dkaye from Cold Coffee…and reruns honored me with this award. Coming from her, and because I’m still so new to blogging, this really means a lot! Thank you, dkaye!
The instructions are to share three writing tips and pass the award on to three bloggers that you deem “worthy of recognition and esteem.”
My three tips:
1- Be yourself. It’s much easier to just be who you are and when you’re genuine, readers will know.
2- Write about things you know a lot about, feel passionately for or that interest you. The words flow more easily and make reading your work enjoyable/informative.
3- Something I’ve learned recently is that I don’t need to post every day. Give each entry a chance to be seen. I now try to only write every other day. Besides, Huckdoll mentioned this pearl of wisdom on her blog too, so I know it’s gotta be right! 
I’m not going to tag anyone for this, because it seems most people I know have already done it. If you haven’t, please feel free to do so!
This beautiful award came from Petula at It’s a Woman’s World. Thank you, Petula! Purple and diamonds=two of my favorite things! 
This really cool award came from Mama Wise, a new friend I’ve made in the bloggy world!
I’m passing this award to: dkaye at Cold Coffee…and reruns, Jill at Caffeine Court, Melissa at Such Simple Pleasures, and Mimi at Mimi Writes. These women are among the many that bring a smile to my face on a daily basis.
Last, but certainly not least, Melinda at Musings by Melinda has a brand new blog award, and I am honored to be one of the very first recipients! She said that I am “THE Real World Mom”! Thank you, Melinda!
If any of these fine bloggers aren’t already on your daily reading list, please take a minute to go see why they should be!
March 19th, 2008 at 11:38 AM
ooh, congrats! good choices on paying it forward.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Wow! That’s all, really. Just, wow. In the words of wise blogger ( Melinda ), you are THE real world mom! Congrats!
March 19th, 2008 at 12:26 PM
thank you so much, honey!!! you made my day!!
and…you so deserve all the awards you’ve received because, you are awesome!!!
xoxo
March 19th, 2008 at 1:21 PM
thank you so much for my award! how did you know yellow was my favorite color?
seriously though, it means a lot, and i will wear it proudly on my page. just as soon as i can get home and play.
<3 xoxo
March 19th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Those are some awesome awards! Congrats- you deserve ‘em!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:23 PM
congrats on the awards!
Had to say that I have a hard time finding your blog, for some reason. I will play around with it, but this is only showing through bloglines, and I can’t pull it up completely… pretty unusual, and I don’t understand it!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Congrats on all your awards Stacey! :]
March 19th, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Many congrats!
March 19th, 2008 at 9:08 PM
I don’t know dkaye, but I know the rest of those bloggers and they ROCK! Especially Misty who is the best friend I could have ever have!
March 20th, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Great tips. And, well-deserved awards, my dear.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Thanks so much for the award! You rock.
Also…I love your review at Blog Catalog…I’m so flattered.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Congrats honey pie! Awards always seem to give you the warm and fuzzy’s, right??
March 21st, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Fine! Don’t mention me and my fabulous blog. Bleah to you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Psych!!!!
March 21st, 2008 at 5:43 AM
Aww. Congratulations. You deserve them all!!!
March 21st, 2008 at 8:07 AM
Congrats on all your awards Stacey..you totally deserve them!!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Congrats!!!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:14 AM
HI there! great to spot you at Entrecard!Congrats on all the awards!
March 21st, 2008 at 7:07 PM
You’ve got so many awards, congratulations! Thanks for the tips, i always thought of the no.3 tip – give the post a chance to be seen.
Btw, your EC is showing on my widget. Thanks for advertising your nice blog on mine.
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 AM
Congrats to you, very well deserved!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Wow, look at you miss award show master
You’re a shining star, girlie! Good job! Thanks for mentioning me in that post 
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Yeah for all your awesome bloggy bling! Congrats!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Well, you managed to bring tears to my eyes. It’s been a rough couple of days, and you managed to make me feel pretty darn good. Thank you!!!