Saturday Shout-Out

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Saturday Shout-Out iheartfaces

This site is all about photography.  I think it's pretty cool.  There are contests and challenges every week.  And great tutorials.  Check it out!

http://www.iheartfaces.com/

Saturday Shout-Out

So another blog that I stumbled across one day that totally caught my eye is the Cheeky Kitchen.  Brooke is a great cook.  (ooh, that rhymed!)  And I love the way she photographs her food.  And I love the way her food tastes.  I would love it even better if she came and made her food for me though. 

But seriously, her desserts are beyond incredible, and I made her butter cream frosting and couldn't stop eating it.  I tried to freeze it so it would be harder to sneak a lick and it didn't even deter me.  Have you ever eaten frozen frosting?  It's pretty great.

http://www.cheekykitchen.com/

Saturday Shout-Out cloverlane

I'm not sure when it was that I stumbled upon this blog by Sarah... but every time I read her (pretty much every day I look for a new post), I come away feeling like I want to say, "Hey, I could have written that exact same thing!"   And she gives awesome tutorials that are so very easy to follow.

I actually wish I knew her in real life, because I'm pretty positive that we could be great friends.  Check her out at:

http://memoriesoncloverlane.blogspot.com/

Saturday Shout Out - The Pioneer Woman

My blog favorites would NEVER be complete without Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman.  Check out her "Love Story," it might make you want to find a cowboy of your very own.  And the recipes, oh the recipes...  And the photography.  I adore the photography. 

Go ahead, click the link.  I promise you won't be disappointed.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/

Saturday Shout Out - The Meanest Mom

This is a favorite blog that is just funny, and real and makes me laugh on a daily basis.

Anyone with four kids (or less, or more even) would totally get it.  Let's just say any Mom with a sense of humor would totally get it.

http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com/

Saturday Shout Out - Nie Nie

Woo-hoo! I am doing something new, because usually I don't get around to posting on the weekends.  It's just hard to find the time when everyone is kicking around together, plus I like to turn off the computer (did I just say that?) and focus on the fam as much as possible.  So (after this explanatory long-winded post) this new feature will be short and to the point.


Quick explanation: I am doing a Saturday Shout-Out, can't remember which blog I happened to see this feature on, but I thought it was a cool idea.  Basically, I am just going to post a link to one of the blogs that I read often, and there are a lot of them.  Maybe I will even post a brief reason why I am drawn to the particular blog.


The number one blog on my list is....

http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/

This is number one on my list for several reasons.  Stephanie Nielson's (nienie) blog is the first blog I ever followed.  I was mainly a blurker (Thanks Erin - good one!), and I read her because I was smack in the middle of a rough spot, and she seemed to have it all together, and with her four children she seemed to find joy in every area of her life.  At the time, I was feeling every little bump in the road, and feeling very imperfect.  It was after Brooke was born, and it was just hard to keep it all in perspective sometimes.  ANYWAY, reading Nienie always inspired me and made me stop, slow down and look for the joy that I knew was really there.  


A little while back, Stephanie and her husband were in a terrible plane crash.  They both suffered.  A lot.  And their friend, the pilot, died in the crash. After the accident, I became an official follower.  I felt like she was a [friend] almost, because I felt like I had gotten to know her by reading her words for so long, plus I also credited her for helping me get through that rough spot.  So anyway, Stephanie is still recovering, and still blogging, and still so very inspiring to me.  You should really check her out.