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Fame On Friday #16!

Posted by Leanne on July 20, 2012 3 comments

Can you believe it’s #16 for Fame On Friday?! And I have a fantastic guest for you today. Barb is a very inspiring woman, in her creativeness, and in her faith and goals. One of her last posts about praying for your children brought me to tears. You all know about my lovable, compassionate, but hard-headed and obsessive little Anna, and I realized, instead of butting heads with her, and allowing her to control my emotions (and my headaches!) I should be turning around and praying for her and for us. She has so much amazing positive energy, we want to be sure she is guided in the right way, so that amount of energy isn’t pulled to the negative side! Before I let Barb take over, I know you are wondering about my appointment today… all the tests from the lumbar puncture came back clear, which is a good thing, and the neurologist believes the crazy ways I’ve been feeling that I mentioned yesterday, are due to the medications, so I am to go off one, and reduce the other, and come back to report in 6 weeks. I feel good about this decision. I’m still waiting for my MRI appointment, and in the meantime I got the okay to see a chiropractor and a naturopath… every time I have mentioned to someone about this lately, I have heard “have you seen a chiropractor??” I am starting to think I need to GO!

Here’s Barb!!

Hi Leanne, thanks so much for inviting me to your blog today for Fame on Friday. My name is Barb and I live in Northern Michigan with my hubby of almost 35 years, my 21 year old son Andrew and my twin boys 13, Carson and Connor. We have 3 grown and married children and 3 grandchildren. Here is a picture of my wonderful family!

I am a Christ follower and He is the reason I am where I am today. I love to create and you can almost always find some kind of evidence of that creating at any moment in my house. I am a life coach and my desire is to see women live their full potential both spiritually and creatively! As well as holding myself accountable to do the same.

The name of my blog is Second Chance to Dream.

If you want to know how the name came about you can read about it in my blog post Dare to Dream.

You will find a variety of posts on Second Chance to Dream from lots of DIY projects, to recipes, to Life Lessons, to resources for camping, etc. My blog is pretty eclectic.

Here are a few of my favorite posts:

DIY Palette Herb Garden

Vertical Succulent Garden

Summer Learning Activities

Camping Organization and Meal Ideas pt. 1

60 Summer Grilling Recipes

Upcycle a Cupboard Door

Turn Your Dreams Into Goals

OK, I’ll stop now. I’d love if you came over and visited me and if you like what you see consider following me via Facebook, RSS Feed or Email. You can find me at Second Chance to Dream.

Thanks again Leanne for the privilege to gush about myself on your blog I really, really appreciate it.

Thank YOU so much, Barb!! I appreciate you being here!

And thank you all for reading, and I hope you take some time to check out Barb’s links – she is worth it!!

Are you wondering what this “Fame On Friday” is?? Read on!

Fame On Fridays! … because I heart my readers!!

I love my followers, and I am so grateful to all of you for following my blog…and as a thank you, I want to show you off! I know there are A LOT of talent reading my blog, and I want to know more about You!

If you have a blog, let us know whatever you want us to know about it! …But you don’t need to be a blogger to be featured. Love to bake? Send me your pictures and recipes! Love to knit? Send me a scarf! Haha, joking Maybe you accomplished something you didn’t know you could do, just because there was no one around to help you. Brag about it here! Maybe you changed something in your life in a positive way. Tell us about it! Maybe you are amazing at organizing. Share your tips with us!

If you would like to be featured, send me any info you would like us to know about you & pictures of what you have created. I’ll schedule you in for a Friday, and will email you to let you know when you are scheduled, so you can brag to all your friends!

The Only Rules:

1.) You must be a follower of Because (I think) I Can through email, Linky Followers, RSS Feed, or Facebook.

2.) Spread the Love! Let people know you are being featured, and where to find it! Do you have a friend you think people should know about? Get your friend to contact me!

That’s it! You can email me at leanne @ becauseithinkican . com, or contact me through my contact form on my sidebar. I look forward to getting to know you better!

