honest scrap award

some good honest scrap... Wow, I don't have a post header for something like this. I would like to give a nice big shout out to The Violet Fern! Your comment yesterday really brightened my day. Thanks so much for passing along the Honest Scrap award. I hadn't heard of it before, but it sounds fun so I'm game to play. I recommend everyone to stroll on over to The Violet Fern's blog. This former Mainer is not only a fellow gardener, but also a great soul. I laugh because she even writes about how she captures indoor bugs and relocates them outside and about keeping a garden scrapbook. What a hoot, I do the same.

Alrighty, onto the rules of the Honest Scrap award (so I'm told... rumors are you can break them if you dare.)

1. Brag about the award.

2. Include the name of the blogger who gave you the award and link back to that blogger.

3. Choose a minimum of seven blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.

4. Show their names and links and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with this award.

5. List at least ten honest things about yourself. (TEN?!?)

Okay, did I complete #1 yet? Hmmm, did I mention that accordingly to Google folklore, the Honest Scrap Award has been passed along to over 300,000 folks?

I'd like to share these seven favorite daily reads:

fresh new england — This New Englander's blog is one of the most beautiful love stories of when food meets photography. El not presents her recipes with gorgeous imagery and styling, she also paints fabulous stories with her words.

poor girl gourmet — staying in the Massachusetts realm, Amy's blog about high quality food on a low budget is a must read. The girl just created her own capers out of nasturium seed pods... how cool is that?

greens & berries — relax with a cup of tea and let yourself be transported with Elaine's beautiful images of her balcony garden. I remember first finding her blog back in the spring when she was growing radishes in pots.

four green acres — June is a new blog friend who's site I am glad to have found. A former Brooklynite, June now lives up in Maine living the good life. You have to check out the wood fire pizza oven they just built. I'm totally jealous.

grafix muse — Another new blog friend, Grafix Muse is a fellow designer and neighbor to boot. I'm enjoying following along as she preps her garden for winter. Can't wait to find out what she's planting for spring!

flighty's plot — Flighty's gardening prowess has totally turned me onto some varieties of plants and veggies I haven't seen before. I always stop by to see what's new to learn.

idaho small goat garden — This family is doing it all, from chickens, to gardens, to miniature donkeys??? I love to follow Heather's adventures each week.

Now to the confessional... 10 things you always wanted to know, but was afraid to ask:

1. my dream of dreams is to turn my passion for organic gardening into a full time job. to one day have a small farm would be incredible. oh, and if that farm came with a little pond where ducks hang out, well that would just be icing on the cake.

2. i'm 5' 2".

3. my first job out of college was for Greenpeace (field canvasser... I basically got chased off people's yards throughout the tri-state New Jersey/Philadelphia area).

4. when i was 22, i was a wine steward on a ranch in Jackson Hole, WY.

5. i met my husband while working as a cocktail waitress at a Portland brewpub... he was the brewer. we had our first date 13 years ago and have been together ever since.

6. i had a dog named Jiggy.

7. my dream car is a 1972 Ford Bronco. not a very green choice, but this is just strictly dream speak.

8. when i was five, i stole a pack of grape scratch-and-sniff stickers from FAO Schwartz.

9. i love good music. on any given day, i'm shaking my groove thing to Fleet Foxes, Wilco, The Kinks, Neil Young, 10,000 Maniacs and Radiohead.

10. i grow vegetables i'm not even that crazy about eating simple because i love seeing them grow and develop in the garden... think baby eggplants.