tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7922963766289047218.post-50416337878844877052008-11-11T07:00:00.002-05:002008-11-11T10:01:24.043-05:002008-11-11T10:01:24.043-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oyUuQqckQx0/SRjyAUeAVVI/AAAAAAAAAjA/2aBIK5JqyPE/s1600-h/bookworm_award.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267225851518276946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oyUuQqckQx0/SRjyAUeAVVI/AAAAAAAAAjA/2aBIK5JqyPE/s320/bookworm_award.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;">I've been tagged by <a href="http://lavenderlaceandthyme.blogspot.com/">Kathy at Lavendar, Lace, and Thyme </a>with the bookworm award. These are the directions for what the recipient of the award needs to do:<br /><br />Pass this on to 5 blogging friends.<br />Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56.<br />Write out the 5th sentence, as well as two to five sentences following that...<br /><br />Personally, I think this is a really cool meme, but then I really like books a lot. Kathy quoted from a book by Thomas Kincaid. The book closest to me is <em>Beautiful Home on a Budget </em>by Emilie Barnes and Yoli Brogger.<br /><br />This is what is says on page 56, starting with sentence 5: <em>How did I get to this point? Simply by wanting to shape a home that was beautiful to look at and easy to live in...for everyone in our family. As a child bride of 17, I began my decorating journey with almost nothing. In those early days I was trying to create a beautiful home on no budget at all! Learning to love what I had and to see the decorating potential in almost anything was pure necessity.<br /><br /></em>Boy, can I ever relate to Emilie's words! One thing I'm really learning to love is less of what I have. As the years go by I want less and less possessions. I'm morphing into a minimalist. If it requires dusting or perpetual maintenance or if I'm always having to move it out of my way then I don't want it. Bare is beautiful.<br /><br />I'm not going to tag anyone in particular, but I hope some of you will participate and let me know about it in the comment section. This is a great way to learn tidbits of wisdom without a lot of energy or time expended.</span><br /><br />*<em>Editing to say that my post originally said I started at sentence number 35, but it was supposed to say #5. I didn't catch that typo, but the directions at the top still read sentence #5. </em><br /></p><p><img class="centered" alt="post signature" src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh102/extragrace/bonita%20lillie/bonita_signature.jpg" /></p>Bonitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13945043297139219733noreply@blogger.com7