howdy, you gorgeous people!

Hi there...my dear friends have been calling me. In the last week, I received phone calls from both Lilli and Gina. Sigh. How did I get so lucky to have such great pals? This whole blogging thing has just SO blessed and SO enriched my life. Thank you so much!

Both of these gorgeous gals called just to check in. Gina said she wanted to make sure I was doin' alright because I'd been kinda "quiet" lately in blogland. I am and I have. Life is just super crazy fun happy busy. So many amazing things going on and add to it all, my job has been busy. In addition to the mountain of work on my desk, I have been assigned some required reading in prep for a team "offsite" meeting.

I'm reading Now, Discover Your Strengths. Just to talk about this for a minute, this book includes a "StrengthsFinder" assessment. I'm gonna out on a limb here and assume that you aren't familiar with this assessment (I'd never heard of it until I picked up this book). After answering a series of questions, the assessment determines your top five "themes." These themes are your natural talents, or strengths. The assessment actually determines your top 34 themes but to find 6 - 34, you have to pay more moola.

My top theme is "Relator," which, in a nutshell, means I am a people person. SURPRISE!!! :-) To paraphrase some of the Relator's qualities, this is a person who does not shy away from meeting new people and that relationships only have value if they are genuine. The Relator will initiate deepening of relationships and the more a Relator shares with someone, the more they risk together and the more they risk together, the more each proves that their caring is genuine. Holy Moly...I think that describes me! I think I would be really surprised if the majority of bloggers out there (and certainly the ones I've connected with!) weren't Relators too! This kind of stuff is SO interesting to me!

Okay...so enough blah blah blah about that...I have some artsy fartsty stuff for show and tell! I finished up a LO in Elise's Round Robin that is slowly coming to a close. I think I have one or two more LOs to do and then I 'm done diddely done!

These pages are for Angel's book and her theme is "Words," hence, me very messily including my most favoritest quote ever.

And you may have noticed that the pages are all similar in color and elements. That, my friends, is because my craft room is SUCH a ridiculous mess right now that I am crafting at the coffee table. I have to go into my room, find some supplies near the surface, and go somewhere else to craft. This is not a fun way to work! 

Okay...time to get out there and enjoy some of the gorgeous weather! Gonna clean up and garden and harvest our bounty of tomatoes!!! I think pasta sauce is in our very near future!

Comments

[Simone]

Hi Shell...that strengthfinder assessment sure nailed your personality! That is so cool, I love taking "tests" like that. You are definitely a relator....an inspirational, happy and very much loved relator!

[nay]

Here here, Simone...even I can relate to THAT.

Hello Shellseester!

[Gina]

I need that book! I will even pay the extra to narrow it down, lol! Have a great and productive week!

[stephanie]

Hi Michelle,
I have not been blog visiting like I used to so am so happy that came by with birthday wishes!!!

thank you!
x...x
steph

[natalie]

Pretty pages!! And that strength finder does sound interesting.....might just have to check that out. Oh, and I can certainly RELATE to the messy craft room!!

[Genevieve]

Love the coffee-table-as-temporary-craft-area. If the need to create RIGHT NOW has me moving a project to the dining room table, my DH just peeps in an goes, "Huh?"
Lucky I have them all trained to eat out on the deck!

The Strength Finder sounds cool. Thanks!