Wow, what a great way to start my day! I found out I had received not 1 but 2 awards this morning!!
My first award is a "Great Tip Award" from Laurie at Tip Junkie for my Christmas Advent Calendar. You can get the instructions from the Tip Junkie site!
The second award is from Sandy on her blog Sam I am. She awarded me the Nice Matters Award! 
Sandy is the sweetest! She is an awesome artist and photographer, you have to check out her Etsy Shop! We met while our boys were playing soccer on the high school team. She is also Capt. Tippy's mommy and takes him RVing! How cool is that!!
So as is tradition with this award I will pass this on to 6 friends. This is tough as there are many deserving people. The 6 I choose are:
Christine - She is TopTally! Super sweet, I am honored to be designing and greeting for her at TallyScrappers. She was also one of the best Secret Sisters ever!!
Minda - She is everyone's friend. I know I can ask her anything and she will give it to me straight! She has a heart pure as gold!
Rachel - Another awesome photographer! She is right on the money and full of spunk and creative energy!! Just gotta love the HO!!
Adrienne - Be sure to check out Adrienne's blog! Wicked crafty this girl is!! Adrienne is always sweet with her comments and replies. Can't wait to meet her in person!!
Laura - One of the sweetest online chicks I know. Love her fun loving attitude and her mad kit-buying skills! A sweet heart through and through!!
Terri - She has got to be the nicest person I have meet both online and in person! Looking forward to scrapping with you again!! And actually, she may rival Laura in the kit-buying skills!
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Congradulation Shirley---you are the sweetest.....
Posted by: Cindy | September 05, 2007 at 03:08 PM
That's GOT to be the cutest advent calendar EVER!!
Posted by: Zarah | September 06, 2007 at 03:23 AM
CONGRATS on the AWARDS
just popping in to say
HI SHIRLEY!
Posted by: shawnna | September 06, 2007 at 06:42 PM
man, i tried making advent calendars like that last year & they didn't turn out nearly as cute! nice work :)
Posted by: Jessica Hood | September 19, 2007 at 06:21 AM
Cute advent calendar. Similar to the ones I've made for years!
Posted by: teresa mcfayden | September 19, 2007 at 09:09 AM