Cherry on Top Award!

Pauline Kolochuk (The Pursuit of Stampin’ess) is so wonderful to have given me the Cherry on Top Award for my blog!  I was so surprised and flattered – thank you so much, Pauline!!!  She has a great blog full of beautiful creations – please be sure to stop by her blog to say hello.

Now, with receiving this awesome award, I have the opportunity to tell you 3 things about myself and pass the award onto 5 other talented bloggers – so many to choose from!

First, about me…

1. I love to sing!  I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember – it started with the church I grew up in and continued throughout high school and college (choir, show choir, musicals, etc).  Now I mostly just sing in the shower or the car, and occasionally you can find me at a karaoke bar :).  Oh, and I never miss an episode of American Idol!

2. I had open-heart surgery when I was 18 to repair an atrial-septal defect (hole in my heart).  I was born with it, but it wasn’t discovered until just before I left for college.  That experience, along with losing my mother to colon cancer a year later, has given me a special perspective which has played a major role in where I am today and how I live my life.  I lived through those experiences and they have given me strength.

3. Spiders and cockroaches absolutely freak me out – and what do you know, we just moved back to Atlanta – where they are in abundance!  Ugh!  I’ve seen a lot of spiders in our new house and my husband discovered our cats playing ping-pong with a cockroach – thank goodness my hubby takes care of that stuff (except when he’s traveling and I need to put my big girl pants on and deal with it)!  I sure hope the exterminator knows how important he is too!

Now to pass this award onto 5 wonderful blogs that I love to visit:

1. Nance Leedy – Canopy Crafts
2. Dana Newsom – EverBlooming
3. April Massad – {Stamp} Paper Scissors
4. Cindy E – Heart’s Delight Cards
5. Julie B – Julie B’s Stampin’ Space

Stop by and give them some love!