Shout out for a blog friend and Awards!

I promised Becca, a blog friend, that I'll do her a shout out.  Here it goes:

Only a Mama Knows

Quote from her profile: I change diapers and feed mouths. My ears never tire of hearing little giggles. I've been pooped and peed on. I wipe away snot and clean up puke on a daily basis. I'm a horrible singer, but my babies don't seem to mind. I'm a pro at multitasking. I make the best PB&J's. Some days I stay in my pajamas. Other days I don't shower at all. I have an endless chore list that seems to be on repeat. I sprinkle hugs and kisses on my babies like confetti. I've seen the occasional diaper blowout. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Here's a gist: colorful life of a woman and a mom.  Go check her out but come back for some eye candies waiting down here for you!

She has a little treat going on.  I want the treat because she's surely going famous one day. Find out why once you're there.

That's in the Features.

Here's what's above the fold....

I'm No Miss Receives Awards Again!

And the accompanying images are these:

Eye candies, right? I will pass them on right now to you guys.  Let me thank the benefactors first.

Super Comments Award - Janjan and Mitch

Beautiful Blogger Award - The Empress

Versatile Blogger - Gnetch and Mitch

THANK YOU DEAR BLOG FRIENDS! YOU ALL ROCK!

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Super Comments Award goes to:

 mishieru

gnetch

lisa from lisa's yarns

alexandra crocodile

emily jane

cheryl

janjan

jozen

ratz

holly renee

They are my top cherries according to my top commentator's widget. (Check the sidebar.  I've been fair =))

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Beautiful Blogger goes to:

Becca at Only a Mama Knows

Rachel at Rachel Cotterill

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Versatile Blogger goes to:

Y'all!

Especially to my 47th to 91st followers. I was happy with 19.  Now I have the reverse. 91. I'm more than happy. I'm elated.  Now I hope I deserve all of you and that I would be able to follow everyone through too :)

Come school days, I'll be a bit MIA just like most of the time haha..Anyways, I'll be popping up in to your blogs once in a while. Promise!

Rules for Super Comments Award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award. (

2. Copy the award; place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Answer the 10 questions associated with the award.
5. Nominate a few of your favorite bloggers for the award.
6. Post links to the blogs you nominate.

Let's see:

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Here's #4:

1. Why do you blog?
 Writing is like my genie in a bottle.

2. What are your three best memories?
There are so many.  Can I make up for this in my posts later..?

3. If you had to change your real name, what would you change it to?
My name is really unique.  So far, if you type it in google, that name you see will be no other than mine.

4. What are the five things you can't live without?
water. my laptop. books. camera. my nail nipper.

5. What are the five best books you've ever read?

Not Without my Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
Girls of Riyadh- Rajaa Alsanea
Master of the Game/Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan

6. Tell me something unique and interesting about yourself.
I nip my nails all the time. It's one of my OC habits. Not really interesting but maybe unique..? :)

7. What do you love about yourself?

Destiny's Child wrote a song for me on this:

♫ The shoes on my feet

I've bought it
The clothes I'm wearing
I've bought it
The rock I'm rockin'
I've bought it
'Cause I depend on me ♫

8. What is the best movie ever made?
Dangerous Beauty. I'm a so dang fan of that movie.

9. If you had a "freaky friday" experience, who would you trade places with and why?
A well-loved newborn. Everyone seems to hate aging right? Now that's anti-aging gone extreme. Haha!

10. What's the best part about being a woman?

There's a saying: When a woman bears a child, there's zero doubt that it's hers. Go figure guys!


Ciao!

Follow Me Back Tuesday

How it Works

  Follow ALL of the Hostesses
(leave us a comment so we can follow you back) 

WE DO FOLLOW BACK

1. Add your blog to the list (only have to add once) NOT YOUR BLOG HOP
2. Grab our fabulous button & the link code to post on your blog
3.  Start to follow as many blogs as you would like (make sure you leave a comment so they can follow you back)
4. And when you receive a comment from a new follower  return the favor & follow them back.

*I've been hanging out with these girls for some time now :) Enjoy and I miss everyone!

Going green and some trivia...- oh, never mind!

On several of my posts, I declared my love for mother earth. Big deal, I know.

