Stylish Blogger Award!

How fun and encouraging to recieve this Stylish Blogger Award!!! 

Thank you to Cherie at www.StampCrave.blogspot.com  for choosing me -- be sure to check out her wonderful blog.  If you love vintage and shabby, Cherie's is the place to go to for inspiration

When you receive this award you are to:

1) thank the person who gave this award and link it back to their blog

2) share 8 things about yourself

3) pass this award to 8 other individuals that you have recently discovered

4) leave a comment so that they can pass along the recognition!

8 Things about me:

1)  I love horses and have been showing/training competitivelyfor the past 46    years.

2)  I have three Jack Russell terriers -- Patsy, Sally and Bingo

3)  I love gardening and especially love cottage and rose gardens

4)  I want to live at my mom's farm down in Virginia more than just about anywhere else

5)  I drive a big pick-up truck

6)  I braid horses for extra $$ at shows

7)  I used to play the flute

8)  I love my husband and my two children so much!

Out of all the wonderful blogs in the blogosphere, I'm supposed to choose just eight? Talk about challenges!  I will have a hard time choosing just 8 people to pass this award on too! Be sure to visit them and check out their inspired work.
Here are my 8 choices:
1)  Lydia Fiedler, http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com/

2)  Renee Van Stralen, http://www.reneevs.blogspot.com/

3)  Emma Fewkes, http://ladynthestamp.blogspot.com/

4)  Melissa Barkwith, http://melbarkwith.wordpress.com/

5)  Jackie Topa, http://jackietopa.typepad.com/

6)  Jana O'Brien, http://indyemmert.blogspot.com/

7)  Patty Bombyk, http://paperpatty.blogspot.com/

8)  Melanie Schulenberg, http://pocketsofinspiration.ning.com/