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How cool is this? I had the honor to receive two blogging awards in just as many days.
The first was the Versatile Blogger Award from the lovely Nicola at What’s it all about and other stories. Sarah, the delightfully Introverted Blogger nominated me for the second honor – the Sunshine Award. Both of their blogs are spot-on and you should check them out!
Since I already accepted the Versatile Blogger Award and because the “rules” are similar, I’ll simply give you my responses to the Sunshine Award.
The rules:
- Include the award’s logo in a post or on your blog. Happy to!
- Answer 10 questions about yourself. See below.
- 10-12 other fabulous bloggers must be nominated. Also see below.
- Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blogs, letting them know they have been nominated. Will do.
- Share the love and link the person who nominated you. See above. Thank you guys! I am honored and pleased as punch.
And now my answers:
- Favorite color: Any shade of blue.
- Favorite animal: Dogs.
- Favorite number: 5 because I was born on September 5th and there are 5 people in my sweet family.
- Favorite non-alcoholic drink: Diet Coke to a fault.
- Prefer Facebook or Twitter? I have a love-hate relationship with both.
- My passion: Do I have to pick just one? To heck with the Sunshine-y rules . . . my family, reading, writing, gardening, travel, and being in the mountains.
- Prefer getting or giving presents: Both.
- Favorite pattern: Paisley?
- Favorite day of the week: Friday because the weekend lies ahead.
- Favorite flower: All.
And now my nominees (this was hard – too many good ones to pick from!):
- Nolan Parker – Two writers who write about getting their first book published.
- Harper Faulkner at All Write – Harper is a reader, writer, and traveller.
- Tilly Bud at The Laughing Housewife – Guaranteed to make you smile.
- Subtle Kate – Interesting posts on just about everything.
- Vanessa Chapman – A freelance writer and actor.
- Tess Kann at Let’s Cut the Crap/How the Cookie Crumbles – She shares her irreverent view of life after sixty-five.
- Kreda at Just Words – You never know what you are going to get but it is always fun.
- JM McDowell – An archaeologist turned novelist.
- Judith Adwood at Diabetic Redemption – Don’t let the name of the blog fool you. Judith writes on all sorts of topics.
- Sarah at Sarsm – A English born, Scotland raised writer living in Germany.
- Ella Dee at Ella Dee Words – Her tag line is “I like Words. My favorite word is happy.” Gotta love that!
- Brad Geagley – One of the lucky published writers out there.
Blogging can feel like speaking (er, writing) in a vacuum. It is lovely to receive affirmation that someone out there is listening (reading) and liking what they hear (see). Thank you all!
So many thanks to you for the Sunshine Award nomination. Apologies from me for non-immediate response. I was taking an Easter break in a location of little internet coverage but was hugely excited to get back & see your nomination in my In Box 🙂
You are so welcome, and welcome back!
Thank you so much Robin!! I’m a Friday girl too. 😉
Hope you’re having a sunshine-y Easter, unlike us.
Great title by the way!
Title of the post?
Thank you so much for nominating me – and you very much deserve your nomination!
Time for a group hug…
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Well done Robin! I might check out that book by Nolan Parker, about getting a first book published, thanks for sharing that!
Go on, we’re lovely people. And one day we will achieve our aim. One day.
Indeed Phil -well said 🙂
Thank you so much for the award. I always appreciate being thought of in this way.
‘Prefer getting or giving presents: Both.’ – I like your honesty!
Who doesn’t like to get a gift!?
You’re my hero.
How sweet you are!
Robin, what a lovely thing, thank you very much. I do have the award but it’s always lovely to be appreciated and I feel fortunately to have found your blog and other lovely people who visit it.
I too am glad we found each other.
Congratulations and thank you. Wow. This is an honour. You are most kind and thoughtful.
As it happens, I am far far behind on posting all my awards. I keep thinking / promising I’ll find time to catch up. Instead I keep getting farther and farther behind. Saying I will soon isn’t manageable.
I DO accept in the spirit in which you are giving it. Indeed I do. Just now I almost made another promise but I that would be fanciful It takes such a long time to line everything up TIMES 7 or 8 times for each. One thing I will try to do is write a post thanking all the presenters. I hate to leave anyone out as it wouldn’t be fair. It has to be all.
Thank you and please understand.
I completely understand! Just keeping up with posting and reading posts is a full time job! Not to mention life, laundry, and to-do lists! Putting the nomination post together took a ton of time, but I’m glad I did it. Haven’t we “met” some cool people?!?
Congratulations! and Thank you! It might take me a little while to get to this, but I will put something together! (I just did a big round recently.)
You are welcome. Yes, pulling the “acceptance” post together takes some time. But it has been worth it!
Awesome Robin, well done! I love that you’ve given reasons why you’ve picked each blogger, that is really cool! 🙂
Another blogger did that and I really appreciated knowing what each blog was about (at least a little) before I spent time looking at each one.
Congrates Darling,
And thank you for the nomination!
I was offered something similar before and found it a little intimidating, but Sunshine, well that might just be my middle name. (It’s not, but that would be nice.)
Best Always,
Kreta
My apologies for spelling your name with a “d” not a “t”! Yikes! But now, I will just call you Sunshine.
It takes some time to do the post but it is well worth it!
I get the “d” all the time, and hardly even notice, so don’t you worry about it. It’s nice to spread the love! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the Sunshine Award. I will enjoy its glow. I acknowledge awards on the Thank You page on my blog and link up to the giver of the award when I do. Then, as the spirit moves, I address recent awards in a blog. Again, thank you. All joy in writing and receiving awards. HF
That is a very good way to do it. The post takes time but I have been, as you say, enjoying the glow.
Congratulations on more awards. Well deserved!
You were the one that got the ball rolling my friend!
congratulations
Why thank you!
Thanks for the award. We’ll now have to fight over the questions and work out which blogs to nominate !
Now, now…no fighting. Remember, it is the “Sunshine” award.