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I want to thank fellow sketch-booker @J Walters for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award and the Liebster Award. The double award quite takes my breath away. Please visit her stimulating blog Sketches & Jottings!

My heartfelt appreciation also goes to fellow mail artist @Mary Jo Cartledgehayes (aka Boo Cartledge) for honoring me with the One Lovely Blog Award. Take a look at Mary's fun blog It's Only a Book. You'll also find many samples of her work displayed on my mailart gallery blog.

Finally, I'd like to draw your attention to this booklet of sumi-e style paintings that artist @Lisa Erickson created to raise funds for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami relief. Click the link to see illustration details and specifics of how the funds will be used for needy children. I have a copy, and I never tire of looking at it and being reminded of reasons why Japan (with a little help from you) will recover from the devastating disasters.

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Jo Ebisujima's website A Bit of This and a Bit of That is celebrating a New Skills Festival, in which a different art/craft will be introduced each day during the month of September. Check out my guest post about Etegami.

Chandler A to Z is a blog of fascinating photos, but what makes it fun to return to again and again is Therese's special way of getting people to interact with her photos. It works with me. : )

Thanks to They Draw and Cook, my illustrated recipes can now be purchased as gallery-wrapped canvas wall art from Great Big Canvas. In fact, so can my illustrated maps!

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Every once in a while I'm stunned and honored by being featured or mentioned on some very cool blogs. Here are some links to just a few of the most recent ones. I hope that you will make some new discoveries (as I did) and decide to follow some of these sites.

Mama Lisa's World is a treasure chest of International Childrens Songs, Nursery Rhymes, Culture and Traditional Music.

Sketches and Jottings looks inside the sketchbooks, journals, diaries and notepads of artists, writers, travelers and other interesting people.

Hello Seven has a cool Friday Favorites section that links to selected posts from each week's Illustration Friday submissions. The list and accompanying links are great for discovering new artists.

My thanks to Vicki of Vicki Smith Art, who awarded me the Sunshine Award and to Linda Hensley who credited me for inspiring her awesome cockroach art.

I hope to post more peachy links in the future.