Thanks are in order

Last week the creative girls behind Creative Mamas were so sweet and gave me a stylish blog award!!  Thank you so much!!!!

Anytime that  I receive any type of recognition for this blog I am in complete awe.  This whole blogging experience has been nothing short of awesome!

This award has some rules:

•  Thank and link back to the person (or people) who gave you this award.
•  Share seven things about yourself.
•  Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers.
•  Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award!

More then you ever wanted to know about me:

1. My middle name is Denee, sounds like Renee with a "D".  I have rarely heard anyone else with this name.  I think that is one of the reasons I like it.

2. I wear contacts and have since I was 15 years old.  I started wearing glasses when I was 8 or 9 just to read the chalkboard in school.  Eventually I had to wear them all the time.  The 90s was not a great decade for stylish glasses.  I'm scarred for life ;-)

We have the same name, but not me.

3. From age 7 to around 12 I was deathly afraid of water especially the deep end in a swimming pool.  Like panic attacks and hysterics.  Not sure why I became so fearful.  In England swimming was a normal part of P.E. and my teacher made me dive in the deep end for one of those diving toys and from then on I became less and less afraid.  Still not a huge fan of deep, deep water.  The vastness of the ocean freaks me out.

4. I have never gotten a speeding ticket.  Not that I haven't deserved one ;-) I have gotten a warning for an illegal u-turn and a parking ticket for parking the wrong way on a one way street.  But that's it in the last 18 years since I started driving.

5. It took me awhile to grow into my ears.  I was picked on as a kid and hated wearing my hair up for the longest time, like not until after college.

Yep, that's me.

6. One of my dreams is to write and illustrate a children's book.

7. I am a very empathetic person.  Even when it comes to fictional people. Haha! When I was 7 my family went to see American Tail.  The moment Fievel was separated from his family I was a mess.  I cried hysterically.  All I could think about was how it must feel to be lost and not find your family and how scary that must be.  Crazy, I know.

Now I'm suposed to pass this along to 15 newly discovered blogs.  Well I feel bad about this but I haven't done much discovering lately.  So 15 is a lofty number.  Instead I am going to pass it on to 5 if that's ok with you guys.  Check these guys out!!

Homemade Ginger
My House of L
Pink Calaveras
The Stucco Bungalow
A Home made by Kiki