Mara Schasteen, Come on Down...

My blog has won an award! Nominated by the talented Kevin Minzer. To quote my notification:

The Liebster Blog Award has been given to

Mara Schasteen - Expressive Naturalism

by

Kevin Minzer - Maine-ly Painting.

Liebster is a German word that translates as
favorite or dearest. 

The award originated in Germany

 and is intended to recognize up and coming bloggers.

 Those distinguished by this award have
fewer than 200 followers. 

In keeping with its pay-it-forward tradition, 

I have nominated the following blogs for the award:

Laura Kurk

I've blogged about Laura before. I could blog about her daily, probably. She gets this award from me hands down because her blog is soooooo real. If you have young women in your life, or know of any, get them to this blog. Laura is a young adult writer with one published novel under her belt and another right around the corner. She pretty much rocks in person and I love her!!!


Kevin Minzer

If Kevin hadn't already won the award, he'd be on my list, as well. His blog is mainly about painting, but he is so stinkin' funny that his blog would be fun to read even if one couldn't draw a stick figure.


Natalie Hunsaker

Natalie is a dear friend, fellow artist and young mother. We met via the Stroke of Genius Portrait Artist Forum and hooked up in person a few times for painting. Natalie is incredibly gifted as an artist, but her focus is definitely her children and her passion for her spiritual journey. Her blog keeps morphing into new things, but she has a heavy focus on deafness and cochlear implants -- as her oldest child was premature and has experienced many medical challenges thus -- as well as prematurity, religion, politics and Biblical imagery! WOW! This chic is busy.