Pinching Pennies and Blog Awards

First of all, I have to thank The Answer Is Chocolate for giving me a double blog award yesterday! It is such an honor to be given an award by someone who is so much more talented than me. Seriously go check out her stashbusting skull plates they are awesome!

Since this one is a two-fer, the combined rules are:

1. List the top ten things that make me happy.

2. Share with my favourite bloggers and ask them to do the same.

3. Link the blogs I choose and link the blogs of the people who gave it to me.

4. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

5. Pay it forward to 15 other lovely bloggers.

Top 10 Things That Make Me Happy (not in order of importance )

1. My amazing husband

2. My adorable and arnory little boy

3. Halloween

4. Gingerbread Lattes

5. Cheesecake (especially pumpkin cheesecake!)

6. Mexican Food

7. Making cheap knockoffs of expensive decor

8. Browsing crafty blogs

9. Thrift store shopping

10. Crisp, cool, fall weather

Now to pass these awards on to 15 other bloggers...this is really hard since there are so many amazing blogs out there. Here are a few of my recently found favorites in no particular order:

1. Junk Architect

2. Increasingly Domestic

3. Sustainably Chic Designs

4. eighteen25

5. b3 Home Designs

6. Confessions of a Homeschooler

7. Crystal's Craft Spot

8. Crafts By Amanda

9. Daily Cupcake

10. On Becoming Wise

11. My Pretties

12. Totally Tots

13. Funny Days with Mommy and Maddie

14. Sourkraut Krafts

15. GT Custom Guitars

I understand that not everyone is into the award thing so don't feel pressured to participate if you don't want to. :) I want to give a big thanks to everyone who participated in last week's Pinching Pennies party. There are some great projects that you should go check out here. I am so excited for Halloween and I seriously want to try this Spider Wreath from Sourkraut Krafts!

I'm actually going to be taking a break from the Pinching Pennies feature for a bit. I know it hasn't even been going for that long...chalk it up to blogging a.d.d. I guess. :) I will still be pinching my pennies so you will continue to find inexpensive projects and money saving ideas it just won't be every Wednesday. I also want to continue having linky parties (because I love seeing all of your projects!) but they will be on the first of each month and won't carry the 'pinching pennies' tag. I also hope to feature several projects throughout the month instead of just one a week. I think all this will make things a lot more laid back and fun! I hope you will all join me Friday for my month-long Halloween link party!