Blogging and Dear Friends

Blogs, I love them. I love how creative people get with their blogs. They are almost like scrapbooks, scrapbooks that you create online and then post your writing on, or whatever interests you. It doesn’t have to be writing, some people post their drawings or pictures if they are more inclined towards those things rather than writing. There are so many different creative and lovely blogs.

Since I’ve made my own I’ve often gone skipping around in the “blog world” and I always come back excited and wanting to try something different with my own. I really have so much fun with it. I always have about ten different ideas bouncing around in my head for new posts that I would like to write, I have at least three right now and yet I’m choosing to ramble on about blogging itself rather than settling down like a dedicated little girl and writing out one of the ones I have been planning on.

One thing that’s never changed though, since I’ve made this blog, is that first and foremost what I write is for myself. I want other people to enjoy what I write, I want it to make them smile, but I know that this will only come about if I’m pleasing myself first. If I’m writing about something that I enjoy and want to write about, and if somebody wants to read about that then I’m very happy, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t you see, because I’m enjoying it.

So first this blog is for myself, and then of course I have a few very special people in mind when I write these posts. People that I know will love it because they love me and I know that when I am writing to make myself happy I am also making them happy. My Mom first. Each post is for her. I share everything I write with her and I always have. There is something so special about this blog for me because of the way when I finish a new post I always go running with the laptop to share it with her. I can’t wait for her to discover it on her own, I have to tell her about it as soon as I have posted it! I am so thankful for my Mom and how she loves reading what I write. It was through her that I began my passion for writing, her love of words and her wish to share all the best stories with me. Little Women, Anne of Green Gable, A Little Princess, we read those stories together when I was just a little girl, and goodness, she even found me “Writer’s Block Coffee” for Christmas at a little writing shop along with a biography on E. B. White. So yes, every post that I write is for my Mom because I know she will always love them. I know, too, that she will help me out when I struggle with my editing. *laughs* I get terribly long run-on sentences you know.

Then there is my wonderful Nana. She always supports me in whatever creative form my little fingers choose to dance to. She reads my words, listens to my prattling on about words and really, when I say prattling, I mean prattling. For once you get me started I can go chattering on and on about some form of writing or something I’ve written myself. Writing period. I prattle when I start talking about writing. Yes she always listens and enjoys my prattling and gives me useful editing tips on how to better my English. She has really helped me in getting a better foundation for my English, and I am so grateful to know that if I ever need help I can go running across the property to her house with my type-written paper waving wildly in my hand. She always gives me lovely new books that help me get re-inspired always to write. Authors that always inspire me to try harder to make my writing better. It always makes me so happy when she mentions having read and enjoyed a post of mine particularly.

Then there is Ethele. A lot of what I write I write with her in mind, she’s such a dear, dear friend. I know without asking that she will love each post that I make, that doesn’t stop me from asking anyways does it? I’m so very happy right now that I’m able to share this form of writing with her, it’s so much fun to discuss posts and talk about what we are writing with each other. I’ve made her a contributor on my own blog now so that she can go through things and generally make it that much more fun to share what I'm writing with! Anything I write I love sharing with her, because she always understands, she laughs at just the spot I meant to be funny, and she is pleased with just the spot I spent the most time on. A true kindred spirit, and I’m so happy to be able to share writing with such a lovely, lovely girl as her. No matter how long we talk I am always looking forward to the next "great long chat" Kindred Spirits are like that you know.

Then there is my little circle of sweet friends who I know read this because they tell me so from time to time. I hope that it makes them happy, that it makes them smile as they read this. I hope that they know that I am thinking about them as I choose through subjects to write about because I love them. It makes me so happy knowing they are reading this because it is something I want to share- with them.

You see, when I want to share what I write this is an excellent way. Not because I am sharing it with the world (Yes, world dear you may read too if you so desire, I don’t mind) but because I am sharing it with my very best of friends. I write these posts for my enjoyment and for their enjoyment because I know that what I enjoy they will enjoy too.

And I just want to say how much I love them all. All you who I share my blog with, and who help me along in my writing. I don’t know where I should be without you and I can’t say how glad I am to know each and every one of you.

I shall now finish off before I am reduced to a complete and utter state of mush.

*hugs*

Stylish Blogger Award

Oh my! It’s been a long time since I have posted anything! This is something I must fix, and quickly. Prepare yourself for a storm of posts with topics on everything and anything!

First of all, I just have to make reference to Victoria’s post where she was so very sweet as to “award” me with the “stylish blogger award” *warm fuzzies* http://raindropsandmoonlight.blogspot.com/2011/10/stylish-blogger.html

I think this is such a sweet idea; it’s basically way of telling people how much you enjoy reading their blogs and how you look forward to their posts. (Which you aren't able to do very often. For the most part you can’t just hop from blog to blog, commenting on posts by going completely off topic and gushing about how much you love that person’s blog. You want to stay on topic and comment on the content of the post, because otherwise you would be spamming. )

This is why this made me so warm and fuzzy and happy. It’s such a delightful feeling to know someone is reading your posts and enjoying them. When I saw her post I went running about the house with the laptop clutched in my hands “Do you see? Do you see?” yes, I was rather proud and quite bouncy and excited!

Now, the rule is I must now tell you seven things about myself, so *prances*

1.   I play both the piano and the violin. I have played the violin much longer, though at the present I am rather rusty on both due to *lowers voice* alackofpracticing. My favorite sheet music to play from is the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ for the violin. Really, the music for the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ just gives me little thrills.

2.   I am very bad at managing time. This is something I need to work on. I am little miss la de da and I’m always so busy thinking up stories, blog posts, or poetry I often forget there is such a thing as time at all…which can be bad…because you end up late for things.

3.   I love pretty scarves. Whether they are warm and knit or cool and flouting. They make me happy.

4.   Sharp pencils! I love sharp pencils! There is nothing better than a really sharp pencil writing those first words on a page.

5.   I have always loved bunnies. I have numerous little stuffed animal bunnies around but the one I love very best would be the one that stays forever in my room, she is up there right now, sitting floppily on my bookshelf. I named her Dr. Emma Rose Cottontail and I still love her, though the velvet on her nose is now rough, and her soft fur is now worn from limitless cuddling.

6.   My favorite book is Persuasion by Jane Austen. You just knew Jane Austen would make her way into this post somehow, didn’t you? Yes, I am obsessed.

7.   I love tea parties. For my birthday almost every year growing up we had a tea party, where we all dressed up in pretty dresses and sipped tea from lovely teacups.

Now the next thing you are supposed to do is to pass on this award to five other bloggers. I think you are supposed to choose people who have not been given this award already, but don't think I know enough blogs to pick and choose. So I'm not going to worry about whether or not they have already been given it, but use it as a way to tell them how much I like their blogs. I shall choose my very favorite blogs, the ones I love, whether they have been given this award or not, just to say how much I really do love reading what they write!

 Adela’s blog was the first blog I ever really fell in love with. One of the first reasons I started one of my own. I’ve always loved hers. The Artist's Desk

Victoria’s is definitely the one I haunt the most. The one I am constantly checking to see if she has posted something new recently. I love every one of her posts. Raindrops and Moonlight 

Madeline’s posts always inspire me to do some deep thinking, some real contemplating, and she always makes me laugh! Invisible Insanity

Imogen’s blog, which I have just started reading *prances* I love finding new blogs! Especially such lovely ones Dancing with Dragonflies

And though I know Jocy will never read this, I have to add her blog since I don’t think my list would be complete without hers. Seeking a Vocation