Leanne

Fame On Friday #15

Posted by Leanne on July 13, 2012 None comments

Whew! Well, we are back from vacation! I don’t know what made em think any part of that would be relaxing but we did manage to have fun! Unfortunately Anna was out of sorts the whole time and needed a lot of negotiation and deep breathing on our part, but through it all we got lots of sun, swimming, bug catching, and even lots of shopping! the perfect little getaway! But being back home means jumping right back into the craziness of our lives – hubby is grouting our new tile in our bathroom, and I am doing laundry of course, and painting like a mad man, trying to get ready for Sunday!! I’ll post the market again of Facebook soon, so watch out for that! I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE to see you there!

I thank you for all sticking it out with me, while I’ve been sick and now away!

I am thankful Melanna is here today for our Fame On Friday!! I hope to post again on Monday or Tuesday, to let you know how the weekend went!! Take it away Melanna!!
My name is Melanna and I blog over at Rhapsody of Cacophony.

It’s my little piece of the internet world where I share all about the crazy that is my life. I “met” Leanne through a Facebook group for bloggers and very quickly became a fan of her blog. And since I live “next door” to her in Alberta, Canada I feel we have lots in common. Thanks for having me here today, Leanne!

I started blogging when my list of potential crafty and party projects got too long and I needed something to spur me on to get things done. (click on the pictures if you want to see that post)

I even took on scary things like trying out a sewing machine.

Turns out it’s not so scary. It even got obsessive for a while there (it probably ranks in my top two mediums for crafting and creating). I think I spent a solid 2 months this past spring only sewing! I even managed to make a tutorial for this dress:

My sweet husband got me a Silhouette for Christmas one year and a whole new obsession of crafting began! And I haven’t even moved past using it for paper.

When I was 6 my mom got a friend to put together a music themed birthday party for me. I have never forgotten it (or the 3D grand piano cake!). Since having kids I’ve gotten a little party obsessed and plan their birthdays all year long. So throughout my blog you’ll find the growing collection of parties I’ve put on for them (another one will be posted about next week since it’s happening tomorrow!). These are just a few:

Fancy Nancy

Sunday Comics


Teddy Bear’s Picnic

My favourite part of parties? Making the cake!

Sometimes I’ll throw in a recipe (when I remember to take pictures!), but mostly it’s all just the every day happenings of our life.

And of course since I’m a mom these two find their way into many of my posts.

I’d love to meet you, so I hope you’ll stop by and say hello!

Isn’t she a.m.a.z.i.n.g.?!?! Thanks Melanna!! xoxo!

And thanks everyoine for reading!!

xo, Leanne

Are you wondering what this “Fame On Friday” is?? Read on!

Fame On Fridays! … because I heart my readers!!

The Only Rules:

1.) You must be a follower of Because (I think) I Can through email, Linky Followers, RSS Feed, or Facebook.

2.) Spread the Love! Let people know you are being featured, and where to find it! Do you have a friend you think people should know about? Get your friend to contact me!

That’s it! You can email me at leanne @ becauseithinkican . com, or contact me through my contact form on my sidebar. I look forward to getting to know you better!

Leanne

Fame On Friday #14

Posted by Leanne on July 6, 2012 5 comments

You’ve seen this girl mentioned a few times on my blog lately… there’s a big reason for that. I love her blog, she is incredibly talented, and she’s been such a great virtual friend over the past couple weeks while I’ve been sick. I hope you take a minute to visit her blog and give her some love!

Hi Everyone, my name is Natalie and I blog at NorthShore
Days.

I’m so excited to be here today. I just love Leanne and her lovely blog.
I “met” Leanne on a Facebook Group for bloggers and I’ve been happily
following her since. And more importantly we both have 4 year old
redheads in common….

I am the lucky mum of 3 fantastic, adorable, mischievous and sometimes
downright naughty kiddos. I’ve been married to my Sean for nearly 15
years and we live on the beautiful NorthShore in Auckland, New
Zealand.

