Liebster Award information and nominations

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LIEBSTER AWARD: The guidelines for this award:

The Rules

  • 1. The Liebster Award is given by bloggers to bloggers who have less than 200 followers. (2 of my nominations are over this limit!!)
  • 2. Each blogger should post 11 random facts about themselves.
  • 3. Each blogger should answer the 11 questions given to you.
  • 4. Choose 11 new bloggers to pass the award on to and link them in your post.
  • 5. Create 11 new questions for the chosen bloggers.
  • 6. Go back to their page and tell them about the award.
  • 7. No tag backs.

My 11 Random Facts

1. I am a grandmother of one beautiful baby girl, McKinley age 1.

2. I love to Kayak more than canoe, although I have canoed more than 600 miles of Ontario throughout my life.

3. I collected and carried back over 50 stones from the bottom of Spawning Bay, Lake Temagami, Ontario to grace my garden.

4. I love to garden, especially plant and nurture roses, coreposis and lilacs.

5. I am writing a children’s novel about the founding of the Northwest territory (Ohio) that features my great, great, great, grandfather as a boy.

6. I have experimented with cooking since I was 11, and love to cook and try new recipes as well as make up my own.

7. I am addicted to Landshark beer.

8. I am lucky to have found my soul mate, Kevin Michael when I was just 22- and we have been together for 35 years.

9. I love to camp in the wilderness (no amenities- just know how)- no car camping for me.

10.  I am an expert fire builder.

11.  I like alt country music and my favorite artists are “The Be Good Tanyas, Gillian Welch and Hayes Caryl.

My responses given to Georgia Rauch:

  • 1. If you could have any superhero power what would it be?  To fly and be in two places at once.
  • 2. What is a favorite childhood memory you have? Flying Kites and fishing with my dad
  • 3. What is the last song you listened to? Freedom by Richie Havens
  • 4. What is your favorite color? magenta
  • 5. If you had a to fight a dinosaur, which one would you want to fight?  Trachodon
  • 6. Big city or small town? Big city
  • 7. Whats your favorite restaurant? Aab Indian
  • 8. What can’t you live without? Freedom
  • 9. What drives you bonkers? Mosquitoes
  • 10. Would you rather repeat an awesome vacation or go somewhere new? New
  • 11. Shower or Bath? Bath

My Nominations:

colinaikenart: lovely work in digital formats

belladonic haze: cool photos

fionafaulkes: irish themes and expression/impressionism

Wheremyfantasiesanddaydreamsmetamorphoses: cool art

Pedro Holderbaum: Some of my favorite photography- very cool and sophisticated

The Flying Fruit Bowl:

ALJ3R: provocative photos

leaf and twig: nature photography

Thebearggrr:  Awesome site

The good machinery is goood: Cool prints

Artist as mother:  Cool imagery and ideas…and as a mother and artist myself I can relate to her blog

My Questions to the Nominees:

1.  What is your favorite film of all time?

2.  If you  were stranded on an island what book would you wish to have with you?

3. Who is your hero?

4. Who is your favorite visual artist?

5. What is your favorite song?

6. If you had anywhere on earth to live where would it be?

7. If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be?

8. You are digging in a trash Bin and find something that will change your life…what is it?

9. What smell takes you back to your childhood?

10. Beach, mountains or meadows?

11. If you could choose a magical power what would it be?

More Art!

a333333   This work is actually an enlarged and painted portion of another work in the tree series.  I took several “slices” of other works and enlarged them on canvas using the same kinds of brush strokes and color.  The thickness of the paints were the most challenging but rewarding and I found that the “concrete” to abstract process exhilarating.  Now I have these large canvases unstretched as I have not wanted to show them, and the energy to get them all to that point(as well as expense) will be great.

I wish to thank Georgia Rauch at MckinleyMilestones for nominating me for the Liebster award.  Please see next blog for rules, nominated blogs, questions and answers to others.