This is two posts in one day for me, an unheard of occasion. I have been honored by Colleen with the
Colleen's blog is http://onesmileliftsaspirit.blogspot.com/ and she is a terrific blogger and cardmaker.  Thank you Colleen.

These are the questions she asked.

1. Tell me your favorite three stamp companies.

2. Do you enter challenges?  If so, what are your favorites?

3. How long have you been making cards?

4. What is something you cannot live without in your craft arsenal?

5. What is your style of card making?  (CAS, layered, shabby chic, etc)

6. If you could visit one place in the world (and money was NOT an issue) where would it be?

7. What do you do with all the cards you make?

1. My favorite companies are Simon Says Stamp, Ellen Hutson and Lawn Fawn.
2 I've only done two challenges. One was last year and I don't remember which one it was. The      second one was for Crafthayzelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge, but I couldn't upload my card.
3. I have only seriously been making cards for several years and only at Stampin Up stamp camp. I've been buying supplies for many years but didn't know what to do with them.
4. I can't live without my T ruler and grid mat. I can't get things straight on my cards even with those.
5. My cardmaking is layered. That's how I learned, but after seeing cards on blogs I am trying to stretch my skills and branch out more.
6. I would love to go to Jerusalem and see the Holy City.
7. I send my cards because I usually make them for someone for a purpose. I do however have cards I've made at stamp camp in boxes and sometimes I will mail one if I'm in a bind with no time to stamp.

Now I am nominating seven people for this award. We can visit their blogs and learn about them.

http://carolinacardsbymaryh.blogspot.com/
http://cathyscardspot.blogspot.com/
http://cards4ubylouise.blogspot.com/
http://alacards.blogspot.com/
http://mylittlesliceofbliss.blogspot.com/
http://kardsbykadie.blogspot.com/
http://kopykat-holly.blogspot.com/

My questions are:

1.  Do you scrapbook as well as make cards?
2.  Are you a daytime or nighttime stamper?
3.  Do you listen to music or have the TV on when you stamp?
4.  Are you a stay at home stamper or do you join others at a local place and stamp?
5.  Where do you shop for supplies (online, brick and mortar store or other)?
6.  Are most of your friends stampers?
7.  Do you craft with others in your family?

Copy and paste the Leibster Award on your blog.

Here are the rules for the nomination:

1. Be sure to thank the blog that nominated you and be sure to link back to their blog.
2. Answer the 11 questions that the blogger asked you.
3. Nominate 11 of your favorite blogs with under 500 followers and ask your own 11 questions.
4. Make sure to let each blogger know about your Liebster Blog nomination on their blog (leave a comment and link back to your Liebster Blog post).

If you need to know what this Liebster Award is all about you can go HERE and read all about it....

 

My nominations are ladies that I admire and whose blogs I read. They are so talented and I hope you will visit them and say hello.

  

I'm feeling better today. I think I was just tired yesterday and couldn't get warm. I am tired of this though as I think everyone is. My thoughts are with all the people in California in the path of the heavy rains they are predicting. I hope "they" are wrong and it doesn't happen. Today I have a birthday card to share that I received. I don't think anyone will be offended by it. I couldn't get it to photograph well. I always have a glare on it. Maybe because it is on shiny paper. It cracked me up though.  The front says "I mithed your birthday".  Be kind to one another.

 

The cold is getting to me. I never feel like the house is warm enough and I hate to go outside. Just letting Molly in and out is hard. It is 3 above right now and Sunday they are predicting another 6 possible inches of snow. Possible because it could be freezing rain and sleet. The wind is just blowing and making it so cold. Oh my, I'm not ready for this.

 Saturday and Sunday the Heirloom Rubber Stamp Show is here in town. My SIL and I go every year. Last year there weren't as many vendors as in years past. I don't know if it is the economy or if people are losing interest. With the stores closing and the vendor shows becoming not as good, I am ordering most of my supplies and stamps online. Since I still had my Faith in Nature stamp set out I made this quick card for no reason. I can always stamp a sentiment inside.  Be kind to one another and be warm wherever you are.

