The Great Big Post of Awards {Part One}

I fail at blogging quite often. It’s true. For example, if some sweet blogger passes an award my way, it may take me months to get to it, if I ever do. Which is silly, because I adore tags and am always so thrilled and honored to have one given to me. Being as how I’ve spent the majority of the year so far writing, I’ve been setting aside all the wonderful awards passed my way for a time. And now, finally, I’m getting to some! There are four (yes four, I told you I’m horrible) so I’ll post two…

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Changes, New Adventures, and Lots of Feels

For a long while now my ol’ blog and myself have needed to undergo some changes. And thus this week I set out on the (not exactly) grand adventure of doing just that. Firstly, you may have noticed I don’t pen under the name Lauriloth anymore. If I have hopes of ever getting published I figured I might need to start looking a smidge more professional. (Although I still have delusions of being an elf. We can just pretend, right?) But don’t you worry, I’ll still always be Lauri, so feel free to address me as such if so desired.…

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Sunflower, Dearest?

The absolutely wonderful Sarah from Sarah Plain and Average has awarded me! If you don’t follow her blog, you must! She’s delightful! So we’ve got two awards going, both the Liebster Award and the Sunflower Award, so I’m going to copy Sarah here and sort of combine them. ~ The Rules ~ 1.  Link the blog that nominated you for the award. 2.  Choose eleven bloggers to nominate that have less than 200 followers. 3.  Answer the questions given to you. 4.  Let the people who you've nominated know when you've done so. 5.  You can't nominate the person that…

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Turning Goals into Reality

January, what an exciting month! A time for new beginnings, promises to live better, create lists, get organized. That time of making resolutions and embracing them. Well, my January has been full of recovering from Christmas, having the time of my life out of town at a friend’s house, and then coming home to the flu. Not much of a chance for making those resolutions and turning them into reality. But, thankfully, the flu has left our household and life is settling back into normality. And though January is almost behind us, it’s never too late to make those New…

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Brilliant Blog Bouquet Award

I am such a shameful blogger. The fantastic Kiri Liz awarded me with a blog award over a month ago and here I am getting to it just now. I am so honored by her kindness! ~Rules~ Put a link to who gave you the award Post the award to your blog Answer the questions Choose 5 blogs to receive the award Let them know you've awarded them Questions~ 1. If you could have a "flower pen name" like we have here on our blog, Violets and Daisies what would it be? Roses have always had a special spot in…

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Of Hobbits, Books, and Fix-its

Thursday evening, Dad came home with this— Much squeeing and bouncing and hugging ensued on my part.   Also on Thursday, I joined GoodReads. Now, most of you probably know what it is, but I’m going to blog about it anyway. *wicked grin* Ahem. Mainly I’m blogging about it because it seems to have taken over my life and is my new favorite thing. I’ve known about this magical place called GoodReads for about a year now and I’ve been meaning to join it for…about a year now. But, me being my silly self, I never got to it. Then…

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Scrumptious Blog Award

The spectacular Kiri Liz has awarded my blog! Thank you so much, Kiri! Your blog is absolutely scrumptious as well! ^_^ Rules- 1: When you receive the award you must post about it on your blog and leave a link to my blog. 2: Answer all the questions to the tag below. 3: Do not award anyone who has more than one hundred followers. 4: Come up with ten questions for the tag. 5: Keep your questions clean and refrain from using bad language. 6: Tag 5 to 10 people. Here are the questions Kiri has asked: 1. What's your…

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A Little Bit of This, a Dash of That, with a Pinch of Other Stuff

I’ve been in a bit of a blogging rut as of late, which is probably evident in the fact that I haven’t posted in a month and a half. I’ve been suffering from blog post block, which is like writer’s block but with blog post ideas. Add that with a touch (okay, okay, a lot) of laziness, and my blog is off to the land of abandonment. I blame the summer. (Are you saying I should blame my own laziness? Pft. That’s ridiculous.) Upon summer days, comes, what I like to call, the “don’t wanna’s”. I don’t wanna do this.…

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My Idea Dispenser

My little sister’s mind probably looks something like a tornado made of bright rainbows. Her creativity has no bounds. So, often, when I get writer’s block or need ideas or inspiration, I consult Miss Rainbow Mind herself. She’s my own personal idea dispenser. Picture courtesy of meh little sis Thus, when I’ve been having a severe amount of blog post writer’s block but have been desperately wanting to post regularly, who do I go to for ideas? BATMAN! Er…no wait, sorry. My sister, yes. One day we were sitting in the car and I looked around for the button upon…

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1st Blogversary!

It was a dark and stormy night… Lauriloth was creeping through the woods, hiding in the shadows, grateful for the heavy rain covering her foot tracks. But it was not enough. The monster found her anyway. Suddenly, an array of bright colors blinded her. She could barely look upon the great thing. She had no problem hearing it though. Her eardrums practically burst from its booming voice. Its words frightened her. “YOU WILL MAKE A BLOG!” Lauriloth dropped to her knees. “Noooo!!! How can I?” she cried out. “What will I write about? Why must you stalk me, O Blogger…

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