Blogtastic Reviews

I am always looking for blogs to read so I am often adding to my super long list of blogs I follow.  While we all find blogs on our travels, I thought I would share two new blogs that I have come upon recently.  I am going to be giving you a small description of what you might find on these blogs.  I am going to try and have this as a new blog feature each week.  I am not sure what day I will be hosting this feature, but will have it figured out by next week.  We can all use more to read and do right?? LOL

I hope that you find something of interest and if you find a blog or two to add to your ever growing list of those you follow, great!  Let me know in the comments if you find something.  Also if you know of a great blog that you would like me to review please email me HERE

Sowderingabout.com

A blog written by Randi,a stay at home mom, who lives in Seattle.  She has a great husband and two beautiful children.  She loves being creative and shares many of her amazing crafts with her readers.   She also has a fun quirky humor that is infectious.  Which is one of the reasons I was attracted to her blog.

Randi writes about a bunch of day to day things, and has done a couple of great 31 day series.  She also shares her weekly menu's and has some features she partakes in each week.  She also hosts the Awesome Things Blog Hop on Tuesdays.  She also features some great roundups and giveaways. 

Below are some of my recent favorites over at Sowdering About.  I am sure you will enjoy her site whether new to Randi or not.

Thankful Tree

Wordless Wednesday: The Pumpkin Patch

Halloween Ring Toss

The next blog I have found recently that I have been enjoying is Imparting Grace.  Richella describes her life and passions in this blog.  She is married and her children and grown and off on their own.  She has a stunning house that has a soft décor.  This blog does discuss Richella's religious beliefs so if that type of post bothers you then please skip this recommendation.  (As a personal note:  If you let it sway you into not heading over to her blog then you really are missing out).

My favorite posts from Richella:

Dealing with the ugly and the pretty - Great message found in this post.

Decorating My Dining Room - love the bold color choice.

Family Portrait Wall Clock - I think I might borrow this idea

Till next week, I hope you get your blog reading in and enjoy.

My nominees for the Liebster Award are….

I spoke about this award and my answers to the questions so you can learn about me more by following this link.

I was nominated

I wanted to split the post up because the post would be extremely long if I didn't and I wanted those who I nominate to be able to see everything without having to find the information they needed.

First please save the award jpg above or one of the award jpg's I posted in my Nominated post.

Here are the rules…

• Each person nominated must post 11 things about themselves
• They must also answer the 11 questions that I (the nominator), has written below.

• They must create 11 more questions for those they have chosen to nominate.

• They must choose 11 bloggers to tag with 200 or less followers.  (If you do not know of 11, just post what you can)
• The lucky nominated blogs must be told of their nomination by email or message.

• You may not nominate the one who nominated you.

Here are my nominees for the Liebster Award.

Cooking Up a Sale - Join Lisa as she tries to keep her families grocery bill down while creating interesting tasty food for her family.  She has tons of things to offer such as recipes, before and afters, stock up alerts based on sales, giveaways and more.

Our Little Northern Life - Meet Sara, she writes about her life as a wife and mother.  I enjoy reading about her days.

Our Pemberly - Read about Charity and her husband Jose.  They have just purchased their first house and write about her day, decorating and organization to name a few.  She posts lots of pictures and makes you feel like your there in her day to day.

Transforme - Christa Jean is a wife, home-school mom, and Jewelry designer.  She likes health food, crafts and more.  She shares her life and the word of god in a very intellectual way that will make you think about your own life.

Lauras Crafty Life - Laura is a mom to two and a crafter.  You will find inspiration all over this blog.  She also has some awesome tutorials.

Shannon's Back Fence - Right now I have been enjoying her 31 Days of Cleaning Small Spaces.  

Sweeter Still - She loves to write and share parts of her life with us.  She is trying to make her life Sweeter Still for her family.  You will enjoy her descriptive writing so that you feel as if you were there with her.  One of my favorite newer blogs to me.

Prairie Scraps - A blog that is doing 31 Days until a Craft Show at the moment.  I am eager to read all of those posts.  She also talks about scrap-booking and tutorials.  I am sure you will love this blog.

My Nesting Instincts - Ashley is a wife, a mom and a homemaker.  If you enjoy all things homemaking you will love her blog.

Homemaking Challenged - a blog about organizing, cooking, and so much more.  Do go and check this blog out.

Domestic Bliss Diaries - A great blog all about managing your home.  The blog is written by Alana.  I am sure you will find lots of goodies here.

Here are my questions to those I am nominating.

1. What are your favorite colors?
2. Do you have a household binder or home management book or command center?

3. What is your favorite craft project you have pinned?

4. If you could pick one post that you are most proud of which would you choose and why?  (got this one for one of my  questions and loved it)

5. What is your favorite blog?

6. If you could give one piece of advise for new bloggers what would it be?

7. Have you ever made homemade cleaners and do you have one you still use?
8. Do you use a mop or get on hands and knees to wash your floors?

9. What time of the day do you like to blog?

10. Are you a morning person or night owl?

11. If you could choose one room in your house that you love the most which room would it be and why?