My first Blog Awards!! I'm so excited!!

I was awarded two of these awards a couple days ago I have only had time to post them now!!



To accept this award, I must do the following:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded me this award
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

I received them from my wonderfully crafty friends:
Scraperdee
http://scrapperdee-rambling.blogspot.com/
and
Shannon
http://pansiespaperpetals.blogspot.com/
Please click on the two awards on my sidebar to see their pages. Thank you much to both of you!!

Sharing eight things about myself:
1. I am married to my best friend.
2. I have seven wonderful children from the ages of 30 down to 13. The first six are boys, the last one is a girl. I also have three very cute grandchildren, all boys!!
3. I have industrial first aid training level 3.
4. I hybidize Daylilies and have over 100 named varieties and near 1000 hybrids. I hope someday to register(name)a few of my own daylilies.
5. In my early fourties I worked at a copper mine as sample bucker and a Primary Crusher operater, I crushed over 20,000 tonnes of rock in a 12 hr shift!!
6. I have a real love for nature and animals.
7. I would like to get better at photography.
8. I am a certified dog groomer and did that for over 20 years when my children were younger.
Here are eight Blogs I have discovered that I would love you to visit!!
1. http://aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/
2. http://a-scrapaddict.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.ropchallenge.blogspot.com/
4. http://thegreencricut.blogspot.com/
5. http://amychomas.blogspot.com/
6. http://randisanewcreation.blogspot.com
7. http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/
8. http://brittneyunwritten.blogspot.com/

Sorry but I tried to link back to these blogs (grrr) but was not successful. Please copy and paste into your browser to veiw.

Hope you all have time to visit these wonderful Blogs!! There is so much talent out there!! Have a great day, I'm off to let these wonderful crafty souls that I've nominated them for this award!