The Twinnies Are Finally Back and It’s 2013!


Well, it’s been  about five months now since we’ve been away… And this time was so very much-needed by both of us Twinnies. Some of it was spent on vacation time of course. Camping and enjoying the mountains where it is so peaceful was so wonderful. The rest of the time was spent doing some serious rest and relaxation with each of us doing our own things.

I would love to report that we jaunted off to Italy and all over the globe, but alas we stayed right here in the US. It’s been over a year now since Autumn and I have been on Word Press and we honestly do love blogging and interacting with all of you. You kind readers and friends really are the best, we appreciate you all so much never doubt it! However, it’s also a sometimes draining and exhausting thing trying to write everyday, visit blogs and all.

Life gets too busy and time is so short. We had some not very good  things going on in our family that made blogging even more difficult, too. Our Mom was having some health issues and is still not quite her best yet. Several other personal things really did also take over and put blogging on the back burner. I guess it’s not necessary to get into all of it, it all was just very hectic and it still is to some degree. So, it really was good and important for Autumn and I to take some time for ourselves just so we didn’t become too tired, stressed and burned out. We Twinnies hope you all will be understanding and we do promise to try our best to get back in the swing of things, we have missed you all. We both sure really do admire you who do post everyday and sometimes numerous posts as well. Unfortunately these Twinnies can’t promise to do this, but we will be here as often as humanly possible! Hopefully more often than not, we’ll quite honestly just have to see how it all goes and thanks for bearing with us.

Thank you again so very much to all of you kind readers and friends for sticking with us and we send lots of love, hugs and all the very best vibes out to every one of you! Autumn and Gabby 🙂 🙂

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Thanks For Writing Award


Thank you so much to J. for nominating Gabby and I for this award. We are both so honored, since this is an award for writing, it means a lot 🙂

We would like to share this wonderful award with the following talented writers we really appreciate:

1. Soma

2. Deb

3.Wendell

4.Roxi

5.Lauren

6.Judith

7.Shira

8.Jaded Stone

9.PJ

10. Indira

Congratulations everyone 🙂 hugs from Autumn and Gabby

Commenter Award


I was recently award Commenter Award by Lauren at http://lscotthoughts.com/ .   Thanks so much,  Lauren!  

The Commenter’s Award is a little different from the most awards. Instead of awarding others for their own blogs, you will be giving recognition to those who comment on your own blog regularly, take the time to really read your posts, and provide you with feedback via their comments. The nominations are the easiest part. You should nominate the six bloggers who comment most frequently on your blog. How do you know who does this most often? Good question!

You will find your Top Recent Commenters on your site stats page on the bottom, right corner. If you do not see this, click on the Screen Options in the top, right corner and be sure that “Comments” is checked. If you are good about responding to every comment, then you will be the first one in the list. It is the next six commenters on the list that you will nominate and pass this award to. But wait! You may nominate one more person. This person can either be a brand new commenter on your blog, the very last comment you have received (most recent), or the one who has posted your most favorite comments. This seventh nomination is your choice, but please do tell us why you have chosen them as your seventh.

Here are my top “commenters” and I am truly grateful for their continuing support!

http://somkritya.wordpress.com/

http://maureenlermer.wordpress.com/

http://roxiciopei.wordpress.com/

http://imexcited.wordpress.com/

http://diabeticredemption.com/

http://poeticjourney251.com/

http://lscotthoughts.com/

Thanks so much, Gabby 🙂

The Sunshine Award


Gabby and I say a big THANK YOU to http://imexcited.wordpress.com/, we are so honored  and what a surprise, so Abby’s Mom is the best ever 🙂 Abby is a lucky little girl to have such a great Mom! Check out the blog it’s a super one 🙂

The Rules:

1) Include the award Logo(s) in a post or in your blog.
2) Answer 10 question about your self.
3) Nominate 10 to 12 other fabulous bloggers.
4) Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blog, letting them know about the award.
5) Share the love and link the person who nominated you.

