I am very excited to report that I was nominated for a blogger award!!!

YEAH!!!

The Sunshine Award is an award given by bloggers to other bloggers.

The recipients of the Sunshine Award are:

Bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere.

The way the award works is this:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.
2. Answer some questions about yourself.
3. Select 10 of your favorite bloggers, link their blogs to your post and let them know they have been awarded the Sunshine Award!

The Thanks

First, I would like to thank the academy for this amazing award…wait..no…that is not right! I would like to thank The Procrastitorian for the lovely nomination! I was both happily surprised and equally touched that I was even nominated for such an award!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! You have made my week! Truly!! 😉

 Questions

1.  What inspired you to start blogging?

I have been blogging for a few years, but mainly I was just logging my random thoughts and photos without any real purpose or focus in what I was saying. In early 2013, I knew that there was more to me than what I was sharing with the blogosphere and decided it was time for a change. I wanted my message to do more than just entertain! I wanted to, in some small way, change the world, by creating a community of creative people to venture out and starting with small measurable steps start creating the lives of their dreams. If that meant I would be able to explore the artsy side of life and share what I found, the better.

2.  How did you come up with the name to your blog?

I had been looking for a new blog name for a few months, and I actually stumbled across This Artsy Life while I was doing my morning pages. I was going on and on, writing down what I wanted my dream life to look like, when I wrote the sentence, “When I think about this artsy life, I can’t helped but be totally jazzed!” It was then that I saw it, “This Artsy Life”, I knew I had finally found my new name.

List your top 5 “Big Girls”! These are the women who I most want to emulate in my life/artsy career!

1. Melody Ross – Brave Girls Club
2. Kelly Rae Roberts
3. Christy Tomlinson
4. Jennifer Lee
5. SerenaThompson – The Farm Chicks

Tell about your dream job.

I would love to be able to say that I was a full time artist, life coach, photographer, art instructor, and art retreat hostess!

Is your glass half empty or half full?

I am definitely a glass half full kind of girl!!

If you could go anywhere for a week’s vacation, where would you go?

I would go to France and just take in all of the culture, the food, the sights, the sounds, people watch like a crazy American, which I am, and have THE BEST TIME EVER!!! 😉

What food can you absolutely not eat?

Mushrooms. I am allergic. 🙁

Dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

Dark chocolate any day!!

How much time do you spend blogging?

I figure I blog between 10 and 15 hours a week! 🙂

What top 3 pieces of advice would you give a newbie blogger for starting a blog??

1. Be consistent in your posting so people know when to come back to find new content.
2. Share your beliefs, thoughts, opinions, etc. That is how we, as your readers, are going to get to know the real you!
3. Find your own authentic voice.

10 Nominees

1. Danita Art
2. Dilly Bean Inspirations
3. Dina Stamps
4. Donna Downey
5. Jenni Horne
6. Juliette Crane
7. Liv Lane
8. Roben Marie
9. Some Fiddling on the Kitchen Table
10. The Kathrine Wheel

Thank you again for the Sunshine Award nomination! I hope you enjoyed reading this! 🙂

Here is to a FABULOUSLY ARTSY evening! 😉

If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!!

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