A Blog Award

I'm so honored to tell you that my sweet friend Patti Painter  has presented me with an award.

This blog award has a few requirements:
1. to pass it along to 8 deserving people
2. to tell 7 things about yourself

After much difficult deliberations these are the 8 people who I have

decided to pass this award along too.  Some of these I have recently discovered

and others I have followed for a while.  Please take a moment and check out these

ladies wonderful blogs.

In no particular order...

Peggy

Artesenia

Brenda K.

Debbles Dabbles

Karin

Dawn Mercedes

Gro Tjelveit

Linda B.

Here are 7 things about me...

1. I spend a huge amount of time carpooling my kids to soccer, dance

softball, school clubs etc.

 

2.  I love old Cary Grant & Katherine & Audrey Hepburn movies

 

3. My favorite author is Mary Higgins-Clark 

 

4. My craft room is an utter disaster!  I see all of the beautiful pictures people

post of their rooms and I just don't understand how they keep them looking

like that???

 

5. Almost every night I read to my 2 kids before bed.  Dominick is 12 and we're currently reading

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Makena is almost 11 and we're reading Stolen Children by Peg Kehret.

6. I love to cook and try new recipes.  One day I hope to have my kitchen redone and 

let that inspire me even more!

7. Our house is set in the woods and I love my "daily dose" of nature.  We see deer and birds by the dozens

on a daily basis.  Almost weekly we'll see turkeys, groundhogs and  rabbits.  A couple of times a year

we are even visited by a bear.  I'm still trying to capture a bear on film though.  It's always dusk when

they arrive and my photos never turn out.  

American Goldfinch

 

  Paint turtle

 

Garter Snake

 

 Hairy Woodpecker

 Eeek!!  We're surrounded.  (our record is 11 at one time) 

  Hummingbird Moth

 Thank you Patti!

A BLOG AWARD!

My new friend Margaret  (Please check out her blog.  She has some beautiful work on it.) has honored me with an award!  I'm so flattered and can't wait to pass this along to three more people who I have recently discovered and think they create amazing works of art. 

The aim of this award is to give it to 3 -5 blogs you have visited that are relatively unknown and bring them to light [not with thousands of followers already]. So here are the terms for accepting the award:

1-create a blog post showing your award and say you accept it

2-say who gave the award and link back to them

3-link to 3-5 of your favourite blogs and let them know about the award

So....without further adieu here are the ladies who I have been recently inspired by. They all have some wonderful inspiration on their blogs.  They're worth checking out!

 Colleen Dietrich: Dietrich Designs

Sheri: My Sheri Cards

Sarah Nelson: Handmade with Love by Sarah

Thank you very much Margaret! 

I truly appreciate it and hope that these ladies will too. 



I received an award!

I got this Award from my friend Gunn! I first met Gunn when we worked together on the Sugar Creek Hollow DT.  She's SO MUCH FUN to work with.  If you've never checked out her work you should because there's tons of inspiration to be found on her blog.  Thanks so much Gunn!  This means a lot to me!

The rules are that you have to share 8 things about yourself.  Okay, here goes...

1.First off, you may wonder what on earth "Renlymat" means.  It's pretty simple.  It's a combination of my full name...Reneé Lyn Matarese

2. When I was 17 I once sold a colored pencil poster drawing to a proffessional hockey player.  We have a minor league team in our town & I had made a poster for my friend.  She took it to him to get it autographed and he asked for one to send to his parents in Canada.  He went on to play for the Mighty Ducks but I have no idea where he is now. (Terry Yake for all you hockey fans out there)

3. I love to hike.  We have miles of hiking trails behind our house and live within 1 1/2 hours from several gorgeous state parks with miles of waterfalls and trails.  It's a favorite thing for our family to do together.

4. I love to cook.  One of my favorite things to do is to record cooking shows and try out new recipes.

5. My "real" job is a program aide in the 4th grade.  I have 15 kids that I focus on.  I run study groups and help them keep up during class.  It's very rewarding but if I could figure out a way to make a living at it crafting would be my real job.

6. The place I would love to visit most is Italy.

7. I was a volleyball champ in high school.  In the 4 years that I played we were "STAC" champs 3 out of the 4 years and as a senior I made the all-star team.

8.  I started making cards when my grandfather died.  My mom and her cousin were looking for ways to keep my grandma busy.  One afternoon her cousin brought some stamps, ink and paper to show my grandma how to make her own cards.  (she was 84!)  I just happened to stop by to say hi to my grandma and sat in on the lesson.  At the time I didn't realize it but I was hooked.  Thanks SUE!!  My grandma is now almost 90 and I still get handmade birthday cards from her!

Now...the other rule is to pass this award along to 8 people.

 

Cec

Darlene

Sarah

Sue

Jeanie

Bernadette

Dawn

Joseline

These are all such talented ladies.  You should take the time to check out their blogs!

There are a few of my favorites that I haven't listed here because I see that they recently received this award from someone else...so if you're looking and you're not on my list it's not that I'm not inspired by you!

The rules for receiving this award are:

Thank and link back to the person who sent this to you.

Share 8 things about yourself

Pass this award on to 8 bloggers

Contact those bloggers and tell them you sent them this award.

Thank you for stopping by!