Celebrate The Small Things + 3Ups Blog Hop
The 3-UPS bloghop is a Pay it Forward style hop/chain, created by Randi Lee over at The Emotional Process Of Writing A Novel. It works like this: each blogger will pick the blogger listed below them, visit his or her site, read a post or two, and then tell them three things they like about the person or his or her blog. Easy enough, right? And imagine how good you'll feel after making someone else’s day?
You can give your Ups in any way you like (such as leaving them in your “Upee’s” blog comments section, e-mailing your Upee, or mentioning your Upee directly on your blog.)
My "Upee" is Beverly Fox who blogs over at The Beveled Edge. Bev is a wonderful lady who I met during Celebrate The Small Things, which is a weekly meme hosted by Viklit over at Scribblings Of An Aspiring Author.
My 3 UPS for Bev are:
~ UP no.#1… to your SNAPSHOTS! This was Bev's A to Z challenge theme during April. Bev has written several fiction pieces that depict a snapshot in time. Either a particular moment in a character's life, a scene with cinematic features, a place observed for a moment. The idea was always to try and capture what makes that moment that moment. That was the goal for her A to Z challenge: 26 snapshots, capturing 26 moments in time, each one written in less than 500 words. And she rocked the challenge!
~UP no.#2… to KARATE which is Bev's passion and number one stress reliever. It keeps her sane! You can read all about it HERE
~UP no.#3… goes to WRITING EVERY DAY! This is what Bev has been doing for the past two months or so. Congratulations!
I also want to thank Bev for the Liebster Blog award she gave me a little while back.
This post also forms part of Celebrate The Small Things bloghop.
Here are a few more celebratory things:
~I read another book by a bloggy buddy and posted a review on Goodreads
~Encouraging a young girl with her writing and helping her to set up her blog
~The wonderful feeling when I posted the "hamper" to the winner of my AtoZ competition
Are you celebrating anything this past week? Please share in the comments section. Have a great weekend everybody!
*Squee! Bev shouts as she jumps up and down like a maniac in overwhelming excitement* Oh, Michelle! THANK YOU!!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! This is gonna keep my giddy for weeks to come. Seriously- just made my whole summer!
And also, yay for your answers! I really do love it so much when people post their responses- it’s just plain fun to read and yours were thouroughly enjoyable. Yay!~
You have such an energetic spirit Bev! I also love your positive giddiness! *chuckles* It was great having you as an "Upee"!
Karate? I won't mess with her then!
That Mandela quote is awesome.
Bev's high-spirits + karate = a butt-kicking lady! Definitely not to be messed with. 🙂
A musically-related superpower, eh? Haven't heard that one before. Now I'm off to imagine just what that would be…
Have a good weekend! 🙂
Ah, it lends itself to all sorts of awesome possibilities. Maybe the super-ability to play every instrument very well… or a heightened sense of musical sound which is linked to teleportation powers…?
I love all the things you're celelbrating, and your coy Liebster answers! lol
Great quote from Mandela. 🙂
By now, you might have noticed that I don't like to talk about myself… I like your choice of the word "coy"… it reminds me of Shakespeare… 🙂
Great things in this post.
I'd love to play many music instruments. I never got into music like I wanted to.
It's never too late Medeia. And I think it would be less stressful than learning to swim! 🙂
What a cool thing to nurture a young writer. Congrats on the award!
I wish somebody had discovered and encouraged my interest in writing when I was younger… thanks Nick!
I have to go check out Beverly's blog soon, it looks cool. I think its wonderful that you are supporting fellow writers and helping out the young girl, great things to celebrate 😉
Thanks S.K. Bev is a great lady! I love supporting fellow writers and I'm very excited about mentoring the young girl. 🙂
How lovely that you are shaping young minds! You are the second person I have visited who posted about 3 UP! blog hop…I think I might just have to join!
You should check out the bloghop. It's a great way to network with other bloggers/writers.
Great celebrations. And I'm looking forward to seeing my prize! I'm listening to The Book Thief on audio book. I think I'd probably would like it better just reading it because of the guys accent. He's understandable, just not the voice that would be in my head if I read it myself. It's still quite good though.
Sounds like a cool bloghop.
It's an amazing story! The best I read in 2012. I've never done the audio book thinggie… must give it a try sometime.
Helping a young writer seems like a great thing to celebrate. A music related super power would be something different to have. Hope you are having a lovely weekend.
Helping a young writer is a great way to pay it forward! Thanks Suzanne!
Go Bev! Such a wonderful blog indeed! Congrats on your award, btw. Most important of all imho, however is helping someone set up their own blog. Kudos to you! Cheers!
M.J. you are so right! When I started my first blog with blogger, there was nobody to help me, it was pure trial and error! So I'm more than happy to help others wherever I can because I know how difficult it was at the beginning…
Great 3-Up for Bev. She's one super-nice lady!
Bev has an amazing spirit! A real ball of energy!
Encouraging people with their writing is a wonderful celebration! And happy you made connections during celebrations 😉
Definitely a win-win situation Viklit!
This was awesome, Michelle. Yay for Beveverly!
Thanks for swinging by Carol!
So nice to meet you and finally get over here to say hi:) And the 3Up blog hop sounds like such an amazing idea. I love it!
Nice to meet you too, Talynn! *waving*