Blue Monday + Blog Love

Did you notice it's snowing on my blog today??? That's the closest we're going to get here in Florida, so I'm happy with cyber snow!!! :-) :-) :-)

[Notice to Bloggers: The snow plow came through and pushed all the snow off the blog! Floridians simply can't see during blizzards, and the visibility was Zero. So we're now inside a Tiffany blue box! ;-)]

My post today is designed to do double duty. In addition to its nod to Blue Monday, I recently received a very exciting message from my new friend Lorrie at The View From My Door. Lorrie awarded me with the I'm Lovin' Your Blog Award for which I'm very grateful. :-) If you haven't met Lorrie and even if you have, please pop by and see her over at her blog. She's a very special lady with a great sense of humor. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite Trash to Treasure posts last week was hers. In the post, Lorrie introduced us to Wanda and her love for bicycling. Please note that Wanda also loves blue as witnessed by her choice of footwear in the photo below.


And this photo was only the tip of the iceberg. Wanda goes on to have many more adventures, and they are captured for us in hilarious detail by Lorrie. For the rest of Wanda’s story, here’s the link to Lorrie’s blog… http://theviewfrommydoor.blogspot.com/2008/11/trash-to-treasure.html

With this award, I have to list five things I love. Rather than start with the obvious like my family, friends, and God (which goes without saying for me), I'm starting with the color blue (that being my favorite and yours and with this being Blue Monday and all) and working from there. Having rifled through my cyber picture drawer, here's what I found with a hint of blue...


"I Love The Color Blue"
by Mrs. Magpie

I love: blue satin ribbons on fancy white bonnets on the beautiful heads of eighty-year old ladies who love to do lunch and celebrate birthdays with friends of all ages who like to laugh long and like to laugh often while enjoying the ladies who are in their eighties and are aging with grace and growing in charm while remaining forever young in their hearts... [Just in case you're wondering, I'm not eighty, but I want to be Audrey when I grow up!]

I love: blue and white stripes on my grandmother’s chairs that have held, in addition to family and friends, a silly black kitty in her merry red dress from a friend I love dearly and smile when I see...



I love: blue scraps in quilts behind little black doggies in foofed feather boas whose "bad" canine owners are shown here contented in the lap I love most...



I love: the lovely blue water in the beautiful blue pool of a house in New England that lives near the ocean that’s loved by my cousin who bought the neat house that appeared in a magazine before it was sold by the cousin I love whose picture I’ve taken along with the house’s to share on my blog with the people who view it and love real neat houses that live in New England by the lovely blue water of ocean and pool...



I love: blue cottage houses (and houses of all colors) that open doors widely to fine feathered friends and family of all ages and sizes and species and joyfully celebrate life there together and twitter their way into blogging together and sending out blog love for others to share! ;-)



Now, I’d like to pass this challenge on to the following bloggers. Because I had a hard time choosing with all the names being so very shiny, I picked four of the names from the birdbath on Sunday's post (and I happen to love their blogs very much). They get a reward for being in church. The fifth name was the fifth poster down from the top of my blogroll who is Penny of The Comforts of Home and who happens to be having Internet problems. So, I picked Penny AND a Miss Congeniality who is the fifth person's blog up from the bottom of my blogroll who is Debbie of Confessions of a Plate Addict because Jeanne was the fifth person and was already on there from being in the first post! This is very scientific here, you know! ;-)

In addition, I would also like to pass this award to everyone who participates in Blue Monday! You're all wonderful bloggers! So congratulations to you because I love your blogs, too, and here are the winners from the birdbath:

Jeanne of Back Yard Neighbor
Pat of Back Porch Musings
Pat of Team Mille Fiori Favoriti
Diane of A Picture is Worth A 1,000 Words
Debbie of Confessions of A Plate Addict
Penny of The Comforts of Home

Now, go forth and spread the blog love!

First, copy the I'm Lovin' Your Blog logo from the top of this post and post it on your blog!

Second, tell us on your blog about five things you love!

Third, link back to me at The Quintessential Magpie! http://thequintessentialmagpie.blogspot.com/

Fourth, tag five other posters whose blogs you love and pass the rules to them!

[Please note, you don't have to do this if you don't want to... it's Christmas, and I want you to be happy either way! It's just that I happen to think all of you are special and have great blogs! ]:-)

And if you’re here for Blue Monday, please be sure to hop on over to visit Sally at Smiling Sally's and see what all of the other fun participants are doing today with their blue posts! And Sally, thanks for hosting us!

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for visiting!

Quintessentially yours,


Mrs. Magpie (Sheila)... who is lovin' that blue jay in the picture above! ;-)