The Questions:

What is your Favorite color?  Gabby ~ green  Autumn~ blue, purple
What is your favorite animal? cats and dogs
What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink? chai tea
Do you prefer Facebook or Twitter? neither
What’s your passion? life
What’s your Favorite pattern? no patterns
Do you prefer giving or getting presents? both
What’s your favourite number? 13
Favourite day of the week? Friday
Favorite flower? wild flowers
The Nominees :

http://poeticjourney251.com/

http://authentic-imperfection.com/

http://roxiciopei.wordpress.com/

http://angelajanegraceblog.com/

http://lesplaisirssimplesdelavie.wordpress.com/

http://maureenlermer.wordpress.com/

http://inspirationaldaily.wordpress.com/

http://unwrittentruth.wordpress.com/

http://soumyav.wordpress.com/

http://thedaintydamsel.wordpress.com/

http://bieonicathebeautifullie.wordpress.com/

http://loopyloo305.com/

http://deceitfulland.wordpress.com/

Congrats to everyone, I listed in no particular order 🙂

 

love to all…Gabby and Autumn

Hope Unites Globally (HUG) Award


Hope Unites Globally (HUG) Award

The HUG Award was given to us by Lauren http://lscotthoughts.com/.  Thank you so very much for this honor, Lauren!! 

 For those of you who aren’t familiar with this award, below is some information from the HUG Award web site:

The HUG Award© was initiated by Connie Wayne at A Hope for Today at http://ahopefortoday.com, which promotes hope, love, peace, equality, and unity for all people.

The HUG Award© is for people with an expectant desire for the world, for which they: Hope for Love; Hope for Freedom; Hope for Peace; Hope for Equality; Hope for Unity; Hope for Joy and Happiness; Hope for Compassion and Mercy; Hope for Faith; Hope for Wholeness and Wellness; Hope for Prosperity; Hope for Ecological Preservation; Hope for Oneness

“People do not have to give up or compromise their own religious, spiritual, or political beliefs to qualify for the Hope Unites Globally HUG Award©. They qualify for the HUG Award© when, without bias or prejudice, they use their resources and gifts to make the world a better place for everyone.”

For more information on this award, please visit: http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/

** We both are just speechless! It’s such an honor that our writing can bring a smile or goodness and joy and happiness. It’s just a truly wonderful thought. 

We are very honored to accept this award and will happily pass it on to spread the word about Hope for Our World. I’d also like to thank these people for helping to make the world a better place:

http://jadedstone11.wordpress.com/

http://10eveningflowers.wordpress.com/

http://imexcited.wordpress.com/

http://allaboutlemon.com/

http://ericalaganfanclub.wordpress.com/

http://bareyournakedtruth.wordpress.com/

http://nepaliaustralian.wordpress.com/

http://bridgesburning.wordpress.com/

http://nenskeifacestheworld.wordpress.com/

http://ramblingsofacreativemind.wordpress.com/

http://rumpydog.com/

http://fourbluehills.com/

http://jamesdez.wordpress.com/

http://seekingjoyfulsimplicity.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/beautiful-moments/

http://seraphim6.wordpress.com/

http://loriannfranks.wordpress.com/

http://jessiejeanine.com/

http://terri0729.wordpress.com/

Congrats to all, you’re listed in random order, we love you all 🙂 Please check out these blogs they’re all very special!!

Peace, Love and hugs,

Gabby and Autumn


Very Inspiring Blogger Award


We want to thank Dolly http://allaboutlemon.com/ so much for this award!!! What a nice surprise 🙂 Thank you!!!!!

Seven Things about Us :

Favorite colors :  Autumn -blue,  Gabby-green

fave drinks: Autumn – chai tea, Gabby-coffee

We both love music

we’re Capricorns

we’re animal activists

we love cooking

we each have dream catchers above our beds

We nominate these people:

http://somkritya.wordpress.com/

http://diabeticredemption.com/

http://jadedstone11.wordpress.com/

http://jamesdez.wordpress.com/

http://poeticjourney251.com/

http://bareyournakedtruth.wordpress.com

http://ecstaticeclectica.com/

The ABC Award


Oh my goodness!! We’d like to thank  http://nightshade130.wordpress.com/ ~ Sherline/Nightshade, for this honor.  What a surprise this is, Sherline is simply wonderful a super friend 🙂 We both want to say Thank YOU, so much!!!

This one is simple – to ‘accept’ the award you just add the ABC Award logo to your blog –and then you share something about yourself with your readers and then pass the award on to other worthy bloggers – there’s no limit to how few – or how many – other bloggers you can send this to.

To share something about yourself – you will need to go through the alphabet and choose a word or phrase for each letter and use that to describe yourself – it might be something about you, something you like, or a place or thing you dream about. And that’s all – no long descriptions or detail – just create a new post, add your shiny new blog award badge and alphabet words and let your readers enjoy finding out a little more about you.