 

I hope your weekend was a happy one. We had a great time Saturday with our family. I went to see my granddaughter skate in roller derby in the morning. Hubby didn't go because it's in a huge warehouse with concrete floors and it's very cold in there. She did great and got to be a jammer. That's where you start at the back and try to get through while the other team tries to keep you from getting through. It's very fast paced and both teams have jammers at the same time. She did so well. Not much to her so she's able to kind of slither through. Saturday afternoon we went to grandsons basketball game on the north side of town, Our other son and his family came to the game, then we all went out to dinner to celebrate Daughter in laws birthday. I made her card off of a card I saw on http://mycraftyplace281.blogspot.com/ blog. It was so perfect for DIL because she meditates. So all in all Saturday was fun. It was a lot for hubby. He was up late (for him) and slept for 12 hours, from 8 pm to 8 am. I can't remember him ever sleeping until 8 am! Sunday was a rest up day. The subzero temps are coming back this week, so I don't intend to be out and about too much. Be kind to one another.

 

Happily no tornado. Lots of hard rain and strong winds tho.  I was so thrilled when I read Darnells blog http://www.djkardkreations.com/ the other day. She mentioned using our pattern paper on our cards. It would be the whole background. I was so thrilled as I have so much trouble combining two papers together. Then she discovered a challenge to use the paper called http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper.html. I had just mad a card using patterned paper for the first time. I wanted to show the tree branches as the focal point. But I did add a stamped image. I hope that is okay for this challenge. I'm going to enter it and see if it's okay. My goal for 2014 was to do some challenges. So far I have entered none, so that makes 52 days in a row I've missed. Today is the day! Hope you will visit crafty hazel's and play along. Be kind to one another.

 

It was just one of those nights when you can't sleep. I watched the Olympics until it was over last night, then read for a while.  I'm reading King and Maxwell and it's really exciting so I have a hard time putting it down at night. Then I couldn't fall asleep. My feet were cold. Tossed and turned and slept off and on. At 4:44 lightning lit up the bedroom. Really loud thunder, three more strikes and it was over. Then heavy rain that lasted five minutes. Very strange but with all the snow we don't want a lot of heavy rain quickly. It did rain hard for a few minutes at 8:30 and stopped. That's been it so far but we'll see what the rest of the day brings. I can't ever remember being so obsessed about the weather. This year has been exceptional. We had those tracks again right outside our fence line. The rain has made them much lighter but I'm showing them to you. First picture is of the tracks and the second picture shows them coming from the forest behind our house. It's really pretty when the leaves change but so stark in winter. You really have to look close to see the tracks but it is alarming to have them so close. We think it is the coyote that's making those tracks. The geese started screaming last night about 3 and I think the coyote must have gotten one. There is a real coyote problem here and they are killing small dogs and cats around here. I take Molly out at night on her leash before I let her go in the yard. Gives me a chance to check and make sure it's safe.

I have to tell you what a wonderful day yesterday was. In the library and at the grocery store we all were so cheerful and talked to one another. Everyone was so happy to see the sun and it was nice and warm. The drearies do affect people's attitude. My last picture today shows the pool we are starting to get from thawing. I'll be swimming before the day is over!

Be kind to one another.

We have a day of sunshine but a very cold wind blowing. Tomorrow is predicted to have thunderstorms and a tornado warning! That's what you get when it warms up in Indiana. Today is a running day. We need food again! Food, clean clothes and money. Just our regular routine. Cleaned house yesterday and our son stopped by for lunch. That was a nice surprise. He tries to drop in when he has appointments on our side of town.  So I'd better get busy, fix lunch and get going.  This card was for our next door neighbor who turned 83 yesterday. He is the nicest man and so good with plants and his yard. Our grass is taken care of as well as snow removal but he cuts his own grass and sometimes shovels the snow! Be kind to one another.