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FOUR MORE DAYS!

Bloggers! 

Only four days left to nominate your favorite blogs and bloggers for the 

Hello Lovely Blog Awards and Conference! 

Don't Forget! 

Voting will open on October 1, 2013

Categories:

1. Blog of the Year

2. Blogger of the Year

3. Post of the Year

4. Best New Blogger (Started blogging in 2013)

5. Best Photography Blogger

6. Best Food Blogger

7. Best Mom Blogger

8. Best Fashion Blogger

9. Best Craft/DIY Blogger

10. Best Health/Fitness Blogger

11. Best Religion Blogger

12. Best Group Blog

13. Best Organizational Blogger

14. Best Blog Design

15. Lifetime Achievement Award (Blogger since 2008)

S.O.S. I Need Your Help!

Hello Lovely Blogging Friends!

 I need your help! 

Nominations are open for the Hello Lovely Blog Awards & Conference and I need your nominations. Voting will open in October, but for today, it's all about the nominations. 

You can check out more about the Hello Lovely Blog Awards & Conference by visiting the Hello Lovely tab at the top of my site. 

If you have any suggestions I am all ears! I would love to hear from you! Please feel free to let me know what you think. I am so excited about this project! 

If you would be so kind to also post about the Hello Lovelies, 

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Please leave a comment and let me know if you did post about it. 

I'll return the favor! 

I hope you are having a wonderful and a blessed day today! 

     

10 Day Blog Challenge: UNO

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10 Random Facts About Me (that you don't already know!)

1. My feet are usually black on the bottom ( I'm usually shoe-less)
2. I am hosting my first Blog Conference this year, along with the help of some blogging friends
3. Sonic pretzel dogs are my newest craving, they're so stinkin' good!
4. I wrote a new song this week based off of Galatians 6:8 and Romans 12:1-2
5. I have done way too many loads of laundry this week!
6. I bought candy in Canada and had to throw all of it away when I got home because it melted in the car…fail!
7. I try and use the word swag whenever not appropriate
8. I have a new room mate named Emily
9. My new favorite thing to cook and eat with Caleb is mushrooms and onions
10. I am a horrible organizer!

Hello Lovely Awards and Conference

Hello Lovelies!

I had this idea…

I had an idea that just started out as myself wanting to get to actually meet some of the lovely friends I have made blogging and it has turned into:

I decided to do the conference, because well, all of us like to go them, right? We could all use some more education on blogging. However, that's not the only reason I think we like conferences or the reason I am hosting one. I am a believer in Jesus Christ. He is my rock and my redeemer. He was the free gift of God to all of us who believe in Him. In Ephesians it tells us this:

"There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says,

“When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men.”

(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to amature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ." 

Ephesians 4: 4-13

So, with all of that said. I believe that we all have been given different gifts. Most of us have been given a gift and opportunity to blog. I have had a few negative responses to doing an awards show along with the conference, because of the competitive nature of an awards banquet. But, we aren't having the awards to shut anyone down. I don't want anyone to feel like they aren't good enough or even anyone to think they are above others. The goal is to build up and encourage each other. My goal is to bring together people who just want to learn more about the, either profession they are in or hobby they love, meet the lovely people they interact with in the world of blogging, and build each other up.

So, now, with all of, all of that said, I hope you can come! It's going to be a blast. I have been working everyday on it and even though it's a little ways away, I can't wait to meet all of you lovely people in real life!

July 1, 2013 Nominations and Ticket Sales are open!

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