Awards

While I may never again win the elusive Freshly Pressed Lottery, I’ve received a few of the awards that bloggers bestow on one another. While I appreciate the vote of confidence, I find the responsibility of responding to the awards takes up more time than I can muster! So, I’m glad you enjoy my blog, but forgive me for being unable to pass along these awards in a timely manner! Instead, here are the links to bloggers who gave awards to me. Please visit them when you get a chance!

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I’d like to thank the following bloggers for nominating me for The Versatile Blogger Award:

– k8did – has been been married for 31 years and is a mother of 2 grown sons, a grandmother. She is a nurse, educator, closet writer, and dog owner.  She loves sunshine, poetry, laughter, learning, humor and good food.
– year-struck –  lives amicably with her Wisconsinite husband in a cross-cultural marriage (she’s from Texas). For nine months out of the year, she instructs people. She enjoys coffee, dark chocolate, writing, drawing, Japanese calligraphy, and the children of her offspring.
– A Winsome Journey – This Misty Maple lady lives on a small farm in upstate New York, which she shares with 11 llamas, 4 ducks, 6 chickens, 2 dogs, and 1 cat.
– The Other Side of 55 – Margo is over 55 – happily married with two grown children, one demanding cat, one sponsored donkey, a red sports car, and an equally red motorcycle. She lives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
– composerinthegarden – A composer by vocation, a gardener by avocation – her garden and her life as a composer are deeply intertwined, so that they are simply variations on the same theme.  The sounds and sights of her garden inform and shape her music making.
– Technicolor Day Dreams – Dor describes daily day-dreams; moments of recollection or vivid thoughts that always arrive in flashes of  full color.  They are like movies she has seen – some with complete clarity and some  fuzzy around the edges, the chapters of a book, the pages of a story.
– Britten – Britten is a Swedish blogger who enjoys photography. She writes in both Swedish and English, so her blog is a good way of getting a glimpse of her country.
–queens new life in canada –  Stories and beautiful photos about the travels and adventures of a couple who moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
– My Sardinian Life – Jennifer is a 30-something Canadian living in Sardinia, Italy. She writes about her travels, and about the interesting life she has in Italy.
– artful explorations in nature – Tara is a teacher in the United States. The information in her blog provides ideas and inspiration that combine art and environmental elements.

The Rules of The Versatile Blogger Award are:
1. Thank the person who awarded you and link to his/her blog.
2. Tell 7 random facts about yourself.
3. Pass the award to 15 new found bloggers
4. Contact each blogger you want to pass the award on to, and let them know you’ve done so, and let the giver of your award know you accept it … or not.
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I’d like to thank Amy at The World is a Book for passing me the Seven Links Challenge.
Amy enjoys books, and she enjoys traveling and her interests are reflected in her blog.

The Seven Links Challenge has two rules.
–  The first is that you must publish the links to seven of your own posts for the categories below.
1.  Most Beautiful Post
2.  Most Popular Post
3.  Most Controversial
4.  Most Helpful
5.  Most Surprisingly Successful
6.  Post That Didn’t Get the Attention It Deserved
7.  Post I Am Most Proud Of
–   The second is to pass the Seven Links Challenge on to seven bloggers.
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Thanks go to these kind people who nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award.
– Curmudgeon at Large – a versatile writer who will bellyache, complain, crab and whine about any subject at all.
The rules for this award are:
1. Acknowledge the giver of the award.
2. Tell seven random things about myself.
3. Award the One Lovely Blog to 15 other bloggers.

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Many thanks to these bloggers for nominating me for the Liebster Blog Award:
-Prairie Wisdom – who blogs about the Lessons learned from important people in her life who grew up on the prairies of North Dakota.
– Writing into the Light – Carol is inspired by nature, great music, art and great writing that makes her ponder the world.
Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest,dearest, beloved, lovely, kindly, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome.The Liebster Blog Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers.
– granny reports – Granny is a 55 year old woman who likes many things, such as writing, reading, working as a nanny. The chaos of kids puts her in her element.

The rules for the Liebster Blog Award are:
1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award.
3. Copy & paste the blog award on your blog.
4. Reveal your 5 blog picks.
5. Let them know you choose them by leaving a comment on their blog.

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Thanks go out to Jake at Time After Time for the Candle Lighter Award.  Jake is a very creative graphic artist and photograper from Manila.

Candle Lighter Award http://BelieveAnyway.wordpress.com

This award goes to blogs that light up the world. The designer, Kate, describes the award as follows: “If you are looking for inspiration, hope, optimism, good advice, faith filled assurances, and even humor, these are good blogs to follow.  If any of you want to award The Candle Lighter Award to someone, or you think YOUR blog deserves it—go ahead and award it. Just copy the candle and award name.”

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All Around Wonderful Blog Award – Many thanks go to Dor at Technicolor Day Dreams for this award. Dor captures memories of her past and shares them with her readers.

The only criteria for this award is to pass it along to three other bloggers!

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The Sunshine Award – Madame Weebles at Fear No Weebles was kind enough to pass this award on to me. She is a very interesting person who says this of herself:  “I eat too much junk food and I watch way too much television. I’m a historian. I used to be a professional historian, now I do it just for funsies. I’m also a Reiki Master. And despite my intense love of my Droid Bionic, my iPod, and my various computers, I’m kind of a Luddite; I like real books, analog clocks, old-school telephones that actually have a bell, and fountain pens.”

The rules of this award require that the receiver  pay it forward to 10-12 bloggers, and also post a list of 10 things others might not know about them.

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I received the Very Inspiring Blogger Award from : Amy  at The World Is a Book. Amy enjoys travel and books and her blog celebrates the beauty of nature,  different wonderful cuisines,  history, people and culture.
– Suellen at The Meandering Matriarch – Suellen moved from the USA to the world’s treasure island, Tasmania. She has wandered the world. Her call is to synthesis — from life experiences of folk, academia, bureaucracies, wilderness, art, music, love, and laughter.

The rules for this award are:

1. First, acknowledge and thank the giver, link it back, and put the award on your page.
2. Next, list 7 things about yourself.
3. Last, pass the award to 7 bloggers who inspire you.

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The Beautiful Blogger Award came to me from Virginia Views and Rural Adventures – Dor blogs about life in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Peace and quiet – yes, but rural excitement too!
The  rules for this award are:

1. Copy the logos and place them in your post.
2. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.
3. Tell seven things about yourself.
4. Nominate seven other bloggers and comment on their blogs to let them know.

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The Reader Appreciation Award was passed along to me by Jennifer at 40 is the new 13. Jennifer is a writer who was formerly a medical reporter for ABC-TV affiliates. Today she is a mother and a volunteer – which means she has a lot more to blog about now then she did when she was a reporter!

The rules of this nomination:

1. Identify and show appreciation of the blogger who awarded you.
2. You must add the award logo to your blog.
3. Tell your readers 7 things about yourself.
4. You must nominate 5-10 of your favorite bloggers for this award.
5. Inform your nominees that you nominated them.

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Thanks to James at Digging History for the Best Moment Award. James describes his metal detecting trips on the historically rich Fylde coast and the banks of the lower river Ribble. I can’t imagine a more interesting activity than ‘prospecting’ for treasures in a country that is as rich in history as the UK is.

The Best Moment Award is described thus:

Awarding the people who live in the moment, The noble who write and capture the best in life, The bold who reminded us what really mattered – savouring the experience of quality time.

RULES:

Winners re-post description of the award with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video recorded. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awardee’s! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and winners notify them the great news.