An award and a road trip

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Miss Sandy at Quill Cottage graciously gave me the Arte y pico award.

You might be saying, “….Huh?” 🙂

The creator of the award at at http://arteypico.blogspot.com/ says:

“What is the meaning of the expression: Arte y Pico? Basically, ironically, it translates into a wonderful phrase in Mexico, “lo maximo.” LOL! It will never find its counterpart in English, but if it HAD to, it would be something like, Wow. The Best Art. Over the top.

This award is “dedicated to many who nourish and enrich the spirit and creativity. They see dedication, creativity, camaraderie, joy, and above all ART, much art. I wish that this prize is entertaining to all those bloggers and to bloggers who day by day share this space and enrich it a little more each day.” Arte Y Pico

Miss Sandy said of me: “Now I know this award is supposed to be about art, and Barbara does make art but that is not what her blog is about, it is about heart. Barbara has a pretty heart that loves the Lord, her family, and others. I have only recently “met” her and want to thank her for decorating my life with her presence.”

Wow! I am so honored. Thank you so much for those kind words. I am not an artist, but I do love and appreciate artistry and creativity.

The rules are as follows:

1) Select 5 blogs that you consider deserving of this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or 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 or him the award itself.

4) The award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show a link of “Arte y pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of the award.

The five bloggers I would like to pass this along to are:

1. Gretchen at Lifenut for her artistry with words. Take this hilarious story of her son’s birth as one example, this touching post about playing hurt, or this one titled, “Leave.”

2. Writer2b at Findings for the same reason. I discovered her through Semicolon‘s weekly Saturday Review of Books, and so enjoyed her style of writing that I soon subscribed to her blog.

3. Dawn at 4:53 am. Her creativity shines through her beauitful photography and craft work.

4. Anita at My Country Cottage Garden. I think I first met her through Kelli‘s Show and Tell Fridays. She has a gorgeous garden and does beautiful projects for her home. It was through her that I found one of my favorite new books, Sew Pretty Homsestyle by Tone Finnanger. (I still haven’t made a project from it, Anita, but I feast my eyes just looking at it. I do hope to make some things from it “some day,” though!)

5. Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home and Seasonal Delights magazine. Her creativity and artistry is expressed all throughout her home. I enjoy looking at and being inspired by the beautiful yet simple touches that make her home lovely, welcoming, and homey.

Finally, I saw this road trip test at Gram‘s, Melli‘s, and Alice‘s. I was going to take it at first because road trips are not my favorite things. But it was fun and pretty accurate except the last line.


The Road Trip of Your Life


You see life as precious and special. Heritage and family are very important to you.

You often find yourself rushing through life. You don’t take as much time as you’d like to enjoy the little things.

You don’t like a lot of risk or randomness in your life. You prefer to stick with what’s known, even if it’s a bit boring.

You are able to find a fairly healthy balance between work and play. You work when you need to, but you never let yourself burn out.

In another life, you could have been a great artist. You trust your creative instincts enough to let them lead you.

10 thoughts on “An award and a road trip”

  1. Hi Barbara,

    First, I have to tell you, your “let me drop everything and work on your problem” mug made me laugh out loud. I’d love to have a mug like that one!

    Second, you’re so right about hearing issues. Truly, I’m hanging on until Medicare kicks in, in hope I can finally afford hearing aids and let me tell you, I’ll feel absolutely no shame about wearing them. I just want to be able to hear again.

    Congratulations on this award – you deserve it.

  2. Dearest Barbara,

    thank you so much for this wonderful award! You make me feel very special and I am really honoured! I am always more than delighted to know that people like my blog, my garden and my creations!

    By the way, I have not been using my sewing machine lately as I spend most of my (little) free time out in the garden (or making new garden pottery). But there will be for sure lots of TILDA adventures this coming autumn. By the way, do you know that there are at least three European TILDA Addics Forums on the web? A French, Finish and an English one (and I am member of the French TILDA additcts community but havn’t done any posts overe there recently.

    Best wishes and of course, congratulations to the other winners as well, especially to my dear friend and Show and Tell host, Kelli!

    Best wishes from Germany,
    Blessing,
    Anita

  4. Thank you, Barbara! I’m surprised and honored… And I agree that you deserve the award. Your blog is a very enriching place to visit. Thanks and best wishes!

  5. Congratulations on your award and thank you for giving one to me as well! Your sweet and kind words really made my day!
    (((hugs)))
    ~Kelli

  6. Wow, Barbara! Thank you or thinking of me. I am truly honored you thought of me. It’s great encouragement, and I agree with the others that you are well-deserving of the award.

    Thanks for the smile and for your thoughtfulness!

  7. Thank you so much, Barbara!!
    It’s an honor to have you choose me for this award!
    Blessings on you,
    Dawn @ 4:53am
    xox

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