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The sweetest reward for doing what I do on this blog is making someone smile. Now that Karen B. awarded me by saying “You Make My Day” I feel that I’ve done just that.
According to the rules I must name 10 people whose blogs bring me happiness and inspiration. This was tough to do as I read a number of blogs and they all bring me a little something each day. After heavy deliberation here is who I chose in no particular order.
Alice of missalicefaye for her inspirational lace work. She continues to inspire in everything she does despite the time crunch she faces what with combining graduate school and knitting glorious shawls.
Cookie of Shut Up & Knit for being able to continually crack me up and spur me on despite her predilection for pink.
Jane of lacefreak for constantly inspiring me with her beautiful lace shawls, as well as her stash acquisitions. She’s an enabler folks, so beware. ;)
Barb aka Acornbud for her gorgeous photos of Hawai’i, the land I love, as well as her beautiful beadwork and (of course) her lovely knitting. I’m privileged to be able to know her in “real life” and she’s not only a constant source of inspiration, but a well of unending support.
Fleegle’s blog also for her lovely lacework, as well as her humorous tales.
Robbyn of The Yarnpath for the beautiful designs she does with her own hand dyed yarns.
Lisa of A Little Bit of Knit for her original designs and the fact that she has just about the cutest dog on the ‘net. Brodie always puts a smile on my face.
Jeanne of Jeanne Knits, she’s always inspiring me to try different patterns and different yarn.
Chris of Drop Stitch Knitter for she always manages to enable me one way or another, thus inspiring me to try something new.
Nova of novamade for not only are her pies delicious to look at, so is her knitting.
Those are the ten I came up with, but I wanted to give an honorable mention to my friend Shell as she’s a very important inspiration in my life. She’s constantly spurring me on to knit different things and to keep going when I falter with not only my knitting but in my life.
I would also like to mention Anne of Knitspot, Roseann of Possesed to Knit, Hattie of Stitch Therapy, and Patrick aka textillian. There are more, but they’re all on my blogroll in my sidebar of the main page.
All of these people inspire me in some way each day. Isn’t that what community is all about?
Cookie on 23 Jan 2008 at 11:39 am #
Awwwwwwwww… Thank you, Opal. I am in very good company.
♥
Barb on 23 Jan 2008 at 11:43 am #
Thanks so much, Opal, for the kind words:) See, you made me smile. And thanks, too, for the inspiration!
Robbyn on 23 Jan 2008 at 11:49 am #
Oh man - I don’t know what to say! Thank you my friend :) It’s an amazingly warm feeling to know that someone finds your work inspiring!
Gosh - it’s a good thing you can’t blush to death…
Shelly on 23 Jan 2008 at 11:53 am #
Thank you for the kind words - just remember you inspire me to - HUGS!
dee on 23 Jan 2008 at 12:25 pm #
Thanks for the great list of blogs! I added many of them to my Bloglines to check up on.
Hattie on 23 Jan 2008 at 12:42 pm #
Hehe. I think YOU are an enabler….with all your sock knitting, and awesome books…and if you keep it up with those earrings…
Jeanne on 23 Jan 2008 at 3:41 pm #
Thank you, Opal! How nice of you - and how nice to get a bunch of new blogs to check out!
nova on 23 Jan 2008 at 3:52 pm #
Aww, you make me smile too, Opal! Thanks! You are pretty inspirational yourself, ma’am, what with all the lace and the socks…
Karen B. on 23 Jan 2008 at 4:21 pm #
Thanks so much for passing it on! You really are special, Opal.
Jane on 23 Jan 2008 at 5:07 pm #
You deserve the award! I look at your blog all the time for inspiration and because you always try to look on the bright side of things :-) Thank you for passing on the award to me and to many of the same people I think deserve such nice recognition! Thank you again :-)
Oh yeah. Got yarn? Heh Heh Heh!
debbie on 23 Jan 2008 at 5:45 pm #
nice links to some beautiful lacework; novamade’s site made be hungry….i’m going to be missing the meet-up this week - i’ve taken on a new assignment that’s affecting my schedule, so am trying to adjust myself - hope to see you all soon….
textillian on 24 Jan 2008 at 5:13 am #
It’s an honor just to be nominated!
More blogs to investigate. When will I get my work done? Heehee…
melinda on 24 Jan 2008 at 5:17 am #
you’ve now been granted the award twice-congrats!
please visit my blog-you always make my day!
Jeanne on 24 Jan 2008 at 7:07 am #
Oh boy! Off to read all the good blogs your suggested!
alice on 24 Jan 2008 at 8:01 am #
Thank you, Opal! I’m always excited to see your blog in bold on my Bloglines list, too! :)
tiennie on 24 Jan 2008 at 12:28 pm #
Congrats on the accolades! You deserve it!
Roseann on 24 Jan 2008 at 4:09 pm #
Thank you for your kind mention of my blog. You and your blog are a constant source of inspiration and shopping for me. I received Selbuvotter and my Harmony dpns yesterday. I see why you like them so much.
Lisa on 25 Jan 2008 at 3:04 am #
Awww thanks! You inspire me too. Someday I may even try gloves because of you and Shel, and you know how scared I am of fingers lol! I better get to work on my own list.