A Blogger Who Follows Blogs Is A Blog-Follower. Who Would've Thunk.

So since I became a "blogger" I've developed this craze for other people's blogs. Cooking/Baking blogs, personal blogs, fashion blogs, Artsy blogs, I love them all!

Holy-Guacamole, there are tons of blogs out there. Any interest you have, you can probably find someone who has a blog that is LOADED with info about said interest.

Here's a few that I love checking out... Just in case you were wondering..

The J-Walk Blog - This has some crazy stuff in it. It's not really an interest blog as much as it's a good place for random stuff! Check out this post Chicken In The Corn which features "Brushy" the one-stringed guitar player. My favorite part? His friend sitting next to him half-dancing to his music.

Next, my newest, most favorite fashion blog. A Beautiful Mess has some amazingly cute fashions tips and ideas. The girl who writes this blog has a cute looking vintage shop called Red Velvet that also has a cupcake shop connected to it. That's my kind of store. One day I will visit it. It's in Springfield, MO. I have a friend from Missouri, maybe he'll let me come visit :)

My absolute favorite (which is hard for me to post, cause there are a few that I visit daily, and follow on twitter so I can see new YUMMY posts) anyhoo, my favorite baking/cooking blog? That would be Sugar Plum. This girl is my baking idol. She makes everything from her own made up recipes! Who does that?!?! Apparently really good bakers. For now I'll follow her recipes and leave the new creations to the experts.

For my artistic, creative days, I look to Lovely Little Things. JJ Heller is an awesome singer/songwriter. She is also an amazingly gifted interior decorator and sewer... is that what you call them???

DOH, a seemstress. Duh Jess.

Anyways, she has amazing ideas for homemade deco and from what I can tell is an amazing secondhand shopper. I strive to be that good. She is the one who gave me the idea for this. If you haven't hear her music, you should check her out... I mean it. Right now, go download her music and come back to continue reading. That's how good it is.

A good blog in general for the girls out there, is the one and only Bethany Joy Galeotti. If your a die-hard fan (like me) of this show, you'll know exactly who she is. She's just got good stuff. Facial and hair tips, her favs when it comes to products and movies, along with her own personal thoughts on random everyday things.

Lastly, is a new blog I just found. Christa Black is an inspiring person who has a powerful story. She's also an amazing singer/songwriter. For now, that is all I will say. Check out her blog and her music. I'm planning on buying her book/album very soon.

Ok that's enough from me. Hopefully you found some blogs that you also may be interested in. Or at least I inspired you to go blog searching for yourself. Tons of people are voicing their thoughts, opinions and creations with the world, find them.

Listening to: She & Him 'Volume Two'

Finding My Artistic Side

Wow. It's been a while. For those of you who actually pay attention and look for new blogs from me (if you do, that would actually surprise me :/ ) But if that is you, I apologize.

But here I am again, and I've come to a conclusion.

I am not artistic.

Not one bit. When it comes to creating new things of my own. I lack the creative eye, ear, smell, whatever, I'm missing all of it. In my prayer time, I feel God giving me visions of me creating. Music, art, yummy food. I know that God has given me gifts that I have not tapped in to.

If you ever enter my room, you'll see that I have a massive closet. It literally covers an entire wall. My closet doors, are mirrors. About 5 months ago, I started using those mirrors as a whiteboard. In my journaling time, after amazing times of worship and prayer God has given me words that I believe are for a song. I started taking those words and writing them on my mirrors forming them into a verse, a pre-chorus, and a chorus of a song. I started adding more one-liners hoping and trying to fit them in somewhere. I even added a few chord progressions.

It's been 5 months, and that is still all that this song has become.

I don't know what it is. Maybe it's confidence that I lack. I'm still believing that one day it will be great. I know that God didn't speak those words to me for nothing and I will keep working, and allow God to create it.

Also, I want to be an artist. Not just a musical artist.

Do you think you can learn to draw? Is the ability to draw and paint and create pictures a talent that you're born with? Or is it something that, with a little (or a lot) of practice, can be achieved? If so, I want it. More than that, I feel like God knows that desire and desires to draw it out of me. God is obviously an artistic person (just look at our world) and we are created in his image, so why can't it happen?

So what do I do? Well, I spend days (and sometimes, nights) working on it. Praying about it.

Tonight I took out the crayons and color pencils and markers (I'll try paint when I have a bit more confidence lol) and I began to draw. They weren't that great, and no one will ever see them. But I know that it's time well spent. Just like I practice playing piano and singing, I will practice my art. It may never be stunning work, but I know God will give me pictures to draw out, and maybe one day that song on my mirror will become more than marker smudges.

It will be something that is used to minister to just one person.

That will make these 5 months worth everything.

Thanks to one of my best friends, I've been listening to a great song by a great band that I'm starting to LOVE... This is the bridge that has been sticking with me. I don't want to be someone who listens to great words only after people are gone. And I hope that I say things worth listening to while I'm alive.

"A penny for my thoughts, oh no I’ll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I’m a goner
And maybe then you’ll hear the words I've been singin’
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin’"

"If I Die Young" - The Band Perry