Arte y Pico

Annica of Fabulous Threads gave me this blogging award – thank you, Annica, I’m very honoured to receive it.

There are 5 rules attached to this award and they are :

  1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.
  2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
  3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award itself.
  4. The Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte Y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
  5. To show these rules.

And five bloggers who I think deserve this award…

Caroline :: Carolineinckle’s Weblog
Monika :: Red 2 White
Margaret :: margaret-cooter
Liz :: Dreaming Spirals
Amy :: Red Fish Circle

awards

I’m feeling doubly honoured this week at receiving two blogging awards and I’m going to post about each one separately to avoid mixing myself up… so…

Monika of Red 2 White gave me the Thinking Blogger award – thank you, Monika, you made my day 😀

Now the hard bit – there could have been many more on this list but these are five blogs that have made me think recently:

Magsramsay
Solveigh Goett’s The Textile Files
FlyingColours – Juanita Sim
Neki Desu’s A Moveable Feast
Inspiraculum – Melinda Schwakhofer

plus – always – Jude’s What If

And these are the rules…

Congratulations, you won a thinking blogger award!

Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme. 

The participation rules are simple:

  1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
  2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
  3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).

That was that! Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all – blogs that really get you thinking! It is the first time I am starting something with my blog so I hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me.

Happy link-love-sharing, whatever it is!

You make my day

makemydayaward.jpgI was moved and honoured to receive this award from Neki and Liz – thank you! The idea is to
“Give the award to up to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel so happy about blogland! Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so that they can pass it on. Beware! You may get the award several times! :-)”

Choosing so few was difficult – both Liz and Neki would have been on my list, and I’ve of course missed out a rather large number of other people who regularly make my day (some who are in my blogroll and others who should be).

I did try to narrow this down to 10 but one or two more crept in… these blogs give me joy, make me wonder, teach me new ways of doing and seeing, and sometimes simply take my breath away with their imagery and poetry.

Jude – What If
Bev – Paper, Fabric, Life and Strife
Jackie – Stitchworks
Frances – Island Threads
Moira Anne – Ominnimo
Brin – My Messy Thrilling Life
Ann Wood
Ruth – Knitting on Impulse
Susan D – Art of Textiles
Monika – Red 2 White
Bella – Knit Purl and Stitch
Kim – Something to Say

in the bleak midwinter

It’s chilly here at the moment – hoar frost everywhere that’s lasting right through the day. Tansy and I went out to post a few straggling Christmas cards that may not make it for Christmas and to enjoy the wintry beauty and the crunch of frozen leaves underfoot. The moon is almost full and the trees make delicate traceries against the late afternoon sky.

frosty grasses

winter moon

I’ve only just started to put up decorations and still have shopping to do – and I need to pack away my art stuff so my daughter can have her bedroom back when she arrives on Sunday. And get organised with some portable creativity so I can make the most of the holiday. I don’t think I’ll be doing any coursework while the house is full – but I’ve been reading Ruth Lee’s book Contemporary Knitting for Textile Artists, and feeling inspired to play. Speaking of Ruth Lee, I forgot at the time to post a link to my review of her exhibition ‘Reading Between the Lines’ that came out in December’s Workshop on the Web.

In lieu of a virtual card for you, this is our homemade nativity scene – created by my daughters from self hardening clay when they were children – I always feel as if Christmas has really begun when these exuberant little figures come out of their box. I wish you all a peaceful, joyful and creative Christmas.

nativity