Here’s our alphabet about ourselves:

A

 Autumn

B

 Beautiful

C

 Cute

D

 Driven

E

 Extraordinary

F

 Fashion loving 😉

G

 Gabby

H

 helpful

I

 Italian

J

 just us

K

 kind

L

 loving

M

 magnetic

N

 Nice

O

 OK

P

 Pretty

Q

qualified 🙂

R

 right

S

 Super

T

 Twins

U

 Uber cool

V

 very much twins or TF ❤

W

 wild

X

 X tra super!

Y

 youthful

Z

 Zany

Here are the bloggers we nominate 🙂

Lori ~ http://loriannfranks.wordpress.com/

Soma ~http://somkritya.wordpress.com/

Jaded Heart ~ http://jadedstone11.wordpress.com/

Russell ~ http://russellmazonde.wordpress.com/

Russell ~ http://ecstaticeclectica.com/

Lauren ~ http://lscotthoughts.com/

Answer 10 BURNING Questions


I’ve been tagged by my friend Russell at http://ecstaticeclectica.com/ to answer ten questions.

1) Describe yourself in seven words.

A Twin, Kind, Compassionate, Cute, Loyal, Sensitive

2) What keeps you up at Night?

Thinking way too much!

3) Who would I like to be?

I only want to be me!

4) What am I wearing right now?

Tunic and Leggings

5)What scares me?

Mean people who have no heart!

6) The best and worst of blogging.

The best: Meeting so many wonderful people and making good friends. The worst: Worrying if my post will be well received.

7) The last website I visited

Amazon

8) What is the one thing I would change about myself.

Nothing, I am quite happy being me.

9) Slankets yes or no?

Yes!! I own one and have given them as gifts. Slankets are the best. Nothing beats those blankets with sleeves for staying warm!

10) Tell us something about the person who tagged you!

10.Russell Smith tagged me. He is honestly one of the best photographers ever, his talent is amazing! A very kind and caring guy…Check out his blog please, Right Now!! 🙂

Now I get to pick some others to answer these questions:

http://poeticjourney251.wordpress.com/ ~ PJ

http://lscotthoughts.com/ ~Lauren

http://nightshade130.wordpress.com/ ~Sherline

http://loriannfranks.wordpress.com/ ~Lori

http://somkritya.wordpress.com/ ~ Soma

Genuine Blogger Award


Gabby and I are so flattered and grateful, thanks to http://nightshade130.wordpress.com/ and to http://jamesdez.wordpress.com/ for nominating us.  What an honor this is, we say “Thank YOU”

The good news about this award is, there are absolutely no rules. We would like to present this award to the following bloggers :

http://somkritya.wordpress.com/

http://lscotthoughts.com/

http://ciderpress.wordpress.com/

http://versenotprose.wordpress.com/

http://jadedstone11.wordpress.com/

http://poeticjourney251.wordpress.com/

http://thewomanatthewell.wordpress.com/

http://lifeisabowlofkibble.wordpress.com/

http://loriannfranks.wordpress.com/

http://rumpydog.wordpress.com/

http://terri0729.wordpress.com/

http://russellmazonde.wordpress.com/

http://nightshade130.wordpress.com/

http://allaboutlemon.com/

http://jamesdez.wordpress.com/

http://nepaliaustralian.wordpress.com/

http://bridgesburning.wordpress.com/

One lovely blog award


Wow, Gabby and I have been nominated for this lovely award from our dear friend and fellow blogger, http://somkritya.wordpress.com/ , what a nice surprise!! Thank you so much, Soma.

There are no rules to how many one can nominate so go ahead and spread love and warmth 🙂

We nominate:

http://lscotthoughts.com/

http://ciderpress.wordpress.com/

http://versenotprose.wordpress.com/

http://jadedstone11.wordpress.com/

http://poeticjourney251.wordpress.com/

http://thewomanatthewell.wordpress.com/

http://lifeisabowlofkibble.wordpress.com/

http://loriannfranks.wordpress.com/

http://rumpydog.wordpress.com/

http://terri0729.wordpress.com/

http://russellmazonde.wordpress.com/

http://nightshade130.wordpress.com/

http://allaboutlemon.com/

http://jamesdez.wordpress.com/

http://nepaliaustralian.wordpress.com/

Congrats, everyone!!! Hugs, Autumn and Gabby