But I am kind of serious about it. So that last 3 months or so, I purchased a green bag from one of the malls/supermarkets where we usually buy our groceries. But holy goodness, I always, always forget it when we go out. So the plastic bags that we were trying to cut down on kept mounting.

Hanging it at the back of the door was my genius solution. I'm hoping this time, I'd only forget about it half the time. Because I'm certain I'm never gonna make it ALL the time.

What's your green move lately?

That is what's in the Features.

Trivia section is this:

taterip

preatio

ampaca

gicanced

Have you noticed those weird words during word verification in blogger, or whereever? I wondered if they meant anything because some of them are serious cases of misspellings. Eyesores, right? (Which I'm guilty of sometimes.Hands up.)

Then I was introduced to Captcha.

Introducer: Meet Captcha. Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart.

Me: ... (blank, ignorant face but anticipative)

Introducer: In very simple words, it's a test that computer programs cannot pass. It's for humans. The purpose is to prevent undesirable stuff over the internet such as spam, worms and bots.

Me: .. (digesting the last four words..)

Introducer: It's a plain security measure, idiot!

Me: (Eyes opened wide. Then, embarrassed grin.)

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Happy weekend wonderful people!

I'm going crafty!

I'm looking forward to being crafty sometime soon! I don't know how I'm gonna insert that to my already packed sched. But as of yesterday, I took my second step towards there by buying the stuff you see at the left. Couldn't believe they were really cheap! They all cost not more than 50 bucks (Php).I was done with the first step and that was checking on the old Singer sewing machine back at my mom's. It was unbelieavably massive it will take 2 or more physically apt men to carry it up here.

Anyways, my first project will be cutting up my jeans shorter and making baby pillow cases for mister baby. Wish me luck! I'll promise I'll share how creative I'd become, even if no one would care. Haha!

I'm overly excited, in case that's not obvious. But don't get carried away. I doubt I'd be half-impressive. First of all, I will start from negative zero step to know about machine sewing. Second, my machine is as old as my grandma so it has some issues like tension adjustment. I'm guessing that's supposed to adjust the stitches because the thing currently just does one type - the straight stitch. That's enough to go forward, right?

Oh, a pair of scissors too.
And some fabric.
And more thread.



*Photo credit of the treadle machine goes to owner. Mine is exactly like that one.

Tokens of blogofriendship! (UPDATED)

Don't all those statuettes look lovely?

So, wearing a rock-the-red-carpet dress, behind the fancy lectern and glaring against the spotlight,

"Thank you Mitch, Gnetch and Alex!"

I started blogging all on my own.  I mean, I had no audience/listener/reader at all for quite some time. That was what blogging is all about.  Just express yourself. Period.  

Then, I happened to look around, and wow, it felt wonderful to read blogs with people actually reading them and see those lovely awards floating on  the sidebars or anywhere. 

As I started blogging again, a month ago or so, I realized -

Blogofriends!

They bring you to a whole new level of blogging experience.

So, if you are reading this from your dashboard following, or google reader, or whatever, the Beautiful Blog Award is for you! I hope you'd appreciate my way of appreciating you.  So, take it! (I'm saying it nicely.)

I want to retain the 'special-ness' of these awards but since they had been bouncing around the blogosphere, almost all of my lovely prospective awardees got one already.

So, I shall give the Sunshine Award to my would-be follower. He or she will add a ray to my sun. That would be Follower #39!

The Karate Award..goes to..

Ratz

Emily Jane

Mishieru

Gnetch

The Empress

KleinsteMotte

Lisa

Meg

*MegFee

Whosyergurl

Janjan

You guys made my mother's day post for my mom extra special.  For reading and commenting, thank you! You gave this year's day an extra kick!

I bought a cake, wrapped some lovely gift and most of all, brought her first and only grandson close for the weekend bonding. She gave me this lovely pair.

Would you believe these are made from water lily? Woven. I have lots of these pairs, sometimes made of abaca, and they are such comfortable wears!  All from my mother.

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*Couldn't find her blog link..

UPDATE: The Sunshine Award goes to Yaya's Mommy!  Please take the statuette made of sunshine. Welcome aboard :-)