart & hug inserted}
peeks...everybody is there having a good time without me {sigh} ...I can't pickup the pen or the t-shirt but...I do love Creative Cafe stuff; am gonna be using their cute buttons tomorrow. They are showing the felt butterflies to see if we are interested, accu-dies..check them out here! http://mycreative-cafe.com/blog/
Hmm, let's see... JYAS *****I will be one of the next featured "artists" (if you can call me that) {hehehehe} at http://youraveragescrapbook.blogspot.com/ sometime around January 25th or 26th...but for now, go check out their site and check out this weeks's featured scrapper MEG. She has some very, very nice projects and layouts. I'll be lurking around her blog the rest of the evening until my cold medicine kicks in :) Maybe you will be inspired to post some of your layouts for others to be inspired. Again, sorry about the link thingees on my blog; I'm not that good at blogging and don't know how to do it correctly-somebody's gotta teach me! Volunteers????
Then, in February, I will be one of the featured artists @ Scrapbooking.com newsletter/online site!! They actually liked 2 canvases I did of Thing 1 and Thing 2 so hopefully you'll see those soon.
Then, in February, I will be one of the featured artists @ Scrapbooking.com newsletter/online site!! They actually liked 2 canvases I did of Thing 1 and Thing 2 so hopefully you'll see those soon.
that I do not mind people having an opinion about me sticking up for Sasha BUT I do mind you being abusive in your comments to me. This is a democracy and everyone has their opinion to situations {including me} and I chose to NOT post it anonymously like some of you and I will respectfully leave it at that. I didn't agree with the postings that Sasha placed on her blog after the postings at CMK, but like she said it is HER blog and HER words and I respect that aspect of it. I merely stated my opinion that included other conversations that bloggers were not aware of. Let's just let sleeping dogs lie and go forward. If you got upset by MY post(s), use that energy in a more creative outlet rather than sending me anonymous and other nastygrams; there's more important things like the war in Iraq and hungry kids in our community than to worry about scrapbook DTs and published pages-it's all good in the neighborhood ya know?????
Thanks to Charygirl, I've been HIT!
So here are the rules! {as copied from Chica}
1. If you've been tagged, you can put the logo on your blog.
2. Link the person from whom you received the award.
http://creativegirlz.blogspot.com/
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours. ** I don't know how to do it the link way so I gotta give the whole URL until I figure it out.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.
So here goes: my LUCKY {7}
* Morag Cutts
http://scrapbook-junkie.blogspot.com/
* Francine
http://francineclouden.typepad.com/callaloo_soup/
* Divian
http://scrapitfabulous.blogspot.com/
* Lisa S
http://www.ethnicscrapbooking.typepad.com/
* Rhi
http://rhiancaroline.blogspot.com/
* Renee
http://reneehagler.typepad.com/my_life_my_blog/
* Jana
http://www.just-jana.blogspot.com/
is that 7 ????? :)
So here are the rules! {as copied from Chica}
1. If you've been tagged, you can put the logo on your blog.
2. Link the person from whom you received the award.
http://creativegirlz.blogspot.com/
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours. ** I don't know how to do it the link way so I gotta give the whole URL until I figure it out.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.
So here goes: my LUCKY {7}
* Morag Cutts
http://scrapbook-junkie.blogspot.com/
* Francine
http://francineclouden.typepad.com/callaloo_soup/
* Divian
http://scrapitfabulous.blogspot.com/
* Lisa S
http://www.ethnicscrapbooking.typepad.com/
* Rhi
http://rhiancaroline.blogspot.com/
* Renee
http://reneehagler.typepad.com/my_life_my_blog/
* Jana
http://www.just-jana.blogspot.com/
is that 7 ????? :)
Just came across this blog today http://owcl.blogspot.com/ (One Woman's Cottage Life) and it was so interesting and inspirational...I came across it by accident while trying to get some ideas for revamping and redecorating my scrapbook/craft room since it needs a lot of help! She is having what's called a Cottage Charm Giveaway which is a fantastic idea, bloggers coming together and having this giveaway...great blogs and sites to read, go have a look!!!!