I started blogging in November 2011 shortly after discovering the
creative blogging world. I am loving it, I think the most important part
of blogging, for me, is that it needs to be fun, I am a very visual
person, so you will find big, bright photos on my pages….

A little bit of what I like to blog about….

My inspiration and passion is the beach and ocean – It is reflected in
all my creations and makeovers, and I share many photos of our beautiful
beaches.

My first love is
creating simple, wearable jewelry and sharing the tutorials with
everyone.

I include a number of
crafts on my blog too, my latest craze is painted jars, vases and
glassware (we may be running out of space at home)

And I like to make over a few items of furniture here and there – mostly
in white of course!

My kids also do some
pretty funny things that I like to write about (mostly just
photograph)

And I have also joined forces with 5 other bloggers to form Inspiration
Cafe, which runs on a Monday. Please pop over and pay us a visit, we
would love to meet new readers.

Thank you for having me
Leanne, its such a privilege to be here today.

And thank you to everyone for reading, don’t forget to pop over and
visit my little blog and say hi. I would love to meet you.

Take care

xxx

Thank YOU Natalie, it’s great to have you here!

xo, Leanne

Fame On Fridays! … because I heart my readers!!

The Only Rules:

1.) You must be a follower of Because (I think) I Can through email, Linky Followers, RSS Feed, or Facebook.

2.) Spread the Love! Let people know you are being featured, and where to find it! Do you have a friend you think people should know about? Get your friend to contact me!

That’s it! You can email me at leanne @ becauseithinkican . com, or contact me through my contact form on my sidebar. I look forward to getting to know you better!

Leanne Read more »

Fame On Friday #13

Posted by Leanne on June 22, 2012 8 comments

Get ready to drool!! My guest today has some serious talent in the kitchen!! Meet Jullee!

I want to start off by thanking Leanne for featuring me on her fantastic blog. My name is Jullee and I blog over at The Grubery where I cook up delicious delights for my family. I am a wife and the Mother of two beautiful little girls, 20 months and 4 years old. When it comes to eating I like to try everything and anything. In the past I have tried some strange things..like Bull testicles and fried Rattle snake. The only thing that makes me squeamish is raw or rare meat. I prefer my steak well done!

After having my first daughter I realized that my super unhealthy lifestyle of eating out just wasn’t going to cut it. I decided to take what my Momma taught me and put it to good use. I started searching for recipes and came across so many fun blogs. And, when a stay at home Mom gets introduced to blogs she typically starts blogging. So I started up my food blog.

Over the past year I have probably tried more new recipes than I had over the previous five years all together. I have whipped up some fantastic and delicious delights and I want to share a few of my favorites with you.


If you like Shrimp and Mango this is the recipe for you! The sweetness of the shrimp and Mangoes mix perfectly with a tart Yogurt, Lime, and Mint sauce. It is quick and easy and perfect for a warm summer night.

The recipe on my blog that I have made more times than any other would be this delicious Spicy Pumpkin Chili. I have served this twice for company and both times my guests got really nervous when I mentioned that not only is the Chili Vegetarian..but it also has Pumpkin puree in it. This amazing Chili wins everyone over with the very first flavorful bite.

Do you dream of making delicious Doughnuts without having to deal with the dough? Me too! I am actually a little afraid of yeast. There is just something about having to get the water within a proper temperature before you either kill it or freeze it to death. That’s why I decided to try making Doughnuts with Pillsbury Biscuit Dough. When I told my sister I was trying these she thought I was crazy. But crazy is as crazy does and these turned out great. They tasted fantastic..and when you take into account that the prep time is almost non-existent they are even more amazing.

A Sloppy Joe made with Indian ingredients? Oh yes, and it was amazing! I didn’t know what to expect but I was willing to give it a try because I love sloppy Joe’s and I also love Indian food. I am so glad I tried this because it is probably my favorite dish that I’ve blogged about. This recipe tasted amazing and it was super flavorful.

