It's Blog Hop Friday!!

It's Blog Hop Friday!!! Hey, It's Friday, that's good enough for me! But here is a chance to explore new book review blogs and get to know some of our fellow bloggers out there!

Here is the info on the Book Blog Hop -

Jennifer at Crazy For Books (http://www.crazy-for-books.com) is the host, and you can find her information and the McLinky to join in at her blog!

About the Hop: (From Jennifer)

This is a weekly event, hosted here, where book bloggers and readers can connect to find new blogs to read. It's a great way to network with other bloggers and make new friends! Every day I seem to find another book blog that I start following. In the spirit of the Friday Follow, I thought it would be cool to do a Book Blogger Hop to give us all bookies a chance to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!

This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!

So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted. (at www.crazy-for-books.com) !The Hop lasts Friday-Monday every week, so if you don't have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! This is a weekly event! And stop back throughout the weekend to see all the new blogs that are added! We get over 200 links every week!!

To shake things up a bit, Jennifer has added a different question each week for bloggers to answer.

This week's question: Tell us about some of your favorite authors and why they are your favorites!

Oh my gosh - a few of my favorite authors are: Debbie Macomber, Jennifer Weiner, Anne George, Laura Childs, Susan Wittig Albert, Jennifer Chiaverni, Adriana Trigiani, Robyn Carr, Curtiss Ann Matlock, ....oh the list could go on forever.

I like a wide variety of books, but an especially fond of women's fiction, cozy mysteries, and romance.

I am so fortunate in having been a book review for 15 years that I have been able to make friends with many of the authors I review, and I count them among my dearest friends.

So, Welcome to my blog, come on in and browse around! Hope you like what you see - if you do, please follow me! The blog hop is a fun weekly event that allows book bloggers to check out what everyone else is up to! Leave a comment and let me know you've been by! I'll come see you too!

Happy Reading Everyone!

pages gadget?

Sorry I've haven't been posting lately. After my big push to get my website up I found myself avoiding being on the computer anymore than absolutely necessary. Consequently my blog has fallen behind. However now that I'm feeling a bit more energy for blogging again.

Not to make a commercial for blogger out of this post but I'm quite excited about the new "pages" gadget. I've wanted to add other pages for a year now. Holy Crap! It's about time blogger added this option! I was even toying with switching over to wordpress. Now I'm sticking with blogger. The trick now is to figure out what pages I thought I wanted to add all those months ago. lol!

So far I've added an "Available Herps" page. I don't have much on there but I had to do something with the new gadget. lol.

Caio

Happy Blue Monday!

Happy Monday!
Have a fabulous week!
How many sentences can I start with the letter "H"?
How about a couple more?
Ha Ha.

Here are some pics from out my front door. I just love the snow frosting and the gorgeous blue from the early morning light. No way! Something I like about winter!? Wait a minute! Who am I and what have I done with myself?

Your blog is Fabulous!

The sun is shining, the temperature is back in the double-digits, and I've been presented a blog award. Holy Cow Batman!

This one is from Yasmina of MeaCulpaBodyandBath blog. She's got some truely inspired creatations over at her blog. Creams, lotions, shampoos, you name it. The only problem is...I want to eat the face cream I got from her. It smells so good. lol!

Thanks girl!

I wanted to pass this award on to some other Fabulous blogs. Check them out. :)

All natural

Bliss Soybean Candles

Thyme 2 Dream

Enjoy! Now it's thyme for lunch. :)

Brillante Award

Whoot! Another award! This is the "Brilliante Award"

Bril`lan´te

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(Mus.) In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

It was given to me by Jessie of "The art of Jessie." He's always got something interesting going on at his blog. Check out the cool ocean theam urban art photos on his January 8th post. Very cool.

Thanks again, Jesse.

I want to wish everyone a wonderful and prosperous New Year!

A big thank you goes out to all my followers - new, old, & those yet to come. I'm grateful for you and your comments.
All the best to you and yours in the year to come!

Title: New Year

Medium: Digital Art

Full Size: 11" x 14"

Sparky Blogger Award

A big thank you to Jesse for giving me the Sparky Blogger Award. What a sweet guy.

The Sparky Blogger Award is for sparking creativity, conversation, controversy and friendship.

Wow, a tall order. Hope I can live up to it. ;)

Thanks again!

100th post!

Holy Smackers batman it's my 100th post! I think it's time to celebrate...
break out the bubbly.

My kitties are not impressed. With the onset of the cold weather, they just want to eat, sleep and whine in the middle of the night.

That's "Joe" the butler and "Melchizedek" the maverick on the right. They moved with us from Colorado. Genetically they come from Colorado stock...that means they are big! 90% of Wisconsin cats are so small in comparison. My big cranky boys.