Friday Pretties and Love

Today I am playing along with Joyce from I Love Pretty Little Things for Friday Pretties.

My pretty today:

I ♥ everything about this. So glamorous!

There has been some wonderful blog love lately and I feel so blessed to know these wonderful bloggers and am honored to receive these awards.

The sweet, inspirational Tywo at The Purple Fairy awarded me this blog award:

I would like to pass it along to these lovely ladies:
-Carmel at Carmel's Closet
-Diana at exPress-o
-Valerie at Red Vines for Breakfast
-Amanda at Homely One
-PSYNOPSIS
-Cafe Bellini

Wonderful Julie the Brown Eyed Belle gave me this award:

The rules for this award are to pick five words that describe your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience. So here are my five:

1. Pretty- One of my motivations for blogging is pretty things.
2. Happy- My blogging philosophy: keep it happy! Occasionally I might have something on the sad side, but there is a time for everything, but I mostly like to keep things happy!
3. Inspiring- My other philosophy for blogging is to blog about things that inspire me and hope they might inspire someone else too.
4. Unique- I like unique things. There are so many wonderfully unique blogs out there. This is what made me start blogging.
5. Blessed- My experience with blogging can be summed up with this word. I feel so blessed with the amount of support I feel from fellow bloggers and for the wonderful people I have met.

I'd like to pass the Blog With Substance award to:
-Anna at Cornflake
-Trish at Pink Preppy Lilly Lover
-Lisa at Bumpkin On A Swing
-Debby at Inspired Design
-Shari at Little Blue Deer
-Tywo at The Purple Fairy

Sweet Amanda of Homely One and beautiful Trish from Pink Preppy Lilly Lover gave me this award:

I'm passing The Versatile Blogger award to:
-Dawn at The Alternative Wife
-Georgia at Simply Smile Photography and Going Glam With Gi Gi
-Carrie at This Free Bird
-Taj at Gorgeous Glam
-Erika at Tiptoe Butterfly

I love you all!
:)Shawna

Friday Pretties: Pearls

I am playing along with Joyce from I Love Pretty Little Things for Friday Pretties. For my Friday Pretties today, what could be prettier than pearls, jewels, lace, and ribbon?

Pearly Pins

Bud Earrings

Waving Flag Necklace


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Friday Pretties & Blog Lovin'

Today I am playing along with Joyce from I Love Pretty Little Things and her Friday Pretties! So, here is my Friday Pretty. I love her dress and the flowers and how rustic, yet feminine this all looks. And I like the love it portrays.

What a lovely week of blog love! I received two awards that I am happy to get and excited to pass on!

Lovely Leslie from Lemon Sweet Life awarded me the Blog Lovin Award! Thank you, Leslie! It was so kind of you and I always enjoy your blog so much! And congratulations again on your engagement! So exciting! :)

Sweet Debby from Inspired Design awarded me the Happy 101 award! Thank you again, Debby! You are soo kind and I love your blog!
The rules with this award are to list 10 things that you love, so here we go...

1. I love having picnics in the park with my best friend! ♥

2. A guilty pleasure breakfast of mine consists of a chocolate croissant and coffee (or tea). Love it!

3. I love skinny jeans!

4. I love Art Deco. Everything about it, from fashion to architecture, is great.

5. I love interior design...and beautiful interiors like this one!

6. I love vintage shops!

7. A little known fact, I love the Dick Van Dyke show. It is a classic. I've seen every episode lots of times and I never get tired of it!

8. I love my iPod...and all the music that is on it! I can't live without it.

9. I love Martha Stewart (and her beautiful treats like these cupcakes). She is an inspiration!

10. I love blogging (if that wasn't obvious!). And I love all my readers. I still am in awe of all the support I feel. Thank you all so much for reading. I really do appreciate it from the bottom of my heart!

And now I would love to pass the Blog Lovin Award on to:

Debby from Inspired Design

Anna from Cornflake

Bren from Chasing Beauty

Trish from Pink Preppy Lilly Lover

Vanessa from A Casa da Va


And I pass the Happy 101 Award to:

Georgia from S I M P L Y ~ S M I L E

Leslie from Lemon Sweet Life

Bumpkin On A Swing

Taj Acosta from Gorgeous Glam

Shari from Little Blue Deer


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