For my baby’s First Birthday I whipped up these adorable flower cupcakes using Mini Marshmallows. They turned out so cute and all of my guests loved them. The kids gobbled them up and I just loved how girly they were..especially considering her Birthday is in October and these pretty little things had to fit in among pumpkins, Gooey mice, Witch fingers, and other Halloweeny stuff.

Thanks again to Leanne for inviting me to spend a little time with ya’ll! I hope you have as much fun looking over my recipes as I had whipping them up. Thanks for hanging out with me and I hope you will come and grab some Grub with me at The Grubery.

Thank you so much for being here Jullee!!

Please take some time to visit Jullee’s blog, and thanks so much for reading!
xo, Leanne

Are you wondering what this fame On Friday is all about:

Fame On Fridays! … because I heart my readers!!

The Only Rules:

1.) You must be a follower of Because (I think) I Can through email, Linky Followers, RSS Feed, or Facebook.

2.) Spread the Love! Let people know you are being featured, and where to find it! Do you have a friend you think people should know about? Get your friend to contact me!

That’s it! You can email me at leanne @ becauseithinkican . com, or contact me through my contact form on my sidebar. I look forward to getting to know you better!

Leanne

Fame On Friday #12

Posted by Leanne on June 15, 2012 1 comments

Today I get to introduce you to someone fantastic! Jennifer and I met through a bloggers network on facebook, and when I looked up her blog, I ended up spending A LOT of time there… this girl has super talent – but I’ll let her show you herself!

Hello New Friends! I’m thrilled to be over here for Fame On Fridays! Who doesn’t like a little bit of fame once in a while?

I’m Jennifer and I blog over at Finding My Way in Texas! I’ve been in Texas almost a year now… so I’m not as inclined to get lost… but I am still working on making it my Home. I grew up just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada! So you can only imagine how much of an adjustment its been to adapt to SMALL town Texas! But I am loving every minute of it! I got married to my handsome cowboy (and the reason I moved to Texas in the first place) back in February I’d love to tell you that life has been perfect since then, but, well… it never is! But its been pretty darn close

I started my blog about a week after I moved here. I needed a place to feel connected and to share the projects I was doing. Now I write about whatever catches my fancy. I’ve discovered that I love to sew, I have a fabric obsession and I’ve got some random talents that I would have never before had a use for! I’ve also continued to pursue some long standing passions and hobbies. I’ve been an avid photographer for several years and love capturing special moments. I’m also pretty good at crochet and can recreate almost anything I see with out a pattern. Mostly cause I can’t read patterns and have to figure it out on my own:) A lot of the things I create end up in my shop, LoneStar Lovlies, but I’ll tell you more about it in a minute. For right now I thought I’d share with you a few of my favorite projects and creations from the past 11 months

One on the first and biggest projects I tackled was a HUGE rag quilt! Its still one of my favorite things ever, but that’s probably due to the fact that I LITTERALLY poured blood sweat and tears into it.

Its amazing to me what the blog world falls in love with, but this Fall Burlap Wreath I created was a big hit! I’m still getting comments and views on it! Thank you Pinterest. It was one of those spur of the moment, grab my glue gun and go to town moments that worked out really well

The African Violet Hexagon Blanket and the Wool Eater Baby Blanket are 2 of my top 5 favorite things I’ve ever crocheted list.

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This was a fun project I whipped up as a guest post and fell in love with! I’ve made a couple more as gifts and they’ve been a big hit! I love being randomly crafty

Like I said earlier… Its kind of random, but I do things that I enjoy

LoneStar Lovlies where a lot of my creations end up! You’ll find everything from Coffee Cozies and baby afghans to camera strap covers and mug rugs!
IF you see something you Like use Code “FAMEONFRIDAYS” for get 15% off There will be a bunch of new things in the shop after the 23rd and I often have deals posted on my Facebook page.

Ok… I think I’ve used up my “15 minutes”! I hope you’ll drop by Finding My Way in Texas and say Hi! I love meeting new people and making new friends

Blog / Shop / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter / Instagram

Isn’t she fantastic?? Go ahead and check out her blog and shop, you won’t be dissapointed!

thanks for reading!

xo, Leanne