And Indeed It Is--To Wilderness Chic and 1Chic Mama--The Two Chicest Women In My Life----I Thank You With All Of My Heart! xoxoxo

Dearest Wilderness Chic and 1ChicMama,

You both gave me this award and I am so thrilled because I feel you both are the chicest ladies in town and I don’t know quite how to handle the suave! 

In all seriousness.  Both of you write unique blogs–but there is a string running throughout both of your posts.  They are both incredibly strong and reflect the tough, resilient bright women that you are.  Basically, when the going gets tough neither of you buckle.  I look up to you both because you are mentors in terms of life experience.  Wilderness, you know I always look to you whenever I need some nutty problem solved or I see that our paths have crossed and that you can give me advice on the road that we have both embarked upon.  Chic Mama.  It’s so interesting.  We are recent friends and yet I feel such an affinity and closeness to you.  An ease.  A feeling of honesty and truth.  You open up your soul in your beautiful writing and with that I feel like I can open up to you without any constraint either.  It breaks my heart that a woman with such wit and charm has to have the plight that you suffer.  But, what makes you so remarkable is how you, through your posts and Tweets, show us how you can hold your head up high no matter how bad it gets.  You show us the power of writing.  The power of being able to express yourself and share through words and therefore help others and maybe let others help you.  I am so lucky to know you.  

Well, with that ode to these brilliant women over and done with, I suppose I am supposed to recommend 5 sites.  I know it’s bad form.  But I AM going to recommend these two sites again.  They mean a lot to me and since I have a different readership, maybe others will be exposed to their writing.

So:

Life the universe and all thats in it

A friend, a new writer to the blogosphere who took to the damned blogging thing so well that I am green with envy.  She writes with sass style and here’s an insider tip (though I don’t wanna give this away because I want her to give me all her attention!) Tweet with her.  That’s just a real insight into her amazing personality.  God, is she a fabulous, kind woman.

Broken Postcard 

I am amazed everytime I visit this site.  I know the bloke and he is always trying new type of artistic endeavors on his site.  He made an amazing video worth watching to homemade music.  He scours the net for amazing art and again, videos from museum you’d never visit.  He draws these brilliant sketches with vivid colors, writes poetry and makes animation.  I’ll warn you, his writing about philosophy etc. is not for everyone, but visually his site IS.  So don’t click away if you can’t hack the read.  Check out his visuals instead.  It is worth it!

chic mama

I have never read about a woman who had gone through hell and back and then straight through hell again and keeps her head so high and manages to even creak out a smile and whip out a joke or two.  I adore this woman.  In the short time we have spoken she has inspired me to realize how precarious life is and to understand the human soul and spirit.  Her posts are inspiring and simply truth.  I honor her and treasure her as a new friend.  She is on my mind often.  Visit her site and lend her some encouragement and make her laugh.  She’d love it!

Sharon-Rose-Style, Thrifting and Me

I know Sharon has had a zillion of these awarded to her, but I needed to say my two cents (probably what she pays for a couture Versace!).  I was so pleased when she started visiting my blog.  I’d been checking hers out for awhile and couldn’t believe the finds she’d gotten–and the prices.  She is the queen of deals.  I’d hate to go shopping with her because she would get  best thing in the shop for a fiver and you’d wanna kill her.  She always leaves kind words on my blog and is cheery, sweet and has the most gorgeous looking kids.  And he her husband looks like “Big” from”Sex and the City!”  Anyway, for a real fashionista who knows how to really work it and get it at a nuts price, visit her site and drool.

Helena Halme

A woman who shall never be off of my list.  A wonderful writer who tells a amazing journey of her life coming to England, meeting the love of her life and just adjusting to a whole new world–a story I can relate to.  She is kind, endearing and never has a comma out of place  Her story will capture you right away and the only thing you’ll hate about her blog is that it’s in installments, so you’ll be killing yourself to read the next one!

Looking Fab In Your Forties

And last, but NEVER least, my darling Fab!!  You killer, you.  Your site is perfection and you know it.  You always have interesting posts.  I love your style.  You are the queen of shoes (guys, she really has an amazing collection…check out her avatar on Twitter) and I just like your jovial and at ease writing-style.  I adore our chats, I love seeing what you are up to….and I just think you are so genuine–the real article, folks.  So if you want to visit a blog that has everything—a real gal with real style and a real life going on…hit her up.  She’s also a kick to Tweet with.  ;)

Thank you again……you know getting kudos from my fellow blog “home-boys” makes me feel like a winner.  I adore you guys and I am mighty grateful.

Love to you all and I’ll see you for my fashion “Wish List”  tomorrow.

Dedicatedly yours,

—One of 365