And the Award Goes To…

Today I was nominated for the Liebster Blog Award by Allison over at The Budget Maven!


The Liebster Blog Award is given to bloggers by bloggers. It’s a way to acknowledge each other and say “you’re doing a great job”. It is for blogs with 200 or less followers, so it’s also a nice way to spread the word about smaller blogs and get them more readers and followers! 

When you receive the award, you post 11 random facts about yourself and answer 11 questions from the person(s) who nominated you. You pass the Award onto 11 other blogs (make sure you tell them you nominated them!) and ask them 11 questions. You’re not allowed to nominate the blog(s) who nominated you! (To get the button, right click the picture on my page and save the picture to your computer. You can then upload to your blog.) 

11 Random Facts:

  • I’m married to a bluegrass musician (and a darn good one at that!)
  • I’m a germ freak. My hands may be chapped but I can’t remember the last time I caught a cold!
  • I’m a closet NASCAR fan. Yes, NASCAR. The love-fest began in 2001 at Daytona. It just happened to be the first race I’d watched in years (my mom dated a NASCAR driver for many of my teen years). When I watched Dale Earnhardt Sr. hit the wall and not emerge from his car, I was emotionally hooked. 
  • Autumn is my favorite season. I’m convinced heaven will be fall-like for an eternity!
  • I feed my spoiled Lhasa Apso by hand. Did I just admit that? 
  • I would like to write a children’s book.
  • I collect vintage chenille bedspreads.
  • I’m not partial. I have one of the cutest granddaughters God ever created. 
  • I have a weakness for McDonald’s Chocolate Chip Frappe’s. Can anyone say 18 Weight Watchers points? Ouch!
  • I watched the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy) so many times that my DVD began to flicker—so I invested in a new one. 🙂
  • The study of The Tabernacle was a turning point in my Christian walk. Forget the idiom “the devil is in the details” — it’s our awesome God who is interested in every minute detail of our lives. Thank You, Lord!

Allison’s Questions for me:
1.What is your least favorite color?
Blue

2. What smell makes you the happiest?
Crisp leaves in Autumn

3. What’s one thing from your bucket list that you’ve yet to do?
Make a bucket list.

4. Who would win in a fight between a hard shell taco and a grilled cheese sandwich?
Hard shell taco, hands down. Unless we’re at Mike’s on Main Street in Hendersonville NC. Their grilled cheese with a cold root beer is yummy. I’d best stop now or I may have to change my answer to #2. 

5. What’s your favorite dessert?
Birthday cake. White cake and buttercream white icing. Sweet mercy!

6. If you could trade wardrobes with a celebrity, whose closet would you raid?
Sienna Miller’s – love her style!
7. What overused expression really gets on your nerves?
“politically correct”

8. Vintage or Modern?
Vintage

9. Coke or Pepsi?
Coke…it’s classic.

10. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?
Aubree Sophia Baker (where did that come from?)

11. If someone gave you a check for a million dollars, how would spend it?
Truly,
I would give a generous check to Summit (my awesome church!) and other
Kingdom causes. Then I’d build a cabin in the mountains where my
family could vacation together (and we could live full-time!)

Here are my nominations for the Liebster Award:
1. Brandon and Megan at This Beautiful Truth
3. Jamie at Encouraging Women
4. Julie at Anti-Writing
5. Susan at I Hope 4 Him
6. Dee Dee at Come Go Home With Me
7. Kim at Hope Lives Now
9. Debra at DL Koontz
10. Ellen at Ellen Andersen
My Eleven Questions for Nominees:
1. Would you rather see a movie at the theater or at home on DVD? Why?
2. If someone wrote a book about your life, what would they title it?
3. Who’s your favorite singer or band?
4. If you had to choose a favorite book of the Bible, what would it be and why?
5. Fiction or non-fiction? Why?
6. How would you spend a million dollars? 
7. Walmart or Target?
8. Do you parallel park or drive around the block?
9. What’s your favorite cookie?
10. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
11. What recent blessing from the Lord would you like to share? 
A BIG thanks to Allison at Budget Maven for this opportunity to share and to help other blogs get noticed.

Join the Party!

I’m delighted to be guest posting over at Jamie Britt’s blog Encouraging Women today! Click here if you’d like to join the party. 🙂

You are sure to find Jamie as inspiring as everyone else who crosses her path. She may be physically blind but God has blessed her with the beautiful ability to see spiritual truths sparkling clear. It is an honor to know her and to call her my friend.

Thanks for stopping by Jamie’s blog today!

**Summit Church is taking a three week break from our normal teaching schedule. Sunday Snippets will return in September. 

 

Friday Fave: Creative Bookazines

By now, you know Stampington’s Artful Blogging and Where Women Create are two of my favorite bookazines at Barnes.

Artful Blogging offers Visually Inspiring Online Journals. Engaging stories and unique perspectives on why people blog are beautifully displayed on every page.

Where Women Create show Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women. The latest issue features Rachel Ashwell (Shabby Chic!), American Greetings, Liz Johnson, and many more. Tap into these creative spaces and make them your own.

I’m delighted yesterday’s blog post is mentioned as one of Susan Stilwell’s “Friday Favorites” today. Be sure to stop by! Susan’s blog I Hope 4 Him is one you’ll want to visit on a regular basis for oh so many reasons.

10 Quotes on Creativity

  • ‘A bell is a cup until it is struck.’ -Wired
  • ‘Every exit is an entry somewhere else.’ -Tom Stoppard 
  • ‘There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.’ -Ansel Adams
  • ‘There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.’ -Ursula Le Guin
  • ‘The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time graphic-simulated computer experience.’ -Bruce Mau, Designer
  • ‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’ -John Cage, Composer
  • ‘When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer — say traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.’  -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • ‘A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.’ -George S. Patton
  • ‘So you see, imagination needs noodling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.’ -Brenda Ueland, Writer
  • ‘I think people who are not artists often think artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don’t have time to be inspired. Out of the work comes the work.’ -John Cage, Composer
– All quotes taken from Be Creative, by Infinite Ideas. Download now on Kindle. It’s the best $2.99 you’ll spend today!

Oh, The Things We Do For Love

Once upon a time a Pappa-to-be purchased a Princess Tent for his granddaughter who was expected to arrive nine months ago today. He knew the time would come when her eyes would light up at the sight of a pink plastic blob with flags on top. 
And the Pappa-to-be was right.
As you can see, Brian went out of his way to make Princess Piper feel right at home. Oh, the things we do for love!  
We pop a tent, sit inside to assure her all is well, and make googly faces just to hear her giggle. It delights us when she’s tickled pink (pun intended).
So why are we surprised when our heavenly Father showers us with divine delights throughout the day? The sun rises, soft winds blow, vivid colors abound, and birds serenade us in perfect harmony. God could’ve created a black and white world for us and we would’ve never known the difference—but He didn’t.
Oh, the things He does for love. 
Romans 1:19-20 – since what may be known about God is plain to them,
because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the
world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse. 
 

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